skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Yeah, the separation of many from nature (or perhaps that "nature" is even a comprehensible idea) seems demireligious in the sense that nature was given to man to have dominion over; man can become holy but not animals, depending on one's inherited belief system.

There's other fallacious ideas around nature that may have nothing to do with religion that I think are just common breakdowns in logic. People commonly apply the idea of "balance" to areas where it doesn't apply, or at least doesn't apply in the way that they think it does. Earth is a complicated system of systems, but is it meant to be in balance? If that were so, Earth's climate would not oscillate (excluding changes in solar output) over geological eras. Was Earth out of balance during the ice age?

"Balance" may in part be a proxy for our desire to want systems with which we are accustomed to not change. I've witnessed countless individuals, concerned with preserving nature, who would consider a plant or animal to be "non-native" or "invasive" while failing to recognize that the plants they believe to be "native" were introduced by animals in recent ecological history. They overlook the possibility (really a high likelihood) that the environment that explorers set foot on was significantly different from how it was even a century prior. It'd difficult for concepts of nativeness and invasiveness to be comprehensible if they did. Not that these aren't useful concepts in some domain, but many people interested in ecology or environmentalism believe them to be absolutely accurate or meaningful.
Those who reinvent it will understand it better than those who thought they understood it.
This makes sense where you're coming from. I still think you're doing a bit of disservice to some of the uncertainty estimation methods for DL. Batch normalization, ensembling, dropout etc. have shown to be very close approximations for Bayesian methods which, as far as I know, are probably the closest we get to mathematically modeling "real-world probability". If you have information that goes against this I'd love to hear it because I'm just relating my understanding of the situation at this time.
> "They told us that it wasn't safe for kids to walk down the street, that there are registered sex offenders all over town that could take them, that drug dealers were going to give them drugs, and that it was 'a different world now,'"

It's even worse. There are paranoid conspiracy theorists roaming the streets of Killingly, armed to the teeth. You can recognize them by the blue uniforms.
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My take: Elastic Path is an amazing place to work. We have a very modern stack consisting of microservices written in Go, k8s on AWS, MongoDB, etc. At this point we may be one of the only ecommerce companies that hasn't had a round of layoffs and is still hiring. Definitely speaks to the stability and growth of the company.
Not even pricing information!
Has any deep technology benefited ordinary people so far? It's mostly used by totalitarian governments, by big tech to fine tune ads, by seo spammers etc. Can't wait for web to fill up with deep nonsense and "art".
"I didn't murder that man, your honor, he would have died eventually anyway."
We can celebrate things separately. One good thing does not detract from another.
FT Alphaville is “the FT markets and finance blog”, so this is essentially an opinion piece and the Financial Times is not presenting it as news.
SF Fire Dept. Smashed the Window of a Cruise Robotaxi. Did They Overdo It?
i used to use tcpdump all of the of time for local development.

with everything moving to https, sometimes even local environments, it's basically been useless now however.
Maybe. But I remember Paquis of 15 years ago, and it has been much worse.
What about this is Flutter specific, other than being a Dart web framework?
you seem to be strangely supportive of this influencer, also having posted that video a couple of days ago. how come ? why are you so passionate about this ?
Is this a problem of American democracy, though? The same thing happened in Brazil, where there are dozens of parties.

Personally, I feel it takes tremendous energy to position oneself outside the binary of left and right, so people just choose their team and start to accept whole package deal.
These kind of stories coming out of the US make me feel like I'm reading something insane and Kafkaesque. I therefore want to be skeptical at first.

Does anyone have direct, first hand experiences of this kind? Not from the media. First hand or someone you personally know.
I can't imagine there are many in this neck of the woods, but for those not initiated, the title of the article is a reference to Monty Python:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8n4MfhjUc
An unbiased tool would never treat two parties completely equally.

If Trump and Biden both claim to have won the election, who should ChatGPT say is president? Should it flip a coin?
Cry me a giant, wide, long, river.

The same people are probably also whining that Jeff Bezos has too much money.

The same people probably also sit in their living room, and do nothing to help others; he makes them feel bad.

I don’t care if his motivation is YouTube views, and neither should you.

Would it be my personal style? No. But that’s irrelevant.
So all of the children out there who currently live in poverty, surrounded by drugs and violence are actually lucky to have such a good source of motivation on hand? And all of the children out there who are currently growing up in stable environments are also lucky to have a home conducive to positive development? So who is not lucky? It seems to me, by this standard, everybody is lucky. Or do you need to wait and see who is successful before you decide which circumstances are lucky, and which are unlucky?
I agree this is detrimental for current and future generations.

