skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's a frequentist and you're a Bayesian, so you're both right.
It's a demo / proof-of-concept during product development, at the end it doesn't really matter if it's spontaneous or was prepared / optimized for by doing a test take.

As long as it is released to the public with the functionalities and performance that were promised.
He (I) posted the paywalled link as is the HN rule. I then posted a free gift link in the comments so that readers who do not subscribe to the Times are able to read it. The link in the comments IS NOT the "correct" (original) link.
One thing that absolutely savages my mind is the fact that those on the nominal left-wing have abandoned this obvious truth and focused on an ideology that benefits some sort of global majority versus their own theoretical constituents.

The perfect example is Bernie Sanders going from "immigration is obviously bad because its a tool capitalist's use to undercut American labor" to generic racial grievance "progressive" guy.
This kind of attitude is toxic. If you have complaints about specific protocols, formats, etc, please share them.
1 USD would get you 25 Mexican pesos (MXN) in April 2020. Today, it will only get you 16.80 MXN.

That’s a huge jump in value for the peso, that’s impressive.
Web platform bugs that only occur in one browser charted across time
That's close to how I do osso bucco, yeah: finely diced vegetables that go in at the start and will become part of the sauce, plus more attractive larger chunks when there's about 40 minutes left.

Soggy fibre is a good thing in these cases because it thickens the sauce and doesn't draw attention away from the meat and the larger veg chunks.
We already know that "Fake it until you make it" is a soft scam in Silicon Valley.

But how far will these companies go to fake their own products in front of VCs and customers to qualify as deceptive advertising?

Might as well go for 90% of these other vapourware tech / AI companies promising their snake oil to the public.
The follow up tweet cleared it up, he clicked the wrong item in the list during the demo…

https://x.com/jessechenglyu/status/1767363848145969315?s=46&...

Definitely overly aggressive gotcha type stuff. Journos usually give a chance for a response before writing such attacks.
Another facet to it is that most disciplines where you can just about-face all of your established core theses is generally called "pseudoscience".
You may not need other bookkeeping. The prefix listing properties can be enough, removing the need to have two distinct systems kept in sync.
You can literally see that he clicks on the 12.27 recording instead of the 12.28 or 12.29 recordings.
I don't buy the foul play theories. What could this person possibly reveal that is worse that has already come out? They crashed two 737 Max's full of passengers for crying out loud.
The authors anonymously make assertions of fraud, but clearly have an axe to grind with Rabbit.

This piece is interesting in how peculiar it is, but I'd say not newsworthy.

I did learn at least that there is some NFT history behind the company rabbit, which I was unaware of.
> trying to bamboozle me with jargon

Am I the only one who thought the article was clear, lucid, and reasonably concise?

The company's success or failure will depend on execution, but the value proposition is quite sound. Maybe I've just spent too much time in the intersection between information theory, thermodynamics, and signal processing...

"Don't splurge on high SNR ('digital') hardware just to re-introduce noise later." == "Don't dig a hole and fill it in again. You waste energy twice!"
Are there some numbers on the age distribution of climate change deniers. The older I get the more truth I see in Douglas Adams’ observation on aging

“Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

In the sense that past a certain age minds and attitudes don’t change.

Maybe longer lifespans are just make lives worse for everyone that comes after.
Yes. Also, keep in mind, YC investing as a fund without taking a board seat has no Duty of Loyalty at all, they could fund every company in an industry and so long as the founders were cool with it there's no issue. So it specifically relates to board seats, which investors and YC tend to be prudent about.
That's pretty disturbing. I can't imagine being refused medical service because I didn't accept an Apple or Google EULA/ToS. Truly ominous.
It is likely that whole sectors will end up employing far fewer people than they do now and that this transition will be very sudden.

The move to AI is part of a general trend of pauperisation of the working classes in the developed world. The only difference is that this time it will also affect those with higher education who until now have thought of themselves as irreplaceable.
It is for the Venezuelans. 28 million people were completely fucked by hyperinflation. Life savings destroyed.

The peer to peer network enabled them to circumvent the banking system, which is why BTC was created, according to the original paper.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
"Savages" feels like overkill (at least he didn't "slam"), i honestly don't find this very compelling.

The second half more or less just lists some currently popular views. There is very little argument for them. They might very well be right, but whether they are right or not isn't so interesting as why they might be right or wrong.

The most compelling part i think was the argument that power's distorting effect on markets is not well enough understood. That seems plausible to me (albeit i am definitely not an expert in this field) and also seems like a direction for future study.

