skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s funny that the bottle doesn’t look more like a Dr Bronner’s bottle [0]

[0]: https://www.drbronner.com/products/peppermint-pure-castile-l...
The SNR goes way, way, way down with live chat. The brilliant people who take time to write long, well thought out comments, are not typically the same people to have the free time to sit in a chatroom all day.

Personal opinion: Without many tools to promote and demote messages, I'd argue group chat is one of the least valuable forms of communication, if your goal is to read something thoughtful or educational.
> While both situations are both disappointing and disturbing, they are very different scenarios.

I am always amazed about how much mental gymnastics people are willing to do so they can defend their favorite side. Both situations are very similar, they are both "disappointing and disturbing". Viewing as someone who doesn't care about defending any side, these so-called nuances don't change anything.
The topic is a book called "The Dawn of Everything". Not reading the book, and then insisting that all the examples presented in the 692-page book do not exist, is not a good look.
Definitely not. All of our yutes have plenty of hope for the future, and those deaths of despair are actually evidence of how capitalism is working very well.
Easily answered - here is a map of Australian Aboriginal language groups [1] - less "tribes" more large extended family groups with central language and common tongue for neighbours around about ... as you can see there are many.

The article acknowledges that a few specific areas (more toward the PNG and Torres Strait) are more hierarchical but the thrust is clear, few exceptions aside, the bulk were not.

> pre-historic humans

Aboriginal social groups have long oral histories and a number maintained upkeep on some of the oldest rock art known on the planet .. and groups such as the Pintupi Nine that made first contact with "modern civilisation" in the mid 1980s are certainly not "pre-historic" as we have video, interviews, their artwork, etc.

> like what agriculture would end up supporting.

Quasi nomadic "hunter gather" groups have a regular circuit and a deep knowledge of the animals and plants in that area which they tend to in decisive knowlege based manner - it's not "agriculture" as European grain harvesters for winter storage may know it, but it is absolutely agriculture in the sense of tending to plants in order to eat from them and use their products (and the animals that rely upon them) in later seasons and years to come.

[1] https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_high...

(oops - map added!)
United States is also a exceptional very weird country in western world.
gpt_index does that. A tree of document chunks (leafs) is built with parent nodes as increasingly summarized versions of the child nodes built with GPT.

The tree is then traversed to find the most relevant chunk asking GPT to compare entries based on relevance to the question. This results in an original document chunk, which is given as context in a final prompt asking to answer the query.

This is great and powerful, but very not cost effective. Log(n) requests to completion API, for n documents.

The embedding search is probably necessary for bigger datasets.
Survey Propagation is one of the best algorithms for solving very hard SAT instances.

Here's a good review paper that captures it.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~sabhar/publications/surveyPropUAI...
Just guessing here but sounds like you had to have interest in someone else’s crappy/uninteresting idea, which likely was rare. It’s like those cofounder matching sites, most people have a crappy/uninteresting idea they want others to help them with. People without ideas go there and immediately turn away.
> Every instance I can recall of FBI partisanship, real or imagined, from the last 10 years has clearly and decisively favored the Democratic Party.

Then your recall is terrible. Do you remember a certain presidential candidate that got publicly declared 'under investigation' days before the election in 2016? It arguably turned the election in favor of the Republican.

You omitting this makes me question your ability to recall relevant details or else it makes you disingenuous for leaving it out. Either way your entire spiel should be disregarded by anyone reading it.
"guay" means "cool" in Spanish so my mind did the trick and imagine my confusion when reading this "wasn't supposed to include one of the cool countries as well"

https://web.archive.org/web/20221221191002/https://www.thelo...
HN really needs a collapse all child comments
The forward of the book stated this about one of the authors:

"He was an activist and public intellectual of international repute who tried to live his ideas about social justice"

I worry that this book may be under the same light as creationism. An attempt to retrofit evidence such that it forms an awkward scaffold that maintains an existing belief about social justice. The authors clearly have a bias against the academic status quo the same way a Christiaan has a bias against the same thing.

Clearly modern anthropology does run against the grain of what a lot of social justice warriors claim to be true about human nature, so such a hesitation is not out of place.

Nevertheless, a social justice background does not necessarily preclude someone away from unbiased analysis. I will read.
What sort of madness would lead anyone to want to share a currency with Argentina of all places? No offense intended, but it’s one of the most aggressively mismanaged economies in South America. (Venezuela obviously is the winner in that category.)
I put a lot of effort into ensuring that API keys wouldn't be logged anywhere in my infrastructure (or Google Cloud's either) - I went as far as building a new Datasette plugin just to enable data to be stored and transferred in cookies, since those don't end up in log files:

https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-cookies-for-magic-par...