Also stupid (my opinion).
Fear is the mind-killer.
Might be. But the question also is, is there enough genetic variety on the cloned Dodos to warrant 100 healthy Dodo babies?
Twitter opens public appeals for suspended accounts
I would gladly pay $20/mo for a high quality monitor service that randomly stopped by and improved the display on my desk periodically.

Reminds me of the Built to Spill lyric. “It's barely yours on loan
What you think you own”
I saw "Her" on a plane near the end of last year. I had avoided seeing it because I thought it was a movie about AI and expected it to be trite.

For anyone else who might be dismissing it for similar reasons: its not about AI, its about relationships, and it is really good.
Ah, I see you’re somewhat disillusioned by the legal system. Allow me to introduce you to the healthcare system.
Just because it’s not perfect doesn’t mean it’s not good or can’t be productive. But I have to also think of all the ways prohibitions have failed.

Possibly, trying to find ways to make government officials less susceptible to outside influence in non traditional ways. Or, in the case of police, paying much better than minimum wage. Where I am, I think they make something like 42,000/yr.

Or maybe they just all need some meditation practice? Some mindfulness and maybe they won’t think they need to soak up so much money.
My kids are 7 and 9 and walk to the corner store together (Somerville MA). They also walk to and from school, the park, and to friends' houses. The more kids do this the more normal it will seem to others, and we can slowly get society's sense of how old you need to be to walk places back to somewhere reasonable.
Making friends is indeed getting more and more difficult the older you get. I feel extremely lucky that I found a great group of friends during high school and somehow we were able to nourish this group and even grow it over time.

All the best for you on your journey!
The death of common sense, not 100% dead yet, but terminal with untreatable stage 4 cancer
Hmm, I think I saw them before but didn't try it since it's still in very early stages, judging by their documentation.

I can see it more like Fly.io competitor, rather than a full platform. At least based on what is in their docs now.

The thing is that abstracting away all the resources means you need to recreate everything from scratch (even if you use a cloud provider underneath), and this takes huge time.

In my case, having the nice Developer Experience on existing products offered by AWS (or others) would be a better suited solution I believe.
Please stop: posting fulminating Nazi threats is against Hacker News guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Probably something Neuralink can assist with in future...Zap the brain with electrical stimulation if brain is not willing to engage in mental effort...
Backgammon is a game of chance: at each move you roll the dice. But while you can't control the dice, you can choose among the several moves allowed by the dice.

Play against a professional backgammon player, and you will win exactly zero matches.

The luck averages out over the long run, but the better play accumulates with each move.

In real life, the better play is sometimes hard work, but many times it can be something else: making friends, doing them favors, and getting favors in return, knowing when to take a calculated risk, and knowing when to call it quits, drinking and having fun at parties, but knowing to keep the alcohol away otherwise, saying no do drugs, reading books instead of watching TikTok.
I still have CalmiraXP on my childhood i386. It’s great lol
A benevolent king is also good. The challenge has always been how to create a system resilient to human nature, and the USA for a very long time was the shining example. Did the USA change, or did human nature change?
But rich people don't have e.g. four times as much time, while income disparities are easily more than that just among the wage workers.
Thank you for this! I’m reading now and you strike a nice balance (for me at least) between simple explanations and deeper science.

Do you have any suggested introductory reading material for those interested in neuroscience? More detailed and technical than pop science-esq, without requiring subject matter expertise?
The notion that we freely choose anything is absurd on the face of it, as it'd mean a process where the outcome neither follows deterministically from the inputs, nor is random, nor any combination of the two.

Find me a logically coherent definition of free will that does not reduce it to an illusion, and you could write it up and have a great shot at a nobel prize in physics, maths or both.
First of all, that place is where the reader macros go, so the spot is already taken.

Second of all, notwithstanding interference with reader macros, then no, it isn't completely trivial unless what you're suggesting is just pointless string substitution, which would also make e.g. 1(2 3) be equal to (1 2 3).

If what you're suggesting is having an enforced hard split between lists and function/macro invocation, that pretty much just makes everything harder to do with no perceivable gain, other than looking a bit more like C-based languages. It's a bit like enforcing that any strings that are parsed as numbers somewhere in the source code must be defined using "..." while strings that aren't must use '...' instead.

