skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wow. We were in the midst of negotiations with Cloudflare and I’m
Going to hard nope after reading this.

I’m guessing they aren’t doing that well and are looking for revenue to cover the holes.
You eventually get to the solution if you keep thinking long enough. The trick is to not stop thinking in the background about it. That's the process. I think that hours or days, like the author mentions, even seems very short. Many of the kinds of things that I have experienced, which yielded to this kind of process, took months to years. Sometimes big problems can be broken down into many small ones and only take those minutes to hours to days to complete. But still, the big problem takes a long time to work through.
That could be signs of something else too.
product management. same money, more variety, less hours (imo). Although now that I have product experience I think I could have protected my energy more as a SWE.

After I quit SWE I tried to get public-facing jobs like making juice at a juice bar. I was told over and over I didn't smile enough or have the personality for public-facing work.

I think it's a fantasy to have a "regular" job. It's not really as relaxing as you think. Everything feels like a grind eventually. But jobs with a lot of variety (Like product or other types of management) I think are slightly better.
Two paragraphs in:

"Perhaps, like most people, you need a smartphone to fully engage with society (like with QR menus, the bane of the dumbphone life!)."
Likewise. Both code and math are almost physical objects in my mind. I hold these objects and relationships between them in my mind.

I find it interesting that for language I find reading easier than writing but for code or math it is the opposite. When reading code or math it almost feels the same as when I’m learning a foreign language and trying to read it. I have to “translate” it into the my internal “objects”.
These folks have a proven track record in shutting that thing up if it's worth $500 to you.

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> > Every goal takes time to achieve. The time spent seeking a career and financial success

It's not even career and financial success, it's about competence. There are billions of activities in the realm of possible activities pursued by a person and each one takes time to get to the top percentile performace.

People think money is some magic trick card that lets you skip the process and compress time. In reality the closest thing that it does is bringing you to the front row to watch the top performers who have dedicated time to their craft do their thing.

Key word being watching. Money can buy you the most expensive suite at the Super Bowl, but it won't get the ball in your hands with 2:00 on the clock needing a TD to win it. That right belongs to the person who spent years and dedicated infinite hours to the pursuit of excellence in the realm of throwing a football to moving targets.
It’s ironic that Microsoft was founded to provide software for microcomputers where the whole idea was that you own the CPU and don’t need to pay anyone or ask permission for access.

And now they’re full circle back to mandating the timeshare computing model even though the local CPU has incredible performance.

Maybe they should rename to Centralsoft.
A solution may manifest as a series of insights, but the insights themselves are quite binary. You suddenly find yourself having them. For me at least they appear as a thought like any other.
Recruiters don't waste time manually adding CVs that don't parse, that's why recruitment platforms ask a pdf of the cv and a plain text copy from candidates or god forbid one of those awful forms to input your cv again line by line... and if they don't require that, I'll assume a not parsing cv will just not be dealt with at all.
>Jeez, GPT4 would never make these mistakes.

Sure, but GPT3.5 certainly would. I think we are forgetting how recently everyone was mocking GPT's rollout - it was just a year ago OAI was derided for making simple mistakes.

In my opinion, the boldest thing OAI did was say "forget the haters, full steam ahead" and now a bunch of other companies need to eat crow to get to the same place OAI is
> That’s a head in the sand position to take. There are thousands of examples, and dozens of lawsuits that demonstrate that literal copyright-breaking photocopying sometimes happens, I’ve seen it myself with Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT both.

Sure, when a picture appears in the corpus hundreds of times. I guarantee you a human artist could reproduce these pictures with the same level of fidelity, because they are cultural cliches. We choose not to, and when we don't, we do not violate copyright. So who commits the crime here? The model didn't decide to reproduce that image spontaneously, it was told to. The broad majority of its output cannot be shown to violate copyright, even with great effort. When a paper comes out with a model that violates copyright, always you see the prompt egging it on. That the model cannot tell that it is reproducing the input distribution a little too well, doesn't mean that's its default mode.

Besides, I suspect you don't want to rest your argument on a problem that can be fixed with the most basic effort put into dataset cleaning.

(Also, this only happened with some networks, as I remember the paper. I suspect it's a matter of training quality.)

So there are two questions: do companies violate copyright when training models, and do models violate copyright when generating images? I disagree with the former universally, and with the latter almost always.

> Even when output isn’t obviously breaking copyright, still, we know a-priori that we built a copy-and-remix machine by design.

Well, I just don't think this is true.

> statistically reproduce their training data.

Yes, on a high-dimensional abstract manifold, plus random noise. Again, at that point you've thrown enough divergences in that I genuinely don't see how humans aren't "mix-and-match machines" by this metric. Stop calling models names and make a concrete claim.

