skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pardon me, but I do have an issue with generations of rent-seeking.

A technology comes along, and people who are capable and able, will be cut out of the equation - whether that's truck drivers, coders, whoever.

But, the group at the top who own everything are fine. Perhaps, in the dim and distant past, some progenitor did something of note (though I suspect it was most likely a crime) and for that they are able to buy into whatever the technology is (AI, self-driving cars, etc) and increase their fortunes.

This is nothing to do with merit. This is simply leveraging a fortune to buy the future too - and it is not complicated.

I don't object to people making lots of money on merit, but the rent-seeking elites we have, who steer the world in the direction that best maintains their situation, making slaves of the rest of us, is terrible. I don't expect anyone to help either - the governance structures we have are bent to their benefit too.

The only answers in my book, are for people to embrace their individuality, look to themselves for answers, reject the governance system and consciously uncouple from the dystopian system. A system that shows every indication of becoming far more dystopian, with technocrats being able to manage every resource, for every individual, in every circumstance, in the near future. Also unfortunate, is the fact that I don't think people are capable of making any such change, nor do they really care as long as they are being entertained.

PS

> we should instead focus more on quality of life outcomes. They’ve been better than ever and the trend is improving over time.

For me, the idea of 'continuous improvements' or 'better quality of life' is only a story. The utility of the story is that serves to support the idea that the current direction of travel is better than previously. This narrative gets your buy in and investment - and you cannot complain too harshly about your harness, as - you believe - the present to be so good!

As long as history is always smeared, this will always be true, right? But who can really know what the past was like? Who can say the past was actually worse, even if that's what present day records tell us?

To me, this is a bountiful world, with plenty for everyone. But if one group takes access to all the resources, with the presumed consent of the rest, the gaslighting solutions that are offered can seem like the 'only way' or the 'right way'. The constraints to living freely are artificial - we are in an open-air prison - and most of us seem to be happy about it!
Per the second point, I have a thought experiment I like to present people. Let's say you were a judge at a murder trial. The evidence has been presented, and it's up to you to make a final decision, but you remain unsure. After taking stock of every scrap of evidence presented, you think there's a 60% chance that the defendent committed the crime. The punishment for murder is 10 years of jail time. After some thought, you decide to give him 6 years, to match the level of evidence.

Is that just?

What you are proposing is normalizing intolerance. Systemitizing it, so that it has the appearance of fairness and justice while altering the culture and expectations around it. And as Popper (and Plato before him) argued, such a distinction requires a despot to determine who is unacceptably "intolerant" and who is merely intolerant of the intolerant. That philosophical position is incompatible with liberal democracy - that's what makes the "paradox of tolerance" a paradox!
> you don't win arguments by dogmatically redefining words and insisting your opinions are facts. That would be, dare I say, authoritarian?

Musk likes to redefine words. Elon falsely claims he is a founder of Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk

But in fact Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were the founders of Tesla: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/06/tesla-founders-martin-eberha...

In true authoritarian fashion, Musk doesn't let facts get in the way. Here is a sycophantic interview in which Musk pathetically attempts to redefine the word "founder": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHmSrK238vI&t=2358s

So, by your own standard, we've found yet another example of Musk's authoritarianism.
Of course repressing oneself can lead to a better society.

If pedophiles, people with violent urges etc are able to suppress their urges for example, don't you think that's a good thing?

Should everyone just be acting out their id's desires unchecked?
All Japanese car makers produce and sell/export cars successful for decades. As an American you don't care about facts right? How dumb are you, dude?
I believe cognitive ability to be more concrete, clearer. In all honesty.
You are lucky to have an Unlocked device. Most people don’t and get the carrier’s kitchen sink of added bloat.
After looking for enough time, it may be worth it to make some compromises, pick one and try building your application with it.

You may never find “the” framework.

Lately my default has been AspNet Core and C# (or F# if I’m feeling frisky). Not because it’s the ultimate framework for me (although it _is_ very good), but it’s what I learned, thanks to learning on the job.

I remain a microsoft skeptic though. I continue to dabble in other tooling just in case they lock down the framework or tools in the future. I like django, for example.
Go to the closest library, get as many completely different books as catch your interest. Go home and spend at least 10 minutes with each book, of course going longer if you are enjoying it.

Take a break every once in a while for a light exercise.

Spend as little time with technology as possible.

Repeat daily.

That’s it.
You assume that there is and of a right aught to be enforcement. Others view that social evolution as up to god. We all cooperate and the least rigid will adopt the best and we’ll all copy one another.
And here I was hoping this would be about analog circuits :(
> What I read in your comment is that the ppl of Iran have no agency

My stance is the exact opposite, it's that they do have agency but that the constant articles in the West celebrating a chance for some sort of regime change actually gives the Iranian government the ammunition it needs to make them appear sponsored/non-organic.