I disagree with the morality point because i think that understanding how something works is entirely different than understanding what we should do about it, but we can't know what to do without understanding the how. Thus we need people to study the how separately from the moral component in order to be moral.
It sounds like you may not have read the "broken arrow" incidents Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_acc...

There are a number of hair-raising stories tucked away in there.

Paired with knowledge of things like Stuxnet (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet), the broken arrow list fills with worry for what might happen with nuclear weapons systems in our modern, hyper-connected world.
If that's what you need to spend to stick with it, hire someone, full time. A lot of people would be happy to take that money to keep an eye on you, and hassle the hell out of you. I know I would.

Consider what would actually make you do something, then pay that person to do it.
they fight it because it works and impacts their bottom line, i dont see how that's evidence that regulation is ineffective as a whole because people can just find loopholes
I truly appreciate your answer, as someone that primarily does C#, but learned Java first back around 2003 to 2005. More so because my son is going to be learning Java next year in high school, and I know he'll be looking to me for help, and I'd like to at least be at the same language version as he's learning.

I've also been looking at Go quite a bit, especially from a lot of commentary even recently on YouTube, as well as plenty of time during work hours to experiment with languages I'm not familiar with. I've been deciding between Python and Go, and I picked up Python very quickly for the language, but ultimately I think it's the libraries and ecosystem around both that will decide it for me. Just good to see another vote for Go, especially when comparing to Java. I feel like I'm in the same boat as you seem to be, where it's all just syntax and learning frameworks, while having enough experience at this point to also pick up the smaller details while quickly being effective.
I'm not defending the typo, but sometimes I will intentionally change one letter before deploying as a janky way to make sure that I'm using the new build. He claims the typo was 'intentional' so I wonder if that's the reason?
The safety conscious amongst us don't think "it will be evil", they think "what does it take to be absolutely sure that no bad outcomes can happen" in the same way we build bridges, cars, planes, firewalls, new medicines.

The burden of proof is typically on those that introduce a new medicine, not the FDA. AI will be riskier than medicines because medicines can't think.

Personally I don't want us all hiding in fear and not trying anything, but I do think that we're either going to walk into this thing with a hacker mentality, or an engineer mentality. The former is great for moving fast and breaking things, but the latter is safer when you're playing with a one-way "this changes everything forever" technology.
Also, Miles Davis had an outstanding taste for pianists. Every piano player that joined Miles was a force of nature.
Humanimals
Zepbound has a coupon. It’ll be about $550/month after coupon (if the coupon system weren’t recently cyber attacked). You can easily find some online physician to prescribe it for you. Studies show a 22% weight loss in around 18 months, iirc. Its changed my life. Never went to the gym once. Ate whatever I wanted. Simply didn’t want much to eat.
When you discontinue, I believe the studies show a 60% regain. But for $100k, you could stay on it for a decade.
I don't know anything about this controversy, but it's refreshing to see a bunch of people not immediately assuming guilt and crucifying.
The nobles of the feudal age are the C-level suite of today. They move around the map conquering lands, and lands come with employees/peasants. Their goal? Squeeze as much value out of the workforce as possible. Except in the medieval version moving wasn't possible, so I think I'll take the modern version :-)
The real danger is that at some point we hand over command and control of society completely to algorithms and we get bad results because we simply have no idea what is going on. Maybe even worse is we get long term bad results that in the short term we think are great results.

To frame this as the bad result being AI eats though is just stupid. On the surface of potential risk, framing the argument in this way is intellectually embarrassing and highly counter productive.

On the flip side, it is hard to see what can actually be done along with huge unintended consequence to whatever is done. Some of the smartest humans to ever live were certain of nuclear annihilation at the start of the atomic age. What could have actually been done in 1945 that would have given us a better outcome? We avoided the paths that lead to nuclear annihilation by building bigger and bigger bombs.

Doing nothing but building stronger and stronger AI should be the naive strategy that needs incredibly strong evidence to deviate from. Really strong regulation at the start of the atomic age that keeps nuclear weapons at bay and consequently only in the hands of the US would have been an unimaginable disaster.
Same, which is why I'm disinclined to believe shadowy cabals ordering assassinations when it's more likely he was just under some of the highest pressure and scrutiny of his life.
I disagree with that characterization because the contrast by OP was that S3 is “just a KV store implying” it doesn’t meet the criteria for being considered a filesystem.

For example, you could implement POSIX directory semantics on top of S3. About the only POSIX filesystem API you couldn’t implement it append / overwrite (well you could but it might be prohibitively expensive).
No I was not doing that. I was mostly being sarcastic.

I will however argue that with no oversight at all, things would be much worse.

