skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only skimmed but it seems like the general idea is sound, that neural networks are good at pattern matching and that shallow pattern matching is only one aspect of "deep thought", logical reasoning being the other one.

I'm confused though, they give examples of Go and Chess but, as far as I understand, this is exactly what the author is saying doesn't exist. AlphaGo, Deep Blue, etc, all use neural networks to weight how to traverse the minimax tree [0]. The minimax algorithm/tree is precisely the "logical reasoning". The neural network is "just" prioritizing the path to take.

Anyway, like I said, the reasoning is sound. I just read a paper specifically about this breakdown, called "On the Paradox of Learning to Reason from Data" by Zhang, et all [1] where they construct a synthetic data set based on some simple logical rules and then try to train a neural network to recapture the underlying logic (spoiler alter, it fails). From their paper:

"""
Our study provides an explanation for this paradox: instead of learning to emulate the correct reasoning function, BERT has, in fact, learned statistical features that inherently exist in logical reasoning problems. We also show that it is infeasible to jointly remove statistical features from data, illustrating the difficulty of learning to reason in general.
"""

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11502
Now what we need is similar that can engage spammers and waste as much of their time as possible.
It's not that simple, Once you have been exposed to TB, you will always test positive. A chest X-ray is the only way to know if the TB is active or not(that I'm aware of currently). Source: I'm one of those that always test positive to TB tests.
I'm not sure it's worked in his favour.

Whenever I think about Tesla I wonder why a company that had such a head start with electric cars doesn't basically own like half of the car industry now. He had a massive stock price which could have enabled huge growth.

There's a strong argument to be made that Musk has bungled it.
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I am not defending hijab, but your point about “body image” and “psychological problems” sounds odd to me. It seems to me that westerners, especially women, have way more body image issues than people in my Muslim home country. I don’t know if it’s the revealing clothing or the worship of youth. But it seems disingenuous to complain that someone else’s culture is going to cause body image issues when in your culture people in their 40s are dieting and hitting the gym striving to look like they’re in their 20s.
see section 4 (and specifically chart 4.1A) here: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assi...

62% cancer patients, 80% coming from palliative care.

section 4.5 discusses the new controversial new provision for 2021 which allowed patients to recieve MAiD even if their deaths are not "reasonably forseeable", which accounted for 2.2% of MAiD recipients, or 219 people.
> > I find myself confused about the purpose of stock markets. How can we arrange our society around a system that is so massively irrational?

Is there any rationality in giving one man (POTUS) more power than all the other 320M citizens combined? Arguably more power than ALL the other humans combined.

What about Hollywood and the acting business? If you picked a random theatre actor would it really underperform Daniel Day Lewis so bad to warrant Lewis paycheck?

Power's Law governs each and every system, on top of that you have stuff such as virality and survivorship bias which are unique to human systems and further amplify Power's Law effects.

That's how you end up with people like POTUS and the Forbes 400, that's also how you end up with stuff like the valuation of Tesla
Could be lean, could be a bus number problem. They flock together but are separate issues.
I spent majority of my career implementing ERPs for commercial companies. Then I helped implement one for Canadian government and was shocked (in my previous ignorance) how much more accurate and pragmatic it was to think of it not as "I'm implementing system for various departments in a single large organization" and more like "I'm implementing a single erp for Walmart, air Canada, Canadian tire, Costco, Ontario hydro, Toronto raptors, and 100 other companies with various systems, standards, processes, Interfaces, versions, data, speeds, attitudes, cultures and relationships".

It reminds me of similar revelation when I realized that judge is not necessarily in cahoots with police, and in fact may be very humanly annoyed or persnickety with them.

Humans are humans and relationships are infinitely complex.
They already have a lot of users CC due to messenger pay, ads listing, etc.
> whose point of view has been described as conservative, even “provocative.” I think a degree of critical thinking should be engaged when reading anything she puts out.

Should a degree of critical thinking not be engaged when reading things put out by people with liberal points of view?
It would be nice (though likely impossible) if everyone could have unlimited assistance to make their life manageable. But even if that were available, we need to keep in mind that others may not want to continue their life for various reasons. Just because it is theoretically possible to keep someone alive doesn't mean they want that. Living life feeling like a burden to others, being in constant pain, or drugged out completely to avoid pain is not a life everyone would choose to live.

So if someone chooses to die, don't always look at that as a problem that could have been fixed with enough resources. Sometimes it's not fixable and we all need to compassionately accept that.
With KeePass, the trivial solution for this situation could just be a second subset database of relevant accounts on a thumb drive, with the password known to family individuals. That seems easier than relying on a cloud provider and some sort of half-baked insecure emergency access mode.
> You'd think India would be on top of this and come down hard.

