skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments here are useful and on point for 20-30-year-olds. Pot makes boredom less boring, and that's probably not an ideal outcome for a young person.

With any luck, y'all are going to be 60 someday, or 80, and pot making boredom less boring is going to become your every waking thought, and staying awake all night is going to become a curse and no longer a superpower.

And cannabis is going to be there for you as an alternative to benzos and opiates, and it will be a good thing. Count on it.
I don’t know why the links aren’t working correctly.

The idea is that if an LLM can now search the web and analyze data, it will be more up to date than training it.

Another unrelated improvement with the newer versions of ChatGPT is that while LLMs are notoriously bad at math, they are pretty good at writing Python. ChatGPT can write Python code to solve a problem, run it and give you an answer based on the code.

You can also verify the code yourself. I used ChatGPT to model financial scenarios and the answers were correct in 4x. I verified the generated code it was using.

But here is what it answered when I asked ChatGPT “What’s going on in Atlanta this weekend”?

> This weekend in Atlanta, there are several exciting events happening:

1. Lakewood Antiques Market (May 31 - June 2): A large market in Cumming featuring antiques and collectibles .

2. Bark Meow-Ket (June 1): A craft and pet vendor market at The Lawn at Uptown Atlanta, with food and pet adoptions .

(and a few other events)

But a better example and where I forced it to look on the web is

“Compare Amex’s current transfer partners to Chase’s partners”

For context, when you earn credit card points with Amex and Chase, you can transfer them to airline and hotel loyalty programs.

It searches the web (and provides the links it used to find the information) and then answers with:

——-
### American Express (Amex) Transfer Partners

Amex has a robust list of transfer partners, spanning both airlines and hotels. As of 2024, Amex Membership Rewards points can be transferred to the following partners:

#### Airlines:
1. Aer Lingus

2. Aeromexico

… (A list of the airlines)

#### Hotels:
1. Choice Privileges
2. Hilton Honors
3. Marriott Bonvoy

### Chase Transfer Partners

Chase Ultimate Rewards points can be transferred to a variety of airline and hotel partners. Here are the current partners for 2024:

#### Airlines:
1. Aer Lingus (AerClub)

2. Air Canada (Aeroplan)

(a list of airlines)

#### Hotels:
1. Hyatt (World of Hyatt)
2. IHG (IHG One Rewards)
3. Marriott Bonvoy

### Comparison

Both Amex and Chase offer a strong selection of transfer partners, but there are some differences:

- *Unique to Amex*: ANA, Avianca, Cathay Pacific, Delta, Etihad, Hawaiian, and Qatar.

- *Unique to Chase*: Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, and Hyatt.

- *Common Partners*: Aer Lingus, Air Canada, British Airways, Emirates, Flying Blue (Air France/KLM), Iberia Plus, JetBlue, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, and Marriott Bonvoy.

Amex tends to have a larger selection of airline partners, especially those in the SkyTeam and oneworld alliances. Chase, on the other hand, includes Southwest and United, which are popular with domestic travelers in the U.S., and Hyatt, which is highly regarded among hotel loyalty programs

(a list of web citations)
Looking at the exterior photo, it's nice to see that they encourage hanging out there... so many businesses are trying to get rid of people these days.
Sweet, I should check it out next time I'm in the city.
I'm still unclear whether these partnerships are "we're going to make a special segment of our training corpus that is text from Vox Media because we think it's extra valuable" or "we almost certainly scraped a bunch of Vox data when we built our training corpus years ago, and now we're paying them to not sue us".
And nobody will sue anybody because suing means...discovery....
I suggest to use a wiki instead of a blog. The idea here is that a blog might contain articles that are more "polished" and those that you want to share with others while a wiki is a place to store personal knowledge which is a constant work in progress. This way a 'blog' is simply a subset of wiki wherein you have a page called 'blog' that just links to various articles in the wiki.

For example: https://kamaraju.xyz/dk/ is my wiki, https://www.kamaraju.xyz/dk/blog is my blog.
If you expect every comment on this site to be backed by a massive amount of reasearch, then you are in the wrong place. I have looked into Odoo several times, I was expressing my impressions of the product. Sorry if that wasn't clear in my initial comment.
Do you ever calculate your GOOG salary and multiply it by the number of years you've been bootstrapping and have any regrets?
Cars from the 50s and 60s were comparatively less complex and easier to maintain and repair. Of course, they don't get the gas mileage or meet the same emissions criteria, and in a crash they aren't as survivable because they don't compress to reduce force on the occupants.
> (also known, incorrectly, as identity theft)

You might not like the term and how it might seem to shift blame, but it's the correct term.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1028A

Aside from legal definitions, it's definitely a broadly used term in the public arena as well. According to Wikipedia, it's been used this way since 1964.
With that kind of statement, it seems fundamentally immature to be deploying PQC on the Internet today when we're 20+ years out a useful machine. Prognostication this far into the future should not be the basis of making changes today - we're not good at it.
You can do this with dynamic evaluation (https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/dynamic-evaluation/index): literally just train on the data as you are fed new data to predict, in the most obvious possible way. It works well, and most SOTAs set in text prediction 2010-2018 would use dynamic evaluation for the boost. (And it has equivalents for other tasks, like test-time adaptation for CNN classifiers.)

