skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say a researcher wanted to do a study to find out what gene polymorphisms are associated with better performance on standardized tests. Nope, can't do it. Might reveal that some people, or God forbid kinds of people, are genetically less intelligent than others and that is a forbidden conclusion. Heck, this post might even get flagged because it raises the possibility that this proposition could be true.

Meanwhile, in other countries, they are offering gene modifications to insert these genes discovered by researchers doing this forbidden research into consenting adults. Anyone in the west who would want to confirm their research would get locked out of the database.
I'm not saying my view is the way things should be. However when it comes to security, you always need to assume the worst and plan accordingly. I'd rather assume the worst and be pleasantly surprised than the other way around.
My kids school has bussing. As does every school in my county. Kids with huge commutes that do nothing but lower test score averages looking at the data.
Anyone knows how dentists feel about having to use that kind of software?
I can see the negative energy solutions not actually having negative energy but I don't see how they're any less physical.
But the fediverse doesn't use any algorithms, it just shows you what/who you subscribe to. This is the way social media should be. If I don't want to see something or someone I can just block them.

It's only gone downhill since the sites started adding algorithmic crap and filtering things out to increase 'engagement'. This made facebook totally useless for me to keep in touch with my friends.

Portable accounts are indeed important and a big thing missing from ActivityPub, I agree there.

But I'm completely over to IM now to keep in touch with friends. Social Media has invalidated its own usecase for me.
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/3179
Yes, this has been a complaint against Wikia/Fandom from the start.

The accusation was that Jimmy Wales favoured the deletionist faction on Wikipedia in order to push as much content as he could get away with over to Wikia, where he could monetize it. Once a wiki had been created there, it would be very hard for a different wiki to compete, since Wikipedia lent a huge part of its SEO juice to them.

Wikia/Fandom regularly takes over wikis that try to migrate off the site and scrub the attempt. The biggest recently was the Terraria wiki. The fandom wiki still outranks the official in Google.
Stop trying to make Smalltalk happen, its not going to work!

I kid, but I also wish there was some understanding that once state goes bad (as it very often does during program development) you really do want to restart that program from scratch. Or at least a part of it, I guess - an Erlang process will do.

(Unless you have very good time-traveling tools for the entire program state. Which can be prohibitively expensive).
> What actually prevents genocides is good institutions, not deliberate ignorance.

And you would trust China in that, a country that locks up Muslims in concentration camps and surveillances its citizens to a degree the Soviet KGB and German Stasi wouldn't have dreamt of?

China needs to be reined in and that soon.
Physicists confirm hitch in proton structure
The Storage Pod Story
I think I got lucky. Late July with a school that (at the time) had a Sept 1 cutoff. There was only one person younger than me until middle school.

My kindergarten teacher, who was also a family friend, requested I do it again because I wasn't mature enough. And she was right, honestly; I'd fight against nap time, and remember no end to problems in first grade with sitting still.

However, while maturity played a roll, the problem was I was bored. I went in to kindergarten being able to add, subtract and read, and had already started doing multiplication with my mom (herself a high school teacher). Another year in kindergarten would've been torture for me. Thankfully I had an amazing first grade teacher who recognised the problem. Instead of insisting on ADHD, she gave me more challenging stuff and let me work on my own. She never called on me to read aloud, because she gave me other books to read behind the class's book. This lasted until my 4th grade year, where one of my teachers didn't like it. Thankfully by then I was mature enough to recognise what I needed to do, etc.

So really, I wonder how much of this is a mixture between multiple things and how many times kids get given ADHD diagnoses when what they really need is differentiated education. Granted, this is difficult; I was a math/science secondary school teacher (and I think it's even harder for elementary school teachers, for various reasons ranging from standards to their own competency in the subjects they teach), and it was almost impossible at times.

That said, maybe I do have ADHD. I went on an amphetamine for weight loss at one point, and there were times I noticed I could focus longer and easier. But I've always had a tendency to get bored of something easily, and I'm sure the Internet hasn't made it any better. So I avoid getting tested as it doesn't impact work or study or anything for me (anymore than the Internet itself does)
It's a worthy goal to at least attempt to complete our transition to a Type I civilization and begin work on Type II, the line is probably quite blurry since any type of space exploitation moves you towards II but is quite possible before completing I. I don't doubt the validity of Jevon's paradox but I think it's implications are not negative. From Wikipedia's article on it " increased the efficiency of coal use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries" the key point there is that the increased consumption came from a wider application of the technology in areas where it was not able to be used before. This led to higher output and innovation in those industries which further accelerated the industrial revolution. A modern example would be Moore's law which has improved efficiency in transistor production, spreading the technology to almost every other industry resulting in further increases in efficiency and many revolutions and breakthroughs.
Strictly speaking, most modern electronics are quantum computers already. You almost can't make a transistor without relying on quantized excitation states.

