skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup and look at their birth rates. Companies/Countries are screwing themselves by not allowing flexibility to raise a family during their workers 20s and 30s.
Keller is a manager. He was a gateware engineer.
It's fine.

At least they don't automatically lowercase and truncate your password behind the scenes like AMEX. Lol.
There is gccgo if you care for a good optimizer, unfortunely is stuck on Go 1.18 for ages.
To be fair, US healthcare billing companies aren't very far removed from scammers in the first place. Except most scammers are more ethical.
If you're ugly you're not getting matches anyway. It does nothing for ugly people. At the end of the day a person has to be attractive to some positive degree in order to find a partner.
It really just depends on your seeds. Yes there is fancy shit you can do, but good seeds + light + water is literally all you need to grow perfectly fine weed.

The trickier stuff is in curing it, but even that is pretty straightforward.
loved his columns when i was a kid. No agenda is obviously too much for non republicans but his other podcast can be pure gold. Especially on 2x speed
I agree that we should study the more extended time effects of this medication. I started in 8th grade and stopped 2 years after college because I was worried about building a dependency. When I stopped taking my meds, my symptoms were way worse, so I almost had to take meds. Since I've stopped, I've been able to manage my symptoms well.

Meds are a great starting place to give you momentum, but we should slowly transition away from them as we develop better habits.

That's why I launched ScatterMind.
Jim is at tenstorrent now.
> If programming ever gets easy it means you're not seeking out new challenges.

programming is the act of writing code, it should absolutely get easy.

I think you meant software development rather than programming.
I think performance and cost are the big motivators here.

I work on a web framework for building data apps like reports and dashboards, and we use duckDB’s WASM runtime for interactions (e.g when a user changes a date range filter). It’s really fast, and you don’t spend snowflake credits.
And instead of just shrugging it off, you could tag strangers that annoy you and end up with a giant list of grudges against a whole host of people. The false positives (e.g. twins and doppelgangers) should make it interesting.
Hashemite is really just an adjective for the current foreign dynasty, which is from the Hejaz on the Red Sea coast of what is now Saudi Arabia. They were defeated there by the Saudis (1924-5).

The British gave the elderly Sharif exile in Cyprus, and put his sons on the thrones of Jordan (Abdullah), and Syria-then-Iraq (Faisal). These events are shown briefly at the end of Lawrence of Arabia, with Alec Guinness playing Faisal.
Supporting anecdote: I built a PC a few years ago, and first tried multiple AMD cards. All of them worked fine while using the default windows drivers, but as soon as I installed AMD's drivers, they stopped working. Spent weeks troubleshooting, no luck.

Gave up, bought an Nvidia card, zero problems.
I'm a bit worried about the resource consumption of all these AIs.
Could it be that the mass of AIs that are now being created are driving climate change and in return we are mainly getting more text summaries and cat pictures?
There is absolutely a risk of downloading malicious data. But the protocol will reject it for failing integrity checks. That doesn't mean the software will reject it.
Then the AI says, we've figured out with 98% certainty that you're going to be alone for the rest of your life. Would you like to learn more about MAID?
So it becomes technically legal, but they put so many obstacles in your way that buying illegally will hardly lose attraction. Cannabis dealers won't go out of work any time soon.
What is his philosophy ?
Literally the place people go to escape the algorithm and meet real people... And they're so ready to ignore their users' scientifically proven emotional need for in-person connection so they can juice some numbers for a few quarters.
It's always going to be a huge quantity of data. Even as efficiency improves, storage and bandwidth are so cheap now that the incentive will be to convert that efficiency towards performance (models with more parameters, ensembles of models, etc) rather than chasing some micro-model that doesn't do as well. It might not always be 17GB, but don't expect some lesser order of magnitude for anything competitive.

As maturity arrives, we'll likely see a handful of competing local models shipped as part of the OS or as redistributable third-party bundles (a la the .NET or Java runtimes) so that individual applications don't all need to be massive.

You'll either need to wait for that or bite the bullet and make something chonky. It's never going to get that small.
It varies, for sure, but more security sensitive organisations like... anything that works with computers these days will need to have their systems locked down, which includes access control and possibly internet monitoring, at the very least to block malware websites. As well as a block on VPNs and other ways to circumvent those blocks.

Of course, this quickly escalates to "no porn", "no video games", and other non-work things. But those are usually larger organizations where they lose track of individuals and their behaviour.
Had we as a society been pursuing coexistence instead of crushing people with laws then we might have made progress with this by now. Controlling odors is an engineering problem with several solutions that are not widely applied.

It is also important to note that the spread and lingering of smoke smells in apartment buildings is just one symptom of a general problem of poor indoor air circulation and air quality. Addressing those issues effectively will help with quality of life and health and should be done regardless.
I think this is one of those places where mass-market financial advice is aimed at people who are bad with money and might not be able to float a month of expenses on credit.

