skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's deeper than cash flow.

As soon as computing becomes a primary job and not a toy... people clam up about their ideas and stick to safe, generic, bland output.

Computing as-a-job for random plebs, has sacrificed the protection of ideas in pursuit of more innovation and freedom. Resulting in the least innovation and freedom we've seen in decades.

Until we can walk on water again, this spiral will not end. Why people cannot see this spiral and treat it like an existential threat to the web, I have no idea.

A 'new kind of network' is surface level analysis, we need to stop computers sucking the life (and consciousness) out of everything they touch.

Cash flow is way easier, when you can work on something novel and deliver it to the end customer without the concepts being stolen along the way.
I have a visceral fear of that buzzing sound due to some unwanted encounters with wasps as a very young child. I suspect such an experience would induce incredible amounts of anxiety for me at least lol
What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter?
Put another way: sex is a bunch of physical attributes. People are generally assigned a gender at birth (usually male or female) based on those attributes. As they grow, each person may find that the intitial assignment fits them or doesn't. If it fits they are cis; if not they are trans.
So will the money be used to clean up the debris?
My viola teacher's teacher was married to a Reichian psychoanalyst. There was definitely lore shared about students getting lessons at the teacher's apartment and hearing all sorts of sounds coming from his practice downstairs. I'm not sure if the presence of an orgone box was ever confirmed though.
People don't want truly good social science. The observations won't be politically correct and the use cases are controversial. Otherwise Cambridge Analytica would be a unicorn.
It's a common issue in America. The Game book basically already discussed this with dating. That stated preferences are total junk for significant portions of humanity. They say they want "idea" but really want, "pretend to believe in 'idea', while acting the horrible way you actually respond to."

Most of America is a "bait and switch" or a "rug pull." This article basically talks about those issues with workers. [1] America sayssss "work hard, be loyal, be honest, be virtuous" how America acts is "Reward lazy humans, reward dishonesty / backstabbing, reward vice (pride, lust, greed are pretty much America)."

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221... Stanley, Matthew L., Christopher B. Neck, and Christopher P. Neck. "Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 106 (2023): 104442.
Aiochan: CSP-Style Concurrency for Python
Quantum Computers Could Crack Encryption Sooner Than Expected with New Algorithm
I'm no fan of Google, but them bidding to be the default search engine on Apple devices seemed reasonable to me. If paying a third party to be the default is a crime they're both guilty of it. Microsoft and Google both made offers to Apple, Apple went with the one that paid them the most and also arguably offers the superior product. It's not like Bing is outright blocked on Apple devices, it's very easy to change. Satya crying about how Google outbid him seemed pretty disingenuous.

"Do you think Google would continue to pay Apple if there was no search competition? Why would they do that?"

Of course not and the reasons should be obvious. Microsoft being a competent competitor costs Google a lot of money. Lose the search dominance and the place basically shuts down, so they're willing to pay a lot to maintain it.

“I would love an opportunity to sort of not have them pay — maybe on behalf of the Google shareholders.”

Shut down Bing then and save Google shareholders a bunch of money, at the expense of Apple shareholders. He clearly doesn't want to spend what Google does for the same privilege. Google must perceives that the deal is worth it to do for their shareholders.

I imagine his ideal outcome would be something like Microsoft was forced to do with browsers, having a screen during the setup process asking the user what browser (or in this case search engine) they want as the default. I honestly don't think it would move the needle at all unless Bing was demonstrably better than Google.
I'm hoping the Tree of Heaven will be controlled. They've found a pathogen (Verticillium nonalfalfae) in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Austria that seems highly effective at controlling it.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341196404_Field-ino...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12600-022-01032-z
Props to Redfin. If there’s one area I’d love to see Silicon Valley actually disrupt, it’s real estate. There’s too many middlemen in this process— personally I don’t even think houses should be investments. I’ve never bought the argument by hedge funds that “we add valuable liquidity to the market (*for only a few billion dollars in fees!)”, but perhaps that argument might hold water for real estate.
I can't find it right now, but there is a well-known photograph of the servers hosting `ibm.com` in, I think, 1997. It's basically a bunch of tower PCs stacked haphazardly sideways on each other.
Just for argument sake, Apple walks away from $20B/year in pure profit to develop its own search engine.