It makes it worse that the West does in fact have a history of regime change in Iran, (that had, as its ultimate consequence, helped to install the current gov. there).

If we appeared a lot more indifferent towards changing the regime as such, while supporting the rights of women on moral grounds everywhere, incl our allies such as the Gulf states, we'd have a lot more credibility and removing agency from the protesters by the Iranian authorities would become a lot harder than it is now.
Back in the day I tried running a CP/M program on the V30 alternate instruction set. It didn't work and I eventually tracked it down to the program using one of the Z80-only LDI/LDR/LDIR block instructions. You're not supposed to use those with CP/M but because CP/M ran on many UK Z80 machines like the Amstrads, inevitably real world programs did. The V30 would have been a great way to run Z80 software [in the late 1980s] if only they'd implemented these :-)
I Think you also need to consider that almost all of the people involved most likely had good intentions. It's not like they cam together and decided to fuck up some kids. They truly thought that this what was medically correct to do. And they were supported by scientist at the time.

It's horrible what happened but I also think it's wrong for people to be blamed for following standard medical practice at the time.
What it’s like to travel and especially dine with small children? Our is 1 and 3 and not exactly behaved in Japanese nor European terms - they make mess and break things in restaurants. Will we have hard time in Japan?
Yeah wtf. This is the only implementation I've seen, so I assumed they're all like that.
Highly recommend looking into the author... was about to order the book but saw a lot of stuff I didn't like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bettelheim
Which reminds me of a nice, not that short, fable by Richard Bandler, Adventures of Anybody, which is a nice take on being Anybody, instead of being Nobody or Somebody. Highly recommended, hypnotic (which was Bandler's intention) read.
Read between the lines: this has nothing to do with ecology. I don’t really understand the French government and culture enough to guess what the ulterior motive is; perhaps something with keeping non-French companies from running cheap airlines in the country?
After playing around with ChatGPT I think most of these "jailbraiking" posts are funny but miss the point. The point isn't that you can't make ChatGPT generate a play where Hitler and Stalin reminiscence about how to best commit genocide. The point is that ChatGPT needs to be very specifically instigated to do that.

By itself ChatGPT has a very strong bias towards positive and productive responses and will not give mean/evil/unproductive answers to anything resembling a normal prompt - and that's the achievement here.
Garage design goals and non-goals: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/design/goals/

Seaweed design goals / features: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

MinIO: https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/concepts.html

Note Garage list of non goals specify priority features of Seaweed or MinIO, for example erasure coding.
I’m curious about GP’s reply. The nuance about the British wanting a PM they’d be able to sway is a piece I hadn’t heard before. Oil/nationalization of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company still seems like a key flashpoint in UK/US opposition regardless of what they considered doing instead.
We spent 3 days making our Webflow website faster: lessons learnt
Fixing or improving a company's website always looks easier than it really is, but it's not .

Everyone has a say and changing needs within the company and there's rarely dedicated resources.

Here is a write up on 3 days spent fixing load latency issues while keeping Webflow as the CMS (for maintainability purposes): https://github.com/getlago/lago/wiki/What-we-learnt-when-we-revamped-our-Webflow-website-because-of-latency-issues
There were similar comments on the stable diffusion threads. Play with it. It’s absolutely mind blowing.
TSMC are the only peolle that can do 4nm at scale, and they only do it in Taiwan at present.

It's not like Intel wasn't trying.
For anyone who saw the discussions a few days ago: How many HSMs does Samsung need to secure their platform keys? ;)
Okay, but why are you blaming the UK when the Romans invaded in the 40s AD? And of course the US was created from the UK.

So surely that means it's actually all Italy's fault by your logic. These countries didn't have their own agency.
This sort of churning around of words happens all over our culture, not just academia. Back in ~1985 when I was in school it became not ok to say retarded as that is derogatory , and there was shift to use the word "Special". Immediately then "special" become derogatory.

