skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a false equivalence as result of the attempt to fit what's happening there in Western mental models. I don't know anything specific about Japan but I see it happening all the time with Middle Eastern or Eastern European nations.

The problem is, when you say something like that you start attaching other features of the western version and that often doesn't reflect the reality and doesn't have the historical context of the western version.

For example, Turks are much more openly homophobes and antisemitic than people in the West but at the same time Turks were not exterminating the Jews and were not castrating the homosexuals a few decades ago. If anything Turkish academia was practically founded by the Jewish refugees when the west was busy fighting world wars.

The same goes for the Eastern Europeans, a typical Eastern European would be much more racist and macho that a westerner but Eastern Europeans don't have a history of colonisation and slavery. Also, women have much older history of workforce participation and equal rights with men so for an Eastern European men the western culture wars and attempts to "make it right" through affirmative action don't rhyme at all(They are like "Men and women have equal rights? Duh? What's the fuss about"). You will also not find anti-abortion politics, gun rights stuff or anti-tax, anti-government libertarian stuff which you might attribute to typical right winger in the US. The similarities are very superficial.

Just because you can identify a characteristic or two in a foreign person, doesn't mean that they are the same as the group of people from your society who have those treats.

What’s even funnier is that western right wingers sometimes will mistake these things as Eastern Europeans being fascist and will preach how Eastern Europe is the land of the free speech. I attribute their affection for Russia and Putin to this. I had a smirking smile when one of the Chan board admins was disappointed when found out that Russia is not a free speech land, he was able to act however he likes only because it wasn’t bothering the Russians. The moment he touched a local hot button he leaned about the free speech in Russia.
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Fair enough I'm sure there were some. But they were not ubiquitous like now I think we can agree.
The rate is 16.7 per 1000 as of 2019 and continues to decline. That's not an "abundance".

https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm
I think there's probably massive money laundering happening in these markets. Like if I was trying to do that kind of thing I'd be looking at virtual goods markets in order to get the job done.

https://cs.money/csgo/store/

Take a look at the values of some of the items on there. Prices like 10000$+ to use a model of a knife in a game that's like from a decade ago sounds like insanity to many people but thinking from the perspective of someone who has something like a lot of illgotten gift cards to wash, the markets exist... I'm sure a ton of it is legitimate but when some of these approach prices of a fourth of a new car it's kind of obvious
That's fair. I think some variation in the generic "I'm done talking and serve no further story purpose" lines could be useful, but that's nowhere near the revolutionary gamechangers people seem to be imagining when talking about LLM's.
I watched the new Avatar movie with HFR. Some scenes were in 24fps, some in 48. Everytime it switched to 24fps it became unpleasant for a few seconds. Like playing a video game and getting a frame drop. Sometimes they switched like 5 times a minute. The effect going from 24fps to 48fps was very satisfying though. I don't understand how people can think 48fps looks bad or "fake".
Computers started out extremely expensive and only big companies and universities had them, but today even people in poor countries have them. AI could be different, but the state it is in today doesn't prove anything.
A lot of it is scammy mobile games that predate on people.

But even if you take into account only PC+Console games, unlike shows and movies, the cash cows are free to play where value is maximally extracted based on the player's income. You can spend $0 if you can't afford anything, you can spend $20 if that's all you've got, or you can spend hundreds (even thousands). A movie can't really extract more than a couple ticket's worth regardless of how invested the person is (outside of maybe merchandising which is niche).

Also realistically you might watch at most 10 times a movie (20 hours), while these games (LoL, Fortnite, CSGO, Valorant, etc) are often played for thousands or tens of thousands of hours. So obviously it's more reasonable to spend more on something that you play every day.
I never found a GUI that was more intuitive than the CLI, personally. I am a bad person to consult for this, since I live in vim and tmux (my coworkers hid my mouse for April Fool’s Day and I went the day without it to make a point) while others blaze ahead in VS Code and know the bare minimum command line to get their job done.

I’ll take a look at Git Extensions, thanks for the recommendation! Some of our devs took to using the integration with VS Code, which I didn’t like because I didn’t understand how its terminology (e.g. “sync” mapped to underlying Git operations). Others tried the Git GUI which I found very confusing.

I focused on the graphical operations and then tried to show them what commands they could run to execute those operations. Next time I’m in the situation, maybe I’ll adopt a GUI-first approach.
> But looking around it's still less universal than e.g. TV (±"everyone" watches TV but not everyone plays video games).