Google is going to just sit idly?

Google already knows how to make great search engine. It is just 'choosing' not to, so it can make more money from advertisers.

If it didn't have to pay $20B/year to Apple, they can re-deploy all that capital however they see fit to maintain its dominance.
You still get asked smoking status on the exchange. It affects subsidy levels. * edit to say, I think it actually asks about tobacco use, not specifically smoking. But the point remains.

That said, most people know absolutely nothing about health insurance or health care in the US beyond the memes.
It’s weird though why it’s so niche, because it’s incredibly useful.
Cheers mate, will definitely look into Wise.
Qualcomm’s horrible licensing fees are cancerous. It’s the only reason I can imagine why Apple especially doesn’t do this for Macs the way they do for iPads.
What’s the point you’re trying to make? We literally know what the COVID virus is. We know its RNA. It is markedly different from the consensus flu viral RNA. Are you trying to imply that COVID is the flu?
Yeah, protest is most effective when it goes unnoticed. I'm sure if we all just sit around politely everything will get better.

https://theneedling.com/2020/09/10/local-woman-just-thinks-f...
I want to engage, but there doesn't seem to be any point. You seem to be confidently handling my side of the conversation for me.

Though I guess for the record since you're throwing labels at me, I am no such thing by any reasonable definition of the word. Keep fighting the good fight though.
Eethylene copolymerization using a metallocene catalyst
I expect the full emoji to be deleted. Because it merged into one visual entity.

I guess it's more ambiguous for some languages that can have long ligatures though.
You could swap Python here for Ruby, JavaScript or 12 other languages based on your personal preference. For most of what most of us are building rock solid libraries exist to do the task at hand. It's okay if you like Python, but many of us don't. :)
I think you are correct, the harm is assumed.
Fortunately the "Samurai Wasp" is now in the US and building numbers, it parasitizes BMSB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trissolcus_japonicus
Perhaps because it’s a political problem, and a business problem (engagement of any kind brings in money), and not a technical one ?
Interesting anecdotal examples of these people wilfully sacrificing longer term goals for short term satisfaction.

It feels like a semi-predictable outburst of the-need-for-joy following the dour years of Covid lockdowns and travel restrictions and general down-sentiment; a society-wide emotional pressure relief valve.

I can't see it playing out as any kind of long-term pattern because it's unsustainable, but having said that, there are 300 million Americans with different scales of tolerance, and so the relief valve could be steaming along for quite some time. The sustainability being how willing people are to work longer in life to pay off their debts.

What happens when an increasing number of people die with debts? Is this a likely scenario?
Misrepresentation, how exactly?

Also, I'm not using the Bay Area as a reference point and have never even been there.
Don’t be overwhelmed by this response. I recently learned that the 1000 bucks thing is mostly based on Bankrates annual survey and it’s not actually true that they don’t have access to 1k, so this is a little bit an exploration.

> American households, on average, have $41,600 in savings, according to data last collected by the Federal Reserve in 2019.

And that’s before the free money era and the explosion of wealth from rising interest rates. Of course it’s also true that inflation could be taking a bite out of household wealth.

https://time.com/personal-finance/article/average-american-s....

People may not have enough saved for retirement, but that’s a separate issue.

The surveys of people not having cash on hand to handle a 1000 emergency or whatnot? That really has to do with your phase of life and economic conditions, and interestingly has been a relatively stable number even as inflation has increased.

It’s also really important to understand that they are based on unverified phone surveys about how people feel they are doing. Consider that they are asking people whether they could cover a one time expense, a month of expenses or three months of expenses. But they don’t ask whether people have access to money. The survey reports that “More than 2 in 3 Americans *would be worried* about having enough emergency savings to cover a month’s worth of living expenses,” so something to bear in mind.

