skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been.

It is a completely horrible experience for me, bunch of same videos over and over again, often completely unrelated to what I'm watching now. I don't want a recommendation for some dumb shit when I'm watching a programming tutorial.

I've spend over a year clicking "Not Interested" or "Block channel" over various topics only for them to suddenly come back and dominate the recommendation feed again. I've once visited a profile of a youtuber that hadn't uploaded in a decade only for ALL of his videos to suddenly start popping up in my recommended feed, even though I've seen them dozens of times already. Why did it assume I am interested even though I just briefly clicked on a bunch of videos? Is the top data-hoarding company in the world unable to tell causal browsing form an actual engagement?

I still shudder when I think about the time I clicked a bunch of trashy meme videos and how they poisoned my recommended feeds for months. Once the algorithm decides you like something there's no way to stop it.

I've asked for possible solutions and people were like "well go to your history and delete everything that might be causing this". Like really? I am supposed to dedicate time to curating my own browsing history for a chance of a non-shitty recommendation? I have no idea how this algorithm works in the first place, so why would I dedicate my time doing that? Isn't a browsing history supposed to reflect - well - the history of browsing rather than being a dataset for a ML model where the only metric that matters is a video click? Why can't I have a browsing history and get recommendations relevant to what I'm watching? Why does it all needs to be bundled together into an uncontrollable, non-customizable mess where no one knows how it works?

I don't remember it being that bad in the 2010s and I won't even consider paying anything for anything related to YouTube until they make it good.
>In a study published Feb. 14 in The World Journal of Men's Health, Eisenberg and his colleagues compiled data from 75 studies, conducted between 1942 and 2021, that reported on the penile length of 55,761 men. The team found that the average erect penis length increased by 24% over 29 years, a trend they saw around the world.

you think that this many men over that period had complexes?
Don't be silly. The elderly parent with bad reflexes and even worse eyesight will drive themselves to the doctor in their equally decrepit car. That's what really happens when you reinforce the belief that cars are a necessity because bikes are some extreme hardship.
Oh, yeah, I see why you don't like it.

In the Subaru when it would engage it would turn on a light on the dashboard. It also only engaged on very steep hills where you would always be stomping on the gas no matter what.

I think the Subaru just had a much better execution of it than the Fiat.

Edit: Maybe call the dealership and see if the level sensor can be adjusted? It really should only hold the brakes if you are on a hill that is so steep that you are naturally worrying about rollback.
yes! Smart App Banners are really great and I just wished they would be available for PWAs
A way to think about it is a programmer: your mind is just a lot of functions - written by the `consciousness()` function, that has the main loop. You have the `moveLeftFootUp()` function, that can be called by the `walk(speed="normal")` function, that can be called by the `morningWalk()` function, etc.

Consciousness is the caller. You/It can consciously manually call `moveLeftFootUp()`, then `moveRightFootDown()`. Or maybe you were calling `walk(speed="normal")` and stepped in and started debugging that function's code at that level, step by step. Also, these functions sometimes raise exceptions, which are either handled by the function's caller automatically or bringing it to the caller's attention (i.e. the `conciousness()` main loop).

Learning to walk involves first manually calling `moveLeftFootUp()` and `moveRighFootDown()` order (once you have drafted those functions) in different order to get right how that should be done, then prototyping some `walk()` function code. The initial version of the `walk()` function at the begining isn't very robust and doesn't handle a lot of edge cases, thus raising exceptions all the time and requiring a lot of conscious effort. Of course, you are also adjusting `moveRighFootDown()` and `moveLeftFootUp()` at the same time or maybe creating `moveFoot(feet,direction)` function, etc.

But in the end, after all the fine adjustments of the code, you basically get the code for `walk()` right, it stops raising exception's to the main loop and doesn't require too much effort. You can just call the `walk()` function and it just works automatically (unless you step in with the debugger) - or you can continue creating new functions that call `walk()` inside those, confidently.
I mean, the MSA-purchased version is a retail key, but it doesn't give you a unique activation key and seems to use a generic one (at least when doing upgrades), so... trying to move this "retail" copy is really, really hard and inconsistent compared to a version you have a key for.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/transf...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/transf...

So, I will admit that it is possible. It's just really hit-or-miss and complicated, which can easily be avoided by just buying a retail package from somewhere with a code inside.
I don’t buy the Mearsheimer narrative as the primary purpose for invasion, but I do think it contributed in a small way.

I just happen to believe that Putin wanted the prize, had flawed intelligence, and had gotten away with progressively larger incursions (Georgia, Crimea, fomented rebellions in the Donbas, etc) and nobody was willing/able to stop him, so he had no reason to believe they would in Kyiv.

