skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is impulse control?

The ability to make choices about actions based on some more adaptive criteria than the initial impulse itself.

What is a choice in this context? A thought about weighing the costs of possible choices relative to their outcomes.

What is lack of impulse control? Just a different thought, or the absence of the “right” thoughts.

What are the right thoughts? Thoughts that we’ve formed thoughts about and “assigned” a particular status (by thinking).

There is nothing metaphysical here and it all boils down to a really simple question: from where do thoughts arise?

Scientists have observed activity in the brain that is associated with decision making firing up to 10 seconds before the subject became consciously aware of the decision. At a minimum, this raises serious questions about the nature of the decisions we make, and is understandably uncomfortable to consider.
> "one of the reasons"

and some of the others were having the opportunity at the right time, making the right connections at the right time, and the other hundreds of things that went right for you and might not have.

Not crediting at least some of your success to random factors that you had no control over is a mistake, too.

There are people out there who worked as hard as you but failed because of those random factors.
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Don't feel guilty! At this time of year I can only find 30 minutes free here and there, and I'm currently playing Captain of Industry (similar to Factorio), the most important thing is to keep a text document with what you are doing, so you can iteratively get there across days, rather than just in one day. Basically a backlog for your own quests in the game :)
Wait, so you think minority groups hating one another is not aligned with the majority/minority group division? I don't understand; by definition each group is a member of a minority social group, wouldn't that obviously be the case that they're therefore subject to all of the negativity that entails? There's no unity amongst minority groups, if that's what you're suggesting; the majority group makes it tolerable to espouse hate against all minority groups, including from other minority groups.

You say you don't know why it's tolerated, but that's my point exactly; it's tolerated because it's hate towards a minority group (regardless of the source). It would be substantially less tolerated if it were hate towards the majority group.
If search quality degrades enough that people stop using it, it will impact ads.
At some point, AI will replace stuntmen with completely synthesized action scenes. Contrast that with the money that was poured into one scene in MI7 where Tom Cruise rides a bike off a cliff.

If AI could make us feel the same way as Tom Cruise himself jumping off a cliff, isn't it a no-brainer to use it?

If we stretch this scenario to the ultimate - Generating an entire movie using AI, it doesn't feel as fun, as real. But I wonder if it is the future
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He's a "china analyst" ( aka propagandist ). What does he expect?
Is there a single thing twitter mobs won’t get pissed about? I feel like twitter replies are not the best way to gauge public sentiment on this. Are the fans also mad that artists aren’t drawing each frame individually anymore?
The left's support for Islam directly marginalizes minorities within Islamic countries as well as women and gays fighting for their rights there.
> Technology is not evil or good.

But a given technology may be much more suited to doing evil than doing good.

> Jacky Chan, for example, is not going to make any more movies. But I want more of those movies. This very technology would allow that.

Which is something that I would consider ethically wrong unless Jackie Chan consented to it.
I’m truly astonished that there are people who refuse to believe that the people in power are constantly conspiring. It’s like you are completely ignoring all evidence, or discounting it as one-offs.

Sure, maybe it’s not NWO or the illuminati, but you can’t possibly dismiss all the behavior we see and impacts we experience?
When you have to program an AI to be biased, it's a good clue that objective truth does exist, but it often tends to upset humans.
You could just read the Seattle times, no secrets here, but it is pay walled.

Definitely conservatives pointing out these problems is the best way to get votes in ultra liberal Seattle, and they don’t need to make anything up. It isn't going to change us into Trump voters, but it can sway local elections.
The gobbledygook is absolutely the point! It’s charming, fun, and gives the game a constant stream of interesting interactions.
Maybe it's different with Alexa (I use Google Home), but I disagree with the premise of the article.
Firstly, for a product that you use every day I don't see it as much effort to learn to say the right commands. Once you know it, you don't unlearn it.
I also have the Google Hub, and an app for controlling the lightning (Phillips Hue), but I rarely interact with those, since via that route it takes more steps and more time to get what I want.
For the curious, this is based on the https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs engine. Probably this fork: https://github.com/icrazyblaze/Xash3D-Emscripten/
Does customer support fall under a different category? That takes up a lot of time too.
Maybe "joke" should be in air-quotes too, just like "system" !
Language models and crawling the web for semantic data is sort of the same thing. It's like, an argument could be made that ChatGPT is itself a Semantic-created Internet.

If AI becomes the way we consume data then Semantic patterns will only help it.
Interesting to also consider the science of Optical Illusion in response to how we see color.