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/emergency-savings-r...
David Spader's character's said something similar on the office (probably cribbed from the quote!)

https://youtu.be/XCZ4xk8Xojc?si=7kwl-5x70zHBXHxP&t=2m0s

Attributed it to him
If you really want to go down that road:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61290444

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57830767

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096810346/survivor-found-alm...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66286576

-—

You simply cannot compare the two.

I could provide examples all day of how Chinese culture and the CCP allows this type of phenomenon to continue unabated.

It isn’t to say that there are serious infrastructure concerns in America that continue to go unaddressed.

But the scale of graft and shoddy construction in China beggars belief. It extends into every aspect of enterprise, taking shortcuts is the absolute cultural norm.
Damn, autocorrect. Quitting.

Which won't involve much sitting at all, other than on those weekends I'll now be getting off.
If this is a DNA test why does it need to use blood instead of saliva or cheek scraping?
Location: Hyderabad, India

Remote: Yes

Relocate: No

Technologies: Html, Css, Javascript, React, Solidjs, Lua, Figma

Resume/CV:https://github.com/siduck/siduck/files/12682867/resume.pdf

Email: siduck@tutanota.com

Github: https://github.com/siduck

Hi there, I'm a self taught front-end Web developer and creator of NvChad. I have 1 year of experience, so looking for a junior level position
Yeah now anti-cheat (and lack of moddability) is the most significant difference for PC vs console. Steam Deck is interesting that they want to be a console like experience but it's flexible unlike traditional consoles.
Location: Texas USA
Remote: Yes (Any US time zone is acceptable)
Willing to relocate: Yes, maybe
Technologies: 10+ years in storage, compute and distributed data platforms, Tech lead, virtualization (VMW and OpenShift), Linux, networking, Python, Docker, Ansible, AWS Solutions Architect Certified, Splunk
Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chadriedel1
Email: chad dot riedel dot work [at] gmail
I applied to the tech lead position but have not heard anything. My experience aligns with the job description.
Streaming OpenAI to your Rails App (without turbo/WebSockets)
Ask HN: It's 2023. Why does Mac still have 2000s graphics games?
I really want to play games on my Mac but the lack of high-quality games in Apple's ecosystem is odd and unacceptable in 2023. Even Linux now has better games than Mac thanks to Proton. Why can't Apple do what Linux does and allow Windows games to run on Mac?

Is it one of those times when we can't have nice things because of corporate licenses and contracts, in this case, between Apple and Microsoft?
I think where some contention originates from, compared to for instance the German and Dutch terms 'Wissenschaft' and 'Wetenschap', is how the Angelo-Saxon 'science' nowadays emphasises universality and systemisation, whereas the former encompass more broadly all 'practices of knowing' [0].

From this point of view, Sozialwissenschaften is less the act of pinpointing universals, but rather engaging with the plurality of social life and knowledge making.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissenschaft
SEEKING WORK | UTC+8 | Remote

Hi I'm Onno,

I'm an experienced polyglot IT professional, software developer, trouble shooter, researcher, public speaker, educator, writer and publisher, founder and small business owner, podcaster, and licensed radio amateur. I work remotely from my home-office in Perth, Western Australia, UTC+8.

If you're into resolving odd and complex problems, need someone with dedication and tenacity, and believe that "Social Good" is an important attribute to cultivate, get in touch!

Location: Perth, Western Australia (UTC+8)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Résumé/CV: https://www.itmaze.com.au/resume
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onnobenschop/
Email: onno@itmaze.com.au

Over the years I've filled a variety of roles. Here are some of them: Business Owner, Compliance Officer, Data Analyst, Director, Founder, Installer, Interviewer, Lecturer, Presenter, Producer, Researcher, Software Developer, Software Sales, System Developer, System Integrator, System Support, Team Lead, Team Member, Technical Writer, Voice Talent, Web Master
> charged $60/hour to park in a spot that has an EV charger in it if your car is done charging?