Totally understand if you're not willing to trust it though!

The code is all open source, so you're able to try it entirely on infrastructure you control if you want to.
MIT CSAIL had an extremely similar project way back in 2015:

http://rfcapture.csail.mit.edu/
You know, what gets me watching that - 50 years ago being an actor meant a life of traveling to exotic locations for shoots. Today, it apparently means spending just a lot of time in a studio with a green screen. Whatever the reason or benefits or whatever, man, I feel like that’d be incredibly disappointing as an actor.
I am not a Platonist, or any sort of theist.

e and pi arise in axiomatic systems we use to approximate our world. They never appear in nature. They do appear in formulas we find to approximate details of our world.

I say "actual numbers" to mean "numbers that refer to actual quantities or measures that can be taken". You might calculate that a stick must be exactly 1/pi meters long, but you will make the stick no better than 113/355 meters long.
My understanding is that Hot is basically voting velocity times total votes.

This is similar to "rising," which is essentially just voting velocity.

The only editorialized "secret sauce" algorithm reddit has is called "recommended."
i am no apologetic for the messy git UI. But i also know that any competent software engineer can be given a sufficient understanding / mental model of the basic git way of doing things in 1-2 hours, after which they can Google for the exact syntax of the commands they need (if they are doing complicated things). i feel that if they are unwilling to invest even that much time, then they are going to waste an eternity on endless tools and GUIs.

it's like tar or rsync or ffmpeg. Yes, it's hard to keep track of all the command line flags etc. but thanks to the internet we don't need to. it's far more useful to understand the underlying concepts.
Thank you for the summary and the link. I'd also add that our physical intuition also need not match the "real world", it's a model "good enough" for evolutionary purposes that fails in myriad ways.
Hopefully one can utilize a highly intel (or AMD) optimized stack, such as intel version of pytorch to make this run even faster
reflexive shame towards the nation is the only cultural practice americans are still taught.
in contrast to japan who have pretty much eroded their past atrocities from the public consciousness, the intelligentsia seem fixated on wallowing in ours.
i leave it to you to decide which strategy has created a more cohesive public.
> From my perspective the vast majority of societies

Your perspective as a visitor to many of the 190+ countries across the globe, from speaking to people from many non European language groups, from talking at length online to people with internet connections, .. that experience?
>Totally, I agree; huzzah for yt-dlp and appropriate data retention. Still though - if I want to consume relatively digestable archaeological video content, where do I go?

A fair point. Given the current online media ecosystem, I don't have a good answer for you. :(

From a longer-term perspective, high-speed symmetric consumer internet links can enable decent, distributed/decentralized content without rapacious scumbags like Alphabet.

But it remains to be seen how long that might take to happen.

Until then, (fortunately) there's yt-dlp and its ilk.

Sorry, wish I could make a better suggestion.
The problem is that if you've already done a battle scene that's as dark as reasonable, you have a problem when you then want to "go darker".
Because Facebook is simple. Any one can update it, and it doesn't go down, and it doesn't cost anything.

I've many times seen web presences fail for small organizations, when the only person that understands the web set up leaves. With Facebook, that doesn't happen.

I'm sure there are services such as you describe, and probably many restaurants use them, and it's not obvious. But Facebook is the default.
how.

AI has been better than humans at chess for years and chess is still going strong
> Was it always like this or is this a new phenomenon? I haven’t heard about anyone being locked out before hearing they are getting laid off, unless there was serious wrongdoing. But I’m not in the US.

Always like this. First, layoffs are kept as secret as possible to avoid affecting the stock price as well as to facilitate insider trading by execs while limiting it by lower level managers.

Second, to avoid potential trouble with disgruntled employees, employees are locked out before being notified. In the rare case that someone is laid off mid-day, they immediately lose access to their office and are escorted out by security.

If this sounds abusive, it is because it is abusive. Not all companies operate this way, but many of them do.
'censorship of TikTok over guns'says a lot about how officials prioritize safety
Isn't there a medical chat-gpt that passed the medical licensing exam? I thought I saw that come up..
That's why I typically randomize these things and run multiple times.
Your algorithms professor would also call "sorting" an algorithm. But for the purposes of this conversation, "sorting by date" is not an algorithm.
They are not numbers you have ever used in an actual calculation. You always approximate them anyplace they don't cancel out.