In fact, dynamic evaluation is so old and obvious that the first paper to demonstrate RNNs really worked better than n-grams as LLMs did dynamic evaluation: https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/rnn/2010-mikolov.pdf#page=2

Dynamic evaluation offers large performance boosts in Transformers just as well as RNNs.

The fact that it's not standard these days has more to do with cloud providers strongly preferring models to not change weights to simplify deployment and enable greater batching, and preferring to crudely approximate it with ever greater context windows. (Also probably the fact that no one but oldtimers knows it is a thing.)

I think it might come back for local LLMs, where there is only one set of model weights running persistently, users want personalization and the best possible performance, and where ultra-large context windows are unacceptably memory-hungry & high-latency.
welcome to Nix
Either way, it’s free marketing
Watched a YT video about this algo, and was blown away by sheer l33tness of it.
I'm all for spritzing millionaire yachts with skunk secretions!
The correct way to summarize benchmark results
Interesting question! You might want to consider starting a new thread for that.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Nalanda University flourished for more than seven centuries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35009063 - March 2023 (265 comments)
France is an AI hub, but a wrinkle in tax policy is holding it back
I agree, it really doesn't have very many books.
The resultant images are based upon intentional manipulation and exaggeration of the data available in a model designed to make the resultant image be as pleasing to the user as possible. They are to some extent lies / guesswork.

Its fast food art.
Sprinkle the image with sugar and fat
Did Microsoft invent their own XUL?
Ha, very nice. My blog is 19 years old, although the website itself I started 25 years ago! It has been hard to keep up and keep posting in the most recent years. With kids life got real busy! You have inspired me to go back and keep posting as well.

https://www.balcells.com/
So, this begs the question when we'll see ML put in place to avoid AdBlocker detection. Or ads as we know them just disappear from the web and are replaced with other kinds of ML-enabled ads. I imagine deep-fake models used for interchangeable product placement in videos or pictures or so.
Moe's Books in Berkeley.
Sorry, I'm not talking earbuds but closed headphones. I have the WH-1000XM5, and I immediately notice that I hear my own voice/noise way more as soon as I turn them off.
Comal is one of the subjects of that podcast episode
Congratulations. I've been through the DD process and it is a seemingly infinite loop of Q & A that is so exhausting it's almost difficult to celebrate the funds finally hitting! Glad you made time for plenty of desserts.

All the best to you and your pending addition to the family.
Patents aren't stopping anyone in Shenzen.
I use LinkedIn for news, being connected to the industry leader and also for job search.
However, lately is seems to be a more polished Facebook. However, I still keep my profile up to date and sometimes I peek on others profiles/ job changes/ updates.
I really need to get emacs set up again and give extempore a go. I had a blast playing with Overtone (Clojure bindings for supercollider) a few years back.
His full compensation was probably between 300k-500k at Google, so I don't think money was what motivated him...
> I can't really parse the claim, but I think your impression is wrong. Supremacy has always been a fuzzy bound, since it's defined in terms of the best known classical algorithms. But the supremacy results have gotten more unambiguous over time.

By that I mean that integer factorization is still slower than classical machines even though the numbers that can be factored have gotten larger. Similarly, with the exception of very specific toy problems specifically constructed to demonstrate quantum supremacy, we haven't achieved supremacy on any interesting and useful problems (not sure if DWave's quantum annealing machine really has any useful applications but presumably it must, but also not clear that it's a meaningful step on the path to a QC).
>Airspace above the US is nationalized. It's managed by the government, which is funded by taxpayers. So they have a right to know who is doing what using that airspace. Flying secretly (or at all) is not a Constitutionally protected activity so there's nothing inherently wrong with regulating it and denying something like this.

That seems like an absolute argument against any kind of right to privacy.

So you'd equally have no concern at all if there was a publicly searchable registry of every flight that every passenger was taking on a commercial carrier?

The roads are managed by government and funded by taxpayers: should there be a publicly searchable record of every vehicle movement on the roads as well?
I don't have a traditional property right to the road next to my owned land parcel.

I do have a traditional property right to the airspace above my owned land parcel.