Quantum effects are so prevalent on a nanometer scale it's more often a problem than it is a boon.
Their YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__KBHIo_xs) sounds like it's being narrated by a TikTok influencer.

They're known for their strangely excited sounding monotones, although the only example I can think of is the not so scientific "burger king foot lettuce" video.
Which is true for most libraries pulled from Github also.. but additionally you cannot just ask your colleague.
I wonder how the number of parameters of this will compare to GPT-3 - will there be different sizes? Their stated goal is to make this available to academics/independent researchers/startups, and I think with a 175B parameter model, not having the trained model itself isn't necessarily the biggest hurdle for most people (having hardware with x hundred GB memory is - well maybe not for startups.)

Although there seems to be hope:

>In prior work, OpenAI found that the outputs from models trained with RLHF were preferred to those from 100x larger models trained without human feedback.
Swarm never actually went away though.

The dust is settling and people are starting to realize that Kubernetes is too complex for a lot of cases. This is where things like acorn.io try to live, but this all feels like trying to get back to the same experience Swarm had.
Is the server usable to set up a public OpenStreetMap-like traffic server where users can install trivial apps on their phones just like Google does for all the Android users (edit) to submit their own anonymized traffic information?
As far as I'm aware these kinds of tools usually come with proprietary cloud services attached to them. Are there good local/FOSS versions?
> They're electric, so that solves the emissions and noise problems.

Past a certain speed, the majority of noise is coming from the tires, which also result in emissions. An EV is certainly better than an ICE, but there's no way to make a vehicle per person more efficient than a vehicle per tens/hundreds/thousands of persons.
You never actually need 90% of the functionality a library gives, though... With some notable exceptions (cryptography). Most times I've excised a library I've only needed to implement a small part of what it did.
Don't we already have TV shows romanticising narco trade?
I’m always amused by these takes because they are implicitly submissive. It only makes sense if you posit the world as some kind of omnipotent power structure imposing things on an other powerless strata. I think Americans are drawn to these ideas because they have a somewhat individualistic culture.

Meanwhile society is fundamentally built on exchange and community. Strictly antisocial structures like the one you described are doomed to fail because if you set aside the majority, you become a minority trend.

That’s in a way the paradox at the heart of modern capitalism. A system which alienates everyone expect a few is a dead system.
> There is a depressing # of voices here in this discussion which argue that ignorance is better than search for, however imperfect and fractional, knowledge

You are being too generous. They argue for ignorance now, only because they are forced to by the starkness of the "do or do not" research question. Otherwise they would confidently claim every notion they dislike has been widely debunked (and give examples of 19th century studies getting debunked, while avoiding mention of any post-1950s research). When pressed, they would retreat to "it's complicated", and finally to "so what/you shouldn't care anyway" [1].

And when the discussion is over, they will immediately forget it, and revert to using an absolutist blank slatist assumption (with zero basis in research) to legitimize their politics, and deconstruct [2] their opponent's.

[1] "I don't have a dog. And if I had a dog, it doesn't bite. And if I had a dog and it did bite, it didn't bite you. And if I had a dog and it did bite, and it bit you, then you provoked the dog."

[2] Not just delegitimize, but deconstruct, i.e. "not only should you not care about those things, those things don't even exist, they are mere social constructs with no biological basis"
Yeah, to pile on with anecdata here (TFA opens by characterizing their early experience as "Growing up with friends who were disproportionately male and disproportionately nerdy"), my experience is that majority male spaces are interrupt culture, minority male spaces are wait culture, and non-males effectively get "shouted down" in interrupt cultures.

My brain (maybe this is arrogant but here we go) works faster than conversation so I have to work harder in wait cultures, but after years of this I'm 100% on board. I _super hate_ to be interrupted: I don't go on and on and I'm generally saying things I want others to hear. People think they know what I'm going to say, they almost never do. People want to interrogate a minor thing I just said, but it derails us all and wasn't the overarching point I was trying to make. On and on.

I'm not saying "don't ever ever interrupt"; sometimes it's critical to stop--respectfully--and clarify something important, like "aha that's what we're misunderstanding here" or whatever. But it should be like, "I know interrupting is disrespectful, but I feel like we could solve this right now, so bear with me." I think what most people in this thread are talking about isn't the occasional interruption, but the constant interrupt/overtalk style.

