skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come across a CAPTCHA on a website I was scraping that was absolutely terrible. It was 10 multiple image choice answer, with a question to click the image that had "X". Their implementation didn't even have a nonce, so I would just attempt every single answer and get past it.
Interpretability also matters when you’re training. If the model works, yes, technically only the final result matters. But in practice it probably won’t work right away and so it’s great to have methods to figure out what is going wrong as you’re training.

For example, should we stop this training or keep going and wait for it to improve? In theory that’s irrelevant because we don’t make mistakes. In practice, theory is just theory.

As an analogy, you technically don’t need code comments. The compiler removes them. But in practice you do need them.

So that’s another reason I mentioned the hyperparameter hell. You’ve removed a simple interpretability method and left us with numbers that worked for a single training run.
and is irrelevant in general since its just been nuked from orbit
Young people also face an enormous propaganda machine constantly telling them unions are bad, they just take your dues, you'll never make more money negotiating together, rugged individuality is the religion, and Real Men Do Everything On Their Own. So union membership continues to shrink. Most people under 30 are probably not old enough to have ever even seen a powerful union that delivers results for its members, let alone have the chance to join one without being hosed down with anti-union propaganda. Amazon alone "deployed a staggering amount of anti-union propaganda, bombarding workers with flyers, mailers, Instagram ads, Facebook posts, brochures, videos, phone calls, posters, mandatory meetings, a website, text messages, and notifications" on their internal workplace app[1]. While they soak up all the excess value workers produce and hand it over to themselves and shareholders.

The deck is totally stacked against the next generations. I feel pretty grim for my kid's future to be honest.

1: https://www.vice.com/en/article/amazon-is-bombarding-workers...
Show HN: Sort lines semantically using llm-sort
This is a small plugin I made for Simon Willison's llm utility.

You can do things like:

cat names.txt | llm sort -q "Which one of these names is best for a pet seagull?"

cat books.txt | llm sort -q "Which book is more related to basic vs. advanced CS topics?"

I see a lot of potential marrying LLMs with classic UNIX interfaces.
I don’t think it has to be that crazy. I only have a Bachelors in CS.
You're in luck: https://github.com/phantomics/april
>the government is taking that money under the idea that they will use it to benefit the taxpayers and the overall nation

It's not how it pans out.

>Property taxes impose a cost to the ownership of a property which disincentivizes leaving it empty, which is better for almost everyone else except the property owner.

All that will disproportionately affect the poor not the rich who can actually afford the taxes.

>Do you have another solution to that, or do you not care about that in a dog-eat-dog way?

I do. Property in one thing that I think should be equally divided among individuals, with individuals being able to use/rent in whatever manner they please within certain confines (lots of assumptions here and lots of if and buts, but it's huge discussion).

>> "My answer would be the career bureaucrats"

>Why is this used as a slur?

It is intended to be a slur, infact the word bureaucrat itself is a slur. Being a bureaucrat is a negative skill or a parasite etc. unlike a lot of other specializations. Ofcourse exceptions may exist. Personal questions: have you done your taxes beyond simple salaried income tax? Have you bough/sold property? have you run a small/big business? have you run a payroll? Alternatively are you familiar with the amount of complexity introduced by the govt in the questions I asked you?
> "CompuServe had some PDP-10s operating until at least 2007"

This sentence sent me down an internet rabbit hole searching for some sort of citation, as it seems absurd on the face of it. I couldn't really find an original source, but lots of comments and references about how important PDP-10s were to CompuServe. They even used clones after the platform was discontinued. It seems CompuServe kept using and updating their minis until the end.

Can you imagine maintaining a PDP-10 in the mid 2000s? Surreal. I know it's non-trivial to port software off an old computer system, but this is a machine with a clock ticking in microseconds. I can't imagine it'd take more than a week or so to reimplement any sort of business logic it had.
would requiring a un/pw sent to an email address work￶?
For context, I don't have the time to meet with everyone that reaches out. I was thinking I could hold office hours and people could show up and ask questions.
Yes, I’m apparently not the only one wondering why you consider him a terrorist, so please do.
By my measure, Cohen is the only person from Trump world who has redeemed himself. He’s still a slimey hot head, but he sees Trump for what he is, and he’s committed himself to making things right. Of course he’s trying to profit as much as possible, but he serves as an example that even the biggest sycophants can make it out of the cult.
What if you’ve already read the prior work before trying to solve the problem?
> She claimed to be unaware of the contents, and that she had been given the bag by her fiancé, Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian.

Certain groups perform attacks of this kind.

It's not necessarily because they are backwards or evil or something. They just can't resist militarily, so they go for soft targets.

If the situation was reversed, and there was some kind of hegemonic global Islamic caliphate with an ostensibly unbeatable military, perhaps you would get some random Poles or Spaniards blowing up planes.

