skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just in general...

I'm not sure we can meaningfully advocate for privacy atm without having a better understanding of what data big tech collects, what inferences they can glean from even limited data sets, what changes in behavior their customers can nudge users toward, and the worst-case hazards that extant algos can create.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind joining an "Evilcorp" social media network run by FSF, EFF, or some such, if it were done in a way where the insights gleaned about big tech dangers were to be made public in a responsible way. It's one thing to watch a documentary that provides a vignette with actors showing how social media might nudge a teen away socializing to instead check their status updates. It's quite another to find out that a single, seemingly trivial change to the "Evilcorp" feed caused an average of 2 hours less sleep for its userbase.

I'd also want to know-- what's the worst case sleep loss average? It's important to have detailed answers to these kinds of questions if we want to meaningfully protect our privacy online. And we don't even have something as crucial as `git blame` for these types of things.

And given the ubiquity of data mining today, the dangers of creating such a dataset must be a drop in the bucket by comparison.
> "YAML documents can't start with a tab while JSON documents can, making JSON not a strict subset of YAML"

But YAML can start with tabs. Tabs are allowed as separating whitespace in most of the spec productions but are not allowed as indentation. Even though those tabs look like indentation, the spec productions don't interpret them as such.

See my comment above and esp see https://play.yaml.io/main/parser?input=CXsKCQkibGlzdCI6IFsKC...

Note: the YAML spec maintainers (I am one) have identified many issues with YAML which we are actively working on, but (somewhat surprisingly) we have yet to find a case where valid JSON is invalid YAML 1.2.
Kinda amazing these articles get pushed to Hacker News

By the way this is the magic of vaccines - https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1485695982117425153?s=2...

For the boosted, it is pretty much back to normal
Ah, well that does seem annoying.

I think (I switched it a while ago) Firefox defaulted to System Theme on my machine (Ubuntu), not sure how that works in the Windows ecosystem though.
> The stats in favor of vaccines take a sentence to explain (like “of the 1000 people with the vaccine 2 died, vs the 1000 people with placebo, 187 died”)

Are those real numbers?

At least according to table S26. Death summary in Blinded Phase (https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2113017/suppl_f...) it should be “of the 15184 people with the vaccine 16 died, vs the 15162 people with placebo, 16 died”. Unless I'm mistaken.
Congratulation, i did the same ~5years ago, and cant be any happier, jails bhyve dtrace zfs/ufs pf geom-compressed pkg/ports etcetc...nearly every day i find some useful features, and when try them out...they work!!
> The thing is, if all you need is robust determinism why do you need a full functional language with currying and other complex concepts?

Yeah, that's a good point.

I don't see any reason determinism requires a functional paradigm. That said, the functional language communities probably value determinism more than the others, currently.

Choosing a language whose community values align with your needs can be a good thing.
Aside: why does every substack article on HN seem to from this particular subculture? As far as I can tell substack is just a paid newsletter platform but I feel like I'm seeing a pattern here.
Yes, the idea that this company paid a lawyer to go through its tech stack and figure out who owns the code relied upon by the company is fairly ridiculous. Either a lawyer drafted a template email for the company to send to its suppliers, or a lawyer (read: intern) was given a list of suppliers to email on behalf of the company, or a lawyer wasn't involved at all.

But in software communities (and particularly in FOSS communities) tech people can do no wrong; every time a tech company does an aggressive or foolish or otherwise objectionable thing, there must be a dastardly lawyer somewhere pulling the strings.
Nope, you’ll just get 10x as many ads with half the duration to minimize the amount of time your brain has to determine if something irrelevant or not. Those 5 second ads don’t cut short because they’re kind - it’s all they need to repeat to have the name, jingle, or sad-face burned into your neural net.
> Well yes , harm is the point. It is not up to the slave to be the bearer of good in the face of evil.

Slave? Good? Evil? The rhetoric in this thread is over the top and way too melodramatic. "Valiant nurse Skywalker struck a blow against the EVIL Empire by letting the sick ewok Wicket wallow in his own shit. He could help Wicket, but that would be SLAVERY, so he BECAME THE BEARER OF GOOD by watching Wicket suffer and reading a magazine instead of helping him."

Let me put it this way: It's more evil to sit there and watch some patient suffer without helping them than whatever evil you're so concerned with here.

However, I totally get that it may be difficult for some software engineers (whose jobs typically have no more moral significance or responsibility than a GameStop clerk's), to understand that not every situation is like their own.
The author gets it wrong with this quote:

>The only truth that is guaranteed by the recording of a given information on a given blockchain, is that this particular information is written on this particular blockchain.

