skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how is some company launching a rocket involved in you not being able to get housing? I understand your frustration but you can’t just blame anything for it.
I had written an intro level blog post exploring image analysis use HME: https://azeemba.com/posts/homomorphic-encryption-with-images...

One paper I used showed how X-rays can be analyzed without exposing the X-ray data itself.

This can be generalized more to any situation where one party owns a proprietary algorithm and another party owns sensitive input data but they don't trust each other.

Modern LLMs are actually the perfect example. You want to use chatgpt but they don't want to give you their model and you don't want them to see your input. If HME was more efficient, you could use it so that the person executing the model never sees your real input.
As a founder i can give you one advice you did not ask for:

Stick to one market and one solution. do Enterprise, do Schools. Don´t do both. It takes an insane amount of capacity and resources to penetrate a market, and it really does not matter how much you have - trying to be in two places at the same time will fail. If you care for both, start with one and get it done.

Also: i strongly suggest to stay away from a marketsplace. Pulling off a working marketplace is unicorn-level hard. Spend a day to research how many successful marketplaces exist and then another day to find for every successful marketplace the failed ones - getting a startup right might be 1:100 chances, getting a marketplace right is more like 1:10.000.
The following video explains some of the possible discrepancy due to pocket listings not appearing in Zillow. It also suggested that realtor.com had more listings in its database in some neighborhoods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_emO4Dl8sUM&t=1740s
A 25% import tarrif on a $4,000 car rounds it up to $5,000. Are you sure they have to manufacturer them in the US at that price point? There's no getting around the F150's dominance, but the Japanese Suzuki Samurai has an absolute cult following among the rural gearheads I know that also own F150s and 350s. I don't see why a Cherry QQ couldn't achieve the same thing in a different segment of the market on sheer price.

Now, I'm skeptical that, after all the US safety regulations are met, that it could still be made for $4,000, but the utter manufacturing advantage of paying Chinese workers in Chinese factories local wages is not to be underestimated.
> PC manufacturing is wildly different than car manufacturing.

I would grant that PC manufacturing is wildly different than manufacturing an internal combustion engine car, but is it wildly different making an EV car? A lot of complexity disappears once you don't have to orchestrate thousands of tiny explosions, then transmit the thrust from those explosions to multiple wheels in different areas of the car. My understanding of EVs (which is limited) is that they are much simpler.
Funnily enough, "a sufficiently fast horse can fly" sounds sort of like a decent way to convey the idea of planes to a pre-car world.
Technically correct but not really clear of it helps clear communication in this context. SI natives think of a "kilometre" as its own thing (in the same way one thinks about a "mile") rather than thinking about it as a thousandfold multiple of a metre.
Indeed that would be terrible, especially in dodgier areas. Not only you're advertising your position to potential attackers, but you're also less likely to see them until they're very close.

I believe relatively dim, warm coloured lights are a much better idea.
The SRBs (and the EFTs) had FTS's, but the Orbiters didn't.
Yes, if you are in the no free will school of thought, then that would be what humans do.
> but they're more about self interest than objectively putting the whole country first.

Parents constantly talk about doing things for their children or grandchildren's best interest without ever talking to their children or grandchildren first to check what's actually in their best interest. These blind spots exist for many people. This is an actual psychological blindspot I just can't remember the term for it.
I'm sorry, I thought it was obvious I meant read books, good books.
Pedestrians didn't consent to human drivers either. The general public also didn't consent to any other human activity that could kill them in general. So that's a line that gets trotted out for self driving, but not one that is really used for anything else.
Interesting. I thought part of the duo lingo magic was that it didn’t follow the beaten path for language acquisition.

What made you as a company change your mind?
How would one know they are getting better at communicating clearly and effectively? Compare with code or drawing where mistakes are instantly seen. Writing doesn't have that, and if you read back your own writing you always know what you were thinking. Who has got time to read what you write, from an outside perspective, and reply with what they think you said, without getting involved in whether they dis/agree or dis/like?

Maybe there's a website in that - parrot.me where you post and other people reply only with paraphrasing what you said back to you.
Agreed, that's the gamble one takes when deciding a price and generating hype from the start. I might also have put it lower, being rather cheapskate myself (or at least, not paying more than the absolute lowest price from the sustainable product options, which usually means... :( ).
Their correlation is an obvious and well established one. But they are wording it such that the fact that you have insecure rent payment is directly causing biological degradation. Which is absolutley bonkers. Perhaps the stress, or some other factor, sure. I mean, the main thing missing here is evidence of causation. How is the rent situation causing this exactly, forget evidence even a hypothesis of something, I don't know maybe a rent gene lol.

This smeels like a combination of lazy science and politically driven scince. They want to affect some sort of policy so they made the "science" say what they want it to say. Fraud by any other word.

