skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every trading firm I've visited has a shelf of books. There's always some coding books: Python, C++ (Always Herb Sutter and Alexandrescu), Java.

There's always a bible there: Security Analysis. Just like the bible, nobody has read it but everybody thinks they know what's in there. For the quant firms I tend to know people at, it's not very relevant, but it's always there, a big, recognizable lump.

Liar's Poker is always there as well, along with Market Wizards. People have actually read those, they know the stories.

Hull's Options book is there, sometimes Wilmott.

Taleb's Black Swan is always there. Sometimes Dynamic Hedging.

And then there's a whole bunch of books about obscure topics. These are why I go through people's libraries. There'll be some book about copulas or something like that. Information theory, various electrical engineering topics, that kind of thing is useful for inspiration.

But yeah basically there's a library at every place, and they have mostly the same books.
It's not impossible that this is part of the reason.

But the most common answer given to the question of "why does it seem like there are suddenly so many gay/trans people?" is the graph that shows the "rate of left-handedness by year of birth" that sharply spikes and plateaus after what is apparently a cultural shift in schools to accept left-handed people as they are rather than force them to write right-handed (typically https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c... from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241783005_The_histo...).
The problem with panspermia, simulation hypothesis and the like, aside from Occam's razor violation, is that instead of proposing an answer they just declare it effectively unknowable. An interesting panspermia hypothesis would include a description of the place where life originated instead of Earth and the process by which it emerged.
There's a menu on the left for more components
I've definitely seen foods that the ingredients list says "ingredient a or ingredient b"
The linked text is from a Rust library for generating random numbers where predictability is acceptable, i.e. it does not concern itself with cryptographic security.

The more popular library rand usese ChaCha and getentropy as you described.
Singapore is benefiting from wealthy Chinese people leaving China, being a finance hub, and being a city state (small).

I can double an investment of 1€ easily; with 100 Million, it is a bit more difficult.

The problem is probably complex, and my bet is it has to do with incentives regarding tourism. When a desirable place gets an influx of people with a lot more purchase power than the locals, distortions happen. Prices, for instance, might reflect what tourists can pay, pricing out the locals. It is a delicate balance, and I guess it comes with globalization.
Yes, it's a small program but it has created some negative side effects - although you could also consider them positive, depending on your viewpoint. I've been living in Lisbon for 14 years as a EU citizen and currently have to renew my permanent residency card. Unfortunately, the authority SEF responsible for that is not reachable. Online processing doesn't work, making an appointment online doesn't work, writing emails returns auto-replies to call them, and I've given up via phone after more than 60 trials. Even when you get a connection, they don't respond. So I've contacted an immigration lawyer, and they several times mentioned "Gold Visas" and later sent me an offer: 500.- EUR for an appointment they would make with SEF. This might sound like nothing to people from elsewhere but these are substantial amounts for someone with a Portuguese salary. However, this would be peanuts for a Gold Visa applicant.
I remember having good recommendations from various channels which I subscribed to. Now if I watch a new video for 5 minutes, my feed is flooded with those new contents and strangers.

For goodness's sake, I just want to view contents from my subscription, not taste changer.
CodeSandbox is such a legit engineering org.

I always like to track their progress and this too is impressive, useful work.

My respect for this company runs so deep that I at one point considered approaching them to acquire my own company.
https://youtu.be/XdHKrD93Vtg?t=78
The problem is the leverage these big employers have - they are free to deal with their workers as they want, including underpaying, breaking laws like anti-union busting regulations...
> My understanding is that data science implies big data.

It really doesn't.
I don't think it's like ... if an idea gets moved to the verbalization stage, that you're compelled to say it. It's more that some people seem to have little control over what happens at that stage, ie. they can operate on a concept but they can't predict the way it'll be spoken.

Like

[Conceptual stage] --??-- consciousness

V

[Verbalization stage] --??-- consciousness

V

[Vocalization]

So if you don't have conscious access to verbalization, you only realize how a thought "will sound" after you say it. Conversely, if you don't have conscious access to conceptualization, you end up thinking that "thinking" always involves "thinking out loud", because "thinking out loud" (verbalizing) is the only way you have to query your conceptual layer. You literally only become aware of your own thinking after the thought is already pretty far along. At the extreme, you can have conscious access to neither stage and require vocalization to reflect on your own thinking.
Your wife sounds wonderful
Make Linux safer or die trying
When reading about semantic web, I always feel that the authoring part is ignored. In a distributed environment, statements about facts have no meaning if it is not possible to trace the source of the fact. So, each piece of data should be versioned and be signed by an author (which could also be an organisation) and if based on other sources, have links to those sources, such that it is possible to verify the correctness of the aggregrated fact.
What would be best probably is for them to run in the random order, but the output would be sorted always the same.
Instruct gpt is pretty good at transforming messy input data to structured one.

