skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then whoever gets to decide what is and isn't bias will be very powerful over the next 50 years.

Is the lack of bias a bias in and of itself? Adversarial systems can smudge data to remove the correlations between the training data and characteristics such as race, religion, etc - does this constitute bias?
Paywalled, and the https://archive.ph/o0LpH link is 502'ing for me

There was a fascinating article about 6 months ago on 'why no roman industrial revolution?' which dove into the convergence of requirements - and almost coincidentally convenient technological advances - that led to this happening when and where it did - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607187

The 'we can't run counter-factuals' comment in the opening paragraph of TFA is the crux of course, though Bret Devereaux's article (via HN link above) provides some highly compelling arguments about the key 'causes'.
Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Highways
I've been "doored" four times. On the same stretch of road. In front of the same hotel. Fortunately, in every case I managed to hang into their door well enough as I was endo'ing to keep my head from hitting the pavement, and I also thankfully wasn't swiped by traffic in the lane next to me either.

Had I gone fully over the door head first, I suspect a helmet would have been a welcome companion for both the impact and the road rash. In all those
above cases I was wearing one precisely because of that suspicion.
Thanks, looks great! I searched it and the link is grey, so I must have run across it before, but I needed the reminder!
I don't think macOS comes with git; like, it might actually come with a git binary, but that binary is just a "shim" that runs an actual copy of git from an installed copy of Xcode. If you want to upgrade what is conceptually that copy of git you can thereby upgrade Xcode. (If you haven't installed Xcode then it might have come from a related package called Xcode Command Line Tools that doesn't include Xcode.app; if you run these shims and don't have Xcode installed it offers to install this package for you automatically.)
It's been only loosely maintained over the last couple years. Also, despite the `facebook` org, as far as I know the last couple maintainers were not actually Facebook employees.

See this discussion thread from a couple years ago:

https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/11180
No, of course not, we should start by focusing on improving the biking infrastructure. Waiting for more people to get hurt shouldn't be necessary to justify that; a lot of people are already getting hurt.
True, people have hair, black holes don't. Not an appropriate comparison.
ChatGPT is what SWEs came up with to understand literature lol
Sometimes this is true. But sometimes the limiting factor really is the student.

In my own experience I've seen fellow students put in less than half the effort I did (I watched them copy homework assignments in groups 30 minutes before class, spend a lot of time trying to track down last years exams, etc etc), and then have the nerve to complain afterwards that the exams were too hard.
The difference is the language, with AI anyone can churn out text that look like a scientific paper, that makes it way harder to filter out the bullshit.
From their FAQ[0]:

> Is Tailscale open source?

> Mostly. Tailscale daemon client code is open source. Where the operating system is open source, the daemon and GUI are open source, and where the operating system is closed, the daemon is open source and the GUI is closed source.

You can run just the tailscaled daemons on Windows, it just wouldn't have a GUI, and that's fully open source[1].

Some more justification from Brad himself. [2]

[0] https://tailscale.com/opensource/#:~:text=Is%20Tailscale%20o....

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28901253

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470615
It’s clearly not infinitely more costly. There aren’t infinite states. I doubt it’s even 50 times more costly.
Voice is for jocks.
in short: New market based economies on former church land that was reclaimed after the conversion to church of England, coupled with a lack of workers due to war set the scene for mechanization
Walking and driving without a mobile device on your person is sufficiently unusual that it's a form of metadata in itself. Look at the Kohberger case - they're using the fact he turned his phone off as evidence. In fact, this kind of pattern was even used by the Obama administration while targeting humans in the Middle East for extrajudicial killings. It's even more precise when coupled with traffic analysis: if every Tuesday, an IMEI disappears from the network shortly before another IMEI comes online, then those two devices are likely related. In your scenario, the phone disappearing from the network could be coupled with your car showing up on a traffic camera leaving your house. Ironically, you draw attention to yourself by _not_ advertising your metadata.

At a certain point, the world is full of so much metadata that you really can't control your own. Want to turn off location services? Make sure you turn off WiFi too, because a list of nearby access points and SSIDs is enough to pinpoint you down to a few meters. Want to spoof your location when using an app with network services permission? You'll need to spoof nearby access points and their transmission power to match them to somewhere in the real world. And you better make sure to do it inside a Faraday cage. Because no matter how careful you are, if someone else is walking by your clever hacking nest, and they do have location services enabled, then their phone will be able to pair their geolocation with your unique access point topology. Oh, and even with the Faraday cage, the fact your phone is seeing access points that no other phone has seen is a unique data point in itself.