When you include mobile, I don’t think gaming is less ubiquitous than TV.
Yeah makes a lot of sense - but I assume it is hard to find some moderator that can be both hands-off at the right time. You know more about how the moderators work? Maybe some blog articles or some sort like that?
Clearly this was the killer app QUIC needed to solve.
In my experience, the discrimination against foreigners regarding housing is much deserved. I've rented out my condo in Japan to Japanese people for years, and my tenants have, without exception, kept the place clean and in excellent condition. All I have to do between tenants is clean a little. Other than that, my condo still looks the same as it always has. Contrast that with my rental property in the US, which most renters turn into a shit hole that has to be renovated between tenants. I always give deposits back in Japan. I rarely can in the US.

Also, I went into an apartment that had been rented by college-aged Americans in Chiba, Japan once. There were hundreds of cockroaches smashed into the carpet, one room was completely covered in black mold, the shoji doors had holes punched through them. It was embarrassing. This wasn't the only time I've seen this either.

In my opinion, the best way to overcome housing discrimination in Japan would be for foreigners to have some pride and treat other people's property with respect.
It doesn't. These societies are permanently changed because of immigrations. This of course works fine for the immigrants (like myself!) but if I was a Canadian in the 70s I would be greatly opposed to this movement.

I'm not Japanese, but in objectively thinking about what's best for Japan, "immigration" is not on the list. In fact it's on the list of things to never ever do. I don't mean it as in "do not accept foreigners". I mean do not adopt the policy of mass immigration to offset the shrinking population.
> One coder, one evening, simple pattern matching + a few rules and it could be improved so much. I simply don't understand how they can keep it so bad for so long.

Exactly what I've been thinking in the last 10 years. It was ludicrously bad, and not improving even on obvious things. They just sat on it.
Good moderation & ranking is nearly invisible, like good email spam filtering. We forget (or never even knew) just how much we depend on it.
Of course it holds. Desire for sex was what was under evolutionary pressure which was a direct proxy for procreation. Because of contraception this link was severed. Only recently procreation is under evolutionary pressure.
They added that somewhat recently - the history dates back long before that was practical.
Another aspect of this is staffing. It doesn't immediately seem tech related, but it is.

There's less people in the background as extras, less people making background scenes or setting up. It can mostly filled in by production technology if necessary.

Some movies just seem so empty, and they look "cheap" if you see it in this angle. Some big hollywood production like for example Passengers where there are barely more than three actors visible in the whole film. I've noticed there's a lot of these hollow/empty productions with very few actual actors visible, and they are rather lifeless.
> It always feels good to go back to Linux, where you can play most non-AAA game titles anyway.

With Proton you can play most games now. AAA or not. Like, Death Stranding, it works.
If someone modifies your PGP encrypted password file and you decrypt it GPG will say:

gpg: WARNING: encrypted message has been manipulated!

... and GPG will return a fatal error. So the meandering stuff about the malleability of PGP is not of any practical interest. The underlying cryptography that insures the integrity here has stood the test of time (over 20 years at this point).

In another part of the article it is mentioned that an attacker can entirely replace a particular password file ("No authentication of values") which makes the PGP malleability stuff irrelevant. So we are maximizing the number of listed issues here. Note that pass will sign the password files if configured to do so which makes this issue go away.
Do you by any chance know if he wrote something online? Or what his "writing name" is so I can search if have written anything?
But why was the Netscape Now button that size? We must go deeper
Only bit I disagree with is that the big spenders are doing it purely because of addiction or gambling.

Most big spenders are incredibly wealthy, like buy $30,000 wristwatches for fun wealthy. Games have figured out how to 'go infinite' on their spend possibilities and capture wristwatch money from these folks.

The other thing novel to games is social aspects. Just like buying fashion to wear in public, games let you show off your money in a way other mediums don't. Music has a near equivalent with VIP passes and private shows, but scaling these are human-bound in space or time respectively, which games aren't limited by.

Second, games provide a sense of community. A lot of game revenue is monetizing people's desire to not be alone. Calling these players addicted is I think reductive. Are people addicted to church? To golf? To therapy? Maybe some of them, but it's a poor generalization.
The price of assets like stock, real estate, and bonds is a function of the risk-free rate of return. So, while the nominal value of assets goes down as the interest rate goes up, this change is temporary. When the interest rate goes down, the prices will go back up. And of course, this is just a change to the nominal value. Shareholders still own their companies. Bond holders still have their cash flow, etc.

The Fed has expressly stated that the goal of rising rates is to increase unemployment, or using JP’s words “bring the labor market back into balance.” These jobs aren’t going to magically come back when the interest rate goes down. Gains in union membership are going to be wiped out, and union membership is a form of wealth for labor.

And the messed up part is, the ultimate goal is to decrease demand. There are other ways to decrease demand, like raising taxes, for instance. But that is not suitable for the railing class. The poor must suffer (literally JP said that many people must suffer to tame inflation, and he wasn’t talking about the wealthy).
No one knows if those Hypersonics actually can kill a carrier though.

