skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I agree. The people who go overboard like this are dangerous in their own way, and I'd say are even more dangerous than the free speech absolutists who insist on constraining private companies in a way that is actually anti-1A.

What I advocate for is basically what we have now. Non-governmental, voluntary and minimal censorship of things that are likely to cause outsized harm in the real world. Also called moderation. I want these platforms to voluntarily remove ISIS propaganda, outright hate speech, election misinformation, and a few other categories, and otherwise allow open discourse. These are all slippery slopes (especially election misinformation removal), but that shouldn't resign us to simply throw up our hands and allow Kremlin propaganda to destabilize democracies.
That might be because there is a lot more creative freedom in game development because playing a game is essentially an exercise in coming to an understanding of the underlying dynamic. And a game is played for fun.

Conversely users of a web app generally don’t want to invest any time in understanding its underlying dynamic and instead want something that works in a familiar way. So we optimise for that.
I can't believe I didn't know Ford made an electric ranger in the late 90s! I wish this article had some more specific dates though...
> how far does this go? when google or amazon or netflix or whomever has an active user account for almost all human beings on the planet, what then?

If you are not constantly growing then you will not have everyone with you, this is because new people reach adulthood. You want them in your service while still retaining the older ones.

In a steady state when all old population have your service and new ones are automatically adopting it, then you are a public utility (Ex. social security).

And when you are a public utility or essential service then you don't have to market yourself, it becomes money printing business and it is dividend company and not a stock growth one.
That many react apps look like that is not a react thing but a design thing. You can make a react app that looks like HN. Or like a game!
which is eventually going to be used to write the game

At what point do you stop believing that?
All engineering has tradeoffs. There is still nothing I have driven that compares well to a high end German BMW in regards to how it feels on the road. Smooth, quiet, but powerful and stuck to the road. The 3 and 5 series are different cars. The 750+ series is where it's at. And like the Mercedes, things break often and are ridiculously expensive to fix. They have obviously prioritized other things. But if you want that premium, BMW feel that makes driving anything else feel and sound like a fun can on wheels, that high end German engineering with all it's flaws is about your only option.
As creator of CRISPR babies nears prison release where does embryo editing stand
Electric Ford Ranger (1998)
What kind of visual components are visually different between 60 and 120hz?

I do dev and browsing work at 30hz and the only thing I notice is the little gaps when moving the mouse fast.
I read those BLM signs on people's multi-million dollar houses in SF as "please don't burglarize me".
>In credit to YouTube and Hulu, they give you the option to go ad free...

Unless something has changed and I'm unaware, this is not entirely true for Hulu. I've been paying for that plan for years and they definitely still play ads for select shows.

Edit: I think it has something to do with it being a network show that Hulu hosts the day after it airs on cable, or something, but they're definitely still there.
Unpopular opinion but you need a certain IQ in order to be able to program effectively. A large portion of the population is not capable of reasoning at the level required to develop.

I've organised bootcamps and learning spaces for wannabe developers and there are tons of people which can't get their head around programming.
I'm not talking about being able to do algorithms challenge. I'm talking about simple function calling, stacks, for loops, etc

That said, I've interviewed several senior programmers with a career who can't program and managed to coast in companies which are not capable or willing to test performances.

So the number of "programmers" may increase, given the salaries we can command, but the amount of developers in FANGs or companies that are capable to deliver something effectively won't increase dramatically.
FANGs are leaving a lot of good developers on the table with their ridiculous leetcode policies, but the population of effective developers is not as large as you think.
Yes, because south Australia doesn't criminalise small quantities of marijuana, and most drugs.

If the police were feeling that way inclined you'd get a fine and (compulsory?) drug diversion counselling, but probably not for one joint.

Last time I checked anyways, I haven't lived there since I was charged with two counts of trafficking a controlled drug about 10 years ago.
I think reaching AGI has to do with the 4 E's: embodied, enacted, embedded and extended. These models have no embodiment, no complex external environment, and there is no goal to attain other than language games.

But they could be embodied, and some experiments have shown for example how a LM can guide an agent in a 3D virtual home to accomplish tasks. (*) Maybe AIs can be educated like children after they reach a certain threshold, by giving them robotic bodies and immersing them in the human society which is the most complex environment for intelligence.