I do think your arguments give people too much credit though. If the choice was a cheaper flight but on a plane with a dubious safety record vs a more expensive flight on a plane with a good safety record I'd wager most would take option 1
I know this isn’t intended as a document presentation format, but for a consistent layout, it would be a good idea to specify the ratio between pixels (for layout) and font size (in pt). Otherwise, viewers would render text inconsistently-each node would be some ratio too big or too small for its contents.
I'm using the term "analog computing" to mean using non-digital (or even digital but in a nonstandard way). A quantum processor is not digital as each qubit has an uncountable number of states. A quantum computer would likely have a classical (digital) part to measure the quantum processor's registers, which are a bunch of "analog" states. And even if one wants to use terminology in a way that qc isn't analog, it would still objectively share many qualities with "normal" analog computing (basically all of its differentiators against classical compute).

Then again, I should probably also ask what you mean by "analog computing", and why you think quantum error correction would not allow qc to be classified as analog.

For context, I did research on crafting a high-fidelity (error-correcting) quantum gate (successfully).
Are you surprised about the lack of curiosity on this sort of case? When many here are within 2 degrees of the people involved. Most within 3 degrees. It's a small world
It’s glossed over in the article but “Very strategic location” is an understatement.

Guam is the most “forward” sovereign US territory to our INDOPACOM allies and adversaries. So it’s basically target group 2 in any major Pacific Rim calamity behind Okinawa etc (Including Russia)

Source: Me; I worked at Andersen for ~3 years in 2009-2012
That's because journalists know that there are consequences for defamation. Publishing a false accusation and encouraging a boycott of the company is a good way to get yourself sued for libel.
Many of the people in this engaging story feel to me like creative children in parties full of gossip and pseudo-philosophical chats about the future. Luckily there are enough people globally who build things that will reduce human suffering and enable more people to enjoy their lives in whatever way they want (and dinner parties would be high on my list). I guess I am not a doomsayer nor an e/acc, and I see tons of benefit from our current path towards stronger AI.
it is also trivial to work around by just doubling the key length. But even without that the speed up is slow enough that we will be well within the quantum age before this matters. The article talks about this a bit.
The focus on an “evil” AI intentionally ignores the many ways in which “dumb” AI systems are already wreaking havoc in our societies.
> People have been watching too many movies. War Games, Terminator, it's not like we haven't been forewarned of the dangers.

> But to paraphrase a line in a great movie with AI themes

Which one is it? Have people been watching too many movies or should they be watching more movies for their (as you imply) wisdom and forewarning?
It could also be that the developers working on those parts of the software are in China, and that they don't really read latin letters or speak English. The same way an English-speaker wouldn't spot a typo in Chinese.
Something tells me this isn't really what OP is asking for.
Try a semaglutide/glp-1. Ignore the moralizing - they work, when statistically diets and exercise don’t. Diet and exercise obviously are great, but your odds of sticking to it and being successful are woefully low. Don’t beat yourself up about what is human nature - be analytical and realistic and maximize your chances of success by combining d&e changes with new medicine.
Not to quibble with which horror is the most likely, but I think it won't take long to come up with more efficient solutions that don't require any humans at all- But there will probably be a transition period where some humans remain.
From the Crikey coverage:

What’s extraordinary is that a Nobel Laureate economist has only achieved this realisation so late in his career.

Anyone with practical experience of policymaking, or with training as a historian, or even someone who has worked as a lobbyist or consultant, has a grasp of what Deaton has only belatedly realised: modern capitalism, particularly in its neoliberal form that disempowers governments and rivals like trade unions, is about the use of power by corporations to “change the rules of the game”, to increase certainty for themselves and reduce it for competitors, workers and consumers.

It speaks volumes about how sheltered many mainstream academic economists really are.
anyone got an unpaywalled link? I put this through the webarchive and was surprised to find it still paywalled.
Another great post is also called Diffusion Models From Scratch: https://www.tonyduan.com/diffusion/index.html

That goes into a lot more mathematical detail but is also accompanied by a minimal, very easy to understand <500 line implementation.
First Month on a Database Team
Good to see this moving ahead, but doesn't a well-defined graph format already exist in Argdown? [0] While its renderer uses auto layouting instead of user defined coordinates, the principle of using Markdown files instead of JSON seems more appealing to me considering the Obsidian/git workflow.

