skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that "Google has it coming" for this. In fact I think they support the open web much more than competing alternatives (Facebook, etc) who want to create walled gardens that require auth (identity). It's up to content providers if they want to completely target SEO and create poor quality content, and some are constantly gaming the system. What Google is doing is looking for more meta content, which is a very beneficial for everyone. meta keywords didn't work, and SEO goes beyond them to provide precise information about a site's content. Anyone can use SEO techniques for good and bad, it's by no means proprietary.

It's the general Web that didn't keep up and provide better solutions for quality and precise content, solving problems like "This blog is not about avocados" or links in a sidebar about avocados that lead search results for avocados to that page. Microformats and other approaches were suggested, but they were basically too complicated and tools didn't support them.

Where Google has fallen down is not providing more search/browsing tools to allow individuals to tune sites and keywords. There are many obvious opportunities in Google search, news, etc that would make the experience amazing compared to the picking-through-the-repetitive-garbage we see today. I suspect there is a battle between their tech and marketing about this, and I also think Google's ML team are using our garbage-picking to tune their algorithms rather than letting people just choose what they want to see. That is disgraceful, and they won't change it until there is competition which makes me lose a lot of respect for Google, but I don't blame SEO directly for this and since SEO is based on standards anyone could use their own "Web reader" to add a layer of filtering without special agreements, unlike content by companies that try to create walled gardens.

edit: comment about "web reader."
Decades away is too far for most people to care about. And of course it's only "potentially" anyway.
People wear name tags at house parties?
On the other hand, I do care. Because I just want to have fun.
Vimium has been disabled on Mozilla addons site due to major security risk
Vimium is the vim mode for browser.

I have been living with the broken yank feature for the past two weeks and just found out that Vimium has been disabled on the Mozilla addon site and leaving me no way to get the yank fix.
The practical benefit of Avogadro's constant is to manage error bounds.

The point is that we can measure the weight of atomic-scale objects very accurately in Daltons (1/12 the mass of a Carbon atom).

The weight of macroscopic objects can be measured very accurately in kilograms.

Avogadro's constant is the conversion factor between Daltons and grams, and currently we can't measure it as accurately.

So if you have an accurate weight measurement in kilograms, then you can lose significant accuracy by expressing the same weight in Daltons. Same for the other way around.

edit:

Huh, I did not know about the 2019 redefinition of Avogadro's constant, so this analysis might not stand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant#SI_redefinit...

Or at least there is still a conversion factor between atomic weight unit (Da or u) and grams, it's just no longer the Avogadro's constant?

edit2:

Hmm, interesting:

> In 2019, four of the seven SI base units specified in the International System of Quantities were redefined in terms of natural physical constants, rather than human artifacts such as the standard kilogram.[1][2] Effective 20 May 2019, the 144th anniversary of the Metre Convention, the kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole are now defined by setting exact numerical values, when expressed in SI units, for the Planck constant (h), the elementary electric charge (e), the Boltzmann constant (kB), and the Avogadro constant (NA), respectively.

Anyway, accuracy was a major concern for retiring the old kg standard. This effectively means that now in SI macroscopic weight measured in kg has one-to-one correspondence to measurement in atomic weight units. But this development was quite recent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
> I’m increasingly convicted there is inherent value in humans doing things

And in many fields I think many (most?) Americans at least would agree with you — there’s some special value in a handmade product, regardless of whether a machine-made equivalent would be technically superior. For instance a leather bag, a wooden chair.

(Am in US, hence “American” qualification).
Movies made sound with a light bulb: Sound-on-film [video]
Let's not forget that most white men on Earth were always in the "oppressed" group. In Europe, you were either in the aristocracy, in some semi-privileged class like clergy, or you were working super hard for a living, and sometimes (fairly regularly in some countries, e.g. France) died due to starvation. In America, it was similar - yes, there were some slave owners, but majority of white men were living and working in abhorrent, dickensians conditions in the slums of New York etc. or living a tough, poor and primitve live rural life, while being opressed by nature itself.
> of the "it's all culture and schooling" view

So we should a priori expect uneducated subsistence farmers (or descendants of historically-recent enslavement, in the African diaspora) to score just as high on a conventional I.Q. test as, e.g. people from Britain, the Netherlands or southern India and China, whose cultural milieus have developed over many centuries in highly urbanized, complex societies? As well as expect them to have equal educational attainment, even at the highest levels (like working in high-tech STEM, or getting a Nobel Prize)? This just doesn't pass any reasonableness test. The Flynn effect on its own shows just how much I.Q. scores are affected by even comparatively minor developments in culture.
The only account to use my middle name was the bank account I opened as a teenager using pen and paper. Once banking went digital a year later, the account was "corrected" to my first name.

