skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s just anabolic steroids (plus drugs to keep their testes), six hours a week at the gym, and about 1000 grams of dietary protein a week. None of that requires being a billionaire or even close.
I would too. I believe the Sea Glider built by Regent Craft solves the take off in rough water component to some extent with hydrofoils. So you "taxi" on the hull in rough water up to a speed where you can get up on foil. Then with the reduced hull drag and clearance over (presumably low) rough water you can hit a higher speed when the wing creates lift, at which point the foils retract.

This seems like an optimal solution for takeoff, but I don't know how it lands in rough seas.
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Whenever this concept pops up I think of a classic CSound piece made by Jacob Joaquin in 1999. It's the first execution of the idea that I'm aware of. He gave the notes a slower envelope so they sometimes seem to merge into a single tone. The source is also (not so surprisingly) quite short.

https://freaknet.org/martin/audio/csound/#:~:text=Another%20...
> But the problem is even worse – we often ask GPT to give us back a list of JSON objects. Nothing complicated mind you: think, an array list of json tasks, where each task has a name and a label.

> GPT really cannot give back more than 10 items. Trying to have it give you back 15 items? Maybe it does it 15% of the time.

This is just a prompt issue. I've had it reliably return up to 200 items in correct order. The trick is to not use lists at all but have JSON keys like "item1":{...} in the output. You can use lists as the values here if you have some input with 0-n outputs.
There's babashka for scripting without the JVM, which I think quite a few Clojurians use for devops-style work.
Oh yeah definitely the venereal disease.

Any port in a storm isn’t a good motto for a long life.
That's correct.

But only when entering the US I have been asked for example: Do intented to engage in illegal activity?

That's question seems to violate common sense: No one intending to do so would admit it.
ppls comments on this thread towards Canada really struck a nerve with their cluelessness about Canada. People from other countries always act like it's some shining example of the Western world, but that's not the real deal at all.

Canada is basically just three big resource companies propped up by a massive housing bubble that traps newcomers in debt slavery in a form of reverse colonialism where they trick immigrants to become serfs paying rent so people who bought homes in the 80s (after working for like 6 months) can keep flipping it to the next wave of immigrants and blame them with the media owned by the very oligarchs that are supposed to regulate the real estate industry (lol!).

They don't even bother using or valuing the skills and experience these immigrants bring - you've got surgeons from the UK working as cashiers, immigrants without income so all they can do is start businesses or become traders, all to line the pockets of the ultra-rich oligarchs who get everything for cheap and flip at insane markups. They have every Prime Minister wrapped around their little finger, letting them monopolize everything and then screwing over everyone that comes to this miserable piece of land.

Take this one famous billionaire in Vancouver - I'm not gonna name names, but this dude practically owns all the salmon in BC, along with Aboriginal monopolies that were handed out just because of what has been described in anthropology textbooks as "white guilt". Then there's another billionaire from Ottawa who has a monopoly on the legal drug market - guy ended up getting choked out with a wire, and the RCMP just called it an "accident." Oh, and let's not forget the billionaire who somehow scored the exclusive rights to run the only online casino in BC. The list goes on and on.

There's no such thing as a free market in Canada - it's just a banana republic country club for the rich old Canadians at the top. Actually, I'm not even sure if the casino guy was born in Canada, but he definitely looks like he could be.

So yeah, to a lesser extent makes no sense here as somebody that has decades of experience with that country. At least America still recognizes the value of some free market and competition with or without a housing bubble.
Do good-looking salespeople sell more cars?!? Does an attractive bartender get more tips?! The potential for studies are endless!
One thing I don't really understand; if it's basically a fork of Conversations and they follow their changes, why does it exist?

I like conversations a lot especially because it supports openkeychain integration so I can use my openpgp smartcards with it. I'd never even heard of Snikket.
What biologists see from the shores of the drying Great Salt Lake
it's an evocative phrase, and sounds more colloquial than "dead code elimination". not hard to see why it caught on.
I wish more studies like this would separate the effect of things people have no control of. Attorneys clothing can have big impact. But also eye color, skin color, etc. can have impact. In my opinion there is important difference between these sources and how acceptable they are.
Haha yes that means fucked (as in "you're fucked"). I speak Spanish and I didn't actually think of that.
You're missing the point. Netflix is fast in these situations because your client can access the server in the ISP's data center and video traffic remains local to the ISP and doesn't traverse the congested link to the IX.

Other companies embed servers with ISPs as well.
"you don't know" and "all employees require no-consent supervision" and Fusion Centers .. yes, you are right, we disagree
I wonder if these images might still get you in trouble if they show copyrighted work like the Eiffeltower at night, the opera house in Sydney or Atomium in Brussels
I get invalid cert but I love this concept, I'm curious what performance is like. Would love to see a side-by-side of an API/DB vs Sheet-based APIs.

