skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having set up various diffusion models I'm gonna say that the "read tutorials and tinker with manually setting up an environment" is EXTREMELY fair criticism. Much of the ML ecosystem is kinda held together with duct tape and string.

As I get older, I feel more and more that the initial reactions of people completely new to a software system are incredibly valuable, and the best response is to try and capture those reactions so you can find out what underlying problems (if any) that caused them. When you hire a junior engineer straight out of college, maybe they'll react with horror when they see what real production code looks like. It's EASY to just say that they'll get used to it. However, their reactions are sometimes correct and sometimes miss the mark. It takes work to sort it out, but the first step is capturing the initial reactions of people new to the system, and knee-jerk responses just get in the way.

Most of the senior engineers can't see the problems. They've been surrounded by those problems for too long and the problems just turn into background noise.
100%, my experience getting to front page of HN twice with https://sqwok.im

I found Twitter to not be a great place to recruit new users, granted it was probably partly because I was using the official account for the site, not a personal account with my face, and the nature of "real-time" means w/o coordinated events where people show up at the same time, the bounce rate is high.

What was the hn clone you built? Still working on community site(s)?
You can still pinpoint a particular person or institution behind a decision and hold them responsible though. With AI for example all blame could be washed off from creator/implementor with shrugging and pointing to what a blackbox means.
names of things are not copyrightable, even the title of books and films are not part of the copyright (that's why we see different movies come out with the same title). The reason is, there is not enough space in a title to exhibit the type of creative expression that copyright is meant to protect.
"Ukraine is the official full name of the country, as stated in its declaration of independence and its constitution"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine

I know this fact won't change your mind. But just in case anyone reading was wondering who decided on 'Ukraine'.
The companies have progressively made the system weak through lobbying and regulatory capture
Their testing methedology is excellent. Basically they are extremely thorough and objective.

They arent end-all-be-all though. For instance, notebookcheck is probably the best laptop and phone tester around.
Because literally nobody cares about the balloons aside from the laughingstock the US military became after they let the first one float across the entire United States before finally shooting it down.
There were no nudes in the NY post article. The story was not suppressed on the basis of nonconsensual pornography. The suppressed article primarily concerned emails where Hunter appeared to be brokering meetings with his father in exchange for consideration. Initial reports claimed the material was fake, but it's since been acknowledged as authentic. (You might have been aware of the authenticity earlier except that posts describing how to use DKIM headers to cryptographically validate the messages were also widely suppressed or buried -- including on HN for that matter! [1])

As smoking guns go I wouldn't consider it very impressive-- if anything it really just looks like Hunter was scamming people using his father's name-- but that is no excuse to misrepresent the situation. But it wouldn't be the first time by far that the coverup was a bigger impropriety than the thing being covered up.

Do you expect a useful discussion to result from a message that gets every factual point wrong or are we just being trolled? (maybe someone using a large language model to argue? -- the truthy but wrong responses fit the pattern)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Authenticating%20a%20message%2...
AI does not empower 'weird self published stuff' and the internet worked very well before AI came along.
> It's because it's being handled fairly well.

Even if that were true, which is debatable, it should be a huge scandal that this happened at all literally weeks after rail workers tried to strike over safety issues and were forced back to work, and that Obama required train brakes to be upgraded, then softened the requirements after corporate pushback, which Trump then repealed and Biden failed to reverse. There is a lot to say on this topic and no one in the mainstream is saying it.
>ohio is out of immediate crisis

Is it? Sounds like an environmental crisis with serious ramifications
Yeah, this is different.

Search is just snippets of other peoples websites. Search companies would like to see themselves as neutral. A common carrier, like the power companies.

GPT is something different. Its original speech. Not just a snippet of somebody else's speech.
as long as the insanity doesn't come to my city, I fully agree with you.

What was that "n-gate" phrase "a city at war with it's citizens"?
Playing devil’s advocate: I guess the legal argument here could be that you wouldn’t be able to come after Logitech for making a keyboard used to publish lies. If microsoft could manage to convince a court that you could only get defamatory content out of bing by asking it to defame someone, I could see how that argument could work.
I didn’t mean he could echolocate while driving, it was just a memory of this kid I had, is all.
That guy doesn’t get enough props for what he puts out, in my opinion…
IMO it's a zoning problem. If you build residential it should be occupied, in theory if you build it that's the entire point. Mixed use / commercial is another story. If implemented correctly, this could also solve the issue of foreign nationals buying up tons of property just to sit on as an investment - which is a net negative for anyone actually living in the city where these properties are built.
The DSM-5 was released in 2013 with some extensive changes - but this is not mentioned in Jonathan Haidt’s essay.

