skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say "born holy" but if you kindly turn to Genesis you can see how the first man and woman were CREATED in Original Holiness (and Solitude, Justice, Unity).

Original sin is a deprivation of these positive qualities. Mary, for example, preserved in holiness, not simply cleansed of it. Holiness is our natural state, and so baptism returns us to that preternatural holiness that Adam enjoyed when he walked with God in the Garden.
Am I the only one drilling down in this thinking it might be about tree data structures? Not really having a clue what "phylogenetically" might mean, but kind of assuming it was about "those" other natural trees.
(to be fair, it also gets power from the buttons)
It's still visible to me in an Incognito browser window.
The same thing happened within the American Psychiatric Association with regards to the classification of homosexuality in the DSM as a form of deviancy and therefore as a pathology. All the while, many members were themselves gay and formed some small union of activist types who sought to slowly upend the codifications from within. It’s a glacial and bureaucratic process, but they succeeded. At the same time, many of them practiced psychiatry, and I don’t doubt found meaning in their practice to help people for other issues. The DSM isn’t all bad even if it’s flawed.

Now, imagine doing it for a dogmatic scripture held dearly by many millions. Sure, the Catholic Church is on the wrong side of history when it comes to gay rights, among other things, but if some people find peace and meaning in its voluminous scriptures, then there is still a leadership role for those priests. That might explain the cognitive dissonance.
Not quite what you're describing but it made me think of this annual countdown from this classical station https://www.wqxr.org/classical-countdown-2022/

People got a little nuts in the comment thread taking it very seriously.
Excellent writeup. Asahi is my daily driver, but I've never had the need for either Spotify or Netflix. I guess the gospel of RMS and the FSF over the past few decades has steered me away from anything DRM-related.
For sure, and I'm pretty certain I also tweaked the hell out of 3dfx tools too.
illegal as in, it is substantially illegal for anyone to alter the built environment to make it more walkable/bikeable -- be it landowners or the local government. because of strict zoning/planning regulations, outdated road design manuals, parking requirements, etc. car-dependency is encoded into law, in the sense that the system is set up so that the default outcome always results in car-friendly development, while any attempt at pedestrian- or cycle-friendly development is subject to arbitrary delays, legal challenges, and needs discretionary exemptions. example: it has been known for decades that Dutch-style intersections[1] are safer than status quo designs, but until very recently it was an odyssey to get one built in the UK or the US, because the transportation authorities have not-invented-here syndrome and won't listen to empirical evidence from abroad (which undermines the claim of traffic engineering to be a scientific discipline). hell, sometimes they'll insist on a "pilot study" even when a design has been a success elsewhere in the same country! but building a junction with inadequate pedestrian and cyclist amenities is easy, so long as it meets safety standards for motorists.

another example: the law says you need to build X amount of car parking spaces in a development, but demands no amenities for cycle storage. or, this[2] disgusting litany of regulatory excuses for why a pedestrian crossing outside a school wasn't allowed be made safer, because nothing can be allowed to reduce traffic speed.

furthermore, in some places the law as written really does de facto criminalize safe cycling. for instance, requiring that cyclists never stray out of the bike lane, even when it contains dangerous obstructions[3]. or, traffic lights that don't detect cyclists, so the lights stay red forever, so it's impossible to proceed without either breaking the law or waiting for a car to come up behind you and trigger the sensor. there are many cases like this -- the law doesn't literally say "you can't cycle", but following the law rules out cycling in any safe and practical sense.

and then there's the absurd fake crime of "jaywalking" ...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA

[2] https://twitter.com/LoganTMillsap/status/1583247772509032448

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ
I am not contradicting him. I am sure you understand that these cases make headlines more easily because of the shock-value, and that all other activists who are not doing that are not making it into the news.

I am also sure you understand that seeing some hypocrites preaching water while drinking wine should not stop you from reducing your alcohol intake, as you know it's unhealthy regardless.
Sure, but we had Word2Vec and some primitive RNN-based language models 12 years ago.

Arguably Word2Vec was the first big qualitative jump in NLP. Super modern LLMs (say, starting with BERT -- ChatGPT isn't really a qualitative jump from those as much as a quantitative one) are another one that's maybe 4 years old.
As I was trying to say the end result is the same. If the law allows rents to increase when people move then no one will ever move since it will cost them money. If the law doesn't allow rents to increase when people move then no one will move because there will be a shortage and whenever a unit does open it will go to landlords family member or friend.
I think "hallucinate" is the term-of-art that the AI community adopted for that behavior, but I do agree after having looked up the definition that confabulate is much more accurate and I wish they had picked it instead
You usually need to update the name servers with service A to point to service B.
Might have to do the same. Been ok with paying slightly higher prices for reliability but I wouln't bet on the latter if they start pulling shit like this even if it doesn't affect me directly.
Absolutely. I turn the radio on many stations as soon as the DJ or reporter come on, because the booming bass in a speaking voice in the car is just auditory torture. If I do want to leave it on a local station during a news report, I often have to switch EQ presets on the car stereo to bear it, then switch back for music and everything else after. I have been long term grateful that NPR is cognizant enough to actively choose not to persecute their listeners in this way.
Can one use "Kigo Netflix Downloader" in a WINE or native install for linux if they have one - and then play with VLC?

https://kigo-video-converter.com/netflix-tips/play-netflix-o...

