skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I don't see them as mutually exclusive. I agree that relying on volunteer reports isn't sufficient, but from what we're looking at here, neither is relying on an anti-spam team/proactive detection.

(Google Maps PMs, if you're reading this: feel free to contact me to hear my experience. There are some seemingly simple, low-false-positive ways to improve reporting of fake businesses and accounts.)
Yes this is the most insane thing about GOOG to me. Yes, search is basically monopoly moat of recurring growing revenue. On the other hand, they've spent not a decade, but about 25 years betting this would remain the case!

I've met a lot of people who work at GOOG, and yet none of them could explain to me how the thing they work on makes any money for GOOG. In fact, most went out of their way to volunteer to me that they only work on R&D/moonshot/non-revenue generating activities.. proudly. Quite a large subset of them showed almost an embarrassment of the single revenue stream (tricking old people to click on Pharma ads instead of genuine search results), and actively distanced themselves from it as some sort of moral shield.

It is amazing to have that many smart people working for that long and not bother to find some other ways to make money. Just complete lack of focus.
> Don’t watch Netflix

I know a few people very proud of their DVD collection, and they have rare stuff you simply won't find on Netflix. Many of them make rips of the DVD so they have a backup in-case the DVD rots and is unusable (actual thing that could happen).
Buckminster fuller was notoriously unsuccessful at changing anything, but was very successful at making it seems like he would have been successful if it wasn’t for all the conspiracies against him stopping his success.

Taken in that context puts it in a different light.
"GM expects to still be selling a lot of gas trucks and SUVs for years to come, likely in part because towing range in electric vehicles still sucks."
Not if you switch to Mac!
Can you give me some examples of where we already have this?
> posing as a continuation, while the previous revelations are then discarded.

Can't the same argument be raise for Christianity? I'm sure at the time of Jesus he saw himself as rectifying Jewish practice (and of course there are the passages where he says that the old laws are still in force), but pretty quickly Christianity was modified and sold to gentiles (thanks to Paul, who never met Jesus and wrote 13* of the 27 books of the New Testament) and the Mosaic laws were mostly set aside.

The whole idea of "fulfillment theology" is that Jesus fulfilled the old covenant and established a new law. That is why Christians eat pork and so on.

* everyone agrees that three of those 13 weren't actually written by Paul, and three more are in various degrees of doubt
Do you disagree that film looks better than digital?
It is technically the English translation for 大陸. I don't think it's an inherently political term.
Star Trek The Next Generation was famously shot on film. The HD scans are so good that the props can be seen to be fake in many places. Later franchise shows that were shot in digital simply cannot be released in HD as there is no HD source material.
You point out low mood. Does it help for hypomania?

In my small experience, it seems like people with bp2 are more aware of their condition than those with bp1 tend to be. What you describe sounds pretty scary when i think about it for someone i know with bp1. But it's totally something they might say when manic to avoid treatment.
Huge pages need contiguous free physical pages. Without preallocating them at boot time, with higher system uptime, chances of finding such region to satisfy the allocation are slimmer, especially for 1G pages, to the point when even services starting later at boot time might not get them due to external fragmentation caused by 4k pages allocations.

While I can see why special permissions are needed to grab them, the whole filesystem thingy is clunky as hell. I have no idea why they didn't put them by default in /sys or /proc.
> You’re not getting the benefit of injuring these poor stuntmen

As someone who knows a lot of stunt people, I'd just like to point out that the benefit is not in injuring them, it's in the effortless action scenes. But yes, a byproduct of the action are the injuries.

We really need to credit stunt people better. They're the most likely to actually lose their lives during filming. Hence why some are pushing for a stunt category in the Oscars: https://movieweb.com/best-stunt-oscars-needed-why/
Kind of related: in former Eastern Germany they bred all kinds of new Pear varieties.

Pears are a little more finicky than apples and the fruit bruise more easily. Furthermore a lot of the varieties will go bad really quickly, so you basically have to eat them from the tree.

Because of those reasons there are just one or two varieties available in stores and there is not a lot of commercial interest in Pears. With the end of the GDR, also came the end of Pear breeding and there are barely any new breeds in the last 30 years.

To end on an Apple related note: my favorite GDR breed is the „Schweizer Orange“, „Swiss Orange“. Which is so ironic because there was no access to Switzerland nor good Oranges.
Once you're aware of something, it's very hard to make yourself unaware of it. Once someone pointed out orange-and-teal grading to me, I couldn't help but see it.

It's like UX - once you understand it a bit, you see things everywhere that can be improved. You can't help it.
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I'm trying to figure out whether this is a fair (and, I hope, neutral) representation of what the authors have achieved here:

The result of training Othello-GPT is a program which, on being fed a string conforming to the syntax used to represent moves in an Othello game, outputs a usually-valid next move.

