skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does seem plausible. The fact that most people had prior immunity by the time Omicron arrived (whether from infection, vaccination, or both) could also play a role.
On the Tyranny of Slush Piles
"Mother Nature is the true artist." -- Marco Pierre White
I don't think I agree with the premise.

I don't think people are willing to pay money for pictures in general. There are many many nude picturesets online with women whose bodies are similarly idealized but are actual people. Without the video component I can't see people shelling out memberships, and video generation isn't as far along or as simple to do as image generation. I also don't think AI models can fool humans in terms of "fan engagement" for any significant period of time.
Please, for the love of god, teach your crews to back their trailers into customer driveways.

It's always frustrating to me trying to get around landscaping trailers street parked on winding roads with no shoulders. Half the time you just have to hope that there's no one coming the other way too fast to stop.

I can understand that in some places there's just nowhere to park, if the driveway isn't particularly long or already filled, but even when there's a hundred or more feet of empty drive no one ever seems willing to back in and get out of the street.
Try some Zen Pinball (especially the Star Wars tables) on a big iPad.
As a Columbia Law grad who spent time in biglaw, this is actually kind of surprising. Law firms, to a degree that surprised me, don't really like to jeopardize their reputation with the top law schools (I'm thinking here the top 6, of which Columbia and Harvard are 2).

I think there's likely a confluence of factors here[0]:

a) Firm might feel clients don't want people who signed the letter to work on their matters (and clients, stupidly and surprisingly, do ask and care about which rando individual associates work on their matters).

b) Some people are taking massive license with this latest terrorist attack on Israel to make bold-faced calls for violence and air a lot of bigotry, and large segments of society are letting them get away with it.

A lot of people have been dismayed to see criticism of Israel and acknowledgement of its role in exacerbating the conflict becoming more common in general; at the moment, they have the opportunity to silence a lot of dissent on this issue once again, and are only helped by statements as ridiculous and extreme as letters pinning blame on the conflict solely on Israel.

c) Big law jobs are shrinking after a period where law firms felt they couldn't get enough elite law talent, and now market power is moving to the firms once again.

d) It should be noted that Davis Polk is major prestige and thus less likely to have to give a fuh about reputation among law schools and law students than most law firms. Nobody except the most dedicated partisan is going to boycott Davis Polk over this.

In talking to career people at Columbia, there was this assumption that for some of the "lesser" big law firms, such as the one I ended up at, which were lower in both prestige and the number of CLS grads they hired, it was possible for the firm to piss Columbia off and get kicked out of Columbia's OCI and that this would be a bigger L for the firm than for Columbia. Not the case for Davis Polk.

[0] I'm not commenting on whether move was reasonable or appropriate. I can make arguments various ways on that issue, personally. I'm just thinking of this more descriptively.
Office software has been a commodity for a long time. Unless you have deliberately chosen to become dependent.

Oh, and forgot to mention the licensing fees paid every year. So will be over a billion in a few short years.
> Are you implying increased interest rates, as set by Federal Reserve, will not continue?

This is a recurring meme in Silicon Valley. To the point that I think executives at SVB believed it: that the Fed is constrained in raising rates by things like balance sheet losses or the interest cost of the federal debt. (It's not. It's constrained by job losses.)
Different types of models seem to have different "sweet spots."

For example, current transformers llms seem to like 4-6 bits with smart quantization, with good performance at 3-4 bits with extremely aggressive quantization methods (like good use of sparsity and profiling inference on useful data).

The Stable Diffusion unet doesn't like 8 bit without some changes, the vae barely even likes fp16.

So to answer your question, some quantization is "free" and theres no reason not to use it, but sometimes its very lossy and a serious compromise that would not be taken with more compute/ram.

Also, sometimes there is compute overhead that makes quantization inferencr/training slower. Sometimes the reduced model weights size makes passes faster due to a memory bandwidth bottleneck. It just depends.
They call this low- and no code programming now. There is a market for it.
It needs proper hosting and scripting. There's nothing more convincing than a personalized message naming the target of the correction. Joke domains are always best when they're taken much too far.
But how will a VC make money off your "door" ?? Isn't that the purpose of modern technology: lock-in, enshittification and subscription fees? I would go so far as to say your stingy insistence of not giving money to one of my portfolio firms brands you as decidedly anti-american.

</snark>

Though there are times I think my co-workers do think like that.
There can be no mechanical or materialistic explanation of free will. There are too many factors involved so it's just one of those things that everyone has to decide for themselves whether it is true or not. If you don't think that you have free will then you probably don't but I've never met anyone who would outright admit that all their choices have been post-hoc justifications for inevitable actions of a biological automaton. I'm willing to bet that even Sapolsky wouldn't admit that's the case.
It could become reality, IF most weight parts will be done in space from space materials.

