skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not joking when I say that the autocomplete on the Microsoft HD Zune in 2010 is the single best autocorrect implementation that I have EVER experienced. You could half pay attention to a conversation, hit the right QUARTER of the keyboard with your giant thumb, and it would ALWAYS guess right. It was literally magic, in a way that no technology I have experienced has compared to.

Meanwhile, my modern "AI" based Google keyboard autocorrect can't even handle the average case where only the first letter of the word was a mistake. It will only suggest corrections (and then auto-choose those corrections based on rules that change monthly it seems) that use the same first letter that I accidentally hit.

Also, my mother had a dirt cheap LG flip-phone in 1998 that, after 10 minutes of training, could dial any number and even dial any of your contacts by name with your voice.

In the mid-2000s, Microsoft had a BUILT IN function to Windows XP for dictation. You can see it do poorly in a demo, which is funny, but in actual use, without any cheating or prompting or massive compute resources, it correctly understood you 80% of the time. The state of the art in the industry could do much better than that without "AI" at the time, and cost a pretty penny for people with disabilities mostly. However, that dictation API is STILL IN WINDOWS, Microsoft just kinda hides it because they want you to use the Azure based one. It is super simple, with a powerful yet understandable API, available to any application that runs on Windows (like, say, games) and completely free to use. More importantly, if you have ANY knowledge about the expected use case for your app, you can feed the dictation engine an easy to generate "grammar" about the structure of commands, and it's accuracy can jump up to near perfection. When I played with it, I was able to build a voice controlled app with a single page of code and like an afternoon that easily turned my voice into text. It was literally harder to control the legacy Win32 APIs to inject input into queues for my use case: Voice controlled game input.
Why do you need a source? You can clone SQLite3 and count the lines yourself.
There is a small population of Ainu living in far east of modern Russia. This can be probably extrapolated to them living there during USSR times. Ainu have had... strained relationship with Japan, so they could had been enlisted by the USSR during the war to decrypt messages. That's not to say that Ainu people's relationship with USSR has been ideal either, but them serving as translators during the war seems plausible.
The people who think AI will replace good journalism are the same people who think "X" is revolutionizing citizen journalism
Thanks! I did not know that. I mentioned them because I have never had trouble with them over some decades.

They were my second registrar. In fact more like the first "real" registrar, because before and in the 90s I registered via a one-man show.

But of course things can change. Let's see how this develops.
What we know about screens so far is that they're the perfect distraction and put processing of emotions on hold. That in turn creates a backlog which, as it grows, makes the person increasingly miserable.

Personally I use the amount of screen time as an indicator of how bad I'm doing mentally at the moment.

And therein lies the crux of the issue: we optimised ourselves out of downtime which traditionally allowed us to deal with emotions. Screens are just a side effect.
you are misunderstanding what the person is saying. They are saying the final hidden layer outputs a vector which has all the information that decides the logits which decide the probabilities of each token in the entire vocabulary. Ie, it is storing a lot of information.
It’s not about aptitude it's about the way you’re viewed.
And how do you enforce that Valve implements and respects the blockchain? You can't, and if you do you can just force them to respect a traditional database.

Feels weird explaining this on HN.
I make between $3k to $6k from putting a log cabin on Airbnb. This started during period of boredom during the pandemic. I operate remotely with smart home devices and with a local cleaning team/handyman.

I had a project to completely automate this with an AI agent but Airbnb doesn't offer a publicly available API.

$3k seems high but the costs add up and the time as well (details here https://studiozenkai.com/post/airbnb-the-good-the-bad-the-pr... ). I always have a bit of profit at the end of year and the mortgage costs are entirely paid so no complaints here

If I ever get fed up from tech projects, I can see myself getting a bigger vacation property and making this my own version of Barista FIRE
> The average user doesn't even recognize that running a website literally cost electricity that must be paid for. Who pays for it? Who will carry the boats?

Running a retail store also has costs associated with it, including, yes, electricity.

Yet if I walk into a store and leave without buying anything, do I feel like I owe the store owner anything?

No. That's not how that works, nor is that how it should work.
As with most novel hardware since the dawn of computing, there are ways to emulate it.

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/qiskit
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In principle they trained on data up to 2017, validated (tried different hyper parameters) on data from 2018, and published results on data from 2019...
> GM said in a statement that “... an increasingly competitive robotaxi market” were the reasons for the change.

