skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect there is so much absurdity in the assumptions being made with your linked article that it is almost not worth engaging with. However, I will for educational purposes.

As someone who is trained in and comfortable reading radiographs but is not a radiologist, I can tell you that putting a gorilla on one of the views is a poor measure of how many things are missed by radiologists.

Effectively interpreting imaging studies requires expert knowledge of the anatomy being imaged and the variety of ways pathology is reflected in a visibly detectable manner. What they are doing is rapidly cycling through what is effectively a long checklist of areas to note: evaluate the appearance of hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes, note bronchiolar appearance, is there evidence of interstitial or alveolar patterns (considered within the context of what would be expected for a variety of etiologies such as bronchopneumonia, neoplasia, CHF,...), do you observe appropriate dimensions of the cardiac silhouette, do you see other evidence of consolidation within the lungs, within the visible vertebrae do you observe appropriate alignment, do the endplates appear abnormal, do you observe any vertebral lucencies, on and on and on.

Atypical changes are typically clustered in expected ways. Often deviations from what is expected will trigger a bit more consideration, but those expectations are subverted during the course of going through your "checklist". No radiologist has look for a gorilla in their evaluation.

It is pretty clear that the layperson's understanding of a radiologist being "look at the picture and say anything that is different" is a complete miss on what is actually happening during their evaluation.

It's like if I asked you to show me your skills driving a car around an obstacle course, and then afterwards I said you are a bad driver because you forgot to check that I swapped out one of the lug nuts on each wheel with a Vienna sausage.
Idk why you need to get conspiratorial. Tesla employees have confirmed they're using the Semi trucks to drive battery packs between Nevada and Fremont factory, and that they have a fleet of 100 of them as of 4 months ago. PepsiCo has confirmed use of them.

Stock Market 101 would educate one that just because a company is doing well, doesn't mean it's balance sheet and income statement currently indicate it's a good value to buy. But yes, I did ride Tesla stock from a $40b market cap company to $700b, thanks to an educated analysis.
The ability to control youk money...
> We urgently need the expertise of social scientists to be able to make much-needed collective decisions about the future of generative AI that we want; we can’t leave it to business, markets or technologists.

> Kean Birch is director of the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York University.

Academic sociologist argues that AI should be controlled by academic sociologists. Color me surprised.
Rust has ruined every other programming language for me.
I'm not really saying that small companies should never compete with big companies.

I'm saying that a small company whose biggest competitor is also their key supplier is, if not doomed, at least operating on borrowed time. If my value proposition is reselling AWS hosting with an easy-to-use dashboard, I better pray to god Amazon never makes AWS simpler.
they mostly make it overpowered, iphone processors are a couple years ahead most android flagships

for the average non-gamer your iphone is probably the most powerful computer they own
Are these the same SMBs that ... accept only cash? :) Or do they really exclude CCs?
If I wanted to convert exactly zero customers, I'd offer crypto payments
Jon Stewart, in the original context, is concerned about the near future. That is not to say the impacts on the film/tv/screen-writing industry are not already being felt today.

The SAG-AFTRA strike was in large part about AI. The fact the strike happened, that approximately 200k people were that concerned about their livilhood that they went on strike is all quite strong evidence there is a real concern. At this juncture, I think the burden of proof would be on you for why those 200k people had no concerns, that they skipped paychecks and sold their homes for nothing.

A strike that was so painful to the union itself, seemingly would have been about something important. "the "harshest pain" was "perhaps felt among the below-the-line workers who've had to sell or mortgage their homes, and wipe through IRAs to survive." [1] If that strike was over nothing, that sure was a lot of pain to inflect for no cause of concern what-so-ever. I would trust those people to know their own industry far better than myself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_SAG-AFTRA_strike

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I don't see Devin or any other type of AI practically replacing a software engineer any time soon. I believe we agree there, and perhaps that was your original point. I think that point was incorrectly extrapolated to other industries. Further, the timeline for when jobs can be taken by AI is different for different industries. This article, where I was trying to see if I could find any raw numbers, summed up the concern pretty well for actors & screen-writers (in essence, AI is already there for them):

> Using AI to create performances that never took place is not just hypothetical. It is already happening. But AI-generated deepfakes, such as a series of convincing but totally fabricated videos of a Tom Cruise doppelganger, are mostly found on social media, not in movies or shows from the studios.

> But the same technology could easily be used to replace the actors in background roles in studio and streaming productions — the ones listed in the credits with titles like “second police officer” or “waiter in the restaurant.” These roles generate a huge number of the jobs that SAG-AFTRA members depend on to pay their bills. [2]

Which is to say, as a software engineer, when I look at Devin, I call BS that it can replace another software engineer. Though, if my trade were creating images, AI is already there were a film industry could decide they want pictures of 6 fingered people because it will boost their profit margin, that is already a reality. If I were shown an AI that did almost exactly my job, I would probably be concerned.

