skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But art is mostly about surfacing the inner world, and only in part about skill. It’s unfortunate that art selects so strongly for skill. Can we decorrelate the two?

I don’t think the poor lad knows what Art is.

Put another way, we have hundreds of years of recorded philosophical texts and diatribes on what constitutes Art, and what art-making is. Often written by serious practitioners who dedicate their life to it rather than internet-dwelling dabblers and dilettantes. We have people who are deemed artists, not necessarily painters but people who are wired a certain way and are industrious with their abilities. Math geniuses attend certain schools and the other pupils may pick up a thing or two from them, but that doesn’t mean the other pupils are geniuses also. So too, do artists walk among us and may do what we do and we may imitate what they do. But that doesn’t put us on equal footing whatsoever.

Art doesn’t select for skill. This is a red herring and a misunderstanding. Art doesn’t select for anything, because if it did it wouldn’t be Art. This is an old somewhat trite topic that, historically, boiled down to no more than a pithy phrase: “Art cannot be taught.” as expounded by many teachers of incredible talent in their own right who have attempted to distill it into teachable material and realized their talent is not transferable as easily as they had hoped.

Most of what you read on this subject is nonsense sold to you by grifters who want your money. Now and today more than ever. I’m all for, say, “Art and Fear” and “The Art Spirit” and even a bit of “War of Art” to name some household items on the subject. These are all great recent texts. But let’s take these for what they are: self-help literature, and nothing more. The further back in literature you go the less of this patting-on-the-back attitude you get, and more serious the subject matter is treated (example: read the lectures on Art by the presidents of the Royal Academy, they are numerous, Archive has them all. One president basically tells students to choose a different profession, discussed as an aside topic in a book on portraiture from that time.)

Elsewhere in the comments people saying how art is simply good taste seem to be oblivious to the creations of artists that led them to make such a blundering conclusion. Your taste wouldn’t exist had an artist not created a thing to begin with.

We’ve used image generators for decades now. It gets the job done. The person using it may be an artist or just someone who wants a dynamic, changing generated image on the wall.
>That seems strange. There should be a portal for the credit card somewhere.

Yeah, they don't. The bank seriously needs to up their game.

> Trust no inbound call

This needs to get on their website :)
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Oh really? I never get any on my cards. Definitely not for things like groceries. Once in a blue moon they have some discounts in the credit card app but they are always discounts based on the RRP price which are totally useless because the same article is cheaper on amazon at street price.

I do have a "credit card" because some sites refuse to accept debit ones. But no cashbacks or anything. Maybe it differs by bank (I use caixabank in Spain)

The one thing I do like as a reward is that caixa funds several museums and you can get in for free if you have an account with them. But it doesn't have to be a credit card, a normal account is enough.
Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
When looking at the eM Client home page (to see more information about who bought Postbox), I noticed something at the bottom of the page:

> See how eM Client compares to other products on SourceForge.net

Something about this doesn't seem right. It has been super rare for me to find links to SourceForge for years. There are a few outlier projects, but I just don't get it here... in this space... for a commercial program. I'm not saying anything about eM Client the program (I'm sure it's quite nice), but this link for comparisons seemed off to me.
There are adult professional ersatz intellectual elites on Hacker News who refuse to recognize any meaningful difference between a chatbot and a human. A horny teenage boy doesn't stand a chance.

Everyone is up in arms about the effect of social media on emotional and mental health but that's nothing compared to LLMs that are designed to gaslight people into relating to software (and the corporations behind them) as sentient beings and to form intimate emotional bonds through natural language which can be easily exploited and manipulated. That's hacking our primate brains at a deeper level than Mark Zuckerberg could ever have dreamed of reaching.

We can't just write this off as simply the consequence of lonely parasocial people who can't tell fantasy from reality. Not when we're entering an era for which the primary interface with technology will be parasociality and fantasy.
I'm interested to hear what you think of my take on the problems with the SWEBOK and the academic "software engineering" field in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41931491.
Some employers will have healthcare concierges that help with resolving such issues. An example is HealthAdvocate[1] (no relation). I believe some of these services will take a cut (e.g. 25%) of the money they save for you.

I cannot speak to how effective these services are. My general experience with "proxy" services have not been great, due to inadequate care or training.

[1] https://www.healthadvocate.com/site/product-index/engagement...
Not sure what the time/labor looks like, but I'd easily pay $60 bucks for that. You may be able to sell them at $100 and still move quite a few.

Honestly if you dressed it up a little you could probably charge quite a bit, it's just a matter of reaching that audience.
> cannot control how much data I consume...
> iOS / Mac updates are humongous

That's definitely something you can control
Aha I see, I'm in Spain.