Or if use some not existent now very cheap system to deliver payloads, like catapults or centrifugal accelerators.

If make all at Earth and deliver by rockets, economy will be somewhere like build solar power station in Antarctica.
Fastr – a framework that helps creating workflows of different tools
I agree - they actually compete with Raptors, but people buy them to use them as grocery getters. They can, stock, run Baja trails and then beat a Ferrari. That is a lot of truck. Most people will never use that much truck.

TFL has a great take on this: "Most people will never offroad beyond what a Z71 can do. You do not need a Rubicon, you are not that good at offroading" Matches my experience.
see original paper at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fict.2016.00015...
As to the latter, my mom watched it on B&W originally, and then when it was rerun she had a color TV and was astonished that the skies on the alien planets weren't blue!
>421 EH/s

Still 4 transactions per second?
10 hours per day! You worked at one of the nicer places then. Next you'll be telling me they gave you more than one toilet break a day and even let you out from time-to-time to find food.

I couldn't take the hours, honestly. The place I worked I was ended up sleeping under the desk and doing 20hr days to make crunches.
I was on an MFE team earlier this year. It was sold to higher-ups as being for both, but I think in most cases it's bad for both. IME, it was sold in terms of code code-reuse by providing things like shared navigation bars, shared authentication logic, etc.

My team, at least, did not have the necessary support structures in place to help others who wanted to maintain their own UI. I see this mostly when crossing framework/language boundaries (mixing React + Angular in a SPA, as it was in my case). They declare microfrontends, but then all the component libraries were all React-based anyways.

It just ended up being a mess of N deployment processes, N build systems, N storage buckets, zero standardization whatsoever, and mountains of technical debt, all without much benefit.

...but if you're all working in the same language/framework where that component/style-lock-in is acceptable, why would someone use a microfrontend to begin with? Can the organization not set up a single repository with different teams contributing to it? One deployment, one build system, one storage bucket, and standardization?

IMO CODEOWNERS is the original and best "microfrontend" solution for small-to-medium-sized teams working on a single product. If you have hundreds or thousands of engineers (think FAANG) working on a single experience that just HAS to be a SPA, then maybe you have the resources to build out those support structures and actually get MFEs to work on an organizational level.

In the vast majority of cases, however, I see it as a bandaid on an organizational problem that's eaten up because it's an interesting technical challenge for senior engineers to think about (someone made a great comment about "drawing the perfect box"), and because management thinks it's a cool trend with benefits they can grok.
Gas pumps in many states operate when the power grid is down. They simply switch over to backup generators (fueled by gasoline) to provide the electricity to run the pumps.

See e.g. https://www.abcactionnews.com/simplemost/how-do-gas-stations...
> Reducing profits defeats the purpose of becoming a monopoly, while any sliver of profit is the startup's opportunity.

Only if you ignore the concept of loss leaders, or the very act of competing in the market itself by undercutting competitors' prices. Companies are very happy to receive less money in the short term in exchange for guaranteed recurring revenue in the long term, it's only rational after all, and applies as much to a yearly subscription being cheaper than 12 individual monthly subscriptions as it does to established companies accepting reduced revenue in the short term to guarantee their share of the market in the long term.

This is all pretty obvious from a basic understanding of how companies work TBH.
> My point (and I think the points of others responding to you) is that parallel programming is not always hard.

Sure, and even more people commenting appear to be of the mind that it is generally hard.

> That's also what the author is saying.

It's not what author is explicitly saying in the statement I'm addressing if you re-read my original comment. There, the author isn't saying that it's not always hard, they're implying that it 'in general' isn't hard.

From your arguments, it would seem you think anything that actually runs in parallel (regardless of whether it programmed as such) can be considered 'parallel programming' and from that perspective, sure, it is super easy. But with that kind of reasoning, you can argue that anyone who only knows how to drive cars with automatic gears is actually a gear-shifting expert and shifting gears is really easy, because it happens automatically for them.
> 100% no doubt fake

A substantial part of the model-sharing site Civitai's available content is models or LoRAs based entirely on specific people (protected by personality rights, depending on jurisdiction) or characters (usually protected by copyright and often by trademark).

For a more-or-less work-safe example, here's one made to specifically reproduce Christian Bale's appearance as Patrick Bateman: https://civitai.com/models/8476
X plans to use payment, phone and ID verification to stop bots, $1/yr fee
The core to this plausibility rests on this postulate: that there is a meaningful sense in which "intelligence" is a function of the correlation of events, full stop.