That's what I mean by "bluster". China is publicly saying they can, but... what if they just miss the carriers in practice? What if USA can actually shoot them down and protect our carriers?

It very well could be that China is just pretending that their missiles work to extract concessions during peacetime, and never actually plans to go to war. Etc. etc. There's too many futures, and the particular knowledge (ie: How good the missiles really are) is going to be top secret on both sides. No reason for China to want to let USA know how good the missiles are... no reason for USA to want to let China know how good the AEGIS Missile shield is.
How much it will cost you to go green
which spot instances exactly? I checked last time, and having my own hardware was definitely cheaper..
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Nikkei 225 (Japan's equivalent to the S&P500) hasn't recovered since the crash of 89: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EN225/. Which I think is interesting comparatively, because the S&P/DOW has had decently substantial downturns multiple times, but always recovered++ historically.
I mean, this is a standard class warfare tactic: Billionaires get thousandaires to fight millionaires as if they're the problem.
Some folks seem to think the benefit of pomos is the focus time. When I used them, it was the breaks. Stopping every twenty five minutes and asking "is this the right thing to be doing now" was invaluable.
I could buy 1,000 freighters and have more ships and tonnage than the US Navy. I'm not sure what the metric is - firepower per square km of ocean? Maybe there is no metric for this question.

But you are using number of ships and tonnage, not me, and need to establish what they mean.
What do you mean that it is now oriented towards partisanship? This has been true for at least a century. The recent Dobbs decision is as much the result of partisan efforts to institute policy opposed by the majority of the country as the original Roe decision was.

The court has handled complex technical issues many times before. This, along with partisanship, is nothing new.
It’s not like everyone just accepted the German policy as a smart idea.

They made a seemingly knee-jerk policy decision after the Japanese nuclear disaster.
> If Gorman doesn’t see and embrace that, may he find himself setting the “open to work” flag on his LinkedIn.

It'll become evident if remote unfriendly companies struggle to hire. A lot of folks are loudly proclaiming this as fact already with very little data.
Let's wait to see what happens.

I'm reminded that there have always been fully remote companies before the pandemic. I've worked at some of them. They've never had an overly competitive edge in retention or hiring.
> you could also choose to swim somewhere else

Agreed, we have to pick our battles. Personally I pick this one. We should exercise as much control as technically possible over these devices that are intimately linked to every aspect of our lives.
So, what is your favorite apple variety?

The one I'm currently liking is the King David.
by letting a dedicated server also simulate the world and all entities?

client send new origin to server -> server checks if everything is in bounds with the simulation/world -> tells other clients ur new position
You are assuming that everyone internalizes communication the same way. When I read poetry and listen to music, I project it into my own experiences. When I listen to Johnny Cash song about killing a man and having regret, the man in black didn't kill a man, but I think about the times in my life where I made a mistake that can't be undone and what it feels like.

The source of the words might matter for you, but it is the projection of those words into my own psyche that has the affect on me.

I can give you a machine that will print a Certificate of Authenticity for any experience you desire.
No one is celebrating homeless camps.
>Show of hands - people who feel google search has improved in the last 5/10 years vs people who feel it's gotten demonstrably worse?

I mean, personally I think this is very likely true. My feeling is that it's the web itself which has gotten demonstrably worse. Diagnosing the reasons for that is a more interesting problem.
Fuchsia has a significantly better security stance, in both implementation and in architecture.
Hungary has a plan. Given that one of the big problems with large families is their affordability, this could work: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/have-four-or-more-babies-in-...
Tokyo, the most popular city, has decent relatively affordable housing. But you have to make some sacrifices on size, and at the very low end, lifestyle (you might have to go to the bath house for showers).
That's right- Larry wanted a question-answering machine. Larry and Sergey "got bored of search" (I heard this from the engs who were going to weekly presentations to show new search features) when they felt it was just chasing a larger index and showing people what they wanted to click on.
> For publicly held companies a larger company, or a billionaire, can buy out all shareholders at the current share price.

That's not accurate, most shareholders aren't selling at the current price (or this price would be lower), that's why buying another company means paying a premium over the current share price.
For me, Siri’s speech recognition is far worse than its NLP
People should be allowed to self-select them selves out of reproduction. On the long term this is a eugenic pattern: it means the next generation will be more likely to have more people who value reproduction.
not to mention the dozen shaddy EA extra apps you are forced to install just to be able to open the game. none to combat cheats but just abandoned attemps at lame game stores and desktop spammers
> while constantly providing proof to millions of users that the data has not and can not be tampered with

The BNB Beacon Chain doesn't sync: https://datafinnovation.medium.com/bnb-beacon-chain-not-a-bl...
That’s an unfair rebuttal and a bit defensive sounding. I agree with OP that it has that Netflix look which would make sense in it turning off a fan of the comic.
That's some dishonest retort right there. It's not so black-and-white. I never said people getting paid below minimum wage to collect trash is a good thing, you just assumed I did to take my argument down.

