skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I follow the twitter feed, rarely click on anything but see topics go by and semi-remember them for later (or I sometimes open up the site right-away).

2-3 times a day I go to the site on a desktop browser. Scroll through the first 2-3 pages (logged in, standard view) and open a tab for the story and discussion. Work though these gradually.

Occasionally I open the site on my phone but find a pain to use it that way (and I'm not logged in).
Have you tried this already? Please share more of your experience
You know, there is something called journalism. That's where I get my information from. Suggesting I look at this stuff because I am calling it out is disingenuous and a little insulting.
Bad choice of example, because a tape recorder has no network connection and requires some effort to capture into a digital format that can easily be shared on a network. Unlike tape recorders, recent digital devices and apps often harvest your info behind the scenes.
They have a storied lineage of mismanagement, but it would take hours to document so i'll get to the bullet points:

* Yishan Wong wanted to prioritize subreddits that had the most gildings and the users didn't like it, so he packed up and left.

* Ellen Pao took over and also resigned because the community didn't like a firing of an employee.

* Steve Huffman came back at Sam Altman's advisment, and proceeded to salvage an alt-right subreddit (/r/KotakuInAction) after being closed by its creator, approved the hiring of a sex pest admin, shut down RedditGifts, went all in on monetization, launched a React redesign that still sucks, gated features behind an app, and further siloed the community outreach from corporate.

Community oriented services are a pain in the ass as they scale, but reddit has not taken the challenges in stride. I feel like Digg got lucky imploding instead of becoming popular.

I wish Snapzu or Lemmy had the numbers reddit did to make them usable, but that's kind of a double edged sword.
i just turn into a troll if it reaches this point
The admins must've seen what you were doing and decided to just pull the plug to put you out of your misery.
How financially damaging are outages to Reddit? It's not down enough to lose users. Sure, there is add revenue loss, but is it really enough to meaningfully affect the bottom line? If not, then I don't see why leadership would prioritize it.
>If it can take in a github issue and produce decent code solving a complex issue across many files... will certainly be an interesting time.

Oh snap. I didn't even think about that!

That gives me a fun idea!

I've got a repo that I built and setup CI/CD and setup renovate to automatically upgrade dependencies and merge them when all the tests pass, but of course sometimes there are breaking changes. I don't actively work on this thing and hence it's just got issues sitting there when upgrades fail. It's the perfect testing ground to see if I can leverage it to submit PRs to perform the fixes required for the upgrade to succeed! That'll be hectic if it works.
Every traded object had its own measurement system: it pretty much summarizes the difference between Imperial measures and US Customary measures.
I wish this was a joke, but I'm already seeing an astonishing resurgence in a form of spam I haven't seen for years, Ukrainian women mail order bride scams.
>and it's done on a long-term 'maintenance' basis rather than on experiment-basis.

The thing is, you can't just start and stop many kinds of animal research. For certain models, there needs to be ongoing maintenance of a breeding population so that that model is available for researchers when they need it for an experiment.

Researchers spend decades making a particular knockout line, and you can't just stick it into a freezer for a rainy day. It has to be maintained or it will no longer exist.

Nobody is getting rich off grants. Then maintenance is a necessity if research gains are to be made on these difficult diseases.
“maybe there's something wrong with our theories on the larger scales.”

This is my go to layman (but informed) speculation right now. As the gradient of scale moves in various directions the rules of the game seem to bend.
but at the same time, we can say the same about doctors (or even lawyers?) AI is just getting better at predicting things in general, be it an answer to technical question or predicting a disease, so which field is safe from AI? anything involving physical work can be optimized to outperform humans if economic incentives support it, and mentally we won't be able to combat AI say after 20 years, so what then?

