skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't you still try to get into the game industry?
>Who do you feel React is hurting, and in what way?

There's an entire open source community that revolves around "React alternatives that exist because they're not React". For better or worse, people have ideological reasonings for their choice of JS framework. I've seen it play out countless times at multiple jobs between people who just want to get their work done with the industry standard tooling, and people who have a bone to pick with FB and become fanatical about using Vue/Svelte/*whatever instead of React.

The contrarians usually win out, because the people who just want to do their job and go home don't care enough to fight that battle over and over again. The result is a patchwork of forgotten projects and frozen dependencies that no one knows how to maintain, and a security nightmare where everything is pulling in tons of random unmaintained NPM packages with 4 GitHub stars, rather than the battle tested 5 year old React equivalent with 2k stars.
NewRelic Is Basically Down
Everyone knows that you just use wikipedia's own sources instead.
Wikipedia is most young peoples go to source for knowledge. The way important entries frame a subject is considered to be a neutral observers take, but they're often anything but when it comes to politics, history and philosophy. Often these important entries are the personal fife of one or more admin who structured things according to personal preference.

An easy way to see this is to look at a topic that is split in the academy along geographical lines - the entry in wiki will often favour whatever region the original cabal sided with and give the other short thrift.

Meeting a wikipedia admin in real life is often eye opening and explains some of these choices.

The old encyclopedias were more transparent; siding with their own cultures scholars in a way that was generally more uniform. Wiki masquerades as the final objective authority but has the same old issues burried and obscured.

Even an undergrad intro course on a given historical subject will often come into violent conflict with a given entry.

The best entries are scientific topics, like botany or physics - and this impression of mine is probbaly based on ignorance.
Most cardinal systems make it difficult to vote strategically. That's actually what the difference with star and score is about. But this is also why so many in the thread are talking about monotonicity and favorite betrayer. Failing these criteria means your voting system is highly susceptible to manipulation. Essentially allowing candidates to win that shouldn't have won.
You can disable 2FA[0].

[0] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1064203
Sure, but if that's the metaphor you want to invoke for this situation, you need to actually argue that the probabilities of the "lab leak" vs. "natural origin" scenarios are actually similar, _in this particular case_, to "undetectable agent" vs. "natural heart attack" - which brings us back to having to comb through the evidence on both sides. I think we are bound to walk in circles as long as we don't separate the proposition that it was in fact a lab leak from the proposition that further open-ended investigation is necessary; it is my impression that natural origin proponents mostly are strongly against both (whether they think the latter is too costly, or think it will be used to get the former accepted when it is actually false, or think the former should be treated as false even if it is true), but I really only want to push for the latter (it's not like I know anything about virus genetics myself anyway!).
Right, so there is a characteristic other than computational substrate that allows us to differentiate between systems that have this ability and those that don't.

Say we apply the diagnostic criteria of William's syndrome to language models and deduce that they meet the criteria for diagnosis, then the diagnostic itself ie: the test results are the grounding for the conclusion not the computational substrate. In that way the discussion surrounding the computation substrate is a red herring or at the very least a unclear and roundabout way of grouping of the characteristic we're actually interesting in.
people will move to the next social media site (or jump to another medium if it's good enough) even before Twitter shuts down.

This happens all the time and there are parallels with other format / medium shifts (Gutenberg invents movable type, newspapers supplanted by news reels at the cinema -> people buy radio receivers -> broadcast television -> cable news -> whatever we have today with our always-on internet connections and services.

My main point here is that audiences are fluid, we can respect their intelligence, and they go where the content is.
You can open wa.me/<number> on a browser, it'll redirect to a chat on whatsapp.
I’d be more interested if they actually had something to show instead of preemptively forking and generating all this buzz before they even write a single line of code. But it’s a smart approach and probably works in their benefit.

That said, SQLite is fully extensible and its vfs is quite capable. Much of what they want is already possible without forking upstream. And people use SQLite because they trust the rigor and quality of the code, in part because it’s developed the way it is developed. Any fork would have to work really hard to gain that kind of trust; I would hope it’s not automatically conveyed by association.
300 GB is nothing compared to the vastness of information in the universe (hence it fitting on a disk). AI is approximating a function, and the function they are now learning to approximate is us.

From [1], with my own editing...

When comparing the difference between now and human performance

> ...[huamns] can achieve closer to 0.7 bits per character . What is in that missing >0.4?

> Well—everything! Everything that the model misses. While just babbling random words was good enough at the beginning, at the end, it needs to be able to reason our way through the most difficult textual scenarios requiring causality or commonsense reasoning... every time that it lacks the theory of mind to compress novel scenes describing the Machiavellian scheming of a dozen individuals at dinner jockeying for power as they talk...