The second part is that $X worth of real-world resources have been consumed in building this blockchain, so this one blockchain and the particular information inside is worth paying attention to. Whether or not you feel that this resource consumption is worthwhile, it is at least an objective way to stack-rank the proof-of-work blockchains.
a) 1
b) Too many to count
c) 6, I think?
d1) System design, performance management, product eng partnership/relationship, management principles
d2) 1
e) Not really necessary

I interviewed more as a favor to someone I knew at the company, but I ended up liking the company. When it came time to talk compensation, I threw what I thought was an FU number at them (i.e. I started my then current job with a max band offer and stock had since doubled) but they ended up agreeing, so I said yes.
The "ought" can be taken quite literally with an appeal to Kantian ethics and the categorical imperative. Can you universalize the sentiment that your special snowflake information site deserves users registering and signing up for a newsletter? There are at least millions of such sites out there and each user will encounter tens if not hundreds of thousands over a lifetime of browsing and searching the web. No user can possibly maintain hundreds of thousands of unique registrations and subscriptions or read that many newsletters.

The only universalizable alternatives are platformization of everything, so people maintain registrations at Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook and those are now the only information sources accessible to anyone, or sites that contain information allow at least some of it to be accessed without requiring a registration or subscription that is unique to their site. Potentially some sort of universal SSO could solve the problem, but it would require universal buy-in from individual sites and would make privacy virtually impossible.

Note that offering such a thing, if a user decides your information content is really worth it after getting some sample and coming to trust and know you, is different from requiring it up front to see anything at all.
James Webb Space Telescope Orbit Insertion Burn into L2 Parking Is Today
Live:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWP7xDAdDPI
It really isn't. We are reaching a year into vaccine availability, and you'd think by now that the vaccinated would be dropping like flies at this point. In reality most people pushing vaccine hesitancy, if not being contrarian in order to appear wise, are doing so to make money from the people who have been made anxious by vaccine misinfo (it's not a coincidence that this blog is hosted on substack).

It's no longer about applying reasoning, but being part of an in-group; like QAnon - almost every retort is met with deflection or claims it's out of context. And while they almost every "theory" anti-vaxxers can come with are built on anecodota or cherry picked statistics, they will require that you have several cited sources and if you trip up once; well that proves it, vaccines are unsafe.

Also I get it, some may not like vaccine mandates, and being told to lockdown and told where they can and cannot go, but that does not imply the vaccines are unsafe.

It's really worth as much discussion as the theory the JFK will rise from the dead and invalidate the 2020 election.
How far can we actually take current machine learning technologies by scaling the underlying hardware? Are we going to see some AI algorithms that are 20% better or an order of magnitude better? And what will that realistically look like to an end user? This will have cost a lot of money and maybe the news alone will push stock prices and mean its paid for itself but is it actually going to result in a substantially better product?
Well, not everyone has or can afford to spend $100k on something that doesn't really work for them but might in 5 years.

In the end, even if using the power of government there are finite people, time and resources. You have to choose what to spend on and what not to.

I know it's horrible that we don't live in a utopian society.
A lot of Chinese cloud providers like Aliyun will only allow pay and go, because there’s no way to recursively bill

My own instances go down all the time when I forget to ‘top up’ the account
How Tesla is failing it’s most loyal customers
If you're just wondering about immigration lawyers, you should reflect this in the title. The answer to the universal question is "not anytime soon". The answer to the specific question might be different. As a former lawyer, I suspect there are certain aspects that can be automated, but that the subjective parts cannot be.

In general, lawyers already 'automate' some of this work by offloading it to lower-paid staff. As lawyers become more tech savvy, they will probably offload more to computers/applications than to people. The crop of senior lawyers that are about to retire have relied heavily on secretaries/paralegals in a way that junior lawyers do not. Junior and mid-level lawyers use technology much more already.
This is a poorly written blog post on a very important topic. This feels like misinformation. Why is this here on HW?
Deciphering the Components of National Approaches to AI
Sorry to be obtuse, but I don't understand your hesitation.

If you have a lower bound on the absolute value of the smallest difference of any/all pairs of roots, the lower bound on the sum of N of them is at most adding lg(N) bits.

EDIT:

I'm wrong, you're right. You've hit it on the head. My apologies.

Just because there's bounds on pairwise roots, doesn't mean they then can be bounded when they're all summed together.

