skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I owe a great deal of my mathematical maturity to going through nearly every AoPS book published in middle and high school :)
Intel has spent the last 25 years training consumers to look for the "intel inside" sticker. It's the only thing that's kept intel afloat while they butcher their engineering tallent.

People shouldn't care, but they do.
There is the unfortunately plausible scenario of the US Congress suffering a fit of insanity and blocking the ability of the Treasury to make a timely payment.

It's hard to say what the outcome of such a move would be, but one possibility is Treasuries taking a large haircut, but without triggering the sort of collapse that would swallow FDIC along with everything else.
This doesn't happen
The songs are not generated by AI. The lyrics were written by hand.
Terrorists hate this one weird trick!
This article isn't about WFH. The CEOs are in office, but commute from another city during the workweek.
I naively assumed the “airbrushed” effect AI photos have was just a way of blending components of the training data to make it look normal — opposite the way a collage of magazine clippings would appear.
Integration tests can (and often do) suffer from the same issues since being composed of poorly-testable pieces doesn’t make things any more testable.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mocks at all are evil when done for anything except external services not under your control. And then, what you should be making is a trivial fake implementation of the other end, not just checking that specific methods were called.
Ah man. Back in my university days, I worked in an infectious disease (HIV) lab that shared space with some GI docs. Went down to Mexico and came back with enteropathogenic e. coli. While they were super happy to get some fun samples and blood works, I've never felt sicker in my life.

My side would immortalize b-cells with Epstein-Barr... but that experience left me with a healthy respect for e coli.
Using computers in general outside of work is quickly becoming a thing of the past too.
Something to ruminate on!

At first blush, what is HN.

At second, the principle of individuation as the shadow of the Apollonian|X

[we’re taking GT seriiusly here, yes?]
Looks like Belkin has a USB-C cable for VR headsets, which breaks out to DisplayPort (video) and USB-A (data) connectors, https://www.belkin.com/support-article/?articleNum=316883
apple: "Out latest laptop has <magic maguffin>!"

consumer, at the store: "why doesn't this thing have <magic maguffin>!? bring me something that has <magic maguffin>!!!"
This isn't an article about WFH. It's an article about long commutes to the office -- in the case of the Starbucks CEO, about 1000 miles.
Regardless of the reason, he gave many kids who couldn't afford to pay, a way to access movies and TV shows. I haven't watched a movie or a TV show for the past 20 years because its a waste of time for kids, but when I was young and couldn't afford to pay, I would use mega
Beyond Human / Jazz Popcorn Robot
I would argue that since authenticating a person’s identity requires one to prove or show that they are genuinely that person, and since providing an SSN does prove I am a particular person, providing an SSN is not a means of authenticating a person’s identity.
> It's absolutely common for many 30 year career stretches to never actually see a decent hard-working executive out in the wild.

Really? In my bubble this is far from common and more likely ignorance to what executives are doing. Execs tend to become so because they are highly motivated people willing to dedicate themself to their jobs.

I had an employee once would would constantly complain about their old bosses, all of them as far as I could see. He was a really smart guy with potential but so negative about anyhting leadership. One day I decided to roll the dice and said something like "you always talk about how bad your bosses are, and no doubt you'll add me to the list when you move to the next company. Have you ever considered we all get a bad boss or two, but when every boss is bad maybe you're the problem not them". I knew this was a risky move but it worked. He took it on board and became a much better contributor and dropped this 'all bosses are bad' type approach.
Most of the people on this site are not measured like that either; they're salaried employees. Nobody here is falsely claiming they work insane hours when they're spending all their time on recreation though.
You will next be parroting from a book that the Russian and French revolutions were genuine uprisings by the people of those two countries. It is quite obvious both revolutions were set ups by external powers and attempts to genocide the populations of those countries. Lenin was just an actor. Lol “rejoin the struggle” you are such a brainlet
"Available in beta in New Jersey"
You need to get the money to an actual bank, an extra hop is just extra delay and cause for problems. See links to examples of failed wire transfer below.
My guess is any kind of "suspicious" wire can be held for manual review.
The Hermes fine-tune for 8b is nearly approaching GPT3.5 Turbo on HellaSwag/MMLU.