> we do know for a fact that today’s neural network aren’t it

Yes well I think they are it, or at least of the same kind. Show evidence.

> Maybe, but this hasn’t been proven or shown to be true, so is speculation.

Presumption of innocence still applies, even to code. I have my experience, you have your experience. In my time using models, I have used them to produce samples that were well outside the training distribution. They have managed this with no great difficulty. A mix-and-match machine would, by definition, not be capable of this, unless you use the concept so generically that it could apply to any computable function.
The driver will own the GPS system, no? How is this different from owning a smartphone?
> AI is delivering... I wonder why I need to explain this.

...because clearly the community is unconvinced that AI is actually delivering, and the majority of examples seem to be barely-successful experiments promising improvement at some later point down the road?

Again, we've heard this entire shtick before. Miracle technology gets announced by some egghead teenager, and they write up a Whitepaper that is entirely ignored except for it's "Future Applications" section towards the end. Then the VCs and "thoughtful types" (I use that phrase lightly) harass them into making a business out of it. From then on the playbook is consistently the same; lie. Lie about how many people use your platform, lie about how easy it is to use, lie about how much better it is than the status-quo. They even deny the need to explain themselves when threatened, trying to insist their worth is self-evident and that we're the problem for not understanding their deflective mumbo-jumbo.

Vitalik Buterin, Craig Wright, Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, they're all re-runs of the same hope-fueled moonshot that invariably ends in a violent fireball. Yes, you have to go the extra mile when convincing people that you have a logically-held position instead of a lie you are telling to inflate asset prices.
I think all the bickering about “snobs” and whatever the opposite is comes from people doing very different photography and for some reason transferring their choices onto others and vice versa. E.g. I mostly photograph wildlife, often in dark forests, so this (28-400) lens is too slow for me. There are also prime lens purists, but in wildlife they mostly stick to birds, because good luck photographing e.g. small mammals like squirrels with that (I do follow one photographer who manages to do it, but it’s beyond my abilities). Your choices will be different still if you photograph mostly still scenes, maybe portraits etc, where your shutter speed lives in a dimension I generally don’t venture into. There is also the question of taste about how much depth of field you like, what apertures you like, how tightly you like to crop, whether you skew more towards low-key, high-key or balanced exposure etc.

I wish people were more cognisant of the diversity of photography different people do and not make universal judgements about gear or techniques in general.
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You had me until
>It’s a direct parallel to how you’d prompt a LLM.
> There was no output to speak of after Anne Sullivan died.

It looks like she wrote several books after 1936, including one about Anne Sullivan.
Also my thought. It's very interesting how the designers of this language, presumably unaware of algebraic effects, write about it as if it a terrible joke when this is actually one of the trendiest ideas in PL.
That is my experience also. Which sorta suggests option 2.

Option 2 is heavy.
Indeed. Or TOTP; parking your car; buying your tickets for the metro/train to commute to work, etc etc.
I've installed CrossLine and read CrossLineDemo.cldb, but can't find anything that might be described as transclusion. The "Transclusion" outline in CrossLineDemo.cldb is just a copy of a Wikipedia page and does not mention CrossLine. Because the outline named "Ecco Pro" says, "Data is stored as discrete objects, and can be dragged as dynamic links to multiple folders creating cross references," I tried in CrossLine to drag an item to a different folder or a different outline, but no joy.

Can someone explain how CrossLine enables transclusion?
In some sense, you could!

The reason is that almost every use WebSockets is actually for Synchronizing State. What you really want to do is to synchronize state. Braid is a protocol for doing just that. So you don't need to turn to WebSockets anymore!
> Okay, so is that what you’re claiming they’re doing?

I am not claiming that is what they are doing, but I offered two real strategies of what they could possibly be doing.

The most detail ever disclosed by Renaissance Technologies is probably this: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/do...

Does not mean all details are there.

> If so, please share your evidence.

:) If I crack the Renaissance Technologies fund algorithm I don't think you will be the first one I will notify...:-)

However, I know where I would start to investigate. The employees of the fund, do some of biggest political donations in the USA. Astute investigative journalists could start to look there. Are they doing to avoid scrutiny of their activities? If you cracked the market why such a high level of donations? Philanthropy? Then open your fund...

Interestingly they also hedge their political donations: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs//summary?id=D000022219&cycl...

And know how to push the limits:

"Abuse of Structured Financial Products:
Misusing Basket Options to Avoid Taxes and Leverage Limits": https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/23081/...

> they make for the same quality of conversation as a drunk uncle’s “brilliant” day trading strategy

Sure...Let's stay with the alternative most in this thread are passively accepting: "They cracked the market"
Stands to reason. The brain has to constantly resolve ambiguity when reading natural languages, while artificial languages are (usually) designed to be free of ambiguity.
From 2016, although mistakes were made, not sure any lessons learned.
Enterprise service management: APIs, proxies, batch data fetching, and so forth.

