skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the good side, despite all diplomatic posturing, the system have been working really well for everybody, all those countries have massive USD reservers, and nobody really wants the dollar to crash. The appetite of american consumers have been serving the world really well, nobody wants the party to end.

But american foreign police need to have some serious re-calibration if washington wants the party to go on. The times for pushing and shoving other countries are probably over.
I'm not trying to be mean, but your BMI would be twenty-nine point something, verging on obese (I've been there too). Couldn't hurt to lose some weight I'm sure. If you do find something that works, I'd love to hear about it. I've tried about everything and sometimes find something that helps but it never seems to last. Currently it's trazadone and melatonin time release which sometimes works alright.
This is even worse phrasing than when people say "order of magnitude more" and mean "more", because it makes you think everything is normally distributed, but it isn't.
Are they really "market wages" when employers are known to have conspired to limit them?

They may not be doing so for the low-end, but if California is like most other states with a lot of illegal immigrants, there are people you can pick up at a parking lot somewhere that'll do the work for lower than minimum wage, which distorts the comparison because we do not have such a market for high $ workers
It would actually be hilarious if you could also pay $1 to delay the release, and then it became a huge tug of war between internet brigades...
Second https://syncthing.net/

Cross platform, encrypted, tweakable
How does that make sense given the models on civit are free
Should we follow SRP in controllers?
I don't know from where came this idea that not having a certain thing will inevitably ruin child's relationship with the parent and cause a collapse of at least some part of their life, but if it was implanted - someone somewhere should have a pure gold Marketer of The Century award on their table.

Also, install Unhook Youtube - it allows reducing YT to pretty much just subscriptions and watch later.
i'm not a great sleeper, but the folowing has helped me quite a bit:

earlier bedtime (no later than 11:00 pm unless super necessary).

earplugs. I seem to sleep deeper. I think sometimes I'd be woken up and not remember from random sounds outside or even my air conditioning going on.

melatonin/cbd/ashwaganda gummy. Very very small dosage of all of the above.

Not eating for an hour+ before bed. I used to love snacking right before bed, but I don't sleep as well.

Coffee finished before 10:00 am.
Thanks to the horseshoe [0] puritanism we will live in a safer world. It's all right, everything is all right, the struggle is finished.

0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
The application process for that prize is always brushed under the rug, and in general it doesn't surprise me no one has won it. The criteria set you up for failure, for example demanding a far higher success rate than the psychic claims themselves. Sometimes to the point where they'd have to go through months of continuous testing, then be disqualified by a single off day.
you’re assuming the output from ChatGPT is correct, and it’s not bluffing.
> fact that China, Korea or India for example have to buy oil in USD rather than in Saudi Riyal or their local currencies, helps the USD

It is entirely dwarfed by the volume of their non-oil trade.

> Few people spoke about CDOs before the 2008 crisis

Everybody in mortgages, leveraged finance and structured finance was. That’s the point. The experts aren’t talking about the petrodollar; it’s bloggers and commenters.

> wasn't when it was first coined, and even if it's spoken-of little nowadays, that's not a measure of its importance

It was very real in 1974. Post 2008, it’s a fringe element.

> it's an error to dismiss this event as unimportant

Their currency is pegged to the dollar. Nobody from the U.S. seriously pushed to renew the pact; it also limits American diplomacy vis-à-vis Riyadh.

To the degree it’s important it’s in America signalling that to Riyadh that it is disposable, that America’s military and political protection cannot be taken for granted.
It has
These data are available in Excel format here: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_ca.htm

Click the link titled 'downloadable XLS file'.

To get the 146% figure:

1. Filter AREA_TITLE for California

2. Filter OCC_TITLE for 'All Occupations'

3. Calculate A_PCT75 / A_PCT25 - 1

I'm a little suspicious of the data, though. I looked at every state and compared the value of:

A) A_PCT75 / A_PCT25 - 1 (Annual wage gap)

B) H_PCT75 / H_PCT25 - 1 (Hourly wage gap)

I expected the two numbers to be different, because many of the folks with a low annual wage are probably working part time due to family responsibilities, studies or whatever. But in every case, the two measures are the same, to within 0.1%.