They "try", but the scammers just pay off the cops
In general, people worried about this stuff with respect to voting aren’t trying to get more voters.
Maybe the code editors could use some horizontal padding, otherwise it looks just fine on iOS.
Elon talks like a Rick and Morty script. He's serious when he says things like that.
I wonder if this event will end up being a demonstration that they aren't sophisticated enough to use their operational model. I would think planning decisions would at least try to account for disruptions and recovery time.

I see lots of people who are at least quite a bit less likely to use them in the future (and they are still in the middle of trying to fix it).
> if Musk quits/falls ill the price will likely dive severely.

I could see this going either way. They won't come up with a wild world-changing idea without him, and you might lose some fanboy investors and employees, but a competent manager with auto industry experience would kill/spin off power wall and solar projects, scale back self-driving promises, and fix reliability issues. It'd be a better car company, but a worse dream company.
You're right, and thank you for bringing async up.

And thankyou for bringing up constraint propagation.

One of my ideas is the definition of formulas that act as materialized views over other materialised views. So we can layer materialized views over other materialized views and then work out a derived formula that is potentially nearer to what we want and potentially summarise the formula without needing to calculate the underlying views, we can compute the formula directly.

Is this differential dataflow?

I think it's an application of algebra and JIT compilers could do it to expressions if we fed symbolic expressions of programming languages into sympy or machine algebra.

In react, react does diffing between virtual DOM nodes to see if there are changed. There is also dirty region checking in old games and damage regions. These problems are mathematically defined.

Here's my writings on the idea
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4#31-algebraic-materialise...
I used Vimium for years until I discovered SurfingKey, which offers way more features.
https://archive.ph/vAnFb
> clang and gcc can’t even agree on the ABI of __int128 on x64 linux. That type is a gcc extension but it’s also explicitly defined and specified by the AMD64 SysV ABI in one of those nice human-readable PDFs!

Yikes! So it is supposedly defined in the SysV ABI, and at least one of the compilers fails to implement that. Are there bug reports for this? How does the disagrement manifest? Different calling concention when used as a function parameter or return value? Different alignment? I doubt that it would have different size or object representation.
You can have a collection of programs. Or a collection of “pieces of software”. But not “a collection of softwares.” Software can be considered to be already plural in a sense, because it refers to the set of programs/procedures needed to perform a specific task.

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/is-software-a-mass-noun/

Similar with money, you can have multiple dollars, but you don’t have multiple monies.

“Hardware” also works this way, but it’s probably more obvious to people. If I have some hardware, and I buy more hardware, I wouldn’t say “I now have two hardwares.”
> There's no reason consumer SIMs should be able to call more than N distinct numbers in any 24h period.

Oh jesus please no, whats next?

Ther is no reason a consumer oven should cook more than 5 meals a day. There is no reason a consumer toasteer should toast mpre than 10 times a day.

The bread you make tourself is unauthorised in a toaster
yeah. we'll sanction india, and then india will cooperate.
It definitely wasn’t for the longest time, it’s only once they started getting revenue from ads that they became this behemoth.
On our database systems, we have some date fields for which the default value should never, ever be used and if it is, there is a big problem. All of those dates are set to the dates of well-known natural disasters that happened in the 1800s or earlier.

The thought was that it needs to be something that isn’t believable to a non-technical user seeing it on their computer screen. It turns out that this is not necessarily useful. I listened to a guy talking about some issues with a record; he says “1871? What’s up with that?” And then just moved on as if “well it came out of the computer, must be right” or something.

I think that databases need to have the concept of NaN for dates and time stamps, except that this should be configurable to something like a poop emoji or something like ⁉🆘. It has to be something where your grandma would look at it and confidently say “your computer is broken”
The British also learned from their American experience. The beginnings of something akin to the American revolution were stirring in what are now Ontario and Quebec in the 1830s, culminating in armed rebellion in 1837, with the more radical calling for a republic. The British response was largely conciliatory. The local legislatures would be partially elected, the government responsible to the elected house, and given jurisdiction over issues like taxation, along with a promise that future constitutional changes would only be made with local consultation.

Of course, the USA would have been able and perhaps willing to assist a new Republic of Canada, probably with an eye to absorbing it one day. The British were not in a position to be heavyhanded. It worked though; the King still rules in Canada to this day. One of the great what ifs of history, one of the more plausible ones, I think, is what if the British government had realized they would lose, and had quickly made concessions to the Americans 50 years before?
Is it bad that I don't feel sorry for the Americans getting scammed given the obscene wealth inequality that exists between the two countries? Some wealth shifting to a poor country with millions of malnourished people might actually be a net positive to the world? Morality is complicated for sure.
And of course they have a new version where they are constantly asking you to store credit cards and addresses, unless you dig deep into the settings to disable those constant prompts.
Why not?

