skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investing everything in a single country, even if in the index, has never been a good idea.

The advice is to invest as broadly and globally as possible, which has resulted in very good return during the last 35 years.

Also, nothing "always goes up". Index investing over long periods of time simple gives you the best risk adjusted returns.
Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
Tourism is a tiny part of Japan's economy.
A peek at Intel's future foundry tech
Assuming the person interacting with it is an adult, does it need any guard rails at all?
If push came to shove, the FED's last resort could be to buy stock ETFs
Significant Digits are besides the point.
My favorite is always been Salmonella.
Probably a better story (not paywalled, maybe the original source): https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini...

Also related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465301
How an hostile act. Hidden behind feature promotion.

"We are still open source but won't provide you stable release binaries. Pay or build yourself."
The question is not whether it can work right now, but whether it is possible in the future (i.e. whether it's possible in principle).

I think the concern about out-of-distribution is overstated. If we train it on predicting machine learning papers, writing machine learning papers is not out-of-distribution.

You might say "but writing NOVEL papers" would be OOD; but there's no sharp boundary between old and new. Model's behavior is usually smooth, so it's not like it will output random bs if you try to predict 2025 papers. And predicting 2025 papers in 2024 all we need to do "recursive self-improvement". (There are also many ways to shift distribution towards where you want it to be, e.g. aesthetics tuning, guidance in diffusion models, etc. Midjourney does not faithfully replicate distribution in the input training set, it's specifically tuned to create more pleasing outputs. So I don't see "oh but we don't have 2025 papers in the training set yet!" being an insurmountable problem.)

But more generally, seeing models as interpolators is useful only to some extent. We use statistical language when training the models, but that doesn't mean that all output should be interpreted as statistics. E.g. suppose I trained a model which generates a plausible proofs. I can combine it with proof-checker (which is much easier than generating a proof), and wrap it into a single function `generate_proof` which is guaranteed to generate a correct proof (it will loop until a plausible proof checks out). Now the statistics do not matter much. It's just a function.

If there's such a thing as a general reasoning step, then all we need is a function which perform that. Then we just add an outer loop to explore a tree of possibilities using these steps. And further improvements might be in making these steps faster and better.

Does reasoning generalize? I'd say everything points to "yes". Math is used in variety of fields. We are yet to find something where math doesn't work. If you get somebody educated in mathematical modeling and give them a new field to model, they won't complain about math being out-of-distribution.

If you look at LLMs today, they struggle with outputting JSON. It's clearly not an out-of-distribution problem, it's a problem with training - the dataset was too noisy, it had too many examples where somebody requests a JSON but gets a JSON-wrapped-in-Markdown. It's just an annoying data cleanup problem, nothing fundamental. I think it's reasonable to assume that within 5 years OpenAI, Google, etc, will manage to clean up their datasets and train more capable, reliable models which demonstrate good reasoning capabilities.

FWIW I believe that if we hit a wall on a road towards AGI that might actually be good to buy more time to research what we actually want out of AGI. But I doubt that any wall will last more than 5 years, as it already seems almost within the reach...
COVID has killed 7 million people since 2019. Airliner* crashes killed 80 people in 2023.

These risks are not of the same class.

* admittedly I'm exaggerating slightly by not considering private and military aviation, but I'm too lazy to find that total.
Is your SaaS focused on any particular country/region? The reason I ask is because the definition of SMEs varies widely across countries and, sometimes even within sectors.

I have been selling B2B SaaS in South and Southeast Asia since 2015 and can tell you that what are called SMEs in North America and/or Western Europe are, in most cases, considered Enterprise customers in my part of the world. This is mostly due to the exchange rate differences.

One thing that you may want to consider is to recruit third-party companies/people who can do the sales on your company's behalf till you develop your own, internal, competencies. Most of them work on retainership + % of deal value basis.

All the best on successful growth and happy to collaborate, should you so choose.
> I hate having to negotiate with AI like it's a difficult child.

Surely not in the list of things I expected to ever read in real life.
> content that got his name put on it.

Not his name but a similar name that can be confused with his name.

> not steal the names and identities of others in order to make sales.

Can writer Stephan King prevent other writers using names like "Steven King", "Steve King"?

At some point I think we will have to digitally sign work because that will be the only way to show something is authentic.
> We can’t actually keep a background process such as 2FA generation running forever,

No but you could wake up once a day or so and calculate the 2FA codes for the next 1-2 days. You could even send a silent push notification to devices to have them wake up and re-check.
Run your local ComyUI with GPU Cloud
Not my repository but insanely useful to run comfyUI when your dtuck on an intel Mac
Dupe : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465255
First paragraph of the Overview section is borked:

Network analyzers are used mostly at high frequencies; operating frequencies can range from 1 Hz to 1.5 THz. Special types of network analyzers can also cover lower frequency ranges down to 1 Hz.

