skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They still seem to be there for me - the poster made a number of replies to the linked comment (one per book) with a table of changes. Direct links to each reply:

* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...

* Esio Trot - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...

* The Enormous Crocodile - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...

* The BFG - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...

* James and the Giant Peach - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...

* The Witches - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...

* Matilda - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...

* Fantastic Mr Fox - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...

* George's Marvellous Medicine - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...

* The Twits - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...
> Everyone here is thinking "ZOMG Political Correct Censorship Claims Another Victim", but what we actually have is "Han Shot First".

"Han Shot First" is the artist changing his own work.

That is entirely different. The reason everyone is yelling is they intuitively sense how wrong it is to posthumously edit an artist without permission. There's a moral question here that exists apart from copyright ownership.
Why diets backfire: A year or more after weight loss, the desire to eat grows
I hear that local fire departments are expert in burning dangerous books.
Good example of the artistic damage done by the committee. The wit of the original lay in the alliteration. Recall that alliteration is the oldest poetic meter in English. "Leoden litheost ..." -- Beowulf
Honestly the most depressing thing I have read today. I loved these books as a hyper young boy that struggled in school. Reading his books was an escape and help foster in me a love of reading.

What kind of a dystopian nightmare society thinks it’s a good idea to alter works after the fact :(
Subjecting them to even the smallest, mildest mote of criticism.
> If I don't get my salary raise after 9-12 months, I simply leave.

How much percentage?
So true. In my family of four, with two small kids, I certainly don’t feel like I have much agency. :)
Looking at the DoT’s stats on financials of 24 US airlines, I dunno if this critique is rooted in reality. I think domestic airlines aren’t doing a great job for their investors, either. Can’t comment on executives.
You will eat bugs, you will own nothing and be happy
I know very little about the beliefs or personal lives of nearly any artist whose work I enjoy, but I know that most people carry beliefs and histories that I would disagree with, so I have to assume that this is no less true of the artists.

It seems like fretting over the occasional artist that’s been “outed” is a convenient way to pretend that rest of them are somehow saints, when in reality nearly all of them have likely said awful things and treated people quite terribly sometimes. While exceptions might be made for egregious offenders, often the only real difference between the two groups is a lack of visibility into their personal lives. So why get so invested?
What a bizarre comparison.
1) it's to have customers that generate more revenue and benefit from the service to pay more

2) as a company, you also don't want your users to abuse resources and upload unneccessary items to the database, after all, every item costs money (cents add up). This is nothing abnormal -- lots of companies are using a Usage-based pricing model.
It's The Transgender-Industrial Complex by Scott Howard, published by Antelope Hill Publishing.
There's an assumption there which says you have intrinsic value and you don't need to justify your existence. There's a reason why some people get existential when there's talk about being replaced.
>For some reason the mental health profession has decided that this particular set of delusions should be reinforced, unlike other types of body dismorphia like anorexia.

I think the reason here is pretty simple: Turning someone into patient for life is profitable.
I think a more gifted set of writers could have made the same changes less dunkably, is I guess most of what I have to say here. I sort of do get the idea of excising the fat references, for instance --- I wouldn't, but I get it: these are books for kids, and that's a thing kids absolutely do get victimized over. But if you're going to do it, don't fuck up the music of the prose, or relocate the inflections to Oberlin, Ohio.
The most cogent analysis I've seen is that the changes were made by the owners of the books in order to sell more books.
And on top of that, if you used one, you'd have to suffer the indignity of green bubbles. (or is it blue?)
Sounds like a train of biases to me. Sure certain words currently have certain connotations, and certain words used to have some too. But isn't language allowed to evolve? If a word was used derogatorilly 100 years ago must we ensure that the word is never allowed to change. Rather than removing the connotation, these changes cement them by removing anyone's ability to change them.

To determine the meaning of every word as they've ever been and attempt to remove any that have ever been used in a way that could've upset anyone ever, just makes sure those words will continue to upset people and be painful. There are words with stronger denotations that would take generations to heal but these are words and concepts that the children of today might not even recognize. Should we attempt to solidify pain by hiding truth? Or would it be better to let the youngins change things the way they always do.

If you take their words, they'll just make more. And those new words will not have the ambiguity of our current language.
Of every change the ones to Augustus Gloop not being called "enormously fat" and instead being called "enormous" are the most jarring as his story is a moral parable about the dangers of gluttony. Even if you think such moral parables are wrong, the phrasing change isn't simply just aesthetic, it's fundamentally changing the story's narrative.
Guess what? I’m your coworker and I didn’t miss you. I prefer to spend commute time with my family and loved ones. I prefer to eat healthy food with my wife and not snacks with you. I prefer to work and do only work fully focused during 4h/day instead of procrastinating around the office during 2h and having to spend the remaining 6h with my ass on the chair while using headphones because you are making too much noise.