Anyway, maybe there are others with experiences in diverse workplaces (genders, races, backgrounds, etc.) where interrupt culture works, but I'm skeptical. I think in those situations you're always building mutual respect and team trust, and as such interrupt culture is out of reach. I disagree that these issues are separate from communication style--the medium is the message here and interrupt culture benefits people who haven't experienced barriers to interrupting/overtalking others--largely not women, but also not introverts or people with anxiety, etc. I think if you're "well-intentioned", you're taking those factors into consideration as well.
Intuitively it makes sense, but how do you get to the 90% savings? you still need to keep unused rooms ventilated and heated.
DALL-E 2's Unique Solution to Double Meanings
Indeed, the Hayes commandset. This is what I expected too, which is why I didn't open this article until I heard about this in the news elsewhere.

It's pretty exclusively in the domain of embedded development now though.
Russian media has continually repeats all the "terror" attacks that ukraine has committed on russian soil. The ones ukraine boasts about, and the ones ukraine denies any responsability.
"User agent" is a synonym for "browser". When you say "user agent" here, what you really mean is the contents of the header that identifies the user agent, i.e., browser. Calling it that is a little bit like referring to Chrome's developer tools as "Inspect Element" (based on the mistake that that's supposed to be its name, rather than recognizing that the label is just a simple, descriptive verb/action).
>It is not expressing a tautology, it is saying the universe is a single quantum field

Probably should have said that, then.
This appears to say they copied Roman-era Norse material culture, not that they copied the culture of Ancient Rome.
We're not drowning. The boat was not made to be waterproof and yet we think it is.

Any software you build, like everything else needs maintenance. It's a fallacy to think that just because math is correct (boolean algebra) that your code will tick along fine indefinitely.
Niche startup idea. Have some app that would initiate a voice call with you, and have some GPT-3 ish intelligence that it hold a reasonable conversation for a few minutes. Instantly get out of having to talk to complete cretins and bores.
That post cements that you do not understand the fundamentals of the scientific method or how we do scientific analysis. E.g. that we assume "that "equality" between environments exists"

You're very confused about how a lot of things work on fairly fundamental levels which would take hours to disentangle, so all I can do is recommend learning more on philosophy of science and read some more papers on heritability. Maybe this one picked not entirely at random: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Holland-2/publica...
Wait, THIS is the Internet?!
A few years ago, I was feeling a bit burnt out on a software project and decided to set aside some time to build something physical that I could accomplish in a weekend. I ended up using my dad’s workshop to build the Autoprogettazione EFFE table. [0]

It was such an empowering experience to be able to build a designer table with my own hands, and a breath of fresh air to be working with something tangible instead of the abstract realm of software.

[0]: https://www.casatigallery.com/products/enzo-mari-table-dite-...

(edit: added link)
Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you–and almost everyone else
It's been going on for maybe a decade. I remember the old Tekkit minecraft modpack got somewhat around it by declaring that the Wikia wiki would henceforth be for the classic version of the modpack, and not for newer versions.

People have been warning for years what a roach motel wikia/fandom is. But they zealously censor that discontent from wikia/fandom itself, so community after community has to learn it for themselves.
Parler sent an email to all users with 300+ of their verified users CC'd
Okay, but they have horrible performance.

It doesn't matter how power-efficient they are if they don't work.
That sounds really interesting. Do you have any more details?

If you prefer to reply privately, my contact details are in my HN profile.
While true, Nintendo in particular is known to be particularly bad with this topic unfortunately, to the point of demanding that people who host Lets Plays on Youtube to take their videos down.
*it's not so much that isn't fair, just that they show different things but the problems is that it is not explained
Is Pocket Cast the player that had a rather impressive silence removing feature, and is that part also now free software?

I can't remember which app I used before moving to the free software antennapod, though I remember that being the one feature I missed. Various free software apps now have a version of the feature, but they seem to remove all silence killing any kind of comedic timing.
"

After one or two riffle shuffles, some cards will remain in their original sequence. Even after four or five shuffles – far more than most casinos typically use – the deck will retain some trace of order. But once you shuffle the deck seven times, the cards become truly mixed, at least as far as most statistical tests can prove. Beyond that point, further mixing will not do much. "It's just as close to random as can be," Diaconis says.

[...]

Markov chains have no "memory" of what came before. This is a pretty good model for shuffling cards, says Assaf. The result of the seventh shuffle depends only on the order of the cards after the sixth shuffle, not on how the deck was shuffled the five times prior to that.

[...]

the Markov chain describing riffle shuffles has a sharp transition from ordered to random after seven shuffles. This behaviour, known to mathematicians as a cut-off phenomenon, is a common feature of problems involving mixing. Think of stirring cream into coffee: as you stir, the cream forms thin white streaks in the black coffee before they suddenly, and irreversibly, become mixed.