People who aren't in groups in those kinds of situations, don't do things like that. Why would they? Why do we pretend that they would?
Don't have kids. That way you can avoid the holiday season for your vacation.
No lines at security and your fellow passengers are business travelers and old people.
85 Years of Tom and Jerry
With fewer than 2% of people employed in agriculture, the US produces more food than needed for ten billion people. Capital distributions are the source of declining wealth for most people.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA

Of course the common course provided food insecurity. See the book why nations fail. -- making markets necessary,

but excessive capital concentration (rent seeking) also reduces the productive capacity of an economy via, restricting capital flows through verticals.
Yeah Lysenkoism is what I was referring to about flat out denying genetics. But a softer version of genetics denialism has been a running theme historically.

Marxists are committed to a sort of historical determinism that requires social conditions to be more important than biology in a way that's not scientifically defensible. That's why they were the first to research classical conditioning, why they continue to support pseudoscience like linguistic determinism, why they've experimented so much with "brain washing" (e.g. trying to program prisoners of war through propaganda) etc.

Some of this stuff (like conditioning) has turned out to be useful. Some of it (like Lysenkoism) turned out to be tragically catastrophic. But all of it is an attempt to make science subservient to political needs.
I've soured on Altman, but he's MUCH better than Musk. It's not even a competition.
They key is to work for yourself

Start your own business, hustle, and bust ass
This is the the strongest argument for not shaming reinvention...

Unless the victims are world-class..? (Because it's not entirely not self-inflicted)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981356

Shades of the strong-link weak-link dilemma too
Better yet, let customers decide if it’s reinventing the wheel. Many times, founders prematurely decide it’s duplicative, or delude themselves into thinking it’s not.

We all guess at the value customers receive, but only they can say for sure.
Saying he isn't even that rich and then saying that he has 1/30th of the total assets managed by BlackRock is completely absurd. I frankly don't understand how you can think one person controlling 1/30th the value of all of BlackRock's managed assets is totally fine and normal. Additionally, as mentioned by others, BlackRock invests on behalf of clients, so unlike Musk, they can't just throw around their money willy-nilly, so the comparison is just disingenuous.

To put this in perspective, the net assets of Google are around $300 billion, and their total assets are around $450 billion. Musk's net worth is roughly $400 billion.
Show HN: I built cringe-guard, filters out cringe content on your LinkedIn feed
I was really frustrated with the quality of content on my LinkedIn feed - engagement baits, overly emotional stories, generic life lessons, motivations quotes, low effort useless posts. Some % of the content was genuinely good. So, I built a chrome extension to filter out cringe content. It uses AI to analyse LinkedIn posts in real time and hides cringe worthy content.

This prototype demonstrates how AI can empower us to have more control over the content we consume.

Github repo - https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/cringe-guard
So him paying people somehow changes what happened?

“In 2009, Eberhard filed a lawsuit against Musk for slander and libel. As per NBC Bay Area, the lawsuit was settled, and as a condition of the settlement, Musk and two other Tesla executives, JB Straubel and Ian Wright, are now allowed to call themselves co-founders, in addition to Eberhard and Tarpenning.”

He had zero involvement for ~1 year, invested some money and then five years later he’s CEO. That’s hardly the definition of founding anything.
https://archive.md/mYWhG
Exactly, seems like the Von Neumann machine assumption is outdated, especially with modern supercomputers. Memory access itself isn't O(1), it's more like O(N^(1/3)) because space is a serious consideration, and that's your distance from a focal point to all other points within a 3D volume.
i think if you allowed states to secede, you'd see the rural and urban issue balance out

it's been ongoing for the last fourty years anyway
That reads basically like "if you seem cooperative enough with our extra effort to check your identity, we'll probably let you through". That's just a very different country from "you need greenbacks to buy a ticket over the counter."

Similarly though admittedly more permissive, with Amtrak iirc it's like: you need a credit card and they probably won't check your ID. There were several more years after 9/11 before the "papers please" principle came for the trains and buses too.

E.g. search turned up a claim Greyhound "employees are not allowed to sell a ticket without an official ID" https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/140703/i-have-no-...
I’ve been satisfied with the hedge fund I was in

They didn't just do common stock equity trades, they sliced and diced money flows into and out of companies so interestingly

It felt like I had employed people to find, and create, deal flow

In bear markets theyd find companies that VCs all passed over, and created a pivot for them and extremely favorable capital terms to the hedge fund such as revenue splits before it hits the company’s books

When people say parasites, I see transactions that would never have happened

I see transactions I would never be able to get into the room to negotiate to happens

I also see how nobody knows anything. People see hedge fund movements in equity positions, but they wont see revenue splits, inventory splits for the fund to sell themselves

Its all about what you/your fund specifically does
Software Estimation Uncertainty Principle
This is how I operate with most tech related topics. Just assume it's possible and proceed accordingly.
Sell something online.