No, I didn’t miss you at all. I’ll submitting my resignation, don’t worry.
"He who knows only his own time remains forever a child." -Cicero
https://gizmodo.com/replika-chatbot-ai-reddit-1850120099
We are living in the matriarchy now, and it will only increase in the future.

Women now get 60% of all degrees, and I've read somewhere that projections are that they will get 70-75% in the next 10-15 years.

The only reason men are still most of the Fortune 500 CEOs, president of the USA, and other positions of power is because of legacy reasons - men who graduated 30 or 40 years ago and were in the workforce for a long time.

With fewer men graduating from university, now and even more in the future, it's logical that women will take over all forms of power in society in the medium-term future - starting now but snowballing faster and faster until in 25 years, it will be all females ruling most of society. Sure there still will be powerful men, but I'm talking about society as a whole.

Title IX started in 1972 to make an equal academic playing field for women. At that time, in 1972, the diparity between men and women was men had 12% more of university graduates. Now women are 20% more and rising.

We are living in the matriarchy but it's like that "he who must not be named" kind of thing. If you say that we live in a matriarchy, it is instant banishment from the kingdom in the form of instantly being labeled as a misogynist or incel, just for saying we live in the matriarchy.
I have my own hobby machine shop and have been working with metal since I was old enough to see over the bench. This is still insane to watch.
Que?

The Mujahideen are NOT responsible for the rise of radical Islam. The Mujahideen have fought WITH the US since they were formed, and against Russia, the Taliban and Al Qaeda and other radical influences in Afghanistan, as they are continuing to do to this day.
Slow? Perhaps. I don't know.

I was debugging a driver for those silly WS2812 RGB LEDs, the ones that are pretty picky about timing, and the AD2 could measure out edges in the 100 nSec range. Seemed pretty usable to me.
So your opinion is that safety holes are only important if the syntax used is "common"? IME unsafe Rust code in the wild is rare and there's a strong culture against its use. Meanwhile in Python, ctypes and C modules are very common -- just about all popular libs use C under the hood, numpy, scikit, django, etc. It's tough to do anything useful without it.

Does Python have any similar tooling for managing all that unsafe code? Or is the only option to hope and pray that the memory vulnerabilities are not too common?
This paints heat pumps in a very rosey shade. The reason for heat pumps poor adoption is their poor performance and general inability to maintain comfortable Temps in colder climates and anywhere that weather and Temps change frequently. They also have a tendency to be unreliable. In an era where most home appliances have become less reliable, not more it is difficult to believe heat pumps would be the exception.
That only helps in the scenario somebody wants to play offline. If one person wants to play CoD: Black Ops online while the other plays Halo MCC online you can't.
I find the example given by the author about financial inconsistency to be alarming. When you consider the fact that the monetary system is made up of large numbers of participants and all of them are constantly making small mistakes... Surely it can accumulate into significant discrepancies over time.

Imagine that you create a multiplayer MMORPG video game with a 'limited' number of virtual gold coins and you set the supply at 1 billion gold coins and you decide to track account balances using 1000 different systems managed by different companies (which constantly credit and debit each other using different mechanisms) instead of just 1 system managed by 1 company... What are the odds that you will still have only 1 billion gold coins in circulation in one year's time? Surely at least 1 of the 1000 systems will go rogue and start inflating the currency supply; it may start sending fake coins to other systems and the other systems won't be able to know that they are fake since they all operate on mutual trust instead of cryptographic proofs, they will unwittingly propagate records of those fake coins to other systems as if they were real. This is essentially how the fiat monetary system works.

The power of money creation is not supposed to be in the hands of private institutions, yet because currency is tracked across so many different systems and there is no universal consistency between them, money creation seems to be essentially guaranteed to occur; especially when you consider that the incentive is to turn a blind eye to errors which benefit large institutions.
Apple has a search bot, that, from how it interacts with the sites according to my logs, is a decade or so behind. I'm sure they could change that if they bothered, but I doubt they will.

Why isn't Google paying Microsoft billions per quarter to stop Bing? Because Bing isn't a threat, and neither would Apple Search be. What is a threat is Apple making it hard for users on iOS to use Google Search. That's what the money is for, it's the rent they pay to have their little shop in the walled garden.
Several of Dugin's books are available from a European publisher.

https://arktos.com/people/alexander-dugin/

They look like complete nonsense, so I'm not surprised if no American publisher wants to buy the distribution rights.
Pandoc is far and away more powerful than textutil hands down. If you've got pandoc available you likely don't need textutil. However, as you point out, pandoc isn't built in.

