skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following comment from “Big Dick Nick Cage” on the post says it all. Pasting it here in full because Y combinator types need a dose of cold hard reality once in a while.

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I think like all Libertarian projects, this is the rich guy's version of Going Galt. Instead of declaring themselves the Emperor of Cincinnati and a sovereign citizen, they declare that THIS world is stupid and GAY and they're going to make a NEW world on Mars/the metaverse/wherever where they don't have to deal with things like dumb ol' REGULATIONS and TAXES with the subtext that, of course, the right people will be in charge this time, which is to say, them.

What is truly depressing about this generation of oligarchs is their fantasies are all from 80s sci-fi movies and aren't anything interesting. At least Carnegie built some damn libraries. At least the Gilded Age monarchs endowed universities and art galleries and other things to show their Big Shot Rich Guy fantasies. I mean, Christ, at least be a Batman villain. Drop hundred dollar bills from a helicopter over downtown just to watch the proles scramble. At least Trump ran for president. Zuck was too weird and offputting for that! Imagine being weirder and more offputting! These dudes have more money they can ever spend and still want to be the Big Shot Business Guy sitting in meetings 18 hours a day. Imagine winning the lottery and being like "Hmm, yes, I want to make everyone come into the office to sit around in a conference room and nod at me while I talk. FOR HOURS."

The legacy of Bezos/Musk etc. is going to be space debris and cars that make fart noises.
The vast majority of people in the world live shitty lives. Metaverse doesn't seem so bad for some.
Richard Branson: “Defending the rule of law”
A WHAT?
Try any and keep blogging. Once you progress in making your content, you will better understand your needs, which will assist in a better decision: either keep current platform or pick a better one for your blogging needs.
This may be the case nowadays with the pretty severe regulatory capture we have going on, but in the 60s, the FCC decreed that any lawful device may be electronically connected to the telephone network, despite what AT&T wanted. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone) Without it, we wouldn't have modems, fax machines, answering machines, etc. etc. etc.

Regulation can most certainly result in permissiveness.
Samsung is heavily customized (some say bloated, fair enough), so I think this is good for Android 12 because plain 12 is somewhat crap.
That was already possible before DMCA. All it did was give power to corporations to remove content. The DMCA is restrictive by definition
sounds similar to https://redact.dev/
I'll take the whiskey.
And, staying in context to the discussion, the IRS already knows about all of that from these companies' public state level filings.
It was the late 90s trend rejecting straight edges and boxy design that was so prevalent before it. It was an attempt to take computing out of the sterile office and make it something viewed as fun for consumer use at a time when computer adoption was basically ramping up.

I don't miss the weird shaped stuff, what I do really miss is the fun colors and plastics from the 90s, especially the translucent colored Nintendo stuff.
The only way I can make any kind of sense of it is that the dog represents Facebook, not the viewer.

And that's a very twisted and pathetic sort of sense, if so. They can't have that deep a corporate persecution complex, can they?
Even worse: Bitcoin alone uses as much as the datacenter sector as a whole, not just Google.
Totally agree that personalization is a double edged sword. Problem is getting people to actually want to change their personalized feeds/results. Most people have no clue what they’re missing and this issue has huge “Medium is the message” like implications.
No one worth anything in finance. Plenty of folks in Main Street do, but they don’t know any better, so you’ll have to forgive them.

The lesson is simple: you can’t predict future price based on price history.
Somehow I doubt Facebook needs more market research.
> Make a developer account on Twilio and buy a number from them. Use this whenever a phone number is required online

Non-carrier numbers won't work for many services, and unless I'm mistaken, you are required to provide an address, recurring payment method, and a phone number for 2FA to sign up.
I think the issue is "AI" doesn't describe the field, making it misleading, as if the field will tackle the entire human experience. We can, however, change the definition of terms.
I don't think anyone involved in metaverse knows what they're doing though. You look at VR game devs and there's been a ton of incredible, genuine creativity building compelling experiences within the limitations of the platform - there's wide understanding of the limits, what works, what doesn't etc.

I have no idea what Metaverse is supposed to accomplish: what they put out doesn't look good graphically, and with ads like this one there's a whole level of just "who is this even appealing too?"

On some level I think they're stuck because "live a fantasy" in VR has the problem that it's not marketable - I don't need to own virtual property when I can sculpt my own planets or whatever (speaking of, why the hell has the Black and White franchise not been resurrected in VR?)
> The only way I can make any kind of sense of it is that the dog represents Facebook, not the viewer.

Very meta lol.
> Eugenics has a somewhat fraught past.

That's...an understatement.

> Everyone who tried it thought they were doing their victims a favor.

No, not everyone who did it thought that they were doing their victims a favor. Quite a lot saw their victims as people who ought to be sacrificed for the good of others, and if they thought they were doing them a favor it was only in not murdering them outright as well as preventing them from reproducing.

