skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
media was led astray by law-enforcement officials and delay from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

After the results were finally published, the information got out and was covered on media outlets (such as the WSJ etc) ..

You're looking for perfection in an atmosphere that is genuinely a fog of war and cherry picking 1 example. the point is that statistically speaking your better off with instituitonal media over alternative media.

Institutions will still lead to the right answer over a long time scale Compared to whatever other non-institutional media you look at.

Obviously, in any case consider many sources, weight them appropriately, consider recency of the data, and synthesize knowledge according to bayesian principles.

If you still disagree, what non-institutional sources do you prefer, and what do you think their track record is compared to instituional media, and will I be able to find examples even worse for them than the one you linked.
I'm still midway through the paper, but I gotta say, I'm a little surprised at the contrast between the contents of the paper and how people have described it on HN. I don't agree with everything that is said, but there are some interesting points made about the data used to train the models, such as it capturing bias (I would certainly question the methodology of using reddit as a large source of training data), and that bias being amplified by filtering algorithms that produce the even larger datasets used for modern LLMs. The section about environmental impact might not hit home for everyone, but it is valid to raise issues around the compute usage involved in training these models. First, because it limits this training to companies who can spend millions of dollars on compute, and second because if we want to scale up models, efficiency is probably a top goal.

What really confuses me here is how this paper is somehow outside the realm of valid academic discourse. Yes, it is steeped in activist, social justice language. Yes, it has a different perspective than most CS papers. But is that wrong? Is that enough of a sin to warrant such a response that this paper has received? I'll need to finish the paper to fully judge, but I'm leaning towards no, it is not enough of a sin.
I’d like to hear more about in what specific ways is google bottom-up but the article is kinda shallow. Are the roadmap items that teams commit to driven by ICs, and if so does that contribute to becoming bloated and bureaucratic? How?

What does a top-down approach look like by comparison for a company as large as Google, and is that even feasible, given that top management are likely to be many layers away from code being written?

Or is it something like when a company gets past a certain size then it has switch management styles?

Was hoping the article would get closer to talking about these ideas but it’s lacking in substance imo.
I agree. We have seen this cycle many times.

But it's not only the monopolies that cause that, but also the combination with the need for infinite growth. A counter example would be craiglist, it has the monopoly, but the founder decided to stop "growing" 20 years ago.

Imagine what different world if Sergey had said: well pagerank is good enough, the money is good enough. At the very least we wouldnt have this crappy search engine with nlp and other crap mixed in that doesnt matter what search terms you use, always find the same sites.
RE/Search was and is an incredible source. They saw the future of literature and media as far back as 1982. They were way ahead of everyone.
Pro tip: instead of paying, discretely sneak out of restaurants. Dinner for no cost :)
Yeah so that would be a little odd. There’s been a lot of talk about how most spending in healthcare is down to “obesity” and a lot of scaremongering about how that is growing. So you’d think if they had a solution to that, it’d be getting a lot of support.

It sorta suggests that obesity isn’t one of the main costs in the US for healthcare (I suspect it isn’t) and that there isn’t a pill that will ”fix” obesity (I suspect there isn’t)
That's part of what I mean by it needing to be calibrated. Initially some polling could be done with real people and the GPT agents. Whatever calibration factors are needed to make those two line up could then be used when asking the GPT agents novel questions.
There is no need for continuity of monopolies for them to exist. The monopoly of today can split and be merged with other companies, with the same end result. After all, even monopolies need to reinvent themselves to better serve their owners.
So just use mold during development and another linker for release.
1991: A server-side web framework written in Forth
> How would we feel if aliens stopped the mass extinction events that led to our existence?

I would wager than as soon as a technological civilization is born, it's morally reprehensible to let it go extinct, since it no longer is at the full whims of evolution. It's complex issue, so many people would wage otherwise, and only a jury might reach a conclusion. The case is moot when said civilization can avert extinction by their own hand, though.

I don't know about two technological civilizations in conflict, like sapiens and neanderthals. Would it be morally acceptable to let them go at each other, even if the fittest extinguishes the other?
https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

> Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial

> Conclusions Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps. When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood of benefit, thus diminishing the applicability of the results to clinical practice.
> "The corpus of scientific abstracts would understandably have a low count of "garbage" compared to, say, Twitter posts or random blogs"

That's certainly true, but it's not by a so large margin, at least in biology.

For example in ALS (a neurodegenerative disease) there is a real breakthrough perhaps every two years, but most papers about ALS (thousands every year) look like they describe something very important.

Similarly for ALZforum the most recent "milestone" paper about Alzheimer disease was in 2012, yet in 2022 alone there were more than 16K papers!