https://context.ai/model/gpt-3-5-turbo

Really exciting times.
what do you recommend then? To transfer large amounts to my personal bank via ACH, and then perform a wire from my physical bank?
Dynamic Heap Memory System Calls in C's stdlib.h [video]
Ask it to output the occurrences as items in a JSON array, then count the array items in code
It's a surprising and very welcome change. Most will benefit.

If you have more than $10M revenue, why on earth would you run the limited open core version of CochroachDB just to save some $1K-$10K (which is about the enterprise license cost). The open core version has limitations you don't want to miss esp. reg. backup and restore, encryption, follower reads. Now all those features are available for free if you're small.
Ah yes, the "if you're truly right clearly you would be rich using that information to trade" argument. Would you be willing to consider that the market is not always smart or a good measure of how we should value things?
>> They never say it in the article but it’s COBAL

You mean COBOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
Could just be different workflows.

I didn’t get anything from messing with LLM’s but I also don’t get much use out of stack overflow even as some people spend hours a week on that site. It’s not a question of skill just the nature of the work.
I thought this was going to be about deals with VCs.
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/tree/6ded42edd7ae203e...

I am struggling to understand who the overlap between people who can accurately assess the risk of each of these implementations and correctly find them ok (graduate level cryptography?) and people who cannot get pyca or openssl to compile is.

For offline operation maybe a case could be made that timing side channels aren't an issue in practice, but this is explicitly network software.
I was thinking the Rats if NIMH. They need a bit more than long life and intelligence for the pandimensional beings posing as mice.
Last summer was like a million years ago! You should try again :)
I'm a long time F-Droid user and have never seen this. Under what circumstances?
Why, to pay higher fees for the same thing?
The FDIC keeps its own money in treasuries.
It's often said that a picture is worth a thousand words. And there's no succinct picture that reliably convey that concept, at the same time. Human cognition must be simply cross-modal.
This is true, but so can any Zelle or other real time payment if flagged by fraud or anti money laundering heuristics.
Obviously it also includes anyone who criticizes the power of the state and the status quo. I think we've been unironically in the intersection of 1984, Brave New World, socialism and communism, for the past decade. Just like when you are in the middle of a storm you don't realize how bad it is until you are looking at it from the outside, people will see how much of a dystopia this is in a few decades.
I see no reason why the "privileged laptop class" cannot have their quality of life improved still further. We don't stop at trying to help the "privileged potable-water-having class" or the "privileged sheltered class". If it's not hurting anyone else, why call it out?
What realistic scenario do you envision that you would need / want to move a large amount of money with a 24h notice ? And what would be the reasons why that can't wait one more day if the transfer doesn't work out ?
They might have to be that way to buy them new from the factory.

But the moment it belongs to you and even before you leave the lot, you can have illegal aftermarket exhaust systems installed that not one governing body in the United States, nor most of the rest of the world, will come close to enforcing any noise or emissions laws against.
It’s just the typical aesthetic model used and isn’t inherent to the tech itself. It’s very easy to make AI images in specific art styles, with the result that you can’t tell they’re not real.

This is actually something of a pet peeve of mine - people sharing AI images never use styles other than the generic shiny one, and so places like Reddit.com/r/midjourney are filled with the same exact style of images.

Edit: if you’re looking for other style inspiration ideas, this website is a great resource for Midjourney keywords: https://midlibrary.io/styles
To be overly pedantic, there is an added risk of fraud from the fund manager. If a savings bank embezzles your money, the FDIC will make you whole, and do so rather quickly. If your MM manager does so, you have to get in line and hold out your hat.