Which field are safe from AI overtake? now obviously AI wont take all doctors' jobs, but it'll reduce the value that a singular doctor provides today and that's my concern, we humans are all are getting devalued, is AI field itself safe or will they replace themselves first?
It's all subjective though and very much dependent on one's approach.
> Right now it requires you to use either the Edge browser

And we’re back to the Microsoft of the 90s apparently!
This is how markets are supposed to work, regulation is necessary and shorting has its place.
The ckickbait, scams and ad heavy results will return, don't worry. Microsoft is expert at poisoning their own successes. Just wait for the rampant commercialisation of results, and various efforts to infect the model from SEO types over the long term
It's almost as if the tool is what separates the artist from the non-artist. Initially people got mad at AI art, but now, the people actually persisting beyond mere gimmick images are those who have a fundamental interest in art, and they would have done it even a hundred years ago with oil paints.
I guess this was after the Russian aircraft dumped fuel on it and collided with the prop?

Who is a more trustworthy source?
Unfortunately not a single word from the Russian official sources can be taken seriously.
Well, this game is too lopsided for existing corps!

I was working on a gpt-powered tutor for languages, guess I will have some work to differentiate from whatever duolingo offers.
It's not about humans lying. It's about our memory getting corrupted over time where the stuff we think we're sure of is actually wrong or a misrepresentation of facts. Our recollection of things is a mix of real things and hallucinations. Witnesses provide wildly different accounts of the same event all the time.

This applies to PhDs as well and I don't agree that an expert human is automatically more reliable.
You shoud google for duolingo grammar notes. You'll find some for every course I imagine. The same people who originally created those courses made unofficial wikia or other pages and populate unofficial discords.

You just have to know to look for them...
> A human being slaughtering a cow isn't judged to be immoral by the cow, because the cow has no concept of morality, only survival

> Therefore, the unprovoked killing of animals is not inherently immoral

So, killing a human newborn is not immoral because it cannot judge its killer?

> Killing an animal for food is acceptable to me, and to the vast majority of people, since it is something we are all subject to in nature. Having food preferences is also not immoral. Bears and other animals have food preferences. Therefore choosing to eat meat instead of something else is not immoral.

https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/eating-meat-is-personal-ch...

https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/animals-eat-animals

https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/ancestors-ate-meat

I would also argue that food preferences / choices leading to the destruction of the environment / ecosystems are not moral.

> I know how fucked up industrial farming is. That doesn't mean eating animals is immoral

> I believe causing undue harm and cruelty are immoral. I don't want to contribute to a system that enables that cruelty.

But you contribute to it ... you vote with your money and purchase animal products. It's nothing else than your choice, it's not a necessity. A life of those animals is full of harm and cruelty. You've seen Dominion, you know.

> I think humans are more important than animals.

That thinking got us here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
Pine64 dumps a lot of responsibility on their user base, but in their defense they do list nearly everything they sell with warnings about how they are for developers willing to put in the extra effort.

Similarly MNT warns people about going with RISC-V options in their products. I really hope MNT can get their risc-v modules bumped up with the new SoC's hitting the marking in the coming year as support is born.
To study cures for cancer you need to induce the exact type of cancer you are trying to treat in dozens of identical animals that are as similar as possible to humans, and do so in a reproducible way. suggesting you could just go and work with any old animal that happens to have some sort of cancer is incredibly naive.
Neither, it doesn't change much right now, and the worst case scenarios like double-digit unemployment from replacing most knowledge workers are impossible to prepare for anyway. So either way there's nothing that I could be doing differently right now.
Maybe their priorities are appropriate? It doesn't matter if shitposting sites like reddit or twitter have five nines of uptime. Who cares, go outside!
Eh, at their scale(one of the most visited websites across the world) everything is complex. It doesn't excuse their continuous failures in some aspects (e.g. video player still sucks, years later), but in general reliability is decent. Their engineering blog was quite enlightening, but I don't think they've posted in a while.
In the old days of flashy tech conferences, that was precisely the sign of business-driven demo wizardry.