Of course, some eugenics practitioners didn't bother avoiding outright murder, e.g., the Nazis.
I got unreasonably upset watching the Super Bowl ad. I wasn’t sure why until I read this article
>> Consciousness should be related to survival

Is that not just your intuition too? Is it not possible to imagine an artificial consciousness that does not care one way or the other for its own survival?
Yes. For example, when looking at selfhosted apps, if I see that it's written in a compiled, memory-efficient language, then I will evaluate it. If it's in Python, Node.js, etc, I won't. Simply because of the hardware restraints my server is on.
What on earth does naval security have to do with banking laws?

Take your argument a few steps further. Because of the naval security, should the US have the right to restrict abortion elsewhere in the world because a large portion of its population feels religiously inclined to enforce this?

My point is: Countries are supposed to be sovereign. Canada has no more right to enforce these laws beyond its border than the US does FATCA.
FreeTaxUSA is strangely under-mentioned on these threads. I’ve used it the last couple years with a complex-ish situation. Not a single complaint.
At four months old my infant was crying because, and I kid you not, she wanted me to take her to the kitchen and hold her up where she could watch mom cooking. How do I know this? Because she would do nothing but cry until, by accident, I went to say something to mom in the kitchen and instantly the infant stopped crying and stayed happily quiet for about 15 minutes thereafter. Who knew that four month old infants are thinking things like that?
Richard Branson on Twitter:

> Here’s my thoughts on why the world must support Ukraine[0]

> Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons in return for Russia “respecting the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine”. It is now on the verge of being invaded by the very country that persuaded it to do so[1]

> Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine and violation of the Budapest Memorandum is a threat to the rule of law that humanity hasn't seen since the dark days that led to World War II[2]

> This situation is not just bad news for Ukraine in this very moment of acute crisis; it is bad news for every nation, present and future, seeking to protect its sovereignty[3]

> Blatant disrespect for the rule of law and the validity of international treaties would be disastrous for peaceful coexistence of nations on Earth[4]

[0] https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/149504326119870873...

[1] https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/149504326319104409...

[2] https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/149504326483936051...

[3] https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/149504326735196569...

[4] https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/149504326895396864...
>I’m trying to question the coherence of the proposition itself, and not trying to refute an argument in favor of it.

The point is that just because you can't prove something to yourself it doesn't make the belief incoherent. And you can use your other tools to arrive at likelihoods for said belief.

At any rate, there's plenty of things we believe about say quantum mechanics without being able to observe them directly by using theory and observing secondary effects.

In theory it's also possible to eventually have an exact definition of what we mean by consciousness, figure out which parts of the brain are relevant in what ways and observe secondary effects and use theory to confirm others have it same as with QM. It's all caused by physical effects and at a higher level than things we already reason about just fine.
I tend to be verbose, but then I read word explosions like this essay...

TLDR:

Paraphrased: Meta makes a lot of money, even when it has a bad year. And then,

> Anyway, this is all kind of a long way of explaining how Meta chose to make and air this advertisement for itself during the Super Bowl on Sunday:

Then TFA basically says that the ad illustrates a future where your normal life no longer exists, but you can thankfully reminisce with a friend or two, virtually -- thanks to Meta.
Everything that reflects radar... most space junk isn't trying to hide, nor manuevering under power.
Wow this ad is San Junipero, down to the 80s arcade nostalgia even.

That is hilarious.
This is important. It's not comfortable to use short height device without ad blocker because ads uses near the half of height.
And a good stereo, listening room, and nobody nearby talking.
Compared to AWS et al, sure. But there are plenty cloud services with datacenters in USA that are similarly cost-effective.
I turn off JavaScript on the NYTimes site.
What we may need instead are artificial lake-tiver-dams that are amenable to -pumped hydro- so as to solve the circadian rhythms of solar/wind. By pumping in the day and letting it run downstream in the night we can solve the capacity issue with a natural battery.
The author is likely using the enlightened coder capitalization rules, which informally are: "don't capitalize stuff". But, for reasons of insecurity and sometimes clarity, it often becomes: "only capitalize proper nouns, acronyms, and 'I'".

I think it's due to a general realization that letter casing was an ancient mistake that plagues writing and case-sensitive filesystems. Having psychologically struggled with it and having been on both sides of the issue, I'm still deeply conflicted about it. Same with using "-"s instead of "_"s.
I’m not seeing any disagreement in sibling or other comments
The one time I had to mix so far, to display a CameraX preview view, it worked fine.
My guess is that it was the last version of Visual Basic before they moved over to VB.net -- it was easy and simple, and didn't aim for industrial strength.
PKD was all over this like a fly on shit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_E...