> If we trained a model which reached that loss of <0.7, which could predict text indistinguishable from a human, whether in a dialogue ...how could we say that it doesn’t truly understand everything?

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis
This is the third stimulus check that California has sent out, after "Golden State Stimulus 1" and "Golden State Stimulus 2". This new one (9.5 billion) is actually less than the previous one (12 bil).

Some form of tax rebate is required by law when the state surplus exceeds a certain amount:

https://www.kron4.com/news/california/california-budget-surp...
One thing I wanted to add was - the 'story' of any persons life is dependent on biographers creating it.

Someone has to actually collect it all up together. Go talk to original people. Then you write a book and wikipedia will happily take it. They might not be happy to quote your great auntie Margaret who said there was a bastard son, but until some biographer writes that into a book nobody thinks it's real.
I see any one who refers to people as 'resources' or any similar terms as just a parasite. Unfortunately, I had the misfortune for working with so many of these parasitic slave traders.
Do you have disaster recovery / high availability requirements? SQL server on a desktop has a lot of single points of failure.
An attacker stole –$566M USD from the Binance Bridge. Here's how it went down.
> most software developers are not in good enough physical shape to do that on a regular basis without doing serious damage to their bodies

That's reaching a bit. I worked construction for years before starting a software career. There's lots of construction jobs that don't require a whole lot of heavy lifting. In fact, there are probably more of them that don't than do. And you probably overestimate the lack of health of office workers.
I don't want my social network to find me. I will give them a handle if I do.

I know which of my coworkers use signal, despite them not telling me themselves. That seems wrong.

Buying things anonymously is a solvable problem. Gift cards, cash, etc. Let people resell your $5 sign up card.
Wait until you learn about .json and .rss on Reddit threads! IIRC they used to work for subreddits as well but I have not tested either in...forever.
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It seems as though you're putting emphasis on the wrong thing. Mastodon clearly believe the emphasis is on the _network_, as in, the people you follow and who follow you.

But I'm not entirely sure why you're arguing semantics with me. It can, by their definition, be considered migration.
Oh the youngsters....
This discussion (the GP and your response) perhaps suggests that a way to evaluate the intelligence of an AI may need to be more than the generation of some content, but also citations and supporting work for that content. I guess I'm suggesting that the field could benefit from a shift towards explainability-first models.
I am so bitter about agile at this point it actually feels abit refreshing that someone still defends Scrum.

> You’ll know you have successfully ruined your standups when they’re taking thirty or more minutes

The author is an order of magnitude off here. The despair sets in way earlier.
Bus Rapid Transit
This is a surprisingly strong argument.

Unfortunately, considering the three groups of people involved — managers, investors, and workers — the only group with the incentive and ability to act on this argument are the managers. Investors don't care, it doesn't affect their profits. Workers care but usually the only action they can take is to go work at a company whose managers don't have business school degrees yet; they can't tell the investors which managers to hire, and it's ulikely that a union could negotiate this as part of collective bargaining. The managers' incentive to make more money can be satisfied by either getting a business school degree or, more easily, going to work at a company whose managers do have business school degrees.
Buying your own fleet of dedicated servers seems like a smart move in the short term, but then five years from now you’ll get someone on the team insisting that they need the latest greatest GPU to run their jobs. Cloud providers give you the option of using newer chipsets without having to re-purchase your entire server fleet every five years.
I doubt it will have a measurable, let alone significant effect on inflation. The maximum a single person can receive is $350.
Cars communicate with each other using C-V2X tech, goal to save lives
You're right I'm not. And you're right I misrepresented what you said - I'm sorry!
Also the first ten times you ask someone to stop doing something, you may be polite.

It's harder the fifty-five thousandth time, and that seeps into everything you do.

Also the old people who give absolutely zero shits; those you don't hear from.
Note to readers: you need to view this on a desktop (or maybe a tablet would work?). At least on my phone a considerable amount of the functional UI is completely cut off and rendered inaccessible even with scrolling. (Hopefully they are not dogfooding and this has nothing to do with the tech they’re touting!)
one simple mechanism would be to freeze the article editing for a bit when it becomes a hot topic in US media
> You have to trust something at some point.