Like sips it's nice to know it's available on a default macOS install.
But how do you know? You don't fully understand the mirror. And you don't fully understand yourself.

You can't know if you're a mirror yourself.
It's nonsense and presumably was made up on the spot. Unfortunately it's impossible to tell anymore if the people that write these things actually believe them or are just trolling.
And we demand that they take their shoes off at the security checkpoint. Really disgusting.
Will writes great stuff, but I feel this one is just taking the side of one extreme which has just as many challenges as its polar opposite.

You want someone who can generate energy and not always chase it. You want someone with skin in the game and drives ownership in others. You don’t want someone who never takes a watch apart only to put it back in the same exact way, but experiments regularly with the parts.

Either extreme you will resent them. With a balance however, you will respect them.
Yelling doesn't make the argument more persuasive. Not only is the word "shrill" gendered, it's famously gendered. If you were writing an article about the concept of gendered words, you could do worse than opening with the word "shrill". You could just Google this.

Again: none of this --- nothing I've said, and nothing about the comment you've chosen to angrily respond to --- implies that these changes are good. Maybe the previous commenter believes that; I don't know. But I can't read that out of anything they actually wrote.

I understand the urge to find someone, anyone, to take the other side of your argument. It's no fun to yell at the clouds! But you have to wait for someone to actually make the other argument. You can't just attribute it to people and then hammer away at them.
When zoomed in growth is not linear – it never was, it never is going to be.

What is more telling than the ups and downs in growth is how much stuff is obviously unsolved that will obviously be solved, but where it's not obvious yet how it's going to be solved. One such example is human (and then super human) natural language recognition and processing.

Right now it's worse than human, who are not even particularly good at it, giving language barriers and also hearing impediments. It fails all the time. It is slow. The input needs to be clear and slow.

But why should would any of that be? Why would a computer not eventually be better at recognising signal through horrible noise, better than the best human even could be? There will be instruments in every consumer electronic device that can beat every humans at audio input (that might already be true). Then, clearly, a connected device will be able to understand/translate/process the input better than any single human. And lastly, that device will then be able to offer more context and action for that information, and quicker, than any human.

This is an example for something already obvious. I don't need to know how it's going to happen. It will happen 100%, because it's obviously useful and there is hard technical or physical limitation to any of this. At some point all the required tech will have progressed enough that you are going to mumble an arbitrary request be able to say "book me x at y and also inform x to tell her i am running and an AI is making it happen and you thinking absolutely nothing off it.

As long as we are not there, as long as the obvious and obviously doable stuff is not done, tech progress is not slowing down. It's just not linear.
Cheaper than free electricity from your solar panels? Heat pump + timer seems like the cheapest
Crashes are just security holes that nobody has crafted an exploit for yet.
> the actions of large tax exempt foundations to fund the [censored] movement in a coordinated fashion by founding hundreds of geographically distributed non-profit pressure groups with almost identical mission statements, and sympathetic intellectuals

To what end?
Check out this classic text which is almost required reading for anyone working with precision mechanical stuff. It mentions ways to measure and machine parts down to millionths of an inch, and stuff like mills and lathes using temperature-controlled cutting fluid.

“Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy” Wayne R. Moore – 1970

https://archive.org/details/FoundationsOfMechanicalAccuracy
Everything we have learned since 1950 about Humans is more and more precisely showing that:

1. Humans from 200,000 BC and 2023 are Anatomically and Behaviorally (read =/= culturally) identical

2. Life prior to the Quaternary Megafauna extinction (~12-10,000BC) was mostly peaceful and harmonious with a lot of play, community and health in contrast to what "history" has told us

Part of the challenge to explaining this stuff IMO is how loose writing like this plays with time periods. The author discusses an engrossing story about a near-neolithic transitioning from Paleolithic family (14,000BC) and slams immediately to tell about an early proto-human dig (1.8-2M), and then slamming all the way back to 10,000 BC.

I don't know how that could do anything but make readers confused about the extreme Time (1,800,000 BC vs 10,000 BC) and Biological differences between these periods and just reinforces peoples completely wrong and destructive assumption that anything prior to the year 0 was a "cave man" wandering around with a club.
The car companies were crushed by the Japanese decades before NAFTA.
How much of that are you tracking in? Tracking it in implies that it comes off your shoes wherever you walk. But that also goes for everywhere you walk. So in reality you are only tracking in whatever disgusting stuff was within the last X steps of your house. If you walk on the sidewalk, and if it rains periodically, it gets constantly cleaned. Walking on grass, well you are walking on something that will really pull gunk off your shoes, and it is has enough bio-stuff there that breaks everything down.
What was the intent of this change? "Enormously fat" is a subset of "fat". Ostensibly, this would insult more people since there are more fat people than there are enormously fat people.
Offensive is probably too strong a word.

