skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not advocating for or against social media age restrictions or whatever, but you cannot seriously believe that BBSs in the 90s had the same potential social impact as the big social media platforms of today. The amount of reach that a post on X or TikTok is so many orders of magnitude higher than any post on any BBS ever was or could be. That very fact means that someone with an agenda--good or bad--will be tempted to use X, TikTok, etc to manipulate ("influence") people. Those same actors would never waste their time posting on a BBS to accomplish said goal.
> What would be different from spending that time making a few PRs to an open source project or just building something from scratch to demonstrate your sk

The fact my employer specifically forbids me from doing so.
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Ask HN: How much perfection to aim for?
It took me a long time to make our product perfect, but it's still not quite there.

The idea of generating AI articles was on my mind since the start of last year.
A SaaS that will entirely understand your details with just your website & publish SEO optimized blogs for keywords that you should be ranking for, all automated!

I hired a couple of developers one after another who could not even complete the even basics of it in a month's time. That was a big waste of time, about 2-3 months lost.
In the mid of last year we started building Abun without a WordPress plugin.

Initially Abun generated normal GPT-like articles. Gradually we moved towards creating better articles & automating everything from featured image, internal & external links, keyword research, competitor keywords, etc.

I tried making the entire process from signing up to getting your first article as smooth as possible. The reworks took months to accomplish so almost everything is automated.

Over this course of time, there have been loads of entrants in this space & it's cluttered way too much currently.

After investing almost 8-10 months into the product we granted early access to users & started getting initial feedback. This feedback consisted of feature requests that would be useful for the users which we are building & launching every week since last month.

But here's the thing: nobody's paying for it yet. I'm not sure what to make of that. You can check out our website at https://abun.com

At this stage, I am not sure how much more time & resources should I put into the product to consider it a perfect fit.
The fiber broadband association themselves reports over 70 million household availability for fiber. That just doesn’t square with your original statement.

> Don’t know why you’ve got such a pro-Comcast / Charter bent

Kindly go fuck yourself.
Stick to facts without baseless accusations.
Yeah I noticed this too. That was a completely unfair comparison, and if the author of this article is a decent engineer, then he has to know how egregiously bad faith that comes across. The author won't have support from a lot of people after two mistakes:

1. He's published the article under his native Mac app's blog, which he has every incentive to do and for that reason is biased.

2. Comparing a local text editor to an app that loads tons of rich media content from one of the busiest servers in the world discredits the argument in a major way
I've been toying with this idea that the easiest way to catch AI usage is to ask the impossible. "Write a general sorting algorithm in O(n) time" or something similar. Even just minor pushback like "how would you change this to make it more efficient" will trip up most AI.
OP here - It's not connected to anything. I'm assuming it would be used for a decimal point or a colon on a different model.
Kapai bro
https://github.com/letoram/senseye/tree/1bab4b9c60ad43302e46...
https://youtu.be/WBsv9IJpkDw
> how's it more damaging to the environment of you can replace 1k people, that's 1k people staying at home instead of commuting,

Check my comment above, where I do some rough back of the napkin calculations around this. Training gpt4 for example produced around 6 billion times the carbon emissions a human emits in total in a year, which probably includes commuting, so unless gpt4 removes the commute time of probably a significant fraction more than 6 billion people (since it wouldn't be eliminating their emissions entirely, just their commuting emissions) it is a net loss. Also, we can eliminate commute emissions by having better public transportation and walkable/bikable cities, we don't need to prostrate ourselves before a dementia addled machine God to get there.
"Fighting for workers" means "don't have child labour", and "don't have machines that regularly amputate people's limbs", and those types of things.

And "fighting for the consumer" is how we ended up with low-wage countries with little safety regulations making our stuff, and occasionally dying for it. This is also how we ended up with all sorts of other negative externalities ranging from worker exploitation to environmental impact.

You can't capture reality in simplistic one-liners.
You have it backwards. GDP growth is a function of government spending. Observe when they accelerated spending as covid stimulus, we had a large amount of GDP growth. As soon as spending growth slows down, so will the GDP.
Get the loan in 2019, with a generous markup on the product so you don’t notice the interest is baked into the price.
I find it absurd as well, however:

> and you realize you've become a perpetual debt slave to the corporation that inflicted this upon you

By the look of it, he's an adult who made a conscious decision. I'd like it to change, but we all know what the risks are of going against megacorps and the system that protects them. He inflicted this on himself...