The DSM-5 had several changes in diagnosis that could explain the sharp rise in his graphs. That we simply got a view of how bad our society’s mental health is, rather than it increasing at a dramatically higher rate than pre-2012.

Diagnosis around women’s mental health has also become much better in recent years. The amount of gaslighting around disorders and “hysteria” in women historically is troubling and completely unethical.

I find Gabor Mate’s work much more enlightening in understanding why mental health is such an issue in the modern world. I highly recommend his books if you are curious.

Gabor’s definition of addiction is that it is a coping mechanism to seek relief from pain, often with negative consequences. Therefore social media does not explain the pain. It’s an effect not a cause, despite how it can contribute to feelings of loneliness and inadequacy.

Instead it is worth understanding how our youth are raised, and the trauma their parents carry onto them despite their best intentions and effort.
This is unusually family-like, though: After the layoffs started last month, many past and current Tableau employees connected online to offer help and support to those affected.
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There is no reason to keep Windows installed on a new computer. "
Gaming would be a reason
Even with "man", it's a dismal view. If Magnus Carlsen sat next to me at a chess tournament and suggested moves, I would follow his suggestion in every critical position, and probably most others if I wanted to maximize my chances. At that point, it would cease to be me playing the tournament.

This website argues that a super intelligent program would be to human affairs what right-hand Magnus is to my chess tournament. We would cease to be ourselves and become a physical arm for the program.
> Adding another layer of abstraction on top of everything else isn't going to help anyone

Ignoring the point that the frameworks we already use are major abstractions on top of abstractions, if this new "abstraction" truly eliminates the complexities of client-server-client it will greatly benefit developers and users alike.

A good many (most?) of the bugs and performance problems (and security lapses) in today's complex webapps is due to the complexities of managing this client-server divide. Even when the developer does things right according to docs and examples, it's possible to end up with a system which does not perform well without solid understanding of what's happening in at the endpoints and in the middle and clever optimizations to solve the special needs.
These are all over the place, in german speaking countries the keyword to search for is "Dialog im Dunkeln" and "Dinner im Dunkeln." I used to work as a guide in such a place. Its fun to watch sighted visitors having to adapt to moving in the dark...
Can confirm. I am blind, and I do use echolocation a lot. As an example of what is possible, I typically can hear a tree trunk or light pole when walking. The accoustic shadow they cast is enough for detection. If you like, you can play with that yourself. Do you hear the tree?
I think where things go haywire is that it made a decision at all.

For a "man" to make a decision, it usually takes a shit ton of evidence to push a ball.

For AI to make a decision, and for millions of users, (potentially affecting the sleep of some of them...) it usually doesn't take anything at all other than some stupid trigger.

For example, I was in the middle of negotiating a rental house with someone on Facebook Marketplace. Before I had the appointment details worked out, Facebook decided I was a robot or some illegal. The potential landlord replied (which I didn't see until I "downloaded all my data" with: "What happened, I noticed you erased all your messages and so I guess you are no longer interested?"

Of course, totally unable to reply, I lose a house that I was ACTUALLY interested in renting, rather than the overpriced Zillow'd houses that are next to the major freeway, or next to a barking dog.

And so I lost sleep. Thanks AI. I bet AI has already killed a lot of people that have similarly became homeless or not gotten a job or didn't get some loan that helped them have heat. Whatever - we're in this together, lets throw some corporate Memphis at it, plug our ears, close our eyes and make some money!
That's not much different for decisions by (larger) institutions.
My point is that both the author's writings and the AI he argues against are the kind of believable nonsense that only gets published for wide viewership because the internet makes it possible.

This whole comment thread is happening because a person who is wrong and not really smart is writing about how AI is wrong and not really smart, and none of this would happen if the internet didn't empower cranks in general, and it's sad that I have to spell this out.
Yes "random walk" is not a strategy, it is a model. This article basically just says:"Jumping bean motion can be modeled with random walk", which isn't really suprising.
Optimized Locking (SQL Server)
Finally seeing an alternative (OCC) implemented alongside with 2PL in RDBMS
Sure they did. First, they question the qualification of the author, then suddenly those qualifications are all relative and not really so relevant.
Nope, the media makes seem like people are backwards and get uppity up the gas stove. Gas stove is the cheapest and easier to replace. Induction stove are actually quite nice and typically don’t require much of a retrofit.
Note that cover up in some context refers to literally covering pools of chemicals with the new rail line without doing a proper decontamination in order to get the line open again.
There is no non-AI future. You just get to help choose who gets to whatever the finish line is first.
This not true:

"Because the outcome of each coin flip is independent of all the others, there is always an equal chance that it will land on heads or tails with each toss. That means that your future final position is independent of your original starting position"