Following the Equifax breach, I experienced yearly identity theft using the combination of that name and my childhood address. Unless the teller who opened my original account has taken up a life of fraud and state hopping, Equifax is the likeliest culprit.
Just yesterday we had a thread about a core dump that turned out to be a CPU bug (stack pointer being incremented by 1024 in very specific but consistent circumstances), and the discussion had multiple people who encountered kernel or CPU bugs that lead to correct assembly producing incorrect results.

So assembly is evidently not always the truth. It is however the closest we can easily get to the truth (on consumer desktop/server grade processors).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34230823
No they are not, the former allows you to include the header file in multiple .c files, the latter does not.
⅔ to ¾ of it anyway
We need strong association of content with their creators. For example by using digital signatures. It's not hard. We've had this technology for ages. Yet the vast majority of content on the web is unsigned (with the exception of ssl certificates that merely proves content came from facebook.com or wherever instead of from a particular person on facebook). Bots, troll farms, spammers, scammers, etc. use this to suggest they are more reputable than they really are. Users can't tell the difference.

With verified creators signing their content, there is zero confusion about what source the content came from. That source might still use AI to produce content of course. Or it might be an AI.

The web might fill up with content from all sorts of sources but the only content you should care about should come from sources that are reputable as evidenced by their body of signed work over time. Doesn't matter if it's a bot or a human. Reputation is hard to fake for a bot. And people, AIs moderating content can just flag content sources by their keys. So now you can do things like figuring out what the reputation of a source is relative to other sources you trust.

Not that hard technically. We've had public/private key signatures for ages. Never caught on for email. Some chat networks use end to end encryption. But most public information on the web is effectively unsigned.
What's your definition of "overrun"?

If you were paying attention to the shifts in tone and the window of 'acceptable' conversation on here, it's been pretty dramatic.

Post or comment the 'wrong' thing about the 'wrong' topic here and you'll get damn near instaflagged, your post removed, rate limited, etc. Say something (true) against a company with active PR goons, and you'll find the entire comment section turned into a toxic mess within 15 minutes.

If you think that shit is normal, you don't remember how things used to be.
Ask HN: What process do you follow to learn a new subject?
Do you search for books or video lectures? Then how do you proceed?
Meta classes, dict/slot are some really inelegant stuff.
US wants your data.
> mass confiscation of dollar bank accounts, respectively, in 2001

Argentina?
That's pretty much it.

Protein structures are immensely complex. Think of stringing a 50 magnets on a piece of string, then trying to predict the structure it would take on if in zero gravity?

We have a pretty big set of protein structures that are known. AI is takes those known structures, plus a set of rules about how amino acids might bind when a part of a protein chain, then tries to predict conformation.

If you ask AI to predict a known structure, it will do well, because, that's the training data.

Ask it to predict a structure that isn't known, and it will do a good job get it's mostly right, but the small differences make all the difference.

It's not a useless tool by any means, but the predictive power is still quite limited.
Weren't Galileo and Copernicus famously persecuted because of exactly that reason?

Only on the internet, where history can be distilled into a single-sentence quip.

In real life the truth is more complicated, but doesn't fit into a tweet.
Thanks! This directory seems to have a random collection of blogs. It is better than nothing of course. But after doing a few searches I realized that all of the good blogs that I have seen on HN are missing from their list. I guess blog owners have to submit their blog info to this directory and the good blogs that come on HN may not care to submit their blogs to this directory.
Yes, I kind of overlooked that, because the sketch has so many bolts :).
The library did make a choice - header-only C libraries are a choice. And the "how you are supposed to distribute a C library" is clearly just your own opinion you are trying to pass as objective truth. There are many header-only C libraries out there written by many experienced programmers that contradict your opinions.

TBH this is really just bikeshedding, not real issues. IMO even a tab-vs-spaces argument would have more merit as that has real practical effects (appearance of the code in tools like terminal or sites that have forced tabs like code review sites or github).
To hopefully add to the discussion here. Not a scientist (professional), nor do i have a degree in anything (debt sucks), but AFA i see it, a reviewer shouldn't be evaluating a paper based on a popularity contest, but based scientific rigor and well reasoned approach that paper has. If the data is good, if their analysis is good, etc etc etc. On things that aren't dependent on being in a clique and/or popular.

That just smells of bad science, and make it not surprising the mainstream is "lagging behind". People actively stifling real scientific advancement, instead of letting it flourish.

