skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree indeed. In statistical analysis or signal processing noise is described as an element presenting data/energy other than energy/data to be observed. I guess any data collecting system can call noise anything that is filtered out from that being measured.
It shouldn't matter which tools were used to write a story, just whether it's a good story or not.

However, how would any publisher assess such a flood of submissions? Use AI to pre-classify stories as good/mediocre/bad?
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Russia is launching a mission to give stranded ISS crew members a ride home
There are a couple differences between an AI working towards something harmful and a human doing it:

- If an AI can self-replicate or otherwise scale itself up, it can work on something many times in parallel. One billion AIs working on a deadly virus is different from one rogue scientist working on one.

- On that note, if an AI replicated enough, it could become impossible to catch/stop. A single human can be hard to catch, but we can usually catch them.

- Most humans are deterred from doing harmful things by the threat of incarceration, death, social isolation, the values they have, etc. An AI may not have any of those, and so could act more brazenly.

- Potentially, an AI could be better at certain tasks than a human. Maybe ChatGPT turns out to be a very effective social engineer, or very effective propagandist. I don't think we really know what the capabilities are.

All of these are why I think it's important to ask the question: what would it try to do, and what could it do, if it were let loose?
- $5 million in fines, for

- 22 years of willful reporting violations

- using 13 shell companies

- to conceal ownership of a $32 billion portfolio

I'm sure they're gutted by this ~0.016% fine.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” -- A.C.C

I'm wondering if we'll reach a point where it is impossible or nearly impossible, and what value of 'understand' we assign to it. For example deeply understanding x64 processor architecture. Does any one person understand it all, very unlikely at this point. The investment the average person would have to perform to accomplish even part of that would lead most of them to seek other more fruitful endeavors. Biology would be a good example of this. Nothing about biology is magical, and yet even simple systems contain such an information density that they are at the impossible to fully understand point, and that's before we start layering them into systems that have emergent behavior.
more and more you have to treat "reddit" as if it were an "internet" and have a separate account for every subreddit or group thereof.
> why can't the model do those things?

Isn't this just an intrinsic problem with the ambiguity of language?

Reminds me of this: https://i.imgur.com/PqHUASF.jpeg

edit: especially the 1st and last panels
Interesting. I dug through my inbox and was able to find the answer, and evidence of the edit war itself is gone, except for the actual edit history. The comments have been removed. (Good riddance, but the process is less transparent for me.)
I just want a random art that has shallow minerals, low savagery, and a temperate climate.
A classic example of this strategy being used in the past 10-20 years outside of the US is the UK's NHS.

It's been slowly crippled, putting more and more pressure in the system, and eventually the solution to be proposed when the system finally collapses through malicious maladministration will be to privatise it.
It makes them things that liberals think are bad. Likewise, conservatives think liberal opinions are bad.

The problem is exactly your comment: liberal opinions are not the same thing as the truth. So just because some liberal doesn't like your opinion (thinks its bad) doesn't mean you deserve to be deplatformed. There's no gotcha there with the logical endpoint.
Second time this month...
it works well !

https://phind.com/search?q=show+ruby+code+snippet+to+search+...
I get people preferring upgradeable hardware, but find the notion that Apple went non-upgradeable to squeeze more money out of people to be among the sillier ideas people have about Apple. There are so very many other ways they could be doing that, but are instead doing the opposite.

I don't think they cared enough about capturing a little more business from the surely single-digit percentage of people who ever replaced anything on their laptop, including the battery, to radically redesign the whole product line. Especially when there are other plausible reasons they might want to do that.

I don't know how people get these ideas so stuck in their head, with such confidence, that they post about them on Web forums. Whatever evil Apple may in-fact get up to, this one doesn't even pass the smell test.
Congratulations! It is not for everyone, but I have friends thriving in this role. Now, to be clear they did not make £30,000 pcm year after year. Ups and downs average out over the long term, and the average certainly is lower than that. Still, they do complain about stress and such, but not really about the money.
Scotus has refused to hear cases on Mass Surveillance for a long time. It tells you the quality of the court, as this is likely the largest single issue of our time, touching everything from freedom to democracy to criminal law to the role of the judiciary and congress themselves...
The floodgates are now open for all the people who believe they have it in them to be great writers, if only it weren't for all of that tedious writing. As if the value in writing consists mainly in having an idea. This is much like people who believe that their great business idea is (by itself) worth millions.
DDG is using Bing API itself
This doesn't really make sense. If the company owes more in fines than it's worth, existing shareholders get nothing and the company belongs to its creditors. If it owes large amounts to the government, those claims convert into ownership too.
Dead malls have all sorts of problems.

The buildings are usually often old and cheaply constructed and would probably largely need to be gutted which is probably not worth it.