There is a countable subset of the reals called "computable numbers". We only ever use a subset of computable numbers in real calculations.
I think the film industry with it’s variety of specialist guilds is the model that could be followed by tech people. As opposed to the unions that you get with more traditional job-jobs.
It's not so much that he embellishes what happens but seems to have fabricated context to write about at all. In the essay where he visits a midwestern state fair with a long-time local acquaintance, for example, a lot of the interest of the story is in the observations and "folk witticisms" of his companion. That companion doesn't seem to have existed at all, which drastically changes the character of the piece and is not merely an embellishment.

Similarly the cruise essay has a memorable scene where he plays a game of chess against a child. His biographer and close friend, who rarely challenges the DFW mythology directly, specifically calls that one out and explains why he believes it didn't happen and that child didn't exist. Again this isn't embellishing a detail for the sake of a good story, this is much closer to fiction writing, which in contemporary literature is also often closed tied to direct personal experience in this way.

I don't think writing in this way is dishonest, fwiw, or that this indicates anything bad per se. I think characterizing it as journalism, or even nonfictions essays is a mistake though. It's easy to see why it would have been sold that way at the time, but we don't have to stay with that classification now. I don't think it's likely that DFW published anything that could be considered strictly nonfiction. Ambitious as he was, this is almost certainly the reason he never agreed to publish anything in the new yorker which would have been such an obviously ideal publication for his "nonfiction," if it weren't for their sophisticated and ruthless fact checkers.
A nice 101 explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RI5scXYhK0
> There is a striking difference in how mortality rates in 2022 compare to 2019 at different ages – ranging from 2.5% higher for ages 75-84 to 7.8% higher for ages 20-44.

You quoted the wrong part.
A ticketing scheduler system is how 99% of systems that require long running CPU/GPU intensive that cannot be run in parallel are implemented. It's how I built up my stable diffusion discord bot which is backed by a single RTX 2060.

I'm glad you have this working but I wouldn't exactly call this "solving the scaling problem", you're just running it in a blocking "serial fashion". With enough concurrent users it could still take somebody until the heat death of the universe for their image to finally be generated.
Barriers to entry tend to raise quality. But people tend not to consider that a good argument for keeping them.
All of the machines in my home lab do but sadly none of my workstations do (ThinkCentre and a ThinkPad.) I wish they did.

Some higher end Dell Precision's and at least at one time Lenovo/Thinkpads had models with ECC ram and if they still do next time I need a new machine that's what I'm getting.
I released a playable portfolio as a Game Boy game for my website
It's the wackiest result I know of, and seems overwhelmingly more profound than BT.
MT Cloud – Lease and Learn Kubernetes
Small project I have been working on to help me learn. Just a Kubernetes cluster equipped with ingress controller and cert manager. Stripe integration to onboard customers and send them connection details.
The fish had been plotting this all along, from their secret hideout at Mount Wannahockaloogie.
Hierarchies are places where one relies on many. That is the point of a hierarchy... so that a few can control and rely on many. It is the most unfair way to organize.
Overconfidence has always been a big problem with deep learning. And in fact, better calibration ends up leading to worse overall performance. So ML models are incentivized to be overconfident. To be fair, the same is true of people.

See e.g Guo et al, but don't trust their advice about how to improve calibration
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04599
The main incentive to build and to maintain should be to have a place to live. Building and buying to rent is cancer of housing.

Also a lot of housing is empty because it's more profitable to keep it empty rather than sell.
Google Assistant was launched 6 years ago. Probably the most AI that Google has inflicted upon the general public since then is Waymo One. Other recent launches include the thing that automatically fills in your formulas in Google Sheets. Also DeepMind's WaveNet text-to-speech. Then there's fancy stuff like Project Relate that will train a speech-to-text model individually for disabled users[1].

But mostly the ML stuff is silently launched behind the scenes. And you slowly become inured to astonishing feats of machine learning like being able to translate spoken Chinese to English text on your mobile, and cars that drive themselves, and the fact that you can search your photos for "toy lizard" and that actually works.

Edited to add: with regard to the idea that some competitor with an AI code generator will out-program Google as an organization, you should take note that Google has already deployed AI code generators in large-scale production. So whenever a future competitor re-invents this facility at that moment they are already years behind Google[2].

To summarize, I believe it is somewhat strange to believe that the organization with demonstrated state-of-the-art machine learning research and development will be caught unaware by the ML revolution.

1: https://impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/globalgoals/projects/...

