skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be that we now love conspiracy freaks (as you put it) because they're so open minded, but that now it doesn't matter anymore to sidetrack the conversation from "how can we fix it" to "whodunnit". Different period in the pandemic, rather than a shift in mindset from whether pointing fingers without evidence is helpful.
I suspect the theory is if one controls others' speech, thereby one also controls their thoughts. Is this really true? How many people adjust their speech to fit in, and change their thoughts to match?
I commented in a parallel comment, but likely for the same reason we are - Developer pool for .NET is much larger.
> Subscriptions align developer and user interests and produce better products and less wasted money in the long run.

This is incorrect, as evidenced by the entire history of software development before the App Store, as well as software now that is sold outside the App Store.

When developers can choose their own business model, outside the constraints out the App Store, they overwhelming do not choose subscriptions. Indie devs outside the Mac App Store still largely follow the traditional upfront paid with paid upgrade model.

The subscription model was started mostly by BigCos such as a Adobe and Microsoft, who had a monopolistic market share for their software suites and thus could bleed a captive audience for almost unlimited amounts of money.

The ahistoricalness of the claim "subscriptions were always the only viable business model" really bothers me. It feels like a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. Cupertino Complex?

Let's call it what it is: software rental. Long-term rental is almost never a good deal for consumers over ownership.

> One-time up front purchases only reward developers for expanding the target market of their product; whether the product improves over time has no bearing on revenue.

This seems ridiculous to me, as a developer. Improving your product over time is one of the most important ways you can expand the target market of your product. I mean, why do you think Apple keeps making a new iPhone ever year? Were they going to keep expanding their market by still selling the 2007 model of iPhone in 2023?
> Minors aren't capable of consent.

Which is why the permission of their parents acts as a limit on what they're able to agree to, in this case as in all others.

> The treatments have permanent side effects

Yes, that's the point.

> lead to sterilization. One of the drugs used to aid in "transitioning" is lupron, which is also used to sterilize sex offenders

This is pure bad faith fear mongering. It doesn't matter what else the drugs could do. Titanium is used in missiles, chemotherapy drugs can be used for euthenasia. None of those are what we're talking about, so talk about what we're talking about not some other unrelated thing.

> The only reason why any of this is allowed to happen is because the general population doesn't see what's happening.

There's no "general population" this is being slyly pushed on. People are making decisions within their families. Each individual is making choices with medical consideration and the guidance and, if a minor, ultimately the permission of their families and doctors.

"Allowed" is a telling choice of words though! You're advocating for a state-enforced limit on what people are allowed to choose for themselves.

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And additionally, and very seriously, wake the fuck up and pay attention. The anti-trans moral panic is the tip of the spear of fascism in north america. You had a clean chance to see that and change course last year when Putin explicitly used anti-LGBT reasoning as part of his justification for the invasion of ukraine! Look at what Orban is up to, what comes along with this rhetoric. Look at what you are being used to accomplish.
The issue with defining such terms properly is that it's unclear what makes an 'average' problem instance.

For SAT, you can sort of correlate difficulty with the number of irreducible clauses.
The article is hit and miss. It rolls out the laundry list of plausible problems and assigns them all the most negative interpretation. It also doesn't compare problems other EVs have had. For example, FSD might be a multi-billion dollar liability if it doesn't work soon, which it won't. But so was the Bolt battery fire recall.

The real problem with FSD is that "robotaxi" revenues are a big big part of analyst price targets: ARK's PT is mostly based on robotaxi revenue. That's fantasyland. FSD isn't even designed to a robotaxi, and several companies are testing actual robotaxis in actual cities.

$TSLA is, still, way overpriced. On the basis of a tide of hype. When that tide ebbs, FSD will be seen to be swimming naked, and $TSLA will get repriced like other car makers are priced.
It’s hard enough to get a good objective analysis done without saying it should be bent to political considerations.
Cases vary of course but a lot of apps will break at some point if they've been orphaned and there's an OS upgrade (or, as other comments note, an online service has been sunsetted).

I expect the majority of apps I downloaded on my 1G iPad would not work today on a current iPad if not upgraded but if there's no server component, they'll presumably continue to work on the original platform.
Amusingly Rust is needing to revisit some of the earlier choices it made that were “obvious” on modern hardware architectures, because we have even newer ones that don’t behave that way.
Yup, I remember using this key for visual studio 6.0 when I was like ten years old.
To define() a Virtual Expectation of how a phenomenon ought to behave and then watch it play out in reality, confirming expectations most of the time but noticing when it deviates (meaningfully) from the expected output and refining that Virtual Expectation definition to include additional rules / special cases so that future reality-checks play out as expected

Dall-E doesn't observe the real world and compare it to its "objects in awareness", so at best it only checks one out of two boxes in GP's definition
Seems like an excessive placation for a very minor problem. People post in SI and the Americans convert it, Americans post in US and everyone else converts it. There's no rocket launches failing because a HN comment's units had to be converted.