What's the first figure supposed to be?
Because the idea that something is a historical representation implies accuracy.

Providing people with misleading historical context is rarely beneficial.

In the cases where it was deliberate, it’s usually clear that this is the case such as with Isaac Newton in the recent Doctor Who special.
Arguably, lower-cost, more accessible energy is more likely to decrease the number of terrorists in the world.
Idk but maybe Uniqlo is uniquely cheap in Japan as Japanese chain? I've bought Uniqlo in Poland, UK, USA and Korea and prices stayed relatively consistent.
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-and-gpt-4-turb...
Hi Vlad, would you consider providing subscription via never expiring model to Kagi search? No need to lower prices, but, say, X searches in Y dollars? But the search quota never expires? Like the OpenAI API model.

If you offered such subscription, it would motivate me very highly to buy a subscription.

With the monthly price, can't really afford it.
Interesting how you didn’t actually ‘quickly Google’ what GP was actually talking about.
We used to have an the ability to opt-out from TV and only pay for radio, which is what I did for many years. However, since January this year, the system has been reformed and the ability to opt-out from TV was removed. So now I pay 35/mo more for a service I dont use. Besides, I am blind. So billing me for TV is a joke by itself.
When you ask it to draw English monarchs or German soldiers in WWII, you usually wouldn't expect them to be black.
This one was posted first :)
Because it's a tool/tech to create images and not a fiction ?
I'm curious what you regretfully believe the best choice would have been.
Asked to generate any image of people (British kings, American colonists, German WW2 soldiers (!), the founders of Google (!!), Roman centurions, Vikings, historical Popes, you name it) it would invariably generate them as women and/ or non-whites. Asked specifically to generate images of people of various ethnic groups, it would happily do it except in the case of white people, in which it would flatly refuse.

The whole debacle is so comical that it makes me think someone might have actually allowed it just to torpedo the DEI or ethical teams in charge of this at Google.
Black king of England

https://x.com/danodonnellshow/status/1760454601902260232?s=4...
Oh yeah, Chanel bags, the common expense for a median customer.
By the same person.
The Shadowstats numbers are deeply suspicious though; the graph makes it look like Williams is just adding [0] a constant to the BLS figure, which undermines his credibility. I'm also pretty sure he changes his constant every so often because I remember at one point his data implied absurd drops in the GDP and it appears the website has been changed since then.

I'd suggest just referring to the M2 [1]. It is easier to understand, and more available for analysis. Apparently it also gets rid of the stupid "real" price rises that inflation pretends gold is experiencing [2]. It suggests prices should be about 40% higher than pre-pandemic (I checked 2019-11 -> 2023-12) which coincidentally lines up with what justinzollars is reporting.

[0] Well, smoothing in. But the two lines wiggle the same way which suggests we're just using the BLS + an adjustment that is changing in a boring way over time.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL#0

[2] https://ingoldwetrust.report/chart-m2-gold-ratio/?lang=en
I've heard it depicted European historical figures as black, from monarchs to WWII Axis soldiers. Apparently this is offending people across the political spectrum.

FWIW I've not personally tried the model, this is only what I've heard mentioned on blogs/HN
Super cool, thanks! Will check it out.
They sold 30 mio. according to this:

https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_reaches_30m_sales_of_mate_60...
That would be funny to look at. Well, if they don't have any weapons, this is at least something, and it can actually sink small vessels
Its not that simple. Since the only party opposing this practice is far-right and mostly non-votable, nobody in their right mind has the option to vote for a party which does not support this practice. That is when democracy fails. When all the parties team up to support something they want done, and the people basically have no option to vote against.
It could be generating pictures of black slave owners, because some embattled anitwokeness warrior was feeding it creative prompts. Just a guess though.

Edit: turns out it generates German WW2 soldiers as non white which is most likely the kind of thing that will make Google take a step back. I was close with my guess.
Magento video showing the significant impact of removing PWA support in iOS 17.4
The specs have this to say about the battery
Battery 68‑watt‑hour battery Up to 11 hours battery
https://kde.slimbook.es/specs/

About the build quality, can't say about this model but I do have KDE Slimbook I from 2017, if I remember correctly, and it was decent. Well certainly good enough to last these 7/8 years
Mini PC AskHand con AMD Ryzen5 5500U: Prestazioni Potenti e Capacità Espandibile

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Most UK firms stick with a four-day working week after trial
It would appear the woke mind virus / DEI was deeply embedded into the core of the AI.