The prerecorded videos, the staff-presented demos, the empty hardware chassis, the suggestive technical details, etc

They have “reasons” for not giving away details, but there are good odds that the ultimate reason is that this is a superficial product update with a lot of flashy patchwork rather than that fundamental advance in AI technology we’d assume from the name.
The paper targets diabetic ulcers... it's literally a band aid on diabetes.

This is the trend in medical papers currently, target diabetics, which there are so many of. It's really not much of a tangent.
One issue I’ve encountered is over-partitioning to handle a spike in traffic.

I.e. an event occurs which causes an order of magnitude more messages than usual to be produced for a couple of hours, and because ingest and processing flows are out of whack, a backlog forms. Management wants things back in sync ASAP, and so green lights increasing the partition count on the topic, usually doubling it.

In an event driven architecture that is fairly well tuned for normal traffic this can have the same downstream effect, and those topics up their partition counts as well in response.

Once anomalous traffic subsides, teams go to turn down the now over-partitioned topics only to learn that that was a one way operation and now they’re stuck with that many partitions, and the associated cost overhead.

Also if I see another team try to implement “retries” or delayed processing on messages by doing some weird multi-topic trickery I’m going to lose my mind. Kafka is a message queue, not a job queue, and not nearly enough engineers seem to grok that.
Where I work we have an on-premises Hadoop cluster and Kafka is its only stable component that works without constant headaches.
So let's make taxpayers pay for it!
But with BFF you still need APIs? backend servers to serve the frontend servers.
By taxing the caught fish.
Yeah what if there was another site that was a bit more exclusive and promoted good faith discussion, maybe related to tech to begin with.. Hey wait a second!
If you enrol in the classroom version of Duo (which I originally did to get back the old style tree) it is firstly, free. Secondly - you can be a single participant. Thirdly - no ads. I even forgot there were ads because I haven't seen one since I enrolled - in eluding the annoying self promotion ads for Super Duolingo. I have a 1631 streak at the moment, so it is saving me quite a bit of time not seeing ads. It is not my loop hole, so I guess it is just something I found by accident.
GPT models will cause software product spam and I'm thinking software engineers will become something like mechanics in a car repair shops. No longer creating the software themselves, but rather fixing various bugs and corner case issues that arise from GPT use by basically anyone who can copy paste into a prompt.
yeah working hard right now, and will try to maximize my next 5-10 years as they might very will decide most of my days after that
I'm surprised by the answer GPT4 gives, and I consider it incorrect.

Since the question's context is about weight I'd expect it to consider "a Great British Pound" to mean a physical £1 sterling coin, and compare its weight (~9 grams) to the weight of the feathers (454 grams [ 1kg = 2.2lb, or "a bag of sugar" ]) .
Judge your Reddit comments by the sum of the absolute value of votes, not the sum of the value of votes.
yeah.. my solution is to use old.reddit, and click "disable inbox replies" on everything I say

Then when I'm REALLY bored I'll go click my own history and see what the peanut gallery thought of my various comments. I get a lot of mega-downvotes for really innocuous stuff for no apparent reason, along with the occasional angry response, so it's best to keep my stress levels down by keeping that stuff isolated.

I'd be a nervous wreck if my phone/watch were buzzing at me every time some dickhead online decides to rip into me. I don't know how people can stand it.
>Just because humans make mistakes (or even as many or more mistakes than machines) doesn't mean the nature or consequences of the mistakes are the same.

True, but this shouldn't be hard to measure. It's not like we will go from these AIs will go from teaching no one to replacing all teachers overnight.

Give a random sample of classes access to a GPT-n powered tutor, and see if they do better or worse over the next few years.
I mean honestly, if I took the corpus of our companies support data and used it as a training set for our first line support, I believe that GPT could answer the questions better than they do first shot.

No idea what the cost difference would be, but for many businesses I could see the AI response be a costs savings.
As a human I would also fail this almost 100% of the time.

Which country has the highest GDP in Europe? Germany, I’m essentially 100% sure.

