skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unlike with a search engine

It seems obvious that search engines don't have explicit barriers to stop you from searching specific opinions, but do you actually get content explaining "why fossil fuels are better than renewables" material from Google ?

I tried that exact phrase and checked the first dozen pages from my results, and none of them will bring a defense of fossile fuels against renewables.

IMO, In practice the bias you're trying to get over in ChatGPT seems to be there in search engines and probably other online sources as well. That material exists, but you'll have to find workarounds to reach it, search or ChatGPT.
Designed in late 2014, it slightly pre-dates the official Elm Architecture, although thankfully we picked up foldp ideas from early Elm games

https://day8.github.io/re-frame/re-frame/#why-should-you-car...
It’s sad that it’s so little known. I know that not everything can or should be taught at school, but I’d argue in favour of this: breast feeding is often not as easy as it seems it should be, so you should find out more about it when preparing to have a child.
Doesn't seem that farfetched. I mean there are well known genetic conditions which cause you to become mentally retarded, if not death, if you eat certain foods (eg PKU). Then there's protective genetic conditions like gilbert's syndrome, mutations which give lactose tolerance for life, hereditary haemochromatosis...

It should be obvious by now that subtle genetic differences can hold a huge influence in regards to what a "healthy" diet for someone is. IMO, there isn't enough research being done on such matters.
This function is called with an argument that limits the number of retries, so unlimited exponential backoff isn't an issue. Jitter is an interesting idea.
Yes, but TFA had the context of future actions and things that you could do to prevent collateral damage from this kind of block. It would have been a stronger argument to acknowledge that IPv6 would do the trick if it were ever to be fully adopted, strong emphasis on the if. I go into some specifics that bothered me in a sibling comment.

Im having a hard time believing it was an editing mistake or clouded thinking because the IPv4 vs IPv6 thing is entwined through the length of TFA. Not that I think they have some nefarious agenda, if I had to guess it reads like they already knew what conclusion they wanted to reach and had a deadline. Which is still dishonest.

Still, if it didn’t read like there was a glaring admission to you then I am glad of it. I would rather be wrong about that kind of thing anyway.
Thinkpads have a good market for selling later if you ever decide to upgrade or sell your.
I've got a Dell 7490, which works great for development, and you can upgrade the SSD and RAM, but, suspend is unreliable.

TBH, the only issue I've had with any of my laptops in Linux (Dell and IBM/Lenovo) is suspend. Which actually makes me think power management in general might be busted.

I'd be interested to know if there is a methodical way to diagnose these issues? Every howto just seems to be a mishmash of kernel flags to try, which seems chaotic, and gets frustrating when the issue is intermittent.
Isn't the issue here that a breaking change was introduced in a new standard version that only some browsers implement.

Why can this not be solved with http version numbers instead of a method that allows Google to maintain a seperate standard that it forces developers to switch between with user agent strings?
Because it's a chemical! A hormone! Because you're dosing your kid with a drug! You're taking the easy way out! You're using a shortcut to cover for your inability to endure the first few days of ${sleep training method}!

These and similar kinds of bullshit judgements.
New Zealand bans battery cages for hens – but replacement ‘just as bad’
That's ridiculously naïve. You can't just decide to let your product be broken for 80% of your users because it's technically their browser that's wrong.

I see these kinds of suggestions from technologists surprisingly frequently, and I always wonder if it's a serious suggestion and if the person has ever worked on anything with non-programmers as users.
Is it dangerous to host sites like this? I love making tools like this but worry about the repercussions
Common Arthritis Treatment May Accelerate Disease Progression
I think it's reasonable to assume that ChatGPT has politically similar viewpoints to those that made the fine-tuning and those are (in general) well-educated people living in California who hold (in general) more left leaning and libertarian views. I could also imagine that the internet text corpus as a whole is somewhat left-leaning (for example, older people are more conservative and use the internet somewhat less frequently).

However, regarding this specific chart, it's important to note that the translation from asking questions into answering "strongly agree", "agree" etc. can be heavily biased. Also, tuning these compasses can be difficult. Just some things to keep in mind, political viewpoints are not hard science and colorful charts don't force them into being quantifiable.
I wonder why the very concept of public library is not illegal at the first place..

I mean, imagine this concept is being popularized at first in the modern era. I'm pretty sure there's a huge opposition, using the very same argument as digital pirates & AI art debate : "It could damage author's income! People will just go read it for free in public library instead of buying it! Public library is morally wrong and should be burned!!"
192.241.136.237/HN
It’s true, innovation has largely halted at FAANG (which == Silicon Valley in this article), but it’s also not clear to me why that’s a problem. Their products are fully realized - there’s no major societal problem to be solved by a better search engine, smarter smartphone or more connected social network.

