skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, there’s a lot to unpack here. I’ll do my best to address them.

> I feel like this is a platform for exploiting free labor more than a useful tool to help plan traveling. I do not feel "open source" spirit.

- There’s actually a profit-sharing program that I'm experimenting with. Basically if a trip you create makes money you share in the revenue. The site isn’t actually making any money right now so the details of this is still being worked out.

> I generally don't believe you are an avid traveler building a platform to make your life easier.

- I built this site because I am not an avid traveler, but someone who wants to travel a lot more. And as someone who doesn’t know all the best places to visit or eat or things I need to do and etc, I thought it’d be great to have place where all that knowledge is prepared for you, perhaps by local experts, in the form on an itinerary. Basically just trying to make traveling a lot simpler and maybe even more exciting.

> This site says it is community based, but I am not sure where that community comes from. For it to be community based I would expect a member of an already existing community to build something for that community, rather than something being built in hopes of creating a community.

- Not sure if that’s a bad thing. I don’t think a community like this exists and I think it’d be great if it did.

> This site is absolutely worse than just showing up at the best rated hostel in a city and having the hostel workers tell you what to do. The expensive hotel suggestions rather than budget hotel and hostel suggestions is clear evidence, imho, of the corruptive power of affiliate marketing and industry first rather than traveler first thinking.

- Anyone can create a trip and suggest any hotel they wish. I would love it if the hostel worker you are referring to created and shared a trip on the platform, then everyone would get access to this much better trip that you are speaking of.

- The links in the descriptions of the current trips available aren’t tied to any affiliate marketing links.

I think most of the other stuff you pointed out are UI and implementation suggestions. Thank you for those, I’ve added them to a list of things to do.
Math writing is dull when it neglects the human dimension
First of all, the original source is better:

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-sur...

And an important missing part:

> companies like Dataminr continuously monitor public activity on social media and other internet platforms.
Any institution where you invest or deposit money carries a risk of fraud.

Banks have steadily become less and less fraudulent over the last century.

Crypto exchanges have also steadily become less fraudulent, but still carry a much larger risk than the financial institutions to which people have become accustomed.
>I should add that our short term market-based approach to economic activity fails to produce appropriate housing outcomes

>Fixing housing could be cheaper than them using the ER or paying for their prison space, and it would also make the streets of San Francisco smell a LOOOT better (and BART)

It's extremely unfair to blame "market based solutions" for failing to fix SF housing problems when it's pretty clear the largest hurdle is NIMBYism politically blocking new housing developments.

For example here:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-housing-clash-yim...

The locals won't even LET other people build new housing. They definitely aren't going to start footing the bill and building the housing themselves
it's much uglier though
Everything you said is accurate and can be summed up as “investors should have no faith in Huffman at the helm”, which is enough to tank a growth stock like Reddit is supposed to be.

Quite honestly, as someone who has done deep value investment analysis for fifteen years, I’ve never seen a company purposely do anything as self destructive as what Reddit did, particularly before going public as part of it’s IPO roadshow phase. These guys are amateurs and it shows.
Pity they didn't stop Brexit, which would have been an actual good use of their veto power.
Spoken like a true homo economicus.

To you the value of somebody else's life may be $10M. To society, it varies with time and place. Yet, to the person in question, the value could well be infinite -- it's probably infinite more often than not -- i.e. no amount of money will induce somebody to die. When you kill somebody, you rob that person of everything they have, everything they ever will have, and of the value they've placed on their own life.

But we're speaking of society. Is SBF a physical danger to society? Clearly not. He's not going to rob and murder you if he catches you in the park after sundown. His reputation is destroyed, and from a harm mitigation perspective it should be enough to monitor his economic activity and make sure he isn't in a position to run any more frauds.

If you seek punitive measures, that's all well and good, but it should be done in a way that's equitable and according to a theory of punishment that's applied uniformly. I don't believe that exists, and jailing a non-violent criminal for such a period of time, when extremely violent criminals serve less time and are then allowed to reintegrate into society (often with poor results,) seems both strange and wrong.
Download a naughty gif/video from reddit and send it to someone on messenger. It will report you and say you are sending a naughty video and that multiple attempts will ban you. Fine for unencrypted chat.

Send same on e2e chat. The video will say "not sent".

Why is Facebook processing anything before being encrypted? The understanding is e2ee means content gets encrypted on device, sent to server in encrypted state and decrypted at other side. There is NO way Facebook should be able to analyze the contents of message, photo, video.
.if they are doing this for csam/nudity, what stops them from using same tech for ad targeting and more seriously, for letting governments to spy on people?
Yeah definitely. There are still some pretty bad patterns out there; for example, if you try to add an event from Facebook Events to your Google Calendar, instead of generating a normal ICS file or event link, they... ask for read/write access to your entire Google Calendar account. No thanks!

