skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To which Kai replied that he could show him how and you wouldn't be able to tell.

You would probably be able to tell. You know what else you would probably able to tell? Someone walking on ao perspex sheet :)

> In any case, months later, when the photographer found out whom he had been booked to shoot, he wanted to re-negotiate his compensation after the fact with Max magazine.

Lol :) after they have blown their own shoot? Mind you it is the photographer’s job to make their subjects comfortable with their ideas.

I don’t know about Kai but if it were me my first question would be “what made you think i want to project that image of myself publicly?”
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The objective function of capitalism is wealth-weighted. The term "economic value" tries to hide this fact.

If everyone had equal wealth and equal weight in the objective function, your picture of reality (voluntary transactions etc etc) would be correct! If Mt. Olympus had all the wealth and completely controlled the objective function, my picture of reality would be correct.

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to look at the actual wealth distribution function and interpolate world views accordingly.
4 Years of Code
Hey folks. I don't know how - but I did it...

It all started with the 100 days of code challenge where I started working on an Open Source AI project that I felt had a lot of potential. However upon reaching the 100 day goal, the project was nowhere complete and I decided to take it further and kept working on it until I achieved the 365 days of code challenge.

After releasing that project, I had so many more ideas for new projects that I simply had to keep going!

Today, it has been over 4 years and the streak is still going!!!!!!

The amount of things I have learned in all this time is absolutely mind blowing and I could write more than one book about the journey.

Most interestingly, this is an endeavour I took on outside of my professional career and it has always remained as hobby/passion of mine. So yes, I have been coding every single day after work, the weekends and the holidays. When I leave the house, as well as making sure I have my keys, wallet and phone, I need to also remember the laptop in-case I do not return in time and need to do some coding whilst I am away.

I'm not going to lie, keeping it going is both mentally and physically challenging as there has pretty much been no down-time in my life for the past 4 years... What has kept me going is that this passion fuels my hunger to write code and the feeling of knowing that there is someone on the other side of the globe that uses my apps and finds them useful is enough to warm my heart and keep me motivated to make those commits.

I don't know how much longer I'll be able to keep the streak, but you are more than welcome to follow me on GitHub:

https://github.com/OvidijusParsiunas
> "...they could at least coordinate with the other regional libraries so that things remain available."

I guess I'm spoiled living on Long Island, NY. There are 58 branches of my county's library in Nassau County, which is ~450 sq.mi or one branch every eight square miles. At least they profess to check before removing a resource.

That said, I like visiting the library and speaking with regulars, and interacting with staff who have become my friends. I enjoy the feeling of community. And I feel a personal connection when what I like is physically present in my local library, and not just available for interlibrary loan.

I've expressed this to the librarians. Their response is one excuse after another about space, circulation, budgets, availability of on-line resources--a list of the constraints on their job. And when I'm not persuaded by these arguments, they end saying I'm the only one who has ever made these complaints and I should add a suggestion to the "box". What they won't do is share their work or publish the circulation numbers.

As you can see I want to have libraries where patrons engage and participate. I love these ideas and I want to read about more of them.
I'm a little skeptical of the AI safety field. Nonsense being available in written form is nothing new. If you don't want people to be influenced by propaganda, the only solution is to educate the masses and give them the ability to critique what they're hearing. Telling an AI model "don't give people ideas on how to kill themselves" accomplishes pretty much nothing, when half of 4chan is certain to provide ideas when prompted.

There are so many low-hanging fruit that can be picked to make people safer and more secure; fully-fund public education, eliminate pre-Internet administrative shortcuts (your address gets published on the Internet if you buy property or get a radio license or even register to vote), give people basic income, etc. Putting a filter on a system that we barely understand probably isn't going to have much effect, as this paper finds. We'll be fine without the filter, though.
> Tainting the database is probably already chargeable as something

This is definitely true. Good old “intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access” in the CFAA. It’s so vague as to be able to make almost _anything_ the government doesn’t like involving computers illegal.
Which is why names and pictures of the accused should remain secret until the verdict, like it already happens in many other countries. But that's a separate topic.
His tenure post acquisition is governed by the acquisition agreement. Microsoft isn't "allowing" anything.
You can count the value of the old coinage by weighing it, you really think that such a system was an accident?

I mean, I'm familiar with the history so I know 12 of 20 was a deliberate choice, but if you don't want to read into it, ask yourself if that's plausible.
> Nintendo refuses to do anything that makes them NOT a hardware company, and so they will continue to languish on last-generation hardware.

Nintendo does not consider Microsoft and Sony to be competitors. What they absolutely do not want to do is operate like the other guys, who have quite varied interests because the companies are not 100% focused on gaming.