OK, looks like "microsoftsupport.com" is taken, but GoDaddy is happy to offer me alternatives like microsoftsupport.app, microsoftsupport.site, microsoftsupport.tv, or microsoftsupport.uk that should work equally well for scam purposes. Or microsoftpcsupport.com is available, if a ".com" is particularly desirable.
Yeah, no, this works great until you get an actually important call from a previously unknown number (hospital, job interview, etc.)
Well if nothing else, blocking such posts has the real possibility of making the posters even more certain they've uncovered some conspiracy, and driving them to less well-monitored corners of the interwebs, where misinformation breeds like a virus.
I'd agree posts containing suggestions that directly contravene expert medical advice should be tagged with warnings though.
There's also the niche use case of vertically arranged English letters — you see this once in a while on signage, but my favorite example is from _Street Fighter 3,_ where the character DeeJay has pants with "MAXIMUM" written down the leg, which means that you can flip the sprite (i.e. to have the character face left or right) and the word stays intact.
But that doesn't really fit with the narrative that's being pushed about how the government is an inefficient monopoly.
Wow, I had no idea assisted suicide due to economic circumstance was already a thing.

It's so tragic that society has failed many people, and now instead of the extra help they need, they're just given the option to be killed outright.

Personal anecdote: I intend to end my life with suicide. The circumstances would likely be when I get a terminal disease. Dragging out end-of-life is very traumatic for those around you. I have personal experience here.

I could also see myself deciding to die over economic reasons: If I'm forced out of tech at ~45-55 (because ageism is very real), then I'll probably plan to die whenever I run out of money. If I can't make rent, and I can't work, and there's no help, suicide is an option to stop the pain. I'd rather be dead than homeless (because of how society treats them).

I already have my plans, going to build an 'exit pod'. Nitrogen asphyxiation with CO2 scrubbers, and some kind of tech to determine I really am dead and contact EMS (arduino+ekg or O2 SAT and a phone) with a message about the situation. Trying to decrease trauma to others because of my death.

The cruelty with which we treat normal people, even in the best situation on earth that ever has been, is absolutely shocking and disgusting.

It's hard to accept that human life has no intrinsic value: Once we're no longer useful to our 'betters', we are culled. If you cannot produce economic value, those in power think you are better off dead.
I received a turbografx16 handheld around 1991 for Xmas. It had a tv tuner and I had two games. I loved it but the battery life was so short I barely ever used it. To this day, I wish I had more patience and interest
I tried them for a specific task: finding surf camps for a specific date range and then calling them to check availability. I provided a list of ones I’d already looked into. They re-did the same list and charged $79, despite their marketing saying it would be $20.

Would never use them again.
It's an article on a psychology journal, those folk tend to use different ontologies than computer scientists. That said, it's a very substantial review and I don't necessarily disagree with it.

No, causal reasoning won't fix it. But it is an ingredient more. I can't tell which ones are all the others, but the kind of thing that LLM do is already very close to the mindless repetition I did at kindergarten to get positive feedback. Scientists have also noted that animal intelligence, and by extension ours, tends to raise as a response to a challenging environment. Then there is the illusion of self-consciousness, the clearing-house of environmental and internal information that engenders our thoughts.

It's like we have a stack of papers and we are searching a way to bind them together to make a book. I think we will eventually find a way and that will be AGI. What we will get won't be like us, but will pass all the tests. Now, is it just me, or is creating AGI stupidly irresponsibly?
One thing to note is that airline crew scheduling is np-hard (trivially you can reduce Hamiltonian cycle to it). Ak interesting semi-empiricle fact about np-complete problems. Take a decision problem to determine if there is a schedule with k crews. Now there is some k’ that is the minimum such k. For many Np problem problems the difficulty of the decision problem is related to the ratio of k to k’. (Not all decision problems are like this… those that are are on the complexity class APX. As a quick rule of thumb however this works)
In terms of airline scheduling this means that if you more crews than you strictly need, your algorithm is probably going to successfully schedule them. When the number of crews drops below some critical value… all hell breaks loose.
Thinking about this in complexity terms is useful I think. He issue isn’t just bad software… with a small enough number of crews, all software is bad, unless P = NP
A collection of software is software.
Looking at the results disparity for "noble lie" and +covid both in the news and search tabs in Google is really eye opening given everything that has been released with twitter's moderation tooling with regards to deboosting and view filtering.

It seems only conservative and libertarian sources are covering the recent deposition in which he confessed that he knowingly made false public health statements in the early days of the pandemic. Both moderation and policy decisions were based on these statements.
True, but the replacement appliance will be even less reliable due to planned obsolescence and more recently supply chain problems.

