skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My browsing's habit is the same as yours, just a bit different is I use noscript-mode and write my own scripts to fix the sites using ublock alone (so I won't need 2 extensions for it).

It was a bit (nice) surprised for me to see many sites is really usable in noscript-mode.
When the easy gains are over it becomes much less rewarding. But the easy gains themselves are worthwhile. My plan for that is to step back to a minimal strength maintenance program and focus more on sports and outdoors enabled by the strength.
You’re not wrong, however they’ve actually been cutting down on that lately — moving the items which aren’t really “sharing” in any sense to a kebab / ellipsis.

The best example is Photos, where the Share Sheet would have a LOT of unrelated junk — Duplicate, Hide, Slideshow… But as of one or two major versions ago, there’s now an ellipsis menu to keep those options instead. Notes got the same treatment.

In current Safari, the “aA” menu is an equivalent of that. In my opinion, “Find on page” is really the only option on that Share Sheet which doesn’t really belong. All the others make sense, as they’re an “Export” of the page in some way or another.
no popup every few days asking for money
Cybersecurity teams shielded from staff cuts coming in 2023
A majority of C-level executives believe layoffs may be necessary in 2023, but just one in 10 think this will lead to reductions in cybersecurity teams.
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

"Note that Iceraven Browser includes some unstable code written by Mozilla, with our own added modifications on top, all shipped with the stable version of GeckoView engine."

I wouldn't use iceraven if security was a priority.

Fennec on the other hand is much closer to FF , quoting their page :

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

"Fennec F-Droid is based on the latest Firefox release (codenamed Fenix).

It has proprietary bits and telemetry removed, but still connects to

various Mozilla and Google services that can track users."
Another way to do this is to add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/mas... to uBlockOrigin as a custom filter list.
Don't know about you but when I go use an old computer/videogame/candy/snack that I enjoyed as a kid, it usually does not evoke the same feelings as it did when I was first experiencing it. What I am getting at is that all the efforts were not wasted because for a moment in time, it evoked an incalculable amount of wonder, joy, and happiness to many people. The moment was bound to be gone for each person regardless of the status of the museum because it was not just the museum, it was everything that was unique to each person at the point in time. The Museum just happen to add a positive contribution to each person's moment.
I didn't think this idea was all that far out there in the first place, was it?
OpenAI was created as an open source non-profit, as a counterweight to Google
Were you here (in Lisbon, where I'm from) 10 years ago when those same buildings were boarded up and on their way to falling down?
> - Most train accidents are caused by human factors, track causes, or equipment.

I.e. cost cuts across the board. We just don't want to point to those that decided the cost cuts and reaped the benefits, but to those that had to implement them.
if the incoming data is not random, but is in fact skewed by factors relevant to the data we're looking for, there's very little value in it

Looking at people who donate sperm effectively is a random sample of men unless there's a causal link between sperm count and the desire to be a donor.
The golden visa program was put forward as a "job creation" initiative, but results show it generated as little as 280 jobs in a decade https://www.publico.pt/2022/11/07/politica/noticia/decada-vi...

It was mostly used for wealthy foreigners to acquire real estate, hence the ire. As for AirBnb, it has decimated historical neighbourhoods in Lisbon and turned its historical areas into a kind of theme park.
I generally don't like state intervention, and I'd prefer hefty taxes on unused housing (at least where housing is needed, no need to punish empty buildings if there's oversupply), but I'm fine with the idea of curbing speculation in housing that doesn't include intent to actually provide housing.
I have zero doubt that transformers can construct sensible models of what they are taught.

My concern about LLM is that there's so little of actual knowledge in human language that it's easily drowned in the rest of the human language and neural network trained on not strictly restricted set of human language has very little chance of modelling knowledge.

In case of Othello game if you teach the neural network to predict all moves you get NN to learn how to play legal moves, not necessarily winning moves.

You'd have to train NN on only the moves of the winning side. Or even create some negative training data and method from the moves of loosing side to have any hopes of creating NN that plays Othello well.

Same should be true for LLMs. To have any hope of getting them to model knowledge you'd have to curate input to strictly represent knowledge and perhaps develop a negative reinforcement training method and feed it with all the language that doesn't represent truth.
The video answers some of your questions, in particular the one about whether that is even possible.

More convoluted possibilities are less likely, but that doesn't render them impossible. You have to rule them out by evidence, not by unfounded bias.
I remember that update, suddenly they disabled Cookie AutoDelete, what left me with a bad feeling.