It's hard to argue with Nintendo's staying power. Of course, their methodology is not always consumer friendly.
Your comment reminds me a lot of how I felt when I was given my first email address in 1991 and didn't have anyone to send email to. Little did we all know how important email would become. =)

I'm forming a new company. I was asked for a single sentence to describe the company as well as a longer paragraph. I wrote the single sentence and then fed it into chat.openai.com ChatGPT 3.5 (before I paid) and asked for a longer version.

What it came up with was a bit too heavy on the adjectives (the tone was a bit too much marketing), but wow, it nailed it in terms general concepts about what I'm building. This was all without knowing anything about the business. I can easily edit it back down to an easier tone for people to digest.

When I fed the same input into ChatGPT4, the results were 100x better.

I also like to use it to summarize my thoughts. I can write down a bunch of unfiltered gibberish about how I'm feeling today and what I'm thinking. Feed it in and it'll give me a great summary of what I just said in a non-threatening and neutral tone. Having gone through a lot of professional therapy (and even being married to one in a past life), it feels a lot like that to me... except a lot less expensive.
Most employees probably made some money, just not very much.

Early employees would be lucky to get options worth 10-20bps of the company, so assuming $800M was distributed to shareholders after accounting for 1x liquidation preference that might only be $800k-$1.6M before accounting for dilution for the very earliest employees, and a lot less for everyone else.
Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing
Thanks for taking the time to explain the nuanced implementation difference.
> and arguably have been since before we started calling it AI.

What was it like working in tech in the 1950s ?
I build my own with a Raspberry Pi CM4 I had lying around plus a dfrobot router carrier board [1] (though I suppose the reRouter [2] by Seeed Studio could also suffice). Not sure why I picked that one. Maybe I read a review on how it could saturate 1 gbit but don't pin me on it please. The reRouter could even have a better case.

I'd prefer to run OPNsense on it if I could, but it isn't available for ARM64 as of now.

[1] https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2705.html

[2] https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/reRouter_Intro/
You are assuming that disinformation is an absolute thing and that the state and governments tries to fight it for the common good. What I see around me is that state is a prime producer of disinformation which also already controls the most effective vectors of civilian propaganda (namely schools and TV), in addition to the dedicated military units.

What governments are trying to fight is information going against it's own propaganda. Raising critical thinkers goes against that (we have seen that even just asking questions was a crime-like action during covid), which is one of the reason education level is being sabotaged.
Here's the real answer for what we're doing tomorrow :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872553
> This is why I love wired headphones. Even if I lose them, I can replace them quickly for a lot less than $250 and I never have to worry about syncing or batteries or disconnecting or any of the other problems that routinely plague bluetooth devices.

I switched to bluetooth because I always broke my wires. however, I still manage to break wires in the bluetooth headphones (and I don't like the earpod type)
So they use a heat pump to heat the desiccant and remove the moisture?

Maintenance on this thing sounds like a nightmare. It's a heat pump and an evaporative cooler all in one.

I can see how it would work in theory, but I'm curious how it would hold up practically ~5-10 years into use.
Knowing how they handle security, anyone that has access to the network could easily steal it.
In a market economy, what's negotiated between the parties involved is the true value of that item, so in a way, that is what is fair.
It's useful if you multi home.
Because it really isn't a violation of antitrust as is currently defined.

Linda Khan's article here is, IMO, one of the best overviews of why: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

What's frustrating is that this requires legislative change, which, given the current political climate, seems like a sisyphean task.
IF competition cant exist because of economies of scale, that means consumers are are better off with the monopoly than with competition.

Let me say that again, if a new competitor cannot undercut a monopoly, the customer would not be better off with more competition.

Nobody wants the government to break up a monopoly because economies of scale allow them to sell goods too cheaply.

If profits are high, there is room for competition.

If profits are low, customers are getting a good deal.

The only things that breaks this are 1) regulation to prevent competition despite high profits, or 2) anti-competitive practices like price dumping, exclusive contracting, ect.
You make a lot of random assertions here and speak with confidence about what is and isn’t feasible, yet your only point of reference appears to be a sci-fi novel.

Perhaps you can bring some facts to the discussion?
Thank you.

1. Oh okay. I wasn't very clear there. By, "this is basically what I suggested we do a few years ago" I meant that we should look to exploit the limitations of these fingering printing algorithms to render them impractical. But yeah, my suggestion was that we should do the reverse. Rather than taint the database, taint the content.