Isn't there basically Google/Waymo and then, seemingly much further behind, Tesla Cybertaxi, Amazon/Zoox, and Uber/Yandex? Cruise allegedly has one of the most sophisticated autonomous driving platforms, and GM's Super Cruise (if they share any tech) is comparable to Tesla FSD. Strange that they would bow out.

Small anecdote: I visited a GM dealership this week and the salesperson told me Super Cruise was not enabled for test drives. The excuse was pretty weak, like the dealership would have to pay for the service or something. GM might have the technology but they are completely bungling the strategy.

Ford just lowered the cost of its BlueCruise subscription by 1/3rd. In an earnings call eight months prior they remarked they made a 70% margin on the service. It seems like drivers did not find the feature compelling and were not renewing. Interest in autonomous driving appears to be cooling across the board.
Seven years ago, PBS Space time did an episode on Are You a Boltzmann Brain? https://youtu.be/nhy4Z_32kQo (this was also linked in the 2020 post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22080393 )
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Multiple Universes is a "Deus ex Machina" applied by Hollywood a lot these days.
AFAIK, the reason for these changes is basically "prevent AWS from eating our business". Is that right?

If so, are these trends harmful to open source? Are we not choosing between:

1. A world where all revenue in OSS infrastructure ultimately flows to a few big platform companies.

2. A world where these carve-outs are commonplace.

Meta's carve-out with Llama is so interesting because it practically calls the big companies out by name. Should there be a similar standard license for open source infrastructure?
How about COVID reducing IQ?
Overfitting is always bad by definition. The model learns meaningless noise that happens to help getting good results when applied to old data (be it due to trained weights, hyperparameters, whatever) but doesn't help at all on new data.
You don't pair for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
I too had this experience in Texas over the holidays. Sigh.
Parallel computers don't "multiply their performance" in computation theoretic terms. If you took half as long by computing on two Turing machines simultaneously you didn't decrease the time complexity of the algorithm. You still churned through about the same number of total operations as if you had done it serially.

The distinction between the total operations and the total time is important, because your energy requirements scale with the time complexity of what you try to compute, not with the total time it takes.

An optical computer, for example, has a limit on how densely it can pack parallel computation into the same space, because at some point your lenses overheat and melt from the sheer intensity of the light passing through them. It's possible QCs are subject to similar limitations, and despite the math saying they're capable of computing certain functions polynomially, that doing so requires pushing exponential amounts of energy into the same space.
What are the mechanics of that?

Let's say I buy a share of F on Monday, my brokerage routes it to Citadel, because PFOF.

On Tuesday, I expect to get a share of F delivered at close of business, because T + 1.

If Citadel doesn't deliver on Tuesday, what happens?

Are you suggesting they would continue to not deliver the share I purchased for several days, by saying oh yeah, we'll get toast0 his shares tomorrow? That would be pretty upsetting, and I imagine I'd call my brokerage and ask them why they're dealing with Citadel if they never deliver shares on time.
The only downside is the increasingly onerous attestation requirements that are eventually going to infect virtually all proprietary software for Android.

If you only care about running open source code, you're golden.
Some anonymous guy on Internet says so.
The theory of quantum computation is accessible with a good understanding of linear algebra. Anyone working in machine learning or computer graphics should feel encouraged by that, and take a look at the theory.

Quantum error correction is one of those “wow” moments like euler’s identity, it is worth making the effort to get there.
They believe that because Iran is in fact funding military conflict.

It is messy geopolitics. There are dire consequences to sitting back and doing nothing. It’s a prisoners dilemma with large moral negative externalities to playing.
I have known Cremieux for a long time, and trust him a great deal when it comes to handling and presenting data. In any case, I don’t know what standards you’d find satisfactory. He made the graph out of data he listed on the graph. Anyone can go and verity its accuracy. It being materially wrong would be devastating to his reputation. Thus, if you still don’t trust it, you should just do your own leg work to verify it, instead of asking others, whom you probably don’t trust any more than you trust Cremieux, to do it. Anything more would be unusual and unreasonable, even formal academic peer review does not involve verifying that the graphs are accurately representing underlying data.
poorly run meetings that is.
This usually indicates the process is wrong, or you have wrong people on the call, or without preparation.
Yes, absolutely, that's an extremely important use case! In DBOS you can send messages to workflows and workflows can publish events that others can read. It's all backed by Postgres (LISTEN/NOTIFY under the hood).

Documentation: https://docs.dbos.dev/python/tutorials/workflow-tutorial#wor...

Here's a demo e-commerce application that uses messages and events to build an interactive long-running checkout workflow: https://docs.dbos.dev/python/examples/widget-store
SVB has entered the chat.