So the ratio signal on noise is close to zero.

https://www.alzforum.org/papers?type%5Bmilestone%5D=mileston...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=alzheimer%27s+disease&...
Dude what world (or country) do you live in? Im in the UK and everyone has a £1k self employment allowance, that gets you quite a nice camera! Filling out the return is trivial.
“ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

-Robert A. Heinlein
Sure but the merchant isn’t literally paying interest - yes they get charged a fee which helps subsidize an interest-free loan, but that fee is not interest nor is the merchant party to any loans that the consumer enters. The merchant gets paid more or less immediately minus a fee - similar to how a credit card transaction works.
In my specific case, I never actually wanted to blow anything up, I was just curious as to /how/ and /why/ things could be blown up.
Yep. I will have to add it to the article (and why it's insufficient as well).
No good deed goes unpunished.

About a year and half ago I decided to start volunteer with Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. (I been out of the Marines for about 10 years.) For reason out of my control I'm now the President of the Colorado chapter.

Let me know if any wants to come to the Gold Tournament or volunteer. ;)

Money is great, but volunteering is really giving back.

http://www.mcsf.org
Ah, interesting. I saw "analog" and was expecting something more like controlling crosspoint switch ICs[1] to cross connect lots of handsets in arbitrary ways. But this is analog multiplexing, digital routing, etc.

[1] https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/signal-integrity...
Which books of his would you recommend one start with?
Apple Card responsible for more than $1.2B loss for Goldman Sachs
Yeah, but I would want to know which library function could possibly throw an error and not be caught off guard by that after deploying to prod :-/
Your comment I replied to is overbearing, overprotective advice about something titled the Anarchist Cookbook, for God's sake.

I tried to restore a bit of that reckless spirit with a cheeky comment, but I am very sad to see the nanny state is out in force today. Gah, so boring.
Sadly, the vaccines were not designed to prevent infection, only to prevent severe illness. I can understand if you were misinformed, even the US President shared this untruth.
I do overnight oats; in the morning, all you have to do is pop the lid.

* Wholegrain oats (1.5 to 2 dl)

* Greek yogurt (1.5 to 2 dl)

* Milk, skimmed/whole (3 dl)

Then, throw in whatever. A sliced banana or berries, honey, a pinch of vanilla extract. Prep it in the evening, chuck it into the fridge, and it's done in the morning.
I have found many abstract-type paintings (and non-abstract for that matter) to be much more interesting in person, where you can experience the actual scale, texture, colors, multiple viewing angles and perspectives, reflections/interaction with the environment and other viewers, etc..

Perhaps that's an argument for high-resolution VR museums, with better scans of paintings to capture 3D texture, layers, transparency, reflectivity, etc.. ;-)
Maybe it’s just me, but I would never go through a random certificate authority like “K Software”. Users are not cryptographically verifying the developer’s signing identity, they are trusting KSoftware’s attestation that the signed binary is authentic.
The launch is typical, the twin boosters flying back to land together is a sight to see at least once.
Avoiding the trap in your 2023 Strategy (video)
I'm sure it gets fuzzy on the edges, but "I don't heat and it's still warm" isn't in that zone.

What I'm talking about is: given you want ~18°c/60°f in rooms on average (20°c/68°f for more comfort), and you have a fixed volume of space inside a building, you're not magically saving energy by turning your heat down, because your neighbors need to turn theirs up to achieve the average temperature because insulation is mostly on the outside, not between flats.

You could counteract that by insulating your rooms towards your neighbors, which would also achieve your goal of not going above 10°c/50°f.
So you're saying "if I put the made-up straw man argument that I intend to knock down in quotation marks, it's less obvious that it's not actually what the other person wrote"?
Trial and error. I wish I knew a way to find a good therapist without that process. But I do not. And unlike dentists, doctors, counter installers, pet sitters, window cleaners and most other services, folks will not fall over themselves to give you a therapist recommendation (maybe that is a peculiarity of my circle of acquaintances).

To find a therapist, Psychology Today worked well enough. To me, having one is better than having none.
I do, at times, somewhat.

I think software is often seen as a "rapid development" process, esp. when compared to hardware development. But somewhat ironically, I find actually writing software to be pretty slow compared to just doodling out ideas on paper, so I tend to do a lot of that first, especially when treading new territory.

On occasion, in a REPL-style environment, I can get some amount of that same freedom of exploration and experimentation at a keyboard, but it's still hard to come close to pencil and paper, for me.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be to have the mind of someone like Tesla, who could reportedly design complex objects in his head, down to the details. The freedom of experimentation in one's own mind is even better than pencil-and-paper, but I have trouble holding on to the details in that mode.
That’s a direct result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. That law will shape this century. It gave us the blessing of the internet as we know it and the curse of the media consolidation and assault on political speech that was accelerated by the elimination of restrictions on media ownership and the eventual Supreme Court decisions that gutted campaign finance rules.