Slightly tangent, I vividly remember how a bit more than 15 years ago the ruling class would compare streaming services to paying a fixed fee for anything you want in a shop. Likely repeating what was on the leaflet of the lobby of the editors. At the time it was mainly Deezer here, now that it's an industry worth a few hundred billion dollars across all kind of medium, it's all fine and needs protecting.
Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Europe 45,000 years ago
It's competition is the patriot system ($4m per missile) and the s-300s that ukraine already has ($1m per missile, if they could find someone to sell replacement missiles to them, the older sa-10 missile loads for the S-300 might be cheaper, again if they could find a source)
> which implies that someone should kill them selves

How does the sentence "die slow motherfuckers" even remotely imply someone should kill themselves? Do you see the irony of misquoting him in a comment about misleading journalism?

Necessary disclaimer: I do not support the tweet and it has nothing to do with my comment, so breathe and understand my point before hitting that down-vote.
Seems like the Nintendo consoomer shills are in full swing here.

Will you clowns mind explaining what guidelines were violated by posts such as:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215568

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215304

Or have we progressed from “a downvote can equal disagreement” to a “a flag can equal diagreement”?
25 years ago, the Mac was so powerful that it was illegal to export
Well, they set out to eliminate VPN usage and prevent their citizens from criticizing the government. There’s still VPNs and people still criticize the government. I don’t think the “average person” is using a VPN but I would be shocked if subtle ways to dodge censorship weren’t widely known. It’s also a treadmill - the problem isn’t fundamentally solved, every time a new hashtag is squashed another one pops up. They will just keep manually identifying and banning them for forever.

Flipping the question around, I’m not really sure how Facebook’s current systems don’t fit your definition of “it’s not perfect but it works”?
>Are you a parent?

I have 5 children. Does that count?

> It's not as easy as saying "no social media" to your kids.

I didn't. I taught them about risks so they'll have tools. But social media isn't where life-changing harm came from.

The harm came from growing up in a world with 24/7 adult presence and zero places to roam. It's development-ruining hellscape that 10k years of children didn't have before.
"are x-frameworks better than vanilla-x"
This is kinda how we handle kubernetes upgrades. Dozens of MRs to change all the little things, then the final MR to upgrade the cluster.
In the US, for an individual/LLC, my understanding is that the default is that Kickstarter funds received would be income pure and simple reported on a 1099-K past some threshold. https://www.kickstarter.com/help/taxes

There may be ways to defer some of that but you'd probably need to work with an accountant.
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You’ve stated that “the majority of real science is dull work, such as requesting money, writing presentations to convince people you're right, and debugging experiments.” (I agree on the third point)

But regarding the first two as being “real science” and claiming authority on where Feynman’s comments about cargo cult science would be directed? You must acknowledge the hypocritical stance you’ve taken.

You’ve co-mingled the initial statements that Wolverine made with your disdain for people who write hackaday articles and are written up in the media. You’ve introduced that notion and then derided human curiosity and informal experiments as being “not science” or being “engineering” (and somehow mutually exclusive from science) or “citizen science”.

All of these different ways to deride something that you introduced to the conversation - the perils of bad science journalism.

You’ve stated

“ I've worked in citizen science and I have even done some exciting stuff in my garage, which attracted the world's leading researcher in my area of interest. The first thing I'd need to do with my tech is to bring it to his lab and…”

That’s where you’ve made your off-by-one error. You’ve said “the first thing I’d need to do” when you meant “the next thing I’d need to do” — as if the Real Science had not already begun.

“Real Science” starts a lot sooner than you claim.
Sorry - thought the article would be sufficient on that on its own. Xecuter was the international piracy operation.

They moved millions in terms of sold products over the years and had deals with Chinese factories to make that stuff "at scale" and had exchanges on how to get their devices past border controls; all this stuff is in the legal complaint he got jailed for.
> have cut taxes to an unsustainable level

Something like half of every dollar I make gets swallowed up by taxes of some sort, either directly or indirectly (by making products and services more expensive). A good portion of it just to fuck around in foreign countries against my wishes. How much more should they take?
DPP (Deep Persistent Proxy Objects) is a javascript library starting from the same question:

https://github.com/robtweed/DPP
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He is a bully.
>ad-hominem criticism on Neiman

What a bizarre thing to say.

Neiman is a friend and inspiration. I specifically said I’m lucky to know him personally.

Calling him an idealist isn’t an attack, it’s admirable.

IPFS is fine for hosting blogs and static websites, I have 50 IPFS websites using a pinning service neiman cofounded. However, his blog post speaks for itself and his considerations are greater than whether IPFS/IPNS can host a blog.

Nice work on your paper.
Would he even be allowed to have a passport?
As a society, we've decided that we want lots of infrastructure including car infrastructure.
Presumably enforcement of existing laws.
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FTA: “The system was not made to handle vehicles greater than 5,000 pounds.”

The curb weight of the most popular vehicle in the USA, the Ford F-150, is 4,200 to 5,700lbs. How's it working now?
For better or worse, the years I spent working on Preview for Apple (and PDFKit) I felt bad that our (Apple's) PDF implementation was far short of Adobe's.

