skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't confuse programming different projects.. or I assume civil engineers doing different civil engineering things, or chemists. Even writer switching between reporting for the sports page and writing romance novels. ..

Jack of all trades would be in all of the above, plus woodworking, playing violin, learning a foreign language. .. thing that are all fine alone, but too different to master them all.
Sure—FWIW I'm pretty sure you asked in good faith (hell, everyone misreads sometimes) I just think that's why you were drawing downvotes.
> "near plaintext speed" fundamentally isn't currently possible with true fully homomorphic encryption, at least in my understanding.

If you skip the security requirements, applying rot13 twice is a fully homomorphic scheme that achieves plaintext speeds ;)
Coal is dying on it's own, the free market has decided.

I have zero problem living down wind of solar panels and wind turbines
I probably should have added: the backends used in the post are 3-ish years old and missing some of the latest features. We're working on integrating newer backends and taking advantage of the new techniques! The performance story is better than it seems from my article. Plus this doesn't have any hardware acceleration, another big topic on my agenda :)
No- we need to build more homes.
I thought HTML5, at least, was UTF-8 by default?
MiniMaterials
I'm a big fan of Lilex and use it currently: https://github.com/mishamyrt/Lilex. I think it looks quite a bit like Inconsolata which I used to use a long time ago.
The thing that killed micropayments back in the early 2000s (when Scott McCloud was calling for them) was transaction costs. Putting a paywall on every click is a sales and user experience nightmare. Keep in mind that the reason why everyone uses subscription billing nowadays is that you never have to bug the user to ask for more money. You just ask once and get paid indefinitely.

There are micropayments that do sort of work - for example, cellphone plans that bill per megabyte of "data". But even then that only works because mobile operating systems and apps do not provide a way to anticipate data costs. There is no cost displayed next to each link you tap or YouTube video you watch. If there was, nobody would use their phones. Usage-based billing is actually one of my pet peeves for exactly this reason.

What we really want is an all-you-can-eat model that just gives us what we had back in the Advertising Will Pay For It era of news. Except that will never exist because everyone knows how platform capitalism works. Once you condition users to pay a fixed amount per month, then all the creators on your platform - or, in this case, news organizations - are playing a zero-sum game. Because they are being paid out of one pot and the only way to make that pot bigger is to do the platform's advertising job for you. This is what happened with Spotify and Netflix, with the added intrigue of the platform playing artists off one another with original content and exclusives.

On a more technical level, transaction networks are expected to provide fraud insurance, and that bills at a tune of 30 cents per transaction. Any mechanism to shave pennies off your wallet will be abused to commit untold amounts of tiny fraudulent transactions. For example, imagine installing a browser extension that, in the background, starts loading up your news articles without the user's knowledge. That's the sort of thing that will kill a microtransaction system long-term.
The free market is considerably more government driven than people want to believe.
The aviation industry is averse to change. Most planes are still being updated with floppy disk.

But I agree. High end commercial solid storage, such Optane, would likely exceeds the requirements needed by the aviation industry.
In what way? Most implementations of inside out do have controller tracking limitations due to body occlusion, but Quest Pro's controllers (which track themselves) suffer even less from this problem than Lighthouse does. Granted, it's expensive and a bit buggy, but it's a first generation implementation and it's not difficult to predict a revision that uses custom silicon instead of using a smartphone SoC per controller.
I thought you might be trolling. But then when I looked at the Clojure repo on Github https://github.com/clojure/clojure the last commit was 2 months back. There is some merit in your arguments.
> I'm currently suffering from a serious case of distrust and cynicism over anything related to medical health news, I wonder if this is widespread?

I feel the same way but at this point it isn't suffering for me. I open nyt and see something pharma/mental health/etc related and assume it's someone advocating some lifestyle that benefits the pharma industry

I mean, this is sort of our economic system: manipulating people into being more profitable. It makes zero sense to me why some people decide to selectively trust based off of whatever is trending in political discourse. Most strangers who want to reach you want to sell you something. Maybe some people have trouble accepting that we live in an actual dystopia? Idk

Edit, relevant article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-...
they wouldn't have realized what specifically was going on, but it would have felt very unusual at two different points (initial descent and initial recovery).
That is an interesting case study. Their limit probably is not ideal, but I think something similar with a different limit, would be good for us too.
May want to freshen up your understanding of the word “shall.”
I am starting one in person. It’s so much more efficient when it comes to getting things done. I’m sorry quality of life folks.
> now megatoxins are Chernobyling Ohio and there's a news blackout and the police are beating reporters and camera people and dragging em

Unless this poster can supply some corroborating information, or perhaps a scientific definition of "megatoxin," this is more noise than signal.
Yes, they aren't different; they have exactly the same problem, which is why StableDiffusion is also the subject of a lawsuit, like Copilot.
How do you deal with the complexity of hosting Matrix?