Without that law, the alignment of companies like IBM and AT&T’s derivatives would have dominated big business and prevented the startup ecosystem from developing.
Looky here Mips is mmaking a high performance multicore CPU for the server environment. That certainly didn't take that long.

https://www.mips.com/products/risc-v/
It was promoted from a pawn ;)

joke aside, there can be:
1- any arbitrary number of pieces on the board
2- pawns in the first and last rows
3- missing king
4- missing opposite color pieces
I get the impression that most people's chemistry experience was much different than mine.
Ours was about rote memorization, period. I kind of feel like I missed out.
Given how long it takes for complex life forms to develop, and how other planets known to us don't seem to have any life at all, I think it's reasonable to prefer the existing life to the future potential life, even from a non-anthropocentric perspective.
Total sterilisation is a guaranteed outcome on a long enough time line.
CDC now says it's 'very unlikely' Pfizer booster has stroke risk after review
Could you explain the “through paper” bit? I can’t picture this.
There already is a Netflix anime loosely-based on the historical events, although it wasn't a very good adaptation in my opinion.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/43697/Yasuke

Another anime, Afro Samurai, which is even more loosely-based, is a lot more interesting, albeit quite over-the-top.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/1292/Afro_Samurai
Google's monopoly over search, email, ads, Android and Youtube will be hard to beat by smaller and nimble competitors. It's far too entrenched and the moat it has built is too tough and impossibly expensive for newcomers to beat. And if newcomers do turn into a threat, they will be swiftly acquired and absorbed into the machine.

If it was possible, it would have happened already. Everyone is waiting for a Youtube competitor, but nobody can afford to build and run one at Youtube's scale.

Same for the likes of Nvidia.

The only real threat to Google is government regulators breaking their products up into separate entities that will have to fund and fend for themselves without Big-daddy G's ad money.
Everyone onboard got six flags experience without the lines
It is funny because 20 years ago Google was selling itself as the company of the future that would dominate everything in technology. Their "genius" founders were spending billions on new endeavors. In fact, other than the original search engine and associated browser, they only got youtube and other businesses as acquisition (invented by others) and android as a reaction to iOS. Everything else they tried has basically failed or being inexpressive.
Use.GPU Goes Trad
The point of copyleft is to dictate the licence you must use, if you wish to (roughly speaking) link with the copyleft-licensed work. There are plenty of libraries that you cannot use if you wish to distribute your program without making its source-code available.

The unusual thing here is that the creators of a linker are apparently trying to have the copyleft licence propagate to code that is input to the linker. Others have pointed out that GCC has exceptions for this kind of thing, despite that it is released under a strong copyleft licence (GPLv3+).
Yes, and we are now using the artistic definition of “derived” and not the legal definition.

You cannot copyright “any image that resembles Joe Biden”.
Assuming a motivated “attacker”, yes. The average user will have no such notion of “jailbreaks”, and it’s at least clear when one _is_ attempting to “jailbreak” a model (given a full log of the conversation and a competent human investigator).

I think the class of problems that remain are basically outliers that are misaligned and don’t trip up the model’s detection mechanism. Given the nature of language and culture (not to mention that they both change over time), I imagine there are a lot of these. I don’t have any examples (and I don’t think yelling “time’s up” when such outliers are found is at all helpful).
They are doubling down on propaganda operations, throwing bodies as cannon fodder, threatening and committing genocidal acts against Ukrainians. I think there would be a need for greater investment from the west to push them back as they are trying to consolidate the invaded territories. It's just sad to see the Russian people becoming a degenerate nation.
> I’m not sure there’s solid argument for why one is more deserving of existence than the other.

Maybe we're helping to build a universe, and we can do more in that regard than single-celled organisms, cockroaches, etc.?

https://www.questioningchristian.org/2006/06/metanarratives_... (self-cite)
I am unconfortable without my seatbelt in the car. The same goes on an airplane. It's only a matter of getting used to it.
You write as if we all saw "...months of BLM & Antifa rioting."

Did you see it? Did it affect you? Do you know the extent to which police departments in the PNW (an all over the US) are infiltrated with brownshirt neonazi gamgs?

Your post reeks of bad faith concern trolling.
Not being Catholic, I looked up 'the rosary'.
Which lasted longer...it, or the turbulence?

https://www.theholyrosary.org/howtoprayrosary (for example) was an interesting read, as was your comment.
Things I Learned from My 2 Year Old Baby Girl
I'm with you on everything except the Twitter part.

