skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you watched the hearing, you will have noticed many of the congressmen and women, after asking their questions in a harsh, accusatory manner, sometimes speaking over the witnesses, turn down to their laps to look at their Apple or Google phones, Google search something, post it to Twitter and or Facebook, and maybe purchase something on Amazon for good measure.

That kind of illustrates the point that these companies just might be too big, but what I don't hear anyone discussing are the potential consequences of breaking these companies up--they are a hard dependency in some way for most of the American populace if not the world's day to day operations and the quality of their services is largely reliant on their scale--I don't think the analogy to Standard Oil does justice to the complexity of the situation. We're not talking about a simple consumer product here, we're talking about complicated data-driven services, services that all rely on access to massive pools of information collected over years at this point, once you fragment the access to that data, the services will no longer perform as they currently do--then what will happen to the little guy we're trying to protect from the big boys who relies on Facebook and Google to advertise, Amazon to feed part of his supply chain, and Apple hardware? How might his business look if you suddenly swap out all of these behemoth quality services he depends on for disjointed shadows of their former selves, many of which will no longer be able to justify the gratis offerings and free tiers they currently can?

Not saying it these giants shouldn't be broken up, just saying it's a process that will require a lot of incredibly careful thought and to be honest I'm not confident those with the power to make the decisions in this case have all the tools they need to ensure such a transition happens without having catastrophic side-effects.
That's absurd. Humans do not lose all executive decision making just because the pixels on their phone are in the shape of a nipple.

See also: NYT, Substack, Patreon.
And yet Christianity is shrinking as education improves. Having been raised in that evangelical cult I hope its end comes sooner than later. It spreads the worst kind of thinking (blind trust in authority) and indoctrinates the young with destructive superstitions (hell, faith healing, etc).
If it's a pdf can be useful to change contrast
Because he has spent an academic lifetime studying that question, and recognizing the unique obstinacy of that word, in that you cannot pre-commit to define it despite some intuitive consensus on what it may mean. https://iep.utm.edu/hard-con/
What I understand from this study is that whether you learn music or sit on your couch will have no difference on your cognitive abilities and only make you better at music if you do the former.

That's in stark contradiction to:

The authors found studies with high-quality design, such as those which used a group of active controls – children who did not learn music but instead learned a different skill, such as dance or sports, for example – showed no effect of music education on cognitive or academic performance.

The comparison is to children engaged in some sort of behavior, not passively sitting on the couch consuming tv.

Also the whole concept of measuring intelligence in itself is dubious at best. IQ tests in particular are nothing more than measures of how good someone is at taking tests and not a good measure of intelligence.
The graph you are linking to shows something like 15% in 5 years and 30% in 10 years.
Is some degree of intelligence necessary for consciousness? We don't know.

Some philosophers (of a pan-psychic bent) would say that consciousness doesn't require any intelligence, so even something completely unintelligent (like a pebble, or an individual proton) could be conscious. Others think that consciousness requires some minimal degree of intelligence, a standard which (non-human) animals may or may not meet, but a pebble certainly can't. We don't know who is right here. We don't have any agreed upon objective standards to determine what is conscious and what is not.

But, if it were true that some minimal degree of intelligence is required for consciousness, then it may well be that primitive animals have that degree of intelligence yet GPT-3 lacks it. While GPT-3 can perform at seemingly human level on some tasks, there are other tasks on which even quite primitive animal intelligences vastly outperform it. Maybe, if intelligence is necessary for consciousness, the kind of intelligence underlying the later tasks may be more essential to consciousness than the kind underlying the former.

> If anything it's likely more related to quantum mechanics and waves than it is to "information processing" which is the common misconception even AI experts have.

The idea that consciousness is some kind of special quantum phenomena is highly speculative. Sure, some philosophers and physicists think it may be true, but others think the whole idea is baloney. When you say "likely", that's just your own opinion of what is more likely, there is no hard evidence to support that probability judgement.
You're pretty typical in this respect. It's why open source software needs to be sponsored by large corporations and why indie software is "free for non-commercial use". It's easier to swipe that business CC than it is your own one.
> Is it wrong to work with certain traditional finance companies because of their association with cash?

On the contrary, drug dealers and criminals stay away from traditional banks precisely because of this. Are you asking is it wrong to work in the foreign banknote management business, or the Western Union style irreversible wire transfer business, or the gift card trading business, or a business that wants to pay you cash in hand? I would say yes. At some point the criminal uses of a given tool are so overwhelmingly more popular than legitimate uses that the tool itself becomes tarred with criminality.
If Google search vanished overnight the world would turn to DDG within a day. Ok, that would probably crash their servers but I'm sure they and other search engines could scale up quickly.
> Google's other big problem is being terrible at anything which needs repair or customer support.

