skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There already is an alternative to youtube. Peertube https://joinpeertube.org/

The problem is most content creators are only publishing on YouTube, so that is where you have to go. If you are a content creator please publish on peertube so we have options. If you know a creator, likewise encourage them to publish there.
It's hard for me to name a single source of this quote, but it's clear it shows up in a lot of economics texts and blogs if you search for it. I've seen it lots of times over the years.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Brazil+is+the+country+of+the+futur...
You wouldn't want to be an unarmed german in an unsupervised corner of auchswitz either but that's hardly a condemnation of the prisoners is it.

https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide
Your term for today is Selective Enforcement.

They want you to think like that because it’s good for business…and since our prison population exceeds that of Russia or any other country (per capita), it appears that business is good…
No way, they're a dime a dozen million. NCP addresses are worth much more, because there were only 256 of them. That's where the big money's at. I saw the classic NCP address 134 (MIT-AI) appraised for millions on the Antique Information Superhighway Road Show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Control_Protocol_(ARPA...
When will people learn that more taxes make things more expensive?

It's like people actually want to have world of obscenely rich and obscenely poor people... with nothing in the middle.
It says the Pricing Page feature is coming soon :-D
One huge problem is the "safe and reasonable" part. Gain of function has killed millions in a recent lab leak you may have heard of (high likelihood). That doesn't seem safe to me.
I think Brazil seems cool in so many ways, but it seems very politically corrupt.

Also, one one observation is if there's a Reddit video clip of some crazy random shooting or assassination or off-duty policeman shooting, it seems to almost always be coming from Brazil, which is pretty scary.
Do you believe you can cure brain cancer by looking at skin cancer?
Except of course that isn't what happened.

All evidence points to zoonotic spillover, aggravated by our encroachment on previously undisturbed natural areas and global warming.

Sadly, it was both political useful ('the Chinese did it!'), and ideologically useful ('a few faulty humans did this, like in the movies'), to blame the lab in Wuhan. By doing so, we can absolve ourselves of blame, and of need to take action - action both to mitigate the effects of this pandemic, and to prepare for the next. The next being an inevitability, just a question of when (within 10 years is my uneducated guess)
Well, you see, he's 40.
Author is not the distributor of the image.
You think middle management's job is to select for the C suite? I fear you live in a dream world.
Still have a scar on my foot reminding me why we called it 'cajun napalm' growing up as I was learning to make roux with my aunt. Warms my heart (and foot!) to see this on HN :)
Not of the variety we need to study
>Nearly every single person will pay less tax on their home under LVT than a property tax, too.

How could that possibly be true. The lvt would have to be high enough to replace revenue from all current income taxes, sales taxes, corporate taxes, and current property taxes.

It would also be based on land used, so Warren be buffet and someone working at Walmart would have the same tax bill if they both own houses in the same neighborhood.

It is incredibly regressive.

Elon Musk can live out of his small undesirable home in boca chia, so his total taxes would be close to zero
Naïve approach is to have each segv handler poll something to tell when GC is done, and simply return when it can. State is then restored by the kernel.
I get that there are a lot of arm-chair experts who think this was a lab-leak. But we're making many large jumps here from:

Was this created in a lab?
Was this leaked from a lab?
Is there something inherently dangerous about studying viruses in labs?
Full NIMBY.

The positive externalities of this are good jobs around virology study to try and prevent the next pandemic. But we're just leaning super hard into fear-mongering here. How many people in the comments of this article really describe the processes used at each of these labs to prevent the viruses from getting out? How many can say how effective those practices are? We've still not proven that COVID was a lab-leak, so we're attempting to say that something that otherwise has a very safe record is dangerous based on what might have happened.
ponytail!
Looks interesting! I’m curious how you’re integrating in the target languages? Are you loading a .so/.dll lib built by rust? Or wrapping a binary? Something else?
> The swedish model basically sets minimum wage by sector. Much more tailored to the employers and employees.

But this is the same argument for why there shouldn't be one at all.

One of the major problems with the minimum wage in the US is that it de facto destroys training programs for entry-level employees. You could go to a school and pay them money to be trained or go to Walmart and do unskilled labor for low wages.

But if you want to go to an employer and spend 40 hours there of which half is working and half is learning, what's the appropriate wage for that? You might very well should be paying them -- they're getting as yet still unskilled labor and you're getting qualified to do a job that would ultimately pay above-median wages that you might otherwise pay $30,000/year in tuition for. Taking that deal with them paying you $2/hour could be a bargain. But not if it's prohibited by law.

Meanwhile someone could then offer $2/hour for an ordinary job, but who is going to take them up on that for no countervailing benefit when other employers pay more? It's the same reason 98% of people are paid more than the existing minimum wage despite no legal requirement to do so.
Texan billionaire Robert Brockman sued an Australian for stealing $20 million from his trust in 2020 [1].

