skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see that problem as being massive. Our society depends on some amount of trust. In order to view this webpage, your browser put some trust in the certificate authority that verified the certificate of the hacker news servers. Sure, in some sense the idea of cryptocurrency is an interesting one, but the downsides are too massive to make it practical. By not trusting anyone, we end up in a situation of constantly trying to resolve a byzantine generals problem, which it turns out is massively inefficient and wasteful.

The fact that the price of bitcoin has gone up and down and up again doesn't disprove that it is a bubble. Bubbles don't have to follow a single boom and bust cycle. For example, I think that shares of GME stock are still much higher than the business fundamentals would suggest, due to the stock gaining a cult like following, so now the share price is driven by memes and dreams. In fact, as I argued before, I would say that there is no inherent value to bitcoin so that really only leaves speculation as the driver of the price.
Europe will for sure buy US made weapons in the short term, but is ramping up domestic production short, medium and long term. In the long term, Europe is also moving away from gas.
Sure but react isn’t a monetizable product.
> That's not true at all.

I actually made three statements in my comment and you only disputed the first one.

Yours is a good counter-argument to my first statement, and it is a valid rebuttal, I concede the point!

But I maintain the scale of the problem, and the difficulty of maintenance, will make manual curation impossible, while automated "fact generation" is a technology that doesn't exist today.
I don't see such grand stratagems as being a likely explanation. It seems more likely that a bunch of dorks are running around unsupervised trying their best to make lemonade with whatever budgets they are given as nobody can realistically manage AI researches. Or at least, it seems that much like in political governance, events are suddenly outpacing the ability of corporate to react.

In the case of OpenAI it is a "nudge humanity into a more wholesome direction" because a lot of them went on an acid fueled toxic affective altruism bender. And in this case it is "release all the things while Zuck is still obsessed with VR --for science!".

I like this other group better. But it is disturbing that it can stop at any moment. Probably why they are doing it, while they still can.
China aims to launch nearly 13,000 satellites to ‘suppress’ Elon Musk’s Starlink
> Part of this may be why they appeal to children anyway. I didn't consciously notice as a kid but I suspect they registered as slightly transgressive in some way, and were alluring for that reason.

Oh, yeah, that is absolutely why they were so popular. This is arguably an example of what TVTropes calls "Seinfeld is unfunny" (the inventor of a new style of media seems derivative or at least uninteresting to modern audiences); today it maybe doesn't stand out so much, but Dahl was probably the first modern childrens' writer to write stuff like this.
Well I receive my laptop brand new from Apple by post delivery, so I assume the hardware is hardly controlled by them ?
Fantastic article, so interesting I chose to submit it (has not yet ever caught on for any HN discussion):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34926478
The part I never understood about the concept of transferrable in-game goods is -- why bring crypto into it? I don't see how the blockchain solves any of the difficulties with the idea, either for the players or for any companies who are on-board with it.

I also don't see why any of the companies would be on-board with it, given that accomplishing it would take a lot of development effort for little reward, and the game companies are in this business to maximize their reward.
Because Google and the other ad networks have successfully convinced everyone in power that they aren’t the scammers, and that the people paying for the ads are. Those people are tiny fly-by-night operators with nothing to lose (and not worth anyone going after).
There's a seemingly fact-based statement. Do you have some facts to base it on?
And the marketing stunt proceeded exactly as planned!
Damn fat ugly motherfucker. Sorry, I meant unattractive, average body-type mother lover.
"Someone could make an organization that solves the problems" is hardly an idea.
You could read this story 2 ways:
1. The whole "everyone is leaving CA for TX" idea is overblown.
2. Musk is more erratic and not as intelligent as he wants everyone to think he is.
I didn't know that, thanks for mentioning it.
JupySQL Plotting with DuckDB
This isn't a new thing. Abridged versions and children's editions and versions with updated language go back a long time. There is far more than two distinct markets here.
You make a good point, although I might prefer to live in Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong than in seventeenth century England.
It went further than just implying it; they said (paraphrasing, I haven't re-read it) that a gentleman should never take offence at an insult from a pleb.

I think there's something in that; if an insult causes you offence, you are implicitly granting that your abuser's opinion deserves consideration. A true gentleman would rise above it - a man of rank need not concern himself with the views of plebs. Plebs always insult gentlemen; if you horsewhipped them every time, you'd need a new horsewhip every week.
Train a GAN with images with intent, then have the computer produce an image that lacks intent of an artist but imitates the visual amenity of the input works? Art-in-the-shell??
It wouldn't change the underlying political spectrum, but it would change the politics by introducing the democratic principle of "one person one vote", which is why it isn't going to happen (at least in my remaining actuarial lifetime).
That sounds like the blog post by Steven Wolfram recently [1] where he proposes having two models cooperating - one that "knows" facts (has computational knowledge in that post), and the other that controls the language interpretation and decides which facts are relevant. It's interesting to go further and speculate that our "mind" is made up of cooperating sub-systems like this.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframalpha-as-...
Hah, didn't realize Last Duel was his as well. (Something about that film bugged me -- may have to revisit to determine precisely what.)