(*) Language Models as Zero-Shot Planners:
Extracting Actionable Knowledge for Embodied Agents - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07207.pdf
For people who are interested in similar directions for Data Visualization, there is a lot going on today in Immersive Analytics [1]. As framed by Dr Tim Dwye, the prevailing consensus up to the last 10 years or so was that any use of 3+ dimensions when implemented is always so bad it only gets in the way of your message and should be avoided at all costs at all times. This is being replaced thanks to new publishing mediums that are better suited to 3D/HCI/etc and let designers express information in new ways kind of like in this example. I sincerely expect we will use IA type thinking to open up new imaginative spaces in a lot of well established existing systems which evolved arround the limitations of 2D flat screen low level conditions.

[1] https://www.monash.edu/it/hcc/ialab
I thinks it's one of their strengths. They really do seem to focus more on the individual than organisations. We all know who to go to for the enterprise alternative and the baggage that comes with that.
When I went to humboldt state in the 90s $60 was the going rate for the ‘one hit wonder’ that was commonly available from the local growers…or so my friends used to tell me.

They used to have this harvest festival every year in Arcata which just so happened to fall on finals week which I found quite amusing.

Oh, and the reports on the local radio where people would call in where the DEA helicopters were operating were also fun.
I think here I'd like to hope they correct it by using theoretical orbital models instead of AI (well, or a human really), I'd be very worried about that training set =)
why do you need an app for each email provider that's ridiculous. If I use an app it'll just be some native email client
You can make a React app that's wildly different to all the others, but if you follow "best practises", and you learned from the same tutorials, and you're using the same component libraries as other React devs your app will probably drift towards looking and working like other React apps unless you make a conscious choice to stop that happening.
You're forgetting that we're all orbiting around the sun.

Just escaping earths gravity puts you an orbit around the sun at the same distance as earth. With a bit more speed you get into an orbit a bit closer or further depending on the direction you took. More explanation with more exact numbers: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/45619
You are right, and with a server-side component you could fetch arbitrary content, the endpoint could look something like example.com/transclude/a.b.com/section/page?path=2a14n which would make the server download a.b.com/section/page, extract the HTML element which is the 13th ('n') child of the 14th child of the first ('a') child of the second child of the root element, and return it.

I’m sure there are implementations of this already.
Sorry about the game, but it looks like you funded a pretty cool programming language!

https://sr.ht/~duangle/scopes/
Related to the recent post on Mastodon. All these implementations speak the same higher-level protocol and you can therefore connect, follow, and share between them. All have instances with open registrations and are also straightforward to self-host.

Exhaustive list: https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/
Free, interactive, basic solidity tutorial - https://cryptozombies.io/
"However, a thermostat is a solved problem."

Sure, maybe in a stationary room, and I can think of plenty of times when I have used my heating or cooling system as not a thermostat. Not a sovled problem in cars...

I can also think of several scenarios where touch controls are absolutely inadequate, i.e. they simply don't work, the knobs in my car are simple to manipulate, and I do so regularly.

Now, do I need 6 buttons to operate all the nonsense in my dash, no - ironically the only "wasted" buttons in my car are the ones related to all the digital touchscreen software I never use...

Regarding the GPS - if my phone or dash unit isn't going to read me the right directions, the map unit is useless anyways. The complex stuff I might like the screen for, I need to be paying attention to the road for anyways. That's precisely the wrong time to be learning what the virtual road looks like and ignoring the semi barelling past me on my left as I have three lane changes to make.

I guess an argument could be madr for prepping me visually a couple minutes ahead, but auditory feedback is enough. And I don't even need the car for that - I'm usually wearing a headset anyways, just makes for a more seamless auditory experience, I can answer calls, etc. There is really just no reason I want a large visual map display distracting me while I'm driving.
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> These languages are mostly fine... but C# is slow,....

First of all, it is a matter of which implementation we are talking about.

Second, all major implementations wouldn't have had any issue dealing with the demos shown on the blog.

I guess it was a good learning process about compilers for the author.
Is it really that mystifying? Prior to modern medicine, child mortality rates were so high that every child was a mitzvah.

Now children are so plentiful most adults go to great lengths to prevent having them…going so far as to terminate accidental pregnancies.

And childhood is no longer primarily playing and helping around the house, with plenty of alone time for mischief. Now they are dragged from bed early, shoved on a bus, and kept in a sterile prison for much of the day.