The entire point is that you can manipulate code as data structures. You can rewrite the rules of the language by returning data structures. There's no reason to make this more complex.
CPUs do different things when they know it is invalid. Often what happens is it send some sort of trap/signal to the operating system - on unix this would send a segfault and dump core. Not all invalid pointers can be detected, and not all CPUs have the required hardware (MMU) to detect any invalid pointer.
Oh my god, memory unlocked for me as well. I remember playing around with all the instruments. I must have been no older than 4 or 5.
I think the notion of "everything is luck" and "what should we do about that" are totally orthogonal. One is an "is" statement, the other is an "ought" statement, and it is entirely unclear how to go from one to the other (and I don't attempt to do so). Referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
> hell to play.

not sure if this was a typo, but the phrase I'm familiar with is "hell to pay".

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/there...
Thank you for taking the time to explain this, I've seen numerous threads where people complain about C but lack enough understanding of it to know where to properly attribute the blame.
C shares one common trait with assembly: the ability to access, interpret, and modify memory freely. It is also an intensely manual language and expects the programmer to be both discriminating and thorough when dealing with unexpected values. Beyond that, they should not be compared.
The language is not forgiving and as such has earned resentment from programmers which have had the benefit of using other languages that lessen the burden on the developer. Truthfully, all programming languages have an area where they excel (even ones we don't enjoy) and often times the approach or requirements of a project determine the language which should used. Many complain about it generally as being inadequate but fail to provide the context of which the language is employed, in which case it would be obvious that they should use another language.
I would also like to add that scale (as in LoC or project complexity) is an important factor to consider when selecting an appropriate language. C can be much easier to manage for smaller executables/libraries or projects that don't have many layers of abstraction. Simultaneously, modern software and application complexity has grown significantly since C's inception and it is not commonly the most ideal solution.
Discussions involving languages are enjoyable here when there is deliberation but I loathe when they devolve into tribalistic posturing and whinging.
Isn't making software "producing" something? Or do they need to make hardware like Apple?
Try replacing the + with a more complicated expression. ((if t + -) 1 2 3) and (if t + -) (1 2 3). In your notation it is much harder to determine which expressions are intended to be evaluated.
yeah for some reason we harshly judge people who donate or help people in any way. if they do it in the open we tend to interpret it cynically as a publicity stunt, writing off the good they did as merely a fortunate side effect of their publicity seeking.

but if they do it anonymously we praise them for their generosity and charity. we openly wonder and speculate who these good people might be, but if that info comes out at any point we start having second thoughts about a particular benefactor's motives (hold on, maybe the whole anonymity thing was part of the plan all along!).

so yeah, it's not so much you being wrong, it's more us being wired the wrong way.
> The UK gave her family shelter when the fatherland was busy murdering millions of Jews.

Factually correct. But so what?
‘Cooking for Geeks’ chocolate chip cookie recipe arrives at an optimum among many input variations.
There are plenty of use cases where image quality or coding speed cannot be compromised because of competitive reasons. For example medical imaging, professional or prosumer photography, legal evidence, printing cannot always accept small details disappearing or accept any other compression related degradations. JPEG XL, due to its better quality quarantees and great lossless options will surface in these areas first. Later, it will propagate from these uses to operating systems and eventually to browsers, too. Unfortunately slower transition puts some additional work on the web community.
A Chrome extension that generates spaced repetition prompts while reading
This is a Chrome extension that allows you to quickly generate question/answer pairs via GPT-3 and add them to your Anki deck while browsing the web.
Sorry, but no. Common sense is enough to realize that this is a ridiculous situation, no matter what the law says. You can't lay the acts of specific police officers at the door of legislators and voters. And if their concerns were real rather than just a pretext for a powertrip they'd keep an eye out instead of making it impossible for children to lead a normal life.
Police still have very broad discretion in what laws they enforce.
I wonder if rust will end up as a coding language finance forgets.
I will never cease to be surprised how morally corrupt this company is. Hypocricity of FB/Meta is astounding.
>>"They told us that it wasn't safe for kids to walk down the street, that there are registered sex offenders all over town that could take them, that drug dealers were going to give them drugs, and that it was 'a different world now,'" says Rivers.

So, of course, you arrest the parents and leave the sex-offenders and drug dealers roaming the street. Makes perfect sense.
I have no idea either but it has a whiff of Oracle to it.
a) don't talk without a lawyer (including to the child services...)
b) the road to hell is the high speed interstate of "I am just doing my job."

A lot of us have bad experiences and the history books are also filled. Let's stop these recurring mistakes.