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No one is falling for that. Antifa is a fashion statement disguised as a "super radical" political movement (that just happens to align with all the global capitalist elites on every issue). Keep buying your H&M revolutionary t-shirts comrade
Abstractions usually (always?) have a cost because physics.

> The damned thing even ran sendmail

and?

> Cloud computing really still it "somebody else's computer."

That's the definition of 'the cloud'. Unless you run it locally in which case it's your computer. What's your point.

> There's no "OS" (in the philosophical sense) for treating remote resources truly abstractly

It's unclear what you're asking for. Treating stuff truly abstractly is going to get you appalling and horribly variable scalability. If you're aware of that, why don't you tell us what you want to see instead.

Edit: ok, this is from gumby, now I recognise the name. This guy actually knows what he's talking about, so please tell us what things you would like to see implemented.
asking as a person that does not use Python every day - what would be a better solution here?
A glossary of terms about cyberattacks, from ransomware to DDoS
Wrong. The recommendation engine is working correctly, and people who bought a kitchen table are more likely to buy another one compared to buying a completely unrelated item.
How does breathing affect your brain? (2022)
The Document Foundation Provides LibreOffice on the Microsoft Store
They could move back to old fashioned railway brass journal bearings. That would be in line with many of the other retrograde policies...
Soon temperatures will drop below zero and food will freeze, that's fine for preservation but without a proper heat source you might get stuck with food you can't eat
That's why the better approach is: learn how to build wheels and how they work, then use off-the-shelf wheels - unless you know that you need some peculiarities that are not found on the market; only then modify those wheels or build your own.
that explains why germany developed 1000 years after the fall of rome
Depends on what you mean by "with my own eyes".

There is no way you could see this with your own eyes, there's no vantage point you can "stand on" to see the pillars - you'd either be too far away to see anything, or if you moved close enough so your eyes could actually focus on something, you'd be "inside" it, meaning you would see one star at most.
Criticizing technooptimism on HN is a lost cause unfortunately.
The debate over whether aging is a disease rages on
> Clarence Thomas famously speaks the least; he actually would prefer to hear out the attorneys making their case to the court.

Eh, my impression is that he's extremely arrogant and doesn't care what anyone else thinks. He's deeply uncurious and consequently relatively ignorant. He rarely engages in good faith with the facts and merits, and frequently misconstrues them to suit his own ideology. These are not the acts of an active listener who wants to learn and be shaped by what they learn. They're the acts of someone who believes they've got it all figured out.
Seems so? https://traffxml.gitlab.io/app-navit.html (also at https://www.navit-project.org/ apparently)

https://traffxml.gitlab.io/ seems to be a better landing page than the submission URL which just contains a bunch of loosely organized git repositories.
TigYog
A Quantum Computer by Blasting It with the Fibonacci Sequence
You’re probably thinking of Overcast. Marco, the developer, calls the feature smart speed. It’s great.
I know of many wikis that left wikia… sorry, fandom, and a decade later fandom still beats them in seo despite sucking so much more.
It’s even worse than that really because it only takes a small slip into some of the cloud-native services and that adversarial relationship is entirely unavoidable and unportable and you are stuck with it. Which is exactly what is demanded by the providers to get the best cost-benefit relationship in the short term. Of course the human race is entirely cursed by short-term thinking.

The true cost of all technology is only apparent when you get the exit fee invoice.
> The Boston tea party was about lowering the tax on tea, not raising it, which impacted the black market these guys were selling in.

Wait, really? I've always understood they were protesting increased tariffs cutting into legitimate trade profits.
The paper is linked right at the bottom of the article: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2399-6528/ac94be
Contrary to popular belief, you cannot physically look at two screens at the same time.
Japanese yen hits 150 against the U.S. dollar, weakest level since August 1990
I agree with your first sentence. China cannot be trusted. I grew up in late Communist Czechoslovakia, I have no illusions about totalitarian states.

All the more reason why not leave the entire field of human genetics exclusively to them - imagine a future in which rich and influential people can get treatments for certain deadly diseases only in Shanghai and Beijing and China demands not only money, but allegiance for keeping them alive.

As for your last sentence: this ship has sailed some twenty years ago. At the current stage, China can only seriously damage/destroy itself from within. Totalitarian states are weaker than they appear, though. It may very well happen.
austrian empire only happened because they tried to stop the ottoman empire from expanding
No! Not img2prompt!

These are not at all the same.

Yes, you provide an image, and get prompt(s).

But try out these vs. OP's to see.
More info here: https://wiki.haskell.org/Bottom As bottom is the value of a non-terminating computation and a computation of any type may fail to terminate, bottom must inhabit all types. The same goes for 'error'. Although in real world Haskell code (using GHC) you can trap error values if you really want to, so 'error' isn't in fact indistinguishable from non-termination.