skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will admit that I'm a unique case because I got into blogging to blog, rather than just as a subset of my online presence. But I hope that my story inspires someone.

I started my first blog, ShortFormBlog, in 2009. At the time, I was a fully print journalist, focused on graphic design. I had just been laid off from one newspaper and was about to be hired by another. The thing that made the blog stand out at the time is that I tried to bring some of that news-design mindset to the blog.

Within three years, I had had a number of notable experiences emerge because of this blog, including:

- A regular freelance gig with AOL News

- Interviews with a number of prominent outlets for potential jobs, including the then-buzzy iPad newspaper The Daily, PBS, and BuzzFeed

- Nominated for a Shorty Award

- A large follower base on Tumblr (160k by the time I stopped)

- Transition to a new, fully digital full-time job, outside of newspapers, in which I was allowed to keep the blog going

I eventually moved to a newsletter format called Tedium, which moved away from daily news into more evergreen styles of content. That led to:

- An appearance on NPR’s Planet Money

- Syndication opportunities with Atlas Obscura, Fast Company, and Nieman Lab, among others

- An ongoing freelance relationship with Motherboard, along with freelance opportunities in other places

- A consistent revenue model

- The opportunity to bring in outside writers

- Periodic viral posts (including one last year, written by a contributor to the site, that was name-dropped by Rick Beato)

- A smaller but more deeply interested audience

- A chance to meet a lot of people who are into the same weird stuff I'm into

- A frequent outlet to write about whatever's on my mind

I have now been writing at a regular pace on the internet for about 14 and a half years. I have learned a lot over that time. My recommendation to you is that you find your pacing, and if something is not working, you switch gears.
As a kid I liked it, but I loved all his other (i.e. non-fiction) books much more, with a huge passion. I had a nice telescope and was obsessed with astronomy for years. The Sirens of Titan was the first novel I loved to death and read over and over, maybe it's not coincidental that it also involves a lot of interplanetary travel!
A relevant book, coming out next week:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675683/poverty-by-a...
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Seems like you could test that via negative stimulus. Introduce a negative stimulus like a shock associated with something perceivable by both the caterpillar and butterfly. After conditioning the caterpillar, see if the butterfly shares the same aversion to the stimulus.
is it toll free?
I vaguely remember reading this story somewhere else.
If you can fly so finely that you can bend one propeller blade and not damage any tail fins in the process, you're a far better pilot than I could ever dream of being.

Then again, we don't know what other damage there was, because nothing was shown. And why is the propeller blade bent the wrong way? It should be bent backwards, not forwards. (Propeller was shown as spinning anti-clockwise in first part of video, so it should be bent to the left instead of to the right in the second part)
‘Workflow’ is a good keyword and the OP should look up ‘workflow engine’ and the related technology. That is, big businesses take a task like processing a loan application and break it up into little bits and use business rules engines and related technology to allocate those tasks to people and programs.

That kind of technology can put A.I. systems on wheels in that you have a defined process on guardrails that is resistant to bullshitting, hallucination and such but that can take advantage of the A.I. to do certain tasks.
It is naive to believe that 100% understanding each other somehow will lead to less violence or war. If you 100% understand that somebody wants to take what is yours, rape you, or in any other way have a deep desire to cause you harm, then the conflict and violence will still happen.

There are people out there who truly and deeply believe that they are superior to others and therefore have the right to take what is yours. They might 100% understand that you are not happy about it but they simply don’t care.

So you either accept to be a victim or use violence to stop it. Any attempt to negotiate or talk about it will be answered with a fist in your face.
No, actually that's been deprecated for years due to establishment consensus.

You actually need mrna from a specific federally approved corporation for that feature to continue to function as expected.
PyTorch saves tensor data and metadata separately (metadata in Pickle format a.k.a. pickle VM, which is famously not mmap friendly because it builds up Python object through the VM execution). These then zipped together in a zip file. Whether you can mmap depends on two things: if the zip file has compression enabled, you are out of luck. If not, CUDA's unified memory requires I think 64-byte alignment, and that may at odds with the zip archive, otherwise CPU depending on optimization may require some other alignment too (typically 16 bytes or 4 bytes).
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Indeed your view makes sense. I'm very much one of the people you mention, I forget things all the time, and use search in Notion to find the things most relevant to me. I also don't over-organize my notes, but rather use something simple much like the PARA method[0], and so would challenge the organization piece of your argument.