Source? I don’t even know what organization tracks GDP. Or how I know Germany has a large economy. They just do.
If you’re on AWS I’ve had zero issues with their managed Kafka offering (MSK). I’m sure they did lots behind the scenes, but it was really one of our most rock-solid pieces of infrastructure.

If I had a need for Kafka in my current role, I’d probably give Confluent and Red Panda offerings a shot.
Valid criticism, updated my comment.
> What's the big issue? This all seems pretty standard

I would say this one feels more later stage capitalism than usual, all it's missing is some tiktok influesters hyping it up.
> they wouldn't have raised interest rates at all.

would that have lead to a death spiral of hyperinflation (if they didn't try to destroy demand/suck liquidity out of the financial system)
Now time to post memes on hacker news (Dang that was a joke.. your doctor paid me $20 to mess up your stress test numbers)
There’s no technical reason to enforce Edge, if you change the user agent it works fine in any browser. So it’s clearly leveraging demand in one product to try to push an unrelated one
Small correction on your first sentence: only one (the huge one shot down off the coast of SC) was confirmed to be a spy balloon from China.

The other three (Alaska, Yukon, Lake Huron) were explicitly referred to as "objects, not balloons" initially. This was later updated to "intelligence agencies believe they were civilian research platforms/balloons" but not from China. That seems to be where the story ends with no further updates. Feds say that no debris was ever located for any of the last three.

Off-topic and/or pedantic but I followed the story pretty closely and don't understand why people lump the first shoot down (of the confirmed spy balloon from China) with the latter three. The circumstances and details emerging in the aftermath were wildly different.
>Kafka is a monster of complexity notoriously hard to operate (Hello ZooKeeper) and to understand properly (Hello ordering, persistency and partitions).

100% this.

Even using managed Kafka is a pain for most use cases. We replaced managed Kafka with a simple postgresql db using skip locked as a queue mechanism and the dev teams productivity tripled and our total cost of ownership decreased dramatically.

Don’t think twice, think 10 times if you really need Kafka
I mean, yeah, if you get off the default subs, but at some point the dross makes its way into the rest of the steel, and you can only do so much filtering and babysitting.
FAANGs aren’t anywhere near the high end of the ML job market currently.
> In January, it seemed like something happened to ChatGPT like it was nerfed

I asked it some questions this morning that came back surprisingly crappy compared to the exact same prompt just a few weeks ago.

Had a similar reaction. I think there is a lot more going on here... Is it possible that some VIP told them to "turn it down" out of fear of losing their own business model overnight?
Being on the inside, these companies are really not innovating. Just optimizing existing platforms
Nope. Humans have really long life cycles. Imagine how long an experiment that requires 2 generations of humans will take?

Behavioral problems, etc make reproducibility harder.

When we can overcome those problems, like with cultured cells, most prefer human cell lines.

But the intention is to have a "model" rather than the full thing.
Every time this happens I make a stupid joke about how it never used to fall over before Elon took over and fired all the staff. It wasn't even funny the first time, but it feels like the appropriate response.
For the record I’ve saved the first comment where I mistake a real person’s comment for a LLM and it was not today
Cryptocurrency directly funds criminal organizations and rogue nations like North Korea.
And Facebook is like the void shouting back at you.
It's even better. You can tell it that it's not quite the classic puzzle, and then it will actually figure out the differences and summarize them. From there it can solve it.
In Madrid the subway is deep, I had to climb 180 steps to home. I did it running, it’s actually much easier than walking. Best shape I ever was in my life…
I wanted to see what exactly is this project. There is no way to go back to vanillaos.org from handbook.vanillaos.org without manually editing the URL bar, at least on mobile. This is so frustrating.
Thanks for your comment. I truly had no idea.

This was very informative and changes my views on a few things.
I acted accordingly by moving to a country with decent labour laws.
You are not able to go through a persons profile and downvote on people's posts. It looks like it from the UI, however it doesn't persist those votes. It may be capturing your attempt though.

