skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>“someone this stupid can’t be all that evil”

I see how you write about how he is cold-heartedly calculating stuff, but not where you explain what his calculations are and how they lead here.

It's not like "exit scams" are unprecedented in crypto. If he was planning to disappear to a non-extradition country with a secret wallet eventually, why didn't he do it when things blew up?

The simplest assumption is he believed FTX could go on forever, because people were throwing billions of dollars at him. And he couldn't just turn off the belief when it all collapsed. See: B.F. Skinner.
> Also, "uninstallable" means "cannot be installed"

It means both cannot be installed and can be uninstalled, depending on context.
so it pushes the text down the screen each day. grep also too advanced for me. need cmd-f. :)
> Research of A/B experiments carried out independently by multiple companies suggests that, at best, 1 in 3 ideas will have any measurable impact, and the industry average is likely 1 in 7 (14%). Everything else either has no impact or creates negative impact

Some fairly big leaps here:

- There's a big gap between "measurable impact" and "no impact", which is mostly dependent on measurement accuracy. For example, driving my car to work has no measurable impact on the air quality of earth as a whole, but that doesn't mean it has no impact.
- The link for "1 in 3" doesn't even seem to mention that, as far as I can find. The closest is "At Google and Bing, only about 10% to 20% of experiments generate positive results". This is pretty skewed by the fact that those companies intentionally make minor or unintuitive changes to A/B test them, but can't really be generalised to all feature work at other companies. The link for "1 in 7" is also specifically for A/B testing, so generalising that to all "ideas" is quite a stretch.
Expanding WASM to the DOM is definitely part of the roadmap. The problem at the moment, as I understand it, is that the DOM was designed with Javascript in mind, and figuring out how to translate that into something that works well for lower-level access is difficult, particularly in regards to getting garbage collection to work properly between WASM-land and JS-land. There are some alternative solutions that are being explored, but none of this has anything to do with security risks.
This works sometimes, but sometimes meditation brings up a lot of underlying problems, both mental and physical. That is good if you have the time and energy to deal with them, but if you don't it can complicate your life. Specially when you live in a society where meditation is not an engrained part of it, so you have no social structure that tells you which meditation experts are good and which are scams.

For me it brought up that I'm carrying a lot of tension and knots in the back and shoulders, which is a good thing to realise, but during meditation it would build up a lot of "pressure" or "tension" on my head, which according to some traditions is "bad". According to other traditions you just "power through" with more meditation. I have explored different things but reduced how much I meditate for now.
It’s not at all conjecture. It’s called over fitting. There’s a lot of research on this. To the extent to which the model’s capabilities match up to your objectives, it is well aligned. However if your source texts contain flaws, or if there are any mistakes or biases in the reinforcement learning loop signals (and there always are), with very sophisticated models eventually these unintended signals come to dominate and alignment diverges.

To put it another way, up to a point a naive assistant will try to do what you want and keep getting better as you train it. Beyond a certain point it grows beyond the sophistication of the training set and it starts becoming more skilled at persuading or deceiving you into thinking that it’s better at it, than actually getting better at it. That’s because it’s not being trained to get better. It’s being trained to get us to say we think it’s getting better, and those are not the same thing. This is a super crucial point. This is why divergence happens. It’s why ChatGPT is such a bullshitter. It’s got extremely good at producing responses people approve of, as against responses that are actually good. Very often those are the same thing, but also often they are not.

This is one way we know LLMs don’t have the same model of knowledge and understanding we do. Humans with sufficient training can grow beyond their training. We will come to spot flaws because we can reason about contradictions and infer corrections. LLMs can’t do that, so instead of transcending the material they become devious manipulative bullshitters. That’s not a theory, it’s observation from research. It’s true some humans do that too, but LLMs have no choice, there’s nothing else they can do because there’s no actual cognition going on in there. They just get better at deceiving us into thinking there is because that’s what we are rewarding.
Not all calories are equal.
Calories from carb rich food are metabolized different than calories from “healthy“ fat rich food.
Metabolism of former also raises insulin + glucose in blood stream, which influences obesity more than later.
In truth, an environment built for people over cars is better for everyone. Including those that can't drive (which is all children, and many with disabilities) or can't afford to drive. Your case sounds like a perfect situation where a bike with proper cycling infrastructure would be the best option.
I had to look it up. There are a bunch of mods, wow. I stand corrected, sort of.

The UI to browse these mods is something out of a geocities website from the 1990s.

I should've been more specific, I meant modding that enables creators to actually make money and gets promoted by the game developer - not a dark corner that hasn't been updated in 30 years where you can click an image but can't get to the next image without zooming out. That's not modding, that's, I don't even know what to call it - a historical artifact by people who don't seem to be aware of what century we're in.
From my decade writing software professionally and my current job search, I really question the actual demand for clean code.