2: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completio...
US subs can't operate permissively in strait and increasingly within 1IC where PRC has built comprehensive seabed monitoring infra. Or that current TLAMs from SSGNs aren't performant againt even shit tier Iraqi/Russian hardware (~50% failure/interception rates), of which US has only 4 with 612 shots. Nor does TW remotely have or can stockpile enough fires to dent PRC heartland with aggressive defense budget. For reference currently US doesn't either hence rush to build up stockpiles for potentially 100,000s aimpoints most of which will be delivered by b21s 10+ years from now and that's just for some current PLA targets. Realistically PRC would destroy most of TW C4ISR in openning strikes and prevent TW from threatening invasion fleet which would make 150 mile sea transit relatively uncontested. Under such conditions - open waters where modern sensors has less noise to sort - establishing maritime logistics would be easier to protect than the land/air logisitics wagon US had to sustain for AFG. Current US vision for TW porcupine doctorine rests on TW fighting to the last man on TW soil because it's forgone PRC can land massive amounts of troops and hardware. The hope is US can disrupt this as TW buys time, not TW itself. Ultimately, PRC simply wouldn't attempt landing without securing theatre air superiority first, by the time they commit to maritime invasion, thousands of UAVs and would be droning a TW resistence reverted to Taliban tier capabilites. The other fundemental uncomfortable truth is PRC can mine TW shores and destroy airfields long term to siege island, and historically sustained sieges that prevent resupply generally end in capitulation.
Couldn’t Google adopt a wait-and-see approach for a few quarters, if all of this was propped up by interest rates to begin with? Maybe instead of reflexively panic-layoffs they could have some sort of longer term strategy to see if the Fed reversed course in a matter of months, which has been speculated already. Why are these megacorps so dependent on the flighty whims of investors, who themselves sat by and allowed the companies to overhire and possibly demanded such a short-sighted risk?

I see some other comments have mentioned this shareholder myopia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34481450
Time to cover walls with tinfoil? :)
One should use good (hopefully) metaphors to explain technology as you said, this is done all the time, but here we want to define the relationship between humans and thing X, and I would say there is no difference in the relationship with AIs as with all other tools, I would not treat a hammer differently from a printing press because it has less transformative effect on humanity.
If you’re a senior at a company that uses git, these are all terrible answers.

As a senior you not only should understand how to stash local changes and handle merge conflicts, but also generally use your VCS to elevate your development ability. Finding who added a bug and when with cherry picking. Retroactivity applying changes to all of history with rebasing and branching. All of this git provides if you put in the effort to learn it, and more. It’s an incredibly powerful tool, and to not use its capabilities is simply a waste.

Your “reclone the repo and start again” case is a lot of wasted effort. You could use one or two quick commands to undo your changes. Your ignorance at how the tool works doesn’t undermine its value or purpose.

I’d expect a senior to not only be able to handle these cases, but also show interesting other tools in git and when they’re useful. I wouldn’t expect a senior to not be able to handle
simple conflict resolution.
I have to question how accurate the 2020 Census is..?
I'm intrigued. Are you able to share these scripts?
Thanks for the list - I have not heard of any of these products. I would add vimeo to this list as well.
I'm not a practitioner of Wim Hof's methods, but what was implemented in the paper is definitely not Wim Hof breathing.

The paper describes 30x breaths with the inhale twice as long as the exhale, and a 15 second hold on the final exhale.

Wim Hof's method has 30x equal-length inhales and exhales, and a one-minute hold on the final exhale [0].

Aside from there being a substantial difference between equal length inhales and exhales and an inhale that's twice as long as the exhale, the big idea behind Wim Hof's method is that that minute-long hold is very difficult, and trying to do it supposedly builds a certain kind of mental (really, holistic) discipline that a 15 second hold simply would not. 15 seconds is not hard unless you're pretty out of shape.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ
Very nice explanation of arithmetization in the context of zk-SNARKs!

For those who are curious about zk-STARKs in comparison:

Instead of translating each program into polynomial circuits (zk-SNARKs), for zk-STARKs you translate your program into assembly for the zk-STARK VM of choice, execute that program, and generate a proof from the execution trace table.

The arithmetization in the context of zk-STARKs happens over the VM assembly instructions.

So there's a set of polynomials that have a solution iff each VM state transition happened using a known instruction with that instruction's intended semantics (e.g. "'push' will increase the stack with one element", or "the clock count is increased by one").

Executing a program in a zk-STARK VM and generating a proof of execution does not involve constructing more polynomials.
Twitter Archive Eraser (https://delete.tweets.app) makes ~3K USD per month.

I don't do any active work on it any longer for the past 2 years or so, other than the small bug fixes/when Twitter changes the archive format. Bracing for a shutdown to the API soon anyway.

Past submissions on how it used to bring in $7k per month and a few technical details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439606 (June 2020), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998723 (Jan 2022).
Do you have any sources on that research? Sounds very interesting