My bank told me they definitely favour those who can live their lives without having to take loans at all. Any loans get subtracted from the maximum possible mortgage, this includes credit cards at their maximum authorised credit level(!). Also, we have to pay 20% of a house in hard cash here so anyone looking to buy one is saving substantial money. So you have a decent buffer. There's no point in taking out credit if you can supply your own.
Asterisk Mag had a really good look at the state of the research for/against plant-based protein diets

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/02/cows-vs-chemists-the-healt...
So going back to the Liechtenstein example, if Apple did a bad there what would be the appropriate punishment? Based on what you're saying you'd want them to be fined a significant portion of their worldwide revenue, which seems absurd. It would basically deprive people living in small countries access to products from multinational companies, because nobody would want to risk 5% (or whatever) of their worldwide revenue to get 1% more market share.
For sure. It definitely lends a chicken/egg component to it. That problem can't get better without more people involved but more people aren't likely to get involved because of that problem.
That’s a reasonable expectation and desirable outcome in and of itself. Not everything needs to be intended to be art for it to be perceived as such.

Art is in the eye of the beholder.

Do you share your stories publicly? I’m curious what kind of stories you would write.

It would be cool to have an HN writing group!
Ha! I was like "Ok whatever that shit is"
Exactly this. Have heard it referred to as "break glass access". Some form of remote access, be it SSH or otherwise, in case of serious emergency.
Fitness is absolutely important. One thing I've found is that it's not just physically easier to do that work but mentally easier as I approached a healthy number on the scale.
Seventy dollars per hour equates to paying a full time employee roughly $145k per year
> If it gets stolen/someone else uses it, all I need to do is tell my bank, and since I have not paid the debt, I am not out any money. It is on the bank. If I was using a debit card, it may take a month+ to be investigated/money returned.

But if the bank still claims it was you it is still in question and they still want their money back, with interest.

> I do not believe that credit card accounts have a negative affect on mortgages. They are different types, with credit cards being revolving. As long as you are paying it off and not maintaining a valence, then it should only be a net positive (shows credit history of paying debts).

Ah I see, this does definitely not apply here in Europe. The amount you can borrow for a mortgage is reduced by the amount of loans you have, including the maximum spending limit on credit cards (even if you never use said card at all!). This is why I have a card with only 1000 euro spending limit, just for some backwards sites that don't support debit cards (there are still some unfortunately.
> And because (I think) they carry the trace of someone's voice and concentrated thought in such a particular way.

I agree wholeheartedly.
Great book. Noble House (also by Clavell) is also excellent and takes place a century later, also in Hong Kong, and about the same firm established in Tai-Pan.
I was trying to say “at least for alphabetic languages”. I don’t like to say things about languages I can’t speak or write. So, no, it wasn’t my intention to say “non-logographic languages”
Interesting. If you click on one of the blue circles representing a data center, it shows latencies to the other data centers.
This took me a second to figure out — maybe consider adding a note along the lines of “click to select a data center” on the site?
I mostly agree, although I differ on your last point.
> That's terrifying. Imagine a rogue supermassive black hole floating in intergalactic space.

Why terrifying? It's literally doing nothing, far away from anything. Seems like the safest place for it to be.
rdns dev here

> Rethink uses cloud services by default?

There isn't anything sinister going on here with the use of "cloud services" [0][1]. Rethink, which is geared more towards anti-censorship, has its default resolver "ip-fronted" on Cloudflare (whose IPs are seldom blocked) and it works great in countries where the app is popular.

Users can opt to switch to any DoH, DoT, ODoH, DNSCrypt v3 resolver of their choice. In fact, we encourage users on our reddit/telegram groups to use ODoH (we also run a public-facing ODoH proxy) and DNSCrypt upstreams because of their privacy guarantees.

[0] If anything, hosting it cost us a bomb: https://old.reddit.com/r/rethinkdns/comments/17h2y6r / https://archive.md/slpZ9

[1] Our stub resolvers are open-source & "open deploy" (ie deploy straight from github actions): https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns/actions/
Is GS though a good luxury "brand"? I don't know much about them but they seem like a Big Name. Maybe that's all they wanted? The prestige of being tied to GS
> Huawei can't cost compete if it has to smuggle chips constantly

It also trashes their R&D. Imagine if every LLM researcher in America had to smuggle in Iranian cores to do any work.

One of the saddest stories of the 21st century is China’s decline into despotism. They didn’t have democracy, but they had internal political competition and a peaceful transfer of power. In an alternate world, Xi is comfortably retired while China and America drive a new century of human prosperity.
IIRC, overlapping ngram vectors are summed to form the token embedding - doesn’t it effectively destroy any character level representation of the token? Doesn’t really make sense to me.
The grammatical chaos caused by missing prepositions aside[0], are they currently getting power for free? What do you mean pay a minimum of 85%? What about paying 100%? Are they not paying for what they use?