I’m also not convinced that we know enough of the story yet. Water shortage in Crimea, Putin pressured from the political hardliners, maybe a Wag The Dog situation, possible newly discovered hydrocarbon deposits in UA, loss of energy supply lines, or simply sending a message to other former USSR satellite states.
sedentary lifestyles increase length?

It is counter-intuitive.
The author admits it's extreme, but is clearly trying to normalize it:

> Someone defines Kubernetes as “a well-designed and extensible API with programmable reconciliation logic, that happens to come with a container orchestrator built in.” I like that definition.
"...who admit that they hate driving, many of which never got a driver's license."

They hate driving or they don't drive because they don't have a license (and thus how can they hate something they don't do)...which one is it?

I don't "love" my vehicle, I'm an adult and a vehicle is just a tool. I enjoy the convenience of being able to move from point A to point B on my own schedule. Are there downsides? Of course. Find me something that has no downsides. Cars have more upside than downside for most people outside of cities with mass transit systems that run like a well oiled machine.

Beyond just moving humans, sometimes we need to move other things. I needed several sheets of drywall and plywood a couple of weeks ago. I didn't have to pay some ridiculous $100 delivery fee and wait for delivery on their schedule. I drove 1/2 mile to my local hardware store, threw the materials in the back of my truck and brought it home...total time, 30 minutes.
Same reason woman are obsessed with their secondary sexual characteristics.

Evolution.
Great, we've got a lot of statues to patch.
And you're missing the point that these types of jobs are in or around the big cities, where people cannot afford housing. Well, maybe 5% can, the rest of us will commute.
That's nothing really new. Depending on how you define the term "AI”, the military has been doing that for years with the Aegis combat system. In certain modes it can automatically detect, classify, and kill targets with no human input.
Is there a reason you decided to come into a Javascript thread just to tell everyone how much you dislike Javascript?
Likely similar reasons to why women are obsessed with breast size
My wife is a BCBA and she spends all her time teaching kids on the "low" end of the spectrum critical life and safety skill (potty training, using a fork, how to ask for help)... While there's a growing group of people on the other end who say what she does is cruel and evil (many of them did receive bad/unnecessary therapy unfortunately)
Love the design. Not sure why but page requests are slow on my phone, I’d fix that.
> Personally I find this cultural trend where "your deviation is your identity" to be illogical and offensive.

Question: isn’t identity that which makes one distinct from others, like name or government identity number?
And thus working backwards: you can't improve it, so you can't understand it :)
Just a lot of anti bot logic
Oh, you sweet summer child. Did you just arrive from 1996?
But traditional finance is the way it is today because of all the lessons learned. Lessons that crypto bros are speed running through.
AI does not need to pull the trigger. It could convince somebody else to do it.
I agree it's a bad idea. My question is how the presence of "AI" changes the security model. The root cause of the problem is hooking up untrusted input to a privileged endpoint. How is "AI" different from any other source of untrusted input?
> I don't think so. Vue places almost it's entire rendering logic into HTML strings.

I don't know what this is supposed to mean. The logic in Vue 3 components is maintained in its JavaScript setup function. The template syntax is just HTML based template syntax that can be parsed natively by browser's HTML parsers for binding component functionality to the DOM. Behind the scenes it compiles down to JavaScript functions like React does, where in addition to its template syntax Vue also supports Render Functions [1] and JSX/TSX [2].

The template can be maintained in a string, in the HTML DOM or in a SFC. Templates in a string or DOM don't need a preprocessor whereas Vue SFC's does as compiles down into more optimal JavaScript functions than React's and its template syntax is non-existent at runtime as it never makes it to its compiled .js builds.

Both Vue and React use their view functions to construct a Virtual DOM that they use to calculate which DOM modifications need to be made, i.e. they both serve the same function and their differences is largely cosmetic, effectively just a stylistic preference.

[1] https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/render-function.html

[2] https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/render-function.html#jsx-tsx
The average in the Netherlands is 20 kilometers if anyone is wondering.

I think public transport is pretty good if you live in the Den Haag-Rotterdam-Amsterdam area. Which in America would be considered a single metro area. Something like 5 million people.
It’s so we know how big of a truck to buy.
Yeah, I remember before they removed all addons, they had over 20% market share on mobile. Those were the days.
Can't have a dick measuring contest with out measuring.
None of the things you've listed—except possibly the ones trying to self-install a septic system when they already have municipal sewer access—sound like "bad behavior." (And, again, that has nothing to do with zoning.)

What it sounds like is the stereotypical upper-middle-class white suburban boogeyman of "Those People" that you don't want around, because they bring down property values, with a healthy helping of implied racism and explicit classism.

Furthermore, there's no reason why zoning laws couldn't be selectively adjusted and relaxed—for instance, to ensure no heavy industry goes in right in the middle of a residential area, where it's more likely to be disruptive to sleep and potentially polluting.

