skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading through more of the article:

> I knew that I technically had friends, but none of them ever seemed to want to hang out. Even if the six-pack friend still lived in Brooklyn, I had a hunch that now that she has a toddler, her visits wouldn’t be as frequent or as spontaneous as they had been a decade ago. I couldn’t remember the last time I had gotten a text that said something like “what’s up tonight?”

When was the last time the author sent a text? Why is it on the friend with the toddler to initiate? The author knows she has a friend close by, a friend whose time is now limited - so make the effort, damn you, take the subway to Brooklyn and hang out at 2pm at the playground. Or hell, plenty of bars are perfectly happy to serve a beer to someone with a baby stroller while the baby takes a nap.

Does this person actually like this friend, or did she just like the things they did together?
Sounds like a really interesting technical challenge.

Couple of issues I can see: (1) most devices out there would probably be mobile, so no NVIDIA/CUDA for you; (2) even with binding to, say, Apple Silicon, you might still be memory limited, i.e. can you fit the entire net on a single mobile GPU; (3) network latency?
Back in the day it would have been animals.bmp, drawn on Paint
I think you have it backwards.

Software exists in the real world, and is used to solve real world problem. In building software we inevitably invent or use abstractions to represent or effect real world things. Abstractions that make it easier to do this are good, abstractions that make it harder to do this are just getting in the way.
Bye-bye Bitcoin, hello AI: Texas miners leave crypto for next new wave
The big deal about Datalog is that it is equivalent to SQL-with-recursion. Thus, it can compile to database queries.
Oh well, I guess we'll never get there then.

At least not until we invent time travel.

Too bad.
If you're looking for the simplest possible replacements, MessagePack (for data in transit) and SQLite (for data at rest) are worth considering
I've done spreadsheets are all you need. The questioning isn't based on a misunderstanding that this is autocomplete with an insane dataset, but given a black box, how else do you want it to explain how it works?
There are many ways to extract value using a commodity: in OpenAI's case (and a few other LLM providers), the current strategy appears to be lock-in with additional services.
I notice it did not go down despite the HN hug of death !
I can confirm on the 'weird' side, though those are a subset of the current situation.

IMO that is due to the general uncertainty caused by the current socio/political quagmire, and resulting confusion at the executive level.

Is this going to be a 'pro-Business' dictatorship with low interest rates even with rampant inflation?

Is it going to be a socialist utopia taxing the hell out of billionaires, and with high interest rates and moderate inflation?

Is the real economy going to crash? Or go up like crazy?

Is the country going to turn into a third world kleptocracy, or get it's act together and be a shining beacon of capitalism?

Who the fuck knows.

Both of those look VERY different from the investor, financial, and hiring side.
If you have mental health issues and you try to self medicate with psychedelics just know you’re playing with fire. I’ve had one positive-ish and three negative-ish ones myself. I get a lot of anxiety and mania for some reason on the second half which tends to make me kind of spiral and there’s sometimes not much to grab onto when you’re deep in it. If you really must do it alone , having something like a benzo on hand can help if things go off the rails.
Have you been outside the capital in Albania? I visited Tirana and was quite surprised (pleasantly) but didn't have time to adventure further
I looked very superficially and found this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=275FQ9koAw8
I have a hard time believing that most people, in a social context, would be turned off from continuing to engage in someone because they are a magazine columnist. Personally, were I to witness someone writing off a whole human being because of such a normal job, I'd make sure to curate that person out of my life.
Nothing can really prepare you though.
I enjoyed the website.

It just needed a marquee, blink, visit counter, guestbook, under construction disclaimer, some pixelated 256 color palette animated gif, and you would become one of us.
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Do you have children? One of the things I didn’t appreciate before becoming a parent is just how little my child actually knows about the world around him. There are so many situations where it’s actually neglectful parenting to just let him do what he wants. A really visceral example is that he likes chewing on things he finds around him. As you can imagine there are tons of things he can chew on that will make him really sick, and I can’t always remove him from public places to avoid those things, so I have to prevent him from putting his mouth on those things. How can you be so sure that using smartphones isn’t one of that class of harmful behaviors that a parent is neglectful for not preventing? As another example, teenagers are also wired by hormones to want to become sexually active. But this isn’t always in their best interest.