Radars would show up with PDFs attached, "Preview Does Not Display 3D Image in PDF Like Acrobat" or similar. And I would feel so ... inadequate.

PDFKit could render and capture basic annotations ... and that was about it. We could show you forms, allow editing, but if the PDF had Javascript that would add two fields and put the sum in a third field I had to shrug and say, "Oh well." The effort of hoisting a JavaScript interpreter/runtime was beyond my skillset anyway.

But then I kind of came to see our subset of PDF support as a kind of feature. It's true, we left out the kitchen sink. Adobe was/is clearly interested in putting everything into PDF.

And I mean, as pointed out here, at least you could open a PDF in Preview and not worry about any Javascript executing. ;-)
In a similar fashion, you can not type the capital letter Ł in Notion. You type the letter with SHIFT-OPTION-L on the Polish keyboard on a Mac. Notion uses the SHIFT-OPTION-L keyboard combo for it's own purposes.

This happens in many programs for various keys, depending on which keyboard shortcuts a program implements. A solution to this is to allow remapping of keyboard shortcuts in an application.
I agree that calling table based testing 'property based testing' is stretching the definition.

> Nothing in property testing says who has to choose the values used.

I take issue with that. Properties of interest are some variant of 'for all x from some set s, some property holds.'

Then instead of testing all possible x, we randomly sample. But it is important that our tests define the set s.

When we do example based testing (whether traditional unit testing, or table based testing), the set s is usually only implied. So you might be testing your functionality for strings 'foo', and 'bar' and perhaps 'foo bar'. But it's not clear, whether you also mean it to pass for the string '' or '안녕하세요' or '\t\n'. That's at best implied, or perhaps vaguely described in a human readable comment.
> It's a spot where the VAE is trying to smuggle global information about the image through latent space. This is exactly the problem that KL-divergence loss is supposed to prevent.

Is that what KL divergence does?

I thought it was supposed to (when combined with reconstruction loss) “smooth” the latent space out so that you could interpolate over it.

Doesn’t increasing the weight of the KL term just result in random output in the latent; eg. What you get if you opt purely for KL divergence?

I honestly have no idea at all what the OP has found or what it means, but it doesnt seem that surprising that modifying the latent results in global changes in the output.

Is manually editing latents a thing?

Surely you would interpolate from another latent…? And if the result is chaos, you dont have well clustered latents? (Which is what happens from too much KL, not too little right?)

I'd feel a lot more 'across' this if the OP had demonstrated it on a trivial MNIST vae with both the issue, the result and quantitatively what fixing it does.

> What are the implications?

> Somewhat subtle, but significant.

Mm. I have to say I don't really get it.
Single with no children or family commitments? If you really feel the pull, go for it, otherwise you'll be thinking "what if?" in a few years.
FreeBSD 4.x was considered by many as the most stable FreeBSD ever.

Mainly because there were 11 point releases of fixes and enhancements (4.11), as opposed to today where FreeBSD major version only have 3-4 point releases.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/
Sounds great until the "AI" tutor poisons their learning with hallucinations.
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The main issue with populism and why people fall for it is a reliance on narratives over facts. If we discuss consolidated data instead of an anecdote, the conclusion is quite clear, and it shows that you are wrong: https://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-how-areas-with-low...

> To vote a particular way in the hope of change? Why wouldn't that be rational?

There are plenty of historical examples of people voting for "change" that ended up backfiring wildly. I think you could find quite a few of those in the same ideological spectrum of people like Wilders.
They also can't handle trucks and tractor trailers. What else is new?
Mostly people working in universities and financial.
Gary profited considerably from his shenanigans - by his own admission in interviews shortly after release, he made ~300k USD a year from this operation.

The point is mostly that he's always been a sleazy car salesman kinda guy instead of some small hero standing up for the masses.
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I'm a fan of the SMBC take on this one:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/springtime
> Mistral AI is incorporated in Paris, France.

No US court is going to invent new rights under US law because a company happens to be incorporated in a foreign jurisdiction.

> While there is a discussion to be had on sovereignty and international reaches of local laws (such as DMCA for instance)

The DMCA (and GDPR) do not have international reach. The DMCA only appears to apply internationally because it binds a whole series of American companies with an international presence. Meanwhile the GDPR protects European residents. A company dealing with these residents has crossed the border, so to speak.

> I think it's disingenuous to consider only US legal point of view.

Candidly, you're either confused about what disingenuous means or you're being disingenuous yourself.
I never said that. You introduced that notion to the conversation.
We are shopping for a car my daughter will eventually go to college with.