To me, the value proposition would be anything incremental you can provide above and beyond simple search, but also something that isn't broadly accessible through other means (web search, GPT-like solutions, etc)

[0] https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/
There is also: “human flourishing”, “space exploration”, “arbitrary long lifespan”, “cancer cured”, “democracy triumphs”, “diversity celebrated”, . . .
Thank you. Both for the list, and for giving me a quick way to check that this is still about those six old incidents, and not some six new ones.
I don't think honey is usually pasteurized. It's usually heated in the process of producing a clear product with no grittiness, but that's not necessarily pasteurization.

And botulism spores are incredibly durable.
With the rise of generative AI, it's looking much more likely that it'll just be easier to build simulations of whatever we want (including taking a Star Trek-esque adventure around the universe) than it would be to actually go anywhere outside of our solar system. I think the solution to Fermi's Paradox is just that aliens stayed home and played video games, ie. they're all in bunkers deep under their planets' surfaces in simulations having way more fun than they would be if they were dealing with cosmic radiation/exotic matter/time dilation/etc.
And feeding young children actually spicy food instead of treating ketchup as the most flavorful ingredient in children's food.
Some misguided people thinking tech startups are supposed to care more about maintaining the stability of the banking sector over whether they can pay their employees next week.

Interestingly enough nobody is blaming politicians and/or the Fed for causing all this in the first place. I mean, I get that tech and VC money in particular benefitted hugely from the zero interest rate environment in 2011~2021, but still, I fail to see where the moral obligations come from.
It's telling that a criticism of objective externalities (they are less space efficient and more dangerous) is perceived by you as a personal slight. The only one making this a personal matter is you, yet you accuse others of doing so. Why is that?
Hygiene hypothesis is something different.
I am now expecting to see a movie/TV series with what you described as the plot.
These days it's just easier to do accidental population scale brain damage with a twitter account.
Thank you for the compliment! Definitely would love to contribute in some ways, once we have the benchmark, I have some ideas :)
Sounds like picking up pennies in front of a steam roller.
Honestly, this seems like a pretty good outcome - “we got all the help we need, thank you all.”
wow! that was perfect, she summed it all up so well and it's incredibly refreshing to hear.
Support has a very poor ROI it seems. A person calls into a bank to ask about a bank account and all profit is basically eliminated in that one interaction.

One of my employers basically determined that clients below ~5000 ARR are not worth serving. Their issues cannot be forwarded to anything above front line support. Doesn't matter how stuck they are or what sales promised.

Just skim off the cream that don't need help and dump the rest.
Were they guarded by authorization codes in 1961 when that incident happened? Kennedy's executive order to install PALs on nuclear weapons just in Europe was in 1962. The early days of nuclear weapons were the wild west.
I understand your problem completely. Even though you gave it to the support person before me, and the person before that, would you please give me your full name, and last four of your Social Security number. Thank you. Can you describe the nature of your problem? But before we continue, please provide your customer PIN.
I did bitcoin but used it for beer money. RIP the 150 or so coins I mined.
It's not clear that machine learning models consisting of weights are copyrightable in the first place. They are not the results of human authorship, but are instead essentially produced by a machine trying to optimize a bunch of values.
My story about being nice: Once sent in a complaint that wasn't really a complaint, more of an FYI that one of their things was broken.

Lo and behold, a few months later, I get an apologetic email with a $300 credit. It was obvious they didn't even read my complaint, and therefore won't fix it, but I'll take the $300.

And no, they didn't cause me anywhere near $300 in harm by any measure.
A quick practical tip: when asked what you want, tell the bot 'sales' (or anything else that brings in $$ for the business).

That way you're likely to get you access to a human or phone number. It worked for me recently contacting Apple.
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We just gave our kid little bits of whatever we were having for dinner, because that's the traditional approach. No need to make special purees.

I have a strong suspicion that not only is there allergy benefit, but also that this is why she ended up not being too picky an eater.
If the US system was so bad, you would not be seeing rising amounts of medical tourism to the country. Generally, when systems are bad, people flee it by any means necessary.

Canadians come to the US because Canadian healthcare quality is garbage, or simply non-existent. Yeah, it's free, but have a rare or advanced cancer and you're on your own. The US has probably the best cancer treatment options in the entire world. It's not free, it's not perfect, but it's available.

Canadian, European and other countries love to dunk on US healthcare by posting misleading information and pictures (omg look a $100,000 bill! [insurance pays it all]). Meanwhile, Canadian and Europe have death panels, 24 month waiting lists, no right to try experimental treatment, predatory euthanasia (18 year old has depression? sign here for suicide) and other atrocities.
Go's GC uses the same trick, and also shows a giant virtual size.

But you're right more broadly, it's nice to not have bad performance be a bunch of finger pointing between dev and ops with Go. With Java there's always another, untried GC twiddle to fix everything.
I think my credit union is still like that... but it's been a while since I had to call.
Vanishing ‘support’ is driving us insane. I could care less about getting it on the phone.

