skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... which is valid for every single similar multinational corporation, if you don't hear it in the news it just means they are a bit better in hiding it. In another news, water is wet. It literally doesn't matter what resources you pick and 3rd world country location, its the same story for last 70 years at least.

That's not what this thread discusses, and OP didn't need to be sarcastic. I've lived in centrally planned economy, and it was a failure on every single meaningful level, just like any other centrally planned economy. There were frequent shortages of basic items, some stuff like exotic fruits were literally impossible for common people to buy, or it took 3 hours of standing in the queue. I think some of the western spoiled kids argumenting for some form of communism would be a bit smarter if they actually grew up in systems they push so hard for (of course this time the pipe dream would actually work because XYZ, but these things keep failing because of basic nature of people, good luck fixing that).

Its just like if people generally needed to fear the failure a bit, and society needs to let some people fail in order for the rest to thrive now and in the future. Remove this thread, and next generation will be significantly weaker.
I tried with akami and it still didn’t work. Still need the stealth plugin and some additional tweaks to bypass
Daughter sent to special school known for different style of teaching and made world of a difference
Yeah I just don’t find dancing fun. That’s it, end of story.

Wherever there’s dancing at a wedding or something I just think of it as something I have to get through so I don’t appear rude.
Yet their structure being generic for all kind of problems, it doesn’t tell much in itself about the things it managed to « understand ». Much like studying einstein’s brain biology can’t teach you much about general relativity.
> Dancing is a great test of what part of your brain dominates. Good dancing is when you stop thinking and just let your feelings lead.

Yah, that's why best dancers in the world never train and prepare their routines.

Honestly. Good dancing is when you stop thinking, AFTER you have spent time preparing enough so you don't have to think about it anymore.

I wonder if people watching TV or Youtube get the wrong impression. They see people making things look easy. Nice poses, nice makeup, nice dresses, light moves. What they don't see is countless hours over many years that went into preparing everything.

**

I am an amateur runner. People sometimes tell me I am a natural. I honestly look well when running, no hunching, positively bouncy, light steps. No exertion. Easy breathing.

I try to explain that I spent couple years just fixing my running mechanics, one step at a time. Strengthening my muscles and tendons so that I can move my weight to forefoot and recover more energy when running, running with a metronome to get my cadence right, learning to breathe deeply and in sync with my strides, running strides to fix my mechanics when at full speed, bringing my attention to what my hands are doing so that they are relaxed and not moving to the sides too much, making sure my foot contacts pavement under me and not before me, making sure my heels move high up behind me, forcing myself to run straight and look straight, doing strength exercises at home so that my core muscles are strong enough to support good posture while running, learning to regulate my speed by tilting forward, etc.

Even silly things like paying attention to the weather and clothing for the weather. I see so many people put on way too much clothes when it gets just a tad colder and then look visibly uncomfortable throughout the run.

When I started running I did it, too. Then I made a running log where I noted the outside weather conditions and how I felt through the run and over time I learned what I exactly need to put on depending on the weather and the run I am making so I feel just right.

No, things don't come naturally -- at least not to most people.

And I think it is good news. Almost everybody can do almost everything. The only thing that is blocking me from being a good dancer is whether I want to invest the time to become one. I don't. I can relax knowing it is up to me to decide what I can achieve and what I want to spend my efforts on.
I think that’s why some people really push it. There a myriad of reasons for not wanting to dance. A lot of them can be overcame (shame, fear of embarrassment, lack of knowledge how one would properly dance, doubt that it will be an enjoyable experience, etc) and the person can experience legitimate joy after dancing. This happens often enough that convinces the pushers that this it’s a good thing to keep pushing the resistants to dance. Of course, it’s not always true. But I would not fault those pushers to believe so.
Any advance in productivity reduces the number of workers required to do the job.
Karl Marx disagrees.

Seriously, if you're rich enough maybe what you say is true, but I don't think you could say "people’s daily lives have gotten as good as they’re gonna get" until poor people in "developed countries" don't have to worry about basic necessities to stay alive.

Perhaps one could strike a couple countries off the "developed countries" list and call it a day, but that list would be much smaller..
None of these materials are really that limited. Not even nickel at the scale you’re imagining them to be. Remember, we’re looking at grams of such things, and they can easy be swapped out with some other material. Also, you do not need a combustion turbine at all. You can envision fuel cells with near 100% efficiency in the long run.
> some way-too-rich sociopath's private company.

I am certainly you've developed this view in November of 2022. Meanwhile any European stuck with DSL - which would be most of my family - would be ecstatic to get sensible bandwidth today.
Whenever someone has done that I end up pretending it’s fine until it’s socially acceptable to stop.
While there will certainly be a security implications, software is written to enhance capabilities and security must support software and not the other way around.

