skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why shouldn't people's passions, especially when they are widely useful to others, not be encouraged and turned into paying jobs?

Because there is no fair way of estimating what someone's work is worth without a free market. Sometimes it turns up weird outcomes like maintaining a critical driver being worth $0.

If someone is willing to do something for free and the marginal cost of copying the work is 0 then by simple economics they will not get paid for doing the thing. Same logic applies to having children, advocating good ideas in politics and a lot of creative work.

Besides, why should someone doing what they are passionate about entitle them to a leg up? What about someone doing plumbing and hating it? They're making more of a sacrifice for the benefit of others, they deserve more money. And if someone is adding enormous value then let them who recognise it pay for it.

Nothing wrong with people working on their passions and making money of course, but words like 'should' are suspicious. Once you get to software development, people are in a world where market forces are fair and reasonable.
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Interesting info. Thanks.

In my particular case it doesn't help that I only have limited control over the query and the query designer has a bias towards large, complicated db functions.
That says a lot about one’s skill doesnt it?
You don't need cryptocurrencies to commit tax fraud. The problem isn't being technically unable to get the money.
> LLMs seem to operate on the principle of "will this pass for a correct answer" rather than "this is how this thing works, so here's a reasonable opinion answering your question".

That's NOT how LLMs operate. They're trained on what is supposed to be selected representative human text of some at least minimum quality, and ideally truthful, factual and relevant.

And then their prediction is judged on how close to that ground truth it is. Not on whether it's "plausible" or "will this pass for a correct answer". There's no math function for pretending to be right. You have to be right.

One reason why LLMs make up things sometimes is because they're incredibly tightly optimized. Like you have no idea how tight. GPT-4 has the comparable complexity of a mouse brain. A mouse brain that has to fit the world's knowledge.

Obviously, something has to give, and you'll not be accurate sometimes when you have so limited space. You'll store some things approximately, generally, and then extrapolate answers from them, maximizing for correct output.
> Isn't the hint in the name? It's a language model, not a knowledge model.

Well yes, but how is this insight helpful? People aren't just looking at the name. Have your missed the last 10 months of ridiculous breathless coverage of LLMs?

> The trouble is people think it goes deeper when the knowledge modeling part

People are literally calling this shitty text prediction algorithm "AI". The discourse is completely out of hand.
The night train revolution has been hailed as an alternative to airplanes
I worked in the shop which had all of these ops (app cluster, DB cluster) on premise, and they had 6 high paid people serving this, not just one, and I think there are many companies with their own sites like that.

So, speak for yourself.
LLM’s only cover a fraction of what search provides. If you want anything real time like news the models simply aren’t updated that quickly.

Further, booking a flight etc means finding the correct 3rd party aka search.
For my first home in Canada we (really the seller, but that’s just a shell game) paid 2% and it felt like a lot in terms of actual $, largely given how home prices have inflated.

We walked through three homes I picked out, and then an evening of email counter offers, and then another walk through, and then some paper work. Then I got to pay the lawyers as well as the inspector.

I imagine I subsidize the times in my agent’s job where she does a ton of work and there’s no sale at all. Though maybe a flat fee could still incorporate that reality.
Sci-fi lied.
> You can also electro-plate them

You can electro-plate thermoplastic?
You cannot be elected?

In all seriousness, notaries in Germany are all full lawyers and practices are highly sought after, as the numbers of lisvensed notaries is limited.
I like that it talks about coaxial cable. In case anyone is curious, like I was, twisted-pair cabling is used in practice because it's much cheaper and easier to work with than coax.
One thing I picked up somewhere, is that some people remember social situations with a far more negative spin than others and/or simply remember more of the negative interactions, and a way to counter that is to make notes while it's fresh in your mind. At least for a while.

It was really eye-opening for me to do this for a while, as even just writing down social interactions both led to discovering while writing it down that I'd probably misread situations as less positive than they were and forced me to pay closer attention to things I didn't use to during interactions.

But the biggest help was really just driving home how rare negative interactions were, and how little they mattered, relative to the rest, and also how much less they matter when you actually notice more of the good ones.
How is it different than someone making a funny video where they impersonate David Attenborough? Those aren’t generally considered disrespectful, right?

Like, I get the potential scale is different. But this is some joke video, not someone trying to actually replace David Attenborough or something.
Russian blood doesn't matter to Russian military command.

One could go so far as to say that "using Russian blood" has historically been and currently is their military doctrine.
I do free open-source work because I want to reshape the world, and this is somewhere I have leverage. If I was paid to do the work, then I would have to deliver what the customer wants, which is not always aligned with how I see things.