But even if you contemplate just building from scratch, if a mall is dead it's probably because it's located somewhere there isn't a ton of demand. That's certainly the case with the one near me.
https://archive.is/ei92s
Going back a bit in my career, I've looked at (real, raw) data on this topic in a different way and come up with a conflicting conclusion on the academic performance side.

Students taking the same course appear to perform significantly better when they take that course <= 9:00am. This trend is stronger the more students take the course. The difference tends to be on the order of the difference between, say, a B and a B-. (and I also chose specific courses where students are likely to have a variety of choices). I found that it tended to be the better students who self-selected into taking earlier courses, IIRC.

The authors add confounding factors when they structure the question as "# of early courses taken" and compare it to overall GPA. For example students who are able to take later classes tend to be Juniors & Seniors, and they may have different GPA's for other reasons-- program retention requirements for example often have higher requirements than for freshmen/sophomores. Students also have different constraints if the have a job, or commute and live further away.

Again, I'm only commenting on the academic performance side of the conclusions, not attendance or the other (interesting!) areas the study covered. My guess is that if the study's authors controlled for variables like student class standing, employment, age, and other factors their results might be weakened a bit. Or it could be that their results don't apply uniformly outside their own school (Though mine came from a school that was substantially similar in terms of market niche)
Thanks, Vlad. There will always be a free version of Phind. We are thinking about either ads, a ChatGPT-style subscription model, or a combination of the two.
That's a good clarification clarification. I misread the quoted part as trying to shift the "well" of consciousness to the unconscious brain, which really just moves the problem down one level.
> That can be healthy, if you're ready to face something, or it can be incredibly terrifying.

Yes, and there's no guarantee that your bad trip or encounter with these entities will resolve itself without major effort. That ought to be enough to be seriously concerned about whether it is in any way appropriate to endorse this as some sort of ordinary, routine practice for the uninitiated.
This seems like a review of John Ousterhout's work w/ Homa. I highly recommend reading the original. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00714

For those who don't know Ousterhout created the first log structured filesystem and created TCL (used heavily in hardware verification but also forming the backbone of the some of the first large web servers: aolserver). I was actually surprised to find out he co-founded a company with the current CTO of Cloudflare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout

He has both a candidate replacement as well as benchmarks showing 40% performance improvements with grpc on homa compared to grpc on TCP. https://github.com/PlatformLab/grpc_homa

With that in mind I think nobody will replace TCP and I doubt anything not IP compatible will be able to get off the ground. His argument is essentially that for low latency RPC protocols TCP is a bad choice.

We've already seen people build a number of similar systems on UDP including HTTP replacements that have delivered value for clients doing lots of parallel requests on the WAN.

I think many big tech companies are essentially already choosing to bypass TCP. I recall facebook doing alot of work with memcache on udp. I can't find any public docs on whether or not Google's internal RPC uses TCP.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if in the near future something like grpc/capnproto/twirp/etc had an in-datacenter TCP-free fast path. It would be cool if it was built on Homa.
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Then why it is saying "Was this answer better than Google?"
Theoretically, having to design the product to be modular means you'll have connectors, modules, and other parts that you have to ship on every product. At scale, you could imagine that adding 0.1 grams of weight and material to every unit nets out to be more wasteful than throwing away 1 in 100,000 entire units due to a fault.
> I’ll give you the user-serviceability point, but not the longevity point.

I just replaced my 2012 Thinkpad T430s (which I bought second-hand!) with a 2019 x390. Part of it is that the T430 became a loaner that I have gifted to a friend who needed a laptop for light paperwork, but also the battery on it (and any replacements I could find) had a pretty short lifespan, about 2.5 hours at best. The laptop was still very usable, but I've become too tied to my desk and my desktop lately and I wanted to be able to work with more mobility and not worry about having an outlet constantly available.

All that is just to say that Thinkpads, even post-IBM era ones, have the longevity you expect from a Macbook. Unfortunately, the user-serviceability has also gone downhill, with soldered-on memory being common and now the charging port is a USB-C that is built onto the motherboard.
Remember you are only hurting yourself, not Apple.
have you seen WSL ? Windows is very compelling for your laptop
And yea, that's why read-only on reddit this days and feel no desire to contribute.

I thought about 'sub based accounts' where a user name only posted in a particular sub and didn't care about what happened in the other ones. Then I thought "I don't give this much of a shit about reddit to do all that work".
Oh I'm aware, this is more a general idea for "too big to fail" companies in general. Our infrastructure is rotten and often privatized. No one has the funds and ability to hold companies like this accountable except for the federal government.