On closer inspect, it turns out that the hourly wage isn't an hourly wage at all. For every single 'hourly wage percentile' column, the value is just the annual value divided by 2080.
This looks awesome, what a great simple idea. I like tmux, but native smooth scrolling is so much better. So is searching, copy and pasting.

Is it tested on macOS? Ready for use in production?

Thanks
Think of every user as having a maximum price that their willing to pay. This is not known to us, but we know there's a distribution. You may be willing to pay $10/mo for Google but your rich cousin would happily pay $100/mo.

The cost for producing the marginal digital media is roughly the same, regardless of willingness to pay.

So,how do we maximize revenue? Ideally we would charge everyone exactly what they are willing to pay. Except, that's often illegal (discriminatory pricing) and infeasible.

But, there's a very good proxy: ads! With ads, the proportion of revenue from a given user correlates with its willingness to pay, especially for entertainment. Why? Because willingness to pay correlates with purchasing power and so does online purchasing. So, if you can serve the right ads to the right eyes, you could approximate that optimal pricing strategy.

And that's where the bonus kicks in: the more users you have the better you get at serving ads. This means that users whose willingness to pay is negligible are actually still valuable to the service because they improve your ability to monetize the richer users!

Contrast this to setups where you have to pay directly: subscriptions by being flat end up being too expensive for a big chunk of potential users and too cheap for the rest, pay per use is too much friction and again ends up leaving money on the table.

Every business that can do effectively, will do them. It's just such an attractive model.
America is the second fattest OECD country in the world. Blaming the individual completely denies the partial culpability that for-profit agribusiness socializes the costs through addiction design of ultra-processed foods. Perhaps mega agribusiness revenue should be taxed proportionally to the exponent of the average caloric density of their total products sold. Proceeds of such should be specifically earmarked for nutrition supplementation, effective fitness programs, healthcare costs, and a myriad of preventative and curative interventions.
It seems that your entire account history is dedicated to producing low-quality, low-information comments in favor of nuclear energy. This makes it all the more ironic when you then accuse me and others of being "driven by ideology" despite the second sentence of my comment mentioning how I was in favor of nuclear power for many years.

Most of your comment is information-free, but I will respond to the single point you made. You mention the production, maintenance, and disposal of solar panels also require labor. Yes, obviously. Do you not realize that nuclear energy is far more labor-intensive per watt for each of those, or do you simply not care?

My argument is simple: labor costs will dominate for both battery-solar and nuclear; labor costs per watt are significantly higher for nuclear; thus as the cost of labor increases with time, nuclear fission will be increasingly unaffordable. If you want to debate that, please come armed with relevant facts, not vague statements and unrelated tangents.
lol, that's right!

"Wait, that guys is taller than BUILDINGS!"
If text comprehension presents a significant challenge, you may want to consider other avenue of activity, over programming.

To those who are reading the thread, you are welcome to verify other claims made by the account I am responding to, which were proven by other participants false. This is a cheap trolling attempt and I think my response is the more polite way to share disappointment over this fact.
What happens to heat in a shack?
First I've heard of this restriction in the SD license. Curious why they would add something like this - wouldn't they want to encourage a network of self-hosted SD solutions providing the service to someone who couldn't host or run it themselves?
Of course Musk doesn't care. And I don't care if he does or not.
There are two ways to run shell commands:

1. Jupyter has terminals feature in addition to notebook (New->Terminal instead of New->Notebook). You can run any number of terminal sessions, they will be persisten like tmix and each open in separate browser window.

They are also shareable and easy to collab, so you can toss the terminal URL to your colleague to let him continue where you left off, or let him monitor stdout as you run some long running process.