I was a JavaScript developer. I loved writing JavaScript applications, but nobody else did. Most people were cowardly terrified of the work and I got tired of working with cowards. There is nothing you can suggest that won't be discarded out right when people are afraid or lying about their motives.
I'm only here for the free U2 album.

"U2's latest album automatically added to your library"
I put about an equal amount of effort into ensuring that the recycle bin is completely disabled. I find it really irritating.

It just illustrates how one person's indispensable feature is another person's annoyance. These things should exist, but should always be able to be disabled.
A macbook air at $999 is always more attractive than one at 1000, 1015 or 1021. After taxes sure it will go over 1000 but usually when we're browsing for prices first impression always matter
I believed that too, then I noticed they had a feature for the TOS violation that didn't fundamentally change anything. The only difference was you paid for it. In that way it's not your average TOS violation.
I have 1 list of things to do. It is all on paper. When they are done they get struck out. That's it.

Simple, effective.
I’m a bit confused by “Bitwarden is built in now” - are you saying that you no longer need the Bitwarden app to connect iOS’s password autofill to my bitwarden vault?
> Thinking is a background process.

If you try to remember what you are trying to remember on the spot often you can't. Then you stop trying and all the sudden (and later) the answer comes to you. (One example: Happens often when trying to remember the name of an actor 'I know who that is' then later 'ok it was...')

I think this is also related to why some people don't test well. A question in a test format or information requested formulated as a question (that need an immediate answer) doesn't work for many people with facts that are memorized. In fact extreme pressure can sometimes prevent recall just because of the anxiety alone that that produces.
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Duh, not even reading math is the same as language.

That, I feel, is the greatest barrier for math teaching in our education system.

The need to compress everything into a line or two, supposedly for ease of transcription and speed.

Hopefully VR and AR can bring about a novel way to teach math which is much more visual/extensive and less about signs and the need to compress
Interactive discussion to understand birthday paradox with Chatgpt4o
I'ver been a pro photographer for over 30 years. Sigma's 60-600mm lens is a marvel of engineering and I can't recommend it enough. I've used a lot of superzooms in my time but nothing holds a candle to the sharpness and clarity of this lens throughout its range. However, it is large and unwieldy.

For a general "do everything" camera - Sony's RX-10 is also remarkable. It has a built-in 24mm-600mm optic in a small, portable package. This camera can do photo and video with ease. It has a far larger sensor than Panasonic or Nikon's equivalent versions. My complaints with this camera are the poor manual focusing options and the low dynamic range of video which requires careful exposure to not blow out highlights.

I have not used the 28-400 in this article. But I do know that the shortcomings of these wide-to-telephoto lenses (not sharp throughout the range, poor construction) seem to have disappeared.
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I don’t like this but I also don’t know the alternatives.

People drag race right in front of my house all night long on the weekends. It’s absurdly dangerous.

We are on the edge of a residential neighborhood (so our house faces the main road), and a few blocks from a police station. The police do nothing.

I don’t think I’ve seen somebody “pulled over” in my city in like a decade.

A few days ago I say a guy pull into the oncoming traffic lanes and hit the top of 3rd gear to cut in front of a line of cars at a stop light.

Just absolutely insane, deranged behavior and I see it every single day.

Edit: I was mistaken and thought this limited speed. Apparently this is actually useless.
Anyone want to annex California? It's clearly becoming more trouble than it's worth.
Unfortunately, it's not open source, but it's still hilarious :)
I would love to be able to do this as well. In reality I’m afraid there are lots of obstacles in the way. Too bad really, being able to do this would be so cool.
So it did but it actually didn't because of literally all the reasons people said it wouldn't. Sure if you remove new competition and technology then its more likely to happen.

Defining monopoly is pretty hard in the first place. Only Will Smith can play Will Smith. Or is he in a market against all black actors? Or all actors? Or is it he also competing against the NBA/NFL?

If a single company exist to provide some service in a small town, is that company a monopoly.

If a company dominates a market for a decade+, is that a monopoly? There is a question of time.

One can answers these question different ways. And even if they are monopoly, sometimes that is not a actually a problem.

There are certainty some cases where some monopoly exist and are harmful. Mostly those are created by governments. However one can certainty have harmful situation in a relatively free market as well.

But I think the argument that there was ever a case to be made that the Marxist idea of all companies merging in a single mega cooperation has never even been remotely true. And you have industries that are reasonably unregulated (in terms of market entry) and still have lots of competition.

So the facts are 100% for sure much more complex then Marx and those that claim 'Capitalism always leads to centralization' believe. Or at least if it does it operates at timescales that makes it unclear that we should act on their recommendations.