Look at Steven Donzinger. He reported on toxic spills by Chevron in Nicaragua that poisoned indigenous water supplies. Chevron hired a private prosecutor and found a judge in their favor to force him into house arrest(for over a year) for not supplying a document.

Large corporations have the cards stacked in their favor.
$5M penalty seems very small.
Generative Models and P vs. NP
It does until you try to tcpdump :/

1) It's not TCP

2) It's a PITA on a 'trusted' network because there is not "encryption off" mode
You realize that 99.999% uptime is 6 minutes of downtime a year? How is your internet even that stable? And do you never restart the machine?
I love to talk about collaborating on this.
14 years, 5 months, 71 answers, 7 questions, ~5.6m people reached. Top 10% reputation overall.

The toxicity started before it was even out of beta. I was fairly vocal early on about how certain attitudes were not conducive to community.

And here we are.
Never had a memory stick get jarred a bit loose, eh? Sometimes it even keeps kinda behaving normally....
I had a hard time finding anything too, but as the other commenter noted bellingcat is basically the National endowment for democracy
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I think the left usually has very weak messaging (as opposed to the right which has strong messaging but is sometimes just blatantly false).

Maybe you could call voters to action by saying we need to “protect our -lands-“ (stronger ring than air or water) or even better, “protect our -people- from having to live in a toxic environment”.
Congrats on the launch!
Indeed interesting space.
I wonder if it has some overlap with https://skaffold.dev/.
I would be curious to hear the differences.
I think a more realistic statement is that most of those buyers think they want the effects of economic segregation, and there is "real" subset of eg. multi-millionaires that actually want it.

Most people don't want homelessness, "gangs"/crime , and rundown houses and other unsightly signs (perceived or real) of the economic lower-class in their neighborhood, a smaller subset don't want their children to socialize with the lower-class children, and a smaller subset truly want a private enclave of elitism.

To be frank, there is a benefit to live near lower-income people: its easier to find service workers for your local cafe/restaurant/etc. The affordability problem facing many cities is that there are too few service workers because not enough people can afford to go to the city and work (because commuting from affordable areas isn't worth it). A city with a varied population can support more local businesses, and can have a more varied local economy, and can even be more resilient - eg. if there is a big storm, but the town has no plumbers, electricians, etc, you may need to pay more to "import" that workers from doing jobs in their own town (which also likely has residents in need of work). If you are a millionaire, you can pay to import service work, but most middle-class people can't.
How does this compare to Europe, or the rest of the world? I can spot numbers like 'every other day' in Europe, but getting comparables is proving difficult. Given the different nature of the tracks, usage, and geography, it may be difficult to draw a meaningful comparison anyway.

I do see that the rates are broadly similar between Canada and the US, which is not a surprise but does suggest a correlation.
isn't sagemaker studio lab fully free?

it's said colab is easier to use, but sagemaker studio lab provides better hardware underneath.
Welcome to Sorites Paradox
> The argument was about publicity as a reward motivator, not publicity itself, as a causal relation to success.

That the causal model supports publicity seeking leads us to ensemble models. When models are good for different reason, the ensemble of the models ends up better than any individual model. Reinforcement learning research has shown you can successfully train an agent out of decomposed reward signals by building an ensemble model atop them.

The fact that the causality says publicity matters means that agents which recognize the importance that publicity contribute to the solution actually do have the expectation of being part of the solution.

It is very common to see this talked about in terms of diversity improving solution quality when talking about it in the context of companies and it is generally considered a good idea to have a diverse team as a consequence.

Anyway, I'm mostly responding because I disagree with apriori declaration that all who disagree are attacking a straw man.

I think that was overconfident, because the causal structure of publicity and its relation to outcomes disagrees with that.
Using the terminology that I'm working with this is an example of a second-order analytic augmentation!

Here's another approach of second-order analytic augmentation, PAL: https://reasonwithpal.com

Third-order, Toolformer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

Third-order, Bing: https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/bing-third-order

Third-order, LangChain Agents: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents/ge...

The difference isn't in what is going on but rather with framing the approach within the analytic-synthetic distinction developed by Kant and the analytic philosophers who were influenced by his work. There's a dash of functional programming thrown in for good measure!

If anything I filled a personal need to find a way to think about all of these different approaches in a more formal manner.

I have scribbled on a print-out of the article on my desk:

Nth Order

- Existing Examples [x] (added just now)
- Overview []
- data->thunk->pthunk []
> if you have the proof, someone will write an AI to pass it.

That doesn’t make any sense. What passes the proof is the program code. You have the code, and then you construct a formal proof that the code is correct, similar to how a mathematician proves that some theorem is correct. The code is a prerequisite for the proof. When you can construct a proof for the code, you’re done.