No room is given to push boundaries with peers; mild scuffles can end in handcuffs and juvenile hall.
and how do they do that?
It is not fundamentally flawed, it just isn't a general purpose computer. It's a thin client to your cloud services. The "local" is not a primary compute environment, but just a cache. Once you think about it this way, Chromebooks are absolutely amazing little physical manifestations of a remotely managed browser. As they are intended to be.
Should the school not be providing the chromebook for your child to use?
Since he is basically going to have a Chromebook for the rest of his school career, and likely part of his professional life, why not help him to understand it and set him up to be successful?

Even if you have a personal dislike for something, your job is to enable your son to be prepared for his life ahead.
I always wonder why the Access database isn't moved then from JET to some database server, even MSSQL (Postgres would also work), and then you can continue Access but without needing to snapshot it in weird and possibly broken ways?
> digital native

Don't know what that is.

But I do know that saving everything is just piling up problems for your children. My Dad died 7 years ago, and left behind an astounding amount of data and programs on CD, VHS, hard drives etc. My two brothers, who were his executors (I was not doing well mentally at the time), looked at each other and said: "Shall we go through all this?", "No". And it went on a bonfire - probably breaking all sorts of local polution statutes.

Realistically, the amount of useful information you need to store can probably be put on to one USB stick, or less (is there anything less these days?).
Even better, contact other parents ahead of time and see if others are concerned. Expand your group of concerned people by following their natural networks and start collaborating on a joint proposal.

Ideally you can collectively find a workaround (start by emailing IT, as someone else suggested, if that doesn't work, maybe schedule a meeting with someone more influential -- either way, the aggregate wisdom of your parent group will come up with more creative solutions than us at HN). Once you have a solution, craft a flyer and send to all parents: "This is what we saw as a problem, and this is what we did about it. Contact us if you want help."

If all else fails, stand up together in the board meeting.

Democracy does not require permission.
Your comment is typical of people with an average or high IQ.

There are people whose IQ is so low they can't even be legally enlisted in the army (the ASVAB test the Army does correlates with IQ).

Some people won't have the same learning ability you have.

I also thought that everyone could learn to program and organised bootcamps and education for developers (for free) - it turned out only a fraction of the people I've met would actually manage to learn some basic programming and a fraction of those people would move on to become a programmer.
They have a complex external environment just as much as we do: the physical world generates their inputs. Just because their inputs are prefiltered through human language doesn't mean they're not exposed to its full complexity just as much as we are, after having it prefiltered through our eyeball and optic nerve. And predicting human statements implicitly requires modeling agents with goals - see the joke explanations.
Comments looks like the HN bubble. I think OP is reasonable for strategy, regardless of ads hate.
very wholesome :D
I'm very much hoping it's a phase and not a permanant thing... I'm still very much patriotic because of stuff the U.S. has acheived in terms of science, engineering, and of course culturally, but recently I'm not so sure what the future trend of US is going to be.
> Taking sequences of actions, having a general model of the world beyond just language, memory, etc. are all large ones off the top of my head.

Google: "Robots ground large language models in reality by acting as their eyes and hands while LLMs help robots execute long, abstract language instructions"

https://say-can.github.io/

Released today. An example:

Given the task "I spilled my coke, can you bring me something to clean it up?", SayCan successfully planned and executed the following steps 1. Find a sponge 2. Pick up the sponge 3. Bring it to you 4.
The only normal people are the ones faking it
Close, but that seems to be more for big long-term projects, not “let me pick your brain for an hour”.
Read the article. There was apparently a meeting where there was a discussion about whether free text should be allowed in a kudos-granting app. It's possible, even likely, that nobody has implemented anything.
ClickHouse recently landed Window Functions in GA.
My thought, too. I thought Agrippa’s critical role as imperator was common knowledge.
Neural networks model the brain via convergent evolution. I don't have a link for this offhand, but I remember seeing several studies that discovered that if you train ANNs on at least some of the same data sources that the developing brain trains on, they develop the same sorts of structures and match to the same features.
I suppose. Though passenger numbers have gone up by a factor of four since the 80s.
Since a few years, the question that pops in my head whenever I think about storing for long term are (i) always be dying (ii) it is not about me.

It is extremely liberating when your internal flowchart for an item reaches -- this can be thrown out without affecting anyone or me.
glm is also good for 3d math. It mimics the API of OpenGL shaders, so it's a good option if you already know how to write shaders (or are interested in learning).

https://github.com/g-truc/glm
I'm dumb, could you explain what this does and potential uses in home network?
Nothing. But I don't do "video calls" - never was and never will be.
On the off chance someone doesn’t know it, the Washington Post is owned by Bezos.
^ This guy is correct. OP is vastly overstating the situation or uninformed.