Google doesn't leave most acquisitions alone - YouTube is a notable exception, and I'm really curious how they've been able to more independently than most Google acquisitions. (Perhaps implicit trust placed in Susan Wojcicki?)

We have no reason to think that Twitter wouldn't have become the same kind of mess Google Plus did under Google's stewardship.
Ask HN: Static Site Generator for photo and video sharing
I’ve had several recent issues where videos I sent from my iPhone ended up in “tiny” low-res mode for the recipient. It got me thinking- I ought to be able to easyly upload a video to my own server, and them a link to it. It is 2023. We have the technology.

So that brings us to: Media hosting question -
I recently setup a knowledge base (Markdown/Obsidian/MkDocs/GitHub/Render.com/iCloud/Working Copy), and I’m looking for a similar setup for media hosting. I’d like a public domain (media.example.com), easy for me to upload into from iPhone - ideally using the Files app. Basically, Dropbox, but its using my own personal cloud infrastructure. Having password protected areas would be great (family photo albums?), and expiring links could be useful too

My current files situation is a scatter between iCloud, Google Drive, archives in a (currently offline) Synology NAS. Relatedly, would love to hear about peoples personal IT file system setup, who are thinking at a 10 year+ horizon… and don’t want to be fulltime sysadmin as a 3rd job.
I may agree with this on technology, but Standard Oil is still the same: they only changed names, slitted and merged back due to government.
> I would wager than as soon as a technological civilization is born, it's morally reprehensible to let it go extinct, since it no longer is at the full whims of evolution.

I see the logic here. But why, though? And technology is everywhere in non-human nature. While I think our technology and civilization is unlike anything else here, it’s still on the spectrum of nature’s exercise of community and technology. Are we really that special?

I think this heads towards the whole “Prime Directive” line of reasoning.

P.S. Eloi > Morlocks, of course. ;)
Some might say that abstracts are the original clickbait.
True, but not worthy of conspiracy-theory levels of speculation.
I dont think you understand mate
No, 20 years ago was well back in...

Oh dear.
Go read what I said, the premise was you can afford the item outright but it still doesn't make sense to if you have interest free credit available.
even doing < 5 min a day of learning a new language sees results in a year. drawing probably has a higher startup cost to get into things but i'd expect 10min to be sufficient.
It would have sufficed to put the legend in as one of the in-line images.

When looking with my phone, the big PDF does not display.
The point of my original comment was precisely that SGML was optimized for text documents. I agree that adopting it for configs was a mistake, but the complaint that "IBM lawyer who invented the SGML syntax had never heard of S-expression" doesn't make any sense in that context.
Owning the world, and being slow and bureaucratic, are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I imagine they're highly correlated.
chatGPT being able to write OpenAI API code is great, and all companies should prepare samples so future models can correctly interface with their systems.

But what will be needed is to create an AI that implements scientific papers. About 30% of papers have code implementation. That's a sizeable dataset to train a Codex model on.

You can have AI generating papers, and AI implementing papers, then learning to predict experimental results. This is how you bootstrap a self improving AI.

It does not learn only how to recreate itself, it learns how to solve all problems at the same time. A data engineering approach to AI: search and learn / solve and learn / evolve and learn.
The biggest brain fart of humanity is our tendency towards monoculture (for scale). Nature is very obviously showing us how to sustain an ecosystem and yet in our incredible hubris we’re like “nah, we got this”. We just want to swim upstream for the hell of it.
Throughout the SO anti-trust trial, SO was losing market share steadily. It was being eaten away by smaller, nimbler competitors who had learned how to attack SO.

"Titan" by Ron Chernow
But why? Why are algae better than rocks and ants better than algae if you take humans out of the equation?
Did the author tell it which way or by how much?

If I say to discriminate on some feature and it consistently does it the same way, that's still a pretty bad bias. It probably shows up in other ways.
I think it depends on how your application works. If you have the concept of customers, then you can have a test customer in production with test data that doesn't affect real customers for example. You can reset the test customer data each time you want to test.
I want to say that Gmail, Google Maps, and Google's office suite represented jumps in usability akin to a total revolution for users. The first two I know for sure were developed in house, and are of course still running strong.

To me this is similar to Apple coming in to established markets and dominating them in short order. Not something to be dismissed IMO.
I heard the exact same thing about every previous giant that failed. It was always "this time it's different!"
Anytime you need to talk to a third party API, you need to test in prod.

Some people have sandbox apis. They are generally broken and not worth it. See eBay for super in depth sandbox API that never works.

You can read the docs 100 times over. At the end of the day, the API is going to work like it works. So you kind of “have to” test in prod for these guys.