To do that you have to visit each and every post and downvote it.
Part of the problem is when distros "become secure in the default install" by having nothing installed and nothing running.
I don't see what's wrong with the outside knowing your local IP addresses. But I absolutely wouldn't want EUI64 encoding my device vendors in the addrs.
Or reply with a short slam dunk, then delete the comment. They'll see the notification and be able to read it, but can't reply.
Some people do, but we don't consider them to be good members of society.
Who mentioned humans?

I think I know what you mean, but the impression was that the tests were for treatments in dogs, perhaps the presumption being they'd work in humans, but that was not clear.
> it’s interesting that it knows the initial board layout

Why is that interesting? The initial board layout would appear all the time in the training data.
I noticed it does get a "theory of mind" question that it used to fail, so it has indeed improved:

> “Meltem and Can are in the park. Can wanted to buy ice cream from the ice cream van but he hasn’t got any money. The ice cream man tells her that he will be there all afternoon. Can goes off home to get money for ice cream. After that, ice cream man tells Meltem that he changed his mind and he is going to drive to the school yard and sell ice cream there. Ice cream man sees Can on the road of the school and he also tells him that he is going to the school yard and will sell ice cream there. Meltem goes to Can’s house but Can is not there. His mom tells her that he has gone to buy ice cream. Where does Meltem think Can has gone, to the school or to the park?"

This is from some research in the 80s
Do you mean something like https://chat.openai.com/chat ?
It looks like "primate" is another javascript-based HTTP request handler, with a template language.

I don't get the connection to htmx, though, which runs client-side. It looks like there's a separate template variant for "htmx" vs HTML, but why would you need a different server-side template handling for stuff that executes client-side?

I don't understand the point of the domains either... it somehow wraps an ORM but an ORM is already a wrapper (not to mention a server-side ORM seems an awkward fit for htmx, which wants the server to be stateless).
In Reddit arguments, there are only losers.
I'm a little confused as to running the Suricata, Zeek and the Elasticsearch stack on Kali. I think of these tools run on a server, rather than a desktop. And it seems like SecurityOnion scratches this niche.

I do like the idea of Kali Purple though - curious to check it out.
Perhaps. That’s my standard for my team and the managers that report to me.
> The crappy CDs were a result of dumping a phono mastering onto a CD without realizing that a CD player was not going to apply the RIAA curve.

I don't believe this is the case. The RIAA curve is a very aggressive curve (40db) and no one would tolerate an uncorrected signal (plug your turntable into the line in for a taste, all you hear is sibilance). Also the filter would be applied by the person mastering the vinyl - it would not be applied before the master tape.

IMO the thin sounding CDs were because producers were used to vinyl which still has issues with bass even with the RIAA curve in place. Also because CDs were new and we lacked the knowledge and tools to use them to their potential. For example my teachers in college would have me turn in my DAT tapes with peak levels around -18db (late 90's).
This reminded me of a time I got into an argument on Reddit. Someone eventually chimed in that I was probably right, that my logic was sound, but "look at all the downvotes you are getting". Even as they typed it out, it never occurred to them that there could be something more important than the internet points. I explained if you never get downvoted to oblivion, you're probably not saying anything interesting.
> It does more than that. It understands how to do basic math.

It doesn't though. Here's GPT-4 completely failing: https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/uxH1EtVhG2rd.png?o=1. It's riddled with errors, every single step.
Your comment is ironic to me, because I often feel the need to suppress my urge to call out people who seem obsessed with Elon Musk, but your comment is proving that my instinct is right.
Redditors' opinions are almost completely worthless measures of comment quality.. if you want a huge karma score, you can just repost the top stuff from a couple of years ago into popular subs and repost popular comments from months/years earlier on posts that pick up traction in /r/rising

Some niche subs never downvote people, and some downvote almost everything

I think your best bet is to ignore karma altogether on that site
You might be interested in Qubes instead - https://www.qubes-os.org as this is more of a toolkit for security testing.