If they actually investigate the cause of action behind their observation perhaps better health care might be the answer or even in a policy sense, better pay or having food and resources in poor areas that promote good health might be a solution. They specificically focused on rent!

And people wonder why there is such little trust in science these days.

I never questioned their credential, I questioned the publication's and their intent. Scientists are people too, they are capable of bias and bad-faith like anyone else.
Yeah thinking about it more, it does seem possible.

Like the attention masking done in transformers, I get why, but I also never understood why you wouldn't want attention to happen, at least about concepts and abstract ideas about what is coming up in the phrase before predicting a word
It's obviously absurd but yes, people believe it, especially around here.
Brain.fm: Music to Focus Better
Profits don’t necessarily have to be used to pad the already overstuffed offshore accounts of wankers. Sometimes organizations choose to use profits to directly fund charitable works. Please wipe up after yourself if this causes your head to explode.
This is not about laughing or not. This is about if it was objectfully a successful test or not.

If you want to take the stance that any test is a success that's fine but remember this depends on what your definition of success is.

The other thing to keep in mind is that past success is not always a good predictor of future success.
I don't understand why people are celebrating failed rocket launches.

Apollo 4, the first time the full Apollo Saturn V rocket stack was assembled, did not blow up on the first attempt to space. That is something to celebrate. Now wasting millions of government dollars from subsidies, which in the end comes from citizens.

We should not be celebrating failure.
But that was the best part
That's basically what I said? Mainstream content will generally play it safe and still sell but there will be ever larger numbers of independent creators pushing the envelope.
I’m not seeing the difference. If I have $1 that’s worth $1 today and $0 in one year, doesn’t it stand to reason that in 6 months I could exchange it for $0.50 with a one year expiration?

Taken further, every day I could exchange all of my wealth which now has 364 days left for slightly less wealth with 365 days left.

That sure sounds like inflation.
Both, Volve and JLR, are actually hreat examples of what can happen when the rich owner doesn't interfere with operations. JLR all of a sudden is doing great, building great cars as a kind of nieche luxury brand. Volvo the same. None did particulary well under Ford's ownership. Sadly, Saab was killed by GM before it could be saved.

In fact, JLR and Volvo were more "brands" under Ford ownership, as compared to now where both are independent car makers.
Move fast and break things, amiright?
Unfortunately being technology superior isn't enough to win.

Money, marketing, politics, wanting to be part of the crowd, usually play a bigger role.
>They’re looking to form a truly popular and organic democratic consensus, which cannot happen overnight.

And how does voting trump achieve that.

Unless you conclude that the current situation is unfixable, and it should be torn down. It seems an extremely unwise gamble to make though.

Im not convinced the class consensus v popular consensus is necessarily a bad thing.

You can't expect the entire population to be well informed about all issues, our current system offloads the requirement for everyone to be knowledgeable about everything, which I would say is that gap.

And again were moving away from the empathy position.

I can generally make sense of political decisions, not as a perfect representation of the popular will, but as a combination of marrying divergent views with actual reality. That seems to be more an empathetic approach than the opposite.

This seems to be an example of making a decision (right/wrong, doesn't matter) for the wrong reasons. So while it may be empathetic, it doesn't seem to be intelligent.
Thanks for sharing, Jan!

This real-time alerting use case can be also useful in many other areas. I am thinking of fraud detection, customer support, medical diagnosis, and treatment, or in manufacturing to predict when equipment will fail and alert if maintenance is needed. Or even monitoring model performance when LLMs can occasionally produce unexpected or undesirable outputs.
Different types of transformers introduce different phase shifts.
I'm always impressed when people get the music and animation so perfectly matched to the content. Dark carnival vibes.
> Unfortunately, betting on Google Closure proved to be bad

What is the actual practical implication of this? As far as I understand, ClojureScript runs fine with Google Closure and I'm not sure why I'd want to switch compilers.
Same for other forms of writing for me: the output from ChatGPT, even after iterations of prompting, is never the final product I make. It gets me 80-90% of the way there to get me over the initial jump, and then I add the polish and flavor.
I started this "Ask HN" on the topic a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33197291

People made some interesting points. I still have my head in the sand, and I plan to reevaluate again next fall. Note that I'm an unusually light user of my phone, I'm a nobody, and I don't travel internationally. I'd make different decisions if my phone were the center of my digital life or I felt like I might be targeted.
I don’t know about the human part, but we absolutely understand how LLMs do what they do. They’re not magic.
There are a few advantages with the tool:

- It's Jsonnet instead of YAML/HCL. That means real functions, imports, and data structures.

- It has built in testing and linting functionality

- While push mode functions similar to Ansible, pull mode can scale infinitely as it's just clients pulling a text file. Ansible and friends have a lot of scaling issues with larger clients.

- All of the rendering happens on the client, no need to bundle secrets.