>The story begins in a future world where global temperatures have risen so high that in most of the world it is unsafe to be outside without special cooling gear during daylight hours. In a desperate bid to preserve humanity and ease population burdens on Earth, the UN has initiated a "draft" for colonizing the nearby planets, where conditions are so horrific and primitive that the unwilling colonists have fallen prey to a form of escapism involving the use of an illegal drug (Can-D) in concert with "layouts." Layouts are physical props intended to simulate a sort of alternative reality where life is easier than either the grim existence of the colonists in their marginal off-world colonies, or even Earth, where global warming has progressed to the point that Antarctica is prime vacation resort territory. The illegal drug Can-D allows people to "share" their experience of the "Perky Pat" (the name of the main female character in the simulated world) layouts. This "sharing" has caused a pseudo-religious cult or series of cults to grow up around the layouts and the use of the drug.
Dude, there are people who have children with Tay-Sachs, who are NOT ethnically Jewish at all. 1 in 250 people in the general population is a carrier for Tay-Sachs.

Also, literally everyone is a carrier of mutations for extremely devastating diseases. You just do not know which ones.

This is from a US government website covering Tay-Sachs (https://www.genome.gov/Genetic-Disorders/Tay-Sachs-Disease):

“While anyone can be a carrier of Tay-Sachs, the incidence of the disease is significantly higher among people of eastern European (Ashkenazi) Jewish descent. Approximately one in every 27 Jews in the United States is a carrier of the Tay-Sachs disease gene. Non-Jewish French Canadians living near the St. Lawrence River and in the Cajun community of Louisiana also have a higher incidence of Tay-Sachs. For the general population, about one in 250 people are carriers.”
Nutella is literally and explicitly hazelnut flavoured, there is a hint in the name. That is a terrible example; quite possibly the worst you could have used. I cannot emphasise enough how bad an example that is, and how much it implies that you haven’t done your research into this.

As for Milka and Kinder, they’re not exactly high quality brands. Milka is even owned by Mondelez, same as Cadbury. They are not indicative of the quality of most European chocolate (in the same way that Hershey’s is in no way indicative of the quality of
good American chocolatiers)

I’m confused with Lindt though. I’ve had plenty of
their dark chocolate, from barely above milk-chocolate to 99% cacao solids, and none of it has ever had a distinct hazelnut flavour. I have to seriously ask: are you sure you know what hazelnut tastes like?
This is a bit of a tangent off me pointing out someone's suggestion was eugenics. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this comment. We obviously can't read the minds of eugenics pushers, and very few openly admit their True Aims, so there's not any point trying to litigate it here.
FORTE11 (Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk)
I have an interesting story that I can only recently share due to the statute of limitations passing. I'll stay anonymous for this story.

A number of years ago, I worked on a security team "somewhere". When I joined the place, I was given some context by the other employees about advanced intrusions in the past. For years I spent late nights pouring over my laptop trying to find every imaginable way of breaching the network, and searching for indicators of compromise. Until it happened!

When it happened, it happened so quickly I was blindsided. The attack took place during a time when we would least expect it (not holidays or a certain hour, something else). I was the first to notice the indicators of compromise. They were so quick to work through our network, they identified paths that took me years of research to locate in mere weeks. We were able to stop them, thanks to our network monitoring. Many the techniques they used were cutting edge research, released within the past month. Very impressive and informative. However.. a they made a mistake.

In one of their reverse shells, they were using scp to copy our files to their backup servers. See the mistake? By dumping the packet data from the reverse shell connection, a plaintext password to their server was available. And this is where the statute of limitations comes in.

I connected back to their server with Tor. "Hacking back" is illegal, but I (personally) had to know who bested my efforts to secure the network -- and what they had. What I found was fascinating. They rented out a Linux VPS on a well known provider, but they rebooted the system into a live OS to run in memory. For persistent storage, they connected an SSHFS mountpoint. I thought about it and realized how clever it was to run the OS in memory. If the server is shut down for forensics, nothing would be found.

I explored their files. They were curiously organized. Every one of their targets were stored in a separate folder under a single parent data exfiltration folder. They also had an exploits folder, which had only public exploits. I thought about it and this also made sense, you can avoid profiling by using public exploits. They changed the shellcode in the exploits, however. Their targets surprised me (almost as much as the access they achieved in them). Hetzner, Huawei, and many others. One target was a national security/defense entity of another country, and they set up a SSL/TLS MITM on their ENTIRE network and extracted all of their repositories and credentials. Unbelievable skill. I wouldn't believe it if it was in a movie.

They used their own proxy network, and to the best of my knowledge they only made one mistake. Because of that mistake, I believe I know who was responsible. I feel like I've already said too much though, this is the first time I've made a comment about my experiences in security. On the fence about sharing but I thought you all might enjoy the story!
"Access to justice and information about justice shouldn't be gatekept through money."

