skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes perfect sense because of the very bloody obvious point that your account isn't really a line of credit since you gave a full deposit equal to the funds you have available. If the bank wants to lend your money around as part of its fractional reserve process, that's their business, but opening an account with funds you expect to have access to at any time is not the same as asking for a loan. Please.
The entire section?

That’s not very helpful.
Ability to read does not correlate interest to read or more importantly ability to understand

Why is literacy important ? I don't think it is important at all.

it is overrated today, it was far more important in the days when mass communication was largely written. It is not longer the case, cost and ease of video and audio publishing is extremely cheap.

The issues in written communication are beyond production cost of writing, there are limits what can be described and how difficult it is do so for a large audience to understand, there is a reason why good authors historically were very influential.

It is also more volume limited than say even speech/audio, you can say lot more with lot more meaning(using non verbal and non lingual sounds) in the same time it takes to read.

Don't get me wrong, it is a wonderful format, but is no different than painting versus photography and now animation, you can do great art by working with the limits of the medium, but it depends on the consumer to use his "imagination" to understand. Just as paintings were actual tools of communication in a bygone era and are art today and can be appreciated as such so is written communication, it is not essential mass communication tool that people need to really learn anymore.

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It is far important to be able to critically think for yourself and question the information presented to you and be able to understand the mathematics needed to do the above and navigate life.

The need for widespread literacy is relatively new, of only few hundred, and was result of drop in the cost of written publishing which made it the most popular form of mass communications. More effective means of communication including speech and video have become cheaper and becoming even more cheaper with AI.

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This association of intelligence or critical thinking skills to literacy is flawed and frankly elitist it is merely a function of schooling.

I grew up in a country where literacy is a still a problem particularly amongst older generation not because they didn't learn properly in school because they didn't ever go to one.

I know just as many smart thinkers, world aware, inventors who are illiterate as I know dumb, idiotic literates. The country is larger, poorer than America yet has more robust political process that is diverse, with more involved electorate even if what the people want is at times authoritarian , there is no denying the robustness of democracy itself.

The difference is the uneducated would likely picked up literacy if they had the opportunity, what we have in America is people failing to learn despite given the opportunity to do.

The issue is deeper than literacy as a skill, it is a poor proxy for other skills actually needed in life and becomes more weakly correlated in the future .
2D Signed Distance Functions
I'm trying to write a new version of Snake game in Microsoft Q# but it keeps eating its own tail.
It spends about 2 to 10 ACU per hour in the small VM, and ten times as much on the large one. No credits spent during sleep and "waiting for response" time as far as I observed.
> No multiverse required.

True, but no exciting plot twists either. :(
TypeScript has the best developer ergonomics

Python has

So it's obvious why people would only support these two languages even when their performance isn't best in class
ok, for a non-computer guy (i just use either my mac or cloud-based GPUs), what does a GPU get you in terms of everyday experience? is it mostly for gaming?
Yes, just don't give them a smart phone.
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The source he cites is himself, other than the PISA data.

I cannot examine the entire dataset right now, but from reading the questionnaires I cannot find a single question on race. The only resembling question is on the birthplace of the parents [1], but you cannot infer the race from that, can you? How would you separate blacks then, most of whom would probably have American parents?

How much do you trust the author of this data?

[1] https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/data/datasets/pisa/...

Edit: The US version of the questionnaire does ask for comprehensive data on race. I still cannot make sense of some of the elements of the Crémieux source, for example they show the US average (not split by race) in a position which is not what I see in the official data. But it should be entirely possible to analyze the data comprehensively by race.
Few-shot prompting (a.k.a. examples) improves multi-modal model performance
I just launched a website for buying organic Mississippi sweet potatoes online: https://sweetclay.net.

I've made $910 in revenue in the first three weeks. Does that count?
You are correct, a trivial piece of evidence is the invention and (limited) popularization of a new label [1] beyond “minority”/non-white

1: https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-bipoc.html

For anecdotal flavor I’ll mention that I briefly worked in Hollywood and casting requests trended towards “BIPOC” rather than “non-white”, including in roles that had no evident racial component (i.e., the request was indicative of an apparent desire to have a nominally “diverse” cast without any real storytelling commitment to the racial diversity of said character(s) and there was a pronounced bias in these characters (constructed to be "diverse") towards a particular sliver of racial diversity).
I remember a post on Blind where someone was passionately arguing that if we put house ownership on the blockchain, 2008 wouldn't have happened because a big part of it was not knowing who owned what homes.
The thing is I don't think it is a genuine attempt. Is more like an intentionally counterfeit bon mot. It doesn't actually engage with the parent sentiment, but might fool people that are only half reading.
> Once they are signed up, getting it right 100% of the time is impossible, so I also step in on the "support" side and help solve issues, provide proposed solutions to challenges, etc.