There will be new ways to DDoS but as it's already possible fill bandwidth on any TCP port, I don't think that it'll be drastic.

IMO main reason behind CORS is to send request with cookies to another domain. If you can send arbitrary queries from JS but you still not have access to cookies for that domain, it's not really adds obvious attack lines. Yes, you'll be able to issue arbitrary GET requests and read responses, but I never understood why is it a problem in the first place.
My no-name dumbphone has an FM radio.
This reminds me of something I heard Geoff Hinton say .. that it was a shame and a sorrow that neural networks as currently used worked so well.
well... i've yet to read this through, but likely this is THE thing that made calculus and linear algebra so hard for me (learning discrete math was definitely worth it too, but still!)
>> As you observe, Prolog gets stuck in left-recursions. But iterative
deepening for Prolog is semidecidable (among other fair methods). This indeed
is restricted to the pure, monotonic subset of (full) Prolog together with all
pure, monotonic extensions.

Thanks, yes, I might be fudging terminology a bit.

Generally, when I talk about Prolog I mean definite programs (sets of definite
clauses and Horn goals, the latter usually called "definite goals") under
SLD-resolution. That's more or less what is usually meant by "pure" Prolog:
definite programs, without not/1 implementing Negation-As-Failure, without the
cut, and without side effects; and executed by giving an initial Horn goal as
a "query". Entailment between definite clauses and satisfiability of definite
programs is undecidable.

By "semi-decidable" I mean that an SLD-refutation proof will terminate if
there is a branch of the proof that ends in □ and is of finite length. If such
a branch does not exist, a proof will "loop" forever. That's regardless of
whether the branch succeeds or fails, which is a bit of a fudge, but, in
practice, there is no other way to decide the success or failure of a proof
than to search all its branches.

Left-recursion is one way in which Prolog, with depth-first search, generates
branches of infinite length, but you can get those with right-recursion also.
There are restrictions of Prolog, like SLG-resolution (similar to DFS with
iterative deepening) that don't loop on left-recursions but the general case
remains undecidable.

Fortunately, there seem to be at least as many finite proofs as there are
infinite ones, or in any case I have never encountered a Prolog program that
looped inintially and that couldn't be rewritten to terminate, at least when
called in the way it was meant to be called. And that's also a bit of a fudge.
>these the the central core that understands BREP and implements the geometric operations.

I've seen people quote a good modern CAD kernal as a 100 man year project. It's probably not going to happen, maybe there's some avenue for government funding?

Alternatively Signed-Distance-Functions are pretty nice. They're not BREP, but they're a lot easier to implement, and it might be possible to shove them into a BREP-shaped hole.

Here's a signed-distance-function based CAD kernal written in a few thousand lines of python+numpy, that seems to be about as fast as openscad. Maybe faster. https://github.com/fogleman/sdf
Because none of the people complaining about headless bots (read probably: content and retail) are major stakeholders from Chrome's viewpoint.
You can add powdered gelatin if you want the body of homemade.
This blog post is written that way because the guy works in the bot detection business so it's what he cares most about.

But there are still plenty of legitimate use cases for wanting a headless browser that perfectly replicates a normal browser environment. The obvious ones are automated frontend testing tools like https://playwright.dev/
Not sure about the article itself, but from an epistemological point of view, i believe this debate will remain one of the most famous of the 21st century (provided NN still keep giving new fantastic results, and doesn’t stop there).

Never in history did we manage to achieve so much about a given complex problem (let’s say producing meaningful text) while at the same time understand so little (chatgpt didn’t provide any single useful result to the linguistic science department).

If this approach spreads to other fields, it will lead to an immense scientific crysis.
Nope! For a million years people spent a lot of effort on culture which meant their tunes (drum rhymes) and dance movements were quite advanced.

We live in epoch of deliberate primitivism.
Are there any boxes without a graphics card or at least with a primitive one? So that they would be more economical in case you only need them for the role of a server?
> The "professional responsibilities" in this case was being a good steward for Mozilla's products and the vision of products that preserved digital rights for its users. Not clear what this had to do with civil rights like gay marriage.

That's not all a CTO does. They also have "people" responsibilities.

As the then CTO, one of Eich's professional responsibilities was to lead the tech teams and individuals at Mozilla. The belief, among a significant proportion of Mozilla's employees, that he could not be trusted to put aside his opinions on civil rights when managing people, was what led to the opposition to his appointment.
Or perhaps people are different and they find themselves pressured and bullied by “normal” people.
OP words are dramatic, but he does have a point – bigger players in Europe could (and should) do better.

You are on the other hand setting unrealistic expectations for Estonia / Finland.