Through their probing of this program, the authors have gained an understanding of the program's state after processing the input. This state can also be interpreted as representing the state of the board in the game represented by the input string.

This understanding allows them to make predictions about what state they would expect the program to be in if the board had reached a slightly different state (in the examples given, the changes are flips of a single disc, without regard to whether this state of play could be reached through valid moves.)

When the state of the program is modified to match the predicted state, it goes on to produce a move which is usually valid for the new board state.
Well the important thing is this is everything you need to know about the corporate world in one article.
So if I visually look at a piece of work and “run” the NN training algorithm in my meat-space brain or even on pen and paper, do I need to ask for permission for doing so? Or is permission required only if silicon chips “run” the algorithm? Asking for a friend.
The big difference is in the net code. While I can remember and justify
all of my decisions about networking from DOOM through Quake, the bottom
line is that I was working with the wrong basic assumptions for doing a
good internet game. My original design was targeted at <200ms connection
latencies. People that have a digital connection to the internet through
a good provider get a pretty good game experience. Unfortunately, 99% of
the world gets on with a slip or ppp connection over a modem, often through
a crappy overcrowded ISP. This gives 300+ ms latencies, minimum. Client.
User's modem. ISP's modem. Server. ISP's modem. User's modem. Client.
God, that sucks.

Ok, I made a bad call. I have a T1 to my house, so I just wasn't familliar
with PPP life. I'm adressing it now.

The first move was to scrap the current net code. It was based on a
reliable stream as its original primitive (way back in qtest), then was
retrofited to have an unreliable sideband to make internet play feasable.
It was a big mess, so I took it out and shot it. The new code has the
unreliable packet as its basic primitive, and all the complexities that
entails is now visible to the main code instead of hidden under the net api.
This is A Good Thing. Goodbye phantom unconnected players, messages not getting through, etc

It was Carmack - I've always loved this article https://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/johnc-log.aug.htm
"I'm not qualified to have a nuanced opinion about this, but let me confidently tell you what I think..."
Tell that to the one that's experienced torture for a subjective amount of time that's equivalent to a thousand times the amount of time between the big bang and the heat death of the universe

It's one of the very, very few plausible "immortality would be a curse" scenarios out there, because "immortality" means forcibly experiencing things for a subjective amount of time that can be as big as it gets
I will never accept the hate for 48 FPS. 24 FPS looks like garbage. Panning shots are a stuttery mess. 24 FPS looks somewhat okay when the camera is still and only the people in it are moving, but the ridiculous choppiness ruins any moment with camera movement.

A higher refresh rate is simply an objective improvement. I don't care that you associate it with bad soap operas.
I fear a ruling where the interpretation of Section 230 puts dang at risk of liability for all of his necessary and appropriate historic moderation.
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I think this interpretation works if the code being generated is seen as essentially being retrieved by a lossy lookup function.

But another interpretation is that the generic structure of the code was learned from the works, which is not copywritable. And that generic structure was used to synthesize new code, in much the same way a human who had seen a pattern in a proprietary codebase years ago was able to use that pattern in their own code. I am not a lawyer but most licenses do not prohibit that in my experience. More often in my experience this is what is happening with generative ai.

The tricky bit is that the ai can probably do both in the eyes of copywrite law, since the boundary seems to be very context dependent and existing models don’t have any concept of how much you need to compress and forget the specific details so that it is seen as novel by the courts. The model can memorize significant parts of some inputs despite not having nearly enough space for memorizing the input set, so the first interpretation is possible even if it isn’t the typical output. There isn’t really a kind of “courts will see this as novel” regularizer and there might need to be?
My point is that this quasi-legal argument about how “humans learn so why can’t machines learn” is a non sequitur. This is a case where quantity has a quality all its own. Copyright law was not invented with anything like this situation in mind.

You end up with billion dollar corporations gatekeeping this technology either way (who else has the capital to best train the models?). This isn’t about the little guy.
If the majority of people are just fine with watching Netflix and Disney+ how do you explain their steep drop in stocks?
Well if you have to delete it regularly, the annoyance of that adds up (as well as the time I suppose), when you could quite easily schedule a task to delete it in Task Scheduler.
Can't wait for Google to become a tech-only company.
Good! Some newfound friends and I made one of these a long time ago for the Odin Project. I prefer our circular length bar. Ours also has a lot more bugs than yours. =D

https://businesstech.dev/pomodoro/
The article only touches on this in the last paragraph, but another challenge is translating the language to serve multiple purposes. The canonical texts never serve one purpose. They need to have an allegorical/exegetic component for the educated and clergy, and they need to have a down-to-earth moral/historical component for the "unwashed masses."
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QuakeWorld by John Carmack
Question: Is Edge your default browser? (It isn't mine, but I do have it installed. I have not seen this behaviour on Win 10 Home.)
This is a completely subjective opinion though. One person could prefer film, and another digital. What does this prove?
Thank you for sharing our work! :))
That’s why we read the Hebrew bible out loud, in its original language, three times a week and cycle over the whole thing in the course of a year.
Othello is even more interesting here. There are no rules excluding a particular move other than "you must capture at least one of your opponents pieces". In that regard its much simpler than chess, and a valid move is more consequential than in Go. Trying to make an illegal move in Othello would be extremely weird.