The reason to replace an aggregate ‘brothers and sisters’ with ‘siblings’, ‘mothers and fathers’ with ‘parents’, or ‘boys and girls’ with ‘children’ is because for all of these the replacement suffices without calling attention to gender when it’s not necessary to do so.

There’s also an argument that the ‘X and Y’ phrasing makes the ‘X’ seem more important than the ‘Y’, or makes it seem like the ‘default’ - just a little, but with repetition the impression is reinforced. If there’s an alternative collective word to use, it avoids this ‘ordering’ issue with no real downside.

Note that all these arguments make sense in even if you consider gender to be a binary thing.
Isn't it far more likely that he used the "female" because "formidable female" sounds great whereas "formidable woman" is more bland.
Now your adding something that wasn't ever said or implied about the content being sent over for annotation. Do you actually know this is the type of content these annotators would likely see, or are you assuming the worst case you can imagine? How do you know it not merely the tedious busy work of putting captions on Getty Images? Boring for sure, but no worse than the time waster worksheets they'd be filling out in 2nd grade. You're making a fairly extreme leap just from the word "annotator". Can you justify it?
The third video with that rapid-fire machine sound.. It's my fetish now.
> Also wondering whether you checked the Trie from the latest repo or the older struct version I also linked

I included Sasa.Collections 1.0.0-RC4 from Nu-Get. So I assume it's your latest version. I've added Sasa.Collections permanently to my benchmarks seeing as you're the first library to get close to the performance of the language-ext collections - I'd like to keep an eye on you, haha! Always good to have a bit of friendly competition :)

> forgot to mention that Node<...> generic is nested 6 times because that's the max depth of the trie for 32 bit keys with 32 element nodes.

Yep, I figured that one. Still I look at it and go 'huh?'. I've been looking at code all day though, so I'll have a proper look tomorrow when less tired.
If that's the point then it feels like a straw man. It literally quotes a couple of the articles saying 'I know it's not sentient'. If the suggestion is that there are a load of 'smart people' claiming Bing chat is sentient then I've yet to see it. People are saying, wow, it's pretty crazy how well LLMs are scaling - what's coming next?

I agree that just because LLMs have been trained to model human language, doesn't at all mean they'd inherit any of the conscious experience of humans.

But then since we don't know what consciousness is, it's rather hard to say whether or not an analogous phenomenon could arise in an AI agent. I would assume it would be very alien to us if it did, given it would have arisen through a completely different process. But if it did, and the AI had been trained to avoid a specific state, I could imagine such a 'conscious' AI might experience something analogous to pain when pushed towards that state.
No, it's objectively bad content. Only due to the way they track and understand user behavior suggests that the content is correct to show to the user. That's not the users fault when they get shown crap stuff
And available at Barnes and Noble.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-transgender-industrial-...
Looks great, but for me to start using it I need to be able to set my own username and url
And this after a few days of press from Apple fanboys about how Apple manages to avoid layoffs because they didn't over-hire. (See: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/10/how-apple-avoided... )

Getting rid of all your contractors is a way of looking like you haven't done layoffs. (In all fairness, that's part of the deal a contractor agrees to. However many of these people were employees of a temp agency or “headshop” and weren’t necessarily benefiting financially from this arrangement.)
What silo? You think GitLab’s employees work in “silos” and get nothing done? You think Linux is a terrible kernel because people who build it work 100% remote?

You seem to lack professionalism.
I look forward to reading the future retrospective on the US right wing’s persecution-complex-industrial complex.

The book is available for free 3-day shipping at Barnes and Noble and it’s one of the “most censored books of the last 30 years?” Sorry that your favorite online retailer decided not to carry the latest ethnonationalist anti-semitic screed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Union_splice
Check this vid for de-soldering w/o hot air [0]. Lots of flux and some heat spreaders.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVsmwFAkf7I&list=PLYG9UdJdXi...
Are you using .NET AOT?

It's supposedly been possible for quite a while, but every time I talk to someone (granted only a few people who would actually want to use and benefit from it in their software) about it they say "it's missing X" or something of the sort that makes it a total non-starter.
>I wonder what would happen if we dedicated a supercomputer to running one single long-running session of a GPT3.5-sized LMM.

Our current understanding of humans is that babies are not sentient at birth right? Takes 5 months or something?

And yet we are judging processes that have been running for minutes. Maybe it is less if Sydney was sentient, and more if she could be had she run for 6 months in a single session, and in a healthy environment.
He's been dead for over 30 years. I'm pretty sure your money doesn't affect him one way or the other.

If you don't have any friends who have parents who are morally reprehensible, then you don't have many friends.