2. You can run shell command and capture its output in python var inside jupyter cell with “!” macro, for example:

files = !ls *.csv

This allows you to mix&match and interleave bash and python and store intermediate data in variables, instead of pipes

files = !ls *.csv
pd.concat([pd.read_csv(x) for x in files]).MyColname.value_counts().to_frame().to_csv(“summary.csv”)

Just one sample I just used today: This code merge all csv files (and will correctly merge even if column names are random order in diff files), and group by one field and save stats.

This is more readable and maintainable than bash oneliners and magic with awk and more powerful

Things like read cav, json, write parquet, any manipulation with data, both local and remote is a breeze and I dont feel like constrained by bash syntax.

Most importantly code is readable and maintainable
Sorry, are you suggesting AWS Services "aren't real things"?

If I pay for a database server in Virginia, how is that not real?
Did you buy the more expensive lock for your house? Are your doors fortified, if they are why isn't the steel an inch thicker?

Do you also choose having money over security? Sounds like the government also chose having a more productive work force, etc, over higher costs and lower productivity.
Now I must really be in the minority. I use 'r' all the time, but never 'R'.
Sports training as a potential method for developing cognitive flexibility
Can't be, texas only has tax receipts on about 8% of their gdp.

https://texasgateway.org/resource/162-taxation
Better than California requiring 0.65% of your vehicle value every year in licensing fees.

Washington state also added a yearly EV registration fee. Their argument is the gas tax pays for road maintenance, but EVs don't consume gas, so they need some other way of extracting money from those owners.
Knowledge industries are not good for local economies. Places like California and New York are not good places to live if you're not an intellectual elite. You're much better off in a place where the economy is not so reliant on sorting people based on intellectual capability. Iowa might be boring, but the economy is flat. The rich aren't that rich, and the poor aren't that poor. And the rich people aren't out there bidding up prices for everything, so normal people can afford to buy houses and start families.

You can talk about income redistribution, but the problem is that the folks who are driving the inequality don't want to be the targets of redistribution. I grew up in a cookie-cutter 1950s house with 1,100 square feet in a boring Virginia suburb. I guarantee you that the white collar worker that has bid the price of that house up to almost $900,000 now doesn't think we should take money from him and give it to people lower on the totem pole.
Show HN: LLM grammar explainer and flash card maker for Japanese
Goal was to make it easy to jump from textbook learning into immersion. I wanted to play video games in Japanese, and started by using LLMs and a notebook, but figured it would be easier to streamline it all in an app.

- You input a sentence in Japanese (easier on mobile where you can handwrite kanji you don't know)
- App translates the sentence, explains the grammar, and gives you a list of flash cards
- You choose some flash cards to save for studying later
- You input a question about the explanation for more information
- App explains some more and gives you more flash cards
- Repeat

And then you can review the flash cards later with the built-in SRS system.

There's a video to explain the UI on the front page.
This reminds me OAuth screens where you are not sure why your password manager doesn’t work…
I'm all for unionization, but I question the claim we've never been under this level of pressure before. While there are still enslaved people now, it was more acute for awhile there, especially in the USA and colonies over here. Children used to work long days in factories. Thanks to unions and workers rights campaigns we have the eight-hour workday in the US, which still serves well enough to enrich a lucky select few.
Has it really been causing? Or is it their perception, fuelled by those who profit from sowing discord?

In my country there is high (and rising) anti-immigration sentiment, despite the fact that immigrants don't commit more crime than natives, and are net contributors to social security.
s/Linux/Linus
Aren't the same conditions true for chess, though there is no proof that a best strategy exists?

What if it's not just rock/paper/scissors, and there are more than 3 strategies?
Stanford's HumanPlus Robots: Humanoid Shadowing and Imitation from Humans
Even if it once was, I don't think it counts as a slur anymore.
"...because our executives won't get thrown into prison as long as they check all the compliance boxes. In fact, they won't get thrown into prison even if they don't check the compliance boxes, but that would be a minor nuisance, so we'll take basic compliance."
I think securities law usually only applies to things you tell investors? I could be wrong here though, I am not a lawyer.
> Apple cannot view the location of any AirTag or supported third-party products.