2. That wasn't my intention. I was suggesting that there are likely other reasons governments are interested in this technology than, "think of the children". Hence, why I think we should seek to ways to render these algorithms ineffective were they deployed. But yes, please feel free to downvote if you feel my comment is unproductive. On reflection I agree it might be. I'm not really adding much here

3. You know what's annoying? I did that because I didn't to make an assertion either way to be as neutral as possible. I'm using quotes because others deem it racist, and that it's irrelevant what my personal position on that is. If you want my position on whether racism exists though, obviously I believe it does – I'd urge you to just assume good faith in the future.
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 arrives: A glimpse into Ubuntu Linux's future
That is another good example of how a relatively small number of pointless and unnecessary government "jobs" unfortunately result in even more pointless and wasteful private sector "jobs" existing.

Those kinds of "jobs" and that kind of "work" only exist because of the existence of government-imposed regulation.

If the government-imposed regulation simply didn't exist to begin with, nobody would waste resources writing pointless reports to try to manipulate such restrictions to their benefit.
“It is not clear how employers would be informed of the narrative-based performance of students in school.”

Is an employer demanding to see your GPA such a common thing? I’ve seen it used as a weed out for things like internships but even they will bend the rules if you actually talk to someone behind the curtain.
Can certainly respect that approach!

This is definitely a more Javascript heavy approach but without JS you can't get some nice quality of life features like the embedded REST API client for experimenting with endpoints.

As for LLMs we have had the best experience passing them Swagger files directly and not relying on an intermediate parse to text.
How does the student performance compare to other institutions? If most students learn the material, then they deserve a good mark.

Having taught three very different classes, I can tell you there is a bell curve to the per class bell curve. Undergrad intro was a bell curve, CS Grad remediation was tragic, mixed ML was mostly A's, they were very engaged students
It seems like VCs will often sell shares for a near-total-loss on their investment, for simplicity and relationship with founders, and they can write it off[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ
Under this logic any image at all on the entire internet is now "conspiracy to distribute" CSAM, since you can make an image diff from anything
The coincidence of this happening during the trial...is just bizarre. Can you imagine if it is actually the case?
"We had it worse, stop complaining" is a super gross take. It was shitty for us, but that doesn't erase someone's current burden.
>the model actively unlearns

Aka "catastrophic forgetting" (CF).
I'm interested in new offerings in this area, as all of the existing options are pretty janky. A couple of thoughts:

Operation.summary is typically derived from the documentation for an API operation, and should not be used as the operation title as it is far too long. Instead use the operationId and path.

I can't get it to render schemas for a bunch of my OpenAPI documents, and there are no error messages to guide me. Does this handle recursive schemas (which can never be fully expanded)?
OS scheduling generally does a good job of maximizing overall throughput and/or evening out usage of cores so as to give a fair share to all processes. What it does not normally do a good job of is keeping relatively good latency/timing. If you're doing anything that is latency sensitive (say, audio applications or high-frequency trading) then pinning a single process to a single core and not running anything else on that core is going to minimize jitter and latency spikes.
The Series S console came out at $299.

GamePass is $10.99/mo.

If that's not lowering prices, then I don't know what is.
Hard earned money...
I would say healthcare. With that said, many sub-verticals of the industry are in fact quite dominated by duopolies or triopolies.
How does this compare to an air-to-air heat pump?
To put into context, he was a close associate of one Jeffery Epstein, and in his book of clients and close associates. Why? Hard to say, Epstein wasn’t really in the games industry.

That’s really just the beginning of it, Kotick is quite a prolific pos himself: https://nypost.com/2021/11/16/activision-ceo-threatened-to-h.... And he’s alleged to have covered up sexual assault at the company, which given the Epstein connections… tracks.
There's also been a recent discovery that the MMLU benchmark contains a significant percentage of answers with completely wrong ground truth, where models answering correctly lots points.

The most popular benchmarks and datasets are mostly haphazardly cobbled together with hardly any oversight or verification, sometimes even synthetically generated from gpt 3.5 et al. without checking the output at all. Frankly it's amazing that any of it even works when people blindly train and test with what's essentially self contradicting garbage.
I've been in the business a long time now. I've been mining various crypto's off and on since 2014. My last farm was 150,000+ gpus before the transition to PoS.

Look up any of the bitcoin public companies. They all have twitter accounts.
There are better FOSS apps on Android thanks to F-Droid and other efforts. Plus it's not that hard to roll something in a pipeline of an open source project that builds an Android app and have maintainers for it.

iPhone Apps require specific hardware and tools to make and maintain, and can't easily be built on an automatic pipeline. So all the work has to be by dedicated people using manual process.
This isn't surprising. The important selection filter is entirely in getting into Harvard. It's an excellent signal for some critical amount of intelligence, conscientiousness, and conformity, where each one can be traded off for some of the others - but only up to a point.