It’s pure ego, but I hope it benefits the world too :)
People who think the world works on facts have a hard time grokking LLMs. With chatgpt you find solutions to problems the same way you do with humans: through conversation. Personally, chatgpt has revolutionized my work flow, both in that it prints out code that does what I want it to do, and it also helps me figure out how to frame my problems in a way that’s actually solvable.
The extra value is not there. Anyone can do this job, it's literally filling out boilerplate documents, you can ask gpt 4 vision to do it for you.
2021. A bit dated. Firefox had adopted Manifest V3 too (or at least is compatible with it)
> The problem with Israeli-Hamas conflict isn't that the accurate information isn't available.

> It is that both sides of the conflict decided to use misinformation to bolster their media presence and their right to defend themselves.

How can these two claims be compatible with each other? The first says that accurate information is available. The second says that it isn't.
> The buyer doesn't bear the cost at all

This is the issue. If both sides had to pay their own agent, significantly fewer agents would be used. Instead the buyer externalizes the cost, and many sellers aren’t confident enough to deal with the buyer’s agent directly so they arm themselves with an agent.
> What you’re referring to is survivorship bias, not confirmation bias.

Thanks, edited, got those mixed up because it was early.
AFAIK they are all breeder reactors. So they can be rather easy modified to breed Plutonium and the likes.

Good luck, if one of them shows up in the hands of Daesh or other religious-ideologically or political-ideologically disturbed minds.

Edit: Furthermore, small reactors produce more radioactive waste than big ones. Although the study I read was about conventional reactors, IIRC.
In many states, notaries can marry people as the actual legal step of notarizing the marriage license and returning it to the county clerk's office is the actual deed that makes people legally married.
This may be the difference between feelings that could be attributed to 'social anxiety' and those that are a product of being and introvert. Presenting to a large group of people, for me at least, takes way less 'social energy' than talking one-on-one with a stranger - so I resist doing the latter in order to conserve my limited social energy reserves. I can do it, I just prefer not to. So for me its more a feeling of reluctance because of how much energy I know it will take. In effect, this is just me being lazy.

Compare this with 'anxiety' which would be closer to feeling actual fear at interacting with strangers. This is a very different situation than social energy conservation.
You encountered a great example of how not only is the fee ridiculous, but also the agents are not incentivized to work for you. They are incentivized to move houses as fast as they can.
I think that's intentional. It's bullshit too.
Can social media be better? Four researchers approached this question
I only skimmed through the article, but if I understood correctly the scammers made $23m, now have to repay $3.3m (which probably will never happen) and some of their assets were taken. They were given 4 and 6 year prison sentences (which might be cut short for good conduct I assume).

So in 3 years these blokes come out, with probably ~5m-10m stashed away? Not a bad ROI :(.
So if you're not happy with your underpaid and probably dangerous job you can get another one just like it?
I think the problem is that if drunk driving helps you get to work on time most people don't have jobs where showing up drunk is appreciated.
Yeah I saw those just checking if it had been via Algolia, but they didn't do very well and I thought an actual 'Show HN' that's clearly a 'member project' as it were, with someone around to answer questions and chat about it, might fare better. (The call for feedback a couple of years ago aside.) Plenty of interest in this thread despite no relation (in terms of the product) to OP! And people seem often to be commenting about these things, or difficulty in buying big/good enough epaper displays to do it, etc.
What if you trust your extensions more than the websites you visit? You will have a few extensions and hundreds or thousands of websites.
This completely misses the point that I'm using it as a tool and I am ok if this tool is sometimes wrong and I need to double check every. As a tool it saves me insane amounts of time (much more that I spend on verifying), a time saving and automation revolution comparable to web search, mobile, or Wikipedia.

(Btw, if I need to do a code review and verify all work of an intern ir a junior programmer, it doesn't mean their work is useless - it's valuable and a net win)

You don't have a use for a tool like this? Fine, your call. But stop this patronizing arrogant attitude.
I'm really glad I embarrassed myself in this thread by stating it would take 8-12 hours. I have never really tested the charging (always chasing three kids around!). I do believe others are correct and my assumptions were mistaken. I'm happy to now know that I can expect a full charge in only about 4 hours. Thanks hive mind on HN!
>> For instance when you ask it for a snippet of code and it gets it right.

In my experience so far, more often than not, it doesn’t get it right. Brings to mind the old maxim, “a broken clock is right twice a day”.
Seems like it, the parent poster is almost implying there's an element of underwriting the transaction/house for which 2% is not unreasonable (Title insurance is in the 1% (or a bit less) range in the US I believe)
>Do you prefer everyone (of course with some minor exceptions for higher ups) to be equally "not great, but not terrible"

There's the argument that in a planned economy, things can be terrible for pretty much everyone, like in Venezuela or North Korea.

