skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I’ve never met anybody who takes conspiracy theories seriously. I think it’s the media, sadly, blowing it out of proportion, and that most conspiracy theorists are in it for the for kicks

Meet Edgar Welch[0] and Mark Finchem[1].

There are many others and you may not actually meet those folks in person, but there are plenty of folks who take conspiracy theories seriously. Ignore that at your (and that of the rest of us) peril.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ping_Pong#Pizzagate_cons...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Finchem#Response_to_the_2...

Edit: Correction, Edgar Welch was released from prison this past March.
Perhaps if the construction site grows large enough they could make a senbazuru.
There is integrated chain and wheel lock on dutch bikes already, it is trivial to add basket for helmet storage as "standard" feature.

In the last 20 years large shift happened in skiing, for example. 20 years ago almost no-one would wear ski helmet is US, now almost anyone does, although it's not required.
Hi have applied for the BI role. Thanks!
Right - in terms of information theory, automatically-generated infilled data communicates zero bytes of additional information. It could be compressed away entirely losslessly and I could instead generate it myself. There is no need to waste bandwidth sharing it.

Communication only has value if it is surprising. That much has been known since Shannon.
They'll run out of something necessary eventually - food, fossil fuels, ammo, etc - forcing the US and allies to decide whether to intervene or not.
Playing with my nieces and nephews I found that it’s not hanging out that is a chore, but that they won’t always accept my years of experience as correct when I attempt to introduce them to the toys, games or shows that I grew up with.

:P
It is weird, but any discussion on safety is in vain: we will NOT wear helmets. Period.

Increasingly, it has become mandatory to wear helmets on the several varieties of slow motorized vehicles like scooters. I think we're now down to the slowest category of 30km/h.

As a result, that industry collapses. Once a helmet is mandatory, we dump it.
in terms of "true believers" or propaganda?
I’ve not gotten fully through the spec, but why does the server hold the client’s signing key? That puts a lot of responsibility on a PDS that could be handled by the client, doesn’t it? If the client has their complete repo anyway, why can’t the PDS verify changes with a public key?

If it’s to aggregate likes, comments, etc., why not use a mailbox encrypted with the public key for unmerged data and allow the DID to decide whether or not to accept the content, aggregate it, and publish the updated repo? Other clients could choose whether or not to considered the merged mailbox when displaying to users (for example, likes could update automatically, but only accepted comments)
Google isn't skeptical of the product management role. They are skeptical that non-technical people can do it well. And that's mostly right, but there are exceptions.
I've learned to accept that my personal life and knowledge management is going to be a mess. (I'm also a librarian). I just don't want to do more organizing when I get home. I do also feel the temptation to do it 'right' once in a while, but it never sticks. I'd wager a lot of it has to do with the fact that managing an ontology completely on your own just sucks.
Love this comment wanted to also share my biggest regret in life is waiting to have kids. I became a dad at 38. All the nights out with friends, happy hours, sleeping late, etc. mean very little now but I’d trade the world to be able to spend more time on earth with my kid.

Hopefully we maximize what we do have but, whatever it ends up being, it could have been more.
The paper at COLING 2022 that I wrote, titled "Most Language Models can be Poets too: An AI Writing Assistant and Constrained Text Generation Studio" included a GUI constrained text generation studio that I market as being "Like Photoshop but for text"

https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Constrained-Text-Genera...
Video games are more enjoyable with the increased processing power!

Where the 2018 model struggles at high frame rates, the M1 version enables more fluid gameplay at 95-120fps. The new M2 would likely deliver more consistent 120fps performance given the advertised 15% CPU and 35% GPU uplift.
No, it's pretty clear that Amazon (as it exists today) and Apple will remain niche services precisely because they're intended to complete a portfolio, not actually be profitable. Their goals are to keep you in Amazon and Apple's ecosystems, which means only a handful of hit shows needed. YouTube is in a different category altogether, they're not doing serious studio scripted content at scale.

My money is that the big three are going to be Netflix, Disney/Hulu, and then some strange consolidation of most of Paramount+, Peacock, Discovery+, etc. that maybe partners with Amazon for distribution but maybe not. Stuff like HBO and Apple TV+ is the premium part of the long tail that people dip into as their favorite shows come back on.
It will add a new level of suspense. Did they use passive voice, because they are trying to distance themselves from the decision or did algorithm thought that was the best choice here.

I agree with you overall. It will likely have similar impact to grammarly and similar services.
And what ability do you see us as having to restrict Chinese viral research?