This is the direct result of the pervasive 10x/moonshot thinking. Anything that doesn't immediately sound like it can reach a billion users from the outset starts with a massive handicap when getting churned through the decision-making process. Anything that sounds like it requires a human in the loop, anything that has a manual step, anything that requires tech support, documentation, long-term stabilization....not even up for consideration. It's not just the launch-based performance review and promotion process, a problem which has at least penetrated the internal consciousness and is considered now in the whole perf process. It's not just the obvious product cancelations.

Fundamentally, Google is not willing to do anything that doesn't scale. They aren't willing to hold users' hands. They aren't willing to be there when something breaks, when something goes wrong, when someone is in a bind because some automated system locked them out, when all those messy unforeseeable situations occur. Putting users first is Orwellian doublespeak, because it's the thing Google hardly ever does--unless you are a corporate advertiser. Users--people like you and me--are the unwashed masses that Google believes it can wall off and keep as far away from its employees as possible. One user? Roundoff error. Ten users? Roundoff error. At Google scale, even a million users is a roundoff error.

Is there a 10,000 strong workforce dedicated to users' tech support? No. But there is a 10,000 strong workforce dedicated to sales, marketing, and partner relationships. Those people pull in the billions and billions of ad revenue, so absolutely they have 10,000 people hammering away at that goldmine. And if you are spending money on Google advertising, they will support your ass off.

Google is an ad business. Duh.
This is an argument for UBI, not against the subscription business model.
Requiring passion is a euphemism for being over-workable.

Yes. Makes me think of Zappos, the shoe store. They're big on demanding employee enthusiasm.[1] But in the end, they're just a shoe store.

[1] https://www.zapposinsights.com/about/core-values
I grew up in Minnesota but lived in Wisconsin for 15+ years, so I'm probably a little passive-aggressive. I'll spot you that Chicago drivers know where they are going (agressive and fast is fair) and in reality it's all the non-locals cautiously driving thru Chicago trying to figure out what lane they need to be in to get to where they want to go.
Poor Saudi Arabia. In 20 years they're probably screwed. CUE SOFTBANK INVESTMENTS.
If you borrow to invest for the future by adding value, you grow. Everyone seems delighted to borrow ever more against existing housing stock, which creates nothing.
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Interesting. How many computers/servers/etc are involved in those queries?
One (or maybe more) of them had to adjust dates because of the congressional hearing.
A compromised CA is still valid, so you should be able to replace it with a non-compromised one before the expiry date.
So your sample set means iPhone's don't have issues ?
RISC-V Gaining Traction
>by GTP-3

It seems there was a typo in the prompt :)
I'm hanging out in this thread mainly to address the authenticity. It's real and unedited output complete with non sequiturs and grammatical errors. I'm not sure if there's a way to audit the output, but the prompt and instructions for how I accessed GPT-3 and generated the text have been posted and you should try yourself if you're interested.
> I also can't help but think we're going to end up with a microkernel with some sort of nested cgroups for user processes. Which is itself going to look a little bit like Erlang...

Also sounds like https://redox-os.org, a microkernel that has namespaces, written in Rust and actively under development
In that case it makes even more sense to ignore the expiry date as the vendor is not able to renew or replace it anyway.
The problem is not really the methodology or implementation but the perception caused by it. If you can tell a user "we know you read this" then that implies you are tracking what they read which is something I try to avoid.

I plan to work on a solution, but if I do, users will be able to opt-in or opt-out depending on the implementation.
We use Paprika.. http://www.paprikaapp.com
Doesn't seem to be a problem for purveyors of high quality content. Often they only get a small percentage of people to contribute, but they make do. And IMHO more of them make out like bandits than one might think, especially Youtubers with multiple ways to make money. I think that number is closer to the low thousands than the high dozens.
RISC-V instructions are either 32 or 16 bits, and the size of the instruction is determined by 2 bits in a fixed place (the LSBs of the instruction word IIRC.) Much easier than x86-64.
I teach machine learning on Scikit-learn and TensorFlow 2
I made a video course Hands on Machine Learning with Scikit-learn and Tensorflow 2.0 (https://www.packtpub.com/gb/data/hands-on-machine-learning-with-scikit-learn-and-tensorflow-2-0-video) - with about 40 jupyter notebook lessons introducing machine learning theory and with plenty of examples in Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow, covering supervised, unsupervised, deep neural networks, recurrent neural networks, natural language processing, transformers, time series forecasting, computer vision, GANs, style transfer, Wavenet, reinforcement learning and AlphaZero (Among lots of other topics).