I was in the same position, wanted to set one up - decided it was too much work.
Those weren't counterexamples, they were red herrings.
Depends how managed it is. I feel like a cloud managed kubernetes can be simple enough to run, if you already have the experience. I dare say on par with the complexity of running a VM yourself.
Are you one of the (anonymous) authors?
> companies with huge resources, and with careful testing

Careful, sure, but not necessarily with your benefit in mind (unless you're a shareholder).
I have a surface pro 7,running windows 11. Video calls in teams will reliably cause an actual BSOD (blue screen of death for the younger readers) , and my other coworker with the same hardware experiences the same issue. I don't have issues in zoom or Google meet, but teams video calls will reliably cause an honest to God BSOD. The first couple of times it happened I was a little bit nostalgic, I hadn't seen that since XP and even with XP it was rare.

I don't know how I could have a better environment to run teams, I'm using Microsoft hardware, running a Microsoft camera driver, on a Microsoft OS, using a Microsoft messaging platform. Absolutely ridiculous, thankfully we only have one external vendor who uses teams. Ironically, that vendor is an oracle provider, so their whole existence just revolves around hideous software.
Having a PhD doesn't really mean anything other than having really specialized into one part of a field (you can have a PhD in earthworms). A lot of PhDs are awful at system-thinking.

From Scopus, it doesn't look like he's published anything scientific since the 1990s. https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7402278483

He has not had a very strong career, and his knowledge of AI is antiquated.
> Have there been hundreds of stories about this?

Chinese balloons are novel. This is not. It’s tragic. But its most memorable element seems to be the meta-debate around its coverage. That's boring.
jart may see her wish come true after all
47 degree diagonal square FOV and 1080p resolution make this an entirely different, and frankly uninteresting, kind of device.
Where's the capitalism good/regulation bad folks who post here? And do they want to take a field trip? :)
I can’t decide if I’m tickled or horrified that Jurassic Park is being offered as a seminal work in techno-skepticism.

It’s reading a bit like somebody saying that Coldplay really established rock as a music genre.

Thank you for making my evening!
The fourth why is often “because we were lazy”.
People love change. Look how Google, Amazon, and social media took the world by storm. And pocket calculators, smart phones, large screen TV's, the list goes on.

People like changes that benefit them. On the other hand, probably the #1 user request for enterprise software is: Please don't change anything. This tells you something about the software. Common reasons are:

* The last major change broke everything and we couldn't do our jobs for weeks.

* The new system has nobody to help us when there's a problem.

* All of our files / contacts / messages disappeared, or we can't find them any more.

* Meanwhile, we're still expected to keep up the pace of work.
> There are many ways to earn money from films, music, art, books, etc., without needing copyright.

For any of those ways, it will always be cheaper to copy someone else's films, music, art, books, etc. rather than spend time and effort to produce them yourself. This is more true where only some works are popular (e.g., where a publisher publishes 50 books for every hit), because a copier can just copy the popular works and skip the unpopular ones.
I guess my comment is against the grain. But I do enjoy Teams. More over, I (as consultant) moved three orgs onto Teams and the clients are happy. Its fantastic integration and communication platform. Enjoy!
If only a small subset of people online are able to truly take advantage of ChatGPT, then I don't think Google is as threatened by it as many have portrayed.
Air quality sensors probably won’t get you the information you want. The ones available will be able to detect small particulate, indoor gases like CO or CO2 which wouldn’t be the issue, or very vague broad swaths of compounds lumped together which again are only relevant at high concentrations achieved only in enclosed spaces.

If there is something going on the most likely culprit is something specific with toxic effects at quite low doses that just wouldn’t be detectable without very specialized equipment (5,6,7? Digit costs)
There's a common fallacy in your example in that you're asking "who" caused the accident and not "what." This is why blameless retros are important. Whenever you're dealing with who, the responsibility is never binary. There's always some responsibility someone can take for a situation they're a part of. That's good advice for life in general.

The intention of the five whys is to find breakdowns at each level...not just the last one, and mitigate each.
Do you remember how a Google employee thought LaMDA was sentient and tried to hire a lawyer for the LLM?