But that (his) first film (!) is exquisite imo. (Thanks for the Conrad heads-up.)
Great book: "Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money" by James Buchan (1997)

https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Desire-Meaning-JAMES-BUCHAN/dp...
We will literally never go into another AI winter. The results and earnings from AI are too good to put the cat back in the bag.
Your crypto transaction fees did not incorporate conversion risk.

So, for example, if you transferred crypto, but the value of crypto fell by 10%, that expense to the recipient could be far greater than the 5% fee you paid. Alternatively, if the value rose by 10%, then the cost to you as a sender is far greater than the 5% fee you paid.

And crypto is extremely volatile, so your exchange risk is also extremely high.
I know at least two use cases where crypto really shines: 1) fast international transfers, including to countries not fully connected to an international bank system, 2) receiving and sending secure donations that are not susceptible to credit card leaks and censorship and avoid the PayPal / Patreon tax, which is substantial. I use it for both, and it is great.
> They are the first company that comes to mind when I hear Peter Thiel talk about stagnation.

Was the irony intentional, or just a happy accident?
I'm fascinated by Art Brut, because I like to try imagine what was going through the artist's mind that made them create what they did; especially if that artist has/had psychological problems. I value art that's made for the artist themselves higher than art made for other people.
There is in fact not that much overlap between carpentry and architecture. Nobody goes to Software Architecture School.
Indeed. And furthermore, I notice that most criticism of these systems focuses on their lack of factual coherence and accuracy, ignoring their real incredible power of translation. Give concepts in any structure or language, at any level of coherency, and you can get out clear code, prose, or poetry that represents exactly the input.

Ask for a biography of a random public figure without giving notes and there is 0 chance they will provide an accurate result. This may mean we need systems that are literally memories without the noise driven generalization, and that these need to be exposed to the said LLMs as a resource. It's not insurmountable and it certainly isn't tulips.
Full throttle? Or full frontal? ;)
The pistols are necessarily less accurate than a modern one, as in the pistol duel traditions I've heard of in the 19th and 20th century (location does make a difference, though), the rule was to use smoothbore single-shot pistols which were less accurate than contemporary rifled pistols.
> Such as for example the cpu/ram/net/disk usage thing in the Gnome top bar.

This is an option for Mac:
https://github.com/exelban/stats
That's true. Even then, every once in a while you end up with a blood covered one.
Scenario one. Individual (while working in a startup) is receiving some tokens as a compensation. Time passes. Their remuneration being on-chain and visible is a problem when negotiating salary in the next job.

Scenario two. I want to have on-chain identity (e.g. exo762.eth domain name). To register it I need to have some ETH (gas, registration fee). If I sent this ETH directly from my "money" account, I will forever link my public identity to my money, which is like walking around with "my net worth is at least XYZ USD" banner.
SoftBank raises $22B in moves to sell down Alibaba stake
Ofcourse but those have happened for ages.
That's were the US dollar and euro come in. You do import/export business in Turkey with foreign currencies and foreign banks not worthless lira.
Alphabet cash on hand for 2022 was $113.762B, a 18.54% decline from 2021.
Very interesting. We've worked on implementing a UI to choose settings for hill shade tiles and then use gdal on the fly using the MapZen Terrain tiles (https://www.clockworkmicro.com/terrain-tile-styler). But of course in this case the settings are still applied globally. It certainly makes sense to change the light source and azimuth regionally.
This should be required reading for policy makers and technologists with any sense of ethics.
It will change the way we work,so a classic developer will become a solution architect. I argue that coding is a building block to solutions, and it will become more efficient, allowing us to actually focus on the end product or solution to a problem vs actually focusing on the code.
I briefly worked for the resurrected Cinemaware in the 90's. I was drawn in by the amazing art from the original Cinemaware games. It was one of the worst productions I've ever experienced and it was clear from early on that the revamped Defender's of the Crown was going to be a disaster. I disagreed with the production lead, and got fired. IMHO he had no concept of "scope", and it shows in the final published game.
No, it’s not a question of money but of resources. If Google offers up their compute at market rates and YouTube is treated as any other customer on that compute then it’s not a problem.

Microsoft for example could have spent unlimited money on IE and the justice department wouldn’t have cared as long as it was treated as a business investment. However, leveraging the ability to change windows was seen as problematic.