I have spent more than 20 years working on side hustles. I love tech and enjoyed building various prototypes and games. Building is easy part.

Never fully understood rest of the business, had no sales.

A friend who had done same thing, decided to stop doing that. Instead he started an e-commerce store. Focused on market research, marketing, etc. After his first store took off, he created more stores. He doesn’t care about what he sells, he just cares about revenue.

He is making enough to quit his EM job. He plans to keep adding new stores in his portfolio.
TSA Precheck is $85 and is good for five years

Clear is $189 a year or $239 (?) for two people.
> use curbside check in (and tip)

Oops. You’re supposed to tip for those?
Some failures: the boring company hasn't done much of anything, other than a very short loop in Las Vegas. Do you know anyone who has bought one of his solar roof systems, and when was the last time anyone mentioned it? The hyperloop idea didn't go anywhere. Twitter is worth about 25% of what he paid for it, though one could argue being in control of it is worth $30B to him personally. He also said he was going to get rid of bots, and failed at that.

Obviously, he has had some huge successes too. Tesla has a huge valuation based on the assumption that it was going to win everything, but growth has stalled -- the 18 wheelers are nowhere to be found, the cybertruck is an article of derision to everyone but fanboys. The sedans growth has stalled, in large part due to Musk going out of his way to alienate his core group of buyers -- liberals who think buying a tesla is green. Space-X is doing great things. The jury is out if starlink and thousands of LEO satellites will be a win or a loss.

His final big win is his support of a particular minority group: Nazi's and the Nazi-adjacent. They are platformed on Twitter, and he is doing his best to normalize giving Nazi salutes (at the presidential inauguration no less).

Musk is a ruthless businessman, but make no mistake - when it comes to engineering, he is an empty suit.
https://archive.li/bePMk
> but pretty much no intellectual, either in India or the US, actually cares about the mass-wiping out of Indian languages by English

That’s surprising and seems different than what I’ve seen for other languages in other parts of the world (even if it’s a relatively new phenomenon).
Don't those natural disasters get included one way or another into an outage calculation?

I suppose parts of the US have more exposure to those disasters than Germany btw.
https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/environment-energy-coordinatio...
poison pill offer ?
Yes. They don’t get paid by either the airline nor the airport. They work entirely on tips
Your logic would make perfect sense if you were talking about waste. If reducing or eliminating a given amount of waste incurs an expense larger than the waste concerned, that defeats the point of reducing expenses by reducing waste. We can certainly discuss how important reducing that waste further is at that point.

But we are talking about fraud. Fraud is deliberate misuse or theft of funds, which is made even worse because the funds are American tax dollars. This isn't a question of whether I agree with reducing fraud to zero at any cost, simple ethical logic dictates that any fraud especially of taxes is absolutely and unconditionally unacceptable because of its malicious nature.

If we are fine with excusing $1 of fraud because dealing with it is "too expensive", we might as well be fine with excusing trillions of dollars of fraud because it's the same thing: It is ultimately acceptable to misuse and steal taxpayer money. That is absolutely not a great society to live and participate in.

Even if an expense larger than the fraud is incurred the fraud must be eliminated, because the principle of the matter is much more important than the funds themselves.

>so what system do we use to resolve our differences?

Ideally, Congress should be auditing and prosecuting fraud themselves as stipulated by the Taxes and Spending Clause of the Constitution.

Obviously though, in reality they clearly haven't filled those shoes adequately, or the Executive Branch would not have to be rifling through the budget as we speak let alone all the complaints from the people about government waste and corruption.
> when people will become collectively enraged and dismantle the govt to a large extent (similar to the current attempt in USA)

So how do you envision people flourishing in this anarchist/libertarian utopia? Most people at the bottom of the income scale are much more dependent on a functioning government to meet their basic needs. If you want to make their lives better while cutting away the services they depend on for healthcare, education, transportation, food safety, disaster relief and recovery, and on and on -- if you want them to be better off without all that, they need to earn better wages. Well, the DOGE folks -- "the current attempt in USA" --are focusing their attention on destroying the mechanisms that would make this possible.

A problem with an unregulated economy is that your ability to get a good deal depends on your ability to evaluate the deal and walk away from it if it's bad. If you're hanging from a cliff edge by your fingertips, you're not in a good bargaining position relative to the guy standing on solid ground. You'll pawn your future to live another hour. The government is the mechanism we have to prevent this abuse -- minimum wage laws, child labor laws, OSHA. Take all this away and you have more slavery, not less.