I feel bad for people that do have that purity of purpose that either have to put up with that kind of BS, and people that have been victims of said behaviour.

I appreciate very much people who have it in their blood, their passion, like i have music and singing in my blood. You know you'll get someone who'll do the best job possible, and care about what sort of science is being done. Thank you for being you
That'd be a step backwards. MSVC is actually much faster than Clang at implementing new C++ standards nowadays, not at all like before when it used to lag behind.
Secure Coding Guidelines for Java [video]
On the other hand, I, too, could not draw a hand if my life depended on it.
Not really on his forehead.

Six fingers, yeah, and also car wheels are a random mess of spokes and bolts.
I'm pretty sure I can't will myself to thirst myself to death, actually.

But you're again missing the point. It feels to me like I have choices. I believe you're right, I have choices. You're kicking down an open door when you're arguing this.

What I'm telling you is that I didn't come to this belief empirically. And indeed I believe it is impossible to justify empirically.
Wondering if we'll end up with users buying/renting and training their own individual instances of a ChatGPT-a-like model paying for the sources of their (models) training data?

Expensive at the moment but is one way to solve source payment problem and as an end outcome seems preferrable to being being beholden to Trump, Biden, Pope, BBC, Fox, Musk, Xi, Putin or whatever flavoured bots for our "truth".
But what about the reader? The reader can suffer or have other feelings when consuming such generated content. Doesn't this give it meaning?
Of course it is possible with agile, it "just" needs to be properly prioritized. And that also means, in good Agile fashion, that documentation skills needs to be represented in the team. If you don't prioritize documentation and do not value technical writing skills, it doesn't matter whether if you use waterfall or agile processes, you will still end up with sub-par documentation.

Also, what kind of documentation? High-level design documentation? Low-level code documentation? Code structure reading guides? End-user manuals? Elevator-style sales flyers?
That’s fine. But don’t confuse what is being produced with art.
There were for sure Django people back then who flame PHP devs. I know I was a Python user back then.
This seems like a tractable problem in the near future, by rewarding the model for factual accuracy.
It's true in the sense that the Hunter Biden laptop data is actually data from Hunter Biden's laptop.

It's not what the media or intelligence services said "suspect Russian disinformation". The same accusations that cause multiple social media companies to censor the story right before an election.

And of course it was true, the FBI had the laptop almost a year in advance before it was disclosed in the media.
literally what they taught me
If a disease with 99% mortality that spreads like the common cold came into existence we would lock down everything as harshly as necessary until a vaccine/cure. That'd involve stopping all international flights and so on (and all domestic travel, and maybe even going out of your suburb). Covid wasn't deadly enough to justify enforcing the most drastic measures - a 99% mortality rate would justify them to almost everyone.
Bizarre article that thinks the rise of worker power through unions might be bad for the Left?
It’s an awful title, probably chosen by the editors. The author Kotkin knows and does better.
Your first sentence contradicts the second one
In the long run, if this approach takes off, I don't see what OpenAI's role will be. They have no moat: all the training data is scraped from elsewhere, the models run on commodity hardware with ever-decreasing costs, and the output of an AI-powered confident-bullshitter is probabilistic enough that users wouldn't notice the underlying model being swapped out in favor of one developed in-house. Maybe if OpenAI were actually "open" somehow then they could at least argue the moral point of supporting OSS or whatever, but AFAICT the "open" part of their name appears to be merely baldfaced openwashing. I guess they're just hoping for an acquisition?
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So you think the problem of high-tech spambots is that there aren't enough people using them? Is your goal to make forums and such unusable as fast as possible?
Anything the author doesn't like. This is rather a lot of words spilt on weird "anti-woke" obsession.
I mean, years ago my local bank had an online banking system, where your PC had to dial-up their local server for any operations - and the authentication key was on a floppy. Which meant that yes, you needed to visit their branch once every year for a new key distributed on this physical medium.

Yes, it was inconvenient, but hardly an impossible thing to do. Banks manage to communicate the PIN for your card safely every time you open an account, I'm sure this could be done as well.
Marx would disagree. Alienation from one’s work product is a very real form a suffering.
I don’t know, I’m more concerned with the effect that art has on me than the motivations of the artist (though those can be interesting of course).

For instance I read The Fountainhead as a youth and was moved by it for purely personal (non-political) reasons, and with regards to that experience it doesn’t matter to me what Ayn Rand was on about.
"Progressive" makes it sound like the Republicans don't support it. There has been in-practice bipartisan support for the growth of the centrally planned economy.