As a parent you have to make decisions with your child’s best interests at heart even when you know they conflict with the child’s desires. Doing this is not narcissistic it’s just good parenting.
I think enough people have already demonstrated that they essentially don't care. À la “facebook knows you're pregnant before you do” – and now so will “Open”“AI”.
Yeah, this was my reaction. "A month? Do you even know what a friend is?" Maybe a year, if you are spending a lot of time together.
Generative AI is is a subset of deep learning which is a subset of machine learning.

Note there are a huge number of other ML approaches, two that are useful in tabular data (where LLMs tend to fail) are

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/linear_model.html#lo...

and

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/ensemble.html

of which XGBoost is still winning competitions.

There is also the “old AI” based on logic that is doing well, see Donald Knuth’s notes on developments in SAT

https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~MRPRITT/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=in...
Llama3 8b is in no way equivalent to Gemini Flash or gpt-4o mini.
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I've heard this a lot of times and never found the hotel to actually be cheaper than whichever hotel aggregator. It's usually more by $10-$20/night. The hotel call is useful for confirming particular requirements, but I still book elsewhere (even after informing them of the online price, I'm always told to book online to achieve it).
IT and general CS skills are good. Accounting, medicine, mechanical skills; the latter may not be desk jobs but they'll keep you out of the way.

Get a back back or bad knees. Work on getting really fat. Asthma helps.
as a person with a toddler, I would LOVE if more people wanted to hang out. having a young child is very tough if you already have a job, but when my friends join me for walks where I push my daughter around in a stroller, its great. Having a toddler does not make people want to be alone!
As posted in another thread, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence
This feels like less of a case of 'American loneliness' and more a case of the author idolizing being in her 20s and projecting the same standards onto her 30s, when people typically have many more responsibilities.

Of course people who you don't even work with (and thus don't share a schedule with) likely won't be available on a whim. Even more so if they have young kids to plan around. Once the kids are a bit older, it gets easier again, as the kids can take care of themselves to an extent, and you can find common ground with and befriend the parents of their friends.
I haven't see the movie (only a few clips), but I enjoyed hearing this analogy from Steve Jobs himself in many of his interviews [0].

Just checked the part [1] of the movie where Michael Fassbender talks about the bicycle of the mind. He is a very good actor but it's hard to match the energy and the electric focus of Steve Jobs.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8

[1] https://youtu.be/BZYZlzIMVw8?si=u8X_mc4BX62ypRZw&t=98
I may be wrong, but I think apply() was there in an early version of python, maybe 1.5.
Always a pleasure to see we're in a good company. I've had the misfortune of being raised in this place:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aXkHEfX42aNp2yxV9

Combine a large lead smelting plant with one of the world's largest producers of (unenriched) uranium, and a dozen other metals like copper and zinc. Add zero effective environmental regulation on top, and you get us.

According to government data, lead concentrations in the top soil are measured in hundreds to several thousands of milligrams per kilogram, depending on location. The norm is low dozens, if I am not mistaken.

No blood level studies have been done since the end of the 1980s. Thanks to this link, I at least have a reference point from a relatively transparent and accountable society. All I can say, back when I was in middle to high school, it felt like every other kid was diagnosed with anemia (yours truly included), and skin conditions like atopic dermatitis or recurring abscesses covering half the body were very common.

Personally I have never felt like having a sharp mind, but it's difficult to say how much impact lead may have had on this.

This is how it typically looks on the ground, if you're interested:

https://imgur.com/a/HyT1B5p

Don't know why I'm writing all this, I guess to let it be known that there are far worse places out there than a couple of small Australian towns (with what to me looks like very clean air).
You can do this by being a franchise owner too, or by being a real estate agent, or lots of other flexible careers, but he's not choosing those paths and exploring why will help him figure out what it is he is really after. He already has a comfortable life and could probably live frugally and then live off investment income in much less than 30 years if that was what his main motivation was, but I think ultimately even if he succeeded at that he would find that his original lack of meaning remained, just with more time in the day.
There’s also articles for pre-training BERT models on hardware resources a small lab could afford. Those are still useful, too, even if not highly competitive. So, they could still have value for low-cost, small, model development.
lotta truck drivers getting killed by drones in Ukraine.

in Iraq logistical convoys got hit so often they created a new type of combat ribbon for them.

the logistical planners are sitting at desks, but to get that job you're already a logistics officer right now
That's far from guaranteed.