I imagine telling an American that they are not allowed to hunt wildlife and sell it at market, and I don't think that would work. I wonder if China really has a much greater ability to enforce such a provision?

That seems out of our control, but I wonder what would be? Would preparations include mask stockpiles, and can we force people to wear them? It seems that mRNA vaccines can be created quickly, but can we mandate that people get them?
You said that JackFr was provably incorrect. I'm not pointing out an edge case but pointing out the massive hole in your argument.

As a limited computing system, our brain has been optimized to process the world in specific ways using various heuristics and compression techniques. Alien brains would presumably be optimized in different ways. Given our limited capabilities, it seems quite possible that translating any concepts between the two systems would be unfeasible for either our brain or the alien one.

I would like to think that there would common ground but that isn't something that can be known a priori, and is thus not presently "proveable".

Edit: We do have some fairly "alien" brains here on earth but we haven't had much luck teaching any mollusks any of our mathematical truths.
Ok based on your feedback I changed it so Wikipedia is grounded as the 2nd column more, should help with preference and making it feel more consistent. Let me know if it feels better for you now.

Wikipedia will still need to be 1 of the first 10 Google results to trigger the Wikipedia column though.
>What if aliens have no notion of discrete numbers, what if everything is probabilistic analog math?

0 and 1 are both valid probabilities.

>What about an organism that can see/focus/sense multiple things simultaneously, and a single "thing" is a set.

Its possible, using sets only containing other sets (or possibly the empty set), to construct the integers.

>There could be an entirely different paradigm to "counting" and consequently to the fundamentals of maths.

Systems of mathematical expressions are just like coding languages. The choice is arbitrary, one can always emulate the job of another. Just like how I did with your chosen examples, in principle one can always hack the integers out of whatever system you give me (or hack whatever system out if integers).
What do you think about text transformations like the ones described in the essay? Not inpainting but tools that could help “good” writers, like changing narration in a chapter from first person to third person in one step?
The answer to questions in titles is always "NO": 'Betteridge's Law of Headlines'.
I second this! Sounds like an interesting read! :)
related

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_to_C...
> it could be a little while until AI is perfect

AI needs safeguards and humans intervening, otherwise we would have a runaway AI capable of independent thought where we have no recourse. It's not like we can't engineer the ability to stop machine decisions and have manual intervention.
I can't read that website but I think the Aptera is a move in the right direction.
Not really a fix to the problem since as your own link shows you can still be dragged into court to defend against a copyright lawsuit which can cost someone tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and there are no guarantees when you're up against a team of lawyers representing an entity with far more money and resources than you have. In the end, you can do everything right and still easily end up being screwed which isn't how anything should work.
He might have meant the Quad.
That's a fair point so I've edited the post accordingly. My thought process was more that Copilot usually outputs code that makes some form of sense, but you can't generally detonate a bomb (to my knowledge) using a JavaScript method.
Your point is moot
I don't think it's atrophying. We said the same thing about spell checkers, and my spelling seemingly hasn't suffered.

I'm not a native speaker. It's nice to have training wheels sometimes, even for a language I'm familiar with.
There is an image of an old friend who passed away in the late 90s that was posted on the web at some point. It has since been lost. Could it be in there? Was some AOL site I think.
It seems the ethics and wisdom of that is the debate.
Just like the progress when they invented nonstick fireproof and water proof forever chemicals
Flawed premise IMHO. Images have inherently more entropy than text (all else being equal). More dimensions to "play around with" is what made Photoshop useful and popular.

The "thought-processing" angle is cool though.
It's interesting to imagine what the interaction model for this will be -- is there a sense in which this auto-generation will be like collaborating, and so it just changes what we think of to constitute the process of creation?

And maybe that's not as bad as it seems right this moment. Once upon a time great painters actually made their own paints. These days we wouldn't think about that skill as in the necessary catalogue of an artist, and in a bunch of ways -- most ways -- we're the better for it. Perhaps something similar will unfold here.
I like the garden metaphor for kids, works in a lot of situations. Like here, if somebody asked me to water/weed their tomato plants for a weekend I would not terribly enjoy it and if “having a tomato garden” was just that times 50 then forget it. But if you plant the garden and experience the joy of caring for the plants and the (literal) fruit of your labor it’s a different story.
Even the summary at the bottom was a confusing mess, and I know exactly what they're talking about. USB-IF really bungled the naming convention. They could have added updated and amended versions of the 1.0 and 2.0 and 3.0 specs as specific conventions - Something like "USB 3.0 Power-Only (3.2 interoperable)", while keeping the important part of their names (USB 3.0) and adding clear descriptors (Power-Only) and specifying that they were, in fact, still part of the modern 3.2 standard. Instead, we got a muddled mess.
Is it similar to the tech used for vector virus vaccines?
Slack has become Not Great over the years, but it's still somehow the best of all the major options

