skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, no. I'd choose a Robusta Cavendish over a sickly-sweet Chakkarakeli or a mealy Nendran any day.
I also think that paper is super interesting, I talked about it here: https://www.machinelearningatscale.com/how-tiktok-recommenda...
How is this related to people "acting like pansies" to avoid catching covid?
If you visit https://wiki.livingcomputers.org/ you can learn about many of the remote systems that continue to operate. They are a mix of 18 real hardware and emulated systems with guest access, if you don't have a personal account. The wiki is also contributed to by the community of users that use these systems. In there you'll find code examples and user documentation regarding these historic systems.
The most impressive Facebook's feature was hands down Graph Search [1] which was released around this time - 2013. Basically it was an interface to the entire social graph!

Eventually they had to pull those features out. Privacy concerns which lead to people sharing less data? Not sure.

Even now a lot of people get surprised when I put their full name into search box and show them what photos are available via simple search - they completely forget or don't know even that when they are tagged their photos are searchable by their name. I mean now most people I know don't share much anymore, facebook is not that cool anymore.

[1] great demo of graph search https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DySRn7c736c
Maybe not 12+ hours a day, but a good chunk of time and this is my house mate. They watch more Tik Toks about ADHD than they do actually trying to live with ADHD.
The one next to Bletchley Park is The National Museum of Computing. It's a really great place and, IMHO, much more interesting than Bletchley Park itself.

https://www.tnmoc.org/
Yep. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...

If you had to pick one number for judging classifiers that is the one.

"Accuracy" is a really bad one because it is not meaningful w/o careful thought about the problem. For instance if you have a diagnostic system for a disease that has a .01 prevalence, you get 99% accuracy if you say nobody has a disease.

Practically a person might want to operate a classifier with different thresholds depending on how bothered they are by false positives vs false negatives, the ROC shows what choices are have available with a particular and the AUC of the ROC gives you one number that characterizes the quality of the classifier overall. A system with an AUC under say 0.55 hasn't really learned anything at all, at 0.6 it is showing signs of life, looking at those curves I'd say Tik Tok is beating me solidly. In this case it is limited by the problem being fuzzy (something I thumbs up today might get a thumbs down tomorrow), something up in the 0.95 level could be attained for something like "is this article about the outcome of a sports game?"
The founder of WallStreetBets is suing Reddit
You may be right - in theory. But existence of Journalist collaboration networks make this a moot point. Google JournOList and tell me there isn’t any coordination.

Edit - one other point, so many articles are also sourced from Reuters and AP that the Media, while different companies all have the same source material.
Writing Essays with AI: A Guide
I don't think so.
I review a lot of market research reports for my firm when making strategic decisions.

The younger generations of Americans are extremely polarized and ready to fight.
They don't agree with many of the cultural norms of the older generations such keeping politics out of the work place, or common public areas of civility. They are willing to inject their personal biases into the company and literally every aspect of their life. This is not unique to the Left either.

We are seeing some necessary materials partners send out emails signatures with literal bible verses on them to our employees with pronouns in their emails.

The under 35's are really adding a lot of pain to my life right now.

Cultural Differences in America are at the level of Hungary vs Germany/UK right now, if I had to say.
https://www.bigscreenvr.com/
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Shipping, and relatedly, it will mature somewhat after picking. I suspect, much like a tomato, the closer you pick it to ripe, the better it actually is.
What do you think is the proper response if someone steals of loaf of bread? Would you label them a dishonest irredeemable criminal and throw them in jail for life?
OpenAI bought the domain ai.com for $11M
Relate HN comments:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494796

Related paper:

- https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07663

Related GitHub:

- https://github.com/bytedance/monolith
I feel like this is nitpicking. There is nothing codified in law, because it's not required to be.

The fundamental question should be "if the executives of a company acted in the best interests of employees in such a way that it negatively impacted shareholder value, would this be grounds for a civil suit?" I think so. The shareholders are ultimately the owners of the company. Now, would this ever happen? Probably not. The first thing that would happen is that the board would remove the executives. So basically, this would take both the executives and the board acting against the interests of the shareholders. Given that the board is almost always made up of the majority shareholders, it would take a really extreme case for something like this to happen.

Having said that, there are plenty of examples of shareholders taking action against the board when the board acts against their best interests.
Aren't most shareholders long-term investors?
I personally want as much return as possible over a 20-30 year time span, I don't care about next quarter.
Is the measure of restrictive immigration the number of immigrants that made it?

You could remove any rules on immigration to the US and I won’t be moving there. Some destinations will be popular and some unpopular whatever the rules.