With an average fertility rate of 1, which is higher than that of many countries including where I live, even complete immortality would lead to an asymptotic population. Since some people will still inevitably die in accidents even if aging is solved, a fertility rate of 1 would be a declining population even with unlimited lifespans.
Browsers are very lenient when it comes to HTML parsing. In fact, one of the reasons why HTML sanitization libraries like DOMPurify are so complex is because browsers will tolerate all sorts of twisted broken markup.
It’s even a good bit further west than Vienna.
Uh..

That would almost be worse. All copyright holders would need to do is search a list of titles if I'm understanding your proposal correctly.

The idea is not to get sued.
> overdone analysis

But isn't that the point of writing an article like this?

We're not reading someone's diary; we're reading someone's homework, and the assignment was "go out and make a friend in a month, and then write about it in an insightful and critical way."
It is very interesting to note that the same depersonalization is experienced after a long, deep meditative practice. I realized that this meditative depersonalization was same as when I was really mad.
This vaguely reminds me of "CCSTN" (Color Coded Super Twisted Nematic) LCD displays, which were used in a few Casio calculators to produce basic colour output without the usual RGB colour filter approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quB60FmzHKQ

https://web.archive.org/web/20240302185148/https://www.zephr...
Call me paranoid but seems like if Kaspersky is indeed dodgy this would be a great way to get as much info/access as possible on the way out.
> What I'd worry about is Amazon/Cloudflare repackaging my model and outcompeting my platform.

Why let Amazon/Cloudflare repackage it?
I was on that sleeper a week ago, most soviet thing ever! How long did it take for your conductor to take his top off?
I'm sure if Jobs were alive to see the Cybertruck, he'd think that Musk has no taste.
Isn’t the same person held accountable both with and without the algorithm: no one?
Unless the police man makes a radically obviously wrong decision, isn’t he protected by immunity anyways? If he’s properly weighing the options and makes a decision according to the orders, what would happen to them?
I've found as an adult that most people don't seem to be looking for new friends, not really

They either have a well established group of friends, or they have other things keeping them too busy for new friends

New friends kind of take a lot of work! If you don't spend time together it's very easy for it to slide away. So to make new friends you have to have some shared free time that you're both willing to give up to try and build that friendship

That's why so much advice about making friends isn't about the person, it's about finding a shared activity to spend time with that person. So you're both still making use of that time even if the friendship winds up not working out
Istio from a to Y
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My wife likes riding bikes, and she likes LED and glowy things, so she started riding in several LED night bike rides, where the people cover their bikes with LEDs. She's made so many friends there, and with my tech expertise we've created so many LED things - it's kind of our new hobby. Now she's the belle of the LED ball. It was a very easy place to make new friends of all ages.
There are a few of these sorts of tricks that can render you effectively invisible. I became fascinated by them a lifetime ago when I was a janitor (back when janitors carried a huge ring of keys on them):

If you look scruffy-ish, carry a large ring of keys on your hip, walk fast as if you know exactly where you're going and are pissed off that you have to go there, then you could walk around anywhere without being challenged. Most people won't even register that they saw you.
This is super cool!

I can certainly see these being useful in informational displays, such as rendering colored terminal output. The lack of subpixels should make for crisp text and bright colors.

I don't see this taking over the general purpose display industry, however, as it looks like the current design is incapable of making white.
I love, how the path for the computer page is "/unicorncopy". Already thinks like a real pro!
Or... Read code you depend for understanding before you use it. Then once you have something that works; lock it in. Repeat every update.

Suddenly backdoor threat will plummet, because every time some bastard violates the principle of least surprise, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Code dependence, much like codependence, is harmful in excess.
I got laid off for the first time in my life last year and spent three months doing an absolutely grueling job search. I got extremely lucky and found work eventually, but now I have that fear implanted in my brain that there's no way to know how long it will last.

Now I save as much money as I possibly can so that next time it happens, I have a comfortable amount of time to find a job.
I expect it’s less offensive in full form than it is in its clickbait title, but this line of thinking is beyond disturbing to me.

As someone who doesn’t have children and likely never will, I can think of few things more upsetting than reckoning with the judgmental attitudes of the “I made a baby” crowd. If making a baby is what it took for you to become a human being, that says way more about you than it does about birthing a child.