How hard is it to not mess up chat
I agree with you so I was trying to think of some counter examples and the one that comes to mind would be species that have hive minds? Is justice as important if the many are considered part of the whole? If I drop a stone on my foot and lose my foot, justice is not involved
Wish there was some way to describe a title using some really generic words and get a series of probabilities. I've been searching for this PC game from the mid to late 90s but I am having so much trouble describing it. It was some sort of science fiction point and click game that was released around the Windows 95/98 era and was discounted at places like Caldor. I got rid of the CD because it kept crashing randomly under Windows 95/98. Really regret throwing away a lot of CDs back then. Other than posting these vague descriptions here I don't know what else I can do other that waiting for Elon Musk's brain computer and then maybe I can download my brain one day and try to sift through its contents to find some more clues.
The conflation and smearing that happens whenever an accidental lab leak is brought up, makes me suspicious. As an example, I used to edit Wikipedia articles in the area, but I gave up, because some editors made a concerted effort to discredit it as a "conspiracy theory" and had boundless energy to shut it down.

It seems to be the opposite to the much vaunted "fearless scientific transparency" that's sold to the public as a hallmark of science.

I guess that in a generation or two, when vested interests move on, there may be more willingness to explore this.
Ha! I disagree. I find it both kinder and more clear in its reasoning.
The Product person spends all their time understanding the market and figuring what to build, who to target, how to work with marketing/sales, how to price it, what the competition is doing, syncing with other PMs to make sure everything is coherent, communicating around the org to people who need to know, answering questions from legal/accounting/sales etc. The engineering manager can focus on how to build it, who should work on what, engineer's careers, technical challenges, team stuff and many other things depending on the circumstances, and the program manager can project manage, focus on syncing eng efforts across teams, moving blockers etc.

Those three things are an enormous amount of work, each one. If anyone tries to do more than one they will suck. There are exceptions... some people are able to pull it off. Those people should go start a company and not be PMs.

At least in my experience, good engineering managers had a lot of input into the product function because they were paying attention to the customers and had insight into what could be built - part of the reason they are a manager is they have more than eng skills. The PM and EM need a good relationship and usually do, at least at Google. The program manager has less input to what to build.

Outside of Google the product management function does indeed seem to be... pretty awful for everyone involved. Bad PMs annoy everyone and give the function a bad rep, good PMs come in and are treated poorly (due to bad function rep) or have silly expectations put on them due to a lack of understanding of the function, and leave.
> Relative to what?

The Bretton-Woods system.

Prior to 1944 there was no common international market. The only for countries to acquire important commodities was imperialism.

All of the participants of WWII determined that one common international market, based on the dollar, enforced by our military, and negotiated by a series of international agencies would benefit all members and support a de-militarization globally as well as a break up of the colony system.

While the US benefited from this, we were never as dependent on it as the rest of the world. For us, it was a bribe to get other countries to help us build a wall against Russia.

I wouldn't be so excited about having America cede its superpower status though. We're looking at a future full of war and conflict for anyone not in America. There will be limited desire to trade in Euros or Rubles or Yuan - so countries around the world are going to increasingly build up their militaries and resort to securing commodities by force.
entry level / consumer HW should be eco-friendly

2yo AMD's gpu are competitive with new Intel new GPUs with only just half the TDP
Ok but I’m talking about one specific safety effort in regards to the article not the general safety record. I’m not saying everyone has to have zero accidents, but clearly there are things we can do that aren’t having some guy spray liquid on a pressurized valve.
I started using vi in 1989. I still use vi, almost every day. I've had to learn my way around I don't know how many text editors, IDEs and so forth over time, often to throw that away when the new thing comes out. Not so with vi - most of what I was doing in 1989 in vi I am still doing in vi.
Considered CalyxOS?
Just like we did with Ukraine?
rawr, you showed him! how dare he ... uhhhhh ... ask you to sweep with a broom.... yeah, that dickhead.

What next, will he ask you to go grab shopping carts?!?!

Despite your rationalization, it's not uncommon to have the parking lot cleaned up and swept on a regular basis. I've done it for restaurants I worked at as a teenager, for example.