Assuming a fair coin, you will most likely end up approximately at where you started, with a Gaussian distribution. And your final position is extremely correlated with where you started.
It's not just a question of whether the GPU is big enough. Sometimes you need to tweak this stuff so it runs on the type of GPU that you have. I would suggest trying it out first, and then looking at a VM later. Yes, you can rent a VM, you just need to get a VM with enough memory, and with a GPU attached. This is how I do it. Just remember to turn the VM off. A VM with a GPU may cost something like $0.45 an hour, which is over $300 per month.
That's probably the best kind of "preachy". And back then, it really was required as anti-semitism was definitely at its peak then.
Slightly off-topic, but why does your site not work in Russia? I'm currently in Russia visiting family, and need to turn a VPN on just for you, as anything else I use works perfectly fine. I sure hope it's not politics, because the last thing I need is fonts to be politically charged.
Lockval Engine is not yet open source software, and the code and documentation of some peripheral tools are on the github homepage.

I have been thinking about the most suitable business model for Lockval Engine, such as finding suitable funders.

This is not an issue that needs to be considered recently. Lockval Engine still has many things to do, such as improving the documentation, collecting more feedback and stabilizing the API, and so on.
Is it even possible to outperform the market in the long term, without some violation of the Efficient Market Hypothesis? Without insider knowledge/trading or some technical mechanism to access information or trades faster?
How did you “watch” in the dark?
Most human institutions expend a lot of effort in ensuring that responsibility (and therefore accountability) is diffuse and difficult to pin down. Take a look at any government body.
This is just screaming into the void, but I have an ego so I must.

If you believe AI will bring innovation, you believe in it's capability.

If you believe in its capability, you must also understand it is capable of wrongdoing as well as good deeds.

Most of the comments here are just arguing about this basic stream of logic bringing in things like "PHD" "Fallacies" or "Blind faith"

If you feel the need to argue, know that there exist people who would walk toward the sun until it burned them, and there exist people who will shut themselves indoors the day somebody explains light to them.

Both of them are extremely outspoken about their views.
Defendant should not have so engaged Plaintiff.

That being said, shouldn't it be trivial to find prior art; prior software or articles already published on the internet that does what USPTO allowed Plaintiff to patent (2017) after searching only its own database?
Differing structures don't necessarily require more compute to query.

Anyway this is a weird argument. Ideally you get your schema right from the get go no matter the DB, of course things will be easier. But we don't. That's why we have migrations. Also, what's right today, might not be after acquiring Jonny Big Corp.

The whole point of NoSQL is to dump documents into it, of varying structure, and query/index them as-needed.
Have you tried setting condition_on_previous_text to False?
if you look into sciml stuff in the Julia community there's a bunch. some example use cases are trajectory optimization, and accelerating climate simulation. often these ML models are referred to as "surrogate models". let me know if you have more questions, I can probably point you in the right direction.
Yeah we are not satisfied with the number of undefined behaviors and want to use something even more ambiguous...
There was a physics today article in the 90s about a group that ran the numbers on a self assembling desert furnace/solar cell/robot factory. Seemed doable, except for the self assembling robot part.
> Eating a moderate amount of LSD or some functional equivalent will help a lot

I imagine the hallucinatory effects of LSD outstrip its usefulness in creating neuroplasticity. If I had my eyes closed, even on a moderate dose, I would more than likely experience vivid enough visual and auditory hallucinations that figuring out the environment might not be possible.

Although one time on a dose of mushrooms I swear I could hear where people were by their heartbeats. It's unlikely I could actually hear their heart beat from that far away, but I was weirdly aware of where they were and could predict when they would come into the room long before I would normally be able to do so.
Yah, this article is basically nonsense. The beans jump more when hot, and less when cold, meaning they are more likely to stay put when jumping into the shade, and if too hot they'll keep jumping.
Yeah, I could already imagine “yes, I overwrote the settings for you because [insert reasons]”

Ok. Please don’t do that again.

“Ok”

Then it happens again and again and again for various reasons.

In all reality, iOS already does this with wifi, bluetooth and so on.
> I don't think this is that good of an idea, imho

I don't think it necessarily is a bad idea either. The problem is that you can't just make a simple looking website and call it a "HN for X". HN is nothing without the users and comments. So if the idea is to bring the research community to the site itself, the idea is.. good? At least in theory. It might still be impossible in practice.
That's a very fair point.