I recently had my first bad experience with AWS support, where the agent immediately wanted to jump on a call to have me explain the problem I’d just written down to them.

It’s not that hard to understand “Can you explain to me how to get your provisioned concurrency lambdas to keep track of system time correctly.”
Agreed, as with a sibling comment this is how I've been thinking about it. We overestimate what we are, the corollary being that we underestimate what other creatures are.
I also had a similar experience, except I also rediscovered how outrageously expensive and scammy cab drivers can be. The guy took me 30min+ out of the way and charged me double of the uber price when i had him stop in some random part of town and took uber from there.
> If I could do it on the website, I wouldn't be calling you.

You might not. Most of my relatives over 40 will though. At my company it is incredibly common for a support ticket to be answered in the FAQ.
More recently, in 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The nuclear warheads in the missiles were supposed to have been removed before the missiles were taken from their storage bunker. The missiles with the nuclear warheads were not reported missing, and remained mounted to the aircraft at both Minot and Barksdale for 36 hours. During this period, the warheads were not protected by the various mandatory security precautions for nuclear weapons.
Not really, the underlying structure of MacOS is BSD, which is also pretty much a free/libre system.

It's the Apple GUI on top that's 'one of the most closed and totalitarian systems'.

I've often suggested to the Softies that they 'do an Apple' and have the underlying structure of Windows be Linux, and just put the Windows GUI on top of that. They never listen. <grin>
On the other hand, the effort to brute force a 72-bit RC5 key continues...

https://stats.distributed.net/projects.php?project_id=8

https://www.distributed.net/RC5
This is a hot take, would love a link/explanation on why you think neural nets are human-like. For example, from the op Ed you’re likely referencing:

“ Their deepest flaw is the absence of the most critical capacity of any intelligence: to say not only what is the case, what was the case and what will be the case — that’s description and prediction — but also what is not the case and what could and could not be the case. Those are the ingredients of explanation, the mark of true intelligence.”

Isn’t that just plainly true of LLMs? Sure they can produce text that looks like an explanation, and sure putting in a header telling it to spell out its reasoning will get it to output text that looks like reasoning, but I feel the nature of its hallucinations make it clear that it’s not actually performing those steps anywhere in the net.

But maybe I’m just a Luddite? These technologies are amazing and transformative, I’m just shocked to see hate on HN of CHOMSKY of all people, the father of modern linguistics and cognitive science…
I like Debit Emmentaler better.
I’ve had a very different experience with email support. It is often clear from the reply that the person didn’t even read my email. I’ll often say, “I’ve already tried x as described in your online help and it gave me the following error: <copy/pasted text of the exact error message>.” Then I’ll get a reply, “You need to try x.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve responded to email customer support with “Did you even read what I wrote? As I said, I already tried that and it did not work.” It’s incredibly frustrating because it just feels like a delaying tactic, and you wait, sometimes another 24 hours (or more), before you get to the actual answer (if it comes at all).

I think what this says is that most customer support is just awful all around.
> The idea that all of us could together could crack RSA keys wasn't just a thought exercise, people signed up and did it.

Hasn’t changed that much. Here we are in 2023 where most of this distributed power goes to cracking sha 256 hashes. Just for speculation and profit instead of leaderboards.
AB5 has less to do with California dumping on small business, and more to do with bumping organized labor numbers. Labor, and I need to say I'm for generally for organized labor except with AB5. In this case, Uber drivers and other contractors were seen as a ripe target since total labor numbers are in a death spiral. So make these 1099 workers become W2 employees, and eligible to join a union. In practice nothing of the sort has happened, it's just killed thousands of careers, or folks have left CA.

The bigger court case was today in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which effectively adjudicated that carveouts to AB5 were arbitrarily made, which they were. Notably two of the three judges were appointed or blue-slipped by Democrats.

It's amazing given the havoc that AB5 has caused that this ghastly law hasn't been tossed, together with the CA Supreme Court Dynamex decision, in entirety. When crafting AB5, they were careful to exempt key constituencies and power brokers. If a federal court invalidates the carveouts, it's game over for AB5. Note that USDOL is trying to implement AB5 on a national scale with their proposed rule.
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> cheating/stealing weights by looking from the outside

What do you mean by this? Can you please elaborate.
Fantastic book. I've re-read it a few times.

It's also a great example of a book that's better than the movie. Way, way, way more depth and richness.
A house with a mortgage is encumbered by a lien, which must be removed before the title can be transferred. To remove the lien you must pay off the mortgage. To pay off the mortgage, someone else has to lend you money, and nobody is willing to lend money at 3% when the Fed funds rate is 4.5%.