It also seems weird on principle. If 65% of HN readers spoke Mandarin, would you make all your comments in Simplified Chinese?
People scaling SSH authorization tend to set up SSH CAs (either directly, or baked into some higher-level management solution). SSH CAs scale down nicely, as well.
I think one of the major difficulties is dealing with unobserved confounders. The world is complex and it is unlikely that all relevant variables are observed and available
Love the down votes. Sorry about reality guys. You're probably just supporting innocent/aligned in thought Russian programmers:

https://ain.capital/2023/01/27/yandex-developers-used-racist...
Returns are also gotos then.
Speaking as somebody who spent thousands of dollars for a lawyer on a matter, with basically no results, and also who used chatGPT, personal research, and common sense to solve this same matter for free, I can only say if a LLM is "a generator of misinformation that is maximally difficult to distinguish from real information" a lawyer is simply "a human who has been trained to maximally drain your wallet without regard for any other matter", of course, neither is true and there exists far more nuance for both.

Sure, there are matters I would only trust a lawyer to handle, but there are a great many I wouldn't.

Further, the average quality of a human lawyer will likely remain the same tomorrow as it is today, while AI will only get better. LLM today, perhaps some hybrid stack tomorrow, it's only a matter of time before an AI lawyer is the way to go for just about any legal matter. And let me be clear, that time might be 10 years, or may be 100+, but it is coming.
> Well, when all 17 intelligence agencies agree on something, you know they must be right then.

Then you know they are lying.
I'd have to go and check, I didn't see any "edited version" statement on the outside, or on the cardboard holder for all the books, but that's not to say there wasn't one.
Yes, those are totally legitimate criticisms.

IMO WordPress' big flaw (and key asset) is its commitment to backwards compatibility. The upside of this is that it was very easy for people to pick up and deploy it on PHP hosting in the 2000s, leading to its massive growth. The downside is that, as a WordPress developer, you're saddled with sticking to decisions made years ago.

It's definitely not your fault that this is unclear, the WP.org documentation does a poor job of explaining the pitfalls. After 5-10 years of working with it you come to understand the weird kinks...

Sorry for piling on your comment.
1 human is the equivalent of several of the most powerful computers in computation. IO is 3 logs less. I'll be worried in about 60 years that we may have the computing power of an artificial human. But only if we understand thought.
Also great for casual racism.

https://www.itpro.com/security/data-breaches/369966/yandex-d...

This is sadly probably a draw for a lot of 'Russian is the only country maintaining traditional western values' types.
That whole thing was a mess. Basically there are 17 agencies that share intelligence and are all under a single person. That one person made the claim, using the power of his office to make it seem like “17 agencies” had concluded Russia was behind the hack when it was really just his office making the claim.

It’s like the president making a claim “every branch of the military has concluded X” just because the president is commander in chief.
Thanks for sharing!
Are there any backends for other languages like php or java? Or do i need node.js to use this?
I'm a huge fan of https://tus.io/ because of the multiple backends and frontends
GPT fundamentally "compresses" a bunch of knowledge into neural network weights and then "makes stuff up" which is frequently true.

There is a lot of research into similar systems which have an information retrieval aspect. For instance a model like that might crunch a query or a short document into a few hundred vectors and just like with conventional search, a document which is close in vector space to the query is likely to be a good answer.

That kind of model computes a vector for each token in the model, a bit like a word vector, except that vector is conditioned by the context of the word so maybe "goal" is encoded differently for different sports or "good" is coded differently if you put "not" in front of it. The document embeddings average together those word+context vectors and frequently people apply further dimensional reduction.

I worked on similar systems about 10 years ago that didn't use the transformer and these were highly effective for scenarios like "write a paragraph about an invention and look for patents for a similar invention".

I'm skeptical that that kind of system does a great job of capturing patterns that involve multiple words so systems that are based on fine-tuning and classification are also interesting to me, such as the cross-encoder described here

https://sbert.net/examples/applications/cross-encoder/README...

particularly it ought to be possible to train a model that takes a query and a document and tries to guess if the document is relevant or not.

People have notably asked ChatGPT to "Write a review of topic X with citations to 10 papers" and found that it just makes up plausible-looking citations. To really succeed at that you'd think the system would do a conventional search, screen the documents for relevance, then feed the document into the model and tell it to cook the documents down to a review.