Maybe I'm reaching here, but as a guess, are you able to offer your partner's services out the cut you take to smooth over issues? I'm just thinking that you have fantastic incentives to do stuff like that (prioritize long-term money) that a support person working as an employee of the company directly would not have real incentives to offer...
Welcome back!

And good timing... our brute force cosine similarity scan on Redis-stored vectors needs some help at the core level (ANN, nearest neighbor, k-mean clustering, anything would be an improvement!)
Real IRC usernames made it into a movie, possibly by scraping and AI generation
I think someone associated with Stephen Hawking once made that joke.
We’re already starting to see some weird consequences of a closely related law change that allows the authorities to immediately seize assets from people with unpaid debts. For example, there was a news report recently of a woman who lent her car to a friend who was in debt. He was stopped by the police and the car was seized. She complained and could prove she was the legal owner of the car. But that didn’t matter. The authorities sold her car anyway and gave the money to the guy’s lenders. Now they’re saying this was not a mistake and you should be very careful who you lend your car to.
Based on the Gemini release it’s hard to take what Google claims at face value.
I'd love to see it too if possible - based in Aus here, contact on bio
Austria, but we both made personal and indirect experiences through friends all over the place. For instance my wife has accounts also in the UK and Estonia (guess why) and it was all pretty much the same thing. I have no experience in the Netherlands but friends moved to Poland and Spain (among other countries) and it all was absolutely fine.

The only people that ran into issues had monetary transfers in and out of Russia or folks who did not manage to actually immigrate properly. With regards to monetary transfers in and out of Russia, I even have that as an Austrian citizen, that to me is largely an unrelated problem to citizenship.
How many people can scrutinize the esoteric ensemble of climate models that existing climatologists use to generate weather predictions today?
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Devin has 2 hour, 6 hour and 24 hour inactivity limits before it pauses the work and temporarily deprovisions (sleep) the VM, so you have to supervise it every so often.
Reflection is key. Books consumption (mostly digital) for me is always done in three phases. The first is just reading, no note, with only slight highlighting. Then after reflecting (or trying to explain) the ideas, I go back and try to do a summary. The third part is connecting those ideas to others from different books, or using them practically.

Consumption without reflection or doing is mostly entertainment, like you would do with a novel or a movie.
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Yeah the preprint was last year
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15796
>Great, so it's using historical data to make a prediction about what has already happened.

That's ok though because it doesn't know it's acting on old data. Researchers would give it data and ask for the 15 day forecast, the researchers then compare against that real world data. And as noted, "it surpassed the centres forecast in more than 97 percent" of those tests. This is all referred to as backtesting.
The entire argument for high CEO renumeration is that they take on total responsibility for all actions of the company. The buck stops with them. So, why do we think it's acceptable for that not to be the case when the company does something bad?
I will admit, there were a lot of people saying ridiculous things about crypto in 2021. Many of those people were very wrong, but still rewarded with bitcoin hitting 100k.

Those same people say it will hit 200k inevitably. I think all their reasoning is wrong, but yet they have been right. Curious what HN's opinons are.
> AI/LLMs are very good at filling in all those little details so humans can cherry pick the parts that they like.

Where did you find AI/ML that are good at filling in actual required and consistent details.

I beg of you to watch Annie Atkins' presentation I linked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzGvEYSzHf4 and tell me how much intervention would AI/ML need to create all that, and be consistent throughout the movie?

> once these models can generate coherent scenes, people can start using them to explore the creative space and figure out what they like.

Define "coherent scene" and "explore". A scene must be both coherent and consistent, and conform to the overall style of the movie and...

Even such a simple thing as shot/reverse shot requires about a million various details and can be shot in a million different ways. Here's an exploration of just shot/reverse shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UE3jz_O_EM

All those are coherent scenes, but the coherence comes from a million decisions: from lighting, camera position, lens choice, wardrobe, what surrounds the characters, what's happening in the background, makeup... There's no coherence without all these choices made beforehand.