In other words, say you have d_0 = |a_0 - a_1| and d_1 = |a_2 - a_3|, you might get into a situation where |d_0 - d_1] requires some exponential number of bits to represent.
What the hell is a "tech bro"?
Unless I'm misunderstanding, this seems to be a totally correlational result. That is, they found that websites with increased accessibility tend to also be more usable. This is easily explained by assuming that developers who care about usability also tend to care about accessibility. It is more difficult to explain in a directly causative way, since many accessibility features, such as aria attributes, are completely invisible to non-disabled users.
I wish researchers outside Meta were allowed to rent this SuperCluster for maximum benefit to humanity.
won't it just be a few racks of gpus in one one the existing giant data centers?
Show HN: How do I force reload a website?
It seems like Putin wants to regain all / most of the lands that were in the USSR.

It would be based on nostalgia and dreams for Russia to take on the greatness that the USSR had when he was a young man.
They had two go's at it, A/UX and OS X Server, and ironically they do need servers for iCloud.
it doesn't have any door handles? the AI just decides when to open the doors for me?
Dutch Regulator Says Apple's Plan for Payments Is Insufficient, Fines Apple € 5M
No, as medical workers they have a duty to provide care if they show up to work.

They can just not show up, but then the hospital will fire them (with a strong position to deny them unemployment when they do).
I'm surprised by the amount of frogs that love to participate in the covid comments on HN. The ones who jumped out of the pot don't really waist their time on it because the comments get censored.
Anybody else get the sense that we're just totally frickin doomed? Even if Yudkowsky is off about AGI (which is a big maybe!) in what possible world will this technology be used to make our individual lives better (assuming you're not a FAIR researcher?)
I frequently found myself in need of sending clients information on how to reload websites without cache. This often involves asking for their OS and browser first, which can make it somewhat tedious. There are quite a few articles explaining the different shortcuts per OS / browser, but they are full of ads most of the time, which is why I build this in an afternoon.
Why must evil be supernatural?
I use it on Android because mobile Chrome doesn't support ad blockers (or other extensions).
I think these sorts of computers use special GPUs that are industrial and used specifically for AI/ML work. I don't believe they've powered the super computer with 3080s and I also don't think they use the same underlying chips either (albeit they are probably built with the same raw material that might be in short supply).
I have a great aunt who lives in Tonga - my Grandma spoke to her a couple days ago. Apparently people on the main Island (Tongatapu) are mainly fine - her main issue is a bunch of ash on her roof, which apparently is going to cost for $500 to get removed from local tradespeople.
What is the difference between “a supercomputer” and “a bunch of racks of computers”?

The actual difference between the two is quite diminished compared to years past and seems to reduce more to how a collection of computers is used and not what it is.
Where can I sign this petition?
IMO--They are stirring various things up and pushing boundaries outward in order to determine the most-current boundaries and principles which apply to their geopolitical position.

They'll use this to inform their localized (3-6 month scope) game plan. (And they'll execute no matter what, it's just a matter of how and where--always executing is their psychological burden.) Their strength is contextual analysis informing quick execution. Their military preference is to play the trickster role, with a cat-like approach. Tactical plans aimed a spike in execution (sprints, like a cat hunting) meant to gain a disproportionately intimidating result. Flexing.

Their blind spots include refinement, culture, global persona, capture of popular will, and logistics. So the most obvious responses for the west would include engaging and bearing down on each one of those virtual fronts for extended periods of time. The west could also use this situation to place immense pressure on China.[1]

PS, the west could also really benefit from this opportunity to build more settling space for recent internal civil conflicts. If western governments are smart that's exactly how this'll play out. Russia is obviously complicit in these conflicts from an evidentiary standpoint so engagement with them at all reasonable levels could be an equitable way to direct the tensions & focus.

1. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Ukraine-cris...
Sure, if you define 'any attack whatsoever' as 'invasion', then, of course -- according to your own definition -- any attack is an invasion. Just doesn't mean anything anymore.
> Consider systemd - was there really a need for such a system? While it brought some advantages, it added some complexity to an otherwise extremely simple and functional system. It remains divisive to this day, with many asking, "but was it really necessary? Did the advantages it brought balance the disadvantages?"

This is really telling for the level of analysis done: systemd has been the target from a small number of vocal complainers but most working sysadmins only notice it in that they routinely deal with tasks which are now a couple of systemd stanzas instead of having to cobble together some combination of shell scripts and third-party utilities. Confusing noise with numbers is a dangerous mistake here because almost nobody sits around randomly saying “this works well”.
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It's less brake dust only if you use an old school automatic I'd assume. On a manual engine braking does the same in practice as regenerative braking: slowing down without using brake pads, only it does this with the force of a vacuum rather than friction in the EV motor. Coming up to a 25mph stop or an uphill offramp, its actually possible to come to an almost complete stop (assuming you'd clutch in to not stall) by engine braking in a manual without touching your brakes at all. Newer automatics seem to have some engine braking capability baked in rather than just kicking you into overdrive and coasting when you lift off the throttle.
There are definitely some core accessibility features that are great for non-disabled users, though, for example having text descriptions for images (it always irritated me that alt-text didn't automatically generate a tooltip, though I sort of understand why)