PS: Meanwhile I do not understand why is Ghostery included in that tinny allowed addons list (and now Tampermonkey).
It's sounds like what you're saying is that any truly random property would prove vexing to those who would prefer properties that only appear random, but in fact are reliably less random.

Perhaps this is because true randomness doesn't always appear to be random enough. I would argue that this property is what makes it real. Sometimes true randomness might be six dice all showing the face of six.
> It took us (a team of 3) two solid years before we considered ourselves on par with those old boards, feature-wise.

This is really interesting to me, because I created an "old" style forum from scratch for a gaming community about a decade ago, and it only took me a month or two to build.

I built it with Python and Angularjs. I think I had pretty much all the typical features: subforums, threads, posts, user profiles, signatures, full moderation tools, etc.

I'm actually genuinely curious about what I did differently from you. Do you have any blog posts or anything like that going into more detail about the hidden complexities that you guys dealt with under the hood?

Edit: Aha, I found your product through your profile and had a quick look. I guess it probably just comes down to amount features - you guys have a LOT more stuff going on that just a typical old forum did.
If we see Pascal's quote as a pretext, it could be used to justify writing longer texts, even when brevity is possible and appropriate. However, by interpreting the quote as a genuine apology for the length of his letter, we can recognize the importance of clarity and conciseness in communication, and strive to make our own messages as clear and concise as possible. This highlights the importance of interpreting someone's words in the right context, and not using them to justify behaviors or attitudes that are not aligned with the speaker's true intentions. By being mindful of how we interpret others' words, we can avoid misunderstandings and communicate more effectively.
true, but when they are good, they are some of the best I have seen.
I think we have grown too soft.

In my ethics[^1], I should feel compassion for fellow human beings, and maybe for sentient animals.
But if I give anything else that same compassion, anything else that--thanks to my irrationality--will stop being a tool of progress for me and mine and become the adversary of me and mine that will exterminate us all, then I'll become a moral idiot complicit to genocide of my group.

Let's create "People for the conservancy of humanity."

[^1]: My ethics is a personal choice designed to give something back.
If you have <= 100 people actively posting on the forum than yes.
Is there any way to add a 'Shutdown' and 'Reboot' menu entry to systemd-boot? Like you can with Grub? This has been holding me back from switching all my machines to systemd-boot.

Mainly because I have an Optiplex micro hidden behind my monitor, where I use the keyboard to power on. Sometimes accidental power-ons happen so it's good to have that menu entry.
They also seem to be going after Terraform Labs, which is an active legal entity in South Korea (Edit: Actually appears to be Singapore now). Impeding their current work on (I kid you not!) Terra 2.0 may still prevent a future ponzi meltdown.
This sounds like regular old corruption, incompetence and/or underfunding.
The ads on the NYP are depressingly cynical.
Maybe so, but the declines have been measured in the last century
Reddit supports rank by reply date. Which i often use, because it can be useful. My argument is that in most cases its not the most useful ranking option.

I can also remind the old forum rules like:
"No useless posts. This includes: Necroing, Thread bumping, useless one liners, Flamewars, Trolling and Spamming."

The above is no longer an issue in the more modern forum ranking methods in combination with nesting. Its frankly just sub-par any way you slice it, since the new ways have the features of the old and add to it. There is no regression only progress, you could argue.
> If so, we should be receiving these seeds also now, and we should then be able to detect them.

Actually, we are - precursors to stuff like RNA have been found in comets and meteorites [1].

[1] https://theconversation.com/did-comets-kick-start-life-on-ea...
AirBnB should be controlled because it's annoying to have tourists in residential zones.

But it seems weird to propose cutting the visas to help the housing crisis.

If there's a housing crisis then build more houses to increase supply, don't cripple the economy to reduce demand.
While Safari doesn’t support importmap, it’s possible (and not too hard) to use them as a progressive enhancement so that it’ll still work, and safari users will get the benefit with 16.4. I did a writeup: https://qubyte.codes/blog/progressively-enhanced-caching-of-...
> Libraries, UI frameworks, build systems, preprocessing tools, the JS community seems to have a knack for rebuilding everything from the ground up with almost zero backward compatibility with a frequency I haven't seen anywhere

The modern web industry isn't that old yet. Give it time. We've been writing C++ since 1985.

React is 10 years old. Vue is 9 years old. Angular is 11 years old. The only "real" new kid on the block is Svelte, which is 7 years old now.