Besides Argdown, Markdown itself provides some built-in features that can be utilised to construct graphs. Coordinates for instance, can be stored as HTML comments or link alt texts, e.g. `[node](# ("x:25,y:50"))`. Edge, shape types and other data could similarly be stored in alt text fields as serialised JSON or in separate blocks using link reference definitions. [1]

One step further, Markdown lists could be used to store subtrees while cycles as Obsidian block links. This also allows you to encode ancestral, sibling and descendant relations:

- [root](# ("x:25,y:50"))
- leaf
- [link](#^id)
- another leaf^id

You'd then be able to interleave prose and graph structures in a single file rather than dealing with two separate parsing structures. Even better, the end result would still be Markdown compliant.

[0]: https://argdown.org/

[1]: https://github.github.com/gfm/#link-reference-definition
I've used Kdenlive, Shotcut, Blender and Olive [1]. They all have strenghts and weaknesses, so I choose which one to use depending on what I'm trying to do, or sometimes I use two of them through a single video project.

One thing to note is that Kdenlive and Shotcut both use the MLT video editing framework [2] under the hood, so their capabilities and constraints are very close to each other's. That said, their UIs are their own and some things may be easier to do in one over the other, may be a matter of personal preference. AFAIK Shotcut is developed by the same people who built MLT, but I don't think that gives it any particular advantage. Also both of these apps have the largest ready-made effects toolbox out of the four apps I mentioned at the top.

Blender's VSE (video sequence editor) is great if you need fine-tuned 2D animations of elements because you can use all the same awesome keyframing tools you'd use for 3D animation, but it's severely lacking in other aspects, especially in the effects dept (you can crop, blur, mask, but not much else). For some reason you can't use Blender's compositor node system with video, which would enable many more capabilities if possible. There's also a steeper learning curve if you've never used Blender before because its UI breaks many conventions.

Olive is a newcomer that doesn't get enough attention, but IMHO it was at one point the most promising OSS video editor out there. Sadly the developer works on it on his free time, and he's recently said that he's pausing development because he doesn't have the resources to work on it any more. I'm really hoping a miracle happens.

There's two versions of Olive, 0.1 and 0.2 which is a complete rewrite. Both versions are good, but they work pretty differently. What got me excited about 0.2 is that its effects are node-based (unlike MLT-based editors which are stack-based), which enables far more advanced editing, although you probably wouldn't need that unless you're working on something quite ambitious.

1: https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

2: https://www.mltframework.org/
Number of comments and upvotes doesn't suggest lack of curiosity... It's the fact that it got bumped off front page
Do you have a clinical “need” to eat meat or just a strong preference? I’d personally recommend eating less meat but that’s tangential:
They say “6 packs (abs/shredded abdominals) are made in the kitchen” so if you’re looking to spend 100k get a personal chef and trainer or something similar.

I think your approach to “buying” health is all backwards but you can work with experienced professionals to help achieve your goal.

Best of luck cheers
That's not quite as functional as MS Access could do (though, maybe it's possible but you don't have a demo), but it is quite nice.

This whole app looks extremely promising, for my purposes it looks very close to something that I could build a huge database on top of, I am going to keep it in mind and try to get some time to play with it, I hope you guys keep moving it forward because it is slick!

With adequate features, I could see this being something that consultants could use to go in and write impressive custom database software in a month or so for companies like used to be so common, I think it would be a great way for junior people to get into the IT business, with a few caveats of course.
Very combative statement. But when you’ve got a very conservative republican teaming up with a very liberal democrat on this legislation, combative may be the only option you have.
I can’t believe it. First they take Pluto from us, next they’re going to tell me the static on my tv set isn’t the remnants of the Big Bang, but just hot dust? My childhood is crumbling!
Is this written by someone that lost money gambling on NFTs? I don't think the demo is particularly bad and it's known that demos are the happy path so don't expect full functionality in the recording. I think every customer demo I have ever done has involved some form of magic or omissions while features were built in the background. Having not heard of this company before it looks like they have made a few attempts at different ventures but unless this is an outright scam I don't think it's worth hammering like this. People need to try things and sometimes ideas don't work out.
I’ve observed Alzheimer’s take away memories, dignity, and personality from multiple loved ones.

I’m unsure whether it’s worse for the affected individual or the loved ones around them. That uncertainty leads me to the same conclusion as you.

COVID brain fog gave me some perspective around the recognition that one’s brain is inexplicably not working as expected. Existing in that state of frustration for years is nightmarish.
You can use any client you like for Mastodon (usually even without logging in, I think that is a server setting) - but by browsing to the instance's domain with a web browser, you're getting a copy of the latest web client, which may have requirements you don't like or can't fulfill.
LLM Evaluation: Everything You Need to Run, Benchmark Evals
Private offices can earn much more too with every hour of the work day

The average square footage per person has also gone down with the latest boma guidelines

And not to mention booking an office at work to hybrid work would probably get used more than a hotdesk.