I have also coded each notebook, from my repo for the course into beautiful blog posts, complete with all the working code examples into an hopefully useful blog : https://pathtopioneer.com/

I really love teaching machine learning to others, and helping them understand and use the latest topics and concepts. I want to get much better at this and offer more useful content. I would love it if you could have a look, and tell me if this is useful or what would be useful (Please be direct and honest, as it is fully appreciated) - I wish to get to a point where I can do this full time and make a living from it. Also let me know if you would like 1:1 tutoring over any of these concepts, or if I can make a course for yourself or company on a topic.

Let us all enjoy the beautiful ideas, concepts, and powerful implementations of machine learning.
All types in Turing complete languages are inhabited by non terminating terms (looping forever, throwing exceptions), which means all propositions are provable.

For instance in Typescript,

const absurd = <A>(): A => absurd()

const unimplemented = <A>(): A => { throw new Error(“Unimplemented”) }

const uninhabited: string & number = absurd()

Intuitively you can think of it like, “Yeah sure, I can build you a term of any possible type, as soon as I get back to you.”, but then the function just ghosts you by looping forever. But it hasn’t lied. However, so long as you’re aware of these gotcha’s they don’t come up much in practice which is why viewing types as proofs is still useful. Just don’t stake your career on one.
> If Patreon had an authenticated RSS feed link in user profiles, I absolutely would use it

Patreon does have this feature for audio content, like podcasts, if the creator enables it: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/213557023-Enab...

But I think you mean for all content? I emulate this by enabling e-mail notifications for all posts from some creators and auto-forwarding them to Newsblur for newsletter reading. Maybe that helps.
It's the battle for subjectivity.
Maybe online, but I don’t see many products at best buy worth counterfeiting. Do you have an example?
For me, the only reason I'd be willing to pay $5/m for a single creator is because of information disparity: it is difficult to find content I like, because the signal-to-noise ratio is so low. If I have to spend a lot of time looking this costs far more than just paying for incrementally more of the same, even though the perfect content for me is probably out there somewhere for free.

AI will probably solve this problem eventually, though recommender services are in general pretty crap right now.

I think there is a lot of value in a service that can go through the Amazon catalog and just cull the 99.9% of stuff it thinks I'm not interested in, then give me advanced search / preview / indexing on the rest. Problem is, it would have to do this without taking ad dollars to poison the list. Also privacy concerns.
A couple of years ago, Google used to have a program called "Shopping Actions" where retailers could pay a fee and get priority placement in product search results. Google, the middleman, then took a cut if there was a purchase.
Anyone try their "demo"? Is it any good?

(Oh, autoiterative people? Where's your privacy policy? Where's your opt-out of tracking link? For that matter, where's your company? And why is your domain registered via WhoisGuard out of Panama?)
This was well worth the read. Should have gotten more attention.
If its on Amazon they will price match Amazons price. I assume they subsidize all this by the number of customers who dont ask. There was a BestBuy I went to where the guy looked it up without me asking to see if he could bring down a laptops price bases on what Amazon listed it as at the time. I think he saved me $10 or something.
Secure boot has, for the most part, prevented the underlying system from being compromised by malware that can run before boot (and therefore hide itself from the OS). I don't think we can really prove a negative here, but it means no more "boot sector" viruses, either on the HDD itself, or on external bootable media. That certainly is a good first step to preventing foot canon incidents, and giving the OS a decent chance at preventing malware running before the OS has control of the system.

Couple in, as another post said, a tpm which only releases the decryption key if the system is in a valid state with secure boot running, it helps a lot with basic cold boot protection. TPM is far from perfect, but it is arguably better than a user not encrypting their disk at all, and this prevents attacks like replacing the utilman.exe with cmd.exe etc.
This the kind of comment that only portrays one side and the readers think "Google BAAAAAD".

You know what happened when background services were allowed completely, battery issues, crashes, just a complete shitshow. One one hand HN raves about the iOS quality, OTOH blames Android for trying to do the same thing.
"I have the best reasoning folks."

Am I on the right track?
IMO it's subjective. I once was horrified by a creator's video thanking his fans in an obviously poorly produced setting and style. Years later I've grown to enjoy both their older, rougher works and their newer, polished content. Maybe it's just the illusion of a human connection or hip to support indies, but I'm seriously considering making some monthly donations to support their work.