A system like that has a fighting chance of doing the right thing but it's beyond state of the art. At the very least models like ChatGPT have a limited attention window, 4096 tokens in that case, and there is usually more than one token per word. You'd have to get the attention window up to the 400,000-4,000,000 token range to pull off the above directly and that involves confronting numerous scaling challenges.
It's actually kinda horrifying how many professional software engineers have almost zero working knowledge of these tools.
I always heard it as: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to go fuck yourself"
Just to be clear, the implications of what you're suggesting would be the immediate legalization of anti-Semitism in the workplace. Are you sure that's better?
I always find it instructive to view these reports at the source. I developed this habit in 2018, when Reporters Without Borders (who maintain the Press Freedom Index you linked) published a report of the six most dangerous countries for journalists: India, Yemen, Mexico, Syria, Afghanistan, and of course the United States. When I read the report, it described how in Mexico journalists are executed by cartels and organized crime, how journalists in Yemen die in prison due to mistreatment, how in Syria journalists were killed in airstrikes and taken hostage by Islamic militants, how in India Hindu nationalist mobs would run down journalists with trucks… and how in the US, six journalists were killed in one year: four murdered by a stalker angry at a 2011 story the newspaper had published (subsequently tried and found guilty of mass murder), and two killed by a falling tree.

Being the midst of Donald Trump’s presidency, of course, there were headlines all over the United States: “Reporters Without Borders ranks US among most dangerous countries for journalists!”. The story was perfect clickbait, especially in that political environment.

I’m not saying Reporters Without Borders is untrustworthy. But I’m skeptical of their rankings by default, because being overly pessimistic about the US is an easy way to get lots of attention.

Here’s their report on the US’s ranking in the Press Freedom Index:

https://rsf.org/en/country/united-states

Issues it lists:

• Many media outlets are owned by the wealthy

• Donald Trump denigrated the press

• Local news outlets are declining

• Polarization of media

• Section 230 debates

• Julian Assange

• Citizens don’t trust the media

• Online harassment can harm journalists

• Journalists face “an unprecedented climate of animosity and aggression during protests”

I invite readers to compare these issues to the entries for other countries and judge whether they justify the US’s ranking in this list.
> But if there is an animal reservoir of the virus in China, then how could the Chinese government ever expect a lockdown to work?

Because if people avoid contact with the animals and it's a rare type of human-animal interaction to begin with, then it doesn't spread. And if you catch it again, you lock down instantly locally again.

I'm not taking any side on the source of the virus, but I don't think the Chinese government behavior makes either option more likely. Once vaccines had been developed, the Chinese lockdown went on for way longer than reason could ever have dictated, since Covid had turned endemic in the rest of the world. The extreme lockdown was never a good example of rational health policy in any scenario, post-vaccine.
It seems fundamentally it comes down to whether or not speech can directly cause harm. Canonical example of yelling fire and all that. But lately it’s also been about misinformation, lies etc. should for example defamation be a thing, or fraud etc.
Nice reasoning but the truth is probably simply that subscriptions generate way more money.
Also because not a few ppl forget to cancel their subscriptions.
There are fundamental rights of man. Government can recognize or abrogate those rights, but cannot invent those rights.

For example, if rights were invented by the government, there would be nothing about slavery that was wrong. If we say slavery violates the right to liberty, then we are saying that the right to liberty is inherent.
I almost agree. But there seems to be speech that should be forbidden, like threats of physical violence. I would argue that just the threat of physical violence changes the expected value of the future and hence can force someone to alter their behavior. I think this is one of the few cases where "your freedom stops where the freedom of the other begins" actually applies. I would be interested if you would also argue against prohibiting this kind of speech
Thanks for the follow-up.

Unfortunately, those are all orthogonal: you are referring to server and client-server-sync performance. I'm referring to opening and navigating the client UI, and these issues are as present when offline and no homeserver communication and syncing is involved.

The developments you mention
are all important, great, and exciting but from what I've seen so far the UI performance issues are unaddressed. We had users try to report these issues on GH historically but they tended to get dismissed as "can't reproduce on my mac" or left unattended.
even worse if you have a tight font kerning that blends the c and the l..
That's what got me into Go! I'd been exposed to transputers around 1990s when I was a teenager, got really into CSP as a way of thinking about programming.

Then there was a generation-long pause. Then Go!
> When I was 9 I thought I was a dinosaur.

This undersells how sinister underage hormone blockers are, because being a dinosaur is not a normal part of human development. identity confusion, especially during puberty, is normal for a significant percentage of people - millions.