A reasonable strategy for a computer to play Othello to beat beginners is to literally evaluate the legality of all moves in a predefined order and make the first legal one. The predefined order encodes general positional advantage while the legality check enforces validity.

In short, I strongly agree that making even 1 illegal move in Othello indicates a lack of understanding the rules.
That's caricature level gaslighting, even when accounting for your terribly low standards.
ChatGPT often makes up facts. It outputs stuff that looks like it could have been written by a human, not stuff that is correct.

Don’t use ChatGPT for medical research.
Sharia, coverture et al.
> Rather superficial article about the subject. Whole books are written about the subject

Well yes, it's an introductory article prompted by the "whole book" it specifically points readers to — The Word, by John Barton [1].

The whole point of the article is that if this intro whets your appetite, go read that book.

Not sure what else you're expecting from a short, 750-word weekly magazine column about language.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Word-How-Translate-Bible_and-Matters/...
> At Voila, a subsidiary of France Telecom, a study around 2005 found that their search engine offered nearly the same answers as Google, while not in exactly the same order.

Order is a pretty big part of tbe value prop of a search engine, so ”nearly the same” results but “not in exactly the same order” is not as much similarity as you seem to be implying.
From my experience, it's useful when I'm not able to concentrate on a specific task. The feeling of blocking time for a specific task is helpful for my mind to fully focus n that.

Anyway, 25 minutes is just the standard but you can use longer periods. For example, I use blocks os 1 hour where I block all my distractions, knowing that this time is just for that specific duty.
So film is better than the digital from that time, but not necessarily better than today's digital
> In this post, I analyze all the available Chess960 games played in Lichess. With this information

> 1. I show, using bayesian AB testing, that there is not enough statistical significance to choose a variation over another. So white player could choose any variation without hindering their probabilities of winning;

That second sentence doesn’t follow at all from the first. There just could be insufficient information to uncover a difference that stil is huge.

Reading on, it also is in conflict with one of their conclusions:

> we can’t say that a variation is preferable for white than another;
I’m sorry but when visiting Japan and landing in Tokyo sort of late in the evening I was shocked that people actually fall asleep on the subway and fall down, and this is from overworking. I wouldn’t have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes.

Then late at night, scores of young men dressed in suits were playing arcade games.

I’ve also heard about those that just give up and live in a room in their parents house.

Japanese shops also have the weirdest assortment of products ever.

This might come off as ignorant as I’ve obviously not experienced the ‘real japan’ but I’m not sure this would be the case if what I mentioned would be a fundamental part of the culture.

Disclaimer: I really enjoyed my time there, espectially out of the big cities and was particularly impressed by the cleanliness and how nice the people were.
FTA:

> "It is possible to “winterize” natural gas power plants, natural gas production and wind turbines, experts said, which prevents such major interruptions in other states with more regular extreme winter weather."

This is really my point. The production sources (and how the elemental source of that energy is acquired) and transmission of energy to residents can be winterized regardless of what they are (wind, gas, etc.). So the point isn't whether wind or gas is better.

> that goes back to how we desperately need energy storage and demand response.

Don't disagree (because this would create a much larger buffer), however if you have fully winterized energy production and transmission, then this point is moot.
This is completely incorrect. Later shows like Voyager and DS9 were also shot on film.

However, all post-production happened in standard definition, so all special effects, editing and colour correction would have to be redone, which is incredibly expensive.

They did that with TNG, but since those blurays didn't sell enough, they didn't bother doing the same for DS9/VOY.
I mean sure, that's a nice dream. What society in the history of humanity has ever come close to this?

What is your blueprint for achieving this practically, instead of saying nice sounding dreams?
Sandman was a remarkably good adaptation and I enjoyed it thoroughly but... yes, it has that bland/cheap Netflix look. I think it's still worth watching though.
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My history is a little hazy but wasn't rollback as a solution driven by the community. Maybe it was SF3 online emulation or something? Or was it Smash Melee
- legible: readable and editable without special programmes

- documentation generator: aside from "human readable", have tooling support for documentation generation

- syntax/plausibility checking: tooling support for consistency checks

- UTF8 support

- variables: specify and populate placeholders

- modularisation: compose configurations out of reusable modules

- templates: something like #define in C

- concise: json, yaml and xml are too verbose imho. Maybe make use of special characters like ,!() etc for syntactical brevity

- unambiguous: indentation, capitalisation, the type of quotes etc shouldn't be syntactically relevant

- pluggability: APIs & libraries that allow using the language in my programmes
I don't think that's so clear. When you train a deep learning model you are making it extract the gist or insight of many works and then use that pattern to produce new works. While the NN does not experience the work like a human it is definitely not memorizing.