What would be really interesting is if the same effects happen at top universities in the East Asian countries. I would be fascinated to know why the divergence if we found that only 20% of students at, say, Seoul National University got top marks in their classes.
Thanks! It uses RSS if it is present. Plus sitemap.xml if that's available, too.
Some sites do this and it's broken in that you have to scroll past it before it displays.
Also importantly, there are no points for predicting a broad field, only points for being correct on specific things.

There were a zillion "virtual mall" products in the early days of the internet. Exactly zero of them convinced anyone to buy stuff online. Amazon ended up cracking the formula and made billions doing it.

The investors in the virtual malls lost their money. And people on the sidelines who predicted that we would all shop online are IMO only correct in the most meaningless and facile sense, because they had no specific predictions of what would work and what wouldn't, just a vague gesture at a futuristic buzzword.

It's easy to wave generally in the direction of an abstract concept and say "that's a big deal", literally anyone can do it (and did! with crypto!), but it's specific predictions and hypotheses that separate those who know WTF they're talking about from LinkedIn thought-leadership pablum.

Likewise "AI is a big deal" in and of itself is not an astute statement or meaningful prediction. What about it? What specifically can be leveraged from this technology that would appeal to users? What specific problems can you solve? What properties of this technology are most useful and what roadblocks remain in the way of mass success?

pg coined the "middlebrow dismissal", I'd like to suggest a corollary: the middlebrow hype. All hot air without enough specificity to be worth anything.

"The information superhighway will be huge!" is the 90s equivalent of "AI is the future". Ok. How?
You might beg for support from your users. You might have to go to direct, personal, intrusive appeals to get any notice. "We're gonna shut down without we raise $xx for the next years of expenses by the end of the month"

I think the advertising people aren't interested in talking to you until the 10k/day and more range. If you're "wrong people", not even then.
You assume that the birds detect infrasound with their ears. Elephants hear infrasound with the pads of their feet: https://www.dw.com/en/biodiversity-poaching-africa-asia-natu...

Of course, birds in flight can't feel the ground vibrate, but I wouldn't immediately eliminate alternatives like infrasound making the birds' feathers vibrate.
I've run virtualized network applications before, and have always had trouble with the container mapping addresses into a new private IP subnet. Is this able to be worked around?
> They do make an effort to train new hires on their SDLC and security practices.

Cisco has security practices?
32X is a real device name (the gaming router)... 3200ACM is another device. But did you try divested? It has patches for wifi...
Can 5G NR Sidelink communications support wireless augmented reality?
The feds almost never lose. going to trial never a smart move. the best he can hope for is a sympathetic jury
"How we got here" can be summed up in one word: mimetics.

Originality is the rarest thing in this world. Most people operate from a position of fear and competition [1]. The sad truth is that, generally, everybody just does what everybody else does because everybody else is doing it.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/i-am-sovereign/solo-podcast-from-kapi...
These bogus CVEs have real downstream effects - if you have say, a compliance team that wants every docker and base os image to be updated to patch every CVE over a certain level. False security through process.
Wondering how they plan to dry the salt mixture that's continuously getting wet while the AC runs.
Man i don't know ... if things are not strictly immutable (or at least by default) i'm not so sure about the joy part.
d3js made this style popular ~10 years ago when d3 made a big splash https://observablehq.com/@d3/calendar
Would love to find out more about this.
Top Bitcoin Mining Countries and Their Renewable Electricity Mix
[dupe]

More discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37867881
You can see the strong influence of WikiHow in the training data for that one, probably from slurping WikiHow itself and also the infinite blogspam that inspired/borrowed from its style.

What could go wrong when you train your models on 99% barely-attended garbage? Sure, they learn to complete sentences and arrange larger blocks of text, but there's sooo much noise in the content that it creates a bias towards blogspam's plausible garbage (which we so often see).

There's going to have to be a whole new wave of training-data pruning and from-scratch retraining once some of the other technical goals are achieved because the feedback of LLM blogspam back into LLM training data is just going to amplify all the bad qualities.
Ive never seen a stereogram where I can see the emotion in someone's face, that sounds amazing. I used to use a xbox kinect to produce depth data for my stereograms in my younger days, but I could never get fine detail. Do you happen to have a url handy of some top level stereograms?
Of course policing is a market, what on earth makes you think it isn't?

State funded, yes, but police departments are in a labor competition with other police forces, private security, and anything else a cop could be doing instead. If a department wants more police, or better ones, they have to pay for that.

The idea that the market is more or less important than the upbringing of a child is nonsensical, I have no idea what you mean by that, it's like asking if acceleration is more important than luminance.
I tried going back to a dumb phone in 2011 after having previously used an iPhone 3gs, I was able to manage just fine back then but I don't think I would be able to now. I used my dumb phone until the Nexus 4 came out and I started playing around with Cyanogenmod.