Acting like relaxing zoning laws to allow for corner stores and similar things will bring us to a Mad Max-style wasteland is exactly the kind of rampant NIMBYism that got us into this mess in the first place.
I'm definitely no textual criticism expert, but I do have a book recommendation.

The Inner Citadel by Hadot is a great analysis of the Meditations. It explains extracts from the Meditations – such as references to certain people in Marcus's life – with facts we know about Marcus from other sources.

For me personally... While it could be an elaborate imitation, it would raise the question why Marcus espouses views that don't necessarily tie with Christian doctrine. Obviously something about the Meditations appealed to Christians of the time, but if they were inventing it whole cloth, they probably wouldn't have included only one reference to Christianity, which is arguably negative. (Book 2, chp3)
Why not just book a hotel?
There's plenty of 'bakfietsen' in Amsterdam.
MultiDiffusion: Fusing Diffusion Paths for Controlled Image Generation
> virtually every blade server I've ever seen was 2U :)

Huh?
> It's not important that the AI is just LARPing.

WOPR thought it was just playing a game...
the ponzi shell game continues
Their founder on Discord said that they trialled turning the Bing API off at one stage, but apparently users started complaining that their search results went shitty - so I imagine it's used more heavily than that post would imply.
> even if there are no APIs that fire a gun.

YC summer season applications are due soon. TIME TO DISRUPT!
“Biological” does not mean “genetic”. I believe parent is musing whether there is a neurodevelopmental basis, which of course there is, by all evidence; if you do not hear certain sounds by a young age, you will never be able to speak a language using those sounds with an accent indistinguishable from that of a native speaker. Obviously there is, indeed, a neurological component to that phenomenon.

In the US, the “Irish accent” (scare quotes because there is of course no single accent of Ireland) is fairly well known (that is, watching American TV and movies, you encounter Irish native English speakers more than, say, South African English speakers). And in TFA it says the patient in question lives in England, where of course there is even more exposure to Irish accents.

There must be, I posit, some circuitry that can interpret the phonemes of differently accented English and translate them into whatever latent representation of words or concepts is used for thought and speech production; so it’s interesting to wonder whether what is happening is the wires are getting crossed, as it were, and receptive circuits start connecting to productive circuits that control the speech organs to produce different sounds. What’s more, TFA doesn’t say if it was a good or accurate or even geographically consistent and coherent accent.
It's actually pretty difficult to do something like that since an install is done through the OS and the app can't set off the process. I think it's too clumsy for most sites to try it.

Chrome does let you do it though.
Black hats already have social engineering at their disposal. Being able to social engineer an AI seems like it might be a greater threat than it already is. Possibly because people will naively learn to trust AIs with everything, eventually making them very large single points of failure.
Have doubts about this tool but since you ask https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/ ~6.7 billion
Active discussion on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34828124
Traveling 60km, even in traffic near me, would take like 45 minutes by car.

It's a bit of a long commute by US norms (I think average is 20mi, 32km) but not too crazy compared to what some people do.
It is a bad idea to take the output of any unvetted computer program and hook it up an endpoint that can do bad things. It does not matter whether the computer program is AI or not. Any computer program that is hooked up to endpoints that can do bad things are going to have regulations around them. This is nothing special about AI. This is true for all types of software, AI or not.
That’s not a car country, that’s a traffic country.
Yes, you are right. AI is indeed already affecting us in ways we don't really see as obvious. You are right, it has already escaped. Although what we use now is primitive, it can be seen as the proto-AI like amoebas are to us.

The scariest part is that 99% of what guides the use of AI is short-term profit, or whether the founders will be able to retire rich. Guidelines today are woefully inadequate, and any guidelines we have seen so far (I have read *all* of OpenAI's so-called "ethical guidelines") make up merely an intellectual fluff designed to appease the confused.
And other home computer museums in Cambridge, Leicester, Derby, RMC (near Gloucester) to name a few.
I don't mind those things.

I do mind that they install 2000 packages, though.
I make stereograms with this

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/kandao-qoocam-ego

and print them out as red-cyan anaglyphs. I used to take photographs to post online but now my goal is to make prints that I cut out and make collages of.
I wonder if you could comment on this (related to question of how far ahead these "LLM"s are planning).

This is Wharton professor Ethan Mollick playing with the new Bing chat, which seems considerably more advanced than ChatGPT (based on GPT-4 perhaps?).

Here he asks it to write something using Kurt Vonnegut's rules of writing.

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1626084142239649792

It seems hard to explain how Bing/GPT could have generated the Vonnegut-inspired cake story, having ingested the rules, without planning the whole thing before generating the first word.