Liquidity in crypto is extremely difficult due to the volatility.
the problem being that focus isn't the sheer soul metric that establishes productivity, its' field dependent.

similar studies on body doubling also showed participants feeling more social pressure to conform to well-established methods rather than branching out and experimenting, and similarly participants felt more judged whenever they ended up taking a risk that either didn't pan out or did so differently than imagined.

I don't want every workplace in the world to conform to whatever standards produce straight productivity; as a human, even one with adhd, I want to feel that there is room for cleverness and creativity in the world I work in.
Will the Syrian Flag Emoji Be Changed? When?
This is awesome. How is Excalidraw so huge in this space and you aren’t?
Not all of those are necessary and not all of them are even necessarily desirable.
Oh my mistake.
In general, a compiler takes source code and generates object code or an executable. Can you elaborate on what your compiler takes as input and generates as an output?
Their source/verification of validity is "trust me bro".

That said, the people publishing this do have actual journalist credentials: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/about

So it's not unthinkable they could indeed get a copy, and if they did, based on their stated values they would publish it.
The main methodological problem is how one can leave out like 40% of the United States, and say that the US comes on top (which it still doesn't!). Like, I'm not even questioning the racial split data, but selecting the two groups and saying that the US is the best is a weird flex that wouldn't pass muster in Stats 101.
Major news outlets have it in their possession, have published a variety of select quotes that are found in this posting, have described the length of the manifesto as matching this posting, and have not denied the this published version was the manifesto found on the suspect. If that's not enough, then give it a day for more information to come out.
I have no expertise in regional honey or olive oil or any of the other often-counterfeited things but I assume it is something like wine where the region implies terroir, relevant policies/regulations, and long histories of expertise/techniques. For example, I have heard honey is majorly impacted by the regional flowers around where it is produced.

I personally wouldn't know Italian olive oil from Greek from rancid American garbage but if people think they do and they are trying to buy something in particular then ideally they aren't mislead about that.
Created a simple and cute iOS app for tracking baby teeth — makes about 1-2k EUR (after Apple’s cut) per month since five years.

getbabyteeth.app

Last year a couple of copy cats showed up, but they missed the part that people actually value in the app: the visuals.

It‘s a simple webapp, wrapped in Expo, but highly polished to make it look and feel native to iOS.

Last year we added a second app, written in Swift and SwiftUI (great dev experience!): wobblyteeth.app

What still makes me wonder: most sales are made in Germany, even though there is an English translation and the American market is huge. \o/

Do you have an idea why it‘s not interesting abroad?
Yep, this is also the problem that self-driving cars have with the "accidents per mile" metric.
What's wrong with this? Seems like a more independent alternative to asking a friend which picture looks better.
Alright, I did the google search based on your incendiary comment and whatever you're trying to suggest does not seem to be the case.

pg 79: https://democrats-financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/...

"Apex provides these same clearing services to many other introducing brokers, including Ally Invest, Betterment Securities, M1 Finance, Marcus by Goldman Sachs & Co., SoFi Securities, Stash Capital, Tastyworks Inc., TradeZero America Inc, and hundreds more"
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Don't the Swiss also have very fancy stuff, though?

But yeah, drug pricing might be a significant part. I'm not sure about the reduced incentives for pharmaceutical companies, though? From what I understand the system is very inefficient, there are a lot of middlemen (i.e. waste) involved and price discrimination going on so a lot of that money might not necessarily be going to the drug companies doing the research.
First, where is the evidence for all of that?

Second, other than racism, I don't see why we would distinguish between the 'race' of the Americans. The US average is the average. People are no more or less American based on their skin color.

Unless you make the racist claim that math skills biologically depend on race, there is no reason to compare some Americans with people in Africa because they have similar skin color - it's absurd.

> Not sure what you’re talking about

I don't believe that you are unaware of the hate and discrimination against immigrants and minorities, justified by these same and similar arguments. If you said that was not your intent - well, your intent or not, it has the same effect. But to say you don't know is not credible.
60 day call accounts are a great solution for managing the risk not meeting the desires of the crypto community.
I made a plant care app for iOS and macOS. Making few hundreds $$$ on it - https://apps.apple.com/app/plant-care-identify-flowers/id161...
seconding. Recently transitioned to fidelity's cash management account and have done a cash advance on the debit card at a local, non-affiliated bank with 0 fees involved.