I'm not sure I've ever had a nontrivial expense in the US that simultaneously couldn't be paid on credit and wasn't known for weeks in advance either. I would expect any no-credit charge in excess of about a dinner bill to be announced at least a week in advance, implicitly through an invoicing process at the very least, and I would frankly have reservations about whether any vendor who didn't have a way to handle this was really a legitimate business.

Even if that's not an option, your broker is probably fine with floating you a sum of cash matching your recent MMF sale amount as overdraft or margin at a price of somewhere between "we've already factored it into our fees as a cost of doing business" and <0.05%/day of the loan amount anyway, because overnight loan alchemy is a well-understood problem and the bread and butter of retail banking.
Well, it's pretty widely known that a lot of dating websites are full of third-party bots, trying to get you to follow certain instagram/premium snapchat/onlyfans profiles - and pushing romance scams, financial scams and suchlike.

It's also pretty widely known that a lot of the big dating websites started out with a bunch of first-party fake profiles and activity, because nobody joins a dating website that doesn't have any users. Usually once the site becomes successful though they get rid of the first-party fake activity though.

So first-party bots and bots that are active right now on the major sites are both plausible. Just maybe not first-party bots that are active on the major sites right now.
It turns out that whole thing was a grift where the former CEO left and founded the startup and then “sold” the Cooler Screens to his friends back at Walgreens. The new CEO came in and realized how dumb and expensive the screens were, killed the deal and is now being sued by the grifter.
F-strings (PEP 498) were released the end of 2016 in version 3.6, almost 7 years ago. They're convenient. Just don't get cute with overly complex expressions.

The new type parameter syntax (PEP 695) newly added in 3.12 is certainly busy. I like the feature but I wish there was a better concise syntax. Metatype programming looks ugly in every language I've seen.

The rest of the statements have been around for ages, and I wouldn't call them recent or modern.
Plastic is not a bad material and has practical use cases, mostly for weight. I have a pair of $700 Focal Bathys headphones that have a plastic housing. The housing is plastic not because Focal wanted to cheap out on materials. I'm sure they could use aluminum if they wanted. It's plastic because plastic is much lighter than metal while still being rigid.

Apple's aversion to plastic for products where weight is a major factor shows their insistence on "luxury feeling" devices that make too many trade offs for practicality. Should an iPhone be plastic? No, because a metal housing doesn't affect the user experience as much via weight gain. But headphones and particularly VR goggles should be plastic since it causes significant weight reduction.

Also: plastic in headphone housing is pretty industry standard. My Sennheiser HD 600s, made of plastic, are built better than my Audeze LCD 2s, made with wood and metal. My Airpods Max have this delicate knit headband, just waiting to be torn, just so Apple could use their precious aluminum housing.
I went to share this story, too, but searched first:

From 11 days ago, sharing the Guardian story about this, with the a link in the comments to the PNAS research paper [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39350700
And cache! The talk of AI hardware is now "how do we fit these darn things inside SRAM?"
Will this end up in a situation where chatGPT hits on itself and finds that it’s narcissistically attracting itself?

Or does chatGPT end up being an alternate dog-wingman like where dogs in the park introduce their masters to each other?
Isolated for six months scientists in Antarctica developed their own accent
It now says "GPT inaccessible or not found", when I follow the link. Would someone share the prompt here? I am also very interested.
I feel that's where the rubber meets the road on automatic translation.

Even on HN we're seeing it as non practical or reliable enough to let users deal with their own needs directly.

That's one of the reason I'm so tired of seeing translation as one of the bullet point repeated over and over for AI use. At the end of the day it will never be more than a niche if people don't trust the result (for the record, I agree they're not great)
I definitely agree there is a ton of over-hyping going on with AI, but I don't like the idea of lumping it all together with "the blockchain".

Around 2017 I worked for a fintech company who was going to "sprinkle in some blockchain" everywhere, and it was an unmitigated disaster. I kept thinking "Why, again, can't we just use a database for this?" In fairness to our execs, every time we said we'd sprinkle in some blockchain we'd get a higher valuation and more funding from VCs, so there was that incentive...

With AI, while again I feel it's overhyped, I personally get tons of value in my day-to-day work life with ChatGPT, e.g. having it summarize documentation for features I'm not aware of, quickly writing some snippets of code for me, looking up some relevant regulations, etc. (and before the cries of "BUT HALLLLUCINATIONS!!!" - I know, I'm not an idiot, I use ChatGPT for the start of my investigations, not the end).