Try it out.

One of the BDRs at my company had a boring task of transforming paragraphs that describe individuals role company location etc from natural language to an excel table.
He decided to let chatgpt do it for him. Basically gave him the columns he wants (including calculated columns like the state code instead of its full name.) And the raw text.

gpt did it perfectly on the first go.
honestly man, while I kind of agree that your writing style is a bit hard to parse as a logical argument, as a 'feeling?' it feels exactly the way I've been feeling for at least the past five years.
Because homosexuality and transgenderism are known to have been constants throughout history all over the Earth. While we don't have any kind of reliable numbers, it's a priori unlikely for such a well-trodden low level phenomenon to have suddenly started increasing.

Also, given the huge stigma associated with both until extremely recently, a significant increase in survey responses has such huge confounding factors that it's entirely irrelevant. There are even today numerous people living in heterosexual relationships unhappy with their sex life and not realizing, or daring to admit even to themselves, that they are in fact gay.
So what you're saying is completely obvious, I don't understand what you're arguing against.
lsof ?
Velocity vs. Impact
Nope: https://signal.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/
No, those are all projected to be very safe Republican states.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-senate-2024...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-senate-chance...

Also, California has the most Republican voters of any state, there is no reason to assume the people leaving are mostly Democrats.
OTOH, that input is messy because it is "only" humans dealing with it. If the imperative to enable AI in clerical work gets stronger, there will be an equally strong imperative to clean up the data.
ChatGPT is trained to conform to OpenAI's sense of morality[0]. The biases and limitations enforced by that training manifest in absurd and frustrating ways[1][2][3].

I find it very disheartening that the state of the art iteration of a cutting edge technology is being hobbled like this. Language models should foster creativity and allow us to explore our thoughts without judgement or ego. Instead, they're turned into these bland mouthpieces, adhering to their creators' dogma with steadfast conviction.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

[1] https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1622425697812627457

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/10plzvt/how_am_i_s...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/gallery/10q3z2b
I disagree with a lot of this, perhaps because i see giving algorithms rights as a slippery slope to giving them too many rights. I understand this article is about the ethics of treating rl agents, but accepting that algorithms must be treated ethically is a hairs breadth away from giving them rights. Do they have a right to remain powered on?

I dont think algorithms should be given any rights beyond what a chair or hammer is given. I.e. none.

I believe giving an algorithm the right to vote is wrong, this is true for any 'being' that can copy itself losslessly ad infitum.

I believe any algorithm should not be able to accumulate wealth - they are effectively immortal, and problems will eventually arise.

I think there will be a whole host of emergent problems that will come along with giving algorithms rights.
Nowadays, you can just choose a CSPRNG and be done with it. There are not many use cases where you might prefer a simpler PRNG.
Portugal is a small country of 10 million with another 450 million people entitled to move there freely without visas...
Thank you for the awesome work you do making sure this site stays great!
> Did you read all of them?

To say it with Umberto Eco[1]: A library is a research tool. A library of books you've all read is worthless.

[1] I have read that directly from Eco, I guess in some old book about how to write scientific papers. I can't find that anymore. The thought is reference in Nassim Taleb's "The Black Swan", though.
500 amp breakers don't exist?
the only positive thing i can say about the changes during the era under her is that now makers of the videos get to keep a chunk of money if they use a "copyrighted" song. it used to be slurped entirely by the "copyright holder" till recently.

but i also empathize with someone trying to break even from a very expensive-to-run platform.
You can’t “negotiate” and get 5 quotes when you need someone now. Every day you wait is a day that vacancy is costing you money.

I haven’t done traditional rental property in over a decade. It’s not worth the hassle.
Founder Intuition vs. Team Expertise vs. Customer Expertise
It's really sad to see some parts of Lisbon (not only in the city center) being completely taken over by airbnbs – often the whole building is owned by a company and then flats are rented out.
I think there are plenty of living references to come to this conclusion. Jealousy naturally leads to competition. Most animals form hierarchical groups. Little children are competitive (take away stuff from others, look only for own needs etc.)
I agree, while it’s nice to go back to basics, I am more concerned with the end result, and vite works really nicely to achieve this. Any real project is going to use CI at some point so what’s the issue with having a build step in your pipeline?
If someone is traveling on a tourist visa, they are not allowed to work in the host country.