(Edit.) P.S. Here is one of those lawyer articles about why not to talk to... CPS https://mayerlegal.com/f/dont-talk-to-cps

(Who knows, the way things go in a few years one will need a lawyer to pay their water bill...)
The common perception of "stranger danger" is a load of nonsense thanks to 90s infotainment, as well as John Walsh (of America's Most Wanted) for making up bullshit about tens of thousands of children being abducted by strangers (hint: it's not even in the thousands); the vast majority of child abuse and abductions are committed by familial connections, by far.
Just an idea, hope it's not stupid:
Maybe you can get/prepare some kind if gel solution similar to what they use when doing an electrocardiogram?

Maybe that would make the experience a little better.
Don't confound the story with facts
https://thecyberexpress.com/nintendo-data-breach-teen-hack-n...
Article is about events 4 years ago, with tiny update buried towards the end. Lazy journalism.
On the free version you can play any song you want. There might be a limit but I just searched for a song and played it to be sure.
There are commercials but it isn't between every song and overall seems to be fewer than on radio.
Not only that, but if some people have ethical and moral considerations about the consequences of x, then those people have an ethical reason to actually do the thing, since the alternative is that the people doing it are those with no ethical or moral consideration.

If a piece of technology is going to be 90% bad 10% good and you can push it to 80% bad then it is completely justifiable to go for it.
It is interesting that parents are not granted the autonomy to make these decisions by the law.
If the police have such a great concern about the safety in the neighborhood to the degree that children can't be outside someone has failed at their job.
Arresting people for letting their kids walk outside just to spread fear is shameful.
Also I'm happy to help any way I can. I'm not sure the best practices of sharing contact info on HN but if you Google K Trnka language modeling I should be the only one
I've applied twice to one of your open positions but never even received a reply, how come?
If police really believe kids shouldn't walk alone outside, they should perhaps ask themselves who is doing a bad job: parents or themselves.
A few years ago at a baseball tournament my son’s team did phenomenally well, and ended up beating a really great team from out of state.

A few days later we get a knock on the door from our state’s version of DCF. Someone had complained that they didn’t like the way my wife had walked our daughter to the bathroom. After an interview the state worker said it sounded like retaliation for our son and his team doing so well, and all but hinted it was an opposing team’s parent who called in the complaint. Sadly the law says they have to investigate every complaint, no matter how trivial, so we had to go through a couple interviews and they apparently interviewed others as well.

Just annoying for us, but other workers have told us about horror stories (our kids are adopted and we got to know that arm of the agency well).

Obviously these agencies are vital, but they need well balanced laws and regulations and some common sense injected into them so stupid complaints don’t end up sucking up resources and potentially disrupting lives for nothing.
hot-take: banning any technology is regressive
At the very least, there need to be clear laws about when you can legally let your kid walk outside.
> “She tried to dispute what the police were saying, and one of them asked if she watched the news.”

American local TV is mostly mind poison. A lot of stations are owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, a corporation with an extreme right-wing agenda.

Europeans with their tame national broadcasters have no idea how insane a large part of American TV is with its obsession on local crime.
> Application won't be that hard to reproduce.

I wouldn't build a whole application around OpenAI either, but I could imagine that OAI could be leveraged for single features, maybe where the user doesn't even know it's AI(). I could imagine content moderation, converting between file formats, or reading sentiment from user tweets about a company.

Maybe the huge value of OpenAI isn't lying in generating new content, but cutting costs of existing abstraction tasks.

So, no content generation, as that would be unethical without disclosure of AI usage.
One big difference between the US and other countries: The US doesn’t look at counterculture as a fundamental threat or challenge to the government. The US citizens actually have freedom. The constitution went so far as to identify the sovereignty of the country with its citizens - thus no royalty.

This might sound quaint to some critical ears of the US, but that is the basis of the law and US systems. The US citizens only need to be reminded of this fact and decide whether they want to reinforce that fact with their personal choices - nonviolent protest, voting, etc.

Edit-That might not seem related to the definition of counterculture, but it absolutely is. The US has a culture of multiculturalism. It has the Amish and lets them largely have their culture within the larger culture. There are many such examples with gradients all over and within the US. Sure, sometimes some of those subcultures get political and exert themselves. But they do it within the peaceful political system as a strong trend.
Bullshit. Police in america are able to exercise discretion, which means they could (and should) have laughed at the order to arrest these parents and not carried it out, or at least just went and talked to them instead. They decided to arrest them instead, in all likelihood because it makes them feel powerful.

How can you seriously think this is anyone’s fault but the cops? Blaming politicians is one thing and they absolutely are to blame for a lot of our policing problems, but blaming “voters” for cops being assholes is just ridiculous.