Also, why are you not counting immigration within Europe when looking at European immigration?
>unless you live in a large city

Most people live in large cities
No, because I'm very much used to having a permanent place of residence. But I'd expect a nomadizing homeless to feel exactly as you described about permanent homes (not necessarily as in "would prefer to do without" but as in "there would be some parts of not having one that I'd really miss"). This was my entire point.

People who spent their life in vim don't miss the tiniest bit of whatever Jetbrains products have that isn't in vim, and likewise people who spent their computing life in IntelliJ and the like don't miss anything of what the vim crowd considers essential.
Perhaps you are forgetting that the original COVID-19 strain did not present symptoms before it became infectious. Or perhaps you don’t care as it doesn’t reflect your intention.
Not a lot of yachts in Austria
I was behind a woman today on an escalator. I wasn't shoulder-surfing, she held her phone up so high I couldn't help but see it. She was on Tik-Tok. She watched like twenty videos in one minute. One second, click. One second, click. What good this does anybody at all, anywhere, is beyond me. It was all trash.
If you ask me it's massively irresponsible for your top medical advisor to say something as factual if it's not backed up by evidence. You cannot ask the public to trust science when the truth is there is no science, but your medical advisory leaders speak as if it is science. No wonder so many people are skeptical.

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-...
I used to work in a grocery store. I had a conversation with the lady in Floral (she was ancient) about Red Delicious apples. I guess they used to actually be delicious, so she says. Something went wrong over the years.

One thing I can tell you from experience is that they're weirdly resistant to decay. Everything else will go bad in patches. If you've got a bad orange, you've probably got eight partially bad oranges next to it. I saw a bad red delicious apple once, the rest of the case was pristine.
> The windy country roads without anyone living on them are now filled with people that 'want to live in the country' but ironically do not because everyone wanted that.

See also: national parks
Don't get me started on Java and checked exceptions. If you don't have checked exceptions, you should not have a million try/catch blocks. In fact, just the opposite. Since you only care about errors when you can retry (or ignore) you should only have a small number of try/catch blocks. Ideally one or none.

My best example of this is a UI application that I built that had a single try/catch block around the event loop. It just displayed the error message to the user and returned to the event loop. If they tried to save a file to a network and failed, they got the message, and could just hit save again for somewhere else. No other code needed.
> the fuzzy nature of the recommender problem means I am never going to get into the 90's

Right. If your AUC is in the 90's you usually either have a bug, or a predictive task that isn't very challenging.
I think it's just that people are delaying having children. Once they have children they fall in line as there's no energy for anything else
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine
The non-native population largely lost our minds before we even got on the boat to come over. We're a nation of lunatics and have been since before independence.
Its chosen by the ngram and randomly so, that does suggest it is completing the text a word at a time.
It’s an opinion piece. Those wanting something to reinforce their belief system will find value in it. And those wanting data-driven answers to questions won’t.
I mean it’s really about identifying rules that are anti majoritarian.

On the federal level, the filibuster is an obvious example of a an anti majoritarian rule that creates perverse incentives.

Going deeper, the way that the individual houses are structured gives significant power to committee chairs who gain power through seniority and fundraising for their parties, which creates centralized points of leverage for lobbyists.

What we’ve seen over time is that fewer and fewer bills get passed, and individual bills themselves get larger. This is a result of rules and customs changing within the house and senate themselves that have made it harder and harder to pass small bills, so everything gets rolled into monster packages and the process get more obscured to people who are on the outside.

The thing is that all of these rules get set by majority vote. Leadership elections happen by majority vote. Changing rules can happen without consent of the other house. The issue is that there’s very little understanding or focus on why they are important.
This assumes that the student places the class and knowledge (and writing effort) high in their list of priorities. I'd imagine that the people who are enticed to use an AI solution for writing an essay would have otherwise found writing it way down on their list of desires and would therefore be using many of the tried-and-true tricks to pad out their work.
Eh. Not really ? Because while grading history essays is his domain of expertise, ChatGPT and LLMs are not.
Elm looks quite interesting, I may have to try it out. But I feel that for many JS/TS devs, it may be too much of a jump to move to a functional language.
I get GP's point, I'm arguing it's incorrect. Specifically slow and expensive != rarely used.

Once you accept that your privacy is going to be violated either way, the computer is the obviously preferable option.

Human processing errors are not guaranteed to come out at court time, and humans can and will hide their mistakes.

Getting caught in a "computer says no" trap fundamentally requires the human using the computer to also not be able to tell when the data is obviously wrong. Computers are not supposed to be the source of common sense in either system, they are a tool.