You also have to account for the central planners choosing to repress people for political purposes.

Maybe you can give us a specific example of a centrally planned society which worked OK according to you? Here's a compendium of case studies to get you started: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Niemietz-Socia...
I think that was in some Windows 10 versions where they flagged hosts files with those changes as malware threats, but I tested them on my W11 setup and all of those are unreachable from Windows.

Unless of course W11 kernel now silently ignores those host file modifications but pretends they work by only enforcing them when the user space apps tries to access them.
One of the many differences I noticed between the education I got in school and the education my children got in school was that I was overtly taught critical thinking skills, and my children were not.

I found that deeply troubling.
It's not so gloomy, 2.5G ports are becoming standard on consumer desktop chipsets, and switches are not that expensive. For 10G, you can get copper cables easily, but SPFE is more common, I guess once chipsets get faster, do not consume as much/run as hot, copper might return there as well.
For a more spicy take on this, check out Dan McQuillan's essay from February:

ChatGPT Is a Bullshit Generator Waging Class War

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akex34/chatgpt-is-a-bullshit...

That allegedly well-informed commentators can infer that ChatGPT will be used for "cutting staff workloads" rather than for further staff cuts illustrates a general failure to understand AI as a political project. Contemporary AI, as I argue in my book, is an assemblage for automatising administrative violence and amplifying austerity. ChatGPT is a part of a reality distortion field that obscures the underlying extractivism and diverts us into asking the wrong questions and worrying about the wrong things. Instead of expressing wonder, we should be asking whether it's justifiable to burn energy at "eye watering" rates to power the world's largest bullshit machine.
> Unfortunately, a system can be individually unsustainable while being globally sustainable.

Wow this is such a great description of the arts, fashion, Hollywood, game development, startups (?), …
And yet it's still not a vital part of running a store.
> Though few patients appeal coverage denials generally, when UnitedHealth members appeal denials based on nH Predict estimates—through internal appeals processes or through the federal Administrative Law Judge proceedings—over 90 percent of the denials are reversed, the lawsuit claims.

That's the power of system defaults. Make "No" the default response, regardless of the validity of the request, and there's a good chance patients that are trying to manage the logistics of appointments, prescriptions and treatments will simply give up.

AI will be used to hold up these existing practices; when glittering visions of lowered healthcare costs are trotted out by the op-ed writers and techno-optimists, this is really how that sausage is being made.
> I do not see any excess here. You need to pay to compete.

What you mean with pay to compete? The goal of Signal to exist is to offer a privacy oriented chat app. Non-profit companies serve a propose, and people not aligned with that, shouldn't be working there in the first place. If you join a non-profit to make money, you are doing it wrong.
You, along with the original author, are selectively framing the issue. The original author's words:

> This all boils down to a situation where you have many profit-generating companies using software that some programmer volunteered to write. That software contributes to that company making even more money. But the developer sees none

Which developer? Because what I see going on matches what Stringer actually says earlier in the post: "There are lots of users, many in a corporate sense using my software to further progress their organization."

So you have at least two persons here; there is no "the" developer.

First, you have a company trying to make money. And then you have a developer trying to get money from their company (and not just that, but getting it, and generally trying to get more). Let's call this a type-1 developer. On top of that, you have a developer upstream writing the software in question that "contributes to that company making even more money". Let's call this a type-2 developer.

What we're neglecting to acknowledge here, and what most conversations like these fail to acknowledge , is that it's not merely "the company" that is benefiting from the work of the upstream developer. It's the type-1 developer, too.

If type-1 developers are effective at converting the labor from type-2 developers into personal enrichment, internal accolades from their employer, general career trajectory, &c, then type-1 developers really ought to acknowledge their culpability in the system that leaves type-2 developers undercompensated. This doesn't really happen, though. Most developers with a type-1 role wrt some money-earning scheme (i.e. the ones employed at a company) seem to treat their TCP, which is on average includes a salary alone that is well above the combined income of a typical household, as a sacrosanct natural right that should not be examined at this level.
Anyone living in California or NYC and making mid six figures and up is easily paying more than German tax rates then. You’re paying almost 50% around high six figure range.

I’ve never quite understood why people think the US is a low tax country.
This was fantastic but I understand that Mr. Attenborough would be upset. I would hope that one day my life will be narrated by George Guidall.
I like how you characterize the output as, “an answer that sounds right”.

I was listening to a podcast yesterday where the purported expert gave an answer that sounded right but based on my direct experience - very wrong.

Of course I could be wrong as well.