It's the same thing here. It's just generating words.
Can you imagine the morale of an engineer/designer known for working on the worst-in-class product?
What's the significance of this submission?
ref is to India's stance on Ukraine war.
(in the most literal sense).
The Arrival of the “Calculator-on-a-Chip” (2015)
It's better being the king of a kingdom than a pile of dirt.

These companies have reputations, and are better off making humanity better, than destroying it. So far, they have definitely shown that this is their goal. My bigger fear is that governments start taking over this technology in nefarious ways as they have shown to do.
I think the people in Ohio wondering if they're going to be in a Flint-like situation, WTF these chemicals the average person has never heard of are, and what's going to be done about it are all interesting subjects.

Alas, I haven't heard much about them from those knowledgeable enough to chime in on the subjects and I'd love to.

As for balloons, they got boring last week, other than some airspace closures that only pilots need worry about. China has always been spying on us, the methods might be new, but not the fact of it.
Professional VR/AR has been available. Varjo is the standard. Rumor is that Apple has been using them to prototype their software before their own hardware availability.
Visa and MC issued in Russia work just fine, no need for external banking
It has not—or else it would easily be approved. What the Blue Oak Council said in 2019 was roughly that they weren’t interested in submitting to the OSI because its procedures and policies were broken (based on having been involved with OSI in the past; and I gather there’s wide agreement to this sentiment to at least some degree), though they wouldn’t object if someone else did; and they did offer to submit it as a test case under some proposed new procedures, but nothing happened with that reform. Around the time of the publication of BlueOak-1.0.0, one of its authors wrote “Don’t Rely on OSI Approval (activist approval does not track practical needs)”: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/05/05/Rely-on-OSI.html (pity about the awful slug in the URL), which explains some of the problems with OSI.
Make sure they’re reliable. https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/048_indoorairsensing/
> but the railroads would rather chase higher profits and cut down on salary expenses.

All companies will do that. The reason rail companies can do this so ruthlessly and recklessly is complete lack of competition and exceedingly generous industry deregulation.
This story is one of the reasons why I don't understand why people are so enamored with FOSS. The entire ecosystem is a gigantic free-rider problem. If you cannot exlude people from using your software despite the fact that they don't pay, you're not capturing the value you provide. The result is, in line with econ 101, undersupply and lack of investment.

It's not just the author but this is how many free software projects look. People living on 1800 bucks a month providing millions in value to billion dollar companies. Completely bizarre status quo.
Hell, I'd say mental state instead of illness. Being happy-go-lucky tends to be self-reinforcing in some, or we could use whomever we know that's a "Glass half full" kind of person as our example.
> We thought that after inventing the nuclear bomb, the world would be doomed. Decades later, it's barely a thought and we have enough nuclear bombs to destroy the planet

Nuclear annihilation might be an afterthought these days but it’s a present danger. In some recent times that danger has grown. The fact that it’s an afterthought is mostly a statement to how much risk we tolerate and absorb for whatever benefits we ascribe to the tradeoffs. But it’s still there, and in many moments even recently it’s been quite heightened. Minimizing it is probably good for presence of mind, but probably not great for future outcomes.
Reasoning purely by analogy is limited. We could say the same thing about cars. Some people thought it was a bad thing, to replace horses. They might not have been right for the right reasons, but now we have one of the highest levels of CO2 in over 800 thousand years mainly because of cars (and other fossil-fuel burning devices, which would largely not be possible without vehicles).

The truth is, we have nothing quite like AI from the past from which to draw on experience. If AI becomes an incredible tool, it will an incredibly bad one, used mainly for replacing humans in most jobs and removing our reliance on each other, promoting narcissism and selfish behaviour.

Also, the nuclear story is not finished. We don't know whether someone will use nuclear weapons again in the next 100 years -- something that might affect all of our children.
>> Cookbooks generally distinguish between seasonings [...] and **condiments** [...]

>huh? people in everyday speech frequently blur **herbs** and spices [...]

Emphasis mine. Thyme, basil etc. are herbs; ketchup, mayo etc. are condiments. At least acc. to what most people would call them.

The excerpt is correctly saying that people see stuff like ketchup, mayo etc. as intrinsically different from paprika, cloves etc.
It is a pretty clear sign your product has failed when you need to _force_ one of your biggest acquisitions to use it.
Not to mention home automation hardware and software is 99% unreliable bespoke crap.
There's a huge community of people actively doing this. Type 1 diabetics were tired of waiting for a "closed loop" (aka artificial pancreas) insulin delivery system so they developed their own. One open source project is called Loop https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/ It's very mature and I know a few people who have been using it for years.
It's a form of type algebra. You can use it to check stuff, but you can use it to calculate stuff too.