The risk of e.g. Vanguard doing this is also probably negligible.
> but at worst that seems to be twice as expensive as a common price for a 850 page book?

Huh? https://www.amazon.com/Fires-Heaven-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/03128...

Hardcover for $24.49 (703 pages), paperback for $16.99 (848 pages).
Steamboat Willie.
What rubbish is this?

Does the author not understand entropy or probability?

Deriving an RSA key from the product of two memorizable numbers makes it brute-force-able, and sends us back to 1990s export controlled encryption strength.

Tattoo-ing a key on one’s arm (however ridiculous) would be better than the methods here.
> secondarily it is likely due to a desire to ensure that ai images have a distinct look

This does not make sense and seems like conjecture, do you have a source?
Models have Goodharted themselves into oblivion. That's the result of endless cycles of aesthetic preference optimization, training on synthetic data, repeat ad nauseam.
yeah but if I get a 4.25% FDIC insured I’ll prefer that and take the 0.75% loss.
https://www.crisesnotes.com/i-got-the-fed-to-release-its-201...
Lots of reasons, joint accounts, name mismatch, weird names, fat finger by bank employee, missing odd info deemed necessary by the receiving bank, fraud/money laundering holds. One of my very normal wire transfers of not even a huge amount arrived next day for no reason, defeating its purpose, and neither Fidelity nor the receiving bank had any explanation, or really knew anything about it, without a formal trace. Fidelity after all is not a bank. They'd have to check with their own bank.
Is the concern that the output weights infringe on copyright, or that the the training material itself was obtained and used in a manner inconsistent with copyright law?
I'm curious to what degree TikTok could be used to detect precrime.

Once a person turns 18, he must pass through The Video Room. After he swipes through videos for an hour, investigators can predict his cognitive, sexual, and criminal future. He gets sorted from there.

Assume a likely future of increased crime and weakened human rights laws. And assume likely future advances in recommendation algorithms, auto-generated material, pupil dilation trackers, heart rate and skin temperature monitors, etc.

This is possible now. What's stopping it from being widely used? How many checks and balances are we away from this?
Does that include motorcycles that have illegal aftermarket exhaust systems with all emission controls removed in an effort to make them as loud as possible? This accounts for about 80% of them, so it's irrelevant how they function by design.
Cost. I added up the cost of subscriptions to cover what I read for "free," and it came to over $2500/yr. Then, there is the inability to archive stories without going to paper and turning my house into a hoarder's palace.
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A lot of (non-AI) photos of humans tend to be airbrushed by (human) photo editors -- this removes natural imperfections -- like patchy skin, acne, discolouration etc.

In AI models, I think the pictures the AI generates is biased to generate is also a form of "airbrush" except the model makes the reflectivity of the images high -- simply to hide the fact that there _arent_ any imperfections that would make the photo more realistic.

In other words, gloss is just a form of airbrushing -- AI does it to hide the fact that there are no more details available.

I would guess that AI models could make the airbrush more like the airbrush human photo editors do by changing some hyper-parameters of their models.
Are you actually on call? Like, do you have a beeper next to you? Will you suffer consequences if you don't respond? There is "oh things aren't going great I guess I need to cut my vacation to Austria short" and then there is "I cannot go out for drinks, I cannot take a nap, I must have my company laptop with me and with good Wi-Fi" on-call. Oh, and for the latter you're getting paid a few hundred an hour at best. Just putting that out there.
There _was_ a death certificate, just not his

>probably a paperwork mixed up around pensions when his ex-spouse died
I mean, anything can be done poorly. But consider that the team that builds the vehicles you drive is not the same as the team that tested said vehicle for safety concerns.

That is, you can have a solid testing team for pretty much anything. You have to empower them, though. Largely, a lot of what you get to empower them with is ability to put constraints onto the engineering team.