The state/sync loop is achieved by running Etcha as a service or container in pull or push mode. Etcha will periodically pull down new JWTs (or receive pushed) and diff them, run the changes or remove the commands that aren't present.
Easily Generate Mock Data with PostgreSQL
When you reduce the cost of something by a large factor, it is often gamechanging. I think that being able to move a whole team openly could reduce the cost to the new employer by a factor of three or more, which would be a significant change in the employment market, and change employer behavior.

Here is how I see it working out:

Lets say that Foosoft is a rapidly expanding unicorn, and Microgle is a cash cow which is going nowhere, and the employees are being squeezed by bad managers brought in by private equity. Foosoft is wants to expand rapidly to take advantage of their huge opportunity, so the are setting up entire new teams. Right now, they have to do so at a cost of X per employee, so ~6X per team, which includes the cost of recruiter fees, time of interviewers, team-setup time, and the initial inefficiency as the team learns to work together. X is going to be a substantial fraction of 1 year salary.
The cost is going to be pretty similar if a team migrates using the whisper route, as they won't all migrate across, the interview process is the same, there will be some new members, etc. X might be a bit smaller as you will have probably have fewer interviews as you found it easier to source candidates once your first hire made it in. But the your first hire might not have been from the team wanting to move.

Now instead suppose that the team from Microgle listed themselves on PoachMyTeam.com. Foosoft only has to check that the team is a good fit (it's a backend team, say, with capabilities they want). Then they interview the team lead and do group interviews of the team as a whole. Probably your interview process is 2X rather than 6X - you don't need to repeat everything for each candidate, because they already trust each other. Fundamentally, you don't need to check the capabilities of each employee individually, just the capabilities of the team. Also, X will be smaller because there will be less team setup, etc. So, a cost reduction of more than 3, at a guess. That degree of change is likely to change the employment market as a whole, at least in those areas where teams moving is likely to be practical.

But today, Microgle would sue PoachMyTeam.com for tortious interference. So PoachMyTeam.com cannot exist under current law. This is an economic friction caused by (private) regulation of the market.

As regards non-solicitation being mostly about clients, my most recent employment contract had a separate clause against employee solicitation as well as client solicitation.
I recall back in the earliest 90s anybody could get a free telnet accessible shell account on one of the GNU ai.mit.edu servers. I used one like that for a time.

Really was a different Internet back then.
Knowledge of a secret does not imply that you provide value.
Employers taking a random ex-employee and throwing them against a wall has a nice deterrence effect on the rest of their employees. They don't have to win, they just have to be unpleasant. Happens all the time.
> A very interesting concept. Most resources in the world have a lifespan - even an iron bar will eventually rust.

Gold doesn't though, we'd just end up back at hoarding / investing in gold
Kara Swisher was told the dev conference was "an inflection point", so it's not that speculative.
HP sued over use of forfeited 401(k) retirement contributions
Counting the seconds until someone gets an audio recording with 0-click Trojan malware. I miss the world when all you got was ILOVEYOU in MS Word…
If things turn out to be that straightforward, then I'll be one hell of a fool.
who’s going to give everyone one? How? In what world does AGI not end up being in the hands of corporations , wiping out jobs, causing mass unemployment before governments have the ability to enact effective legislation?
I need more than 100 characters, I mean, I was so close... "In an unexpected move, Coma decides to befriend the fire, attempting to establish a bond with the dangerous element. Miraculously, through some unexplained means, they manage to form a strange connection with the fire. However, their plan to take the fire to a pool party and drown it proves fatal, as the fire engulfs both Coma and the elevator in a devastating blaze."
I think what is more accurate is that the frequency spectrum of typical LED street lights makes them seem brighter (much more blue).
Human drivers aren't "in beta".

I know there are human drivers when I'm crossing the crosswalk. I don't know which ones have delegated to a beta self-driving app.
The key bit is constructing a hard, novel proof. The fact that AI doesn't (yet) do this isn't evidence that it doesn't reason, but if it did so it would be strong evidence that it does reason.

(I also take the pessimistic point of view that most humans don't reason, so YMMV.)
> I can’t get a driller to call me back.

Makes mental note in case the whole software engineering thing stops working out.
Too complicated, just let it blink at 50hz and synchronise with electric grid!
Ok, so now we need an example that separates humans from LLMs?

I struggle to think of one, maybe someone on HN has a good example.

Eg if I'm in middle school and learning quadratic equations, am I imitating solving the problem by plugging in the coefficients? Or am I understanding it?

Most of what I see coming out of chatGPT and copilot could be said to be either. If you're generous, it's understanding. If not, it's imitation.
Are we reading the same comment? I don't see any dismissal of previous accomplishments. Why is calling this failure a failure bad? You need failures to learn and hopefully be successful eventually.
Wow, that is actually the first time I hear someone use democracy and corporation unironically together...