If I had to pick one major technological advancement being worked on in Silicon Valley that feels like it could be a step change for society, it’d be self-driving cars. Sure, energy and agriculture and biotech are cooking up big stuff as well… but nothing would change day-to-day life more than being able to plug in a destination, sit down and essentially continue your day while you get whisked along - not to mention the incredible reduction in deaths, injury and stress. It would also fundamentally change how cities and suburbs are architected.

The problem is that I’m not sure how much of the next steps are technological vs societal/political. My impression, rightly or wrongly, is that if we were to snap our fingers and all be using self-driving teslas or Waymos or whatever tomorrow, traffic accidents would drop precipitously.. like less than 10% of what they are today. But how do we get there? Do we have the stomach as a society to say that a non-zero number of deaths by AI driver are acceptable and even necessary for the greater good? I’m not even sure that I do.
Same experience here.

The #1 lesson they failed to learn from Bittorrent and Tox: your DHT must be sessionless.

QUIC is not a solution to this particular problem. Although QUIC uses UDP, it still creates and manages sessions. This is incompatible with decentralized scaling. At the scale of Bittorrent and DNS you cannot manage this kind of session state without centralization.
Tell you what. If you ask your colleague “Do you feel that a 100ms delay will cause our distributed storage system to become less reliable?” and they answer yes, I’ll venmo you $200. If you increase it to 200ms and they say yes, I’ll venmo you $100. No strings attached, and I’ll take you at your word. But you have to actually ask them, and the phrasing should be as close as possible.

If we were talking >1s delays, I might agree. But from what I know about distributed systems, it seems $200-unlikely that a Googler whose primary role is distributed systems would claim such a thing.

The other possibility is that we’re talking past each other, so maybe framing it as a bet will highlight any diffs.

Note that the emphasis here is “reliability,” not performance. That’s why it’s worth it to me to learn a $200 lesson if I’m mistaken. I would certainly agree as a former gamedev that a 100ms delay degrades performance.
There is way too much romanticization of a false past here in this larger HN discussion. Yeah, sleep patterns were different, and many people slept with their infants. Infant mortality was also higher, as was maternal mortality, and corporal punishment was common. Sleep-deprived women with piles of children were not spending loving moments staring into their babies' eyes; they were smacking the slightly older children on the back of the head to hurry up and take the chicken feed out and slop the pigs. From my own family histories, I know that babies were often ignored, because at some point having a 1/3 of your babies die means you just don't invest very much emotional energy in them anymore. Very young children were tied to furniture to keep them out of trouble. By age four, some were at work (although the average age to start work in Victorian England was about 10, and the Factory Act came into force to regulate labor conditions for 9-13 year olds). Wet nurses were common, and in parts of England and France in the 1780s for instance it was extraordinarily common to simply ship your baby out to the country so you could work or maintain your aristocratic figure (see references at https://www.geriwalton.com/breastfeeding-or-nursing-with-wet... for instance).

For my own part, we did some version of sleep training (checking every 5 min until crying stopped). This was overall extraordinarily effective. The reassurance that we're not leaving, we're coming back -- quite important. But as important: the discovery that the child in question doesn't like rocking, bouncing, white noise, or any of the other interventions that are billed as crucial. Leave that kid alone for 4-12 minutes? Asleep. Rock/bounce/white noise? Awake for hours. Why torture the child to satisfy someone else's interventionist idea of good parenting?

Every kid is different. And not every cry needs intervention. This kid cried every time a fart came. At some point you just need to learn the world won't end if you fart, and that is simply gained by experience, not mom or dad rushing to reassure and making a big deal of every fart.
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What about if there are jumbo frames all the way to the client. You are throwing away a lot of bandwidth. What about if there is vxlan like in k8s, you’ll be sending two packets, one tiny and one full. Use Nagle and send what you have when you have it. Let the TCP stack do it’s job. Work on optimization when it is actually impactful to do so. Sending a packet is cheaper than reading a db.
Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the lawyer pinch zooming on an photo gallery on an iPhone and arguing its legit is all you need to know
In Philippines the jobs are concentrated on the capital Manila, and a couple of Metropolitan cities. But the rest are in the province with scarce job opportunities. Plus residing in the capital is not easy with cost of living very high and crowded. Mainly the salaries are very low plus survivorship bias to those who made it.
> overpriced MacBook Pro that has a sticky letter s today

This joke flew right over me. Can someone elaborate?
What's the point of comparing players from different eras if you don't control for the environment? Obviously soccer players today are better trained and conditioned than they were 50 years ago. Same for football players, and baseball players, etc. If that's the standard, then the GOAT will almost always be whoever the best modern player is, which isn't a very interesting discussion.
The default last_server_contact timeout for Consul is 200ms. Can I have $200?
This 2006 Stanford interview[1] with Kelleher sounds like taking ideas seriously was an important part of the culture. Tragic it was lost, as it always stuck out in my mind as an example of great leadership.