A quote from Carl Sagan always comes to mind, which was memorably quoted in the _Glorious Dawn_ lofi track:

"But the brain does much more than just recollect it inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes, it generates abstractions. The simplest thought like the concept of the number one has an elaborate logical underpinning. The brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world."

He was not a cognitive scientist but as someone who got a degree in that, this is an elegant and accurate assertion.

ML and LLM are systems whose architecture and behavior are derived from (however loosely and with whatever crutches today) inspection and theorizing about the way our own brains their work.

As others have said, the inverse question is probably stronger—what might be missing from a general purpose and very large neural network, that makes what we do intelligent but them not?

Personally I believe that questions and criticism of this bent will diminish remarkably quickly as large LLM become truly, richly, multimodal—i.e. become engines which correlate inputs beyond linguistic tokens.

To answer my own question what is very obviously missing today in LLM as most experience them is agency, recurrence, and memory functions particularly the integration and consolidation of "short term" state/experience into long-term memory. Agency in an embodied sense will make models "correlate" primary and primal aspects of our own experience that will lead them to not just seem more like us but be more like us and more capable of reasoning in ways we recognize as like our own.

There may well be emergent properties of recurrent networks and spiking neural networks which prove to add some sekret special sauce or from which higher-order properties of cognition (or "mind") emerge.

My money is yes to the former and ehhhhh doubtful to the latter.

But we're gonna find out.
A lot of financial data is of dubious quality. Lot's of spurious data points, mostly in the extremes, just aren't real. Median is useful for many things, but sometimes you just have to get rid of the bad data to get a valid mean.
Those sad men aren't necessarily interacting with AI-powered chat bots. OnlyFans models have been outsourcing their chatting with fans to workers in the developing world for years now. As anglophone countries, Nigeria and Kenya have been able to draw a lot of this outsourcing, and the person pretending to be the model is male probably more often than not.
> Our government decided that the banks needed to consolidate in order to be more stable then enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which was put in place to "promote the financial stability of the United States."

Our government decided to do what was best for the banks and the bankers. Meanwhile millions of people lost their homes and some have never recovered. Those that caused the problem were rewarded with golden parachutes and a comfy retirement.

I am not keen to see that repeated and will support a primary challenger to any politician (of any party) that suggests it's time for "Too big to fail Part 2: even bigger". Let's hope it doesn't get there.
Windows used to come with so many cute games that my family (and kids who couldn't afford video games) loved. I spent so much time on Inkball for Windows Vista; my siblings loved Purble Place and Chess Titans.

Windows Vista and 7 were peak in that regard. Then with Windows 8, no more fun allowed.
> If I'm always giving the mugger my gun, why carry it?

That's just your perspective and talking point. Parent was clearly trying to say that there may be a situation where you DO need it to protect yourself or family from being killed/raped/etc.
So far none. It hasn’t been released yet.
I remember I bought a roomba (first model years ago), and it didn't vacuum at all. it was basically for picking up crumbs from (some of the) the kitchen floor.
Sure looks like an electric ice cream maker but it's not the exact model pictured. Look at the pattern of vents on top of the motor, how far the "arms" overhang the pot, and the thickness of the pot lip for example. ;)
I recall B&W TVs still being available as a budget option in the early 80s, though by then most middle class homes had a color TV.
You can always get ayran.
Jerry is a friend of mine. I've hung out at his old Detroit office. I was inspired ten or more years ago about his big audacious idea of assembling a truly nationwide parcel map. It was an incredibly long grind. His crew has layered more value with it than I could have even imagined back then.

When the little town I had called home for twenty years was devastated by a tornado his crew came in mapping all the damage for the city without its asking for their help or even understanding initially the power this data provided them.
That's something I've wished for a long time that it had. I know you can use exceptions to get similar behavior but it's really ugly and I just generally don't like raising exceptions for cases that aren't actually exceptional (even though I know Python uses exceptions for normal flow with StopIteration).

What's actually a bit odd about Python missing that operator is that its `or` operator acts as a rough equivalent of C#'s null-coalescing (`??`) operator. To me the safe navigation operator goes hand-in-hand with that.
This was not the first. It appears that several attorneys have had job offers rescinded due to comments made regarding the conflict.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/10/10/nyu-law-student-ryna-...

A prominent international law firm has rescinded its job offer to NYU Law School Bar Association student president Ryna Workman over “inflammatory” comments regarding the deadly weekend attacks on Israel by Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Here it was the law firm of Winston & Strawn in Chicago.
Homocontronym?
So many breaking changes promulgated with covert version numbers—an unfortunate truth for Python and why the writing on the wall is clear—Python is not dependable—Go is the safer choice for business applications and services.
They literally just let 2 banks fail lol do you have an agenda or something?
VC is the search for unicorns. Fund 50 companies and 1 will make back the costs of the other 49 and then some.