A few months later, he was indicted for hiding $2 billion of income from the IRS [2]. He died before trial took place anyway..

1- https://amp.smh.com.au/national/australian-barrister-denies-...

2- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-multibillion-dollar-softw...
Let’s say I am the opposite and am very impressed by AI.

How exactly would I even invest in AI right now as a layperson? It seems like any investments would be either just straight NVDA or Microsoft and hope they eat the world. Since I’m not an accredited investor.
Peertube lets you host them yourself.
If they don't agree to hire, there is always civil forfeiture!
I mean, the subject's face probably did resemble a cringe.
Even better than an RLA is a full machine recount from a different company to the one that recorded the votes in the first place. RLAs typically only count a small percentage of the total ballots, while a full machine Audit will count all ballots.

I'm biased because this is what the company I work for does, but I think it's hard to argue that not counting all ballots is as good as counting all ballots.
The UK law is a bit more subtle than that. Can't speak for other jurisdictions.
my 1000 house HOA pays county police over 100k a year to have an officer park his car in the area for half of every week
This is less a problem with AI, and more of a problem with the problematic, arbitrary and very unclear definition of living vs. non-living. I don't expect that applying AI will resolve the underlying issue with the question.
That's in line with US sentencing guidelines[1][2][3]. Most of it came from the fact that the ip addresses were worth millions.

[1] https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2021-guidelines-manual/annot...

[2] https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2021-guidelines-manual/annot...

[3] https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2021-guidelines-manual/annot...
People are getting way more picky with the current home prices.

If a house costs 3x my yearly salary, I am much more willing to treat it like a commodity than if it costs 6-7x my yearly salary.

And if the RE agent is going to treat a higher price purchase as a commodity, I will make their life a living hell or find another one.
Right? So weird.
Plenty of people lose loved ones and manage to remain decent human beings. We can admire Feynman's contributions to physics, but when it comes to personal life, he was just an asshole. There's no point in looking up to him in matters of how to love another human being. Your everyday nobody is far more inspirational in that regard.
Only religious people care about distinctions between agnosticism and atheism.

Religious people can't even agree on what this God concept is supposed to be, but they can make fine distinctions in the ways people don't share their belief in it.
Even if that is true, how do you know if something is worthy of being read without reading it? Isn’t the ability to write it off as unworthy worth the time to read it?
> There are probably about 30 or so leetcode problems and then endless variations made for those 30 problems. The best people on leetcode practice and memorize.

The comment I replied to claimed that "LLMs would do pretty well at leetcode interviews". OpenAIs own report [0] shows how GPT-4 fails miserably at medium/hard leetcode problems that are not in the training data.

[0] https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
You will enjoy “Growling Sidewinder” channel on YouTube if you like modern aerial combat.
Having $200k federal savings per person due to oil extraction also helps.
I know somebody who basically stole a class A IP network many years ago, in the very early days of IPV4. (He wouldn't tell me which one, but he had inside knowledge of how the system worked, and I know his background, so I believe him. ;)

The huge company that owned it went out of business, so he registered their domain name, and sent in an email to authorize the transfer.

Once you've got a hot class A network on your hands, but don't have 16,777,216 computers to use it, what can you possibly with it? How do you launder it?

It's not as if you can hide it in your garage, file the serial number off, repaint it, and put them all up for sale on the black market or ipBay individually!

Given that there are 24 bits for host identifiers, the total number of possible addresses in a Class A network is: 2^24 = 16,777,216

However, two addresses within that range are reserved: The "all zeros" host address is reserved as the network address, and the "all ones" host address is reserved as the broadcast address for the network. So count those out.

Therefore, the number of usable IP addresses in a Class A network is: 16,777,216 - 2 = 16,777,214

And at today's price of at least $15 a pop, 16,777,214 addresses × $15/address = $251,658,210

He ended up trading it under the table to a company that could use it, in exchange for the promise of free service for life.
It’s very clever. But what I enjoy most is that it’s just completely low stakes. There’s never any real troubling story arc. It’s all just silly harmless fun. This makes it “cozy TV” for me.
Will Google ban GPT generated blogs?
I'm building a seobot and everyone keeps saying that google will ban GPT-generated content soon.
I'm putting lots of time and money into this,
do you think google may ban this from SEO?
"this idea is mine, I cannot let you have this idea"

the idea fits in a digital format.

they're literally building scarcity for the future, right now.
> A seat consists of inches.

Yes, but you aren't buying inches but a seat on a plane so it is irrelevant. The original poster said that when he buys a seat he bought a whole seat, not 0.7 nor 0.9 of that seat. How does defining that seat in inches invalidates his point?

> So yes you do need to know the inches to know how many seats to buy under your plan. In principle even an average sized person could be undersized on some theoretical airline with smaller seats -- the dimensions are key.