I agree. My comment was about how this site allows that access for free. And also that FOIA is moot for this information - it's publicly available without a request.
Have you tried looking at the context in which the books were written and applying similar principles to your domain? Often, as time goes on, specific rules or patterns may stale and be less applicable, but the principles remain rock solid.
> Sure there are plenty other components and factors that come into play but it would be interesting to look at such a graph nonetheless.

Not saying switching to ARM CPUs in servers would be bad but it's all of the other shit in a server that's using a significant amount of power. Even if an ARM CPU is more efficient per unit of computation a server still needs lots of fast RAM, various peripheral controllers, and storage. Replacing the CPU would likely reduce system power usage by several percent but not cut it in half.
The metaverse exists right now. It's called Fortnite. It's got a ton of distractions and an amazing variety of art in a somewhat-consistent art style and handles a ton of interactions and options.

Most people ignore it because it's a terrible interface once you go beyond the games it was built for, as can be seen by their "Imposter" mini game (an ape of Among Us, and skewed by dunkey[1]... By simply giving an accurate representation of how it plays)

The portability and (ironically) fungibility of assets between games is going to increase as games become parts of a platform and maintenance of engine and servers continue to be commoditized but consolidated.

What won't happen is that you'll never file your taxes on Fortnite, because it's stupid.

[1] https://youtu.be/82oJt2enz8A
His own. There would have been no way to fit the logic design of the 2200 on a chip, both because of lack of metal layers, and because the 2200 was designed to be frugal in how many chips it used, using off-the-shelf chips, which is very different from being frugal in the amount of transistors you use when you have freedom to lay out each one by hand.
But the GP is talking about specific properties of large language models like GPT-3. A laptop is indeed a self-maintaining, self-monitoring system, at a low level. A large language model isn't that. It is just a map from input to output and doesn't keep track of it's previous output or input.
Using less strength in your solving algo is a peak shape rotator skill. It’s yet another kobyashi Maru incident.
They each have their place. Kotlin is super Java. Scala is it's own thing, in a similar sense as Clojure or Groovy.
At this point I agree with Hobbes; language is an impediment to understanding.

https://i1.wp.com/footnotes2stories.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
Pretending that an ad (especially in a medium like TV/video) has a message aimed at the rational brain and analyzing it from that assumption is a good way of generating negative emotion toward the advertised product to counteract the positive emotion it is designed to generate, but it's not a real analysis of the ad, because ads, especially video ass, aren't aimed at your rationality, they are aimed to produce emotions and disengage rationality.
Making non-bloated programs/apps. The smallest popular way might be a Go back-end and Vue front-end. Typically it might be a GraphQL back-end and Electron front-end.

Cross-platform desktop apps: Eclipse/Netbeans RCP, Flutter, Qt? At least with Win32/64 it used to be roughly a single proprietary target, now there's multiple desktop, mobile, and web targets.
The Democrats are also opposed to simplifying the tax system. Some of this is lobbying; some of this is the philosophical approach the third wayers running the party have to fixing .gov with more rules rather than less.
Can't even rotate the individual shapes to see them in their entirety.
The internet and social networks nowadays are probably not a healthy place for people with depression or suicidal tendencies.

This is strange. In the beginning, there was a feeling that the internet would be the ultimate tool to unite like-minded people. It probably is, the question is what like-minded people do when they get together. It can be the wonderful software I'm using or millions of dollars for unethical business.
Which science is that, that requires falsifiability?

English? A made up word that gets used certainly is a worthy object of study in that science. Similar points can be made about all humanist sciences.

Natural sciences? Say, Biology. Fictional, and therefore unfalsifiable, biological systems, in the context of the search for extraterrestrial life or just generally (e.g. can we have living silicon-based life?) are objects of study.

Physics? Only experimental physics requires falsifiability. That a large part of it is in fact searching for falsifiability illustrates, I hope, that falsifiability is not a requirement for 99% of Physics. String theory is famous for being unfalsifiable.

Math? Unfalsifiable theories are seen as a good thing in math, and are certainly objects of study. That we don't have a good unfalsifiable set theory for over a century is one of the great problems in math.

You might say I'm a utilitarian. But so is everyone else, despite a few people being confused. Of course, that's exactly what a utilitarian would say.
> Conservatives have cast off Christianity, their north star, the orienting principle of all they believed, discarding it offhandedly like a gum wrapper.

Baptist here. Yeah, we're on the same course we ever were.

If "Conservatives" have veered off, it's because they've more regard for the Gospel of Klaus Schwab than for the one pertaining to that one dude.
I didn't say or imply that. What point are you trying to make here?
> Kindles were also banned from entering her home.

There's an idea!
> It's entirely possible it riffs with the particular market segment they are after...

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