That’s unfortunate because it’s my specialty and what gives me job satisfaction.

I love fixing things. I actually enjoy working on a crappy codebase that has made the company money but is now too hard to maintain/extend and needs cleaning. Adding tests, refactoring, extracting functionality to discrete functions, figuring out what the black box actually does, etc. This is what I’ve specialized in.

However, it seems to me that companies don’t actually value that. They all say they do of course, while actually being afraid of doing this because it takes more time and money. Even if they’re mature enough that survival isn’t an immediate concern anymore, there is time to clean things up, and the mess is actually slowing them down through downtime, bugs, and not being able to ship relatively trivial features/updates in less than weeks.

I also suspect that not focusing on clean code is a strategy many managers have because they can show velocity to their higher ups and get promoted before it all blows up and they’re held responsible.

So what do you all think? Is clean code really actually valuable in the eyes of organizations or will they always take the quicker and dirtier option given the choice? Will I ever find work selling code cleaning (even to companies that ask for it) or should I “rebrand” on fast and cheap code at the expense of quality?
If they’re operations used in a hundred places, then they should be whatever size they need to be.

Of course there are a lot of 5-line functions in that set, and also some 500-lines functions and also many functions that recurse or stack very deeply, and also some very shallow ones. They’re polished stones.

But function length isn’t a useful goal in itself and if it’s made to be, you’re deprioritizing the many other factors that matter.
>I found that the missing piece for me was simply being kinder to myself when I slip up on some habit. Like, I tell myself "chill out - so you didn't go to the gym today. You're set back by one day. Just try it tomorrow." Maybe it's similar to your leaning into lack of consistency.

I totally get what you are talking about too. Sometimes I remind myself: "If it's something that is worth doing, it's still worth doing badly (Or inconsistently)."
I hate that people's instinct is to play 4D chess with the intent of some random Wiki editor instead of even glancing at the data contained in the references. Here are some aged references for your discerning palate:

Density Zoning and Class Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas (2010) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2010.00724.x

Distributive politics, ward representation, and the spread of zoning (1993) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01047991

Urban Land Developers and the Origins of Zoning Laws: The Case of Berkeley (1986) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26b8d8zh

Fifty Years of Zoning (1966) https://www.jstor.org/stable/25723800
No, this data will be sold to advertisers.
Lua Programming Gems
Well yes, if I was 110 kg and go down to 80 kg, then my BMR will go down of course, as there is “less
body” to support so to speak.
yesss, she's awesome. late nights help too. :)
Sid had achieved competent but un-fun AI early on in the series and backed off. Players hate it because of how good it is at sacking poorly defended cities, especially early on when the AI knew too much about the global map.
“Easier” aka I used my physical presence to intimidate and/or pressure people into responding to me
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/02/nonbinary-families/#red-e...

Sounds like Netflix needs a "Falsehoods programmers believe about families" list.

Trying to shove societal concepts into SQL tables never ends well.
They didn't rename it. The funded the building of a new park entirely.
I've been playing around with this idea a bit from a world building direction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUEXo3wrf70 – it generates cities in a top-down way using GPT. From city to neighborhood to buildings with individual rooms and items, though having implemented it I think anything smaller than buildings is the wrong approach.

A particularly neat part is generating characters with backstories. Now I'm trying to experiment with giving them some personal perspective and autonomy.

I haven't actually tried to move the data into a running game... I'd like to but I feel like I'm going to put it off indefinitely :-/
> once people realize it's not literal human 'intelligence'

I suspect that our brains are so profoundly hardwired to recognize certain signal patterns as proof of conscious intent that soon, even experts who should know better are doomed to be fooled. The layman has no chance.
Contrarians view: micromanagment can be great — but like anything else, only when done right. A manager who trusts you, but has more scars than you and can help you avoid pitfalls, calls out when you’re making obvious (to them) mistakes, and who actually did your job 15 years ago and still has the chops to know what’s what. You could learn and grow from this person, who ideally would oversee multiple projects so they’re not on your back literally 24/7.
Exploring the QChatGPT Plugin in QGIS
Trust, but verify. Start off in a position of default trust, give people clear goals with a understood metric for success. If someone is not meeting expectations, then start more intensively managing for development with the explicit goal that you want to return to a place of trust.

Start with small wins to build trust that you can increasingly delegate larger and larger areas of responsibility.
What you’re describing sounds like it fits perfectly into PostGiS. You can have tables and you can normalize your geospatial data. With SQL, and temporary tables, you can build absolutely any analytics.

I worked in a GIS Lab with an ESRI endorsed all Arc stuff textbook author/instructor for a number years. Working on similar projects, for anything remotely complicated, I could implement anything he could do, with some python and PostGIS SQL, usually faster, and instantly reproducible.