That property right was abridged by the formation of the national airspace system, but there were agreements put into place regarding what safeguards people had against other people abusing that new highway. This is an abridgment of those existing agreements.

(... I think the case can be made that it's a reasonable abridgment, but to a first approximation it looks an awful lot like 'forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges' when only the elite can afford private jets).
The problem with these efforts is they aren't for responding to actual crime or safety concerns, but for securing party rule and controlling dissent.

Policy attempts like this indicate that given the pace of tech change vs. managerialism, Canada is basically a write off destined for decades of developing nation status the way former powers like Portugal, Greece, Argentina, and Spain were considered poor countries in the late 20th century because of ruling parties similar to the ones in Canada today. When a government switches from growth to managing dissent and capital flight, the writing is on the wall.
Looks pretty good.

We'll have to see where it goes, from here.
It could be argued that the entire software industry lacks the "engineering culture" of other fields.
Great tools choose to be bad at some things (2022)
True, I think every neutral party at the time knew that Iraq had no WMDs, crazy how just cause might is right we have let the instigators of Iraq war get away with it while they end up destabilizing a whole region
Writing software that makes all other software more efficient, reliable, and easier to run/read.

I really dislike how most software in large corporations degrades over time and increases in complexity. Some pockets are better than others, and there are momentary improvements to bad software, but entropy eventually sets in.

I would build org-wide ratchet mechanisms that make it easier to do the right thing than the wrong thing.
....and of course only a chrome plugin is available.
I didn't see it mentioned here, but is there any support for timecode?
It's great that it's VRR. Also I don't think the rounded corners will matter much in practice, might even look cool if the bezels are designed for it!
This happened to me twice in the last week — for a Kickstarter project I was collecting shipping fees via Backer Kit. I had 2 backers that “decided” they do not want to pay for the shipping, and they started disputes after the product was already shipped. I sent screenshots and proof of service to Stripe, but I still lost the dispute with no appeal option.
I have some knowledge of the LI (lawful intercept) space. Some USA/Canada agencies/companies uses tools by JSI Telecom to do this. They do deep packet inspection and phone call recording with retention policies set by whatever law the host country has. For calls that are recorded, you cant record chats to lawyers, so a human has to listen to the call and mute it. Some countries don't allow recording, so a human has to listen in on the call live. Blah blah blah.

My opinion is that democracy will die in favor of republics where govts do whatever. Seems to me were heading that way anyway. I find the theater of it tiring.
Are there other bookstores like this around the world? Let’s hope some of them can survive and thrive.

I've come to deduce that the death of bookstores is nothing more than a trope pushed by tech fetishists.

Last Thursday evening, I sat in the cafe of a chain bookstore in a major American city while my wife was browsing, and counted the people. There were close to 70 in my field of view, and in the 40ish minutes I sat there, over 100 people came in. The line at the checkout never had fewer than five people in it, and often more than a dozen.

A couple of weeks ago, I drove past my local bookstore (also a big chain) before it opened, and there was dozens and dozens of people waiting in line to get in.

Books aren't dead. Reading isn't dead. Acknowledging that there are people who enjoy different things than you do is dead.
I've been remote for years even before Covid. RTO vs remote comes down to how and where you work best.

When folks want to go remote I ask them "when you were in school, did you study better in the library or at home in your bedroom?"

If they said bedroom, I assume they can work from home. If they say library, I think RTO makes more sense.

As much as I love remote, the best answer, like all things, is that best is relative to each person. What works for you doesn't work for others.

Imho the best approach to measure productivity is to see where people do their best work and support that. And if you think something works for you but it isn't (i.e., low performance rating), well... time to head into the office or find a new job. You, the individual, also have to be willing to change if you're not performing your best because you _think_ remote will work for you but in reality you're not nearly as present or productive.

Mandates, as the name implies, sort of admits that the ideal isn't best for {someone} otherwise you wouldn't need a mandate; people would naturally come back into the office if they so chose because it was best for them.
Agreed - I have the same headset and same experience - amazing.

They are by far the best headset I have ever owned. Some minor quibles as always.
Use of large language models might affect our cognitive skills
I think that the widespread adoption of open source by large commercial operations has adversely affected the entire movement. My hope is that it's not dying, but returning to and emphasizing its roots.
Google doesn’t search the internet in under a second. They are doing a key-value lookup. Any time they change the search algorithm or add to their index they recompute every query ever searched and prepare the answers to be quickly recalled.
Not at launch, but it's on the roadmap.
Sounds like your stack has a really bad Dependency management system.