Around 4:00 mark: "Think about how well you know this woman just from her clothes, and workspace". Now watch that scene. And then read its description in the script https://imsdb.com/scripts/No-Country-for-Old-Men.html:

--- start quote ---

Chigurh enters. Old plywood paneling, gunmetal desk, litter
of papers. A window air-conditioner works hard.
A fifty-year-old woman with a cast-iron hairdo sits behind
the desk.

--- end quote ---

And right after that there's a section on the rhythm of editing. Another piece in the puzzle of coherence in a scene.

> Then once I've got enough good generated images collected out of the tons of garbage, I fine tune a model and create a workflow that more consistently gives me those styles.

So, literally what I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42375280 :)
cafes, co-working spaces, going in to the office
"Humans Need Not Apply", as CGP Grey titled one of his videos.

For the moment, it is not so; for the moment, AI needs a human around to prevent catastrophic mistakes.

When it no longer needs that help, then humans need no longer apply.

> "Artisans won’t complain about work-life balance" "Artisan’s Zoom cameras will never ‘not be working’ today." "Hire Artisans, not humans." "The era of AI employees is here." Yes, grim stuff. At first glance, you might wonder who the target audience for these billboards is. After all, the billboards will mostly be viewed by humans, and, as far as can be discerned, most humans enjoy being employed.

Do we? I rather had the impression most of us like money, and the work is just the means to get that money?
I did some Googling on this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111103081406/http://consumeris...

Original article that caused the outrage. In particular, the TOS did not say they owned your pictures, but it did give them a license that was quite broad, which included using your likeness in advertisements. However, the change that caused the outrage was that the license no longer expired on account deletion nor content removal.

https://www.npr.org/2009/02/17/100783689/facebook-users-angr...

News article about the outrage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/technology/internet/19fac...

News article about the walkback.

I could not find anything about it being challenged in court.
But explanations come after the stop and frisk though…
I wonder if the data analysis tool will switch to using the same backend in the future
No relation but I have shared some emails with the founder and we are both in SF I believe.
I believe Amazon has price rules such that you cannot price gouge on Amazon. Do the vendors you list have any rules like that? Or do you just not care?
> The only thing people will truly remember is how you made them feel during a crisis, not the minutiae of what you actually contributed

I agree with your general point about relationships being the most important, but I disagree that your contributions don't matter. You need to have at least some good contributions combined with good relationships.

Through my career I've encountered a lot of coworkers who were fun to be around but either produced very little or had poor quality output. The value of their good vibes declines as the consequences of their low output and/or poor code quality accumulate on the team's shoulders.

You also see this a lot when vetting employee referrals. A lot of people will enthusiastically refer friends and people they like being around, but who are not necessarily great contributors. These people seek referrals at a disproportional rate because, well, they tend to be laid off more frequently and might struggle to get through job interviews through normal channels.

Employees will refer this people because they want them around, but once you start communicating to people that referrals are equivalent to personally vouching for their referral's abilities, half of the time they start walking back referrals or saying that the person needs a good manager and so on.

So agree that relationships matter, but it's going to be hard to build a career on relationships alone. You need some substance and contributions to build upon.
open source != Open Source. If I had meant the latter I would have written Open Source, but I wrote open source because I meant the former.

How's that for being pedantic?
I guess you can see this in Apple's product line. The more you pay for it, the less color it has.
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2019 would already be a post-training data prediction:

> GenCast is trained on 40 years of best-estimate analysis from 1979 to 2018, taken from the publicly available ERA5 (fifth generation ECMWF reanalysis) reanalysis dataset
Also living in Malmö, and the Oresund bridge does share some “blame”, but only because its an actual open border to the schengen area.

From what I’m told, people ride trains through europe with weaponry from eastern europe, where black market arms are easier to acquire, through a combination of leaky borders and post-war redundant stock.
No, that's not even a little bit how a checking account works. Assume nothing moves instantaneously, everything has a settlement period, everything is reversible, and, apart from the bank's willingness to decline you for an account, none of that mechanism is ever exposed to you. You'll be much closer to the true nature of the system than your belief that, having "fully deposited" money into an account, the bank can safely assume it has custody of that sum of money.