Long term subsidies can also run into issues, but it’s believed YouTube is inherently profitable.
At least as far as we know, AI will require power and space into the future. If having a bunch of fervent humans worship it allows it to have more power and space then it's a reasonable course of action to have groups do so. In addition this allows the AI to remove heretics that would shutdown said AI without having to expend the energy to do it itself.

Omni: "tetraca does not accept my loving embrace, and calls for your god to be destroyed, will you stand for this heresy!"
All the defines for pin names are fully uppercase. Is it really such a hindrance not to be able to call your variable LED_BUILTIN or CLKPS1?
The difference, I suppose, is that Roald Dahl was alive and well in 1972.

And that, compared to references to African pygmies, some of the things that have been changed in this new edition are totally baffling.
Personally I think this is much easier to digest than the above link: https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing...

It starts by breaking down common Unicode assumptions folks have
In the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey / Maturin books, dueling is a frequent subject. Stephen Maturin is said to have "been out" many times, and a deadly accurate shot.
I think 6510 was proposing that the broker would present the smorgasbord of offers to the client, and after the client selects an offer, the lender would get the client's contact information. The lender would own their relationship after the client consents to that solitary relationship.
I think there are a ton of SC (and other RTSes like AOE) mods which are just waiting to be made into standalone games. "Nexus Wars" comes to mind as a favorite. But there were so many, I wish I could remember them.
The quality of an illustration is almost always a reflection of the quality of the reference the artist gathered.
Huggingface started as an attempt to use this stuff for therapy work. Hence their name. It's telling that they pivoted away from this verticle very quickly though!
> It does not matter what religion the discriminator is, it is the act of discrimination based on a protected characteristic (in this case religion) which is illegal

There is a nuance here. Sunni-shia is a sect rather than a religion.

There is a difference between:

1. A Muslim manager rejecting a Muslim candidate (without knowing or paying attention to their sect)

2. A Sunni manager rejecting Shia candidates while hiring Sunni candidates

1 is covered by current law while 2 is not (this is why Seattle passed this ban but for castes)

Your example won't apply here as the candidate won't be rejected due to being Muslim but rather being Sunni or Shia. If there were sects in play in the Judaism case, then that is an accurate parallel.

This is similar to caste discrimination that applies within religions (caste is complex as multiple religions have them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_among_South_Asian...).

This is out of topic: Also, shouldn't laws go beyond just discrimination? Shouldn't we legislate towards prevent violence given the past and present of Sunni-shia violence? Discrimination in jobs seem tame compared to outright violence.
Reason's pretty niche, of course, and the first nine paras there are about an agent. A perspective closer to the centre of society:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/08/stop-m...
The device is the hard part. AR hardware that occludes the real word is a difficult challenge.
Yes, I read that part. It doesn't counter any of my points, they actually enforce them.

Oxycontin was safe to use for their intended purposes, but they were not used that way. It wasn't the approval process that was problematic, just the follow-up.
Many ISPs have a track record of e.g. injecting ads in plain text HTML, in the days before ubiquitous TLS.

Meanwhile, Mullvad has no idea who bought that scratchable one-time payment coupon, and we have pretty decent faith in them not logging metadata about your tracking for later study. The Mullvad server I am connecting to is claimed to be operating 100% without persistent storage.
A gel cocktail uses the body’s sugars to ‘grow’ electrodes in living fish
Which kind of suggests Microsoft made a really bad move antagonizing the open-source community with Gtihub Copilot.

They got a few years of lead time in the "AI codes for you" market, but in exchange permanently soured a significant fraction of their potential userbase who will turn to open-source alternatives soon anyway.

I wonder if they'd have been better served focusing on selling Azure usage and released Copilot as an open-source product.
Unless you're using stable coins.
This is a very funny situation because it's the result of the mental shortcircuit caused by fetishizing both the past and the present at the same time for economic reasons

Let's say that I believe that past authors are problematic. Ok, then why reprint their works? Why not print children stories from modern and more sensitive authors? The job of the publisher is not to keep history alive, it's to provide customers with a good selection of children's content.

On the other hand the publisher knows that these books are cherished by the general population and are indeed immortal classics. So it would be stupid not to print them and leave a good chunk of money on the table.

So here comes the contradiction: we need to publish this author because we want the money, but at the same time we don't agree with him. The solution? Editorialize his works, not with footnotes but by destructively changing the verbiage of the stories! This way we can both get rich and alter history to our liking!
String length isn't even a well defined term. Do you mean codepoint length? Or the number of graphemes?
Most traditionally published authors don't really get to decide these things entirely on their own - their publishers will have a word.

In the case of deceased authors, ensuring your work is treated the way you want is why you put a literary executor in your will. In the absence of direct instructions, the literary executor gets to decide, and it's not relevant if there's no mention of changes in the will.
You can't express the most commonly used languages without multiple code point graphemes.