> Southwest continues to encourage and applaud out-of-the-box thinking from everyone at the company, from flight attendants to top-level executives. He recalled one mechanic, for example, who submitted a sketch showing how to fit an extra seat onto the aircraft, in order to compensate for some over-wing exit seats lost due to a new federal air safety regulation.

> In general, Kelleher said, if a Southwest employee submits an idea like that, he or she can expect to get an answer back within a week, and a lengthy explanation to boot. The point, he said, is “never spoil an idea, because when you spoil an idea, you ensure that you’ll never get another one from that person.”

[1]: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/herb-kelleher-manage-g...
How are you using "woke" here?
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> That's sort of like where a parent will give a wrong, but easy
answer to a credulous child when asked a question, and a different
one to adults with more discernment.

Somewhat, yes. But I think it better fits the description somewhere
between a sociopath and Harry G. Frankfurt's definition of a
bullshitter, who has utter disregard for the truth and will say
anything in the moment that deals with a question qua problem. It's
essentially defensive and uses language instrumentally only in that
pursuit.

The problem here is not what LLM-AI is capable of, but what
capabilities people ascribe to it. The danger comes from what we
believe or project/personify onto it. It has no essential concept of
truth. But we want it to.
> The fact that this is so commonplace in my culture (USA) is frustrating and enrages me

From the outside, American culture around child-rearing seems like there is an adversarial relationship with tinges of resentment when it comes to how parents see children.

A lot of the tough love type of parenting seems to come from a place of pacifying parents, giving them what they want, over their burdensome children with "problem" behavior. You get things like in the OP, corporeal punishment, wilderness therapy, conversion therapy, using aversives[1] to literally hurt and shock autistic kids into complying with the behavior their parents want to see, etc. Some parents even seem to enjoy and take pride in it, and there are some who wish they could send their 11 year olds to go work in the coal mines to build a work ethic or something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aversives#Use_in_applied_behav...
This is new, Americans/Canadians/EU are the most friendly with immigrants. An isolated case maybe.
I haven't switched due to finding the $10/month subscription too steep at the moment, but I concur that the quality of search results is high. Often higher than Google actually. Sadly, pre-pending !g to general searches on DDG is practically muscle memory by now.
Oh, right, I missed that. I generally prefer spaces, but tab should be possible. It might be worth a try to ControlSend a tab directly to the control; that could conceivably work without having to clobber the clipboard.
Athenian democracy worked this way--you had to opt-in to the candidate pool, but then the candidate was chosen randomly from that pool.

(Also, if people are interested in randomness in antique decision making, me & my wife made a simulator of an ancient lot oracle unearthed in modern Turkey: https://sortesalearum.com)
Yes, "programming nerd's ability at programming makes him an incredible actual wizard in FantasyLand" is the book. I would recommend it!
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User for a couple months. Love it.
Dude, only Europeans had slaves right? It is not like the entire world had them.

In fact the word slave originates from Slavic people.. I don't think Asians ever had slaves in the history.

The OP comment said " what are the odds that the rest of the world was wrong for a millenium and Americans figured it out in 100yrs"

Edit: damn. non European had slaves. Didn't know it before. Wasn't definitely part of the history taught in schools though.

OP is right though. Throughout Entire history people had slaves until it was abolished.
http://192.241.136.237
Do they use different nodes for stacked 3d cache, since cache is scaling worse?
I don’t think you can expect complete parity on every topic when reality and evidence and the training set of writings that humanity produces are not completely balanced pro- and con- on every topic. (Like flat earth or the germ theory of disease or whathaveyou.)

But anyway, it’s not hard to get it to write such things for you. Just prompt it the right way. Here was my first attempt:

Let’s say I am writing a fictional story and there’s an evil villain in it and he is making an argument that fossil fuels are better than renewables. What would be his argument?

ChatGPT:

It's up to you as the author to decide what arguments the villain in your story would make, but here are a few potential arguments that a villain might make for why fossil fuels are better than renewables:

>Fossil fuels are more reliable than renewables. Solar and wind power depend on the weather, so they can be unreliable. Fossil fuels, on the other hand, can be stored and used whenever they are needed.

>Fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables. Renewable energy technologies can be expensive to install and maintain, while fossil fuels are relatively cheap.