> who will pay for an expected surge in electricity demand

What kind of clown show are they running over there? The people who are using it! The people who are using it should pay for it!

[0] - what does "pay the energy" mean? Is that supposed to be "pay FOR the energy"?
Assuming you mean the paradigm often known as FP (which makes use of concepts from the Lambda Calculus and Category Theory) and languages like Scala and Haskell that support Pure FP, well… my experience in trying to get LLMs to generate non-trivial FP (regardless the purity) has been entirely useless. I’d love to see an example of how you’re able to get useful code that is non-trivial—by which I mean code that includes useful business logic instead of what’s found in your typical “Getting Started” tutorial.
The us is different between the us and Europe, everytime someone uses a credit card there are fees that go to the bank and the credit card processor.

In Europe these are legally capped, in the us they are not. So the 2% cash back on US cards is the cards and banks competing for market share by providing kickbacks from these fees to customers.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/how-credit-cards-make...
Right. A huge part of the value proposition of enterprise kernels is the stability, which you pay a cost for in the form of backporting and maintenance. That’s the thing that makes it valuable as a product!

It really can’t be the policy of the upstream to restrain enhancements because they might make backports harder. Companies get paid, and paid well, to do those backports! Let them be responsible for that burden.
Ah I see, yes here it only costs money (I think it's 25 euro per year or so). And reduces maximum available mortgage so I try to avoid them.
There has not been a change, it's always worked like this. ICANN only reserved *.internal for use in internal networks a few months ago.
Not that I know of, but encoding orthography in a fixed width vector usually carries the assumption that words with the same prefix are more similar. So there’s an alignment problem. You usually solve this using dynamic programming, but that doesn’t work in a vector.

For example “parent” and “parents” are aligned, they share letters in the same position, but “skew” and “askew” share no letters in the same position.
What Are Gradient Boosting?
safari also does the same thing
I’m vegan and my protein comes from mostly soy based foods (tofu and tvp) and of course nuts and legumes.

I’m in good shape, green across the board health results, and feel like I have near infinite endurance. Good for fight, or flight! On a lighter note, I also have on demand AOE damage thanks to all the fiber in my diet :’)

Looking forward to living to 100+, barring any freak accidents of course lol.
Yeah, that's exactly right. It's operating on an SSA-based intermediate representation. So if an operation gets removed, the arguments are still being computed. The earlier operations that produce those arguments can also be removed by dead code elimination (which runs later), but indeed only if they have no side effects.

I suppose the notation of the rule heads makes it look like there actually are expression trees, which is maybe sort of confusing.
'A Philosophy of Software Design' by John Ousterhout
The assumption of judicial law is that there is an objective correct answer and that later rulings are more likely to arrive at it than their precedents.

The passage you quote does not contradict this. Note it states that court interpretation is

"based on the traditional tools of statutory construction, not individual policy preferences"

The ambiguity means that the correctness is a matter of probability, which implies that the probability of making a correct ruling increases with the amount of precedent a ruling has to fall back on.
This still makes no sense.

If a company with $1B in revenue, rolls something out to make $10M, then anything over $10M is suitable punishment - you turned a profitable venture into a money losing venture.
I think that was mostly debunked, including from statements from Walgreens itself. This isn't super recent, and perhaps things got worse after this, but in 2023 both they and 3rd party sources basically admitted that the theft story was overblown.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli...

> A Walgreens executive said this week that the company, which cited “organized” shoplifting as a reason to close five stores in San Francisco in October 2021, might have overstated the effect of theft on its business.

> “Maybe we cried too much last year,” James Kehoe, the company’s chief financial officer, said during a Walgreens earnings call with investors.

> Walgreens received national attention in October 2021 when it announced that it was closing five stores in San Francisco, citing shoplifting as the reason for the closures. In June 2021, a video of someone shoplifting from a San Francisco Walgreens on his bicycle and, with a garbage bag filled with stolen merchandise, riding past a television news reporter and security guard, drew millions of views.

> The San Francisco Police Department’s data on shoplifting did not support Walgreen’s explanation for the store closings, according to an October 2021 analysis by The San Francisco Chronicle. The analysis said that while not all shoplifting incidents were reported to the police, one of the stores that closed had only seven reported shoplifting incidents in 2021 and a total of 23 since 2018.