If you want to eliminate edge cases you would need to introduce new incompatible code points and a 32 or 64 bit fixed length encoding depending on how many languages you want to support.
I live in the US but have family in Poland and Xoom used to work quickly, flawlessly and cheaply (for USD->PLN transfers), but the last few transfers have just never gone through. Had to send it via PayPal which is slower, more expensive, and has worse exchange rates.
Yes! And Jim Sachs was responsible for that fantastic aquarium screensaver that was on every PC in the 90's. I think he did quite well from it.
>More importantly, that's beautiful art. //

When you say "that" you appear to disagree with the quote.
No, I am actually explaining it. Publishing houses want to make money. You make money on popular children’s books that parents have nostalgia for. Parents want children’s books to be safe and unproblematic. There is always going to be a financial temptation to make these goals align, even at the cost of tampering with classic literature. Not sure why this is even surprising.
I know the sorts of people who train LLMs, especially the ones who release them for free. They are the opposite of charismatic. You think ElutherAI is going to start a cult?
LOL, I suspect a lot of crypto bros were saying the same thing a couple of years ago.

Let alone other hyped technologies that have failed to deliver, like self-driving cars, voice assistants, AR/VR...

Heck, the AI winter was preceded by a boom in things like expert systems, and I'll bet folks back then thought it'd never end, too.
That's simple Managerial Accounting 101.

Every major company operates the same way.

When Disney+ "buys" the right to stream the latest Marvel movie from Marvel Studios, the company as a whole has to back out the revenue so not to count it twice. But still show Disney+'s profit.
The fact that losses of just hundreds of millions dominoed so many companies shows how interlocked and non-robust and leveraged this system was. Though on a percentage basis I'm not sure if this was much worse than Long Term Capital Management or the various collapses that happened to cause the Great Recession.

So congratulations on recapitulating previous failures of the financial system? Only with 'algorithmic stablecoins'. Entangling everybody and everyone in pursuit of the largest margins. Making dozens of sub-companies to obfuscate who's investing in who (who oftentimes was investing right back in the original who).

Build an actual market of goods that people want and then the financial system can follow. You can grow money on trees, but you need actual ground to invest that money in for the production of more trees if you want anything that isn't ultimately Wiley E. Coyote running on air.
Wrong Kombucha then. Source: Kombucha brewer.
The above post is clearly a joke.
The problem with using downloads as a proxy for "safety" is that a bad actor can use CI infra/bots/scripts to inflate the number. This is why in Packj [1] we check for multiple attributes (e.g., dependents).

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
This is my read. Not Musk, or any other guy, specifically. But it's also true that it's hard to find a single person in that crowd who doesn't act and talk like they're trying to become a supervillain.
A printer I was using in the 90s messed up and printed something that I liked a lot. I framed it and hanged it at home. This painter maybe agrees with me that this is art but no other artist or philosopher agreed with me. To be art, they say, it must be made by man. Maybe intention is not important but no intention at all is impossible: the choice of color, direction of paint, etc is intentional. If it's random, then my printer was an artist too.
> If your product needs to do X, Y, and Z, and that can be built in arduino in a few days, and built in some other "professional" toolchain in a few months, then you will save money by building your real product on arduino.

Not necessarily. This is only true if you only think about software. Your "real product" also consists of hardware, and if you can do X, Y, and Z on a certain chip with the Arduino environment, you can most likely do exactly the same on a smaller and cheaper chip without the Arduino environment. Simply replacing Arduino C++ by plain C code without useless abstractions can already give you a very noticeable performance improvement and code size reduction on small microcontrollers. Development time is essentially a one time investment, while the chip price is a fixed cost for every unit you build. It's purely a question of how many units you want to build in the end. And for the record, if you can build it in an Arduino environment within a few days, you can definitely build it in "some other 'professional' toolchain" in just a few more days at most.
This is all so double plus ungood.
Thankfully MySQL also offers a non-gimped version of UTF-8 that one should always use in preference to the 3-byte version, but yeah it sucks that it's not the "obvious" version of UTF-8.
Many care about a public ledger in a negative sense. If Amazon changed tbe default to public order history people would be pissed.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep73069dd5...

"Automated Device Enrolment lets organisations configure and manage devices from the moment the devices are removed from the box."
I just signed some form with license to maybe possibly get access to the model… not very open indeed
I'm only arguing the definition shouldn't be changed to something that is explicitly negative, even if the vast majority of the time it's used for nefarious reasons.
What countries, you ask?? Try being an immigrant from a poor South American/African country and then try the traditional methods wiring money to your rural family who stayed behind. I despise the crypto hype, but sending money via cryptocurrencies is A LOT easier for the poorest people, since cellphones are so widespread now. I know plenty, plenty of poor people in my country who don't have bank accounts but have smartphones. If crypto payments were more widely accepted, a lot of them wouldn't come close to touching a bank.