Yes, when you want to fly it is good to know what size a seat you are buying but notice that you saying that in no way moves the conversation forward. And nobody claimed that knowing the size of seat in inches isn't important.
Yup, I've written about this a couple times[0], I cancelled my YouTube Premium subscription—I was otherwise a happy customer!—and switched to NewPipe on Android because I couldn't turn off YouTube Shorts.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36593028
"in a 2020 interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Golestan claimed that Micfo was at one point responsible for brokering roughly 40 percent of the IP addresses used by the world’s largest VPN providers. Throughout that conversation, Golestan maintained his innocence, even as he explained that the creation of the phony companies was necessary to prevent entities like Spamhaus from interfering with his business going forward."

He had to commit fraud, otherwise the business wouldn't work!
The dirty truth is that a lot of middle manager don't bring that much value and create artificial work.

There is that narrative that started a decade ago that we need empathetic people managers that are doing a completely different jobs than ICs, and that their role is extremely valuable. The narrative seems to push the idea that ICs and engineers are extremely bad at inter-personal communication and therefore that higher class of better communicators is required.

I have never bought this and see a lot of middle manager doing busy work constantly syncing with other middle managers. The best companies I have worked for had big horizontal teams with technical managers. The worst companies have been hierarchical with multiple managers/directors all passing the buck to each other.
Very much agree with your observation on the satisfaction gleaned from handwriting well.

About 5 years ago I "installed a font" on myself - I sat down with a sheet of letter forms and taught myself a variant of architectural lettering, which has a nice balance of legibility and aesthetics, and less rigid than engineering lettering.

I'm still working on some of my cursive forms, but I definitely enjoy writing more (and the rhythm!! It's like music or dance, and almost meditative) now that I've started using it again as an adult.
Wargroove's Engine is Apache licensed: https://github.com/amzeratul/halley
I don't think linedin has those office buildings anymore. They did a land swap with Large Tech Company for some buildings Large Tech Company owned elsewhere.
One reason why I'm not comfortable with electric stoves is reliability. I can still use my gas stove if power goes out. If there is an extended loss of power in my area then a gas stove will allow me to boil water.

I'm speaking as someone who had asthma as a kid. I don't have it now.

The calls for regulation are non-specific. What can I do to make my current gas stove safer? I have a window nearby that I can open and a fan I can turn on, but without knowing where and how the gas travels I can't be sure it helps as much as I want it to.
I wish there was still more of a genuine whimsical side to the Internet or even businesses. The attention economy isn't the same.
Maybe, though many of those high rollers have a lifestyle that would die as soon as the golden parachute runs out. (I don't know if many is a tiny percent, or most though)
Ask HN: What are some good side problems in the LLM space?
I'm looking for my next side project and wanted to get some feedback from anyone working on LLM-Powered apps. I'd love to build some kind of tool to assist with the process - I just need to know what problems you're having!

If there's something that annoys you daily, or some platform you're surprised doesn't exist yet for teams building in the AI space, it'd be excellent if you could share it here :)
We Were Promised Flying Cars
Very debatable.
> The higher you go the fewer people who can sack you

This. As an IC, it only takes 1 of the 8 managers above you to write your marching orders. But as a VP, only the CEO or the SVP can write those orders.
Notes on South India
I haven't seen this movie but will check it out. A little off-topic, but I wonder if any of you folks have some recommendations for newish anime/manga that is available to stream.

I'm a long-time fan of the classics (e.g. Ghost in the Shell) but until recently, haven't seen anything new that grabbed my attention, until I stumbled across "Blame!" on Netflix which I really enjoyed. So I spent some more time adding various titles to my playlist but they have all been rather unintelligent and uninspiring. I am especially interested in movies (as opposed to series) because I don't tend to want to spend dozens of hours watching anything, but I'm open to whatever. Any suggestions?
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun Tzu.

How do you think you can devise a vaccine if you don't know the virus? They experiment to find out what are the weaknesses of the enemy (i.e. proteins and other markers), so that they can target it. If the next pandemy is caused by a similar strain: ta-dam you have the vaccine already (or at least you know what to target).
I have not kept up with this topic.

What does the evidence point to?

Has any new evidence surfaced in the past year?
We might need multiple 'Solutions' working together to solve this one...
> or beg for arbitration behind closed doors

Arbitration records aren’t protected from disclosure to law enforcement.
LOL I used to belong to "alternative asset" investor circles and saw that picture. They were looking for investors to buy/sell IPv4 addresses. Glad I noped out of that one
He pleaded guilty two years ago, why did sentencing take so long?
IMHO comparing QSAR to modern deep learning methods is sort of like comparing linear regression to modern deep learning methods: a technique that is wholly unsuitable for the sort of problems that deep learning is good at.