Can you share the tool that transforms the spreadsheet into a realtime API? Sounds creative and interesting!
Confirmed in TFA:

> The sailboat will also restock its coffee and cacao supply on its journey through the Caribbean. That supply is then brought back across the sea to France, where the coffee is roasted, and fine chocolates are produced.

So, the commodities are taken from the Caribbean region, to France, and back across the Atlantic to NYC.
Imagine the legal malpractice claims we can now file in Federal cases where we lose with an ugly attorney.
It is not an ownership problem only, the issue, which is very common, is that you need someone who can connect the dots and know that if he/she doesn't, the ball will go back and forth infinitely, and far from the soccer goal.

One profile that fits here is a generalist and/or program manager who had strong experience and skills in a specific field (e.g. developing software). The generalist can talk about sales, marketing, operations, and business and match with real experience. He/she knows how to move the ball forward.

Ownership alone only provides illusions.
> Is it not a widely recognised fact that neural nets performance only improves with more data, more compute and more parameters?

I'm not sure how you meant that to be parsed.

1) performance only improves by scaling up those factors, and can't be improved in any other way

OR

2) performance can only (can't help but) get better as you scale up

I'm guessing you meant 1), which is wrong, but just in case you meant 2), that is wrong too. Increased scaling - in the absence of other changes - will continue to improve performance until it doesn't, and no-one knows what the limit is.

As far as 1), nobody thinks that scaling up is the only way to improve the performance of these systems. Architectural advances, such as the one that created them in the first place, is the other way to improve. There have already been many architectural changes since the original transformer of 2017, and I'm sure we'll see more in the models released later this year.

You ask if it's controversial that there is a limit to how much training data is available, or how much compute can be used to train them. For training data, the informed consensus appears to be that this will not be a limiting factor; in the words of Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei "It'd be nice [from safety perspective] if it [data availability] was [a limit], but it won't be". Synthetic data is all the rage, and these companies can generate as much as they need. There's also masses of human-generated audio/video data that has hardly been touched.

Sure, compute would eventually become a limiting factor if scaling were the only way these models were being improved (which it isn't), but there is still plenty of headroom at the moment. As long as each generation of models make meaningful advances towards AGI, then I expect the money will be found. It'd be very surprising if the technology was advancing rapidly but development curtailed by lack of money - this is ultimately a national security issue and the government could choose to fund it if they had to.
> but as soon as the ISPs that create the infrastructure that makes all this happen (and innovate massively in the process) want some piece of the cake everyone cries foul

I pay my ISP well over $100 a month for their service. Far more than I pay outright to Google or Meta or Apple. Why should they try to skim even more off the top?
Then we need to help train more physicists and material scientists. However, because of the advertising economic boom and high salaries of computer science, a vast majority of the next gen are studying cs instead.
Who would have thought about it, right? Imagine the possibilities. A whole new world unfolds before you.
Steroids won't fix your acne, posture, teeth, wrinkles, saggy skin, asymmetric face, short height, baldness, etc.

Steroids help you quickly and easily become muscular, you'll still be ugly, but jacked.
Awesome UI, just fun navigating around this thing.
Recommend reading the book "The Knowledge Illusion". People believe text in a larger font, for example. Taller people are more trusted. Your brain is not doing what it tells you it's doing.
> Just look at Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk before and after they became wealthy, they're better looking despite being 10-20 years older.

I doubt this is really true, you're just seeing the results of frequently getting photographed/recorded in staged managed situations by professional photographers, probably with makeup. That's also something that happens more often when you're wealthy.
A Psychologist Explains Reasons the Internet Feels So Broken
and a suicidal schizophrenic, race hardly has anything to do with it
There is no reason to ship fermented grape juice
in heavy glass bottles all around the world.

All so that snobby people can buy wine with the
right label and source, so they can pretend to themselves
and others that is it all about the taste¹

This is a good place for some serious climate taxes.

A small improvement would be to ship the wine in enormous "plastic
bladders" on repurposed oil tankers.
Then it can be poured into bottles at the destination.

But wine can be made nearly anywhere.
Even in the toilet (Pruno wine)²
So you dont need a lot of expensive equipment.
If grapes are an issue other fruits and veggies can be used.

Every city should be able to produce lots of it,
so buying local would be easy.

¹
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-ta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_wine_tasting#:~:text=Som....

²
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruno
This is similar to Ashkenazi Jewish history where "blending in" with the native European population was crucial to their survival. Many wealthy traders married in to the aristocracy.
In the end, it comes down to a task similar to people management where giving clear and simple instructions is the best.
Reminds me of how the early internet was a breath of fresh air:

> My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.