So I see tons of real value in AI (even if I also see tons of places where that little "magic star" icon is starting to get really annoying) in a way where I never saw commensurate value in blockchain.
Only to configure it. It presents as a USB keyboard (among other device types).
This. I finally switched from using various APC models to an Eaton 5S 1500 unit for my desktop and a couple peripherals and it's much better while still being comparably priced.
> In a press release written by ChatGPT, Match Group shared the first steps of its plan for your new AI-driven love life.
Are Anker cables considered good? I have a few, but recently one of my anker usb-c cables started to only go up to 15W, making me think something broke with the usb pd chip.
You're right but it's for web and hardly used.

Phone, text and email are much bigger threats.

email has some incomplete protections including DKIM and others.
Phone and text only have caller-id which is easily spoofed and vendors don't even manage their contact points .

we need a platform that consumers can easily understand and use.
What if you bought Apple in 1995? or 89? Would you have remained solvent long enough to make it to 2024?

In the market timing is both 1. everything and 2. impossible to predict without cheating.
> LLMs are more like apps being produced by different companies trying to capture walled gardens, and their open source counterparts.

I think the analogy to the web is stronger than that.

For now the LLMs are mostly separate, but it won't be long before LLMs emerge that make API calls to other LLMs, sometimes over the internet.

In due course, expect meta-LLMs to emerge that aggregate knowledge from other LLMs by talking to them, rather than by training on their data. Those meta-LLMs which optimise for competitive quality results will have to read the research as it comes out, and continually assess which other new LLMs are worth calling out to, and for which purposes. Eventually the API calls will become bi-directional requests to exchange knowledge and insights, i.e. multiple models talking to each other, continually learning.
A cursory google search shows that as a result of that stipulation there are in fact financing packages or lenders that acknowledge the risk and seek to meet that demand.
That's the archive team, not the internet archive.
Credit cards are the best place for an emergency fund. You still all your cash in US-Treasuries, gaining 5+ % interest with no federal tax, and as secure as anything in the world. Then if an emergency comes up, use your credit cards, and you have 30 days to pull money out and pay for it, without losing any of your interest.
Universal Lambda Machine
Meet people in the real world?? And like talk to them? Scary!!
Ask HN: How does one get into contract work?
I'm interested in the potential to move towards doing contract work over full time work at some point. I knew there are a lot of pros and cons, but setting those aside, how do you find contract work?

The contractors I've worked with have had personal connections to the people who hired them from previous work places. This makes a lot of sense, but seems to limit your reach to your network. Working within your network seems like the safest bet, at least from my ignorant view.

Is building a quality network of people overtime that I'd like to work with again the best way to do this? If I feel like I've reached that point in the future, should I just post on LinkedIn that that's the kind of work I'm looking for?

You can probably tell that I have no idea where to start. Any advice or reading material recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a software engineer and that's where pretty much all of my skill set lies.
Well, although it was stupid, it wasn’t altering the value proposition.

With Tinder, I’m already persuaded I’m paying $30pm to chat with 70% bots, and there are countless memes saying “Say potato” to botgirls who always answer the same scripts;

But Tinder partnering with ChatGPT to fake profiles that increase customer value?
I think the issue is for the IA that isn't lucrative enough to make it worth there time. Someone already did it for them for free, even if it wasn't 100% as good as they could have done it.
Maybe it has desirable properties compared to plexi.
I really miss being a kid and reading JCD.

There were some really good magazines for learning about tech back in the day.
Also, in the West (most likely the US you're talking about), businesses can and do quickly respond if your business plan starts working and either swallow your customer base whole, or regulate you out of existence.

A larger business with access to financial capital markets doesn't need to out compete you on merit. They can bundle your service for free until you collapse then raise prices later.

Just look at how many 'killed by Google' projects seem to work like this.
You can only short-circuit technology trees so much most of the time. Storage/networks/etc. probably weren't up to the task that early.
because this is HN, who is overly pro-tech and looks for any excuse as to why they should be protected.

Because ... ya know ... 2 people dying is just someone fishing for money.
Scaling ChatGPT
They don't want to chat with bots.

They're going to be unknowingly chatting with bots.

It's a logical extension of things that are well established are happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38447794

It's one of the purest examples of short term business thinking I can imagine. Will this goose this quarter's revenue? Heck yeah. But there may not be a dating app market at all in three years once the public realizes that "dating apps" are just fancy wrappers around ChatGPT built to "drive engagement" by making damned sure you don't actually ever enter into a long term relationship with an actual human.