This could be crappy constraints that are far sweeping on the product. There is no need that it has to be that, though. The only constraint you have to have is stability of product interface. Which.... yeah, our industry doesn't do that so well. (Note, not stability as in "doesn't crash." Stability as in, same inputs that worked last year work today.)
what's the fun in that though?

i have the impression, that the main motivation for this project was learning the intricacies of TMDS encoding and providing an open implementation as reference for other ppl, who want to learn too.

there are too many black box electronics these days, so it's very much welcome to virtually open them up, by providing software equivalents of their operation.
Glad I could help… consider using the session to determine access and then just send an HTTP 403 or whatever instead of the actual images
You can get higher than that w/ fdic too. I use wealthfront and it's been great so far. Currently 5%
I'm pretty sure that's why some user marking themselves as 3 strawberry emojis accomplished a 3333333.33% success rate.
To make transfers faster and more convenient.
How did a user with 3 strawberries as their name achieve a 3333333.33% success rate?

EDIT: After asking this instead of responding back to me they just removed it. But it obviously shows how lacking their system is.
How to get a job in ML as a New Grad
There is no “the set” of trusted notaries

Each coin has a few notaries — not the majority of the network. Did you even glance at all at the arxiv paper?
Unless something very different in the US is available to what I can get in the UK, I think this is very dangerous advice.

If I put £100 in a savings account with 4% interest, I can withdraw that £100 (plus interest) at any time.

If I buy put £100 into government bonds with 4% yield and I check back in a year's time, if bond yields have increased (say, due to increased base rate) then the "balance" I can withdraw is _less_ than £100, since the underlying bond is less valuable!

Putting money in bonds exposes you to market volatility, which banks shield you from (which is why they get to take a cut)

Edit: a money market fund appears to absorb this volatility for you by balancing their bond portfolio, but ultimately you are still relying on the fund being well managed. The failure mode here isn't the govt not paying the coupon on the bond - it's the fund not having the liquidity to pay you if you withdraw. I don't understand enough how money markets are regulated to understand the risk, whereas banks are required to have deposit insurance in UK & US.
Would you be willing to consider that some half baked theory about why CEOs are the manifestation of luck is actually just an unhealthy way of coping with failures?
I misread the title as "CEOs are ruining companies from afar...", and found myself agreeing.

I sense that, CEOs are often ignorant of day-to-day (and even month-to-month) realities of what's going on in their own company (probably unavoidable at large corps).

Basically, they have an "astronaut's eye view", so their decisions/strategy are essentially just them operating while untethered to Reality, just going off of intuition. Sometimes, that guides them well, and they do a good job of "running things". Other times, they're just "ruining things"

When they do the former, the public valorizes them, and when they fail... well, they get to try again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As far as I can tell the article doesn't specifically suggest VUSXX over the default Vanguard VMFXX (or a range of other acceptable money market funds).

The author does get into it more here: https://thefinancebuff.com/best-vanguard-money-market-fund-y... , but there isn't one clear best for everyone.
Have worked in newpsapers. Can confirm the "Journalism is sacred" attitude, accompanied by a "we don't need to think of the economics or the reader - we write what we (i.e. other journalists) think is good copy, and someone needs to pay us for doing that" attitude.

The stupid thing is, though, that they're right. Our democracies need investigative journalism to survive, or we get what we're seeing now - corrupt politicians looting the public coffers. What has happened in the UK over the last ten years would not have happened back in the 90's, not because politicians were better people back then, but because the journalists would have had a field day reporting on their shenanigans.

You can't have this paid for by taxes. The BBC in the UK, and the ABC in Australia, have both been suspiciously quiet about government shenanigans and have generally not rocked the boat, which desperately needed rocking at times. There's just too much weight behind the never-spoken-out-loud threat of revoking the charter if the boat gets rocked too much.

We're seeing news organisations funded by billionaires, but they do interfere editorially, and we know that, and more importantly the politicians know that. Billionaires can be leant on to stop investigative journalists from doing their thing.