Niches like theirs will always exist.
I get the fatigue, but I also LOOOVE that we're moving towards a world of "payment for genesis", were we explicitly pay folks so that they "might" make something fantastic. It's such a breath of fresh air from the world of advertising. TOTALLY off topic, but I want to get this advertising analogy/story/parable/fiction out of my head, so I might as well write it down here:

In the advertising-based revenue world, you see really odd businesses. Imagine a world were in every town there's a pizza place with a huge sign atop reading "FREE PIZZA". You park your car and queue in line for the order window; when your time comes you ask for a pepperoni pizza and you're handed a pepperoni pizza, no cash required. However, you're also handed a 3 inch thick stack of flyers advertising for random business and schemes. Well, you didn't ask for a phone books worth of paper, so you move to throw them into the garbage. Before you can you're stopped by an employee who gasps "what are you doing?!"

As though in answer to a question like 'why are you breathing', you reply "I'm throwing away these extra papers; they're very heavy."

"But don't you know that if people throw away the advertisements, we can't give away the pizza?" moans the employee.

Feeling irritated, you respond "Well, it's my pizza now so I'm going to throw these away." And with that you walk to your car and drive home.

The frustrated employee would, by 2030 move to management, where the business would seek to have customers sign papers saying that they can be hand-fed pizza by restaurant staff as long as that customer sits with their eyes held open and stares into monitors showing advertisements on loop. Later in 2035, this nameless employee would recieve a promotion to VP after coordinating a team of lawyers who successfully lobbied the US congress to legislate allowing the term "FREE PIZZA" to describe the process of "contractually enforced assisted hand-feeding in panoptic advertising environments".

Meanwhile in 2025, Europe would rule in favor of selling Pizza for $2 a slice.
I am on the default, 1.0.
Today's B2B startups turned their users into paying customers
Has WSJ released any figures as to the prevalence with this or are they just presenting individual accounts?

If I’ve gotten counterfeits they were certainly of the quality i was expecting from the brand name and I really don’t care, that’s the free marketplace baby, capitalism at full health.
Agree, komoot is what I also use for planning. Shows all the different terrains, elevation, for different sports (mtb, road cycling, hiking).

I don’t ever use komoot for recording though, phone uses too much battery. Recording is done through a polar watch, synced to strava. Watch is also best for wind and kitesurfing, no need to bring a big expensive watch on the water.
Walcott in New York
This description doesn't quite make sense. If the threshold is regularly changing, the calculation can output the same result number for the same 21 parameters and have it be a bug or not a bug from month to month, depending on the threshold. How can you write a test for that without locking in the threshold? Indeed, without hard-coding the threshold in the calculation itself?
I think everyone has been very upfront that they're discussing their personal experiences here.
Companies like https://coil.com are solving this by giving you a single $5/month subscription and then streaming micropayments to the content creators as you consume their content. It builds on the WebMonitization standard https://webmonetization.org
How did you get your early customers?
What are some of the go to market strategies that you used to get customers early on.
That sounds really wrong to me and dependant on the store itself. My local BestBuy stores would price match it. Hell I have asked a manager to lower the cost on a open box product that was their display machine. Saved me $150 if I remember correctly.
Is this the next stage of Patreon? Be more magazine like?

$5 month gets you a group of creators in a given field.
Hell, I would happily pay that for a whole group of 3D printer/Blender gurus doing their thing and showing me how...
I think that's way too much information and agree that new users will feel overwhelmed.
With that move it is actually decreasing the complexity and improving manageability and sustainability.
Yes, that's the last word I typed. I have been getting it mixed around, probably because I don't know what the acronym stands for.
If he's a genius, maybe he could at least try to make something the value of which is not only measured in dollar bills.
UBI accoint empties quickly when spending it on fansonly
Yes there are landlords who hold land out of use because they know there are or will be others who will eventually want to use it.

There is very clear profit in buying land for cheap and sitting on it until somebody wants it. Land doesn't depreciate unlike buildings. Building something on that land is often more risky for landowners whose business is pure speculation because at sell time the building will have to be torn down by the next user.

This is consistently evident in real world. It might not be in economic theories and textbooks which are designed only for utopia-land.
I think OP meant that some type of content just makes more money. I'm also curious, beyond explicit adult content, I wonder how much OnlyFans is pulling in.
Yeah it's like, "it was an absolute steal at $0, and it's still an absolute steal at $10!"
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Similar story although I haven't purchased a macbook yet. Used to purchase laptops within the 500AUD range which would break or die within a year, decided to spend 1000AUD on a Asus zenbook and it's held up quite nicely over 3 years - only issue being the battery but that's expected.

Haven't spent anything close to a MBP but I know people still using the 2015 model and holding up nicely. I guess price sort of correlates to build quality? Although same can't be said for resale value.
The first paragraph is bizarre. She finds a dead bird and immediately decides to take home and put it in her freezer?
These are pretty amazing. Not quite one line but very concise nonetheless. I never mess with grid. I use flex regularly though.