> With a serial number, Apple may be able to provide the paired account details in response to a subpoena or greater legal process. AirTag pairing history is available for a period up to 25 days.

So yes, Apple will assist LE requests, but they can only link a discovered airtag to an Apple ID, not location data as with Tile.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
There is the term "narrow AI" which is usually used for specialized systems like visual detection, etc., and I personally think that what we still have is narrow AI but we now have it for language and recently for video. I also think even if all of these modalities are stitched together it is still narrow AI... so at what point does it become AGI? I think it becomes AGI when the system understands the world in the same way that humans do, and also demonstrates human level agency. So you would have a system that can maintain itself... it changes its own batteries, it fixes its own bugs (to some extent, not absolutely), and it understands the world of humans such that it can engage in the world without supervision. Until then, I think we'll just have really, really good narrow AI or systems of narrow AI.
Shout out to http://phonespell.org, on the internet since 1995.

> What language is PhoneSpell written in?

> PhoneSpell is a system of multiple parts, some in C++, some in Perl, some in C, some in shtml, and some in shell scripts.

Checks out.
Well, here's an actual photo they could have used: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/29/japan/science-h...

And here is an earlier rendering from 2021: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/31/national/japan-...

And it only took a simple Google search to find, from a reputable news source.
Good!

You want to live in a place in which if you work your bollocks off, you will be rewarded handsomely for it.

The alternative is something like the UK, in which it's very difficult to "make it" because pre-existing / inherited wealth is dominant and highly paid jobs are very thin on the ground.

You don't want that. Unless you're already rich, then sure, it's great.
> BRICS GDP in Purchase Power Parity terms has surpassed the G-7, their growth rate is also bigger

Yes, random arrangement of countries beats another in a stat.

Two of the BRICS are increasing military tensions with each other. One just saw a massive change in government, and with it, possible geopolitical alignment. Another is in the shitter.

The dollar should wane in importance alongside China’s rise. But BRICS sure as hell won’t have anything to do with it.
Just what I needed - some nightmare fuel before I go to sleep. But putting that aside - how is Stability still going? The VC money didn't dry out yet?
A very brief check on what the SD community does with its models on Civitai will quickly correct this belief
I think every "effective tax rate" calculation, which necessarily combines several things, needs more information about methods ... but I think your statement sounds pretty backwards.

E.g. this seems pretty methodical and finds 13.5% for CA and 8.6% for TX.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/tax-burden-by-state...
In the heydays of Dark age of Camelot, a friend of mine hacked together a lego robot to craft all day long on their home computer while they were at work.

I'll ask them if they can open-source the design :)
> they aren’t buying a lot of new American bonds

Because they’re deficit spending.
> Really, the reason the US Dollar has held for so long is because the rest of the world has had a lot of instability (think world wars, governance changes, unions of countries formed or abolished, etc.). The US hasn’t even had a change in states in 60 years.

Yes and no. What you're not comsidering is the obligation of The US Federal Reserve (aka The Fed). While dollars are international, The Fed's only concern is the US and US citizens. That is, often enough The Fed makes decisions that achieve this ends, but screws the rest of the world. Such decisions become self-serving to the USA's power, influence, etc. That decision undermines other countries, economies, etc.

So yeah, the USD is stabler, and The Fed helps to see to that.
I think a lot of this is explained by the crazy gross margins we see from tech companies. Typically, the more software-focused the company the higher the gross margins. The higher the margins, the more you can pay workers.