Point is, you can be compromised without any action on your own part. Traffic analysis is hard to defeat, but you can mitigate against it by not committing crimes that motivate the government to spend resources on tracking you across disparate systems like mobile networks and traffic cameras. Or if you must commit those crimes, then you'll need to make sure everything you do is in the fattest part of the bell curve for every possible statistical test the government can use to analyze common behaviors.
Is it possible that consolidating options so that there's fewer hardware variations of a car (with heated seats or whatever being a software toggle) makes manufacturing more efficient?
> Software is not like a tv show or a stand up comedy set or an album. It is not a cultural artifact. It is machinery.

You get two things wrong here imo, though I'm not saying the article is great.

1. A lot of software is a cultural artifact. For instance, anything with a user interface we can become nostalgic for. See: pretty much all pop art like Warhol. Video games are another example.

2. It's the humans quitting, not the machinery. If a school bus driver gets tired of driving the bus, the bus has to stop until another driver is found. The same is true of a lot of software, especially open source.
I had a Pentium 1, 100mhz with 16MB of ram. Was a beast playing MechWarrior 2 and Terminal Velocity!
Yes. The lack of simple security practices in this thread is jaw dropping.
The potato universe conspiracy theory has a big following in HN.
The original M1 (I assume that's what GP meant by "at launch") uses LPDDR4x DRAM modules, the same as many x86 laptops that have soldered RAM. You can literally look up the part numbers based on the photos of the M1 CPU package. Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I'm not sure why it would be any more expensive than x86 laptops' memory, and it might even be less expensive just due to the volume that Apple is likely buying.
If anyone is getting typing/mousing soreness---

1. Stop. Don't type/mouse through pain, or you could be causing permanent damage. Figure out what the problem is, maybe with the help or a doctor and/or workstation ergonomics expert.

2. If TrackPoint is involved, that's possible, but I find it's mostly a win, but the win might depend on how one uses it. I use little force, and have done it all day for 20 years, without problem. The sensitivity is adjustable. Which cap you put on it makes a big difference. There are 5+ different caps. I like the soft concave top one best. With some of the other styles of cap, especially early on (like the hard sandpaper one, and the slick Toshiba(?) one), I found I was pressing much harder, just to get a grip on it.
It was the profits from the slave trade that financed the initial capital investments in mining, factory, railroads, etc.
The "if you get 3/5 you're doing fine" thing only works if you actually give As for 3/5 answers. Otherwise no amount of placation is going to make students ignore reality.
> The greatest threat is that we don't know its motivations, but then you proceed to explain its motivations as evidence of why it is the greatest threat.

I'm not sure why you are dismissing what I wrote. I gave specific features of that AGI, and if you use pure logic, then these motivations have a clear high probability of being true. It's just one of many scenarios that has a high probability, if we ever develop a self-aware machine.

> Of course, anything with a high enough risk needs adequate precautions. It's just that I haven't seen any evidence that, given the energy and bandwidth requirements, there's some sort of singularity we're blindly stumbling towards.
Just don't get to that point, one that's decades if not centuries away.

> Meanwhile, effective altruism® could return some donations and clean up some nuclear weapons or carbon instead of just doing whatever sounds best to people who read Malcolm Gladwell books and listen to podcasts.

Sorry but this looks like straw man. I'm not saying anywhere we are months, years, or even decades from it. As you can read in my other comments about LLMs, I am well aware of the current state of ML and I don't get my knowledge from sci-fi movies (which you implied). We don't even know if it's possible (a self-aware mechanical being). What I'm saying is, if it is possible, then there is a high probability that it poses a threat of a greater caliber than Homo sapiens to the neanderthal. That was my point, nothing more. I didn't write that we need to fund endeavors to stop something that we don't even know is achievable at the moment.
I just asked at the customer service desk at my local state run liquor store
China had steam engines?
seems weird to me that there is almost no location mentioned in the article - avon and something, which i presume is in the uk somewhere?

i feel like i understand the world pretty well, but there are lots of things i don't get yet - seemingly pretty basic things - like why services like Airbnb would be so anxious to continue to protect would-be abusers, killers, etc.

Ditto for all the social services like google, twitter, fakebook, etc.

OK - don't actively police your content, i get it, it costs money, and it's just a few (thousands of) rapes and murders and child trafficking victims and etc. - but if someone actually calls you and makes a report and all that, why not just ban the user at least temporarily?

like, as some type of fake precaution, or PR move, or _something_. maybe it sets a bad precedent somehow, legally? like if you pretend to care then it might look like you actually care, like you're actually paying attention, therefore you're taking some responsibility, therefore you're legally culpable, as least civilly if not criminally?

as far as the UK and/or cops in general -- i mean, i guess it just ping pongs back and forth between the US and UK, but lately it seems like the UK has the upper hand in terms of extreme misogyny in police departments -- protecting cop rapists for decades, participating in and/or protecting child sex trafficking rings, etc. etc. US cops consistently protect rapists, as far as i know, in almost every US state and really go out of their way to do so, by underfunding rape investigations, trashing and otherwise mishandling rape kits, intimidating and humiliating rape victims, on and on.

i get that misogyny is a national pastime for the entire cultures of at least the US and UK, not just the police departments, but it almost seems like a problem we should do something about.

like, ai is nice, but.... can it help dampen misogyny a bit? toxic masculinity? violence? terrorism? etc.?

oh - it's probably already being used to dial up all of that and more.
I used to really insist on the trackpoint. Now, I feel like the best part of the trackpoint is "laptops with a trackpoint also have physical mouse buttons".