It needs to be funded by the readers. But the readers are reluctant to pay for this (as TFA says). It's a conundrum, but we need to sort it out soon.
must be the arrival of agi
Phishing and Ransomware disrupts payment systems in India
How is "Now one for egui, please" not a request? Are you suggesting that was just a wish you're putting out into the universe hoping someone fulfills it? "please" is a word you use as a request, typically.
Entitlement w.r.t open source just kills me.
“In a few decades” assumes we gain the perspective to see the storm from the outside, to use your analogy. I certainly hope we gain that perspective and are able to learn from our mistakes until we make them again when the pendulum swings once again.
It’s not nuts when you stop being intentionally obtuse and speak plainly: yes, child abuse material can be represented by a variety of mathematical means, but it’s abhorrent nature makes it morally correct for those laws to exist.
Money market funds and short term t-bills are basically always liquid at face value, unlike longer term bonds. They fall below investment value maybe once per 50 years and that usually lasts a couple days.
Social botnets and the challenges of situation awareness
> Why won't some people pay for propaganda?

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes... is why I don't btw
I think theres some detail missing. Are you talking about someone crafting a prompt to generate simulated child pornography and being held accountable for the action and content?
Yes and some people don't appreciate that some jobs really do require quiet focus for extended periods of time.

Asking someone to be a programmer in a loud chaotic open office environment is not dissimilar to asking them to program while juggling two balls and sitting on a unicycle. Its just excess difficulty that doesn't need to be added on top of the jobs.
Mid 30s is not bad -- I did that in my mid 40s :-\

It's eye opening, it feels like I got lied to growing up. Both of my kids have money market accounts now.

Great quote btw, I'm reminded of it regularly.
What’s the FDIC going to do for you when the treasuries it uses to hold its own funds are in default?
I'm not sure I'm able to help since I'm not from the US.

My current job pays 90k when converted to USD, but my employer is based in Germany. Most employees live all over Europe, and nobody is forced to live in any particular expensive city we have an office at.

You probably should be able to negotiate a better wage in those 60k jobs based on experience.
Nope, you missed the point. Google isn't paying apple for advertisers, they are paying for distribution of eyeballs. You get the eyes, you get the ads.
To this date there's no RAD experience faster than Visual Basic 6.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what godot is. I would like to know more though if you're so inclined.

(Surely not the game engine? That's the only thing my disambiguation machinery can come up with.)
Consider? Sure. I see a lot of evidence that points away from it, though.
Part of this was Zuckerberg outright lying to everyone about video's impact. I was involved in a newspaper doing this and we did a big push to video because FB told us it got more impact. Actually digging into the numbers showed this wasn't true, or if it was then people weren't clicking through the video to somewhere we could serve ads to them. It ended up losing us money and diverting time and effort when it was sorely needed elsewhere.
It’s a common deficiency especially in the winter, but most people don’t benefit from regular supplements.

At least assuming 20ng/mL is a reasonable minimum. Some people suggest that’s a little low, but there’s real issues with excess vitamin D.
Tile a ton of these photos into one large image, grayscale it and threshold for high brightness, then apply a lossless image compression algorithm. Compare it with the combined size of the same process on each image individually. I bet (excluding the amortized cost of file metadata overhead) the tiled image will be smaller in terms of bits per pixel, suggesting correlation.

Also, the perplexity is 2^H(x) ~ 2^len(compressed(x)) when compressed optimally. You could compare it to an image of the same size where each pixel, on average, draws values from a uniform '2^H(x)'-sided die. So you could use this trick to compare it to other images, lets say.
Addendum: 1,000km of neutron star material would block 50% of solar energy neutrinos.

Unfortunately, a neutron star larger than 22km diameter collapses into a black hole.
Hadn't heard of vast.ai before and looked into it. The prices seem really good. Then saw "Our software allows anyone to easily become a host by renting out their hardware."

Ya, that's a no from me.