(Just like types in programming languages.)
I don't take the US military getting spooked enough to finally use F-22s to actually shoot something down, and have those somethings be publicly unidentified, as "light relief".

All in all, seems extremely concerning to me.
It’s an interesting proposition! But I’m not sure a generative adversarial network would be the best wrench for that nut.*

However, i could imagine using an adversarial training approach to build a super AI discriminator that generates difficult few-shot NLP tasks for assessing GPT performance against different domains and datasets, by trying to fool it into classifying the output as humanoid.

* I really don’t know what I’m talking about. As an application security engineer w/ a background in cognitive and computer science, I’ve seriously considered going back to grad school yet again to research the different systems and models used in AI development and what the threats and defenses might be. I’m not an academic at heart but this science is so tight!
No morals implied here. I had the same pattern as you until I learned about sleep health from Matt Walker. There are very specific things you can do to change sleep habits, but only if you want to.

Of tremendous importance to me was learning that not all sleep is of the same “quality”, and that quality affects you the next day. You can learn how to improve sleep quality. Matt Walker is a good start in case your interested. Andrew Huberman has some episodes on it, too, as does Rhonda Patrick.

If you’re happy with 1AM then by all means, don’t change. I wasn’t happy with how I felt during waking hours. I was getting enough sleep, but it was low quality.
It would be nice when the dust settles to have a single bad actor to blame instead of systemic negligence, decades of inadequate maintenance or the like. Hopefully the investigation findings will reflect willingness to assign clear blame where it belongs.
> If you can come up with a single answer for a complex causality problem, something hints to me that you would probably point to the same “cause”for other problems too.

That's basically the point of the 5 whys approach. You work up the tree/into the graph of contributing factors based on the specific problem and you end up solving lots of problems. If you don't go back far enough, you're likely just putting a band-aid on the problem and some other variation of it will waste more time again. You get "5 whys" back and now you can really start figuring out what went wrong and how to fix/prevent/mitigate/avoid/etc. it for next time.
Aliens have revealed themselves to us now because we are on the cusp of destroying ourselves. They are here to prevent that. The singularity has begun.
I both agree and disagree. On one hand, yeah, people dramatically overstate the capabilities of AI. I think we made a terrible divergence when we started even using the term "AI" in favor of "machine learning."

On the other hand, the examples given on this page:
https://betterwithout.ai/AI-already-at-war

Are pretty accurate descriptions of capabilities within the space, lots of real examples there. It's genuinely not hard to imagine in a few decades they might actually pose a "medium-level apocalyptic threat" as the author puts it.

Arguably their present-day use is already disruptive to societal norms. Easy to imagine it getting out of hand.

edit:

Like the recommender engines example that they give are pretty terrible currently. But they ARE getting better. Lately my partner and I have been able to tell each other's personal search history by the ads we've been getting on our Apple TV.

The topics have been some very sensitive and specific health issues even, that you wouldn't get served ads for by chance.
Dr David Chapman https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7402278483

Failed academic by these metrics, but has found success being an author on the meaning of life.
It sounds like while the difference between מסורת and מנהג is important in theory, it is less so in practice - whether you have a מסורת that you don’t eat it or just a מנהג that you don’t eat it, either way you don’t eat it. I was kind of guessing that maybe a מנהג might allow greater exceptions than a מסורת, but now I’m guessing I guessed wrong.

But what happens when a couple get married from different communities which have different מסורת or מנהג - can one spouse adopt those of the other? Must they each continue to follow their respective inheritances? And what is inherited by their children?

Sorry, I hope you don’t mind me asking all these questions-it is just a topic which fires my curiosity.
> These companies have reputations, and are better off making humanity better, than destroying it.

Then they have a lot of splaining to do?
It was an opinion on the source, not on what it says. Your second comment still doesn't adress any claims of the article, it just attributes malicious intent to it without mentioning what makes you think that.

The claim is that while rich countries don't really care enough about the climate to seriously pursue a "green transition", many now realized that they do care about energy self-sufficiency to accelerate it. Do you disagree? Do you think the article says something different?
The author acknowledges there might be some good outcomes of AI by saying that AI is net harmful. That means there could be some good to it, but that the bad will far outweight the good.

I do not believe some increase in health is worth the damage that AI will cause.
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This is so unethical and unscrupulous that I read the website in full waiting for the moment they’d reveal the joke which never came. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the authors were just taking people’s money and not delivering anything. Ironically, that would be a better outcome.
Tableau has been killed by Salesforce