Similar to apps that ask for access to your entire Contacts list to "find your existing friends"... You can bet they're uploading that entire thing to their servers and trying to growth hack with it.
That's the standard.
Forget LLMs, make yourself a mentat
If you're genuinely curious, here's the "latest" book on the topic:
https://readwriteown.com

If you search for Chris Dixon in the podcast sphere you can find a lot of interviews (to promote the book) and get the digest in 1h-ish.
That's far too strict. It doesn't do anyone any good to reject less effective drugs unless the safety to efficacy ratio is way off. Most drugs are relatively safe compared to the diseases they treat and identifying the subset that they work for is beyond our capability at the moment (i.e. the entirety of psychiatric medicine).

The FDA drug/therapy pipeline is supposed to give downstream users like doctors, public health officials, and patients more options within a certain risk profile. They're not supposed to be the be-all-end-all of treatment options.
Well, how can anyone trust facebook and whatsapp? How can we be so sure that e2e is done properly without looking into source code.
How do you measure temperatures on each board revision after it comes back from SMT fully populated to make sure there are no shorts as you do initial system bringup over SSH and a webcam?

I am unaware of any remotely-controlled temperature probes.

Just last month we had a board come in to I&T with a short on the N1V5 rail and due to me, the designer, actually being there I knew it could only be in a handful of locations so I took the thermal camera and swept the board, found a hot component, and then found a solder ball beneath the pins of the IC and sent it back for rework.

I only found it by realizing that specific component almost never fails and never fails short anyways, then knowing that it has a bottom thermal dissipation pad where any excess solder application can squeeze out, and then rotating the microscope to its maximum deflection and peeking underneath the component at an angle of 55-60 degrees. https://imgur.com/a/1hFBNEL

30 minutes. Compared to days of back and forth and waiting online.

Techs don't know the board and the components, that's not their job. Engineers do-- that's their job.

Or is doing that basic and simple engineering work "for the schmucks to dumb to wfh?"

I can see it now. Me sitting at home squinting at a webcam feed shouting "ok move it over to the left, a little more, a little more" debating in slack like a moron with all of the other prima donnas too important to drive in to work as my techs cuss me out for being such a loser.

My techs don't do anything unless I do it first, document it, do it again to check the documentation, and then observe them doing it to make sure my documentation covers everything. And I mean everything, from short tests to the final cleanup of the workstation.
Because this is HN, lots of VC fanboys here.
The size of the character set (unicode) doesn't really factor into this. Input words are broken down into multi-character tokens (some words will be one token, some split into two, etc), then these tokens mapped into the embedding vectors which is what the model is then operating on.

The linguistic sentence structure tree for any input sentence is a useful way to think about what is happening as the input sentence is fed into the model and processed through it layer by layer, but doesn't have any direct correspondence to the model. The model has a fixed number of layers of fixed max-tokens width, so nothing changes according to the sentence passing through it.

Note that the bottom level of the sentence structure tree is just the words of the sentence, so the number of branches is just the length of the sentence. The model doesn't actually represent these branches though - just the embeddings corresponding to the input, which are transformed from input to output as they are passed through the model and each layer does it's transformer thing.
Uh ... Nintendo is historically pretty litigious. Remember the time when a man built a paper Mario for his son and Nintendo tried to sue him?
This stuff can ruin multiple generations. Poverty is (obviously) correlated with violence, abuse, depression, various forms of trauma, exposure to/victimization by crime, addiction— basically anything that increases despair.

Just because you put on a suit and mask doesn't make it okay.
Universal Paperclips had more plot than this though.
SBF Goes to Prison: Why He Got 25 Years
I really like licensing models of one-time payments with a pre-defined duration of updates. But I wonder how they enforce it while not making internet access a requirement for the app.
GE Appliances is an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky. It has been majority owned by Chinese multinational home appliances company Haier since 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances
I think knowing your emotions with depth — check out a feelings wheel. I would also check out NVC needs — positive and negative emotions related to needs being met or not, respectively.

From there, you have the superpower of being able to begin to understand what’s going on with yourself more deeply and then others, too; with a lot more clarity than the average bear.
Seconded this book. Non-violent communication is another one. Also check out Healthy Gamer on YouTube.
BTW: you might want to add support for typed arrays.

See: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/blob/8804c36591d11...

This is really old, but added as part of the shape of the vector as well: https://github.com/nicolaspanel/numjs/blob/master/src/dtypes...
It's gotten so hard to be a shadetree mechanic.

I swapped an EJ22 out of a 2001 Subaru Impreza into an '86 BRAT. At least as of 2001, there were still a lot of discrete pairs of wires that a sufficiently savvy person (I.e., not me) could debug with a multimeter. Thank goodness. It was enough fun getting it running without involving CANBUS in the process.