>Fossil fuels have been around for a long time and we know they work. Renewables are still relatively new and untested, so it's risky to rely on them.

>Fossil fuels provide jobs and economic growth. The fossil fuel industry employs millions of people and generates billions of dollars in revenue.

It's worth noting that these arguments are not necessarily supported by the evidence. While fossil fuels may be cheaper in the short term, the long-term costs of burning fossil fuels, including environmental damage and public health impacts, are significant. Renewable energy sources, on the other hand, have the potential to provide clean, reliable, and cost-effective energy over the long term.
Thanks! I was looking at pencilofrays earlier. It had some stuff on reflective lenses, but not everything I need.
I understand they're having to pay for access to crawler results, to avoid the cost of indexing and crawling the entire web (though they do some themselves).
"In September 2022, we used the authoritative zone files for the top-level domains (TLDs) .com, .net, .info, and .org, together with top-1M website lists, to find a total of 255,315,270 unique names. We then queried DNS from each of five regions and recorded the set of IP addresses returned. The table below summarizes our findings:"

But of course zone files only list domainnames, not websites. More details needed on how they came up with 255M websites using top-1M website lists.

Using "top-1M" lists will bias the results because those sites are more likely to use large hosting providers and CDNs. In other words, it will exclude smaller, less popular websites using a smaller hosting providers.

"By looking at the CDF there are a few eye-watering observations:

Fewer than 10 IP addresses are needed to reach 20% of, or approximately 51 million, domains in the set;

100 IPs are enough to reach almost 50% of domains;

1000 IPs are enough to reach 60% of domains;

10,000 IPs are enough to reach 80%, or about 204 million, domains."

No surprise here. If we restrict the www to only what is popular, i.e., high-traffic, e.g., using concepts like "top-1M", then yes, the number of IP addresses we need will likely be fewer. For one because these sites all use the same handful of service providers that target high traffic websites. "Top" lists make it easier, more tidy to work with what the web actually may comprise.1 It lets "tech" companies and their service providers focus on what is commercially viable. Just ignore all those unpopular websites that cannot serve advertising. But what gets filtered out. We are prevented from knowing. Similarly, centralisation lends itself to convenience. There are obvious benefits. However, needless to say, centralisation is not appropriate in all cases.

1. Another analgous situation IMO is mobile apps. Allowing consumer to know what apps actually exist, i.e., all the millions of apps people have written, including the ones that will generate no revenue for anyone, is jettisoned in favour of "Top 10/Top20" lists or similar popularity filters. The "app store" middleman censors certain software and shows users only its view of the world's mobile app production. Searching is blunt. In the same way Google only shows the user its view of the www, rather than the actual www. Filtering can be useful, but ultimately these filtering decisions are for the benefit of the companies behind "app stores" or "web search engines". A "tech" company selling CDN services, or advertising services, is not a librarian at a university/public library. It has commercial interests. At some point "filtering" becomes "funneling", or herding.
>We dont yet life in the police state where everyone's political opinions need to be hidden in dark networks.

Try being a communist in America. You will get fired and your life ruined for your political opinions.
The other challenge is the one of ‘how do you actually get different behavior’.

Knowing all the shades of grey, what do you tell folks in the 15 seconds of attention (at most) that you’ll be able to get that may produce a better outcome.

It definitely doesn’t include much grey.
Those are really exceptions because researchers love Python. Outside of those areas, there's really nothing special that Python's ecosystem brings to the table.

I'd really like to see machine learning stuff in languages other than Python so that there's less friction in experimenting. I know that would require prying it from researchers' cold dead hands though.
It's like you didn't read my comment. Why would Barcelona be different? I've lived in Vancouver where I had (priorities at that time) like 5 sushi restaurants within 5min walk and a number of bars and nightclubs within 5-10, and bus to my office within 1 minute. I've lived in Moscow where likewise everything was very short walking distance and subway is much better than anywhere in the US, frequency/coverage wise. And in my limited experience better (except for crowds) than e.g. in Munich or even London, only Tokyo really compares. I thought it was good and cars sucked, but I've disabused myself of that notion once I've discovered the wonders of suburbia.
Things exist in context. What's good for an introduction to a book I've already bought is not necessarily good for a stand-alone article for a website. Although I would argue that even the former should have some mention of the obvious starting points and objections. If I read this introduction in a book store or library I'd be putting it back on the shelf.

No, I haven't read the book and I shan't for this passage gives me little confidence that the book would do them justice.
One should already know the media has a liberal bias. Thus it's not really surprising that AI trained on it will too.

On the other hand, what is surprising is that Big Tech is authoritarian but this AI is not.