Your problem is being too sensitive.
(not a hardware engineer) This looks like Google's version of Infiniband, which is basically mandatory for large scale ML-training servers due to issues with Ethernet, as described in the paper. Really cool stuff, wonder if we'll see traditional network hardware manufacturers copying this design.
Yup, a friend of ours turned into one of these "babies are clean" moms, down to wiping their hands with baby wipes every time before they were allowed to touch food.

Unsurprisingly the kid's completely undeveloped immune system decided to compensate by developing severe allergies to wheat, milk, eggs and peanuts.
Sure, that's the consequence of Rice's theorem. "Is this program correct?" is formally Undecidable, to dodge that we split the programs three ways: Correct, Not Correct, shrug emoji.

It's obvious that Correct programs compile, Not Correct programs result in a compiler error, but what do we do with shrug emoji ? Rust says those go in the "Not Correct" pile and get a compiler error. C++ says - really, I'm not making this up - that they go in the Correct pile.

There's an immediate short term consequence, but also, after decades, a long term consequence that's arguably worse. Short term, C++ programmers can't know if their non-trivial program is Correct. It might be complete horse shit, the compiler won't necessarily tell them.

Long term, C++ grows worse and worse because there is no reason to shrink that shrug emoji category. All the programs in that category act as though they're fine, so there's no pressure whatsoever to improve the language standard, the compilers, etc.
Also seems reasonable if you want a job there bad enough — even if there’s no check. Somebody’s got something the other person wants. Either the employer wants the employee more or the employee wants the job more. Let’s see how it plays out.
Very interesting, I wasn't aware that this bill was in the works. It's quite unnerving to read.
SARS-CoV-2 isn't based on a SARS-CoV-1 backbone or spike or any known backbone or spike that would have been used in a lab.

The closest known viral backbone is a few decades of random mutations away from SARS-CoV-2 and there's no evidence that WIV even tried to work with RaTG13 and did anything beyond sequencing it.

And you have the usual Schroedingers-Information problem that plagues conspiracy theories. You have to assume that on the one had all that information you just cited would be available to you, while a fairly massive project involving forming a chimera from an unknown spike protein and unknown backbone would have been going on in perfect secrecy in 2019 before there was any reason to keep that information secret. In 2019 if they had sequences of those viruses they would have just published them, they certainly would have published them before going through the effort to create chimeras from them. They would have used those sequences to get justification to get grants to do studies. The idea that all of that happened in perfect secrecy, before there was a need for perfect secrecy is the idea that is fucking laughable.

And nature creates "chimeras" and does "gain of function experiments" all the time on a massive scale using many billions of animals in the "lab". That is what recombination and serial passage does -- particularly as viruses burn through bioreactors in animal farms in close proximity to humans.

And when it comes to the FCS, the PRRAR sequence is unlike any other known FCS. If humans engineered it they would have picked another one that they already knew worked. That sequence absolutely screams that it was zoonotic in origin. It was novel and never previously seen before. Nobody would have added that in a lab.
Costco’s 10-Ks show their profit is almost always equal to about their revenue from membership fees. Which means everything else averages out to being sold at cost.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/071015/3-rea...

Of course, this does not mean Costco’s pharmacy sales cannot have huge markups, or maybe Costco is paying its employees and suppliers too much, but based on their reputation and my experience over 20 years, I just trust they have the right price to quality ratios for me.

I know I am not getting bottom dollar pricing, but they likely are not gouging and I also know they are a good employer, and thus I believe I will be getting a better product from its pharmacy as well.

With CostPlus, they do not even employ the pharmacists, they outsource to a company called TruePill. How do I know what working conditions they have? Usually when a company starts outsourcing core functions, that means they are cheaping out. And not something I want for my medicine.
I think I agree with you. The republican party has started holding some pretty strange beliefs.

It seems that everyone defaults to hating republicans (or democrats) with no rooms for understanding. Taking this stance is only going to make reconciliation harder, or worse, impossible.

Unless we can have actual discussions with republicans, we're not going to have a democracy for much longer. As it is many republicans think our democracy is gone, and hating on them isn't going to help that.

> I do think the ones who believe Biden stole the election are idiots.

This is something I have a lot of trouble with. I don't think that it was stolen, but how can you or anyone really be sure? I imagine it's much easier for a republican to believe when all conservative news sources make it sound like their very way of life is threatened 24/7.

Many Christians (which tend to be republican) truly believe that the US is actively persecuting them and that Democrats want to make some godless state.