(not associated with them)
What about the pedophilia? You'd think they'd become teachers.
Identity is the word of the decade, and is a helpful one here. For many, one simply is Catholic and one is called to the priesthood.

That you have a few “sins” to struggle doesn’t change your identity or your relationship to it, and besides — everyone has some “sins” they struggle with. As a priest, of all people, you would know that.

As a whole, secular society sees sexual preference as an inflexible identity around which other things like religious affiliation or occupation might pivot. But the converse works just as well for an individual’s view of the world and is of course what many well-established traditions espouse.

Catholicism, in particular, leaves room for living people being imperfect and inescapably bearing “sins” throughout their lives. It’s a core part of the theology. It’s what you do with it that becomes your profession of faith, and committing to the priesthood makes sense as a emphatic way of doing something about yours. (Which suggests that the preisthood can easily collect especially troubled “sinners” seeking to overcome their troubles… who maybe don’t always do a great job of it)
Pixar was a spinoff from Lucasfilm rather than an ab initio startup. Steve Jobs purchased the Computer Division from George Lucas with 40 employees and IP. I don't think founder or co-founder are the right terms here. No one ate ramen.
Dutch government to restrict sales of processor chip tech
Discord adds ChatGPT to its Clyde bot, among other new AI features
What do you mean their general systems theory is unmatched? Unmatched for what? I have read a bunch of D&G (as well as D on his own) and generally enjoy their writing, but I find it basically useless in my every day life and work (software engineering), my attempts to understand science and the world, etc. For example the "body without organs" is a cool idea that unites a lot of seemingly disparate phenomena, but other than that it kind of useless. It does not lend itself to making predictions, drawing causal connections between things. I don't think it's even a good intuition pump, in Dennett's sense. Most of the "use" of D&G's philosophy that I'm familiar with boils down to "oh hey this thing is kind of rhizomatic and look at how it antagonizes capitalist structures". Would love to be proven wrong, since I spent hundreds of hours and thousands dollars getting an education with a strong emphasis on this kind of stuff.
There's also many other options. My buddy works 15 hrs/week at a non-FAANG and non-startup tech company making 200k base. It's not FAANG money but it's still very good and he has a lot of free time.
It is criminal that the article does not mention the fantastic "must watch" National Geographic documentary : Survivors of the Skeleton Coast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce09ZygnMLg

The only video that i know of where you can see a Lion feeding on a Whale carcass on the beach!
No +44 number sign-up, no listing in UK app stores.
Jerry Fodor used to write of mentalese. It’s a fair criticism. And yet generative AI is showing that the models can be creative in ways that look like thinking outside of language.
OK, this is actually really good. The difficulty ramps up quickly with larger grids, to the point where solving the puzzle requires guessing in _sets_ rather than individual numbers. The controls aren't great for this more complicated approach though (plus it makes my head hurt) so the real meat of the game is in the middle difficulties. I bet this could do well with Wordle-style daily puzzles with tracking.
That depends on the humans writing. ChatGPT has its faults, but it's got a better hit rate than people.

> A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.

Can't get too much worse than thousands dying from a virus that has a vaccine because they're off drinking bleach and horse dewormer.
I've had a job that I felt bad about - they bought old, non-collectible debt for pennies on the dollar and called and sort of tricked people into making payments on old debts to "renew" the debt so that they could legally collect on it. They did it under the guise of "here's a chance to build your credit!" but I doubt the most people who signed up realized they legally didn't have to pay.

I got paid all of $50k to be a financial analyst there. I was young and straight of out school with a shit job economy and needed to pay rent and buy food. I also took comfort in working there for a year and a half doing virtually zero work.
It's really come to this?
This is like a HN Groundhog Day article.

Whenever this article comes up and people point out the flaws in the arguments, which everyone ignores when the next time the article is posted and the same specious reasoning is repeated.
That would be leaving a substantial amount of money on the table. Also, they're not necessarily the same countries or people; there are for example anti-fracking movements in some of the countries where that is happening.
American Protestantism remains heavily influenced by Calvin and early Puritan groups who had very strict ideas of how one should act. One is only _saved_ by grace, but one should _live_ according to the will of God.
"What did Chomsky mean", the eternal question. He, among with Alan Kay, are among the most (deliberately I suspect) cryptic obfuscatory bullshitters alive. They spout twisted, vague statements that can interpreted in dozens of conflicting ways, and through cult of personality people ascribe great wisdom and genius to them, thinking their grand thoughts must be just beyond the grasp of mere mortals like them.