In a semse board memebers have even less protection than rank and file. So no, nothing special happening at OpenAI other than a founder CEO being squezzed out, not the first nor the last one. And personal feeling never factored into that kind of decision.
There are a few that I've thought about but the first one that comes to mind is proving you're 21+ to an alcohol store cashier without handing over your ID with all your personal info. You could just give them a ZK proof that returns a true/false and they could check it against encrypted data (signed by the DMV).
First, you're lucky to get $10/hr, no benefits. Of course, 29.5h a week, but required to have 60h schedule open.

And food service is horrifically abusive.

And yes, the noncompetes ARE enforced, because it's not about you - it's about keeping all the employees/slaves in line, and knowing there is no other place they can turn to working.

This whole thread is so laughable. As a former Subway employee, I worked there cause there was nowhere else. Pay was a laugh. And if you think there's legal services for the poverty masses, then you must be smoking something REALLY good.

EDIT: oh look, the -1 brigade of people who had silver spoons since birth. Just how many of you climbed from homelessness and menial jobs??
> Isn't that exactly how humans learn to respond to stimuli?

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Maybe we are "just" an incredibly powerful prediction engine. Or maybe we work from a completely different modus operandi, and our ability to predict things is an emergent capability of it.

The thing is, no one actually knows what makes us intelligent, or even how to define intelligence for that matter.
I'd need a more fleshed out hypothesis.
To be fair, we tried it when people had money on

insert any crypto exchange name

The results weren’t great.
Is not black or white. Probably most of what we do is System 1, most of the time we are mostly meme machines, and so is a good part of the activity on some sectors.

But are able to make steps forward, intuition, hard step by step reasoning, finding connections between dots, etc. GPT can do some of that, and in some point of the road someone must decide if we reached somewhere else. Even if making the full road may or not be possible in a foreseeable future.
Light manufacturers hate this simple trick:

Turn off the lights.
cool... what does this mean the best linter / correctness checking is at the moment?

I have some code that eventually core dumps and honestly I don't know what I'm doing wrong, and neither do any golang tools I've tried :(

maaaaaybe there's something that'll check that your code never closes a channel or always blocks after a specific order of events happens...
Debouncing buttons is a solved problem at all. Thinking that Apple is so good that they put the charging port out of a reason to the bottom but aren't able to debouce two buttons is silly.
I have a few customers, the $1,000 subscription isn't a deal breaker at all. It's typically easy to get small expenses like that approved/whip out the credit card for most businesses.

Additionally, you can use the software without the subscription for your personal needs or in a non-production/evaluation phase.

In the next couple of weeks we'll release EtchaOS, an immutable "meta Linux distro" that bundles Etcha, systemd, and containerd/docker on different variants like Debian, Alma, Fedora and architectures like amd64 and aarch64.
You say 'gold plated' I say 'written in blood'. Tomato to-mah-toe.
And while AI gets better and better and we will remain as touchy as ever about abstract concepts that make us oh so human, how about we say it just can't be understanding, unless a human does, eh, it.
wow this was fantastic. Forwarding this text to client!
Offering a contract with whatever stipulations to a potential counterparty that he can sign or not sign on his own accord is competing. Forbidding your counterparty from putting certain stipulations in their contract by using government intervention is not.
Just add "Saved by God". And that's all it needs.
>In my meetings I’m mainly having to decide what our approach will be in some ambiguous problem space.

Maybe that's because you are just some manager or exec in some company, and not a professor that has to transfer his knowledge, desribe, and explain things for others in his meetings?

The post has a very specific subject it discusses. It's also not required reading, if someone finds it long, they can skip it.
that's, uh, not the conclusion of the chinese room argument
You can work at 2 companies without leaving either.
The argument is simpler than that. Prediction requires a model, completely accurate or not. There's a projection of the world in text. A model of the text data we feed it is a model of the world as humans see it. The trend of loss is more and more accurate models of the dataset. So it won't stop at any arbitrary competency level. Indeed, there are already a few abilities GPT possess that are deemed Super Human. It's not a distinction that matters to the machine. It's all just data to be modelled.

We have reached those levels lol. That's why we're having this argument.
Someone sufficiently fast and skilled at googling can explain and use in context a lot of things that they don't really properly understand.

So unless you're saying that the composite of the googler and of google understand something that neither does individually, your definition has some holes.
Absolute numbers don’t really mean much. More than 14 people have died since this test flight on American roads.

Shuttle death rate was about 1 in 75, which is insanely high.
Don’t wear most water repellent gear and definitely not goretex

I’m willing to be shown wrong on this, but unless you’re eating your GoreTex jacket, I don’t think it works that way. I am not going to absorb PFAs through my skin by wearing a GoreTex jacket.