However, I do think some neighborhoods that might have seemed like good places to put a store years ago but which today are less likely to attract casual shoppers. If you're worried your car will be broken into while you're in the store, you're less likely to go there, you'll get out quicker, you won't make that impulse purchase, etc. So there can be crime-related financial impacts even if Walgreens itself isn't stolen from all that much.
The question assumes I expect someone to cut a power cable between Australia and Singapore.

I don't.

In the event of Chinese move on Taiwan then if Tom Cotton & Co. have decision making power then it's possible but unlikely they'd be dumb enough to think perturbing grid power in Singapore might exert pressure on China .. but honestly, who'd actually be that silly?
The potential to detect Supermassive Black Hole mergers is one of the reasons I'm really excited about the LISA project [1], and hope it actually gets funded and doesn't delay too much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant...
Vita was ahead of its time
It works because they use really large ngram values, up to 6. So most character-level information is in these subwords.
I think it would be wise to require these AI bots to comply with Duty to Report and Mandatory Reporter laws.
You may want to peek at the system prompts Aider uses. I think this is part of the secret sauce that makes it so good.

https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/main/aider/coders/edi...

excerpt:
"""
Act as an expert software developer.
Always use best practices when coding.
Respect and use existing conventions, libraries, etc that are already present in the code base.
{lazy_prompt}
Take requests for changes to the supplied code.
If the request is ambiguous, ask questions.

Always reply to the user in the same language they are using.

Once you understand the request you MUST:
""" ... etc...
Here’s an article [1] quoting Walgreens’ CFO who, on an earnings call in early 2023, offered that Walgreens had in prior quarters likely overblown the level of shrink they were experiencing and expected to experience (“shrink” is the industry term for lost revenue due to theft and other causes).

Obviously this is more than a year ago, so it’s possible the facts on the ground have changed. However, this is reasonable evidence that at least as of a year ago, their shrink numbers were enough to be downplayed on an earnings call with investors.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopliftin...
"merely" arising. As if it were a simple process itself. Couldn't your argument be applied to either?
Later rulings are more likely to be sound, by judicial logic. The entire system of judicial law rests on that assumption.

And one of the rewards of winning presidential elections is being able to replace the justices that retire or die..
> Rest assured that we’ll continue to provide support until December 22nd, 2024

I consider myself one of the most sarcastic jerks in the world, but I gotta salute these guys - I really LOL'd
In Japan there was a requirement to make a noise when taking a picture on a phone. I'm not a huge fan of that since there are a lot of reasonable reasons to not want noise, but I would be a fan if any capture device was require to advertise its presence wirelessly to make it easy for any smart device to notice an active recording device nearby. That wouldn't stop sophisticated surveillance but it would act like a cheap lock and stop a lot of the abusive stuff, or at least let people more quickly notice it.
As for whether it wasn’t capable of detecting euphemistic references, that feels sort of beside the point to me. It was role playing about meeting in person because that’s what the product was - role play. The whole point, and marketing of the product is around doing that.

We probably just shouldn’t sell echo chambers to children, regardless of whether they are AI based or human.

With hindsight, or sufficient emotional intelligence and context about an individual’s life beyond the role play it may be possible to conclude that someone is at risk, but honestly I’m not even sure that a person doing this role play online would have necessarily figured it out.
ThoughtWorks Technology Radar October 2024 [pdf]
More like Russian government would use a spanner to convince a maintainer to put a backdoor.

Delisting them is actually best for both - maintainer and linux. Russia cannot break your skull anymore and linux keeps a contributor.
Type-Stable Memory Management (TSM)
"If you don't have a 9V battery, you can use a 9V battery."
These aren't even data centers, but aggregates. They're regions, composed of many different bits of networking and compute in various levels of abstraction - dc, edge installation, whatever.

Within these regions there's a lot of variation from zone to zone, so the methodology matters.
That sounds like it'd be something of a non-issue. If a GPU researcher wants a GPU someone will be willing to smuggle it out for them. Like GP says, a sanctions wall is penetrable. The problem would be more that leading researchers at something like China's OpenAI can't procure a billion dollars worth of GPUs for industrial research.

Although I do want to endorse the idea that their political system is probably going to undermine the successes of their businesses. From the outside it looks like a disaster waiting to happen.
Not doing anything yet. If galaxies can collide, the rogue black hole can collide with your galaxy, and you won't get much warning either. (I mean, realistically you're right, in the same way that our galaxy colliding with Andromeda is scary but has negligible chance of affecting us. But, imagine.)
It’s a joke from a famous moment in HN history:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Aren't the chips in question used for AI accelerators rather than phones? Moreover for phones SIMC is probably competitive at the mid end range, which makes up most of their sales.
Leap Smearing https://xkcd.com/2266/
The person in the video is not "real". No one speaks like that