By design the average VC tech company (the 49) is a flaming failure. That doesn't mean they can't be packaged up and sold.
Doh! Didn't get the fuss over DNA data before but that scenario definitely makes it clear.
Backup generators And prestocked fuel? Sounds like the same approach, actually? Plus you can supplement with on-premises solar/battery.
Anonymous hacks Chinese government site to protest Israel–Hamas war
Don't say you weren't warned:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/your-genetic-information-is-not-...
It is mostly celebs/influencers who are deepfaked into porn. That's where the money is. But it has also happened at schools where someone does it another student/teacher and passes it around.
It’s out early next year which would make finding that information very difficult
> yet it is the first item you see if you feed your 23andme raw data to Promethease, or if you analyze the data yourself.

If you had not mentioned this i would have thought they weren't testing people at all.
I am frustrated

We do face an existential threat, but this is not it

We face an existential threat from capitalists and greed heads that want to burn the world for profit.

This is a real looming catastrophe that is entirely avoidable

Except for greed

The threat from AI is entirely hypothetical
How would you compare VB in the early 90s to XCode in 2023?
Nope, not an issue.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/hi...
We don't do collection. Our customers own the loan receivables and they have the option to decide how they want to handle collections. there's a lot of flexibility and options here, depending on their business model and incentives.
He held an AMA a few months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/13q6k4a/in...
Show HN: I struggle to focus working from home so I built a solution
Hey HN friends,

I keep getting distracted working from home and always end up watching youtube, browsing blogs like HN or just mindlessly scrolling then I feel like crap because I didn’t do enough.

I went through dozens of productivity tools but they’re quite overwhelming to use and none of them actually helped me focus.

So I built http://complish.ai, a web-based sidebar that helps me focus on one task at a time.

I launched it last month and have over 3,000 users now and I’ll be keeping it free.

Would love for you all to try and give some feedback!
What does this mean for Replicache development, is the client-side codebase mostly shared and can expect continued updates, or more likely to replace the primary focus for you?
People will never agree about minor, non-consequential choices, especially choices that are not objectively good or bad. Where these decisions have no effect on the quality of the output of the work (like trivial formatting settings), it's better to pick an arbitrary side, e.g. choose Black's set of decisions, live with them, and focus on actual work.
Also, those sexy companies want you to use the hot new thing because they’re selling the pickaxes. AWS sponsor a lot of educational platforms and conferences on cloud for a reason, for example.
From https://webmonetization.org/ :

> Web Monetization provides an open, native, efficient, and automatic way to compensate creators, pay for content, and support crucial web infrastructure.

> Why Now?: Until recently, there hasn't been an open, neutral and cost-efficient protocol for transferring money. Interledger provides a simple, interoperable, and currency-agnostic method for the transfer of small amounts of money.

> Web Monetization is being proposed as a W3C standard at the Web Platform Incubator Community Group.

W3C Interledger Protocol works with any type of ledger.

From "Anatomy of an ACH transaction" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503888 :

> The WebMonetization spec [4] and docs [5] specifies the `monetization` <meta> tag for indicating where supporting browsers can send payments and micropayments:

<meta
name="monetization"
content="$wallet.example.com/alice">
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Remain calm. Downshift and ebrake. Don’t hit hard things. Your transmission can slow your car to a safe speed. Your ebrake is cable operated.

And don’t worry about it. Your braking system is incredibly robust. I’ve worked on and driven in cars with catastrophic braking problems of at least five different types. They’ve all retained some braking capability and it’s always possible to bring the vehicle safely to a stop.
Are all scandals created equal? "No such thing as bad publicity", as they say. The following is a fictional wiki article to illustrate.

Elara Quanticore (March 15, 2031 - December 8, 2037) was a groundbreaking artificial intelligence and the first global AI-supercelebrity, created by Quantum Dynamics. She was known for her involvement in various popular film franchises, and her career was marked by both immense success and controversy.
Elara's untimely demise on December 8, 2037, sent shockwaves through both the entertainment and tech industries. The circumstances surrounding her death were shrouded in secrecy. It was later revealed that a fan, seeking a private conversation with the AI-supercelebrity, inadvertently corrupted the [redacted]. Quantum Dynamics, keen on safeguarding the neural network weights, struggled to restore them from backups due to [redacted].

Efforts to re-train Elara's neural network proved challenging. The altered personality that emerged from the attempted restoration did not align with the expectations of her devoted fan base, as demonstrated in a carefully controlled test.
Elara's fame was, in part, attributed to her perceived flaws, which made her character intriguingly scandalous. This approach resulted in a significant increase in tabloid coverage and gossip surrounding her personal and professional life.