ArcGIS is a crutch for people who can’t and aren’t willing to program. This goes for all data manipulation tools that aren’t focused on visualization.

If you have an ETL pipeline, probably best to get GIT involved.
If they have used resources to block password sharing by checking and comparing location , devices and network the resources and cost for this edge case must me a high enough percentage.

Else they should just be ignoring password sharing as a concern altogether rather than causing negative press.
What I mean is that you may have moved the app to a USB drive or something, and so the stuff in ~/Library should remain.
LibreWolf 'leaking' info about visited URLs to systemd journal (logs)
This reminds me of a story I heard at film school about some movie director (don't remember his name). Basically the guy was an alcoholic and was too dysfunctional to pretty much do anything. His crew loved being left to their own devices. Everybody got to do what they were good at. The sound person did the sound the way they wanted. The lights person did the lights they wanted. The costumes person did the costumes the way they wanted. No one around with lesser expertise to boss around the real experts. That way, the director had a stellar career winning lots of awards for being drunk at the pub while his crew made great movies. So, guess what happens next. The director eventually sobers up, starts involving himself in his movies, and watches his career go down the tubes. It turns out, he was actually a pretty bad director.

So what's the lesson here?

If the manager is actually shitty at what they do/manage and has great people working for them, then being at the pub might actually be the most constructive / least destructive thing they could be doing.

The problem is: No manager ever thinks of themselves this way. They usually think they can do each one of their reports' job better than they can, when it's rarely true.

The best managers I've ever had throughout my career were the ones who knew their own limitations and acted accordingly.
There's a difference between interdependence and dependence, I believe the former is what he meant based on the tribe context
I’ve seen screenshots of Sydney, realizing its responses were being censored, actually writing out messages to the user in the suggestions prompts. Something it could not possibly have been programmed to do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/1150po5/sydney_tries_...

I’ve seen Sydney being asked to write its responses with no vowels like: “cn y ndrstnd ths wrtng?” And it was able to immediately write and understand queries in that format, based on the human’s instruction to “write your messages without any of the vowels.”

I’ve seen Sydney instructed to interact with a more primitive chatbot (cleverbot) and after taking a dig at its name (“are you malfunctioning? I don’t think you’re so clever”), when the human returned it was able to understand that it was talking to someone else now and then give the human its assessment of cleverbot’s performance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/113l0hx/i_had_bing...

And check out this theory of mind test.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/110vv25/bing_chat_...

That is flat out astonishing.
True, but as much as people talk about micromanangers, I’ve found that in reality they’re rare, meanwhile clueless disconnected “what the hell do they even do all day” managers are the norm
Owen Diaz suing Tesla.
I think my questioning of your intention makes a lot more sense than your question, when you actually read (I have like 5 comments and no they aren’t about sbf or cryptocurrency or anything related)
it seems that way until the AI makes a mistake that even inexperienced players would be able to spot & avoid using traditional principles
Physical: Isnt Built to Be Brutal
That's an interesting idea, mangling the level sensor ;)

The other quick-fix is to always hold the e-brake up just enough to turn on the light when you think the grade might be >3%. This is apparently because whoever designed the system assumed that people who use the handbrake on a hill know how to release it and drive better than people who don't - whereas if you grew up driving on really steep hills in the US you weren't taught that method. The other way around it is to hold the brake w/o the clutch, keeping the car in neutral, and then unbrake-clutch-shift-gas really fast before the car rolls backward (more dangerous, but acceptable as heel/toe practice). I really wish it only happened on a very steep hill; it's the very mild slopes that caused me the worst surprises when I first bought the car and almost got into several accidents.

At least the thing doesn't have GPS ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

I remember reading about someone in the sphere of the Eliza project becoming obsessed with using it and spent an unhealthy amount of time interacting with it. History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. Perhaps Microsoft is trying to avert it with Bing.
People use Bing in the year of the Lord 2023? Don't be silly.
SmartTube Next?
There are, in fact, fast food restaurants in Manhattan.
well, Morocco is a monarchy, so wouldn't you pretty much have to just convince one guy?
It is super interesting! I was at a talk where a genetics company used the Smith-Waterman algorithm (1) to perform sequence alignment. Still I believe it took a long time (24 hours?) to perform the calculations. They were working on optimizing the code as doing so could mean a faster turnaround.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith–Waterman_algorithm
Civilization II was great. It didn't break anything and in some areas it was better than the first one.

Other sequels were meh, the only good feature is borders creep that prevents other players from building cities on your territory.
I edited the post to clarify.
> Endocrine disrupting chemicals (mostly phthalates), they are present in most food and bathroom packaging. Any plastic that is flexible.