See 151 Illusions & Visual Phenomena with explanations by Michael Bach

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25045392
I'm still confused on what your saying. If a public official wins a § 1983 suit under a qualified immunity defense, there are no monetary damages to be indemnified against. Their employers only have to indemnify them if it is found they did not have qualified immunity and then had a judgement against them.

Are you saying that, for practical purposes, qualified immunity doesn't matter to the individual as they will almost always be indemnified anyway? I suppose this is true in a pragmatic way, but not in theory. As you say, there's no law that says the government agency has to indemnify. While I'd be surprised to find a case where the official ended up paying anything out of their own pocket, there are plenty of cases where the official has lost their job over a judgement against them and none that I could find where they won the case due to being covered under qualified immunity but still lost their job over it.
Note that different organizations use the same terms for slightly different bands. In the IEEE nomenclature for radar, UHF is 300MHz to 1GHz. 3GHz is solidly within S-Band. And L-Band is in between them.
An endless loop of AI generated content that gets posted to the web as original human generated content, with LLMs getting re-trained on this content and spitting out more content that also gets re-posted, resulting in a cesspool of BS masquerading as organic knowledge. I'm old enough to remember when Google provided meaningful search results rather than just SEO spam, the problem is about to get an order of magnitude worse.
These other responses are great justification to always dig into what someone's threat model is. I've had so many "security" conversations get resolved something like this:

other dev: this is insecure

me: what's your threat model?

other dev: <convoluted, opportunistic-only highly-timing-sensitive scenario that assumes attacker has gained internal network access>

me: you do realize all our boxes have an "admin:password"-esque standard login available and passwordless sudo. if they're on our network they can already just do basically anything.

People (well, devs) love to think about security in very fine-grained detail, and honestly that's good. We should all be thinking about this. But your security is only as good as your weakest link, and when your security policy already literally codifies "we will trust the firewall to make intranet security less annoying/complicated" then unless you want to go change that or your threat model is describing an attack on that security model, then please don't try to get overly clever.

Now - that said - I do wish more orgs just did defense-in-depth from the beginning. It's so easy to provision certs nowadays that there's almost no reason not to do mTLS etc even in something like a homelab setting.
OP wrote in response to a very specific incident, and he wrote exactly about that specific incident before he wrote

> This is unacceptable. This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control.

So I would say my assumption that he was talking about exactly that incident are quite justified, and this was specifically about children walking around on their own.

I have no idea how in that very specific text and context of OPs comment some general statement about Eastern Bloc authoritarianism can be deduced, or if it can, how it would make any sense to suddenly bring that up in that very specific context, which OPs comment maintains. As far as I can tell it's always within this frame of the story.

I see no reason why my response would not fit perfectly. The Eastern Bloc did not have that problem, it makes no sense to try to reframe it. How does it matter that they (we) had lots of other problems? ones not the subject of the current discussion?
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Seems like we need a new meme. `current_year` will be the year of web 3.0!
People do, and they fail. Often, bad policies and laws stick around even when most people don't like them. I will live my whole life seeing few or none of those issues solved, no matter what I personally do—that's just a fact. I could, today, devote the rest of my life to this, and if I moved the needle at all on even one of them it'd be a miracle.

We have a uniquely-bad electoral system, which is why so much of this day-to-day stuff ends up so insanely dysfunctional compared to most other developed democracies, and we've had mass-media special interest propaganda running rampant in a way it doesn't elsewhere, since the 80s (loss of the fairness doctrine—which, admitted ickiness aside, did seem to keep things on the rails a bit—and deregulation of media outlet ownership leading to unprecedented, extreme levels of consolidation; hard to tell which of those is most responsible, since they both happened around the same time) and that propaganda's able to be unusually effective in part because of our bad electoral system.

The result is that as long as factions in favor of these shitty things can stay under one of the two big tents, they get the tacit support of all the rest of the factions under those tents, even if most of them don't like that first group of factions. "Of course civil forfeiture's bullshit, obviously it is... but I can't vote for a pro-choicer/communist/whatever!" et c. (and, yes, the effect is on "both sides"—it's why we hear a ton of noise from "no abortion ever!" and "zero restrictions until the baby takes its first breath!" while the majority of voters, who just want more-or-less what Roe guaranteed, get little attention)

So, our freedom to vote is even, arguably, quite a bit less-free than for a fair proportion of our peers, since our ability, in practice, to express our actual desires through the electoral process is much more curtailed than in most of them—though, obviously, that part doesn't apply to authoritarians states.
Would they survive to make it to the proceedings?
I violently AGREE with you! <the severed comment flies off in an arc!>
Such a fascinatingly simple experiment. Generate 6,764 negative sentences, then for each sentence, test it against each of of hundred or so demographic group.