Doctors administrating these blockers cross well past malpractice and into evil. If you are permanently altering children - the people we don't let buy cigarettes or alcohol, vote, or drive - without years of therapy first, you deserve jail time.
I doubt ChatGPT would say "Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic." about me as there isn't much online to support that and I would consider it more false than true. Comparing GPT to a psychic swindler doesn't advance understanding or discussion in an enlightening way, unless we mean to say that the providers of said AIs are the psychics.
What is pinecone and is there a link to a website?
The market is not near the WIV. They're on opposite sides of a very large city.
Lots of comments here about people faking.

There has been a large uptick in disabilities since early 2021 in the civilian workforce (ages 16+):
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01074597

The sudden uptick in the trend is real.
Isn’t the whole selling point behind their thing that they don’t use the native macOS UIs but instead send everything to the GPU?
I think Go's channels came largely from Tony Hoare's CSP, via a series of languages and experiences within the Bell Labs group that also produced Unix and Plan9.

See Limbo, Alef, Newsqueak, and Squeak.

Occam was also derived from CSP, but I don't think it's accurate to call it a direct ancestor to Go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alef_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsqueak
There aren't really any current advances outside of sheer scale of input in the models, and all the engineering and hardware around achieving that scale. And I think the point is no matter how much input data you give the ml/dl system, it will still have no awareness, no understanding of any kind and certainly no causal awareness.
I've read that some american scientists were working or were distantly involved in research projects at this lab.

I still entertain the conspiracy theory that Trump, since he hated China, could have had the capacity to ask the CIA to "cause problems in China", and this lab would have been one way to do harm.

Of course the US would not be really held responsible as long as chinese lab workers were pushed to be negligent, for example to manipulate virus in lower security lab settings, and no scientist was really able to know it would cause a pandemic.

Of course it's impossible to prove, which is why it's a conspiracy theory. Of course the cause was negligence. I'm just ashamed to have this theory in my head, but there are still legitimate scientists who have unanswered questions. It is still quite puzzling, when you read about the subject, to read that they searched for "gain of function", because there was nothing really good to learn, and it was always a pandora box which was very risky to explore.

I guess governments could ask China for financial reparations for this negligence, but I don't think it is worth the drama.
not his own death, of course.
If they are anywhere except once at the very end of the function, then yes they are logically like GOTO's.
I found depression to be a two-edged sword in the aging department.

Mentally, I felt older, "an old soul". But physically, not having the energy to do anything, sleeping almost in excess, not going outside, not laughing or smiling . . . they all seem to have kept my body younger.
Isn’t it trivially true that the things that are more worthwhile to automate have been automated and the things that are less worthwhile to automate haven’t been automated yet?

I think that’s not actually true because people have incomplete information. I think it’s also not static – for example it’s much easier to automate ordering of your product, arranging payment, etc, now than it was 20 years ago, even though the technology for forms/payments over the Internet still existed back then.

To be clear, when I write automation, I don’t really mean automating whole jobs but rather automating the bits of jobs where people don’t add value so that they may spend more of their time doing the things that add value.
and Moldova
In many cases, disassembling and modding was often necessary to get software working on your system. We all shared executables that patched bugs, added features, and improved performance back in the 90s and 00s.
Wokeness also informs us that "playing a wizard game makes you a Nazi, and you are literally committing murder".
I don't have an iPhone so i can't test it, but one thing i would be interested in is, if you use another browser like chrome/firefox etc, do you also get the same ID?

On my android different browsers yield different IDs but private mode or clearing browser data doesn't change anything.
I always thought that was so the Tailwind developers could generate revenue.
The issue isn't licensing cost, but developer productivity and being able to hire people.

Like I said, we've struggled big-time to fill our open dev positions. Also, the .Net community is just that much bigger, and the tools get more attention.

For example, a customer recently required us to fetch messages from Azure Service Bus to get an ID for a file in Azure Blob Storage. Sure the REST calls for the Azure API's could have been written fairly easily, but they used that pre-shared key authorization scheme which required signing certain HTTP headers[1]. None of our libraries easily supported integrating that, as they all generated those headers on the fly while making the HTTP call.

In .Net there was already official libraries for this and it took me a couple of hours to write the integration, including testing. Even without the authorization blocker, it'd taken way more time than that to implement the necessary REST calls and properly test them in either Delphi or Free Pascal.

In another example, we've adding JSON support for our "public" API, in addition to our XML. We're quite used to customers feeding us with crap data, so validating against schema on the way in is a must to keep support requests down. In .Net there was already a nice JSON Schema library waiting for us[2], so only took me a couple of minutes to integrate that. The only Delphi/FPC library I could find was years old and didn't support the JSON Schema version we required.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/a...

[2]: https://www.newtonsoft.com/jsonschema
Here's a business idea. Create a robotic dog as a dog companion. Large language models that can fool adult human can certainly converse with dogs. Couple it with Boston Dynamic's dog robot and you have workable version.