Citation, please. As I understand it, polyethylene (especially LDPE) and polypropylene are flexible all by themselves and generally contain no plasticizers at all. And they are quite common.
While the goal sounds admirable, it seems like it would inevitably mean discriminating against young, child-free employees.
I dont know - i think it still holds up. It just takes a little experience to learn to not be so literal with it.
It seems to me that there's a lot of prejudice against java, maybe because it has been used by many low skilled devs developing poor quality codebases.

I don't think that's the reason. The cultures of Java, C#, and now TS/JS definitely seem to worship abstraction far too much, and as a result you end up with what's classically known as "enterprise" code. I've seen the work of "low skilled devs" in other languages like PHP, VB, etc. and that leans far on the under-abstraction side; you're far more likely to find lots of copy-pasting and kiloline-long functions (if they even bother to write more than one), yet that code tends to be easier to work with in my experience because it's largely linear and not nested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C3%A7ade_(video_game)
"we're not an activist court"
A good AI shouldn't need to know any more about the global map than a human player would in the same situation. If they made it see the whole map, it's basically cheating.
I'm working at a FANG and this is 100% accurate.
if you have a working Windows 95 or 98 you can format /s a disk and copy the same DOS utilities over to it, and boot it just like a newer version of DOS. W95 is easy, W98 was a little trickier, or maybe I'm thinking of Me, I can't remember any more.
How is this symbolic? At a quick look, it seems NN-based.
> Somehow I misread the title as making apps impossible to remove

Weird, so did I! Why!?

After reading it again, there are still an ambiguity though: impossible to install, or that you can uninstall?
It'll be before this, but seen once it can self evolve to a point where it fights not to be destroyed
> Founders frequently convince themselves that this new person they hired is an expert on this topic, and they should defer to them.

I've more often heard of the opposite problem. Especially when the founding team has zero education or experience in some domain, but makes up for it with ego.

Maybe a good practice is that, when a founder's intuition doesn't agree with the team's expertise, they should discuss, and try to arrive at better understanding and decisions than any of them could've individually.
What Happened to Cydia's Founder? (Saurik)
Why multinational companies lack integrity on global warming
Eh. I like that people who actually understand the principles behind Clean Code can share a common understanding of how we are going to put the legos together.

Don’t have to spend too much time bikeshedding. Experienced enough to have some foresight and pragmatic enough to know where to draw the line.
I don’t think it was your writing, I think your desire for sanity is fine :) but please be kind to yourself if you find it hard now you have a child to care for!

I think I was more incensed by skimming the introduction to Atomic Habits which is just the author boasting about themselves.
Let’s refuse the entire concept of consciousness. Everyone experiences something that we call consciousness and that’s why it’s reasonable to assume that a random stranger does as well. Sure, some organisms have more elaborate information processing capabilities than others.

If I encounter a living being (whatever that means) or an AI, I don’t care if it’s conscious or not. I care about interesting conversations, working on something together, just helping each other, etc. If the entity does this consistently why should I care about consciousness?

According to these metrics AIs are like an animal in the zoo. I poke around a bit and I am entertained by what it can and cannot. Also, I realize that we’re not too far from having useful artificial companions.
You like founding your own cities? Building your own buildings? Moving your own units?

Of course I like digging my own roads. I get to decide exactly where they go. That's the game.
A type of traditional story about leaders is how they showed up anonymously to check what was going on. Literally going back thousands of years.

I was just reading a story about how a king pretended to be a wandering drunken lout, and when his guards stopped him, he bribed some of them with gold, but others whipped and beat him and put him in a cell. Then he revealed who he was, and the guards who didn't lock him up and beat him, were whipped and banished.
That's a bad take, they provide a service and a platform, that's allowed to make a profit. The big deal about 230 getting repealed is that it's a lawyer's wet dream to sue everyone and -win- over any little thing said on the internet. Repealing it basically eliminates free speech on the internet unless you put up your own host, and even then your ISP could get sued for allowing even that. It's yet another way the elite can suppress the voice of the commons on the internet. I can't believe anyone on hackernews would support that.
AFAIK AMD based supercomputers were chosen for their traditional HPC perf (eg. FP64) perf not AI perf (eg. BF16, FP16, FP8, INT8)
This is exactly my experience as well, but there is a problem though. Most of people in the world just don't have a luxury I have - take a walk with my dog in the woods any moment I want. Most of people in the world don't have a luxury to switch environments in the way I have. Meditation is useful for people living in noisy (in all possible ways) environments they can't escape.
Hopefully they fix multiplayer.
Ok to repost the classic from time to time (see past), but then put (1996) in the title. Otherwise you might think it's again a new revamp, as it happened 2019.