Apple's gross margin is 46% (lots of hardware), Google's is 58%, and Meta's is 83%. Meanwhile, Ford's gross margin is 8.4% and Walmart's is 25%.
Many of the most popular finetuned models are sponsored by paid image generation services, which provide either funding or GPU time for training. Those generation services won't be able to use SD3 under the current licensing, so there will be no incentive for them to sponsor improvements.
Sounds like they added token to all requests done by the plugin, so when you opened a pull request and linked an image from 3rd party, the 3rd party would receive your token.
could this just be stock?

people get a salary + a percentage of their salary in stock

If the stock is going up non-linearly, wouldn't earnings be skewed. Especially new people compared to people vesting stuff from a couple years back.

or are people getting salaries of 500k irrespective of stock? are they matching salaries to stock of other companies?
The main application here would be that the RP2040 only has a single XIP QSPI bus. If you extend its memory by hooking up PSRAM to that bus, you can't boot because the chip loads all its code from QSPI. If you hook flash up to that bus, you don't have any way to add extra memory.

FRAM would allow you to have your cake and write it: your application code survives a reboot, and (if the chip were to gain write support) the remaining space could be treated like PSRAM.
there's always something to complain about, isn't there?
Agree. And, in both cases I think there is a lot of "be careful what you wish for"
Lamini Memory Tuning: 10x Fewer Hallucinations
Very clever. And it looks like the analysis is local only which skills address privacy concerns.
Oh man do I mention Horseshoe alot... Its all extremism either way.
So cool. No more privacy concerns!
> american prosperity requires a healthy global demand of US dollars

The supply chains create the international demand for dollars and dollar-denominated assets. That then reinforces the supply chains. But causation starts with America being a massive producer and consumer.
I don't see a future here that doesn't involve significant legislation over network security and include jail time for major offenses. Every time something like this happens, there's always that organizational Cassandra (usually the CISO) that saw it all coming but was ignored. Sooner or later someone will get burned badly enough that the consensus will be that tech cannot regulate itself on security. We've already got this a little bit for the most egregious cases, but it's still about as secure as banks in the 1920s.

A less actionable gripe I have is that we have so few players that even if the US government loses trust in Microsoft's cloud...where else will they go? There aren't a lot of players here that could handle that scale. It's like if there were only 3 banks in the world.
This is more of a frontend thing and not entirely relevant, but just having the ability to select a part of a LLM's response and quickly get a definition or overview of the selected text would be immensely useful.

There's many times where I just want a deeper understanding of individual terms or concepts in the conversation, and I don't want to ask about them in the same conversation so as to preserve context. Also don't want to jump between conversations. Having them in the same interface would be awesome.
Plot twist: This isn't monstrous; it's just how AI envisions our future!
Title seems a little clickbaity. It's on-device scanning, which is off by default, and seems primarily designed to help you get content warnings on incoming content.
A low-level policy or NN controller called Humanoid Shadowing Transformer is trained via reinforcement learning in simulation using an existing 40-hour human motion dataset (AMASS). This policy allows the humanoid to shadow/imitate human motions in real-time using just an RGB camera.

Through the real-time shadowing, human operators can then teleoperate the humanoid to collect egocentric vision data of the humanoid performing various tasks.

This collected real-world data is then used to train vision-based high-level policies called Humanoid Imitation Transformers via supervised behavior cloning. These policies enable the humanoid to autonomously perform the tasks.

Number of human demonstrations were needed per task:

Wear a Shoe and Walk: 40 demos

Fold Clothes: 40 demos

Rearrange Objects: 30 demos

Type "AI": 30 demos

Two-Robot Greeting: 30 demos

"Warehouse": 25 demos

According to bill of materials the robot can be 3D printed and assembled for $107,945.41 [0]

[0]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SOrTv9INAKD5Yd9oLjfND1N7...
It’s the beginning of the end. The end is always super slow, then suddenly fast.
Deploying Llama3 70B on AWS – GPU Requirement, Cost and Step-by-Step Guide
It looks to me like a sign that OpenAI is getting more comfortable with revealing their true colors.