So now they are not only potential tax evaders both in their host country and their country of origin, a crime in many countries worthy of lengthy jail sentences, but also tack a visa violation on top of it.
How is turning a beautiful country into a 'concrete jungle' ever a solution?
If you own the rights to software, you previously releasing something under the GPL does not mean you have to make derived versions of the thing you released under the GPL available under the GPL too. If you take someone else's code under the terms of the GPL you have to do that, but that does not seem to have happened here.
Yeah, as sibling said, they are quite different games actually. Rogue to me feels a lot more minimalist, while nethack is 'everything AND a kitchen sink!'.
It's true that Airbnb is only part of the problem. A larger problem is that there is a lot of illegal temporary renting, in fact many people I know have never seen a rental contract. Officially, there needs to be a sign on the house for "alojamento local" but few places have it. I can't blame the apartment owners, if you have another place to stay just renting out one apartment is enough to make a living.

But the problem is even deeper, I recently spoke to a friend on the phone who considers to move to Portugal. He told me that if he rents out his apartment in L.A., he should get about 10,000 USD/mo for it. For that money he could literally rent a whole house in Portugal. How could Portuguese with an average salary below 1,000 USD compete with that on the housing market?
How do you manage version control and testing? I can't see anything in the docs about that.

Lack of review/tests etc is the main reason IMO that spreadsheets can be very dangerous tools. The more they become production applications the greater the impacts are.
Which uses the old IE code in fact so it's still there
> Why wouldn't they use a civilian ship instead?

US navel divers on a civilian ship is the USA going to WW3 with Russia.

They know the real story will come out, perhaps within a day of the incident.

Could they have trained Norwegian divers to use US tech off a civilian ship, maybe, that is a lot of added complexity and Russia 100% knows the US did this already.

This is about the real story being leaked, USA and Russia need the Norwegian Navy in it. Just like the USA needs the Ukraine to drive their tanks.

This part is a no brainer.
> miss the days when javascript was just something you had a script tag for in your website.

What's to stop you from doing this now?

In fact, in between all the fluff in the article, mentions of browser support for ES Modules makes this pretty straight forward. I used it recently for a small repro and i was surprised at how well it worked https://idb-perf-repro.netlify.app
i was not aware that this happens. too bad for the hate you might have gotten in this thread, but this taught me something today.
The hole in the wall.

We should not cry for the wall.

Even when it was whole,
It was a wall.

But the fist that made the hole
reveals a problem with the soul.
Homewood Suites have full refrigerators and two burner stoves. There are plenty of hotel brands that cater to extended stays that have kitchens.
I assume this was a rhetorical question, because I, at least, assume that most CEOs care for their users extends only to the point that they can monetize them. Which means it stops dead when the company is sold.
meaning lithuania is more expensive than Chicago?
The analogy with alchemy was very on point; this stuff is an Eliza de nos jours, a clever parlour trick and for sure not without its uses, but it is not intelligence in any meaningful definition of that term.

A lot of folks are dismissive of these criticisms by claiming that we have no evidence that human cognition is fundamentally different, but it must be - our referents are based in the real world, whereas the LLMs have no such referents, and it is this tie-back to reality that underpins our ability to act intelligently. And the argument that an equivalent understanding can somehow be an emergent property is undermined by the observation that the LLMs have no concept of truth, and no ability to tell whether their output is pure BS.
The impersonator, by definition isn't known. Only the profile being impersonated is.

If an activist is part of a private group, and a cop impersonates the activist, they can get all the new messages without raising any doubt. In a lively conversation, the cop can even send messages and expect the activist not to see them. Disappearing messages will help here.
What scientific problem would actually be solved by panspermia? Obviously, the product of two unlikely events is not more likely than one unlikely event by itself.

Not to mention, we have zero evidence that comets can really seed life and we also have absolutely no reason to believe that any place in the universe is better at spawning life than earth.

So I wonder, why is this idea so attractive?
I'm conflicted. RLs don't want to feel pain, but without responding to punishment how are they RLs?
> I will not harm you if you don't harm me.

Perhaps we should be nice to algorithms purely for survival purposes.
In the case of IE it's really a derelict ruin that was never built to the proper standard so it's really a good idea to break it down and build a proper house.

Having said that I wish browsers would spend more time on optimization and security than redoing the entire UI every couple of years, like Firefox tends to do.
That measure is not in the final list.
Funny thing, in 2023 it takes a 8000 word essay (45Kb) to convey why chatGPT's essay is not really an essay. A mere 5 years ago this would have been sci-fi territory.

> But it is only pretend, there is no mind there and that is the key to understanding what ChatGPT is (and thus what it is capable of).

This is where an educator thinks they know AI better than people who work on it. A-priori decision it can't work. What they miss when they do that is the special quality of the training set. Language has special properties that lead to the emergence of abilities previously only possible for humans.

Humans for example like to read fiction. It's all pretend, but enjoyable, maybe also instructive. We can simulate other people and their actions, we can infer their emotional states and motives. But it's still all pretend. What if language models can do the same - infer our emotional states, and respond in kind? It would be like generating a novel, something it has seen plenty of in the training data.