Unless it was school provided hardware, management is done at the account level and accounts are fully isolated.

Powerwash (https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/183084?hl=en) the device, login with a personal account to make it the primary, and then login with your kids school account. Yes they will be monitored when logged in to the school account, but that is for compliance with the law. If you don't like it, write your representative.
'Stolen' Charles Darwin notebooks left on library floor in pink gift bag
I'm pretty sure there would be a huge exodus of employees if their rsu disappeared.
Naw you wouldn't be immune, in fact they would send you to Indonesia to be executed.
A really great way to be able to quit your job and take a coding bootcamp is to make enough money that you’re not living paycheck to paycheck and can survive for a few months while you retrain. Poverty restricts your options and keeps you in survival mode.

But the overall point is that unions rely on solidarity, and any coder adding filters to an amazon chat app or whatever dystopian crap amazon is pulling next is displaying a massive lack of solidarity with their fellow humans
That is ~$5700 per pound. To put that into perspective, Beluga caviar, the most expensive caviar produced from the critically endangered Beluga sturgeon, is apparently only ~$4000 per pound and saffron, what is traditionally known as one of the most expensive bulk-produced spices, is ~$5000 per pound at retail. Tobacco, a reasonably close agricultural analog in the sense that you harvest the leaf for recreational drug use is ~$4000 a ton which, from perusing wholesale prices of agricultural products, is fairly close to the upper end of price per ton of a easily harvested agricultural product.
To be honest I see this as a win for laptops nowadays. I still work from home most days of the week and I prefer not to have a power hungry workstation turned on all day, especially with current electricity prices. Because of unfortunate timing of when my contract expired I already pay around 800 euros per month for energy
There is a difference between the cat-and-mouse game of spam fighting and between fixing vulnerabilities.

Typically, when you fix a vulnerability, things are strictly better. Attackers can no longer do X bad action, but all legitimate users can still do everything they wanted.

Spam fighting is different. If you make your spam classifier broader and broader, it will have more and more false positives as well, and legitimate comments will get deleted too. Without AGI, or at least very good language parsing, it really will be a case of tuning between "more false positives, less spam" and "fewer false positives, more spam".

There's also vastly more spam than there are security vulnerabilities since there are hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people intently creating spam for profit, while bugs are mostly accidental, and exploitable ones relatively rare.
I agree. Netflix should sell ads.

But...

They should play them after you've watch an episode of something, and the "Play next episode" button should immediately skip the ad. The ad volume should be normalized to the same as the episode (or lower), and the ads should have to match the same production specifications as Netflix shows. They should be like small, very short, unobtrusive films that advertise something.

So long as I remain in control of what I'm watching, I don't have to watch an ad to access content, the ad is high quality, and the ad comes after the thing I chose, then I'd accept ads on Netflix in the same way I would accept a trailer for a Netflix show.

I imagine that bar is probably set too high though.
BMWs tend to be more reliable than Mercedes, based on acquaintances who drive BMWs.

> But if you want that premium, BMW feel that makes driving anything else feel and sound like a fun can on wheels

You forget Porsche ;)

Anyway, before the end of this century computers will probably be doing the driving, and high-end handling likely won't be a priority for anybody anymore.

I digress.
"better things aren't possible" isn't the cutting rebuttal people think it is.
Physical size (one USB stick) is an ineffective unit of data.

Pretty sure we can fit all the data you burnt in on one USB stick today.
They may or may not have had that puritanical fear that someone, somewhere was enjoying themselves, but their legacy as a cruel, grasping and intolerant society has become clearer.

Their wars in Burma and against the Zulus were out and out money grabs. Famines in India and Ireland can be directly attributed to their colonial indifference. And they gladly tried to foister Opium addiction on the Chinese to get their grubby hands on tea and porcelain.
Why is everything pointless without free will?
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With the removal of account sharing, with recent prices bump, more and more competition getting comfortable on the VOD market, they can't currently go all in at angrying their customers.

Rarely but Netflix produces good content sometimes and DRM won't protect it from getting pirated.
Depends on the game engine, most 2D ones are quite comparable.
You dream if you think that will get you opportunities. In most companies being good and realiable at your job without playing the game ends with you doing always the same job because why would they promote someone who is good at what he does and never complains about being promoted or raised? They will see u as useful in your current state