The web constantly strives towards simplicity. React was developed because AngularJS was this huge enterprise framework of global state. React includes immutability to make things simpler. Vue was developed because its developers saw React (then with classes) as too complicated. It's loved to this day even by the HN crowd for its simplicity. Svelte again was developed because their developers saw the possibility to make updating the DOM simpler. Again, the HN crowd and its users love it, because Svelte really is dead simple. It's been my drug of choice for 2 years now and I'm seeing unbelievable productivity among friends and colleagues which choose to use it.

The amount of libraries you see can be explained because of JS huge open source crowd, perhaps the largest among any language. There is no controlling entity, so people are free to write their own open source abstractions. We as an industry should see this as a good thing, because there are mountains of code now available for everyone, free of charge with MIT licensing. Startups can write applications that reach millions and generate billions, without worrying about QT licensing costs or paying for a Delphi compiler toolset. They need one codebase for an application that runs virtually the same on every device, mobile, tablet or desktop alike.

> Another example, I recently had to upgrade a Vue 2 application to Vue 3, because Vue 2 is going EOL this year. Well, apparently that means I also had to change the build system from Webpack to Vite

Again, Vite strives for simplicity. Vite is so simple that it took the industry by storm. Gone are the days of webpack 4 era configuration files that made you want to rip your hair out. Vite was written by Evan You, the man behind Vue, which could give you an indicator of the quality of the tool.

I hate working on our C++ / QT enterprise product, because each change takes ages for me to see and verify. If that product was a web app (which we are currently looking into), I could see changes instantly, with application state persisting through recompilations.

Grizzled seasoned developers have longed for a native application toolset that runs on every device for decades. Some just miss that web browsers do exactly that, with the added benefit of being a near perfect sandbox. Of course it's not perfect (yet?), but perfect is the enemy of good.
Yeah, sorry, should have been clearer that that was just an example. Same obviously applies for women attracted to women, trans people, etc. etc.
I looked through your code a bit, and there are a couple of things I'd flag in a code review (e.g. use of non-local variables). Ironically these are things that are a lot harder to do, and easier to spot, if proper modules are used.
But if you use nice on algorithms then you limit their ability to flourish! Why can't they have the whole CPU?
This isn't totally unique to software engineering (and broadly speaking knowledge, science and maybe even content in general) but I feel it's better placed here than anywhere else.

We're in a near global, near zero-marginal-cost environment.

If you build a broom that's mediocre, someone can still sweep with it and it's worth something.
In this realm though, if you build a mediocre version of something that already exists in a better form, it's likely worth nothing.

That shouldn't keep anyone from enjoying building mediocre things - which might be the only path to get into a position to build great things.
But it does make sense if your goal is to have an impact with the specific thing you're working on.
I have already acknowledged below, my comment was not well thought out, in that I could have caused offence to the original commenter with some words, but I absolutely stand by the rest of it.
I also do not agree with the remainder of your what you say, and a bizarre comment in brackets I won't repeat. There are plenty of times today and throughout history Science has been bigoted or naive, and as such should not be free to explore any subject uncontrolled or deemed insensitive to society.
Maybe the consciousness you and I experience isn't part of our brains at all, but is simply an emergent property of the processing and decision-making of our brains, something that sits 'atop' of that, and the same way that we'd intuitively expect an animal to experience a similar kind of consciousness, anything that processes data and performs decision-making has some kind of 'consciousness' that sits 'atop' it? But then the question would be why consciousness emerges 'on top of' the physical world and the people within it. And from a scientific, non-religious viewpoint, what reason would there be for that to happen.
> clinical trials are typically longer and more thorough than you imagine, they span years

I don't know where you get that, most clinical trials last 26 weeks, even in phase III.

and about "more thorough than you imagine" no, most are subcontracted to CROs and the way clinical trials are conducted is messy.

Below is story from the POV of a PI.

But similarly many patients complain about the way they are treated in visits and the lack of interest of the nurse/doctor who receive them.

https://milkyeggs.com/biology/why-are-clinical-trials-so-exp...
Same. It would have been nice to know that I need approval before writing out my post.
Didn't know that, had to look into it immediately! Looks like a lot of the stuff in the Notes sqlite file is encrypted, though. Will need to look into this some more, would be nice to make a nice little exporter.
All the retained and volunteer fire stations around the UK use pagers, because they're simple, reliable, and moderately firefighter-resistant - and about 70 quid to replace when they get smashed, deep-sixed, melted, driven over by the pump, or chewed by a dog. Yes, this week alone.