Anyway this is normal human stuff that is always going on, its a bit silly, but its also fine. Find other battles to get irritated about that matter, is my advice.
From what I was able to experiment, it is capable of doing so.
CarperAI, I wrote there how to automate programming. Will have it next year.
I have found if you first feed it some examples of correct arithmetic, it comes out with more accurate results for some reason.
It’s hand turned, profiled, and lacquered. It’s really nice. And the nib is fantastic.
I would think it obviously means between significant cities (ones with airports, at least, clearly) in each... Paris to Zurich or whatever.
Explain code like never before
> This "avoid the beaten path for tourists" but also "pick Kyoto". Hmmm

People conflate Kyoto with the Gion + Kinkaku-ji + Arashiyama + Fushimi Inari. Kyoto city is much wider than that, and every street, especially in the Gion, is dense with history. There's dozens of bridges crossing the Kamogawa river, but most tourists are likely crossing over the one at Gion-shijo. Most tourists don't even stray 1km away from there to see there are stones you can hop over the water with. Sanjo bridge, the first bridge north of Gion-shijo, has sword marks on it from a famous shinsengumi battle. Kyoto, like Jerusalem or Rome, is filled with history on every block. Nearby Sanjo bridge is the temple where Nobunaga Oda was ambushed and forced to commit suicide. Also nearby is a random milestone during the day but at night a fortune teller sets up a shop claiming to channel the spirit of a politician who was assassinated in the exact spot. Most tourists and even Japanese locals would not ever notice the network of mahjong gambling dens hiding in plain site throughout Kyoto city, even in the subway station, but that's not going to be obvious from Google Maps, AtlasObscura, or what have you.

Obviously I'm biased because our startup is based in Kyoto and the company name is based on the Kamogawa river.
What you say is somber but sadly hard to dismiss. AI is relatively new though (even deep learning didn't take off till 10 years back) and it's rapidly improving as it tackles low hanging fruit (relatively speaking), like writing stories and playing games. The hope is that as it matures you will see applications in addressing the big problems you mentioned.
True Names is an amazing read.
I just read the Wikipedia link in the parent of this thread and it covers it in very interesting detail. Lots of moving parts, and I can’t give a synthesis. But this includes: nationalization of the oil fields that broke prior agreements with Britain (big money maker for Britain, but a bad deal for Iran), gradual move towards authoritarian leadership by Mosaddegh as his popularity waned due to economic hardship after a British oil embargo following the nationalization, Mosaddegh alignment with communists. Seems like there was both western meddling and also inherent power struggle happening in the country at that time. USA supported shah but who they should support was actually under debate. It states the USA coup attempt actually failed but may have precipitated the successful one, which was possibly natural. Finally, USA broke the British monopoly after the coup and Iran did get much more money from their oil after this.

please correct if I got anything wrong here.
ChatGPT FOMO Antidote: I read all the tweets so you don't have to
Can ChatGPT create a Minecraft hack?
Not to spamming, but https://emacs.zeef.com was a valuable resource for me to find many Emacs packages and communities to my liking.
Results vary from person to person and probably depend on locale and language.

Even if they didn't saying "it's the top result for ____" STILL isn't helpful. Loads of people make videos designed to rank high for "in" topics. So if it's the top result today it's probably outranked tomorrow by a larger channel.
Then it didn’t pass the Turing test, because the Turing test is exactly to convince me it’s a human.
It is lefties to far lefties trying to reframe things to trick people into thinking if you give these people a house all their glaring other problems, like drug abuse, will magically disappear. It oversimplifies the problem, but is probably true for a very small percentage of homeless. The deceit is that that same small minority of homeless that this will actually work for would be helped far more by removing policies that are keeping housing prices artificially high, like the excessively restrictive zoning and long permitting processes and that would benefit everyone else except for the entrenched nimbys who pushed that crap in the first place to accumulate unjust gains for themselves.
A suite of high performance tools for Genomics
"a full rewrite will be absolutely necessary"

cough Well, this article _is_ about a delightful Lispy alternative to Dart that compiles to Dart, yielding a superior language with Genuine Dart Inside(tm) and elegant support of Flutter.

Dart may end up living on inside ClojureDart, much like DOS living on deep inside Windows and PCs.
You misunderstand my point, see ggp. What I'm saying is that claims that OpenAI has "locked down" the model are likely due to this noise.
Two things:

1. If a law was passed that said twitter cannot moderate user content, Twitter would be ecstatic. It is a tremendous cost to them to do so, and not having to do so would largely be a win in their books (they'd still probably have to generate tools to allows users to moderate their own content, so not a total win)

2. If UPS shipped your products for free, but there were ads on the boxes, and they examined the contents to make sure there wasn't any content that they didn't want to ship, I'm guessing it would be a pretty popular service!
Pixelfed is the droid you're looking for. You can find a server to join at https://pixelfed.org and then support the project via Patreon for $1/month (or more).
The coolest book I’ve ever read is The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil. I believe a sequel updated to today’s technology is due for this year as well.
'I went to Babur, the 'best Asian restaurant in London’
Or well spoken. It's amazing how intelligent you sound when you talk good.
> While true the volume of money and effort put into AI is considerable

As opposed to the metaverse [0], marvel movies [1], video games [2], soccer [3], or NFL [4]?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-lost-30-billion-on-meta...