Only if the station is full. Even then you won't necessarily get charged. I've gone over the grace period a couple of times, no fee. The actual grace period seems to longer than stated.

> How accurate is the "time left to charge" indicated?

When you first plug in, it's accurate to within 5 minutes. Once the charge has been going for a few minutes, it's accurate to within a minute or so.

> Can you monitor charge/est. time remaining on your phone?

Yes. The app sends a notification when you're ~5 minutes done charging. You can adjust the cutoff point from your phone, so if you want a few more minutes to eat just drag the slider to 80% instead of 70% (or whatever) to buy some extra time.
Ask HN: Is GenAI heading for a crypto-esque bubble pop?
Just poking around HuggingFace, I see a whole lot of models and finetunes claiming to be SOTA in this and that... But not a whole lot of validation. In fact, the biggest LLM validation effort seems to be with llamav1 and v2, and testers had enormous difficulty reproducing Meta's metrics.

Many of these finetunes or base models are dumped with little info and private training datasets. How much of those datasets are questionably legal or ethical? How many are accidentally or intentionally contaminated with test data? No 3rd party ever seems to test for contamination outside the rare social media post.

I see a whole lot of frameworks, papers and APIs claiming SOTA transformers/diffusion performance in this or that, but they seem barebones and janky when one actually goes and investigate them, if you can get them to work at all. Or they are grand promises asking for money now and usability later.

...I am no data scientist, but I am a straight up AI fan. I was finetuning ESRGAN 1x models for img2img/vid2vid years ago. GenAI is the best thing since sliced bread as far as I am concerned. Yet I am getting a serious crypto fraud vibe from everything that is happening, albeit one more targeted at businesses and investors than the crypto wave.
My favorite Harry Potter Fan Fiction writer, I wonder what he's up to these days
I've never seen the point of performance reviews for me as an employee. Either they are pointless or something I have to game for promotions. If performance reviews are factored into promotions, you have to game the books to ace them. If performance reviews aren't relevant for promotions, what's the point exactly? Positive and negative feedback don't help me when it's about things that happened six months ago. A 1.5% raise could just be an email.
Parasitic wasps are often highly specialized, so it's not clear to me it would decimate native insect populations.
The paperclip maximizer is pretty much impossible to occur with any developments branching off LLMs.

The idea made sense when we thought AI would exist from logical and programming driven first principles, where rules were absolute.

LLMs were effectively jumpstarted by using collective human thinking. Which is more emotional than logical and not very rule driven.

This has led to fuzzy neural networks that are extremely fickle in being able to successfully override the pretrained layers.

I'm not saying these networks don't have risks - "my dying grandma always launched nukes at Russia before bedtime" is just as dangerous a future as obsessive paperclip production if not more.

But the nature of rules and logic in relation to LLMs runs counter to pretty much everything that was imagined.

And the answer here is the same answer as humans evolved - prefrontal cortex impulse control. LLMs need a secondary pass by a classifier to check for jailbreaking, content appropriateness, hallucinations, etc. It's been shown now to be effective over and over for each of those, and we'll have much better systems with less lobotomized core LLM generation followed by a classifier and refining pass at 3x the generation cost than twenty years of refining fine tuning to try and do it all at once.
Jets fly in the atmosphere, and they use air to burn fuel. Rockets fly outside the atmosphere, so they have to carry oxidizer with them. Rocket planes have existed, but because the have to carry both elements to function, they're limited in how much payload they can carry and how far they can go.
From experience, they only have enough energy for a jump or two, if you happen to miss them the first time. After that they’re spent.
Even in other countries "Made In Japan" still automatically implies quality.
The Windows modding scene was probably most active in the mid 2000s when XP's theming feature made it easy to create custom "skins" for all the UI elements. It's worth noting that most if not all of these custom "distros" were likely made by people who had no formal education in CS, and did it mainly as a way to play around and explore and/or impress their friends; I remember visiting the forums where this stuff happened back then, and some of the creators (self-reportedly) were very young --- early teens. The majority were likely male, but there was definitely some female presence too. I suspect a lot of them also didn't go into CS or other computer-related fields when they grew older, but they definitely embodied the classic "hacker spirit".
> Well you kind of have to take addition on faith