My first instinct was to get a Honda Civic which was nicely in our budget and I loved driving when I was in college

But then I realized how much heavier cars have gotten, and how much of a disadvantage they are in a collision so we will be getting a heavier car. Probably a CRV though maybe we can try and make electric car work in our budget but we will see. The irony is that we would have gotten a more efficient car, except for the weight disadvantage and safety concerns because we are now pitted against electric cars that weigh so much.
I have no ability to judge the quality of this algorithm or implementation, but I do thoroughly approve of the usage of unicode in variable names:

ρ, σ := G[:32], G[32:]

Somehow much better than seeing "rho", "sigma".
I assume you feel underpaid only when you look at Swiss salaries form German CoL perspective. But I assume Swiss salaries are not high when you're also paying Swiss CoL, then they're just regular salaries.
this was posted before, many of the "untranslatable" things are perfectly translatable.
Deutsche Bank announces 3500 layoffs, €1.6B in share buybacks and dividends
Deutsche Bank is cutting 3,500 jobs as it pushes ahead with a plan to reduce costs by €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) by 2025.

Germany’s biggest lender said Thursday that it had made progress towards the target but still had to find savings of €1.6 billion ($1.7 billion), some of which would be driven by “simplified workflows and automation.” Most of the jobs will be lost in back office functions, it added in a statement.

The cuts amount to about 4% of the company’s global workforce.
A lot of these [expensive] incentives are already being wound down, and the ones under control of utilities (e.g. net metering) can radically impact the ROI of things like solar installations. It'll be interesting to see how things stabilize in California over the next few years now that new residential solar doesn't make sense for almost anyone [unless they also have batteries and drive EVs, since electricity is now more expensive than running most gas-powered cars].

Additionally, why would most homeowners spend this kind of money when the vast majority of people only stay in a give house for ~7 years total? The incentives are great, but I don't see substantial changes happening unless it becomes a true no-brainer to replace fossil fuel systems and inefficient infrastructure (windows, roofs, insulation) with updated materiel. Blowing in more insulation is cheap and easy, but most Americans don't have a rainy day fund that would make replacing a furnace with heat pumps something they casually decide makes sense... or gas appliances with electric, or a new roof, etc.
Don't know about the US, but corrected for inflation, Dutch housing prices have risen steadily since the 1950s, and shot up a lot faster since the late 1990s: https://www.mejudice.nl/artikelen/detail/huizenprijzen-sinds...
> I still "see the parentheses"

The parentheses are a serialisation format; there are many alternatives using indentation, braces, infix application, etc. (e.g. those listed at http://www.chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html ). The nice thing is, s-expressions are so simple that we can usually convert between them automatically (e.g. piping our indentation-based code through an indentation-to-parentheses converter before it hits an interpreter).

However, despite having all these alternative syntaxen, the fact that the vast majority of Lisp code is still written with parenthesised s-expressions tells me that it's really a non-issue :)
I deeply love the dog who is excited to be going to the vet to be tutored:

https://i.redd.it/wfapamqh3u471.jpg
Spock is the most readable framework for testing java IMO, their data driven testing is great, but it might not be a fair comparison because it's written with groovy:

def 'split #input with sep #sep should return #expected'() {
expect:
Split(input, sep) == expected

where:
testCase | input | sep || expected
"simple" | "a/b/c" | "/" || ['a', 'b', 'c']
"wrong sep" | "a/b/c" | "," || ['a/b/c']
"no sep" | "abc" | "/" || ['abc']
"trailing sep"| "a/b/c/"| "/" || ['a', 'b', 'c']
}
So what is the actual state of Quantum computing in regards to the level that would make something like this necessary?

Is it become like AI where instead of actually coming into existence the definition is mostly just changing to bring forth a new product under a previously existing name?
You might like Hypothesis' approach to stateful testing. See https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/stateful.html I think what they call stateful testing is close to what you describe as a storybook test.

Hypothesis is a property based testing library.
> Obviously, the Mikado Method cannot work if you don’t have a good and highly reliable automated test suite.

That should have been at the top in a disclaimer.
For context the highest point in the Netherlands is 322m and the highest point in San Francisco is only 40m less at 283m.
Whew! Didn't crash on my Mac OS — just a static Game of Life render. This machine is still on Monterey FWIW.
All these performance problems people have, that shouldn't exist in the first place if they properly programmed things right from the start. Not their fault, though, because the ones who teach are the ones who did it wrong before them.
Door A: tests find bugs sometimes (property-based)

Door B: tests find bugs almost always with a fraction of the code (my approach)

I choose Door B.

I still test properties tbh. I just don’t let randomness ruin it and don’t need to implement any shrinking.
I've have worked with ML/AI tech for 15 years, implementing software.
I've worked very deeply with AI/LLM tech for past 3 years, implementing software.
I used GenAI/LLM tech every day at work.
And I can tell you absolutely you are correct. The limitations of the GenAI tech are way bigger factor than most realize.