[1] https://bgr.com/entertainment/marvel-spent-over-1-billion-on...

[2] https://www.eurogamer.net/star-citizen-has-now-raised-more-t...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/henryflynn/2022/11/27/qatar-has...

[4] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/sport/2022/...
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As another long term resident of Tokyo (10 years and counting), I honestly can't understand why Patrick would recommend anyone give their business to APA Group.

As others in this thread have mentioned, this hotelier group is abhorrent. They are led by an anti-Semitic, anti-Korean, anti-Chinese history revisionist. The hotel leaves its disgusting diatribe in their company issued magazines conveniently laid out in every room within their hotels. This is just the tip of the iceberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_Group_(Japan)#Controversy. Here's another link: https://www.ft.com/content/d35ec458-df07-11e6-86ac-f253db779....

Given Patrick is a long-term resident of Japan, it's shocking to me that he isn't aware of this, or he simply doesn't care.

For anyone reading this, please do not support that company. It may seem a small thing, but this ruined the entire tone of the post for me.
I landed a once in a lifetime deal, paid about $170 for ready-to-go, everything working one. That's why I donated it, its glory needs to be shared.
You summarized modern AI : good for cherry-picked demos, not reliable enough for the real world.

We need more fondamental research to break that barrier.
My man, you still haven't told me what this regulation is going to affect. What are the side effects? I'm not talking about energy infrastructure in Europe, nor am I interested in a wider discussion about 'eco-bullshit' or 'pseudo-environmental policies'. I'd just like to see your take on the unintended consequences of this policy that you are able to foresee. Furthermore, if the airplane traffic is indeed this negligible, then why does it even bother you in the first place?

I'm a bit sensitive myself, and apologies if I sound harsh, but HN has a permanent anti-regulation erection and seems to attract know-nothings who love to argue that all regulation is bullshit and the free market will fix everything, every time an article on a government intervention or policy is posted. It drives me bananas.
> What is incredible is that it get’s this far. It can compute but not quite correctly yet.

That's a conjecture on your part. The ability to compute is quite binary - either it can compute or can't. Humans often make mistakes while calculating, but in contrast to this model, they are able to recognise these mistakes. ChatGPT is incapable of that and often confidentially wrong.

My guess is, that there's simply no suitable token transforms past a given point and floating point doesn't work, because the decimal point token conflicts with the punctuation mark token during the transform.

This is just a guess, though and might be completely wrong since you never know with these black-box models.
A Crash Course in the Future of Technology
Democratic forms of Government don’t just materialize out of thin air. They start off pretty messy with a mix of democratic and un democratic elements. Institutional capacity is then built and strengthened over time.

Iran was certainly on a more democratic path then.
The important thing is you've found a way to feel superior to both. ;)
Totally disagree with that statement here on HN. The word “conversation” is doing a lot of work. Hehe

In face to face conversation with others, word choice is not critical because in conversation you can work out what someone means or intends over time. Written form is just not the same.
Ask HN: What books are you reading in 2023?
Following up on the exciting thread of the good books in 2022, what books have you tentatively planned to read in 2023? I have earmarked quite a few just from the comments in that thread.

Here are a few I'm excited about;

- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

- How Asia Works: Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell

- How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil

- How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

- Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects by Gojko Adzic

- Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price by Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke

- Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself by Wes Bush

- Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry by Catherine M. Pittman, Elizabeth M. Karle

- The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Color management, this time with PDF
I see your answer as very naive.

Of course Iranians have agency as individuals; but it's very clear at this point in history that most of the 20th century has been dominated by US strategic decisions, and that "the US and UK supported a coup" is factually true.

I am Italian, I believe Italians have agency, too, and yet some of our past governments were inches away from being "guided" in a different direction by the CIA or other US agencies [0].

[0]: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/all-feasible-means
I seem to find the opposite, that people appear to be admired and build audiences based on how much they can troll or generally how nasty they can be to whichever rival group. People aren’t avoiding each other to stay in safe, happy and positive bubbles, it’s more like rival football club ultras out to kill each other.
Training a machine learning model is not particularly special from a programming perspective. The code is not usually that complicated. Write tests when you can, manually validate when you can't.

Also there are specific techniques for validating that you are model training procedure is directionally correct, such as generating a simulated data set and training your model on that.
The link in the Forbes article to the clip of the “entire segment” of the John Oliver show links to a YouTube imposter account, and turns into what I'm gonna call terrible ambient beach music halfway through. Ironic, given that the Oliver segment is partly about imposter Twitter accounts.

Any time you share a video, scrub through to the end! There's a lotta weird stuff out there.