Hardware is obviously a lot more costly than software, hence why you hear more about software tech from Estonia (Skype, Transferwise, Pipedrive, Veriff to name a few) than hardware (Milrem robotics, Co-Module, Woola...) as the latter are of much smaller scale (respective to the size of Estonia) than the former: software scales a lot better.
"A vertical expression of a horizontal desire"

But really it is about enjoying music (and thus perhaps celebrating life) with your whole body, often in community with others similarly enjoying.
If you add DRM video playback to the fingerprint, it is pretty much impossible to fake...

Either they have a real TPM with a real nvidia graphics card able to decrypt content with a real serial number... Or they don't...

If one graphics card or TPM serial number starts acting bot-like, you can ban just that one.
I don’t see how this holds true. Let’s say I have a process that takes 1 hour to process a batch of items up to 1000 (I.e doesn’t scale linearly with input size). So, 1 hour to process 1 item and the same 1 hour to process 1000 items.

If I have 1 message per minute being added to the queue, I can safely run 2 of these batch processes once a day to clear the queue. Or more generally can launch (queue_size / 1000) tasks once a day.

Because surely it doesn’t matter about the queue being empty, what matters is the rate at which messages can be processed.

With 2 processes running once a day the rate would be 2000/24/60 = 1.3 messages per minute in aggregate.

The queue can be filled 23 hours per day without issue and without being on the brink of a failure state.

Edit: you edited your comment whilst I was replying to specifically mention consumption rate. The aggregate consumption rate is all that matters, but it doesn’t follow that the queue “has to be more empty than not empty”. Those are different issues.
Unsurprisingly too easy of a prediction to already become a reality in 2023. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33919862
You’re assuming the consumer is the one producing batches.
I asked chatgpt this ("overall, if you were to analyse how your responses go linguistically and analytically, how would you say one can recognize that a text comes from you, chatgpt?") and the answer was as follows: "As an AI language model, my responses are generated by algorithms that analyze patterns in the input and generate output based on the probabilities of different language sequences. Therefore, my responses tend to be informative, fact-based, and structured in a logical way.

Linguistically, one might recognize that a text comes from me, ChatGPT, based on a few key characteristics. Firstly, my responses tend to be grammatically correct and use a wide range of vocabulary. Additionally, I tend to provide precise and detailed answers to questions, often including examples and explanations.

Analytically, my responses tend to be objective and unbiased, as I am not capable of holding opinions or biases. I also strive to provide helpful and accurate information to the best of my knowledge and ability.

Overall, one might recognize that a text comes from me, ChatGPT, based on its informative and structured nature, grammatical accuracy, objective analysis, and helpfulness."

yes. Yes, ChatGPT is still full of itself :D
> But that's what competitive games also do. You cannot play basketball without trusting, collaborating, communicating with your teammates. Those are the pillars of teamwork.

Sure. But it's different. In a team environment, you build trust with teammates through competence.

That's not really what I'm talking about. Synchronous action doesn't need competence. Church hymn singing is famously bad. But it helps build community anyhow.

> Also synchronicity is core to them, so much that researchers have taken noticed (https://www.popsci.com/nba-basketball-synchronous-movements-...).

I mean, I feel like this link really backs me up.

The stuff they mentioned - marching in step, etc isn't basket ball. It's military parade, basically. And it has the effect of building trust.

It's great that basketball teams have figured out how to leverage that to make teams better, but that doesn't mean that the same thing will happen with lots of drills.
As a bot developer, without taking legal steps (I do not break the law) there is no stopping me regardless.
Having people not really needing education and just becoming dumb consumers of AI products? Sounds like a boring future.
DARPA Developing Wing-in-Ground Effect Cargo Seaplane
I get the nostalgia about mosaic and all, but these open-style urinals is literally stuff of my nightmares. I am from a backwater town in then second world country and those urinals and latrines in public toilets made them filthy and stinking to high heavens. Not the worst of childhood traumas but I still have a recurring night dream of going into a public toilet and not finding a single approachable spot.
People will 100% start hanging AI art on their walls. The killer feature is being to customize the artwork to exactly what you want. It's just a question of time and not a lot of it either.
I was one of these. I grew up fairly religious in an environment where dancing was looked down upon (especially for men). As an adult, I had friends repeatedly nudge me toward it and it took a long time to get comfortable with it. Much of my resistance was not wanting to look silly in front of others, not wanting to be out of rhythm, etc. It’s a humbling experience at first and requires swallowing some pride. But man, once you experience your body unlocking and moving in time with music and other people, it’s hard to look back.

I definitely acknowledge gp’s point, it’s important to respect people’s boundaries and not push them into things they don’t want to be pushed into. I just hope you know that nudging often comes from people who like you and want to share joy with you.

My preferred manner of nudging is to 1. make a fool out of myself to clear space and 2. try and get people on the sidelines to do the smallest dance possible. Wiggle your pinkies, tap your toes, feel your way into it :)
I've pondered exactly this -- if they were suitably synchronized (which is doable using other stronger signals), they could even appear as "one transmitter" that just happens to have low signal strength across a very wide area.