True genius can communicate things clearly I think.

Probably not a popular opinion, and I'm a little cranky so grain of salt. But Chomsky and his ilk seem like some of the great intellectual hustlers of our time.
Often, and even more so in corporate PR, things are said precisely because they aren't true.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21981578
Agreed. Abort with a clear message on unsupported systems. In this case, non-POSIX shells.

The alternative is to bundle all the dependencies, including the shell interpreter into some maximally portable setup.
I love EasyDNS - not the cheapest, but the service is EXCELLENT. Over 10 years or so, I've had to call support a couple of times to setup new features, and not only do they answer the phone - but you get a real engineer!

It costs me about $40/year for domain (.org), dns, backup MX/mail spool, and a couple of other bits and pieces. It's been well worth it for the piece of mind.
If he had a contract and didn't do anything then he breached it.
You have a couple options. You can ask to go fully remote, which I believe is something like a 10% pay cut. Maybe that will help you hit the one year mark. Also consider transferring internally to a new team. You're supposed to wait a year, and have a positive review, but they do make exceptions.

I will end this with, your mental health is the most important thing. If you are getting too stressed you should consider resigning or taking a leave of absence. All of these things are something you can discuss with your manager.
Foreign Agents Registration Act
I'm not really sure what you're trying to imply here. E.g. I don't usually vomit into the upper atmosphere.
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You don’t need to. Your registrar tells the registry which nameservers you’ve chosen. You specify the nameservers that belong to your DNS provider, which causes DNS clients to query that DNS provider.

There’s nothing stopping you from paying for service with a DNS provider for a domain you don’t own, but nobody will actually query those nameservers for your domain, so it doesn’t matter.
>Imagine spending millions of dollars to prove 32 people are gay. No civil or criminal law has been broken, this isn't about predators and victims.

Sounds exactly like the kind of thing one national political parties would have done to another prior to the fairly recent widespread acceptance of gay marriage.
Would you happen to have links to some good reading material on this? People could -eg.- show it to their representatives.
I think Google employees did alright. Let's say you joined in Sep. 2013 (random date). 4 years later, the stock was up 200%. So if you got a $500K grant over 4 years, you'd have 1.5 million. After taxes, that'd be around $1 mm.
For a fair comparison, hybrid cars can easily do 50+ MPG.
For instance the "toyota yaris hybrid" is supposed to run 62MPG (3.8L/100km).
Systemic racism most certainly exists in the US. Not only was slavery widespread, there were never any reparations to those enslaved (or Native Americans). There are Black people alive today who existed prior to having their civil rights legally encoded in the 1960s. Our capitalist system is an illusion built on the back of "free" land and labor and those who had their land and labor stripped from them have never been made whole. It's pretty much the definition of systemic racism, just like apartheid in South Africa and Israel.
There are truly so many variables, How many of each instrument in an orchestra, the orchestra's layout, the conductor, the recording, the acoustics of the physical location, etc...

Take for example, Stokowski doing Clair de Lune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMvIy1HO3UY
vs
Stanley Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zxpbwedpo4

Then again, you can even take a different recording of Stokowski doing Clair de Lune, and get a different experience still - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMjfPPMKK0
I’m talking in terms of carbs as fast vs fat and protein as slow. Not the different type of carbs. I should have been more precise.
He'd just assign it to someone who works there. Owners of companies don't do everything themselves. Consider that successful people are often excellent at delegation.
Is clutter becoming cool?
The difference is that it can be good when managed properly. US politicians have too much of a hard on for cutting corners

Combine that with the systemic issues in the american system keeping people in poverty and there are problems. It can work if people actually try to fix things and it can even create jobs in the process
> I need to bookmark this page to cite every time we end up in another giant front-page argument about "I don't use GMail because I don't trust Google; I have my own domain with some tiny provider with human support where this can never happen."

This is about them changing the pricing of their service. The part about doing it to customers who have paid in advance may be fraud, but it's still miles better then google randomly locking you out of your account without recourse. You don't have to use Gandi for your email (why would you even except for it being "free" which you now have learned it is not) and you can transfer your domain to another registrar.
I've been thinking this for a while now. But I don't think that means the disruption is done. Think about how TikTok has disrupted Facebook or how Salesforce has disrupted Oracle. All of the big tech incumbents today also have lots of lots of older product infrastructure (Maps for Google, Dynamics for Microsoft, Mac Pros for Apple, etc) that they must maintain which is also difficult and risky to eliminate. But that infrastructure also imposes a drag on development for new features and capabilities. It is possible to build something simpler and smaller with higher profitability than Google Search (as one relevant example).
Right. Even when the kids are old enough to be in school full-time, there's still lots of "free" labor that's being left out of the GP's reasoning. A single parent's earning power would need to be significantly higher than a 1950's man's earning power and/or they'd need the same earning power with significantly more non-work hours per week.
The US said that encryption (well, good encryption) was a munition and so you needed an export license to make it available outside the US, e.g. by putting it on a web site.