- The Conscience of a Hacker (http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html)
Why doesn't the monopoly employ the same cost-saving measures for even bigger margins?
I think another aspect is that many things that are within someone's control that positively affect attractiveness require patience and long-term thinking. Working out, brushing teeth regularly, eating healthy, etc, are not enjoyable in the short-term, and people with higher IQ / more successful tend to be able to better control their impulses and have longer-term vision.
The computers are 100,000x more powerful and electron apps can bring multi core systems with 16GB of memory to their knees.

Coming from a 25MHz 486SX with 1MB of RAM to now, it’s disheartening that as a profession we’ve prioritized developer convenience over user experience. That system ran Netscape, Word, Paint Shop Pro, Doom, could play video, music (wav, midi, CD), and more.
The California law is particularly strong and had a huge impact.

The other big factor is the threat of new FCC rules, state laws, or federal law. As long as net neutrality advocates can pose a credible threat of passing rules that, from the ISP's point of view, are more restrictive than the status quo, ISPs have to think twice before engaging in what John Oliver famously called "cable company f*ckery".
Use a local model. For most tasks they are good enough. Let's say Mistral 0.2 instruct is quite solid by now.
Do I need langchain if I want to analyze a large document of many pages?
Well it already said federal employee, so…
I actually hope this becomes real vehicle, although it seems, and my comment perhaps amplified it, that there’s a sentiment reflecting doubts about the feasibility of the technology at all.

Maybe it works for large lakes and hot seas at all.
The prior FTC rule stopped this before it became a problem, which is probably why we are battling it again.

Politicians are very reactive, hesitant to fix a problem until they're unable to ignore it.

Obviously not a good way to govern, but it's the way things are now.
I know this wasnt what the article was about. However...

Product should have nothing to do with refactors on the systems. That should be an engineering responsibility.

Engineering needs to own their own availability to product. Engineering cant be 100% available to product and engineering needs to grow up and state their availability to product.
Rest of the globe just doesn't compare with the rest. In North America especially its subtle/overt hateful ignorance. In Europe its overt hateful ignorance. In Middle East its a mix bagged. The racism outside these parts is mostly based off curious ignorance, (they just havent seen foreigners for a long time due to isolating themselves).

My first parent comment was to describe systematic and intentional hateful ignorance of the West and below I lay out the religious origins of this:

Western perception is especially vulnerable through image/narrative manipulations with gaslighting, labeling and ignorance being its main tool of oppression especially when told through manufactured stories from a religious authority traditionally apt at targeting groups that rejects its main state religion (ex. Jews persecuted in Catholic Europe) which uses fear and idolation to further cement others as undesirables/dangerous/lesser.

The rest of the world see the cumulation of such lazy thinking in Western political spectrums, both believing they are better than the rest of the world, supported by populist foreign & domestic policies through slogans and manufactured merit warps its subjects that simply cannot see past the illusion. Societies gets complex before entering decline and we are finally seeing this play out even in institutions that we all agreed would be free from these biases for a fair trial.

Western exceptionalism is crumbling.
HN crosses many bubbles; today it also gave me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023460
The current economic system optimises and rewards this kind of overproduction. That's the simple truth. As long as this is the case fighting this issue is a losing battle
> The biggest single reason why the USA's (and to a lesser extent Canada's) internet is shite is because of the monopolies that exist

Hot take - Reliance Jio+Bharti Airtel, China Mobile+Telecom+Unicom, and NTT+KDDI are basically duo/triopolies yet were able to roll our 5G nationwide in just 2-4 years in India, China, and Japan while keeping competitive pricing, and make the US market look free in comparison.

The issue seems to be the relative lethargy of the FCC and regulators, along with issues around deprecating older infra.

This doesn't mean we should go all Reagan, but if this is streamlined at the executive level, it would really simplify everything.
You talk about those that are already spoiled by their environment, I guess we all have seen it more than once.

Attractive women are 'hit' by this particularly hard - all those guys trying to get them to bed, get another score, the curve is exponential with beauty. Women usually hit on guys they like with much more subtlety, and stop when told directly immediately. Men, often not so much, even these days.

One of my ex-gf (pretty, smart, rich, very hard working commodity trader) told me on a bad day its about 30 unknown guys who try to strike conversation out of blue, 'go to coffee', etc. She was so tired of this since she saw every possible pick up line, every situation they tried to create, every expensive cocktail sent her way.

Its extremely hard for women to not get spoiled by such constant attack, imagine this constantly from teen years, it drills into your personality.

Those who persist despite this are really awesome, driven and very strong internally, or broken beyond repair in some way. My ex was a mix of both. Good luck to her wherever she ended up.