It seems dating apps will be leading the way into fulfilling the Dead Internet Theory.
Yes, but not practically useful in general cases prior to GPT4 level models.
Lineage Bank Hit with FDIC Consent Order over BaaS, Fintech Oversight Failures
I've found my moderately-priced Eaton 5S 1500 unit to perform considerably better than any of the non-pro APC models I used before it.
Some people don’t mind the smell and not all ways of taking it even produce a smell or taste
> The experts noted that arms transfers to Hamas and other armed groups are also prohibited by international law, given their grave violations of international humanitarian law on 7 October 2023, including hostage-taking and subsequent indiscriminate rocket fire.
If you had a political ideology that you disagreed with imposed on you in nearly every facet of your life - entertainment, work, school - what would your reaction be?

Would you put any effort into voicing your disagreement?
Those are proven ways to build lasting relationships while living a fulfilling life. That's incompatible with dating apps. Tech founders need repeat subscribers. They want to dangle the possibility of love as if it's a jackpot atop the slot machine in the casino. Sometimes someone wins, but the goal is to get as many people as possible to believe that can be them if only they keep spinning the wheel as many times as possible in a gamified caricature of dating.
> The fact that the vehicle is in a public space is irrelevant, and the names of streets are an obvious straw man.

Oh noes, now I can't publish a map with St. StreetName on it! Because Mr. Incognito lives on St. StreetName, 31!

>> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

> The fact that the natural person is identifiable by absolutely anyone (the motor vehicle licensing agency), not just the passers-by looking at the license plates, makes the license plate number personal information. 1

No. Associating Mr. Whatshisname with a license plate number is a personal data. The license plate number itself is not. Otherwise you should go and blur/mask all the streetnames in all the photos made in EU ever. Or disband every motor vehicle licensing agency in every EU country.

And another edit: is [0] a personal data? Should Wikipedia Foundation be punished for even having that data?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BigOriginal.jpg
> worse than cigs.

No, by a mile no.
In the case of JuiceFS the file is split into chunks and those are the objects uploaded to S3 - treating it like a high latency block device.

The downside is that metadata here isn't just a cache, it is necessary to operate in this fashion and must be backed up.
you're most likely going to get moderated but I agree with your sentiment.

I often say HN is a safe space for heinous opinions, where you can't strongly push back on them without getting moderated or outright banned.

Sometimes it needs to be said.
The big advantage is that you can be sure that the cannabis you are buying is actually of a good quality. Especially in Baden-Württemberg (cannot find the source anymore), more cannabis that has been confiscated by the police was impure than pure. And you never know whether you get indica, sativa, 10% THC, 25% THC, CBD that is spiked with HHC, just CBD, or cannabis that is spiked with something else. If you find a good dealer that you can trust has good quality weed, than that is fine. But I have been buying from a lot of different dealers over the past few years (not random people on the street, people I know through other people), and the quality is always all over the place.

I never want to buy from any black-market dealer ever again, once these cannabis clubs are up and running.
Great! I was trying to remember the model name of this processor the other day in a conversation, and no amount of googling could bring it up, all my results were swamped by all the new AI-du-jour chips everyone is working on. The young person I was talking to could not believe there was a neural network chip in the 90s and looked at me like I was having some kind of memory issue.

I remember the 80170 just not getting that much attention when it came out, at the time I was just out of high school, hammering away on Turbo C++ and working through the third volume of Parallel Distributed Processing and thinking to myself, "someone should make a chip that does this" and then eventually reading about the 80170 having come and gone. I vaguely recall a demo where they would quickly flash NIST digits at the chip and it could recognize them with high speed and accuracy.

I think what maybe killed the effort was the extreme pace of Moore's law at the time, made a NN chip more efficient than software? No biggie in 8 months we'll just double the density and speed of the current x86 chip and beat it in software. There's probably also the extreme internal competition in Intel to kill anything that might even vaguely threaten x86.

Anyway, good flashbacks. I should dig up my copy of PDP, I remember skimming over the second volume on biological models and I think at this stage in my life that might be the most interesting.
So Smart I'm Dumb
Indeed, though the sort of person who knows how to read and understand mail headers is probably pretty unlikely to fall for a real phish.
T-bills have short duration so their inflationary risk is minimal.
Does Starship have sufficient return volume?
Does the model feel performant because it’s not under any serious production load?
Understanding performance numbers in Integrated Circuit Design [pdf]
What on Earth has ever given you the idea that I believe companies should be trusted in this regard?

I just quoted the most relevant technical details of what is actually presented in the article given that so much of the initial commentary when I first saw this post were from people who clearly hadn't read the article.
I mean, you can grow "ditch weed" that way.

It's not 1974 anymore.
I would say even Biden sells out to China, but less than the others perhaps. We will continue to sell out to china as long as we continue the moral high ground of equality within our borders but equality doesn't matter outside our borders. Contrary to popular opinion, what we need to do is adopt the idea of inequality even within our borders - not through slavery or barbarism but by reducing minimum wage, reducing social programs, reducing taxes, and stopping the influx of illegal immigration. Then we won't have to sell out to China.