While I generally agree the data quality is poor, let's be clear: by exploting the data in PDB and Uniprot, Deepmind "solved protein structure prediction". There is a lot more value in the data that's out there, just mostly underutilized.
Hasn't caused a problem... among a sample group who knew that their salary would be public information before choosing that career. If you change the rule so that no one even has the choice of salary privacy, is nothing lost? I'm skeptical.
People underestimate the value of a humanities degree. The point of studying literature or art history is not to study literature or art history, it's to study how people operate from an emotional point of view, and see how the way people acted on their feelings in the past influenced the present. That's a pretty good background to have if you're going to be a people manager. Despite what we like to believe, we are not rational creatures.
The solution to all problems like this was decided years ago: _r

You provide the storage and free it

The problem is these non-direct uses. They each need to switch to •_r and manage the buffer, or offer _r versions themselves and sort of pass through the problem
I've seen the same thing - it's really tawdry and desperate, isn't it?

As I'm running an ad blocker anyway, I created a custom block rule to remove it.
He was reportedly very "gropey": https://the-orbit.net/almostdiamonds/2012/09/09/we-dont-do-t...

Excerpt:

> "It is in this correspondence that we can find how the conrunners of the time treated Asimov’s harassing behavior. To be explicit, Asimov was well known for pinching the asses of women who were unlucky–or unwarned–enough to get on an elevator with him alone."
Honestly, a good showcase of how expensive UUIDs are. If you can perform a mapping to integers you should really consider it. Not only will your UUIDs take up 2x the space of a 64bit integer, they'll compress horribly by comparison. Integer compression is so good these days you can compress integers such that they basically end up taking up ~1/2 a byte instead of 8. Doing that with UUID v4s is fundamentally not going to work.

The article mentions RLE, which is also incredibly good for integer IDs if you diff-encode them, since ids are typically sequential with no or small gaps. Diff + RLE can turn your encoded structure into ~1 byte.

Also, incredible website. The interactivity is so fun.

I did something similar to this very recently where I took a dataset and just continuously applied data encoding methods to it. It was much smaller in memory and compressed with zstd to a smaller size as well. I've found that 'prepping' data before using a generalized compression algorithm has significant gains both for encode/decode performance + the output size. These were, incidentally, CRDT operations :D

Your blog posts are great, keep it up
Unified Embedding: Battle-Tested Feature Representations for Web-Scale ML System
Business types will always choose an extreme but simple action over hard but targeted actions. RTO won't fix a bad process. You need to fix your process. Only then will RTO become valuable.
Those aren't suburbs. Which makes it moot, since high-density areas already have these.
The secret 3rd option
> I think avoiding many if not most gain-of-function experiments is a reasonable lesson to learn from this pandemic.

Help me out, I don't see the thread of logic from your previous points...
I want to see this argument play out in court.

He's the one specifically replacing one thing with another under some circumstance. Not the person embedding it or the one hosting the image.
That's what Google was
> All evidence points to zoonotic spillover, aggravated by our encroachment on previously undisturbed natural areas and global warming.

what evidence?

in any case, thats fancy language for: "Donald Trump was a proponent of the lab leak hypothesis so we had to come up with an alternate theory lest we appear to be in agreement with Donald Trump...so we've decided that it was people eating Pangolin Soup"
Idyll – Create explorable explanations and interactive essays
Our 2,000 home HOA luckily is large enough that city police just park in our parking lots by design - no fees required! grimace
Depends on the size of the org. Large orgs have a large middle for a reason. When executives need to make choices they talk to the middle and they tend to suggest cuts to anything except their job. It astounds me that actual productive people lose their jobs when their is usually a wealth of pencil pushing, PowerPoint wielding, decide by community do nothing's in the middle. And this is coming from a once wrench turning product manager who is now firmly in the middle. There is a balance to be had, but larger orgs are insanely top heavy.
Is there any requirement that gain-of-function follow conceivably natural pathways?
I don't think selling your company is unethical
The REASON they're chasing the fad is to change how you interact with the content in a way that's positive for them.
Cruise self-driving cars investigated after two accidents
OTOH, people accessing the game through iframes may be in breach of the computer misuse act for unauthorised access to content.
And what I am clearly arguing that the list is wrong. :) It should be considered a Culture novel based on the themes, and the general behaviour of the dwellers.

Most culture novels are about the minds and their humanoid charges. But we also know that the minds keep not just humanoids, but also inhabitants of gas planets. They just rarely show up in the other novels because it is hard for our humanoid heroes to interract with them.

The way the dwellers live their lives: hedonistic, inward focused, and when they are attacked blasts the attackes with a before-then unknown superweapon is very Culture. I posit that we are seeing an offshot of the mainline Culture.

So that is my point. Even I clearly recognise that this is an unorthodox reading of the work, definietly not the mainstream interpretation. But you can’t just argue against it by saying “wikipedia says no”.