This is the challenge Patrick is up against with a piece like this: most of his readers share the deeply broken assumption you've brought to it.
Can you upload a picture on the company domain with your face, and holding a piece of paper containing your name, the date, the time, and the current bitcoin block number? That would make us more likely to believe you are properly human.
Totally different constraints. It’s like saying Nobel prize winning physicists can’t be trusted because they get basic arithmetic wrong

Gemini is fast food - it’s not supposed to be the best.
Do not worry.

Art is much more than pictures on your monitor. If you want pieces of art, made by your peers, visit your local galleries and buy it. I don't know who you are or where you live, but I'm willing to bet that where-ever it is those local galleries exist - and the artists that exhibit there would love to sell some of their work.

And you can be sure that human-made art will remain, and be valued, because art is what humans love to make most of all.
Still not hitting $500 consistently but...

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It's an audio hosting service with high quality audio and a customizable unbranded player.

Embeds are done with iframes but we're starting to offer web components which offer some cool opportunities like interaction between components.

Most of our customers are selling some kind of audio product or service. Think plugin developers, sound designers, media composers, etc.

Currently working on a B2B integration with an API so that it would be trivial to add audio to any web app. Think chats, marketplaces, etc.
For more info, here are some git-branchless write-ups on the topics:

- https://blog.waleedkhan.name/git-undo/ — has a link to this article explaining some things that can't be undone in the Git model via reflog: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Architecture#...

- https://blog.waleedkhan.name/in-memory-rebases/ — It's non-trivial to support workflows like "rebase just commit X out of its branch and insert it before commit Y in that branch" in a single command. jj implements the same workflows as well.

- https://blog.waleedkhan.name/bringing-revsets-to-git/
>Keep in mind, for this case in specific, a huge number of people did not want it solved

Where? If you go by reddit, there's a "huge number of people" who want to see society collapse in a socialist revolution, but that's clearly not representative of the overall population. Even the disparity between the support for kamala vs at the polls was stark.
I tasked Devin with writing a project proposal (in a topic I am not going to disclose here) with multiple documents including feasibility analysis, grant applications, legal analysis and post-implementation training materials and it was almost perfect at it.
Almost as bad as stuff branded IBM Watson for over promising
Sent you an email with some info.
> Overall, I'm happy to see this sunsetted. I don't think it actually did anything – in fact, I think it implies that it did way more than it did, so it was just a faux feeling of security.

I'm sad to see this, as many sites actually used it.

Geizhals.de, a major european price comparison site, uses DNT as cookie opt out.

My personal sites, but also the official websites from a few companies I worked at used umami or plausible metrics, configured to obey the DNT header for opt out handling.

And only recently German courts have ruled that the DNT header is legally considered rejection of tracking (Az.: 16 O 420/19)

It's actively used across the web, and Mozilla just decides to kill it? What the heck?
I should look more into my cat's past.
I don't know man?

I could be misunderstanding HN User dylan604, but I suspect the kids winning those competitions were not white or black. I could be wrong, but I think we all know who we suspect were winning those competitions. And it wasn't white or black kids.
Family of alleged killer Luigi Mangione has extensive involvement in healthcare
Nothing fancy, just bought a motherboard from SM, and a 4U case. I have a couple of boxes with 6 NVIDIA 3080s and recently upgraded to a used super micro with 8 A100s

Colocation wise, you pretty much buy the space, show up with the server and rack it yourself into a locked cabinet, not much else
I don't think you should conflate CONTROL with resentment or distaste or feeling betrayed or feeling misled. They aren't the same.
Nearly all ads on the web are scams. It's ok to block scams.
Tradesinsight? Plural? Because tradesinsight is a DNS not found, but tradeinsight.info will notify me when Nancy pelosi and other Congress members trade.

Always make sure you get that name right.
From the paper:

> Goal 3: Create distance-5 surface codes on NISQ circuits that require a little over 100 qubits.

> The argument presented in the next section asserts that attempts to reach Goals 1-3 will fail.

Goal 3 is exactly what Google has recently achieved with Willow. Actually, they did even better, reaching a distance-7 surface code (with a little over 100 qubits). Q.E.D.

To be clear, I do think your article is interesting and was valid at the time, but it goes to show how fast the field is advancing.
Is it the fault of the native population for not wanting to mix?

A weird fact about Sweden is that if a popular vote was ever held on immigration alone, we would never have had this situation. The polls on the issue have always been in majority "against" mass immigration. So for some reason democracy doesn't work over here. Maybe you've had better luck where you're at.