It refused to generate images of white people.

For example:

People would ask it to generate something like a picture of a German couple in 1820 and it would spit out images of Asian and Black couples.

Pictures of the founding fathers would also include weird things like native Americans and other ethnicities.

Other historical prompts would result in the same output - no white people.

Basically the AI went woke af.
Google seem to be more concerned about generating images of racially diverse Nazis rather than about issues of not being able to generate white people.
why are we using image generators to represent actual history? If we want accuracy surely we can use actual documents that are not imagined by a bunch of code. If you want to write fanfic or whatever then just adjust the prompt
The answer is a firm maybe, depending on some factors.
Prompts like "Generate me a Scottish lord from the 17th century" only generated people of color. Reimagining is a thing, but refusing to generate a white person for such prompts caused lots of commotion.
Google Greases the Wheels for Reddit's IPO
Check it out: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24079876/google-gemini-ai...

EDIT:
Just saw it on HN homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465250
This is awesome but with a mere 1000-song database it would be simpler just to run the whole thing on the client. How well could the approach scale? (eg. To a billion song DB?)
There is tons of professionally produced content on YouTube. And that’s all I want curated, professional content. But it’s hard to find.

YouTube has about as much commercials as the broadcast TV I watch (a lot of which is free and all of which is professionally produced) so I can’t see how YouTube could never have pro content. Their paid subscription also costs quite a bit so just having e.g recent news broadcasts there - which are already produced anyway - doesn’t seem impossible either. I don’t want to watch GoT I want to see a 2004 sitcom or yesterdays BBC news at 6…

BBC news has a page with recent clips - but that’s not a news broadcast. It’s not “TV” just like an rss feed with news studies isn’t a newspaper. TV news requires curation, not merely moving pictures with news.
If they are unaffected by big media sites jumping into their niche then it makes sense to stay under the radar.
You're saying Jesus wasn't white?
why spcifically refuse to generate caucasians? and gaslight us to justify it
> no DJ mixes on Soundcloud

I'd say there's two types of them: independent mixes (someone just recorded a DJ set for the fun of it), and podcast-like radio shows, usually backed by a label. The first group is getting kinda smaller, but the second group is definitely more on Soundcloud than anywhere else -- it's just completely undiscoverable. Sometimes it goes to the artist profile, sometimes it has its own "radio show" profile, and Soundcloud does fuck all in terms of displaying such "podcasts" separately.

For me the most interesting of the platforms in this niche is Mixcloud, whose whole concept is streaming DJ mixes, legally, with some of the money somehow going back to the artists whose records you play. But to negotiatate that sort of legality they had to introduce some rather unexpected restrictions, like how many songs you can play by one artist, how many from a certain album, how many consective songs by artist/album... So it's fine in most cases, but doing something like "best of Daft Punk" mix would go against the rules.

And with YouTube it's pretty much a dice roll. A common tactic is to upload an unlisted blank video with the snippets of the music you want to record yourself playling and see how lucky you get with the copyright algorithm. Sometimes a certain song you want to play is just a no-go, so you have to swap it for a different one before recording yourself, otherwise all your effort goes straight to trash, never to be seen by anyone. And you get up to three strikes in a 90 day period, so you can't be too regular with your uploads.
> my now lawyer would lament about the power of an os-interface to the hash function.

What feedback did your lawyer have on this. Will this help in legally binding claims?

> available on the Dibs website the same as if the transaction was created with our interface

Can anyone take a file and check on the site to see who has logged it? The video showed that url and other optional contact metadata could be attached
I'm very surprised to see this so late in the thread
His feelings were correctly placed. There was a vibecession last year when consumer sentiment was lower than it had been during the 2008 recession. This was in spite of low unemployment, high growth, high wage growth, low inflation and reasonable gas prices.

The reason behind the low consumer sentiment wasn't a flaw in BLS methodology, no one seriously questions any of the stats I mentioned. Rather, it's that the effect of a couple of years of high inflation continued to weigh on consumers. 6 months of low inflation didn't reverse previous price increases, nor did they forget what prices used to be.

And yet, it's fundamental human nature to adapt to circumstances. Consumer sentiment has actually increased substantially in the last 3 months. Source: American consumers are finally cheering up (The Economist - https://archive.is/vJ7gf).