It's great to be able to mouse over images in Tweetdeck and (if the poster provided it) have the alt-text pop up in a tooltip so I can scan it to see if it's worth the time to open the image, and it's great to have textual descriptions of toolbar icons.
Someone else estimated the Tonga explosion at 10 megatons [1] and it was heard thousands of miles away. Bear in mind, humans have detonated nuclear weapons larger than this, most famously the Tsar Bomba [2] at 50 megatons. Compare this to something not that long ago: Krakatoa, estimated at 200 megatons [3].

Then compare this to the Year Without Summer (536 AD) [4]:

> Falling in the time known as the 'Dark Ages', the year 536 AD fully embraced this moniker as Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia were plunged into 24-hour darkness for 18 months. Summer temperatures plummeted between 1.5-2.5°C causing crops to fail and millions to starve to death.

All of this has happened in the last 10,000 years, which is regarded as a relatively stable period and a mere blink of the eye in cosmic timelines. I'm reminded of the thin blue line [5]. You begin to realize how narrow a niche we live in.

Humanity almost died out 70,000 years ago [6]. It's not really known why. There are lots of theories on the cause. It's estimated the population dropped into the tens of thousands. It's actually a big reason why there is little genetic diversity in humans (compared to other primates, for example).

Far worse has happened on Earth and will likely happen again: the Chicxulub impact, supervolcanic eruptions like Yellowstone (about every 700,000 years in recent times), the magnetic poles flipping (and what that'll do to solar radiation hitting the Earth) and so on.

And all of these pale into comparison to any space-based cataclysmic events (eg gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, magnatars, neutron star and black hole mergers).

It really makes you think how fragile our existence is.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073800454/nasa-scientists-es...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa#:~:text=With%20an%20e...

[4]: https://www.history.co.uk/articles/what-was-the-worst-year-i...

[5]: http://lightexhibit.org/earth_atmosphere.html#:~:text=Earth'....

[6]: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/h...
It's gonna be awkward when the browser's market share drops below Lynx but they have to keep working on it as a fig leaf
I agree, good point.

I was just trying out something in a game, and minimizing mutable state has lead to some interesting ideas. Not to mention that it trivilized creation of custom data types.
They can work well. In the project I'm working on the database uses algebraic datatype keys (i.e. tags and tag-dependent columns) to make the database faster and smaller than an equivalent relational schema, but the database is used via API rather than via a query language.
It's signed off "Information Security". The template email might have been drafted by legal/compliance, but it is surely for the IT guys to figure out what code they use in their tech stack and lead those discussions.
You can probably look up who is TSMC manufacturing custom chips for since they’re public
I'm sorry, am I not supposed to be able to "vote with my wallet"?

If someone says "hey the guy that runs this company doesn't think you should be treated the same as others because of your sexual preference" I should ignore that because "who cares"?

I'm just not sure what the counter-argument is here... it sounds like "everything and everyone sucks, and you suck too, so stop paying attention and trying to improve anything"
> the real universe we live in bottoms out at 10^-35 meters or so

We don't actually know this. It's a plausible speculation in quantum gravity, but we have no evidence either way. This length scale is about 18 orders of magnitude smaller than the smallest scale we can probe with experiments, so we're highly unlikely to get any evidence either way any time soon.
> 4. Independence of governments, nations, banks, institutions, corporations

Here is a very direct question:

How does BTC or any other currency protect itself from a goverment?

Imagine that a very big government decides to mine BTCs, will not they control the BTC if they have enough miners? And when I say a government controls imagine: slowing down mining, making it illegal, or limiting it in general population, forcing people to declare thei cryptocurrencies, putting a cap on how much one person can hold personally and forcing you to keep them in an official wallet ...

So how can a crypto currency be independent from a government. The government makes laws and as a citizen you are forced to follow them. Crypto cannot escape this, no matter the technology as the control is not technological, is legal, political and social. It is a social contract that I agree a technology can make it harder to discover some nasty business a citizen is doing, but that does not mean it cannot be control.

Don't get me started on corporations. Imagine Google or AWS decides to use his computing power to mine BTCs or whatever crypto. They will in fact control de market.

Please hypothetically prove me wrong with arguments.
More practically: larger means more power, which means greater market asymmetry and general power asymmetry in society. Such situations should always IMO be viewed with skepticism at best.