They're used for alerting rather than paging, in that the message is four flashing LEDs and a lot of beeping rather than a description of the incident, and as such the paging transmitters just transmit a unique number rather than a message. The message is always "get to the fire station right now".
Rhode Island is a state with a population of 1 million people with 334 million people entitled to move there freely without visas.
The difference is Chrome atleast gives you the choice (maybe illusion?) to opt-out of *some of the telemetry.

Mozilla to-date refuses to build a one button switch to disable all telemetry [0] and there's calls to telemetry domains such as location.services.mozilla.com you cannot stop on some of their products like Firefox Focus (ironic for a privacy product).

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/domains-allow-firefox
This resonates with me beautifully
Yes, united in "the united states" is an adjective.
States is a plural name.
Yours is a misapplication of Occam's razor. While simpler explanations are preferable, they have to explain the available data.

Material is exchanged between planets, bacteria could survive such exchanges. So the possibility exists. People finding that uncomfortable is scientifically irrelevant.
> Some would argue ChatGPT isn't far off.

> It's interesting how you resolve these without resolving to spiritual explanations.

By pointing out that ChatGPT is still very far off.
In fairness, sometimes studies are done without much intellectual honesty.

Like the gender wage gap studies that made headlines everywhere when they didn't control for basic things like profession.
Even if/when we get the Blink rendering engine in iOS Chrome, I think Apple will still prohibit access to certain features like Bluetooth if they consider it a security or privacy threat. Are Web Bluetooth, Web USB etc. even considered part of Blink, or are they part of Chromium?
Here we go again, the predatory VC treadmill starts again.
Good to see Apple finally making some effort to support PWAs, but as a user it's still very cumbersome to actually add a Web App to the homescreen (compared to Android).
> 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.

This indeed is something that every gay man knows through experience but I suspect that many straight people may not. In many parts of the world (including many parts of the US and Europe) the majority of men available for gay sex do not identify as gay and are not open about their same sex attraction.
Nota bene: I spent all of fifteen seconds "reading" the blog post.

I would sum this up as: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of done."

Which is a really good advice.
Precisely. People are struggling to internalize how much wealth inequality (both local and global) has shot up in recent years, and instead blame the symptoms of this inequality as if they're the cause.

The woes Portuguese people are feeling now have been felt by the citizens of many countries before. Most of Europe considers its "first world" status as some kind of inherent property. You just need to look outside of Europe to Asia and Africa to see what's going to happen.
"and we should then be able to detect them"

This, I'm not at all sure of. The density of the bombardment may be very weak, and very small. A tiny speck of dust here and there, what is there to detect?
>>Clearly something is going on here.

That's the entire point of the article - that it's less clear than you might think. There are several reasons why the average sperm counts might be reported as lower than they were in the past, and it's not necessarily an indication of a society-wide problem.
> But ChatGPT-17 will also insist it is conscious. It will cry when offended, swear when pushed past its limit, laugh if it hears a genuinely novel joke.

The resolution to your paradox should be that ChatGPT does not do this convincingly, not that humans are not "normal matter". ChatGPT is an algorithmic hat trick compared to what you would refer to as consciousness.

Someday, there may be a human-made entity that is as convincingly "conscious" as the humans around you. But then, to question its consciousness will be the same as questioning the consciousness of those around you – both unfalsifiable and unprovable.
Belize IBC Offshore Company Formation is considered one of the best low tax jurisdictions.
> I don't like making the best things (ghost.io)

For a minute I thought this is an article from the Ghost corporate blog. Would be super weird tbh.
Well, ChatGPT definitely isn't conscious, since it is just a pure stateless function. It doesn't change when you interact with it, it is a function that when you send it text it adds a bit of text to the end of it that fits. ChatGPT web ui is a program that appends the past conversation to each of your messages, and sends it to that pure function, and then the pure function adds something to it and that is what you see.

So it isn't a question of matter or if humans are special, so far the program just lacks so many of the basic things required to be conscious, so it isn't. Maybe some future program will be, but this one definitely isn't.
Sampling only people who self-select themselves into one specific group (sperm donors) definitely isn’t a random sample. There are obviously correlations between income, geographic area and age with the desire to become a donor.
This reminds me of:

Doug the Head : We've got sandy beaches...

Avi : So? Who the fuck wants to see 'em?
but they are stale, static humans that don't develop. frozen. they are zombies. (actually, even zombies are more alive than an AI)

the point of being human is continuous development. an AI can't do that. it can only summarize existing data and not generate new insights on its own. (doing that can help humans generate new insights, but that is something different)
Last I checked, the push notifications that are masquerading as native popup asking user to install “antivirus” are all on web.