A silly example. Making GPT write a rap battle between Keynes and Mises goes beyond a performative remix, it is transformational work, nothing is copied explicitly. If a human were to write it that would not violate copyright.

I think that to tackle this we need a new lens other than copyright in the long term.
Yeah I've heard the ESV jokingly described as "English as you've never heard it before" because of the lengths it goes to in order to preserve ordering and meaning to the words while still technically being grammatically correct English.
You’re literally off by an order of magnitude. Each query costs around 1 cent from
every article I’ve seen.

> but high enough that I don't ever see regular humans pay for it for day-to-day tasks.

And “640K ought to be enough for anyone”.

Of course this will get cheaper over time as compute gets cheaper and the cloud providers design custom chips optimized for it.
28 Days Later was one of the first digitally shot movies and has some breathing scenes in it. I don't think digital is to blame.
One aspect of this I’ve talked about before is the phenomenon of the “permanent golden hour”: what used to be a narrow sliver of time when you could get the most dramatic lighting is now easily replicated in post. So as a result tons of movies have all their outdoor shots set in this incredibly unnatural-looking light that really pulls me out of the movie. Like I remember the banker in Switzerland scenes in The Wolf of Wall Street, with the open window and it just looked so hilariously fake I thought Scorcese was doing a bit. Nope that’s just how outside scenes/shots are lit now.
Obviously the ROC did not control the mainland, since they were eventually forced to flee to Taiwan.

> Before that, Taiwan was part of the Qing empire before being invaded by the Japanese.

Anschluss is German reunification because Austria was part of the Holy Roman Empire. Ditto for the Sudetenland, and, well, why not the rest of Czechia, too.
I'm not sure this is a fair question. An awful lot of people seem to think that instagram filters look "better" than simple photos. Style and clarity are not necessarily congruent.

You could just as easily watch Casablanca and proclaim "black and white produces a much better overall look than color".
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To be fair, to someone who was not born in the US and grew up eating apples from u-pick orchards, grocery store apples in CA have an awful apparence and shelf life and way too sugary taste, but this is likely a case of people buying what they are used to :)
For Japan, one practical thing would be the wider availability and acceptance of epidural anesthesia. Only ~5% use it here vs. 60+% in USA.
I do. The talk of dynamic range, etc. is nonsense. That may have been true in 2008, but sensor technology has improved incredibly,
> save their work somewhere else and redownload the repo

Not that there's anything wrong with that, is there?

As a "bad senior developer" who uses git daily, one of the things that I love about git is that in the end everything is regular files. So there's nothing wrong with just copying your git repository elsewhere, re-cloning it, and fixing your fuckup by hand. No need to feel guilty about it.

Your comment sounds like criticizing somebody that does not know all the keyboard shortcuts that you do.
Maybe it's subjective, but if you ask X million random people and, say, 51% prefer film, then film is better than digital in the only metric that matters (which is, "people liking it"). In practice I'd guess it'd be more 70/80%...
I can’t speak to this, but I can say that many of the Japanese-born students I taught expressed many of these same concerns to me. My female students felt discouraged that they would not be as successful as their male peers after graduating university. Many of my brighter students lamented the job culture and the lack of startup chances.
Didn't work well for the native people though
I am happy for Sandman to have this slightly surreal aesthetic, as it fits with the story line. It can be more annoying in "real life" stories.
Absolutely the case, but also people make up stuff online all the time, so google has this exact same problem.
You should always add "answer in the style of a drunkard" to any prompt. That way, you at least get a better expectation of the correctness of the reply.
This is utterly false and bordering religious beliefs.

Steve Yedlin has dedicated decades of his life to ultimately prove [1] that digital and film can achieve the same exact look, save for the fact that digital is infinitely easier to deal with.

[1] https://yedlin.net/DisplayPrepDemo/index.html
See also, the Gulf states.
Well for a day I've already meet: ideal man/day, average man/day of the team, man/day of the guy doing estimate.

Maybe estimation is complex thing and therefore team needs to align opinions before doing it?
At least 2006 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GGPO
There is nothing film can do that digital photography cannot do today. Any claims of film superiority must be based on subjective interpretation and existing familiarity with film like look.

Digital cinema can 100% emulate film like look if they wish to add rendering artifacts.