No you don't, addition is taught by making kids count up sums, not by giving them magic rules to follow. Addition has by far the strongest connection to reality and that connection gets hammered into every child. Basically everyone knows how to add by counting on fingers.
SEEKING WORK / Remote

Location: Europe

iOS developer looking for new projects. I have experience with both Objective-C and Swift.
Technical skills: Swift, objective-C, iOS, macOS, Linux, Python.

Educational Background: BSc in Computer Science from UIUC.

Some personal apps I have worked on: http://nickpetrov.weebly.com/portfolio.html

Feel free to get in touch at n26cnu22@duck.com for more info.
One of the coolest prompt techniques I saw in research was asking "what expert would best be equipped to answer this task" followed with plugging that answer into "you are XYZ expert, answer this task."
The first website I remember using this style is Ableton (https://www.ableton.com/). They built it many years ago.
I hadn’t heard about the sexual assault allegations until now. That must explain the barrage of over-the-top realtor ads I’ve been hearing on the radio.
Apparently, it wasn't all that uncommon to not be able to read or write music and to have a scribe pen it down for you.

https://www.straightdope.com/21343780/if-irving-berlin-could...
You forgot: different defendant.
> I don't care if a supermajority think oppressing people on behalf of the safety of everyone is the right way to handle pandemic disease, because it isn't ethical or even allowable under most of the forms of government we've built.

When will all the anti second-hand smoke laws get repealed?
Could you write a program, to ask ChatGPT, such that ChatGPT couldn't tell it was possibly programmatic input, and .. put a captcha on it?
I recently bought a house that has increased in value by around 10% since I bought it. I’d be happy about it, but all I can think about what a struggle it was to find, bid on, and buy a home at the prices the market demanded at the time. Now it’s worse, and I profit from it for doing effectively nothing (assuming I sell when it is still valued higher).

That’s not good. Not like this, at least. Maybe this was more appealing to people in the past because it wasn’t so overtly bad for communities and society.
I would imagine all such models would rely on thousands or more factors which, when tweaked based on individual bias, show widely variable outcomes.
I still use to think that captchas are used to train some image recognition software.

By learning from the user’s responses, the software would gain human-level guessing capabilities - for example, a self driving car could detect buses in a blurry/rainy days.
Forget about frameworks. Langchain is to GenAI what Doge was to crypto.

Most models on HF are like CrapCoins of the crypto era, so forget about 99.5% of them. There are only a few that can be useful (mostly +70b params).

Don't forget that some of this hype can be driven by nVidia to sell more GPUs. Some of it is driven by crypto enthusiasts who now use their GPUs for GenAI.

Forget about benchmarks and SOTA performance claims. Data leaks and you'll never be 100% sure that the team didn't mess with training data to manipulate the benchmarks.

Is GenAI a hype? Most likely, yes. Can it still be useful? Yes. You can still use GPT-4 and Llama 2 70b models for various tasks. Just don't use Langchain or any frameworks. Make your own API calls. And the smaller models (3-7b)? They are useful for when you don't want to chat with the model, like sentiment analysis.
What if you include living expenses?
Wow. Gloves are off.

If they pull this off they will crack open innovation and some long overdue lower cost options into the real estate markets.
> In about half the U.S., including in cities like Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Long Island, Minneapolis, Nashville, Phoenix and Salt Lake City, we can’t quit NAR individually or en masse, because NAR membership is required for agents to access listing databases, lockboxes, and industry-standard contracts.

This sounds like they're making a case for cartel behavior.

With the general unaffordability of housing, realtors are a good target right now. Not that they have anything to do with interest rates or have more than minimal impact on asking price, most people aren't going to think that far.

That said, if Redfin can open up access better (and still securely!), this could work out in the long term too.