Such rules are not unusual for physical objects - why sell your enemies or even potential enemies the rope they will hang you with? But for encryption it doesn't make sense because it's just information, and unlike physical objects, after writing is invented humans can trivially reproduce information, so too bad.

Eventually they whittled the "export license" step to something like a form letter Fax and IIRC Mozilla had a process where you raised a Bugzilla ticket, that caused the appropriate fax to be filled out and sent, so that was part of the release process, making it as painless as possible to comply with the stupid law.

(And now it's gone altogether)
You also need to consider the slope and slipperiness of the status quo.
What does it mean to be a statistical model? Deep nets are deterministic, for example. We can use them to model probability distributions, but they are not intrinsically statistical.
That's what I did, and I don't feel even a little nervous about it. I did it because it was obviously in my best interest to help them investigate a crime that I was the victim in, and because I am 100% confident that the footage is otherwise innocuous.

But it all depends on the circumstances. As you say, the whole point of ownership is that I get to make that sort of decision.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34869283

> I was helping my son with his homework. He had to write an essay about why the gender of the protagonist might be female (although this is never mentioned in the short story). Fortunately for him, ChatGPT knew the story and was happy to write an essay with arguments.

It goes on like that. The parent helps their son use ChatGPT to cheat at school, and the responses are all positive, like:

> I am delighted to hear that children are already adopting the new tech

And:

> This gives your son a competitive advantage over the kids who will simply turn up what the AI wrote (and get a 0) or spend too long writing their own essays.

They're celebrating it and talking about how learning to cheat well will give them a "competitive advantage" (zero-sum bullshit) over the kids who cheat badly, and then making a mockery of the children who actually "spend too long" doing the work themselves.

It's insane. It's bizzaro world. It's infuriating. They're teaching their children to grow up to be liars and cheaters. They're knowingly punishing the children who choose not to cheat. They sound like toxic psychopaths, which I got downvoted (obviously) for calling them.
Even if you don't really understand async/await in C#, you can do it mostly right by following just a few rules:

1) Make anything that accesses a resource over the network, in a database, or in the filesystem async. So basically any time you make an HTTP request, execute a SQL query, or open a file etc. Otherwise you should generally stick to synchronous since async code is actually slightly slower than synchronous code. An exception to this might be if you're doing some heavy computation that's going to take a while and don't want it blocking the UI thread

2) Async is viral. If you have a method that calls an async method, you need to make the calling method async too. You need to then make its own calling method async as well all the way back to Main()

3) Never use async void as a return type, with the sole notable exception to this rule being event handlers. Use async Task instead as the return type (or async Task<T> if it returns a value)

4) Always call async code with the "await SomeAsyncFunction()" syntax. Calling it other ways like "SomeAsyncFunction().Result" will eliminate most of the benefits of using async in the first place since it is blocking, can cause deadlocks in some cases, etc.

Follow those 4 rules and you don't really even need to understand how async works under the hood, though personally I'd recommend learning it as it will help you a lot when you run into issues with edge cases.
So a war that ended almost 80 years ago is responsible for the battle against "online hate" that started like two years ago?
And Palm "Trees".
This dismissal of Minsky misses that Minsky had actually extensive experience with neural nets (starting in the 1950s, with neural nets in hardware) and was around 1960 probably the most experienced person in the field. Also, in Jan 1961, he published “Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence” [0], where we not only find a description of gradient descend (then "hill climbing", compare sect. B in “Steps”, as this was still measured towards a success parameter and not against an error function), but also a summary of experiences with this. (Also, the eventual reversal of success into a quantifiable error function may provide some answer to the question of success in statistical models.)

[0] Minsky, Marvin, “Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence”, Proceedings of the IRE, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Jan. 1961: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/steps.pdf
Not phone makers, but Google and Apple. You wouldn't find the app in their App Stores in the UK.
Take the amount of language a blind 6 year old has been exposed to. It is nothing like the scale of these corpsuses but they can develop a rich use of language.

With current models if you increased parameters but gave it a similar amount of data it would overfit.
What's the problem with the "G"?

Most of the oil companies score pretty well on the "G" - since it's really just a measure of how well-run they are and how responsive they are to shareholders.