No, you can instead acknowledge that you can't trust any of it and behave accordingly. You don't have to settle on trusting something.
I didn't think deeply about this back then since my parameter estimates where close/better than the literature I compared to, but now I'm interested in checking the distribution of those NaN/inf. If I recall correctly they were uniformly distributed throughout an adaptive phase.
This is predictable. A Mastodon instance, last I checked, involved installing a constellation of a half-dozen databases and services. That's insane. It should be a single binary.
> "you're using it wrong" from the developers

This kinda response is common with Signal. It won’t even allow backups on iOS and refuses to handle scenarios where one may have a broken device or a lost device (the only way to retain chats and change devices is through a device-to-device transfer when they’re in close proximity; there is no iOS<->Android chat transfer either). Signal seems like it’s meant for chats that don’t have much value, where losing messages isn’t a big deal. But the app, at least on iOS, will never stop pestering you often if you don’t give it access to contacts. Something is broken between the vision for the platform and the implementation.
OMG, that is hilarious and terrifying at the same time.
I have a feeling that the issue isn't homelessness really, but the kinds of people that end up homeless cause problems anyway. Someone won't stop being violent or committing crime because they got moved from a tent to a studio.

I don't think the temporally homeless, like someone down on their luck. makes up the issues people have with homeless. You see some crazy person, then you see that person is homeless, your answer to that is "oh give them a studio apartment!" and not lets help them with their issue. Police should be policing violent people, for some reason instead of that we want to build homes in the middle of nowhere and drop them off their. They're still going to cause issues.
> I don't understand what you're asking for. What I stated as facts can be independently verified by anyone with minor research.

"Troll farms are operated on a massive scale in Russia, China and most G20 nations, operated by their respective governments. Their direct goal is to spread disinformation and propaganda on social media" is a mostly binary (True/False) assertion, thus it is vague.

The magnitude of these operations, and what they actually did (as opposed to what is claimed/implied/believed they did, typically without conclusive evidence, but lots of innuendo and rhetoric) is not actually known.

Basically: imprecise framing of reality is misinformative.

> QAnon started on an online forum, where most conspiracy theories live and grow.

This is a subjective ontological claim, and it is not possible for you to prove that it is true (which is not required for belief, but is required for the JTB definition of Knowledge - not that anyone is able to care, anyways). It may also be possible that it is not possible for you to realize this.

> Cambridge Analytica and similar companies are a reality.

Reality may appear to be binary (True/False - and portions of it are), but it is actually fundamentally ternary (True/False/Other).

> Information warfare exists on an unprecedented scale thanks to the internet, whether you're aware of it or not.

I wonder which of us possesses more knowledge on that topic. Does your intuition suggest to you that it is you? Do you possess any tools and techniques in your epistemic toolkit for dealing with this very tricky aspect of consciousness?
I think I meant 'engineering' like... physical engineering equipment. Perhaps poor choice of words. The people who manage a physical location don't use the term 'visibility resources' to talk about lighting and windows.
All these things end with Ng..

So maybe it's React Interface Ng (next gen)?
There is a list of components in the sidebar on the left. If you click those, you will see those components instead of the alerts.
I've definitely read some Wikipedia pages on niche technical topics in my field that were clearly written by someone with _some_ degree of expertise (maybe a grad student) but with no understanding of the purpose, standards, and style of Wikipedia. The voice is often all over the place.
Isn't this the purpose behind tech like State Proofs on the Algorand network, i.e. trustless cross-chain activity is basically solved at this point + deprecates the need for any intermediary trusted bridges:

https://medium.com/algorand/algorand-state-proofs-707d64038e...

https://developer.algorand.org/docs/get-details/stateproofs/
When i was in school, the rule was also "you can't use the encyclopedia as a source". So it feels more like trying to get students to learn to find and use primary sources. Wikipedia actually makes this incredibly simple now, since everything has a citation link.
> I'd be curious to profile the official program and see what's hogging the GPU so much...

It's a fluid simulation. Compute shaders, compute shaders, compute shaders.
We all are; mine is clearly bigger than yours.
It worked for a time and now it is dying at the hands of bad-faith actors who have worked within their mechanism.
The less thing people know, the high risk, the more defensive. Like losing the entire basket of egg. In traditional way, they dedicated the whole life to one thing, and that was called a cult.
Writing your own PostgreSQL driver
Why remote work might end
I thought $\exists$ does not require an exhaustive list, but $\forall$ does.
This. It's east to be fooled by the illusion of choice and customization.

Just see what happens to other markets in maturity, e.g. food: https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/10-companies-own-...

I still see the spirit of what the OP is saying, though. At least the AI will know if I like my Kraft Mac-n-cheese extra-creamy or dry.
You're described a system that tells you what your friends think, not a system that necessarily comes to any objective truth. The internet is already full of echo chambers of misplaced trust -- that's much of the problem.

Linking echo chambers to mutually trusted echo chambers isn't going to lead people to objective truth. It's going to introduce flat-earthers to ghost hunters.
Tax rebates cause inflation because they result in more money available to chase an unchanged quantity of goods and services, which causes prices to rise.

Similarly, tax increases reduce inflation because after paying taxes, people have less money to buy things that are not taxes.