> The rate of improvement is especially striking. The 30% increase since November marks the survey’s biggest rise over any three-month period in more than three decades. The level remains glum by historical standards: about 15% below its average in the five years before the covid-19 pandemic.

In summary, the BLS' methodology to calculate economic indicators is fine. And assuming those indicators continue their trend, it's likely that consumer sentiment will continue to recover.

You also claim that

> Americans have stopped saving and gone so deeply in debt

Except this isn't true? According to surveys conducted by the Federal Reserve (https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf Page 30), consumer debt has gone down steadily from 2010 to 2022.

At this point, I got to ask - what is your source for facts?
IIRC you can still activate XP keys by phone. I did that a year ago when I set up a Windows XP VM for classic games.
Google: Shell Styleguide
You know exactly what you are missing.
You can place rice on a baking tray spread out very thin for a day or so. Also dry it in the sun for added effect.

If you have extra, then deep fry it. Great cheap crunchy addition to some meals. It’s a key ingredient in Thai rice salad, or “khao yum”.
Hi great effort. What tech stack did you use to accomplish this?
Black vikings do not model reality. Asking for 'an Irish person' produces a Leprechaun. Defending racism when it concerns racism against white people is just as bad as defending it when it concerns any other group.
Its worse than that - it would flat out refuse to generate a white person, even if you asked it to - i.e. 'generate a picture of a white' family and it would refuse, 'generate a picture of a black family' and it would work.

Was not an accident - it was deliberate.

Why they thought this would not be noticed is beyond me.
Can someone provide content of the Tweet?
ideological testing, we got to know how they cooked the model
gold dust of an answer - thank you.
UK supermarket Waitrose is named after its founders, Mr Wait and Mr Rose.
Thermal lance salami:

https://youtu.be/3QgrpbSrGEA?si=XD2T5vQpkdxhCM1E
tbh i think it's less a political issue than a technical/product management one

what does a "board member" look like? probably you can benefit by offering more than 50 year old white man in suit. if that's what an ai trained on all human knowledge thinks, maybe we can do some adjustment

what does a samurai warrior look like? probably is a little more race-related
Golog: Prolog Interpreter in Go
GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
CAN is a 2 wire serial bus using differential signaling. So a couple small wires and maybe some shielding.
Honestly, I don't think we're entitled to a deep technical write-up. We are users of their product, they messed something up, and that's it. Unless they signed an SLA agreement, it's just shit that happens. They don't have to give a technical view into their internal kitchen if they don't want to.
Ah, good point. I'll just use the actual photograph of George Washington boxing a kangaroo.
There's an amusing irony here: real diversity would entail many competing ML companies from non-Western countries—each of which would bring their own cultural norms, alien and uncomfortable to Westerners. There's no cultural diversity in Silicon Valley being a global hegemon: exporting a narrow sliver of the world's viewpoints to the whole planet, imposing them with the paternalism drawn from our own sense of superiority.

Real diversity would be jarring and unpleasant for all of us accustomed to being the "in" group of a tech monoculture. Real diversity is the ethos of the WWW from 30+ years ago: to connect the worlds' people as equals.

Our sense of moral obligation to diversity goes (literally) skin-deep, and no further.
Shallow article. Whoever wrote it did little more than read and quote from a LinkedIn thread.
Well yes, major breakdowns of civilization have happened before and will happen again. There's one going on right now on the Ukraine/Russia border !
> Like many architecutral design patterns, toy examples don't illustrate the concept well. It's used for doing things like switching a large service-based system from using external databases and remote services for production, to in-memory everything for testing.

You know, if the DB is passed as a parameter, I can do that too. Without @inject, or XML, or the god container object.

const testdb = new InMemoryDB();
const result = await myThing(testdb);
expect(result.foo).toBe(42);
expect(testdb.rows).toEqual(bar);
incidentally, "kuka" (or actually "kúka") means to poop in icelandic
I think you two are agreeing.
as i wrote in another comment, it had equal trouble with "samurai warrior"

clearly it's not just "anti-white"
IMF finds in its study that giving citizens more options for their savings, like cryptocurrencies, is going to force central banks to strengthen their monetary policies. Before money was the monopoly right of the state. No longer. Thus if there is an option for better money over central bank money it's likely people will switch. This can explain some of dislike central banks have for cryptocurrencies.

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fintech-notes/Issues/202...
I am thinking that this technology will apply nicely to tank armour?

The UK has lost it's capability to make tanks from scratch, maybe this approach could be used to substitute in some way?
I agree but there is one thing I do love about programming videos. It shows you every step of the way. In written information very often some "obvious" steps are left out or forgotten which will cost you a few hours to get right.