You would need quite some buffering on the nodes, to keep them from losing sync if their internet connection hiccups for a moment, but also, losing one node shouldn't be a big deal if there's another one not too far away. So maybe you just tolerate this by having them turn themselves off until they regain sync.

The trick is convincing a whole bunch of node operators to broadcast a single stream instead of everybody transmitting their pet stream on the same frequency and then it fragments into traditional FM-capture islands of different signals.
That's not capitalism you're talking about then. Capitalism has everything to do with capital.
In this situation, ChatGPT actually was able to replace the person. In fact, the person, a woman, voluntarily replaced herself with ChatGPT! But I didn't say anything about ChatGPT's ability to replace her in other situations -- that falls outside the context of my comment. Please don't attack a straw-man.
Also I don't get it. People sometimes seemed to be obsessed by analytics that much they forget making their website. And then replace doing the real work with decisions by numbers they get out of "Analytics".

And all that on the cost of the privacy of the customer. Often only for negative gain.
Refusing to dance at an event where people are is literally an anti-social act.

Please note that I am NOT making a moral judgement whether or not you should always act in a pro-social way.
Thanks for creating this. I was just thinking why not use gpg for this?
> You may want this for cost reasons but but such a system is not robust enough for my comfort

Your comfort is secondary to the business needs that the system is designed to fulfill. In practice some risks are better to accept than mitigate
But none of them do have a generic structure. For example, GPT-3 can't produce images from text prompts, and stable diffusion cannot generate language. The possible relationships of words are written into GPT-3's code, in python, by its developers. In a way all this proves is that that written language can convey meaning to people.
No sarcasm. It’s easy to poke holes in the thing. The holes are largely a reflection that it’s not been regulated. There’ve been attempts and even successful regulation in certain markets across time, but the current economy has warts. Teddy Roosevelt comes to mind as an upswell of regulation. I think it wasn’t until 1938 or 1939 that someone actually went to prison for the 1929 crash. Then much of the bank reforms introduced following 1929 were repealed. Buybacks were illegal used as part of them. Etc

The current push to onshore production actually feels a little regulatory. It’s a system that does need some “light” steering from time to time.

(I could go on that if a company publishes ads they’re operating market power that should be countered. The reason to the counter is market power means the supply side isn’t producing the market clearing amount of product and instead of selling what they produce there is always waste. But this particular point in time is very anti-progress.)
The problem is that markets also stop functioning when wealth inequality passes a threshold and becomes too severe.

The reason that markets work is because participants have "skin in the game", and losing money would hurt them, so they want to avoid losing money, so they try to make good decisions, and those that don't lose their money and are disempowered in the process. But once you reach a state where you're so wealthy that money no longer matters, you are able to distort the market at will, making it irrational (and thus inefficient) and destroying its ability to efficiently allocate scarce resources.

I wish more people understood this. You don't need to go full communism and make everyone's wealth equal, but if you want markets to work you do still need to make sure that the wealthiest are not so wealthy that they won't suffer from making poor financial decisions.
In this already strained analogy is it really correct? Would it be better to say the bigger boat is giving them enough food for 20 people, but 2 people on the boat are hoarding it and forcing the other 8 keep diving for scraps? So for the bigger boat to fix this situation, they need to go in and take out the 2 people hoarding and then run the smaller boat to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Sons, I understand based on my observation. The husband thing is a new data point for me.
Katalin Karikó moved to the US in 1985, from a Warsaw Pact country.

She did her research at UPenn and accepted a demotion and pay cut in 1995 because grant agencies decided this weird mRNA stuff wasn't worth funding.

In 2006 she founded startup company RNARx, funded with 100k USD of government grants, but didn't come to an agreement to license patents of her own work which UPenn held.

So in 2013 she joined German company Biontech, funded with 150m EUR of venture capital, which was finally able to productize the research.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
Great article! Also:

> I’ve never heard of a family being divided because its members dance different styles

Anyone who believes this needs to go watch Strictly Ballroom (1992) with all possible urgency.

I was also somewhat sceptical about dancing until in my early 20s I made the discovery that nightclubs were not necessarily just places where people went to get shitfaced, but that there were places run by and for enthusiasts of the music - that going out and dancing for eight hours straight was not just something you could do but that was incredibly enjoyable as well.

A huge amount of what has been good in my life since then has, one way or another, come from going out and dancing. Amongst (many) other things, I'm confident that I'm a better programmer for it: the usual arguments (blah blah, lowers stress, default mode network) deployed in favour of meditation also apply to dancing. It won't work if you're forced into it, and I don't think it's cool to do so, but that's why people can be so evangelistic about it.