It wouldn't surprise me if the US government has fairly direct control over more than half the financial flows in the US economy after including 2nd order effects; even though officially it is only around 40%. The political consensus has been "This is good, but we'd like to go higher" from the Democrats and "This is ok, but we'd like to scootch a little lower" from the Republicans.

It is hard to imagine a high performing economy that is controlled mostly by the US government. They are barely competent at running the key government institutions.
No, I don't think you should be allowed to be narcissistic if you are a self-made billionaire, whatever "self-made" means.
Game companies need this. It’s one of the “software engineering” adjacent subfields that is extremely exploited. The salaries are low, the work is stressful, crunch is high. The reason for this dangerous combo? You’re working your dream job.

This is good, I hope the employees at ActivisionBlizzard can finalize their union if they’re purchased by Microsoft.
Ruby is no slower than Python, it is actually often faster. And many of the important Ruby libraries are written in C.
Blue-collar workers earning more and consuming more seems pretty strictly beneficial to the work I do in software.
True but possibly quite short-termist.

Maybe your friend would be better off initially in that his post would be more legible. But a better solution for the human race would be for him to attend English writing classes rather than perpetuate reliance on machines to the point when, one day, nobody will lean to write coherently at all.
The documentation IS the product. As a top Navy brass once said "A nuclear destroyer is a floating SGML document".

The best software companies have a dedicated team of technical writers and their own chain of command and comparable salaries to coders.
I don’t know. I feel like the internet has been the same message, just different messengers for a very long time. As humans shift their attention towards more engaging media (video), I think people will still find unique ways to provide value to the written and visual internet through these AI tools like they have with armies of ghostwriters/digital artists and SEO optimizations before them.

Verification seems so strange to me. What are you verifying? That a human owns the content? That the content was created by a human? That the human passed a captcha?
I like the comment section here
There really is no "correct way" to distribute C libraries and at this point it seems you're nitpicking just to nitpick. Imgui uses the same method, no one ever complained. If you do require obj files to not be "bloated" (why?) you can always do it the C way of having separate C/H files.
Fairly sure they use HTC vive which seems to be the standard for overpriced VR experiences. It’s mostly fun to play in a group I think. But the actual games are very underwhelming - they feel like tech demos. And on top of that the staff never sets IPD or anything so unless you adjust it yourself things can be a blurry mess.

The experience of a game like Alyx on the Index/Quest is about 100x better.
I was laughing last night when I realized that even if you want to make an AI that only knows and cares about maximizing paperclip output, you also need to teach it to love all humans unconditionally to prevent the apocalypse.
It depends what is the subject.

Crypto come to mind.

People having interest in it have flooded every available public space, and not only online :

Search engines ('coin something' websites), /r/bitcoin, /r/cryptocurrency and so on, youtube at large, online media outlets, online financial newspapers, amazon, physical bookstores, paper business magazines, business tv, and so on.
So Webrings, then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
I agree, but (as the article also acknowledges) we might be surprised just how quickly the AI catches up with this.
Spy v Spy IRL
Is photoshop cabale of inpainting what you tell it to inpaint?
I think all are great frameworks and you can accomplish equally great things. I have not used Rails other than playing around but have built large systems in (many) PHP frameworks and Django.

For me it came down the simple fact that I prefer coding in Python over Ruby or PHP.
My first guess is the human feedback used for training the Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) network?
The future of Super Apps
Does Ruby still not allow type annotations in the same file as your code? Last time I checked, you had to put them in separate .rbs files. That’s a dealbreaker for me
In at least one case, Google gave a completely wrong answer (snippet for the wrong question), and credited me for it.

For the record, I run a pretty lean, annoyance-free website. It looks the same without an ad blocker. It uses Plausible for analytics. No newsletters, no annoyances. I still get shafted.
I think this could be summed up as a) python venvs can be very annoying, and are a weakness of python, and b) rails + active record is a strength for ruby. Fully agree with both, but disagree with the hyperbole (worst possible choice vs. best possible choice). FWIW I haven't even seen Python 2 code in about 6 years.
> Indeed. The fallacy here is assuming that if a computer can create works that humans cannot distinguish from those created by other humans, then that computer is creating art. But art is inseparable from the artist.

I hope you and the parent comment are correct, but this argument seems a little facile.

There is some art that I like because there is a story that connects the art to the artist.

But there are also novels that I have enjoyed simply because they tell a great story and I know nothing about the author. There are paintings and photos that I like simply because they seem beautiful to me and I know nothing about any suffering that went into their creation.

Does that make these works "not art"? If so, then I'm not sure what the difference is, and I'm not sure most people will care about the distinction.