This proof-construction process is what AIs currently aren’t good at, because it requires logical precision, and probability isn’t sufficient. They can generate code, but they can’t construct the formal proof that the code is correct (and it often isn’t).

> There's still a lot of very, very sophisticated work that goes into locking down requirements that tightly.

What’s true is that you need to know what you want to prove about the code, and that isn’t always easy.
If I drank private well water in east Palestine I would make sure that contamination was closely monitored and drink bottled water for a while. Drinking water from the tap? Yes I would do that.
> and it has caused companies to form and get funded

I am far more interested in what percentage fail because of a breakdown in the founder relationship.

It's easy to start a company and get funded, when you have a great team. It's very difficult to maintain that relationship for a decade or more.
Could you please elaborate? What I gather is that Bologna started as a "club" of students, hence "university" (Bologna started the term) should be interpreted as "a collective"... The union suggests a creation of some power (not just an organization), but I do not know what «trouble[some]» objectives should such guild pursue.
Ask HN: So what IS the end game for any WW3 scenario?
Given today's announcements about Russia pulling out of START, I got to thinking about whether it makes a real difference. I mean, once any one of the major atomic powers decides to "go for broke" I don't see any way that they don't all have to use most of their missiles. Even if it's only two of them initially, it's not likely any of the others want to wait to see if one of the others has enough left to impose their will on the rest.

At which point - then what? None of the major atomic powers has enough (if any) missiles left to be much of a deterrent, and none of them will have armed forces that are any more prepared to do an Atlantic or Pacific crossing and invasion than they are now. So it's just that much worse for everyone?
Others' money, not yours. Fund LPs do exercise a good amount of scrutiny over where their money goes. Ultimately if you aren't happy with Andreessen Horowitz and their proposed investment strategy, don't give them your money. Or talk to your employer or pension fund manager if you are indirectly impacted by this (I'm guessing no one here actually is, and this is all just the usual pointless online outrage).
Right on, that's very close to what I'm looking for! Thanks!
Global Internet Connectivity Is at Risk from Climate Disasters
> It is further demoralizing to watch our President on a tour of Ukraine, giving away tens of billions of dollars to fight a proxy war

Because this made it sound like on this trip he gave them "tens of billions of dollars", that's not correct.

> In his remarks alongside Zelensky, Biden said the United States would provide another half-billion dollars of assistance to Ukraine, including additional ammunition for the artillery systems the United States previously provided.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/20/president-bi...
Thanks for explaining, that does sound compelling, and useful that it can be slotted into an existing system.
i can't help think of Data from star trek, longing to be more human like. At some point can the AI be allowed to post with the same equal rights as humans. Picard would fight for Data's rights to comment on hacker news articles.
I was watching a video about getting good sleep hygiene the other day and the main tip was "control what time you wake up, because waking up tired is easier than going to bed when you're not tired."

That person is clearly not a night owl lol. Waking up at 7 doesn't make you feel any more tired at 11 when you're a night owl, because that's just when you're the most awake. All you end up doing is creating an ever growing sleep debt until you're on vacation and just sleep for its whole duration.
not the guy you were replying to, but sure, but I don't recite ritualistic dogmatic incantations reaffirming my deference to renowned experts. surely it is possible to naturally, organically defer to experts on things while still perceiving the societal harm of institutionalizing ritualistic reaffirmations of deference?
I'm aware, not that it makes a difference to my comment.
Essentially what's happening is it takes your markdown content then converts it to HTML, then it puts the header above and the footer below. Those are held in `./templates` if you want to modify them. You don't have to include anything in your markdown other than the content, if I'm understanding your question correctly.

Also, one thing I'd like to sort out is making the page titles on the pages.html page that it generates not be based on the filename, but on the title of the article so-you-dont-see-stuff-like-this on pages.html.

As of yesterday since I added config variables, I'd like to relocate those to an external file to avoid recompile, and then use those to populate the header so that people don't take time to fill in the config and then still get "Bearclaw Blog" when they fire it up.

I really appreciate the time you're taking to talk this out with me, it's very inspiring and I'm getting lots of ideas. I can't wait to get done with Job 2 today so I can hammer out some of these things :) Thank you
Ah, indeed - that's a fair concern. I was laid off before finding this place, and it took me a lot of applying to talk to people.

Once my foot was in the door things almost went too fast. I received way more offers than I accepted - it's a fair worry, there's a lot of drudgery involved.

Sadly effort is about the only fix - either apply yourself or make a machine :)

That pretty much perfectly goes hand in hand with my experience; thank you for sharing! I don't want to dwell on it, since I don't think it'll be good for either of us... but I can truly relate.
I think we really should be looking at the tax-exempt status of religious organizations have that subsidiaries that are doing their taxes and setting up shell companies to hide where money is coming/going.