I'm fine with a trackpad, but physical mouse buttons are a hard requirement for me on any laptop.
No, I’m saying folks can choose what media they want. Are you suggesting that some media is so evil its availability shouldn’t be tolerated?

Yeah, no.
What an interesting framework! I’ll have to try this out soon! Currently working in aws land but will come back to this after I finish up my current project
It's always nice to be able to take your save with you to friends' houses, traveling, or even just to your couch/bed without lugging your computer everywhere (or worrying about copying/syncing saves across devices), or just play your desktop-quality games on a phone/laptop while sitting somewhere comfy.

I have two dedicated gaming computers (one at a desk and one at a TV) and apparently still ended up putting in 828 hours of Stadia because it was just a nicer experience to have a single "gaming PC" with all of my games/saves that I could access from anywhere (even from either of my "real" gaming PCs!).
Why does JSON.parse corrupt large numbers and how to solve this?
I mean, if they had proper bug tracker instead of a mailing list, we could see the answer to that right away. But I am referring to https://lore.kernel.org/wireguard/CAHmME9pbY0Cgbj5JbTVvsxpkd... which I believe just made me travel to a remote location to restore connectivity.
How much would you estimate (or guesstimate) that to be in dollars?
Same, but one that doesn't assume python or an operating system.
Them not working like shit.
These threads are often fun because of the variety of ways people were taught things. It’s hard to guess how they compare because most people only end up doing one of the ways and there isn’t much randomisation in education.

Where I studied, problem sets were purely pedagogical and didn’t contribute towards grades. It meant exams could be stressful but the questions in the homework could cover a wider range of difficulty including things that would be fun to have a crack at even if you didn’t know the answer. The struggle of trying to figure it out felt good for understanding the material. We’d review answers and solutions in small groups after attempting the homework. It was pretty normal to get prove-or-disprove or could-one-prove questions but this was mathematics not economics.

A few problems I remember in particular:

- in an introductory course a few weeks in there was a question like ‘find a function R -> R that takes every value on every non empty open interval’ and there’s a standard construction that we didn’t generally know so there were often fun errors or weird constructions.

- ‘find a space X which deformation-retracts to the annulus and to the mobius band’ which I mostly remember because I had some horrid intuitive solution where I took a disk times a circle, embedded it in R3, and then carefully wrote out retracts, but I think the good solution was to just take the product space and then rely on some theorems that I no longer remember

- ‘what’s yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?’
TikTok’s parent co, bytedance, has multiple social video products in China. They have been genuinely investing in being good at serving and recommending video for a while.

If you search arxiv.org for bytedance you can see some of the work they have published. I’m sure there is lots more they haven’t.

I suspect a lot of learnings from other products went into the product design of tik tok as well in terms of how to balance exploiting a users knon interests with showing them novel stuff, how to give anything the chance to go viral etc.
I've known Marcel for 20+ years at this point. Marcel knows the games devops space better than most.
Of course, then sell it after 4-5 years to some sucker /s
Discretionary <> unlimited, so the answer to your question most likely will be: "my manager".

Edit: props to Microsoft for not being scared to call the policy by its true name.
Procedurally-generated LinkedIn profile images
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23204950/bmw-subscription... for the disbelievers
If it does not have a trackpoint, I will never bye in. (period). And the opter requirement is to fully disable the touchpad.
With regard to your first paragraph, I'd agree in part, but to me it appears more like polarisation than decline for the majority. The changes suit some people (owning property while the market rises, as just one example) while not others. To me, it seems like a clear societal improvement for almost everyone creates more reliable prosperity - less fear of crime, dangerous behaviour, risky events, etc.

On the second point, you could obviously time inheriting assets to retire early, but I think there's risk in how it was done so that you didn't jeopardise future generations or lose purpose. There are typically existential risks for family businesses, as an example. It's easy to lose motivation/purpose if you have it easy and get things on a platter. There's exiting the rat race to retire or exiting to be self-employed in some fashion, as one consideration.
If I went to Costco and paid cash without invoking my insurance it would be $16 for a 90 day supply (so actually closer to $65/year, oops).