Critically: inflation measures the cost of goods and services, and taxes are not a good or service.
I thought about that, and I'm not sure it actually changes anything.

So you want to register a new device with your Signal account and you don't have the previous device, either because you're a malicious attacker or you lost or destroyed it. Covering the attacker case, presumably you already can't access the message history. I don't see how you could reasonably do anything different for the lost device case, but I guess it's not that big a deal to lose message history. But if the message history is already gone either way, why not make it a entirely new and separate account?
Der @thamer thanks for the advice. I have added it to the article :) Much appreciated
Many!

https://webtorrent.io/faq

Notable ones include Libtorrent[1], Peertube[2], and their own Webtorrent Desktop[3].

1. https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/223

2. https://peertube-viewer.com/posts/2021-02-20-peertube-viewer...

3. https://webtorrent.io/desktop/
I think live news events aren't a great example for this sort of thing. The experience of watching 9/11 live was that we didn't know what the hell was going on or what the aftermath would look like (a big terrorist in America was sort of unthinkable, after all). Knowing what the outcomes would be totally changes the experience.
In my locality, the union is the last line of defense for teachers who don’t want to teach creationism, abstinence, and the like. Local politicians are far easier for a vocal minority to bully.
>more people are harmed by self help books etc than helped

It is certainly a business but I assume that most of these self-help gurus truly want to help. They are promoting different methods(more or less rational) but the core message is often very similar and amounts to "take action". If all roads lead to Rome you may very well get there.

I think by listening to these books you are in fact priming your brain to find a way to improve your situation.
This is much more common in HOA-style developments.

You still get it in older non-HOA governed areas, but it's at least then at the level of laws (our town bans roosters and taxes chickens insanely high for example, lol).
Cassandra at Apple: 1000s of Clusters, 300k Nodes, 100 PB
Seems like the purpose of these research papers in school got lost somewhere. They are an opportunity to develop skills and judgment, not to do important scholarly work. By saying "don't use Wikipedia" they are missing an opportunity to teach kids how to find and vet resources. Wikipedia does have a ton of issues: as do, evidently, some of the top peer-reviewed journals in the world. So, the provenance of a citation is not enough, and focusing on it is beside the point. The skill schools should be teaching is how to sift the wheat from the chaff, since that will be more valuable later on.
So why do we need e2e encrypted messaging? Why do we worry about the "secure" part of messaging? One of the main reasons for me is, it's hard to trust a centralized authority.

Can you trust your information stored at your messaging app's servers stay secure forever? Can you trust that company to never get compromised? So yeh, they go through all the hassle of making things "secure" but attach everything to something(phone number) most of us can't get without revealing our actual details. So yeh, its ridiculous to go through all this hassle to make things private and secure, but force people to use something that de-anonymizes everything about them.
Yes, this is what I was getting at.
Astronomy is moving more and more to cloud computing:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02284-7

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06320
This has been my exact field of work for a few years now; in general I have found that:

When people claim it is 10x more expensive to use public cloud, they have no earthly idea what it actually costs to run a HPC service, a data centre, or do any of the associated maintenance.

When the claim is 3x more expensive in the cloud, they do know those things but are making a bad faith comparison because their job involves running an on-premises cluster and they are scared of losing their toys.

When the claim is 0-50% more to run in the cloud, someone is doing the math properly and aiming for a fair comparison.

When the claim is that cloud is cheaper than on-prem, you are probably talking to a cloud vendor account manager whose colleagues are wincing at the fact that they just torched their credibility.
I think implying that GPT-3 and a human learn a language in the same way is an error. AI "learning" is very rigid; while human learning is often a complicated mishmash of behaviour, social feedback, reasoning, and imagination.

> conditioned on the basis of a present reality

If we grant this hypothetical, we might find what it "says" fundamentally alien to us --- we might not even know it is saying anything at all.
Generally people solve Sudokus in almost the exact opposite way.

They do very clever reasoning (much more advanced than basically any computer sudoku solver), but very little, or no, backtracking. This is mainly because backtracking more than 1 or 2 times becomes unreasonable (do you start making hundreds of photocopies of your Sudoku?)

The reason computer solvers don't do the advanced reasoning which humans do is it turns out it isn't worth it -- by the time you find and apply the reasoning, you can have done a few million backtracks, which will usually have solved the problem anyway.
Seems the author is proposing LSH instead of vectors for doing ANN?

There are benchmarks here, http://ann-benchmarks.com/ , but LSH underperforms the state of the art ANN algorithms like HNSW on recall/throughput.

LSH I believe was state of the art 10ish years ago, but has since been surpassed. Although the caching aspect is really nice.
Completely down for us. It's quite worrysome the fact that they say that "some data collection" is affected.