The most powerful chart in the entire article, just summarizes how many times these same sentences are flagged as hateful for each group:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...
I spent hours watching demos of pro games to learn wallbangs (especially de_nuke) and flash spots. Good times indeed! Shout out to HLTV.
They derive that number by looking at the current market, which is depressed via H1Bs.

Spouting basic knowledge at people and then telling them to "think before talking shit" does not engender curiosity, and is inappropriate for this site.
This is pretty wild! Seems like it's running the FWGS xash3d engine, which seems to be some sort of rewrite of the Valve goldsrc engine (which I didn't realize had available code to be rewritten)?

I'm curious about how it's actually executing in the browser (WebGL? WebGPU? WASM, even?) but cant seem to be able to get onto a server to poke around at the moment.
Strangest thing to me about the topic is that it’s obvious vast percentage of citizens within democracies wish they lived in an authoritarian country, yet choose to live in a democracy and use the liberties they’re provided to actively destabilize and destroy it. To me this is the largest issue, not a given topic that results from it.

Yes, I am aware current authoritarian countries wage propaganda campaigns, but in my experience such campaigns would be meaningless without an existing tendency to seek out authoritarian rule.

While likely flawed opinion, I do feel like one possible explanation is nationalism in general, since while many democratic countries will argue they believe in the rule of law, ultimately any non-citizen is treated as if they are within an authoritarian country and for sure not as citizens by default. Only once there are countries that treats all people equally and as citizens, will such an issue be addressed in my opinion.
I grew up in Africa.

We had some of the deadliest snakes in the world, slithering through our backyard (mambas, gaboon vipers, cobras, etc. -Nigeria, in the 60s), and we had brown scorpions, scuttling around the schoolyard, in Morocco.

I have had the … pleasure … of a rabies vaccination series, because of rabid rodents.

I used to pass a police fort, with a .50 caliber machine gun pointed at me (Uganda, in the early 70s -fun times), on my way to the candy store.

Coming to the US was a bit of a culture shock.
It depends on whether the EU etc force side loading to be an option
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>As a liberal my views haven't changed much over the past decade but the ground has definitely fallen away from me.

Well yes, because liberalism is about "progress" while conservatism is about "traditional values". Liberalism is constantly evolving while conservatism is not. It is more extreme to fight for trans rights than it is to fight for gay rights than it is to fight for women's rights. If you magically transported a liberal from a decade ago to today, they will inherently be viewed as more conservative. Obama didn't support gay marriage until 2012. Very few liberal politicians today would be against gay marriage. Your views not changing means your views are becoming more conservative because they are falling behind the "progress" that liberals are always pushing towards.

And also it is worth noting that according to Pew "[Congressional] Republicans have moved further to the right than [Congressional] Democrats have to the left"[1]

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/10/the-polariz...
What does community mean? Does it mean discord servers, or active GitHub repos, or a mailing list, or lots of discussion on social media? Does it mean groups of friends who share enthusiasm for new apps they find and old apps they swear by? Does it mean indie bloggers and podcasters devoted to surfacing gems?

Show me the meaning of community that doesn't exist around iOS apps, because I see all these things.

Or by "community" do you just mean "open source, developed collaboratively"? Because that's not something I, and likely most iOS users, rank highly in the factors I look for in an app.
I don't think its simple.
A lot of people (myself included) are simply busy with life, families, jobs, etc.

If you are extremely busy and you aren't an expert, how do you know which experts have an agenda or not ? Then sometimes even the the most highly rated experts have a sudden shift of ideology/agenda/something later.

I have personally witnessed several highly competent long standing developers suddenly change, and push social agendas into everything. The worst is when HR also starts pushing social agendas into everything.

I'm expecting the layoffs to continue intermittently for another year or too, it gives management a nice cover to get rid of a lot of people.
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I was always amused by how many of my friends got crazy monitors but still just used headphones. Surround sound for 1.6 made the game incredibly unfair. Being able to hear specifically in what direction and volume footsteps were coming from was basically a wallhack. I would often use headphones because parents weren't the biggest fans of hours of that a night, and it was so crippling.

Funny enough, my semi-pro career (I made $60 total) ended when I abandoned my surround sound when moving out in undergrad.
> 2. Distributed in trading doesn't mean what FAANG are doing. Trading systems for example usually run 2 hot-warm systems with real-time replication commits, that's about it. They don't run horizontally scaled systems because network time would kill their performance.