Often Standard Oil is the best example people can come up with and they are not even remotely close to taking over much outside of their specialty.

Of course the whole discussion gets even more complex once multiple government (and cultures, and geographies, and climates and so on) are involved and we aren't taking about a single unified market.
It’s largely difficult because either:

- you’re working in a language that doesn’t have checked exceptions, so the set of potential errors and the set of potentially error-raising calls is infinite but unknowable

- you’re working in a language that has checked exceptions, and you hate that it makes you do work, so you catch-rethrow runtime errors that recreate the first scenario

- you’re working in a language that has checked exceptions, but someone else did the second scenario so you’re in the first scenario anyway
Because is just useless. I mean seriously, what valuable insight does anyone get from that? It's some sort of truism wrapped in a word sandwich, ready for linkedin lunatics to pat themselves on the back sharing it. Do you feel you've gained something by reading it? Is this a valuable piece of intelligence which would guide your future decisions? Will you bring this to the team during an argument to push your agenda? This feels like the same type of 'feel good' content which people read and then feel like they did something productive. But I would argue that every piece of insight coming for a mega corp, valuable inside the mega corp is actually dangerous outside when people take it as dogma and try to apply it. SRE in general is something which IMHO of working in the industry for decades has poisoned the industry with half assed cargo cult implementations. But it has Google branding, so it must be valuable, hits hard for the fanboys and obviously can and should be applied in every company and every context.

I also find it ironic to see 'Simplicity' touted from the same people who let Kubernetes lose in the wild, but that's a different story for a different time
It’s also not uncommon to see out of date speed limits on Google/Apple maps.

I can only imagine some future manufacturer’s database would be even more out of sync.
Today I learned you can filter by amount of comments when searning hn.
We know what 'Wi-Fi' stands for – and it's not what you think
Ten million per day seems unlikely to translate to millions of concurrent requests.

This kind of task is typically suited to be made into a single thing, you don't want partial conversions hanging around in 'microservices' if something goes wrong.

As for scaling, I'd likely put this in a process definition and run it on the BEAM if I were to make such a product. That way millions of requests per hour can hit my cluster and those that fail somehow will just get cleaned up and the transaction rolled back, the clients get 'sorry, try again' or 'sorry, we're working on fixing it', and the rest happily chug along.
I think it is possible that the company posting this didn't realize that this might be the issue, but you are right that they may know. It may have been a small company, even doing that much bandwidth. Online gambling sites tend to push an entire video game when you are playing on their site.

Many gambling companies are fine just doing BYOIP or running dedicated hosting infrastructure that is on providers who are explicitly running hosting for that industry (although they are moving to cloud). There is a good reason this separate infrastructure exists. In general, I would not assume they are rotating IPs: this is not a scam, it's a business, and they are largely fine with being blocked in places where they can't legally operate.
Be google SRE. Elite software engineer. Cool under pressure.

Pager goes off! Grab pixel. Press finger print reader until it lets me enter my passcode. Ack page. Put down whisky. Shake self. 5 minutes to be logged in and dealing with the problem.

Password. gnubby. password. gnubby. gnubby. gnubby.

Check alert, see playbook, ignore playbook. Check which cell the problem is in. Correlate with rollouts. See a match. Roll back poorly tested dev promo project. Charts recover. Alert not firing.

Log out. Back to whisky.
Hebrew is already written like that. A language of all consonants with diacritic marks (nikud/nikudot) to connote vowels.

Though in practice unless you're a religious person reading out a printed hebrew bible (scribal parchment ones don't have them) or prayer books or a child in Israel who is learning to read, you don't normally use them (i.e. most things won't print them and use an expanded consonant form where letters when paired in certain ways connote the vowels) unless there would be confusion to understanding the word without the vowels (as a simple example, without vowels, the word key and programmer would be indistinguishable, as spelled the same way).
This all looks half assed. If the West wants a nuclear war with Russia, can’t they just launch a nuke in the general direction of Moscow to get the Real Deal?
> How is this different

In that GPS subsystems I want off are off.
It takes around that long to plan and for public companies they don't just suddenly come to that decision within a single quarter, but also that's missing the point.

If you're a public company and you go from healthy to mass layoffs within a single quarter then your investors (and employees) should be a lot more concerned.
ssrn/arxiv/etc. I try to look for paper review style papers so I can get up to speed on the "latest amalgamation of research"
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Is this a custom trained TTS model or is it an implementation of something like StyleTTSv2?
Maybe I dont understand. If your primary goal is thermal storage, why do you care about the peak temperature?

If we are talking primarily about storage, what are the advantages of a PV field + 1400 C brick storage vs parabolic + 500C storage?
It just feels wild to suggest turning a $1000 phone into something a $100 phone. However, I see the appeal.