When I go through my insurance with their preferred pharmacy, I don't pay anything. But according to CVS my insurance company pays $1.87 for 90 pills, so about $7/year
Same, but I would honestly rather we get away from silicon or anything resembling what we call these "computers" these days. Things are too complicated and we need to truly get back to the basics: rocks on a hill.
> I don't see the connection

As noted in other comments [0], part of the reason why people use Tailscale instead of just wireguard or headscale is that they think they they have a throat to choke. The arbitration clause has the potential to make things more difficult in that regard.

> They help facilitate faster legal resolutions

Faster is not always better.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34421555
I’ve seen fellow students put a quarter of time on studying that I did (they spent the rest studying all the other advanced stuff that I didn’t even have time to look at), and get top scores on exams and effortlessly explain everything to us mere mortals. Life simply is not fair.
ChatGPT is simply proving that "confidence" is a completely useless signal as it is quite easy to fabricate.
> You're already behind on which cities are being mapped by the way.

Funded by investors or search ads, not ride fares. And in a $200k vehicle that will never be economically viable. Your resume will be embarrassing in a few years if you stick around. Do yourself a favor and get out before you go to zero.
Payment/Ticket to visit a museum is not something new.
Not just seasonal, the school busses are also not in use during the day while school is in session, which is unusual for mass transit busses.
Industrialization happened primarily in the free states, not the slave states.
So let me ask you adversaryIdiot, what type of art are you interested in trying? If I had to give advice, I would try it on the side outside of your job if you have one? If you are still a student, I suggest doing art when you have some free time. Not knowing what you don't no is no problem. You may have to try a couple different mediums until you find what you are looking for. Personally, I didn't get into drawing until I finished university.
from a previous HN submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607187): https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
He can now safely overtake on a blind curve.
As if history will care?
I use it to have dialog and poetry generated in a very particular style, and also to generate certain content in a consistent manner. It's useful for when you want the input or output to be less flexible. If you're using it for say, code or customer service, the base model might be better.

Also it's less than 10x the cost for similar quality, as you can use curie for nearly the same quality output. Especially if you have something that needs a prompt.

It's also useful for things where you have huge inputs, like once where I summarised transcripts of interviews to find common themes.
Yep. I remember my Asus VP6 dying of the dreaded capacitor plague.
So option 1 allows me to have a small little robot without any soldering?

Nonetheless, awesome work!
I have FSD and it is a joke. It is so bad I don’t know where to begin. This software has no place on a public road. All it’s good for is tech demos. They are going to kill people who were fooled into thinking FSD actually works.
BWM sells heating seats subscription for $18/mo.

"Heated seats" is just a piece of wire put into seat, some $1 (probably less) micro to turn it off and on and some $0.1 sensor.

I wouldn't be surprised if even few % of buyers buying that would cover for having to fit extra (and not have separate SKU for heater-less seats)
IMO it's more about agency. With SaaS people think "they had a bug and there's nothing I could have done to prevent it or expedite the fix" but with on-prem software they think "once I discover a bug I can whip my people to have it fixed within an hour". This is not true of course.
Yes, it's a combination of passion and ability. The super-achievers in any field have both.
I have never seen this happen before.

I am owed no explanation, but huh? What just happened and maybe why?

Thanks.

edit: oh, I see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Hmm, this seems on topic and was the opposite of flame bait. I am confused. I was genuinely curious in the interest of discussion and learning. The OP had the word "woke" it, and was not removed even though it is clearly all about politics. I don't get it.
Regarding 3. I've seen tiktok on an iPad and the quality is surprisingly good. High res and no artifacts. People can already film 4k with their phones, and that's what's shared.

Also young people scroll for hours (and adults, the average age is above 25 afaik) so watch-time isn't less than on YT, probably even more.

Lastly but most importantly, many people scroll through a huge pile of videos before watching even 10 seconds of an "interesting one" before doing the same thing over and over again, so in effect you are buffering a lot more video than on YT.

They must have absolutely massive infrastructure.
I worked at Argonne for a year. Depending on the teams you're working with, it can be exciting or mind numbing boring. I spent a lot of time building test documentation systems, so my job was boring, but i got to walk around the campus, explore buildings, meet scientists doing cool and boring projects.

Life seemed to move slower here, nobody was up in arms about timelines to sell products to new customers for lower advertising costs, and though annual budget processes were mundane, that was for the directors to deal with.

The commute was the worst part. But the people and work made up for it.
>I'm honestly unsure why Microsoft would rather pay $10B to acquire less than half of OpenAI, as they have the hardware to do it (OpenAI uses MS cloud products.)

Because the hardware is the least interesting part of it?

Microsoft buys the know-how, the talent, and perhaps some patents, but most importantly the GPT brand name...
> The point is that intentionally overbroad restrictions on speech or content are a lot more difficult in the US.

This depends entirely on the current mood of 5 justices on the Supreme Court, and on which side of the political spectrum an issue lands.