Checks the boxes for me, personally.
Thanks! Holos and Timoni solve similar problems but at slightly different levels of the stack and with a different approach. Timoni is focused on managing applications by evaluating CUE stored in an OCI container. Stephan expressed his intention to have a controller apply the resulting manifests similar to Flux. Timoni defers to Flux to manage Helm charts in-cluster, Holos renders Helm charts to manifests much like ArgoCD does, using helm template within the rendering pipeline.

We take a slightly different approach in a few important ways.

1. Holos stops short of applying manifests to a cluster, leaving that responsibility to existing tools like ArgoCD, Flux, plain kubectl apply, or other tools. We're intentional about leaving space for other tools to operate after manifests are rendered before they're applied. For example, we pair nicely with Kargo for progressive rollouts. Kargo sits between Holos and the Kubernetes API and fits well with Holos because both tools are focused on the rendered manifest pattern.

2. Holos focus on the integration of multiple Components into an overall Platform. I capitalized them because they mean specific things in Holos, a Component is our way of wrapping existing Helm charts, Kustomize bases, and plain raw yaml files, in CUE to implement the rendering pipeline.

3. We're explicit about the rendering pipeline, our intent is that any tool that generates k8s config manifests could be wrapped up in a Generator in our pipeline. The output of that tool can then be fed into existing transformers like Kustomize.

I built the rendering pipeline this way because I often would take an upstream helm chart, mix in some ExternalSecret resources or what not, then pipe the output through Kustomize to tweak some things here and there. Holos is a generalization of that, it's been useful because I no longer need to write any YAML to work with Kustomize, it's all pure data in CUE to do the same thing.

Those are the major difference. I'd summarize them as holos focuses on the integration layer, integrating multiple things together. Kind of like an umbrella chart, but using well defined CUE as the method of integrating things together. The output of each tool is another main difference. Holos outputs fully rendered manifests to the local file system intended to be committed to a GitOps repo. Timoni acts as a controller, applying manifests to the cluster.
Large chunks of the test suite are open source, committed to the repo and easy to run with a `make test`.

Everytime a bug is reported in the forums, the open source tests are updated as part of the bug fix for everyone to see.

There's a separate test suite that offers 100% coverage, that is proprietary, and which was created for certification for use in safety critical environments.

HN loves to discuss business models for open source, but apparently has a problem with this one. Why?
I understand very well, you're spreading common misinformation that was debunked years ago.

When we look at the overall death rate during the pandemic (i.e., completely disregarding covid tests), it's still true that the US had a much higher increase in deaths than most of the world.

Even if you limit this to places where reporting is fairly accurate (the first world, or even just rich European countries), it's still true.

The "because we tested more" line is complete nonsense, we can literally count the people missing and end up with a very similar result.
We can always work backwards, regardless of AI.
This is a great summary, thank you.
or maybe through perplexity he can try both (and more)
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reminds me of the Sims 3!
Don't know about the gross part (seems relevant, exactly how they pursued the suspect). However, kind of amazed you're the only reference on here.

The part of the UnitedHealthCare situation that seemed kind of amazing from a personal perspective was how little the suspect actually seemed to look like the public photos released.

If I were calculating "confidence", that would have been relatively far down in the percentages. Vaguely similar to a lot of euro-background ethnicity faces. Maybe there were other photos the police had and didn't release. However, from what was available, with two photos showing the mask removed and one with somebody smiling, not a great match.

Tried four reverse images searches online. Started with 1920x1280 release (blurry), and got down to two (2) ~550x550 images of the cropped face. Results from four attempts were:

1) Complained about quality, gave back electro-music looking guy in rainjacket
2) Not a valid face on both photos
3) Gave back police publicity photos as only results
4) Not a valid face on both photos

Not a great sensation of positive confidence percentage on the actual match. Figure the police likely would have attempted to release a relatively high quality still image to help crime solvers.
Does your cat jump on your bed right before the alarm rings as well?
Seems like you are working on a lot of cool projects. You keeping a blog or socials or anything like that ? Would be cool to follow along.

I am doing some similar projects. I've got some acreage planted with chestnuts and a few other select trees. Going on three years now of planting. I haven't done a good job documenting things but putting together a talk about agriculture so maybe that will change.

> Their minimum order's a little high for a cultivar of pistachio I need for rootstock, doesn't seem to be any other option.

Sounds like you need some friends/neighbors/comrades to throw in with you on a group order. I have been in a similar place myself; I've roped a lot of friends into these schemes now. Last month I had 7 lbs of chestnuts sent to my buddy while I was out of the country haha.