I believe our 2005 Civic was largely discrete pairs of analog wires too, even if it was throttle by wire. It gave me very little electrical trouble.

Troubleshooting the headlights on my 2010 Suzuki SX-4 involved printing some 30 pages from TFM. The entirety of the wiring diagram for my '76 Triumph TR6 fit on three pages. We own a Willys CJ-2A, and the whole wiring diagram fits on one sheet. The wiring diagram for the circuits that actually make it run probably fits on an index card.

When you turn off the headlights in my wife's 2018 Impreza, there's a noticeable delay between turning the switch and the computer deigning to allow you to turn the lights off.
The story explicitly tells us that the virus was picked up by accident. But even if we discard that part and assume it was done intentionally by Edgar, the story is not logical, because the other choice of reverting climate change gives Edgar just as much opportunity to sabotage. Besides if your prompt does not make any difference, why lack of your prompt would make a difference, or if you don't write the prompt and go to eat ice cream, why do you think someone else would not write a worse prompt?

The flaw in your logic is that you are trying to solve an alignment problem, while the core of the issue is concentration of the power problem.

E.g. now if i had the power i would without remorse or hesitation kill a certain group of 95.12 million people, while 4 years ago i would consider anyone having such thoughts mad. I don't do this not because my values, but only because i don't posses such a power. And AI will be exactly the same.

The very premise of this story is broken, because in real life to build and use such a swarm you would need trillions of people and AI agents, living on several planets and many space stations. And if in the end there is nano-virus outbreak and several billion die (which is less than a percent), that's just what always have happened, and it still would be better than the alternative of many more people dying from lack of energy, or from old age.
Neal Gompa opened a discussion on the Fedora development list, noting the license change and the need to remove Redis from Fedora.

Gompa also raised the issue on openSUSE's Factory discussion list.

After Docker was phased out, various distributions have adopted the compatible Podman as a replacement for Docker. It seems that a similar story is unfolding with Redis.
I don't think that's valid reasoning, maybe the AI system has near-zero discounting but obviously when a human asks it to do something, the human cares about how long it takes. It's plausible that would get programmed in very early and maybe forgotten about.
that's the money quote, for sure.
> if they protest or leave the user base will quickly dissipate

I am imagining users try to incite this while buying puts. Which might be securities fraud but not in the enforceable sense (afaik).
Is that different for any other encrypted instant messenger, though?
Nothing. That's why we saw pg extolling the virtues of reddit and its scumbag CEO last week: gotta drum up interest to have someone else holding the bags when the dust settles.
I remember when Facebook IPO'd, it immediately dropped from its IPO price ($38/share) and eventually bottomed out somewhere in the teens. There was a lot of doom and gloom around that time.

Not saying Reddit is Facebook and you're probably better off putting the money in a more proven stock but a post-IPO price slump doesn't seem all that unusual depending on how it was priced.
Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/28/upshot/baltim...
Act your wage wasn't just for minimum wage workers. Promotions have always been about brown nosing and blowing smoke. If you're just really good at your job you will be underpaid and overworked without the promotion.
Big 24 hours, 3 major model releases:

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
Yes I think they're giving their general nerd opinion while also being transparent about possible conflicts. Their comment reads like an analysis of the article not the technology.
Wow, that's pretty impressive to me and I think it's awesome that you were able to put this together quickly. I admit that I don't have a CV background, so maybe this is easier for a programmer who's already experienced in that area.
That’s one strategy. Also flash attention.
it's about scale, obviously. the sorts of ventures you make a limited liability corporation for. you want to protect yourself from the potential risks? Then participate in the market in a fair and non-abusive manner.

Same thing for publishing companies. individual authors can do whatever they like.
this crashed my firefox. anyone else?
Einstein didn't say that about insanity, but... systems exist and are consistently described by particular equations at particular scales. Sure we can say everything is quantum mechanics, even classical physics can technically be translated as a series of wave functions that explain the same behaviors we observe, if we could measure it... But it's impractical, and some of the concepts we think of as fundamental to certain scales, like nucleons, didn't exist at others, like equations that describe the energy of empty space. So, it's maybe not quite a fallacy to point out that not every concept we find to be useful, like deep learning inference, encapsulate every rule at every scale that we know about down to the electrons, cogently. Because none of our theories do that, and even if they did, we couldn't measure or process all the things needed to check and see if we're even right. So we use models that differ from each other, but that emerge from each other, but only when we cross certain scale thresholds.
> Secondly, when funds of this scale are stolen, inevitably people wind up dying early from things like stress, and suicides.

Let's not forget that the time they spend living before dying of things like stress and suicide will often be quite painful too. Deaths of despair are no fun.
I always wanted to try Pelikan Cache, but it’s hard to take a risk when there is Redis. Maybe now it’s more palatable.
You go homeless so Bezos can make his yacht a foot longer.