There isn't 100x more crime that isn't being prosecuted due to lack of resources. There are lots of crimes like jaywalking that our legal system leaves to discretion. 99% of the time, a person crossing the street is a non-issue. Even if you do it right in front of a cop and it would take zero resources to prosecute, it doesn't get done because we as a society don't believe it should be. We make it a crime because there is that 1% of cases where it is a problem, and we need to be able to deal with those cases, but distinguishing which is which can not be readily codified in law. The only way that AI will change this is that the decision on whether to prosecute jaywalking will be consistent.

I don't see why computers not forgetting is a bad thing. We already have the means of preserving data for long periods of time. The decision on whether records should be maintained or deleted should be made based on the circumstances, not on the faultyness of the hardware. I mean if you really wanted to, you could always program a computer to delete data at random, but it's just a dumb idea.

Human rules can be bad. A human black box can not spit out an error log showing the particular sequence of neurons that activated that led to its decision. It can generate a statement, but whether that statement correctly explains it's decision making process can not be determined reliably. For example a human can shoot someone because of the color of their skin, and then state that it was because they felt they were in danger despite not actually feeling that way. Detecting such a glitch is extremely difficult, and no one has a reliable method of fixing it. Falsely suspecting people because their name is foreign is a well known bug in humans. Racism and bigotry is likewise a common issue with human neural networks. When you consider the countless multitudes of erroneous decisions made by humans over the millenia, an AI falsely flagging mere thousands is an immense improvement.
That's fantastic, thanks for sharing this! I'll give it a spin on the weekend and see what I can get out of it.
Here is some more context on related technologies:

https://www.american.edu/sis/centers/carbon-removal/fact-she...

The MIT article presents an expensive strawman alternative, but ignores simpler, cheaper technologies that already exist.

In particular, since CO2 acidifies the ocean, dumping alkaline chemicals into sea water converts the CO2 to inert solids, which precipitate out. At least, that's the theory. Caveats in link.
Java or .NET
> The fundamental question should be "if the executives of a company acted in the best interests of employees in such a way that it negatively impacted shareholder value, would this be grounds for a civil suit?"

Sure; the point is that "did this negatively impact shareholder value" is a more complicated question than the "short term profit at all costs" folks would have you believe.

For example: what's the impact on shareholder value of a reputation as an ethical company who pays their workers above-market salaries? How do you balance that versus "it ate into our profits by 10% this year"?
For me, the moment I see two videos in a row of the same format and with the same music under it I get a sense of existential dread and close the app. Something stops feeling human and that's why I deleted my tiktok and might delete my Instagram next
Who's your cohort? If you're in high school, yes it does.
>I hate being around so many people packed in a train, airplane, bus

I hate being in traffic. On a bus, people are around but you usually don't have to think about them. You can read a book. In traffic, people aren't next to you, but you have to constantly pay attention to them.
If a hobbiest can draw that conclusion why didn't the top medical folks of our governments not relay that information to the public at the start of all of this?
Paying attention to faces may be linked with psychopathology levels
What good does a cigarette do?
Every couple decades? More like every 5 years!
> If I am in the business of writing robust code; then "assuming all functions can throw" means at the very least forcing every function call to be surrounded by a try/catch block?

No, absolutely not! You only care about errors where you can retry/ignore or log and terminate so you only have try/catch in those areas. So maybe one or two.
> Pulling snapshots helps, particularly with slowdowns over time. Pulling deps is a problem that deserves its own initiatives.

I just had some success running android builds on a self-hosted github runner. One of the big setting up stages was having sdkamanger pull down large dependencies (SDK, emulator images etc.) on startup.

Forcing sdkmanager into http_only mode and pointing it at a properly-configured squid took a large percentage off the build time.

Similar story for the gradle build, where running a remote gradle cache node locally to the job means gradle steps get automatically cached without any magic CI pipeline steps.
> magical minority market share

This phrase is far more prescient than most people think. Yes, it's a numeric minority. However, they have a near-monopoly on _profitable_ users. 13% of the global market and >50% of the profits.
Actually, if you look at the data Pfizer give to the FDA (the stuff that was initially released), there were more 'suspected by not confirmed' cases of COVID-19 in the control group than the test group.

Pfizer did not actively test each participant. It only selectively tested some patients and not others, based on symptoms. They provided no explanation of 'suspected but unconfirmed' cases. If they suspected them, perhaps they should have tested them, but they didn't.
COVID specifically has very little data, we are literally building data as we go. That was not the narrative I received during the pandemic.
And birds and sneks. Good, wholesome stuff a vast majority of the time.
Not the same thing. Facebook algos are recommendations from your own friends, not random people.
No, because the problems facing those groups were that people were treating them _differently_ because they belonged to a minority. The problem facing people with autism is that people expect to be able to interact with them like they interact with everyone else.