Anything built in the last few years is simply going to be less reliable on average.
Assuming I'm a LastPass user and I have a sufficiently long master password with hardware based 2FA do I have anything to worry about? The one weak link is mobile authentication which bypasses 2FA. I honestly forget how that's configured.
Can you give a single example of similar fraud being successfully tackled? Not just the scammers being caught, but the entire scam being rendered unprofitable.

European authorities haven't managed to do anything about the car selling scams Romanians have been running for decades now. Nobody has managed to do anything about the Nigerian prince scams. BEC with truly shitty phishing pages keeps on growing and growing.

The best bet would be for US authorities to force India to crack down on these activities and prevent these scams from operating at an industrial scale.

The actions you propose would work well to address lower return activities, such as marketing robocalls. They can not work to address high-return scams.
They’d get more money from me by making me pay for a subscription
I use this and it's convenient but the fact that Google can wipe out my entire digital identity on a whim scares me.
Fines for the Telcos that enable these scams could resolve this issue, but the Telcos make money off this and don't care.
That's because cat pictures are the 2nd most viewed type of picture on the interwebs.
I would second the change in the url. Good job though.
I'm speechless. This seems like a new low, even for the NYT.
I think the subtext is that given valid caller IDs, then block lists can be made. The US FTC might manage them like it does the do-not-call lists, or the perhaps the US Attorney's office, after some criminal complaints.

Ideally, the telco would implement these block lists, but also ideally, they could be traded around like web ad block lists for individuals to load on their phones.

I think we all know scam calls are a serious source of revenue for carriers, so they will need to be led to this conclusion by force.

None of that happy future would come without true caller id, thus the resistence from carriers to fixing spoofing.
They wouldn’t break the system because it’s one of the few systems that works in that country (I’m taking a amoral stance here).

Even the “good” systems don’t work, like water, electricity, or traffic/transportation. So whatever, I can see why they are okay with a “bad” but working system.

Nonetheless, it’s quite dysfunctional.
My uncle almost drove two states away to give a stranger $10,000 because he was duped into believing his grandson had gotten into an accident and killed a pregnant woman. The only thing that stopped it was that he first needed to borrow the money, which led to my involvement. We made some calls and were quickly able to confirm that the grandson in question was at home and nowhere near the "accident" in question.

My parents have had to cancel their main debit card twice in the past year because they've given out the number to someone they thought was with their bank.

My neighbor (in her 80s) almost gave her SSN to somebody who claimed to be with Social Security.

I knew a guy who lost his entire retirement to scammers and had to give up his dream of retiring to Florida.

I'm sad to say it, but it's more dangerous than ever to be old or naive. In the old days, the scammers had to come to you. The internet has made it trivial to carry out scam operations from the other side of the world, and everyone who COULD do something (especially the FCC and telcos) seems to be indifferent and apathetic.
Doesn't Microsoft use a thousand different domains, most of which look sketchy?
What if you receive an email from microsofts-support@live.com? Could you immediately tell that it is not legitimate compared to, e.g. contact@microsoftsupport.com?
Came here to mention Kitboga. Watch a few of his videos to get a sense to what lengths the scammers go to defraud the elderly. Utterly heartless.
Yeah I’m a bit confused how the comment even relates to mine. I took it to mean that my assertion that laying blame on the weather for this mess is bogus and a lie. But that assumption may be wrong.
Enough minor inconveniences and the barrier to entry will go up, this will favor the larger players but those you can then go after with other means. It's never going to be a one-stop solution.

Ideally there would be a warning that a call does not originate locally, routing the call through a local representative would generate yet another signal that you might be able to close off, including the possibility to declare the possession or hosting of certain gear illegal. You'd have to maybe do some pattern matching to spot problematic numbers and/or have a place to report them easily.

If the will was really there I'm pretty sure this problem could be tackled.
Duopoly. Plus cost of switching away once you sign up.

Network effects and monopolistic (anti-competitive) features allow bad companies to survive today. Monopolistic practices are probably a worse problem today than in the 1920s.

In the 1920s governments used regulation to break up huge firms and defeat advantages due to cost of capital (hard to start a new railroad in the 20s because the cost of trains and tracks was just so high.) Today, cost of capital is relatively less important, and things like switching cost and bundling and people valuing their time and convenience are bigger factors. We need anti-trust/government regulation to address those.

(For example, in the case of password managers, imagine if there were laws requiring publicized security audits and seamless migration to a new service of customer's choice. A competitor to Lastpass might have arrived by now.
Private businesses are just as inefficient and wasteful, as anyone who's worked in a large corporate bureaucracy can attest. It's just that they have very little transparency, so you don't hear about it on the news.
Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis in China