It seems there's an awful lot more going on internally in these models than a mere word by word autoregressive generation. It seems the prompt (in this case including Vonnegut's rules) is ingested and creates a complex internal state that is then responsible for the coherency and content of the output. The fact that it necessarily has to generate the output one word at a time seems to be a bit misleading in terms of understanding when the actual "output prediction" takes place.
One of the things that irritates me a little about Da Vinci is he gets disproportionate credit for inventing things that don't actually work. The list of things he invented that he actually got to work is vanishingly small.

Even when claims are made that he is "prescient", there has never been, nor will there ever be a functional "helicopter" that looks like Da Vinci's helicopter.
Great, then I did exactly as you suggest.
https://archive.md/AxL1b
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 / RTX 4090 Linux Performance
Keyword vs. AI Semantic Search Example
You could make a new website and immediately ask Bing about it to test this. Maybe add some noindex headers to ensure it's not added to the index?
> The big next step is to look at other patient populations -- such as the pediatric population -- to see if there are similar changes.

I imagine the pundits having a field day with this and the conspiracy theories. Would be entertaining to watch play out.
Cool, but your read me is kinda empty. Maybe some elaboration, comparison or the like ?
How is that a distortion? It seems like you’re violently agreeing with the parent that many people bike to work but far, far fewer than the majority (which is essentially what the American anti-car rhetoric suggests).

> Imagine if even half of these people took to cars instead, it would be gridlock.

There are 10 million employed Dutch (Statista) of whom 65% drive (Statista), so an additional half a million would be a 10% traffic increase, which is probably not “gridlock”, but in any case I don’t see how this refutes the original claim that Netherlands is a car country.
We could also say that early life forms that took millenia to evolve are nothing new....bacteria, algae, all seems the same. But fast forward a bit more and life begins to take on a very different form (us).
I was car-free for 8 years despite having plenty of money. The other car-free family on my street was the same. I have three kids and they have two.
Exactly.

lsof | fzf
I think it is safe to say you have to plan on moving media you care about to a different format every couple decades. From the first Edison wax cylinders, to today's latest format, the technology has changed that often, and if you care you have to follow. Sure you can keep older stuff working and some do. You can also say the same about photographs and books: most degrade after a few decades, but there if you spend $$$ you can get archival grade that will last for a century or two (many centuries if you store in a desert, but in human friendly places a century is all you should count on).

I have some archival grade CDs and DVDs that claim they will last longer. However I'm not sure if readers will exist as long as the media.
The most limited resources aren't what we pull from the ground. Space is the most limited resource, especially in areas crowded with people. Just look at real estate prices compared to oil. It's negligible.

Solar and wind power are extremely inefficient in the most scarce resource. Oil can be cheaply moved from far off locations to locations with scarce space.
Good luck! Be aware that suburbia exists in Germany as well (I'm still stuck in it).
The scenario described by the OP in the thread was that Bing decides you are a bad person and chooses to give you wrong, possibly dangerous, answers because of it.

That requires agency.
Web's First Page(1990)
> I wish that was the case, but it's 100% because of the dire financial situation

Not necessarily so.

I live 2 minutes from two tram lines and two bus lines.

I live 4 minutes from a train station with a train every 15 minutes.

It takes my 12 minutes door to door to the central train station and 25 minutes door to door to a 2nd tier European airport with excellent world wide connections.

I'm a member of a car sharing cooperative with about a dozen cars within 10 minutes walking distance. I don't think that I rented one in the last two years because I just didn't need a car.

And all this has really nothing to do with my financial situation. It's just that owning a car with public transport connections within walking distance would not add to my mobility in any reasonable sense.
In other news, the e-bike has finally arrived.
Note that TFA says that the man in question lived in England at some point in his 20s, so not that “far away”, in terms of amount of exposure to various Irish accents. Also, it doesn’t say whether it was an accurate or consistent accent. He could have just been doing the accent of the Lucky Charms guy.
The point is that hand-wavey “market making” does not satisfy any need for a credible explanation. The “explanation” given by Li, to the CEO of the exchange is essentially, a complete lie. “Merit Peak” is not a vendor… it’s the CEO of Binance global.

If the CEO of Binance global is in control of an ostensibly independent third-party “market maker” and he is unilaterally making hundreds of millions of dollars of transfers into one of his exchange subsidiaries that is ostensibly independent, a transfer that even the exchange CEO doesn’t know about, it paints a very worrying picture.

Genuine market making has zero mystery, the CEO of a traditional finance exchange would know where funds are coming from and where they’re going to go. The fact that CZ is the only person who appears to know anything about these funds is a story, especially given the context — CZ should have nothing to do with Binance US market making!

The unilateral control of funds with zero accountability is what allowed SBF to engage in such widespread fraud, so it is fair to consider CZ’s behaviour in the same vein to be a story of note.
Da Vinci's work on water's management and hydrolics ultimately pushed us through the technological wall the Romans hit, that lead toward waterworks and the first industrial revolution.