> LGTM Americans

been reviewing a few pull requests today? :)
I'm deep in the anti-car crowd and virtually _nobody_ says that.
The kind of anecdote my grand dad would bring up.

But very relatable and I too am baffled by the appeal of these shorts.
What do you mean “was WebAssembly?”
I don't like the US. There are more reasons than walkability.
They are not imitating humans in general. They are imitating the statistical average of many human written texts. That is not the same thing as imitating the goals of humans.

By imitating the speech it may look like the AI has some goal-oriented behavior, but it only looks that way. And that is precisely the goal of their programmers, to make it look like the AI has some goals.

It would be possible to have a different type of AI which actually decides on its own goals and then infers what are the best actions to take to reach those goals. Such an AI would have goals yes. But language models do not. They are not scored based on did they reach any specific goal with any specific interaction. They have no specific goals.

The only goal (of the programmers who wrote the AI) is to fool the humans into thinking they are interacting with some entity which has goals. and intelligence.
You can also have cached static instances(assuming immutability), eg Point.fromLonLat(0,0) can always return the same instance, whereas new Point(0,0) must allocate and return a new instance.
Seems more like advertising that your device can be used for covert tracking/stalking without overtly doing so to me. An obviously nonsense clause that will be picked up by the media and provide exactly the coverage they are looking for, all while ostensibly being the good guys
But they do seem to be optimizing more explicitly for "user enjoyment" than other platforms, perhaps realizing that this is what keeps and attracts users and their precipitation eyeball-minutes in the long term. Youtube also (not always) does a pretty good job at this, while Instagram can be rough.
With Muse Group's ownership and Tantacrul/Martin Keary as Head of Product of Audacity [0][1], Audacity will be moving in a radically different direction from a UI/UX perspective. I happen to think this will be a good thing, and I happen to think that (opt-in) telemetry is a perfectly good way of ensuring that a consumer-facing open-source project doesn't just build for its loudest users, especially in the context of large interface redesigns. And with MuseScore 4, the creative team struck what I think is a great balance between streamlining the interface and avoiding the removal of complexity/advanced features.

But I can also see why a fork can and should diverge, for those who want a more stable and slow-moving evolution of the software. I hope the Tenacity project succeeds!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWNvwLiXIQ

[1] https://uk.linkedin.com/in/martin-keary-88a5a7159
Update on Return to Office Plans
Any American business knows that the best ROI comes from political donations. No contest.
Some of them do, but others depend on labeled and augmented data. For example training facial recognition starts with images labeled by who appears in them, then you run a model to find the face in the image and crop to that, then another image tells you where the eyes are and you use that to rotate the image to make the eyes level, and that's the input to the actual facial recognition neural network. And that's for the "naive" approaches that don't have special handling for faces don't look at the camera. And the field still routinely has problems because it turns out that somebody's data set only contained certain lighting conditions, or severely underrepresented certain races, etc.
It was really small and German speaking and wonderfully low tech but not anti-tech. Parent run meant we had regular meetings and had to paint, clean, organise events and vote on executive decisions like buying a dishwasher. It was really intimate and my kids learnt German really well. It was a lot of overhead but it brought us into the community well. The teachers were really dedicated they were amazing. Best start possible. Parents regularly had tensions between them but this is the nature or a random sample of population, lol.

The website is still retro and bulky but at least the cert works! https://kila-mittenmang.de
True, guess I just had it wrong in my head. I thought this was a code monkey and a code monkey was not something good. All those devs are more successful than me though!
Schools in poor areas will always cost significantly more per student because they carry more societal weight that isn't being carried at the students' homes.
Economy of scale. What they are, is tiny next to Apple, and they don't get the same efficiencies from mass manufacturing as Apple, with their practically infinitly deep pockets, is able to buy.
Looking forward to the databricks integration - congrats guys!
It's been proven time and again that there are many factors beyond money that go into making a good school. It's a little taboo because it can come off as victim-blaming/classist/racist.

If the majority of parents for whatever reasons don't value education, the school will suck. If the majority of kids are poorly raised and abused at home, the school will suck.

Wealthy areas don't just have good schools because they're rich. They also have good schools because wealthy people universally and correctly value education as a means of generating/perpetuating their wealth. Even the dumbest, weakest, most self-entitled wealthy person knows a college degree matters, even if they don't understand how or why or which degree. And they're wealthy, so they won't bat an eye at marginally increased property taxes to fund schools, and they make sure their kids go to school.
When you're JAQing off the use of chlorine gas in WWI and comparing LRoB to TikTok, ZyclonB and the holocaust are nearby. Since you use the internet I guess you can't know anything, LOL!