I just pointed out that removing the layer of population that has no other choice than working below minimum wage will not solve the economic and social stratification. The point of my comment is that immigration and low pay are two completely unrelated phenomena that some loudmouths want us to believe they're correlated. The average voter, then, goes on to believe closing borders magically means they'll finally be able afford a mortgage and a better life while doing unskilled work. Less immigration, fewer candidates, they'll have to pay us more, no? If only it were that simple.

For any hard problems, there is a clear, simple and wrong answer, which usually works quite well as a slogan for a political campaign. "Immigration" it's a classic example.
looks nice too. Did you consider adding video-chat for participants?
We Asked Legal AI Experts: Just How Advanced Is ChatGPT?
When someone asks: "Does the LLM know the rules?" Then it's a simple binary answer "yes" or "no" depending if the model makes errors, in this case 0.01% so for you it's clearly no, when I ask: "Does the grandmaster know the rules?", then you dodge the question because you realize that what you are saying is not as simple as you want to make it out to be.
whisper.cpp is an open source project that has a feature to turn whisper into a real time transcription program, it works surprisingly well by feeding small segments of audio into whisper. take a look at their GitHub page!
MS workers could also attempt to unionize to secure remote work as a right. The attempts to do so would be protected by federal law. Annoying for these workers to be held hostage by elderly leadership teams (see Disney as well, Bob Igor is 71 and "put his foot down" requiring 4 days/week on site) and their emotional driven whims and value systems. For them, it’s not about productivity data, but about power (and the loss of it through increases in worker power, primarily due to labor shortages caused by demographic compression).
> Shouldn't come as a shock that sometimes it work the other way.

Isn’t “the other way” the norm on all US companies?

What “the same industry” taught its professionals is that loyalty should not be a one-way deal when corporate dictates that every person can and should be automatically discarded at the drop of a hat, and benefitting from a demand-driven job market is shown to be the only option that employees have to safeguard their livelihood.

I’ve lost count of the number of LinkedIn posts of veterans with >10years in FANGs being summarily fired during the night and only finding out because their access was revoked. This is exactly why people proactively switch jobs. This is the consequence, not the cause. Using these cases to justify labour abuses is victim-blaming.
What year(s) was that?
The BellKor Solution to the Netflix Grand Prize (2009) [pdf]
https://archive.ph/6Dsw9
The AI-generated RadioShack catalog struck a weird chord with me:

https://tilde.zone/@ftrain/109436259129597431

I'm concerned about a future where we spend our time jacked into an AI-generated universe that is almost -- but not quite -- consistent and sensical. A dreamscape that becomes a nightmare.
Maybe it is a low-bar, that's subjective. But I do mean understanding, not just knowing some facts. You could say that google was the point where we could say "Pick any human. I claim there exists some subjects that Google has more factual knowledge of than this human, based on a pure reproduction based evaluation."

With ChatGPT I claim that it beats humans in real "understanding" of at least some subject
Tonnage _IS_ firepower, and a chunk of those ships are Chinese Stealth Destroyers that avoid RADAR.

Modern ship battles aren't fought with guns. The fight is with missiles, or airplanes that shoot missiles. Having more tons (aka: missiles) than the other side is a huge advantage.

Capital ships have some benefit of efficiency. But China has the benefit of only being a few hundred miles away from Taiwan, and also their Airforce (Its US Aircraft Carriers vs mostly ground-aircraft), and also Chinese Missle Force, which can use the entire Chinese Highway system to reposition themselves.

And unless the US Marines decide to make a landing in China to attack the Chinese Missile and/or Chinese Air Force, they can fire upon the US Navy with impunity.
Not a bar owner, but I spent some time working in fancy restaurants with bars and know some bar/restaurant owners.

The fun parts of owning a bar (stuff like researching and inventing fancy cocktails and chatting up customers, etc) are a small part of the job.

The less glamorous parts of the job involve: not having much of a social life because even when the bar isn't busy you still will be, figuring out how to get consistent customers that you want to get (a well-off crowd that wants to peacefully enjoy an expensive cocktail you can make money on not the loud biker gang that wants the cheapest possible beer), finding reliable employees without any substance abuse problems, dealing with employees that give away large amounts of products for better tips or outright steal product, dealing with borderline drunk/harassing customers, making sure none of your customers die, making sure you don't fuck up any one of a thousand health/safety/alcohol regulations and lose your business, doing accounting and making sure you're pricing things correctly to be profitable, etc.

Luckily, you're on the right track. Your first step should probably be working in a bar. It might be smart to try and it do it a little out of your town (even with a longer commute) and tell the bar owner your plan and offer to work for minimum wage if he's willing to mentor you directly.