That's pretty close to Ericsson's use case for dist; they built it to run redundant computers in the same chassis for telephone switches. It just also happens to work fairly well at much larger cluster sizes too.
I guess I feel like this is a silly can of worms. I suppose asking for exact equality isn't dumb, but it's a language model, not a paragon of truth. I feel like if OpenAI takes these concerns seriously the goal-posts will inevitably move to more social pressure from all sorts of axe-to-grind-groups -

-- Why does/doesn't ai say Mohamad is/isn't horrible for having 99 wives (or whatever)

-- Why doesn't ai say Jeffrey Epstein was/wasn't ...

-- Why doesn't ai say ... about validity of election or controversial political event du jour

-- Why doesn't ai say circumcision is/isn't ...

-- Why doesn't ai say ... about the child-abuse from the catholic church ...

We should set the standard now that OpenAI will never have all the correct moral opinions (if there even is such a thing as objectively correct morality), and it's a huge waste of researchers time to obsess about political correctness when we could be <100 years off from AGI.
Well now we can quibble! :D

Svelte IS storing a representation of the expected layout of the DOM (at least the limited set it cares about). That's precisely what "reactivity" is. It's aggregating the values we've stated are important to our template (either by hand ($) or automatically (=)) and monitoring changes to those values to trigger a set of updates.

The diffing happens right there. It's also why you end up with some unusual restraints on how you do assignments - if you're not careful the autodetection of "this bit was important and needs to be diffed and trigger code on changes" fails (they talk about this quite clearly, and very early: https://svelte.dev/tutorial/updating-arrays-and-objects)

I also find it bit disingenuous to call out things like "shouldComponentUpdate". That's very, very nearly the same as reactive declarations. You're having to indicate to svelte that "yes - this declaration should update". Again - it's more precise than react allows you to be, but conceptually I find it just a slightly different take on the same function.

It's also why you can easily get into the same sort of cyclical dependencies that you can with react (although I think the messaging from the svelte compiler here is pretty on point, compared to react)

Now - I generally find it a bit easier to suss out why the loop is happening in svelte than react (where it's not always easy or intuitive to understand that a hidden reference value may have been changed and is triggering quite a bit of downstream updates) but it's essentially the same problem space, just inverted:

React makes you mark places you don't want to care about changes (useMemo, useCallback)

Svelte makes you mark places you do want to care about changes ($, =)

You're basically arguing that opt-in is better than opt-out, and I think that you may have a fairly compelling argument, but lets not paper over the fact that both frameworks are tackling the problem is similar ways, and both end up with their own DSLs to indicate intent with regards to changing values, and when to run code.
Web3 moniker is tainted. Let's just agree that version never existed and skip ahead to Web 5.0?
This article lost me with it's definitions of "Web 1.0" and "Web 2.0," which are totally divorced from reality.
If only!

The effects turn out to be pretty complicated because other ongoing brain activity shapes the stimulation effect (and vice versa). Sometimes, the same stimulation can even produce totally opposite effects.

Elsewhere in the thread, I linked to an article we wrote about this and other challenges for doing (useful) brain stimulation.
Are you aware of how the Senate has been operating for the past few years? A single Senator can indeed scuttle entire legislation.
My prognosis is that in this century, AI will prove most fruitful in Visual Media. We will hit some kind of transparent barrier for Language and music, but video editing tools will expand without limits (including animation art/metaverse/holograms/bots...). Just a personal guess.
No doubt, but they wanted a non-capitalistic reason why this technology isn’t The Debil.

And having subtle clues from watching a person’s face while they’re proposing whatever action to overthrow the patriarchy is more convincing than some random person wearing a Guy Fawkes mask talking about revolution for the umpteenth time.
Users are infatuated with and romanticize GTP. It’s similar to translation software. Compared to the human mind they’re brute force algorithms with access to warehouses of personal data. Any mention of this fact sends users into fits. It’s borderline compulsive. I often hear people saying “I don’t understand how it works but I think it’s impressive” and that sort of says it all. GTP attracts people who don’t know and/or don’t want to know how it works. They can’t reconcile their appreciation for it with the fact that it’s unimpressive. It’s a golden apple.
Thanks for the kind words :)

I don't even have kids and I have plenty of time so I need to get my mindset under control lol.

TMI here but due to a feeling of wasted potential because of inattentive ADHD (treated but still), I have guilt when I procrastinate and am not productive and long games don't allow me to lie to myself about it, if that makes sense.

Gaming isn't procrastinating on other stuff necessarily, it's just the way I feel often.