Yet it’s people who think like this who will be coming with pitchforks for those of us who wouldn’t — or, imagine it, couldn’t - feed the meat grinder. De-humanizing language is a requirement for such a movement.
It's also flat-out wrong. There are many skills and hobbies you can pick up in a month, or hell, a day.

I recently started running some local D&D games, abd I am more than happy to teach folks new to the hobby, and it's very easy to pick up, especially with a supportive group of players & DM.

(And given the topic we're discussing, I'm hoping that some of the people I play with end up becoming my friends - though they're not there yet, because as I've said elsewhere, it takes time and we haven't accrued enough yet.)
I actually meant execution speed from quantisation awareness - agreed that comparing against smaller models is a bit cheating.
I feel like video games just solve this problem entirely for me. I've got people in my book club I met in DotA pubs, we check in and talk about life, I've designed toys for their kids. I probably add one or two friends per year that stick around long term. I guess multiplayer video games aren't for everyone but I find that if you're kind and communicative on the mic the friends make themselves.
> I don't abuse alcohol and never touched drugs.

Fix that.

> I don't care about tech anymore in the way I used to care. I don't like working with people anymore.

Fix that too or do a different career.
Rhetorical questions about why programs are not smaller
Like doctors have the Hippocratic Oath, developers should have some kind of professional code of ethics that they sign on to and can use to push back against these terrible projects. We shouldn't get to just shrug our shoulders and deflect with "business as usual."
I once tried a puzzle with a significant amount of almost completely black pieces. It was faster to just brute force the pieces than to even bother looking at their shape. All you do is sort the pieces by the number of tabs/holes, look at a specific spot you want to fill and then mindlessly try every eligible piece.
This may eventually come to life via Isolated Web Apps https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps/issues/1 or for example via webpackage https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/576

The first step along the way though is making actually secure web apps possible.

Aren't secure web apps already possible? Well, Signal among others thinks otherwise. See the Isolated Web Apps explainer for a full explanation https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps
I assume most HNers have seen this, but if you haven't seen The Mother Of All Demos, you owe it to yourself to see what was possible in 1968 but wouldn't be taken seriously for another 15-30 years. [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Cool, thanks for these details - perhaps I'm underestimating how much faster I could be learning with a tool like this - I also think how much time one is spending makes a difference - I would be chipping away a few hours a week max, had I spent more like full time I probably would have run into what you are describing.
What bothers me is what seems to be some sort of psychological distinction between "algorithm" and "process".

The cops* have had processes for years, some of which are sensible and useful and some of which are seemingly sensible but terrible, and some of which are nonsense. Over time, one hopes, the worst of the processes (or the worst steps in some processes) get winnowed out and/or replaced.

Also machinery is integrated into processes and over time its efficacy is evaluated ("shot spotters": worse than useless; police in patrol cars: better in some ways, much worse in others).

But somehow when a mechanically computed algorithm is used as a step in a process, all of this sort of reasoning goes out the window and now it's scary.

* and everybody else
> P.S. You being out here responding to every single comment without hesitation and not reconsidering your position in the slightest is a sign of bad thinking.

Funny. You make a snide remark to OP "Everyone who disagrees with me is wrong." and immediately follow it up with "here's this opinion I disagree with that is bad thinking, because they don't immediately change it based on a few comments from internet strangers".

I really, really, hope you see the hypocrisy here.
Those are just not problems. I've got an EV that has required no maintenance for 6 years, which is something that ICE cars can't achieve. I've taken very long road trips without issues, and have been able to charge off of outlets in the middle of nowhere with no gas stations nearby. I charge at home off of a regular outlet, and live where it gets very cold. The number of EVs I see driving around is steadily increasing. All of this, and the tech is only getting better.

The anti-EV people are neo-Luddites. It doesn't really matter though, because technology marches on regardless. I will say that I would not want to be an ICE owner when we hit a tipping point and gas stations start closing because most people are driving EVs.
Agree 100%: static typing (for code completion) + method/data bundling is the major win in OO, and it rarely gets talked about for whatever reason.

It's unfortunate that inheritance became such a major focus of practical OO languages. Would love to see a composition-first OO language. Might have its own problems, but would at least be interesting.