Is this all a bad thing, a good thing, avoidable, or even necessary? I don't know. Is it happening - yes, in different industries to different degrees. (Frankly, we in hacker news need to get our heads out of our asses, not everyone in the world is a software engineer)

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/business/ai-actors-strike/ind...
Seattle startup's clothing line looks to end inequality in women's workwear
Generally yes, but it's a perfectly reasonable assumption that a natural source could generate a signal that is beyond the bounds of what we can record. Any real signal generated by a computer is going to fit within the constraints of what we can generate, but inevitably something like a whale, or a quasar or something will generate a wave that will be lossy.

But also, the question this is all responding to was effectively "why would engineers associate Fourier transforms with loss" and the answer is simply "because the techniques used in calculating most Fourier transforms are going to inherently put a frequency limit and anything beyond that will be lost or show up as an artifact". Engineers work with real world constraints and tend to be hyper aware of those constraints even if they often don't matter.
Well, the same happened in the early days of the PC. There were all these companies that sold basic utilities like disk scanners, defragmenters, partitioners, antiviruses, etc. When operating systems started to get bigger and include these utilities by default, that industry dried up overnight. I don't think there's anything wrong in building an inherently ephemeral business that just seeks to fill a niche that exists just because someone else hasn't filled it yet.
LLMs are amazing for basic coding tasks. Codeium was able to do about 30% of my programming, before I realized it was why my laptop was overheating and turned it off.

Maybe that says more about how low-entropy code really is than it does about AIs intelligence, but in any case it works.

I'm not sure what else I'd ever use it for though. I have no interest in Replika or anything similar, and I want it to stay out of creative writing and personal communication.
(2020)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28673376
Show HN: Python Turtle Bingo
I thought of doing a daily puzzle, but the name was a turn-off...
> The leaders do bad things whether or not a few gay people join or get exemptions.

I'm convinced of this. But this is not what you said.

In fact, that's kinda the theme of this conversation and the one you're having with others
The “core value” of many companies is a database service they don’t own, but their businesses seem to do just fine. There’s a few who get obviated over time (usually they are also slow to react), but they’re a minority.

I would also question the idea that OpenAI could build a code editing companion this robust in a fee weeks. It’s been a long time since the models have been the limiting factor in these tools.
I guarantee you the exact same insiders are lining up for, and will get first dibs, on the announced investments. After all, they've got industry experience!
Don’t a lot of places capture methane from their landfills for energy? How can the quantities be unknown when you’re capturing and messing the output gases? This can’t be some magical surprise.
I mean, yeah.

Are most HN entrepreneurs targeting Venezuelan customers?
Jia Tan's very first commit two years ago made suspicious changes to liblzma. See the timeline here: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...
Meld can also compare directories
This man has lived a life many fantasise about, although perhaps not a very comfortable one. I think sometimes I lived a colourful, varied life but what a story for this piece.

I can't believe I have to do the reddit edit postscriptum but really, does everyone dislike the author? I certainly could never be this sort of person, but what a story, living life on the edge and making it up as they go along. Do commenters never daydream, like just imagine how life would be if things had turned out differently?
I refuse to believe it is worse than France. I trust the Germans to at least be somewhat efficient.
Wouldn't US clickbait articles generally include the skin colour of the person instead?
This doesn't help me overcome my fear
What is "factually not the case"? That Facebook is a website? That anyone can run a website?

Why is it that HN commenters are opposed to the factual statement: "Facebook is a website." It's like there is some hidden message in that short sentence that only HN commenters can see.

We can look at a list of the Top 100 websites, or Top 1 Million, and Facebook will be listed. It is a website.

If we took away the Facebook website, and required Facebook to "do business" without it, then what would happen.

Facebook is a website.

Meta does not produce news or other content. It is an intermediary, a middleman.

More factual statements that may trigger HN commenters.
As a black man, I'd appreciate the lawsuit-opener over my reality, which is just people seeing my alma mater and name and pretending I don't exist.
The that the longer your domain name, the less susceptible is it to cache poisoning attacks, right? Since there are more possible case variations.
> For this artist in particular, I wonder if a steady job would have been a positive or negative to his art.

There’s a lot to read between the lines here, but if I were a betting man, I wouldn’t put a lot on the author being the sort to maintain a steady job for the long run.