> there's no guarantee of competence of the people who wrote the dependency

This is, in my opinion, the best reason to build stuff in-house. Thank you!
I do also watch TV, because I dont see why I should change my language to make pedants like you happy.
Confusion Spirals in Crypto as the US Cracks Down
you're right, the other comment led me astray and i didn't check. it's just partisan trash. so to make up for it,

Wp starts its `background` analysis <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_...> with `The rise of precision scheduled railroading has resulted in resource and staffing cuts; to compensate railroad companies have enacted strict attendance policies for employees. These policies eliminate any free time which workers have, requiring them to be effectively on-call for weeks at a time. Workers have complained of increased levels of stress and fatigue.` The bulk of the argument is supported by this vice article <https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkp9m8/what-choice-do-i-have...> which is frankly horrifying. It's a bunch of quotes from train conductors talking about falling asleep, being tired, taking caffeine pills, etc. It ends with a 2020 derailment. "A BNSF TRAIN CARRYING OIL TANKERS DERAILED IN WASHINGTON STATE IN 2020. WORKERS ARE WORRIED MORE CRASHES LIKE THIS WILL OCCUR UNDER THE NEW ATTENDANCE POLICY."

Wp again "Unions representing about 17,000 workers threatened to strike over the points system, but BNSF Railway sued and won a restraining order to prevent the unions from striking. The Railway Labor Act grants Congress the authority to intervene in any railway or airline strike. Under this authority, the National Mediation Board has mediated negotiations between multiple freight railroads and unions starting in June 2021." and there's your crux.

then a bunch of back and forth happens, and then it ends with biden/congress/senate doing their thing. it seems like the gist of the forced solution was to raise salaries and some sick leave, but no other mitigations.

wp again, "Writing for Jacobin, Barry Eidlin, associate professor of sociology at McGill University, said the message sent to the rail workers by the president and Congress was "shut up and get back to work." The Biden administration's intervention in the dispute was condemned by over 500 labor historians in an open letter to Joe Biden and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh."
Yes, I am going to install a Rinnai RSC199eN. Haven’t quite got there yet as I am doing a repipe myself and will relocate washer/dryer too a bit later (basically will reclaim the former mechanical room, which is almost 8x8)

For me, I really needed the inline tankless installed outdoors - so it will be worth it (lose a messy laundry room, gain a bedroom). I figured upgrading to 400A service panel would take longer and be more annoying than doing gas.
Can someone explain why missiles are used vs a wide variety of not-100s-of-thousands-of-dollar weapons available?
They still go out of their way to accommodate him. His Twitter and Facebook accounts have been reactivated
If you can run a desktop operating system on a mobile device, is mobile device a relevant distinction?

(In my opinion, on a PC patents are vexatious.)
It's great to see these oldies get so much love. These are small enough that the power bill won't kill you immediately. The 'big iron' I worked with in the 80's required 400V tri-phase supplies and at todays' power prices you'd definitely think twice about starting them up.

Old PDPs also have their fanbase, and there is a ton of knowledge floating around about all these systems, sometimes more in the hobbyist sphere than there is left at the companies that built them (assuming they still exist). Of course you could emulate it all but the real hardware has its own kind of charm.

I see this one is here in NL, maybe I'll ask the owner one day if I can come by to have a look at the beast, it is definitely an interesting era to document in living hardware.
This sounds a lot like satire. This excerpt for example is blatantly self-contradictory:

>We’ve found zero [scenarios] that lead to good outcomes. // Most AI researchers think good outcomes are more likely. This seems just blind faith, though. A majority surveyed also acknowledge that utter catastrophe is quite possible.1

So they found zero scenarios that lead to good outcomes, but most AI researchers think that good outcomes are more likely?

Brushing off a majority view as w*shful "thinking", and then backing up the argument with a... majority view?

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Anyway. The problem with AI-driven decisions is moral in nature, not technological. AI is a tool and should be seen as such, not as a moral agent that can be held responsible for its* own actions. Less "the AI did it", more "[Person] did it using an AI".
When I was 14 I used some parts from radioshack, "JTAG", and some of my mom's larger sewing needles to get my xbox 360 to play videogame content I downloaded off the internet and burned to discs. I hardly understood how, I just followed some instructions carefully.

You only need one cracker. Friend-groups usually have someone patient enough to follow "tech recipes".
- ingredients/parts
- sequential process
- result
This is a good idea. It's similar to how I need insurance as a contractor, because I can cause literally millions of euros of damage. Well police can cause more than just monetary damage.

It's incredibly sad that this is necessary in the U.S.A. though, and perhaps it's only a symptom of the actual problem(s). The overwhelming majority of police are friendly and helpful in the places in Europe I've been (and I'm not white!).

EDIT: Heh, just looked up Belo Horizonte. I should have said "Americas" then ;)
https://archive.is/KRdAz
Very interesting and depressing. Thanks!