I find it amazing how much money is being spent to ensure open source code doesn't end up in the hands of users and how many people are blaming the ones trying to increase user freedom.
We have the largest governments in human history. You might as well say "we just need stronger companies" for all the good it does to say better governments would help and remove the indirection.
> That person has just received some of the worst news of their lives,

Cancer is bad, but without more details is imposible to know how bad it is. I've seen case in my family when they got a cancer, it was operated and got a minimal post treatment and lived happy ever after a few decades and counting, and other cases where it was too late and died like one year after the diagnosis. I had similar experiences with coworkers.

For example, in some prostate cancers the recomendation is to "do nothing", or to be more precice to wait and check them frecuently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_surveillance_of_prostat... But in other cancers waiting is stupid and shoud be removed asap and get chemo and more.
A Drug Half as Good as Ozempic for One-30th the Price
Lossy and lossless are way more transferable than people give credit.

Long winded explanation as best as i can in a HN comment. Essentially for state of the art compression both the encoder and the decoder have the same algorithm. They look at the bits encoded/decoded so far, they both run exactly the same prediction on those bits seen so far using some model that predicts based on past data (AI is fantastic for this). If the prediction was 99% likely that the next bit is a '1' the encoder only writes a fraction of a bit to represent that (assuming the prediction is correct) and on the other side the decoder will have the same prediction at that point and either read the next large number of bits to correct or it will be able to simple write '1' to the output and start on the prediction of the next bit given that now written '1'.

Essentially lossy predictions of the next data are great tools to losslessly compress data as those predictions of the next bit/byte/word minimize the data needed to losslessly encode that next bit/byte/word. Likewise you can trivially make a lossy compressor out of a lossless one. Lossy and lossless just aren't that different.

The longstanding Hutter prize for AI in fact judges the AI on how well it can compress data. http://prize.hutter1.net/ This is based in the fact that what we think of as AI and compression are quite interchangeable. There's a whole bunch of papers out on this.

http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#compai

I have nothing to do with Hutter but i know all about AI and data compression and their relation.
It's gonna get worse with 'cybersecurity' requirements making it harder to goof around on CAN.
I've read this a few times, it's very good:

https://www.amazon.com/HBRs-Must-Reads-Emotional-Intelligenc...

If you're leading teams (or even not tbh), Patrick Lencioni and John C Maxwell, both have lots of good stuff to say about EI and teams/work, I won't point you to any particular book of theirs just look at their stuff and see what sticks out. I've read all the books both of them have written and enjoyed them all.

FWIW: It's not easy stuff, so don't worry too much, there are lots of people with PhDs just on this topic, there is a lot to learn and it can be overwhelming, at least it was/is for me, and I worried about it a lot, so don't worry too much. :) Good luck!
What SBF did isn’t covered under anything that could even remotely be called investment risk.
I didn't understand why they are trying to compute force instead of kinetic energy and as I was thinking this I found this reader comment on the article:

> While I see the appeal of presenting the problem this way - in terms of force - it's not really a great way to perform this kind of analysis, precisely because of the issue you cite of not knowing the interval over which the deceleration occurred. Speaking as a physicist, I think a better approach is energy; the total kinetic energy of the ship that would have to be absorbed by the impact over whatever time period the ship is stopped. This would be the key metric in designing a barrier that would absorb that energy, and allows other types of comparisons. Plugging in your numbers, 100 metric tons at 8 mph, you get about 650 million joules, which is 300 lbs. of TNT equivalent, or the amount of energy of a large diesel locomotive (150 tons) traveling at about 100 mph. You need a lot of "crumple zone" to absorb that much energy, but of course, it could be done at some significant effort and cost.

https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/3u1k9a?rsrc=cshare&sm...
From HN a few days ago: https://github.com/microsoft/Garnet

A Microsoft Research, open source, performant, almost RESP compatible alternative (according to them)
That was MUCH better than I would have expected. Really beautiful 15 minutes.
What Is This Wordlist?
I recently overhauled my credit card strategy, and reddit was a tremendous help. Pretty much every search result in Google is riddled with recommendations based on affiliate marketing, but /r/CreditCards had a lot of really good information. It's where I learned that Bank of America has the best cashback credit cards if you can park $100k at Merrill Lynch. I also learned a trick on how to get multiple copies of one of their category-cards.

Reddit certainly helped me get $1,000 more in cashback than I was getting.

So there's a tremendous amount of value in there, I just don't know how they unlock it.
> The most successful marketing is astroturfing and guerrilla marketing which does not you to pay Reddit itself.

Wait for it.
It turns out a lot of tasks are predictable. Go figure.
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