I don’t mean that as a critique - the world needs all sorts, but capitalism’s got more strict opinions.
I think that says more about the content of those instances being blocked. If you're transmitting content bad enough to get blocked by a large portion of the fediverse, the problem has more to do with what you're saying than their decision not to hear it.
Being a Canadian, having worked in SF, London, and Toronto, this actually seems like a reasonable approach. It's certainly hard to compete on wages but a lot of people do appreciate Canada and life here, and cutting these costs would go a long way.
do you know how in such cases salaries works? i.e. founder and employees are german and the company is in Estonia. Do they work as contractors? I thought to be a normal salaried employee you had to have the company also registered in germany too.
Germans are anything but efficient. At best, they're methodical. Speaking from experience, that is also a lie.
That the author does not think generative AI can solve social problems shows a serious lack of imagination. Therapy, medical diagnosis, improved machine translation, and better information retrieval are all social benefits. There are social costs, too, but that doesn't mean the technology is a waste of time -- it means the technology needs to be regulated.
At least in Canada, it's not government employees but rather not-quite-a-lawyer types who are glorified ID verifiers.
Insurance Companies Reap Hidden Fees as Patients Get Unexpected Bills
Engineer SS-02 is the best spring loaded solder pump. Beware fakes.

I've been keeping solder wick in zip lock bags since I read on HN that it oxidizes and gets less efficient over time.
So this whole thread is based on the premise that the OP was using the formal definition of "discuss" rather than the informal one? Which is almost certainly not true?

Ya'll must be super fun at parties.
Right but the article didn’t explain the calculation
My guess is that they massively miscalculated resale value... Most reasonable explanation to me.
Personal insolvency sucks, but you won't actually loose your home here in Germany.
I completely agree. I have been living here for 8 years, and recently applied for a permanent settlement permit.

My application went into a blackhole for more than 4 months, while my existing permit expired, essentially making me a prisoner here (I can stay and work in Germany but if I travel internationally, I won't be allowed entry back).

Meanwhile, my applications for a temporary travel permit were unanswered for months. There is no way to contact the foreign office (no email, no telephone, no fax). You just send your application and pray.

I strongly advise anyone to stay away from Germany if you have better options. This country is a bureaucratic nightmare in general.
You could still contribute in tiny but helpful ways. For example, fix a typo in the README, add an example to the docs on a topic you initially found confusing, etc. While these contributions seem trivial alone, together they add up to a more polished product.
A 300uS shutter speed seems pretty high for a space based ground imaging camera. Does the LRO actually need a shutter speed that high? I'm surprised it's even capable of that.
It is annoying is you want to run your teat inside a container for ci and now you are running a container in a container and all the issues that come with it.
> whether or not this post is real or fiction

I suspect both, and I’d suspect the author’s the sort who wouldn’t stay in one category no matter the circumstances.
it make sense, in order to come up with a base model, you will need a lot of quality training data, tons of compute.

the role of an AI startup is to come up with ideas, thus useful products.
Most of existing products pre-AI, are also front ends to existing operations systems and exiting databases, because creating the whole stack does not make sense.
At least we have state of the art open models that we can use freely
https://archive.is/QnjAT
The government can also ban chemicals at any time, for import or domestic production. The issue is they didn’t, at the time, but 3M or similar was supposed to have “known better”.

Massive retrospective penalties for “should have known better” non-crimes will just result in an off-shoring to markets where these penalties do not apply.
Yes. Bolsonaro. The Trump from the Tropics as they call him.

The guy planned a violent coup and failed. He couldn't get the all military branches to back him, just one. There's plenty of evidence and a long list of crimes.

He knows he's going to jail and with him the dreams of the extreme right.

To me all of this sounds like the dying scream of a cornered beast.
Or people who do not care about money
Fraudulent limited companies are a major problem in the UK. But I think the tradeoff is probably worth it

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/03/crisis-uk-c...
Bpftop: Provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs
Refreshing stylistically. What a nicely written article
You’re right, so I was careful to say “s/360 lineage”! However, I thought a lot of the advanced concepts already were in some s/360s. Maybe not virtual machines, but that’s more the cherry on top (and pretty wild to me that s/370, which is the next step in the s/360 lineage, already had it).
Martin seems to be using the Rebrickable database of LEGO's as a motivating example throughout this optimization series: https://rebrickable.com/downloads/
Chinese schools testing 10k locally made RISC-V-ish PCs
But I don't think there's many of them. That's kinda my point. Sure
it's the standard retort... "Oh it's the politics of envy... yadda
yadda". But that's not what's happening if you think about it deeply
and honestly. I'd say far more people simply fear them (or rather
what insane things they have the unelected power to do).
>I trust the Germans to at least be somewhat efficient.

They're eficient at creating more bureaucracy as a universal solution to all problems.

Having dealt with Germany I have come to realize that excessive bureaucracy is basically a jobs program and a way for people to cover their ass whenever the shit hits the fan.

Something goes wrong and you're the big boss? Add more bureaucracy as your attempt to "fix" the problem and your justification to why your job is valuable to the company.