Yes, its mostly fault of us guys, even if only all those before you.
HN crosses many bubbles; today it also gave me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40024223
FCC*
The Hobbit is written well enough to read aloud. Breaking the fourth wall helps.

The Lord of the Rings isn't.

CS Lewis was a much better writer.

Tolkien made a franchise because his ideas were novel (non of Lewis's bible stories) and we've been seeing new products since he died.
My point is it's not sustainable or universal. There will be winners and losers. If you want to go first come first serve, that's fine, if you want to go on pure economics and push out locals that's going to be unpopular with the locals.
You must be joking !!! But stories like this can be on the pages of some newskool cyberpunk story perhaps. Fascinating times seeing it all come to live…
>No one with displeasingly asymmetric features.

this is a pet peeve of mine. I remember back around the time that the paper(s) were published establishing that facial symmetry played a big role in attractiveness. Before that time, nobody ever said, "oh, how attractive, look at that facial symmetry", because the point was that we are not consciously aware of what makes somebody attractive, it's our (metaphorical) lizard brain making those judgements, like the way we can generally tell M/F for people very far away. (and to add on, before this it was a quite popular "psychology experiment" to show two pictures of people, their left and mirrored left, and their right and mirrored right, to demonstrate that our faces are not symetric. One usually looked like a brooding criminal, and the other a beatific calm)

so, announcing whether you find somebody attractive or not is a far more authentic piece of information than your judgement of how symmetric their face is. Symmetry is far from the only input, and it's not conscious, it's only part of the wiring of the brain.

It is interesting to learn that the brain has wiring for unconscious symmetry measurement.

Now, I do wonder if, developmentally, the conditions that allow facial symmetry to develop somehow also allow higher IQ wiring to develop, or something hand wavey like that.
This sounds a little nutty but if you want to be a bootstrapped Rippling, it's possible.

A trick I've found repeatable is to find an enterprise that doesn't shy away from big budgets (where six and preferably seven figure budgets are fine even for unproven vendors, because what's big/existential for you is negligible/experimental for them), and is willing to buy a product from you that requires "integration" (they love to spend money on integration, plus that means it doesn't work on day one!), where the "integration" cost is enough to bootstrap the product AND integration (and your ramen!) at your internal rates.

To avoid the bootstrap money going to overhead, to keep the money for product build (engineering instead of paperwork), you need to avoid getting "risk managed" like a mature vendor. Its best for you to be a pilot, or proof of concept, or pet project for a sponsor to show a concept they want the enterprise to do.

Pick your customers and product integrations carefully where the work will pay for the enterprise capabilities most likely to win your next sale. Use these big contracts like lilypads to cross the pond to the other side of Geoffry Moore's "chasm" between early adopters and early majoriy.
I agree there shouldn't be, and it would be fairly easy to check in the json file that it actually does what it "should" do in the build and nothing else, but have you ever actually checked? The only time I've ever even looked was when I wanted to change a build option for some reason, and that's not often.

And then the frequent use of git submodules makes it even worse: that's often a whole lot of code that even the author of the flatpak doesn't have control over.
It's "ordinal" and "cardinal" really. If you wanna be all mathsy and stuff.
Well, with the current chip disputes (no last generation lithography for china, China throws AMD and Intel out from telecommunications) China feels quite appropriate for the headline. I know out of my head that Tsinghua U. is in China, Beijing. But I doubt that many readers know this.
Both experiences can be true in the same country.

For me, internet is great (both wired and wireless). For wired, I have a choice of cable and FTTH in my apartment, both cancelable month-by-month and without any bullshit fees ("taxes and surcharges", yeah, believe it or not I also pay taxes and I don't make it your problem, ISP!) beyond the sticker price.

No idea if this is due to competition, regulation, or both; I suspect that at least the "no bullshit fees" part is due to the latter, as I can't imagine major US corporations all somehow collectively dropping them in one region but not the other.

I also don't doubt that it is significantly worse for somebody living elsewhere. Data caps seem to still be a thing for wired access in some places.
I was tracking with you till the last sentence - why is this bad? I tend to think it's a good thing that 40% of Chinese people (580 million people) aren't starving. Britain hasn't been able to feed itself from domestic agriculture for 200+ years, would you have their population halved so that they don't need food imports anymore? I don't understand.
Jimmy Carter also comes to mind
that‘s how I remember it.
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Attractive Faces Are Only Average (1990)
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I wonder if I can extract the chip and get free internet.
On the other hand, the shorter version communicates "five" without a human needing to count them up. Either way, some grep-ability would come from hits on samples within unit tests.
My experience with 5G is that it's strictly worse than LTE. At this point, if I see the 5G symbol on my phone I'm conditioned to expect the internet to barely work. Requests frequently seem to just hang.