Or the experts answer was the same kind of BS the OP was referring to and is so oft generated by LLMs.
The Lock: Game – A new offline iOS Game
Launching “The Lock: Game”, a very casual iOS game developed with React Native and Expo.

It offers a collection of themes and progressive difficulty levels, all available offline.

Feel free to leave your comments and review! thanks.
> I live in a country completely unsuited to making money from a hobby project on the side. To take donations I'd need to register as self-employed, and pay monthly for social security as long as I'm registered, even if I make no revenue whatsoever in that month. That's an absolutely awful idea for a project just getting started. I'd be losing a very appreciable amount of money, regularly. It'd take lots of effort to have enough support that I'm back to zero, and still not making anything. This is because this is a system made for plumbers, not for people doing rare jobs on the side which might some day grow into something serious.

We need to keep in mind systems can be changed. You've set a very clear example that can be understood and communicated. Legislators should get to know this. Receiving donations for community work should be possible without hurdle (at least until it reaches a very high level) everywhere.

I call the idea that we spontaneously support what is right for all of us a Donation Economy. If most people are ethical, this would work well.

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Furthermore, I think we should also fight, in the long term, for organizations (collectively supported) that provide this function (supporting community work). Like pollution is a negative externality, where the act of someone is (an unpriced) bad for everyone, contributing to OSS is a positive externality, where the work of someone is (again unpriced) good for everyone. I propose creating distributed institutions for identifying and pricing those externalities (positive and negative), evaluating and rewarding (or pricing) them accordingly. What is the metric for externalities? Collective meaning and wellbeing of everyone.[1]

There are foundations like NLNet[2] that do this for OSS. I think we should donate to them in the meantime.

[1] More about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29043752

[1] https://nlnet.nl/
There are land transfer taxes in Canada too, and I presume our equivalent to notary are lawyers which are about $1,000-$1,500.

The actual in-and-out costs are significantly higher than just the agents, though the agents are the most expensive and of questionable value.
> existential question: what does it mean to be a human?

One perspective that might be helpful is that humans have for many millennia pondered this question, so it isn't new.

We have a more exacting (but not perfect) definition from a biological perspective. We also have philosophical theories about personhood[1] and mind[2]. One can hypothesized that these, and other characteristics, such as the emergence of culture, etc. also exist in other entities (whether on earth, alien, or technology like AI), so perhaps humans can be though of us as occupying a region across these different dimensions that represent a unique combination. But we don't have exclusivity over a particular dimension (like reasoning, for example).

Another perspective that might be helpful is that even if there are other entities that are very much like humans, it does not take away YOUR and MY experience of being human or the value and joy we derive from it. If anything, it can help us understand ourselves better. This introspection ability is another one of those characteristics that humans have.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=mind
I was just about to write this exact post. You can come across an old stone wall anywhere no matter how deep into the forest you are. This is the New England I grew up in and have lived in my whole life, but other than old pictures from the early 1900's it is just hard to picture it not covered in trees.
They're referring to AlphaGo's move 37 in Game 2 against Lee Sedol which blew everyone's minds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol
Jesus Christ man read the article. That's the point.
The Zoe is EOL and IIRC replaced by the Clio E-Tech. Also, Renault is french?

(Not to talk badly about the specific car or the move to BEV in general - I applaud that and am at the same time disappointed how our [German] manufacturers ignored the shift)
The LEDs only reach up to 800W in the case of the SkyPanelX, while regular halogen lamps are still needed for more focused, higher brightness lights (which go up to 18kW per lamp(!))
AI’s case isn’t at all the same. Politician bullshit is always directed towards a goal, and that goal is usually re-election or popularity or similar. AI bullshit exists to satisfy an RLHF process that prioritized convincing humans that the AI was as correct as possible, which is exactly what you don’t want when looking for information or help.
Here's one from June: https://www.volvotrucks.com/en-en/news-stories/press-release...

> Since Volvo Trucks started production of all-electric trucks in 2019, the company has sold nearly 5,000 electric trucks in 40 countries around the world. Volvo today offers the industry's widest product range with six electric models in series production that meet a broad range of needs for transport in and between cities. Globally, Volvo Trucks has set the target that half of all trucks sold are electric by 2030.
These web apps are quite usable on Chrome and useless lag fests on Firefox.

Do I prefer the modern "let's ship a JS renderer with every webpage" approach? No, definitely not. Unfortunately, quite a few web applications and websites u visit disagree with me.

There's also a perceptable difference in terms of browser responsiveness outside the page itself. Firefox seems to take longer to process UI input in my experience, for reasons I don't entirely get. There's a slight but visible delay before the page starts rendering that Chrome doesn't have, and that small delay adds up when you're working in web UIs fir a significant part of the day.