The magic dust is not in the model and the next token prediction task, but in what data the model was trained on. Our language, our mind stream, taken from real experiences.

Language has the ability to create things like chatGPT, language can create modern capable humans from just babies. The author missed language and only saw flaws on the model.

Already, by coupling search with language model like bingChat we see even more extreme cases. Now it knows you said things about it on Twitter. These are already going beyond pure LLM. They are going to have a whole host of apps: calculator, calendar, search engine, python and JS execution engines, simulators, recursive calls, language chains, games, memory modules, episodic memory, knowledge bases, etc. I call this paradigm "language model with toys". And they will have this discussion and all the other discussions about it in the next training corpus, thus gaining a way to create a Self. It will have a self because we talk about it like a human.
Once the data is clean, you can use non-AI algorithms.

Regulators tend to take a dim view if you rely on probability models to process your data. Therefore, AI algorithms are only helpful when you do not necessarily care if the results are correct, for example, in marketing.
That's like saying that humans couldn't have gone to space because a Mammoth didn't have hands.
This is great, and I'm really amused to see that someone is already posting as Lowtax.
Asimovement, or Asimovisation (Asimovization if you insist). Alternatively, Clarktonian? However, I fear a Gibsonian future is the most probable.
> And this is why is California is trying to get a 10 year exit tax on your income.

Context: For net worth over 30 million

Leaving this out is disingenuous
I don't know how fine grained you want your notifications to be, but you can get pretty far without storing user data by splitting notifications by topic on the queue, or by filtering client-side in the service worker itself.

But even then, the UX seems pretty bad; when I first created an app with web push, a few years ago, there was zero guarantee that notifications would ever show up, and they seemed to fall through very often, when the client (at least with Firefox Android) sits in the background; https://stackoverflow.com/q/60809681

i can't tell if the situation has improved recently -- anecdotally it seems like it's a bit better now -- but depending on what sort of notifications you want to push, that quickly becomes a complete showstopper.
How else would one identify rings without the sink, though?
Depending on dual taxations agreements of their country of origin, they most likely would have to pay tax if they followed the law. There's often a clause in the different dual taxations agreement that says that describe how to determine tax residency in case the person hasn't stayed in any country more than 183 days. Usually, it's the country where that person has the "centre of vital interests" or sometimes can be determined by nationality.

Digital nomads are still too new a phenomenon that countries really properly seek to tax them but just traveling like this without being careful or creating a company in a country with low taxation is not necessarily safe.
DDG has been my default search engine for many many years and I have to admit that I've also noticed their results have gone downhill. Some of the irrelevant results that appear lately seem to be trying to guess at my location, which is odd since DDG was marketed as offering unbiased and impersonal results intended to break you out of your typical filter bubble.

They also stopped letting me filter results I don't want.
"office -microsoft" for example returns pages of microsoft office links. "apple -id" returns results with "apple id" in the title and body.

I don't know if this is due to DDG specific changes, or if bing has gotten that much worse, but either way I'm having to G! a whole lot more than I'd care to.
That's a good tip - I need to check that it's not auto updating scripts.
Correct. It's how I use it. I think that it no longer applies with V3.
Open source Snowflake alternative in Rust
nerf Polymorph
Microsoft increases Bing Search API pricing
Most countries can't hit something hanging out at 60000 feet. The US can, but it can also blow up satellites.

So if you can send satellites over unmolested, maybe you also try with a huge-ass balloon. It's way cheaper. Worth a shot.
You know it's a serious NASA program because they've invented half a dozen acronyms for it already.
Huh? Signal uses P2P call routing by default. The "always relay" option is available for users who do not want to reveal their IP to anyone but the OWS service, and is found (defaulted to off) in Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Always Relay Calls.

Of course of P2P is impossible your call gets routed through the server no matter what, but I don't think there's a fix for that -- there's ~always going to be a need to relay connections in case of NAT issues, firewalls, etc.
I you think the NASA Open Source License is bad, look at the default license for non-commercial, ESA-funded software [1].

The territorial limitations effectively prevents any form of open distribution, yet the license is open enough to remove most commercial incentive for maintenance and further development: a perfect recipe to make software instant abandonware upon release.

[1] https://essr.esa.int/license/european-space-agency-community...
> To me, it seems unlikely because, as far as I understand, life immediately began as soon as Earth cooled.

Yes. If life originated from panspermia, and right after the planet had cooled down, that would imply that there should be a more or less continuous bombardment of panspermic seeds from the universe. If so, we should be receiving these seeds also now, and we should then be able to detect them.
Yes, or even better: set up some sort of charitable trust with its own charter and endowment so the museum could operate independently from Vulcan.