Something goes wrong on your watch? It's not your fault if you followed all the bureaucracy conjure by your bosses.
Great idea. However, I wouldn't trust it's results since it's heavily relying on LLMs and crawling the web.
That means "facts" are whatever is the most popular opinion in the Internet. At times where we get more and more enshittification, you'll probably get your "facts" from LLMs generated SEO websites.

I think the only proper way to verify facts is to derive them from "fundamental facts". E.g., that the earth is round (and even for that there are ppl believing the opposite).
Any ideas to monetize a 3yr old podcast?
Looking to (further) monetize a podcast I started in January 2021. Thanks!
Probably will be, whenever that occurs.
Yes, but they would still be a subject of German taxation, which is ridiculously complex and expensive compared to Delaware LLC or an Estonian company run by a person not living in Germany.
Depends on what your usecase is.

For the normal user that just wants something across languages, the minilm-paraphrase-multilingual in the OP library is great.

Of you want better than that (either bigger model, or specifically for a subset of languages, etc.) then you need to think about your task, priorities, target languages, etc.
No, you don’t necessarily. Estonia has an e-Residency program targeted exactly at this scenario: Having a company in Estonia but living abroad. However, Germany being Germany, you will still have to deal with the Finanzamt and all the nice stuff that comes with it. So while you can run an Estonian company from Germany and be employed by it, I doubt you will gain much freedom from it. There’s really no escaping German bureaucracy without leaving the country.
Which part do you think you couldn't do on your own with your own api key?
You can also create an UG (haftungsbeschränkt) which is basically a GmbH with the 25k€ requirement removed.
The only drawback is that this can make the operation look less trustworthy, depending on whom you are dealing with.

If you are selling Hot Dogs, nobody will bat an eye if it’s a UG, but if you apply for a big software contract, people might be wary.
Yeah. A lot of people I know even have 2-3 jobs! Even combined, they don’t pay well enough to build retirement savings. It’s easy to find work when you’re being paid less than minimum wage as a contractor at 2-3 companies
They exclude CCs. They have a card reader but they either have a sign saying, or the vendor will simply say, “keine Kreditkarte”.
N'ah mate, the main reason is tax fraud, not trust in data holding entities, otherwise nobody in Germany would use Google/Instagram/TikTok if they cared so much about their data privacy.

Being free to dodge the tax man is incredibly valuable for small business and individuals in Germany as a lot of wealth is built on tax fraud. That's the kind of privacy people mean.
Why, to you, is that inexcusable? This sounds like market-worship to me.

Markets are a useful tool. But like LLMs they can make mistakes.

Also, why not put those brilliant young minds to work here instead, rather than give their best years to the competition?

That's brain drain, my friend
> Foreign persons and entities have no rights in the US

"Yes, immigrants are protected by the U.S. Constitution.

The brief answer is “Yes.” When it comes to key constitutional provisions like due process and equal treatment under the law, the U.S. Constitution applies to all persons – which includes both documented and undocumented immigrants – and not just U.S. citizens.
Outside the context of immigration policy, the Constitution limits government power over individuals but this does not mean that constitutional rights are absolute."

https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/sites/default/files/Are%20Immig...
Well-written. Will def come back to this.
So, your argument essentially boils down to "call it something other than libc". Because, most of the syscall integration in libc has little if anything to do with C.

Eh. Whatever. Call it libunix if you prefer. If you want, you can literally strip libc of anything you don't like, call it libunix, and OpenBSD's ld.so mechanics will gladly pin syscalls to that.
I didn't say that. Stealing $4k is bad, but I can't say I hate the guy for it. It's not like he ran into the store with a machine gun and murdered the clerk to get the cash in the register. Also the suit anecdote could have been made up anyways.
They're pretty and or provacative. What else are you looking for?

Beauty is subjective and all that. I liked some of them and disliked others.
It also probably increases
Disgrace got published and it wasn’t much better from that standpoint
That’s how integers are defined in set theory.
I limit distractions in my environment and actually started to get myself a good amount of sleep
I’m sad for kids who don’t get to experience high-quality couch multiplayer.

Also making an account for every little stupid thing. No you don’t need account systems. At least make them opt-in.
Fair enough then. I sort of use the terms interchangeably in this context.

When you think about it, a bird is “magic” in the sense there is a whole universe and eco system to give that bird the platform for existence. A real living bird isn’t just a concept.

So sometimes I wonder if we just say we’re insignificant because it’s a simpler way to think. It makes the idea of death and loss easier to bear.

If I tell myself I’m just a spec of dust and that I’m bit special, it can be quite comforting.

Conceptually we understand things about how birds work but the fact there is a blob of millions or billions of cells functioning to produce a bird, which can fly, completely autonomously is quite peculiar and there is a type of magic or wonder to it all which makes me think birds are both special and magic if you think differently about existence and not just the intellectual concept of a bird.
how could we get in touch? should I send you a PR on Github?