For example, Java’s maven is stellar (grade too if you use Maven’s)
Talking Turtle – BBC Horizon – S20E5 (1983) [video]
The Atlantic announces product and content partnership with OpenAI
Yes; I know. But similar to tracking a wireless client by MAC address, it could be possible to enhance the system to assign single-use identifiers to flight plans such that it would be radically more difficult to casually associate tracking data to specific aircraft in realtime. I'm not advocating for any change necessarily; just pointing out that RF emissions of a modern aircraft do nothing to belie its identity. The registration information itself is irrelevant to tracking the aircraft movements.
5mg edibles should do the trick depending on body weight!
Yeah. I need more dots connected for me to be able to appreciate this takedown of atheists:

> A lesser-known New Atheist equestrian named Jerry Coyne ... is alleged to have spit on an anti-genocide protestor ...

> Coyne told the Chicago Maroon that he "did not spit on demonstrators or on anybody else."

> These are not serious people.
Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 CPU
Software patents also come into view here. Doom 3 open-source version needed to have a change implemented so Carmack’s reverse algorithm was replaced by a different algorithm because the algorithm is patented by Creative.
i don't know much about adhd/autism, but i'm pretty sure i'm somewhat autistic and have this problem really really bad. i score fine on hearing tests where i just have to listen for quiet beeps but have a lot of trouble processing what people are saying especially in a crowded setting. my dad also has this issue
Absolutely. This is a huge trade-off. The constraints you place on the model output is all about how much your app and user experience can tolerate bad LLM behavior.
I particularly like the current stewards. They've done a great job and have been consistently putting Java and the JVMs best interest at the forefront.
Both are faster than NVIDIA! Always good to see competition!
> switching your interest

That's not usually how it works.

> Just continue to show that all that's required to predict novel structures is the existing PDB.

Sounds like you know a lot about this topic. You should do it!
I think part of the idea here is that we’re not talking about putting GPT-4o in charge of a company, we’re talking about GPT-7a (for “agent”). By the time we get to that turn of the game, we may not have as many issues with hallucinations and context size will be immense. At a certain point the AI will be able to consume and work with far more information that the human CEO who “employs” it, to the point that the human CEO essentially becomes a rubber stamp, as interactions like the following play out over and over again:

AI: I am proposing an organizational restructuring of the company to improve efficiency.

CEO: What sort of broad philosophy are you using to guide this reoorg?

AI: None. This week I interviewed every employee and manager for thirty minutes to assemble a detailed picture of the company’s workings. I have the names of the 5272 employees who have been overpromoted relative to their skill, the 3652 who are underpromoted or are on the wrong teams, 2351 who need to be fired in the next year. Would you like me to execute on this plan or read you all the rationales?

CEO (presumably after the AI has been right about many things before): Yeah OK just go ahead and execute.

Like, we’re talking about a world where CEOs are no longer making high level “the ship turns slowly” decisions based on heuristics, but a world where CEO AIs can make millions of highly informed micro-decisions that it would normally be irresponsible for a CEO to focus on. All while maintaining a focus on a handful of core tenets.
Dating is very messy necessarily. I mean it is the literal end goal of our biology, so difficulty is kinda the point. But. Anyone who's not aware of trends is gonna have a difficult time. Old strategies don't work well. Old outlooks don't either.
Yes. The cameras on the VP are optimized for weight and size and don't have as good color sensitivity as larger lenses. The microOLED screens on the VP also do not have the range than a normal OLED would. It's a limitation of the current tech.
This was such an enjoyable read, thank you for taking us through your process. And congrats!!
I'd fix every outstanding bug I've reported but not had the time to fix myself.
Patents are stopping people from using non specific software code (ideas) all around the world.
10 years of YC advice in 10 lines
It’s funny you say that because there are parents who can only do it if they’re high or buzzed on alcohol (wine moms, etc) You’re a good parent!
Here is the definition, from the first paragraph of the source that you yourself posted[1]:

The United States homeownership rate represents the percentage of occupied housing units where the resident is also the owner. A constantly evolving figure, the United States homeownership rate currently rests at 65.2%, while renter-occupied housing units make up 34.8% of the national stock.

From this definition it trivially follows that a rented property becoming vacant increases the homeownership rate, because the vacant property (and the person who was renting) will both no longer be counted, at all and thus the total percentage of owner occupied units will increase.

At this point I'm not sure if you failed to read your own link, don't understand what "percentage of" means, or are just obstinately wrong, but regardless it doesn't much seem worth continuing does it?

[1] https://www.propertyshark.com/info/us-homeownership-rates-by...
BYD achieves 1,300-mile driving range with latest PHEVs
Compared to how overmedicated an average American is with a lot of drugs they probably don't even need (thanks to complacent doctors in bed with Pharma), weed is absolutely the lesser evil when used in moderation (e.g. appetite enhancer, muscle relaxant, light painkiller).