The fee would be so large it wouldn’t be worth it, because it would cost the same as traditional refinancing at prevailing rates, there’s no way around refinancing in this scenario.
The issue is that chatgpt can’t reason together new information into a novel technical idea, only synthesize existing information (or hallucinate)
Honestly I don't read much about banks. What's wrong with CS now, and why is everyone in this thread suggesting they're bad actors?
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Does a chess engine “understand” the position? If you define “understanding” as the ability to think like a human then Stockfish is obviously much worse at that. If you define understanding as the ability to choose the correct move, then Stockfish understands the position much better than any human.

The point being, you can choose to laden the word “understand” with the meaning of human-like thinking, in which case humans will always be superior by definition. Or you can choose a “many ways to Rome” definition of understanding that is purely focused on results.

Large language models understand language in their own way. Currently their results are inferior to humans’ but one day the results may be superior.
As a kid I think it was Colgate who had a tagline of “We don’t make toothpaste for anyone else”, which utterly confused me at the time
I put an Apple air tag on my cat and when he goes missing I can see where he is on Apple Maps.
Perhaps Wager meant no one had seen the juvenile form.

Blanchard had a holotype of the moth only. [1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_49606_anewspeciesinthe...
Normal maps are more efficient than finely tessellated geometry on the GPU for a number of reasons:

- GPUs are bad at very fine/small triangles (think like <5 pixels per triangle) as the rasterization pipeline is not designed for triangles that small. It can actually be more efficient to rasterize in software in compute shaders when trying to render tiny triangles. For example, Unreal Engine's Nanite does this. You'd need crazy polygon density to match the visual look of normal maps, let alone parallax mapping.

- To get similar resolution to a normal map in geometry would take much more memory. Normal maps can be naively implemented with a 32 bits-per-pixel texture compared to geometry which will often be minimum 128-bits just for the vertex position, let alone the vertex normal, vertex tangent and texture coordinate. For the same memory footprint you would get less than a quarter of the effective detail using just geometry.

- Higher memory usage from the geometry would also increase the memory bandwidth needed to fetch the vertex attributes which will slow down the vertex transform stage further, beyond just needing to transform more vertices. Using too much memory bandwidth is an easy way to bottleneck yourself, a lot of work in modern renderers goes into finding ways to use less memory just so less data needs to be fetched from memory.

CPU never matters in normal mapping/parallax mapping or other techniques, it's never even in the pipeline for where this stuff is processed. It's all on the GPU. If it was cheaper to throw more geometry at the GPU then that's what would be done as normal maps and similar techniques all have very obvious flaws that finer geometry doesn't.
Bitcoin has nothing to do with "cracking SHA256 hashes", for what it's worth. The only thing remotely related is how it brute-forces inputs until it generates hashes that begin with a certain number of bits set to 0.
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Where does the risk / exposure to interest rates come from in this example? Intuitively the loan already exists, this would just be a bridge.
When debt is still collectible at maturity, what you really need is a bigger balance sheet to reach maturity....
> It's just that I find myself to also ask the exact same question GP asked. I don't know anything about farming, or JD or even if JD has a market dominant position. And it's interesting to wonder what we, as mostly-tech-focused people here in HN, are missing.

Sure, and it's a legitimate question. If the person I was responding to had merely asked a question, I wouldn't have posted what I did. But, he followed up with a statement which showed the question was rhetorical.
It's known that the United States provided secret aid to the French nuclear weapons program (seemingly) without actually delivering France a bomb. Seems unlikely that they would have gone further with another country.
Japanese hatchbacks are pretty comparable to the Fiesta.
He wrote an op ed recently with the oft-repeated argument that stochastic models are fundamentally distinct from structured symbolic/logical models. In simple terms you can never really “trust” chatgpt’s answers because it’s just guessing the answer that looks right, not applying structured reasoning like humans do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat...

But might be missing something more specific, would love to read that.
I called Xfinity the other day for a fried modem, and wanted a service technician to come out. Of course, they want to prevent that as much as possible. Anyway...

This led to a fun AI call when I insisted on getting a technician. Hearing "Let's try that again." over and over in an angry AI voice, was just the best.

She asks me to reboot, and I say technician. *Let's try that again. Please let me know when you've rebooted your Gateway.*
You could just as easily say that gigabit Ethernet isn't current, either. But gigE clearly isn't obsolete in the way a processor from the mid-2000s is obsolete, and likewise 802.11ac is still at least a few years away from being one of those radio standards that's so inefficient and outdated that it ought to be aggressively retired.