Another problem: if you want to start a business or invest or build anything, you depend on predictability. Is the city going to still be here and functioning next year? If yes, open a store front! If not, move on. The government is one of the main sources of this stability. It collects information, makes economic forecasts, manages the interest rates (with its fiat currency), handles disasters, prevents invasions. This allows businesses to flourish, providing jobs for the masses. Without that economic activity dries up. People get poorer. Some starve. Some die due to lawlessness, war, and unrest.

But you don't see it this way. Please explain how destroying the government and relying on gold or bitcoin will bring prosperity to the masses. I really want to understand your perspective.
I propose a new term "bullshit money", it is when governments do joint PR with Arabian princes or big company to proudly announce fictional huge investments that in the end will be fake, taken by vampires without real result (when Public money), or simply rebranding investment that was to be done anyway with only a thin relation with the original subject...

Here it is mostly a joke, they announced opening "data center"... The money and jobs that will really go to the french population will be mostly inexistant, there will not be real "innovation", and the one "offering" the money are probably coming to profit of the cheap nuclear energy or special revolving deals...
You’re basically proving the point. If they’re confident they’re going to 10x their valuation in a few years, then the valuation probably doesn’t accurately reflect the value of the enterprise.
The problem with the A380 was that only the biggest airports could accommodate them. Personally I always try to fly direct I absolutely HATE changing flights and apparently I'm not the only one.
My experience was that most of the garbage was hidden below the 'show more replies' section and the higher quality replies were more likely to be at the top (not always, but mostly).

The whole thing with 'verification' and those posts being prioritised flipped that on its head, to the point where I couldn't stand using it any-more (this was two years ago).
Wasn't your point that "America" is an inclusive term for all of North America? Many of those Americans can't vote in the US even if we accept the absurdity of voting based on naming preferences.
Super interesting, thank you. Unfortunately, not relevant to someone who doesn’t have labour to sell.
I respectfully but totally disagree.

Balatro took the basic game mechanics of a very familiar game and said “what if they were dynamic”. The world’s a big place and I’m willing to believe it’s been done before… but I can’t think of one.

It’s the combination of familiar scoring mechanics with fun meta game modifiers that made Balatro so successful. What happens to poker if two of a kind is suddenly the most important hand? Or if not playing face cards leads to incrementally better scores every hand?

Again, I can’t claim it’s never been done, but saying it’s just another deck builder is missing the point.
Kraftwerk even!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk
This is the power of WebAssembly. It brings every language to the browser.
> The party and government, senior leadership across state enterprises, are not under 30.

That is certainly true: none of them have forgotten about 1989 and they never will. Neither will many people (including some of my family and friends) in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and elsewhere. Inside the mainland, though, it's a very different story, or at least, that's my impression both from the book I mentioned and some other sources.
And Greenland!
So it blocks all of LinkedIn? I'm in! ;)
My evidence is when boys know they do bad things, they try to hide it. Also, I was punished when caught doing these things.

I've never heard of a parent encouraging their boy to play with fire or explosives. My dad went to great lengths to try to stop me from that. I even built a flamethrower once (he didn't know about that!). Weirdly, my interest in such things evaporated when I was 16 or so, and have had no interest in it since. Maybe it was because I got my hands on a Mustang!!

I once acquired several vacuum tube TVs from a repair shop. I had a lot of fun tinkering with them until my mom got rid of them, as she was sure I would be electrocuted. I shocked myself a few times which is funny in retrospect but not at the time.

My dad taught me how to use tools, but only under close supervision until he was sure I wasn't going to stab myself in the eye.

I concealed a lot from my parents and the authorities. I didn't have any illusions I'd be celebrated for that stuff.

People may celebrate it in comments when the danger is long past, sure. But that's something different.
Colonoscopies are not that bad; many countries do it without sedation. The sedation part is annoying in multiple ways; it prevents you from doing a bunch of stuff the rest of the day, while without sedation, you can continue as if not much has happened afterward.

Even endoscopies are possible without sedation, but most people don't have the ability to not squirm or gag for that one. You can even see youtube videos of people doing that one without sedation.
> More capital is allocated to good things

Or bad things.
These are all of the places you can get direct flights to from CHS. We have flown there once.

https://www.flightsfrom.com/CHS

If you don’t fly often, airline loyalty doesn’t matter. I just don’t hate myself enough to fly Southwest and deal with non assigned seats even though they do have the most non stop flights from our current airport
> It feels like Musk is single-handedly making a great case for why unlimited accumulation of wealth is a bad idea.

Musk is bad, but he's only really one example amongst thousands. And there aren't many examples of where this has ever been a good thing.
You’re hitting on innovation versus invention. True invention is getting more and more rare. Innovation is alive and well.
Why not just use Bazel?
Sick and tired of idiotic daily Musk Musk Musk news. You can't live life anymore without that nazi doing some random thing. Btw he is out now insulting Altman. Childish and horrible.
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