skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you've read a critique of social construction without actually reading much about social construction itself.

Social construction is an lens of interpretation in the toolkit of critical thinking. I like to frame it as an epistemological question that simply asks, "How do you know that?" It's extremely powerful when used against topics where people make claims that are "obvious", "reality", "truth", or even "science".

Science itself is an epistomological framework and subject to interpretation from other (meta-)epistomological frameworks eg: scientific examination of social construction is just as valid a pursuit as the social construction of science. In fact that latter, the social construction of science, is the umbrella from which we can examine the concept of IQ. We can talk about it in terms of constitutiveness, grounding, expert-novice problems, &c.

>There are thousand contradictory ways to interpret what “a social construct” means (see The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking), but the most important thing about that statement is that it allows a sociologist to say “it’s something I am an authority on”.

You're describing science. Science "allows" people to say "it's something I am an authority on." This is because it's an epistomological framework independent of the validity of the subject. That's what epistomological frameworks do.

> Would dismissing astrology be intellectually immature? I don’t think so.

We can absolutely talk about the social construction of astrology independent of the truth claims of astrology. I'm sure you can agree with me that there is a profound difference between the two.
I choose my words carefully. Is it a necessary phrase to make when discussing operating systems? Can you not see how it would be off-putting of a statement to make?

I would advise you refrain from putting words in my mouth.
Oh man, I've been bullish on AR/VR for years - but it never took off. I think the technology ( read: Hardware) just never reached the level of convenience one needed to make it go mainstream.
You seem to forget that Ukraine has hundreds of km of borders with NATO countries (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania). Refugees go out, military supplies go in. How would that happen in Taiwan.
Might have been Christmas Day. ;-)
Do we have different definitions of nothing?
What about using content defined chunking? Then inserting a few lines shouldn't cause all the subsequent chunks to shift
Ben Nadel: A Bit of Optimism: This Might Not Work
Ask HN: Where can I find a list of self-hosted LLMs?
I am playing about with open source self-hosted LLMs but can't find a definitive list. Do any exist?

Fwiw my project is comparing LLMs performance on Project Euler problems however so far I only have FLAN-T5 running locally (and it sucks at Project Euler, unless I'm using it completely terribly!) https://github.com/robopsychology/project-euler-llm
> You are misunderstanding your job. You are a subject expert and paid accordingly. Answer with what the unknowns are, an optimistic and pessimistic take on them, what you could do and how long it would take to lift them.

Add a small feature to an existing system. This estimate can be anywhere from several months to a day. Most of the error bars are org and system specific rather than anything to do with the feature. The exact same feature built by the same person in different orgs and different systems can be opposite ends of the range.

Seldom do people have the contextual understanding to provide an accurate narrow estimate, particularly since both org and system are in flux. They change constantly. Unseen landmines potentially await in both.

> If you don’t, your boss is going to ask you for exactly that in a roundabout way and micromanage you because you are forcing them to do your job.

And such orgs take forever to get anything done.

> It still baffle me than approximately half of developers don’t understand things which are obvious to any seasoned blue collar worker.

Software is probably the hardest kind of engineering you can do. All the system constraints are virtual. Just consider comparing a dirt ground for consistency and behavior vs libc... 304 stainless vs react.

You can go deep in both, but a shallow understanding of one takes you much much further than a shallow understanding of the other.
> Minimalist is not the opposite of complexity

Simple living actually works. I've tried it. Complexity is not your friend. But that doesn't mean I avoid complexity at all costs. After all I'm typing this on a computer which is the most complex possession I have.
Oddly absent from all this talk, aside from a short mention, is South Korea. If WW2 and the century before it is anything to go about, SK will get involved in this whether they like it or not.

Some say an attack on Taiwan is inevitable. If this is true, I think a conflict between the North and the South will also happen. Everybody would be busy in Taiwan and the South would be exposed from a distracted US.

The US would certainly want to use SK as a launch platform, and then Seoul would be a legitimate target for China (and thus NK). The gap between the Chinese and SK coast isn't that large. It's almost as if the least bad thing SK can do is declare neutrality and prevent the US from using their land. China would probably contain NK in exchange.

I certainly hope no conflict will break out, and I hope I'm wrong.
Another Catch-22 set of rules would take care of those logical quirks of diagnosis, if up against a really serious existential threat.

I wonder how many people would feel like they have to show up if you simply texted them personally, out of the blue, and put the country in a state of fear via the media.
I have some exciting news to share with you about our traditional financial markets.
... and here we are, people, the American SUV mindset wide open for all to see!

See the incredible myopic vision! The complete lack of tone awareness! An utter lack of sense of their surroundings!

All in one comment!

And the best thing: That's exactly how SUVs are driven! It's such a sublime comment.
I figured out the gh at one point. Gh used to be its own phoneme. It slowly phased out of spoken english and got replaced by semi-random similar sounding phonemes. This g(h)/ch phoneme still exists in dutch and german though, and once you know about it you start finding a lot of cognates between the languages!
There is even a SML that does not use a GC* but instead does "region based" memory mangement.

https://elsman.com/mlkit/about

*most of the time.
The thing is that everything is ultimately meaningless. Maybe you’re 5 or 6 levels removed, maybe it’s only 1 level removed but it’s still meaningless.

Work _creates_ meaning. It doesn’t have to and you’re free to not find satisfaction in your work, but you get to choose. There is no creature that lives without work. Why should any of us be otherwise?

My post probably isn’t going to convince you but read some Marcus Aurelius or another stoic and maybe they will.
This is a 2023 article walking through the process for installing Mac OS 9.1, as a point of comparison to modern day macOS updates.
Two Professors Emeritus from my alam mater, the Technion - one from EE, the other from CS (Prof. Ziv). I distinctly remember noticing them in the old group photos of the first few graduating cohorts of the B.Sc. in CS.

In Hebrew (or rather Aramaeic) we say:

חבל על דאבדין ולא משתכחין

A pity due to those who absent and not present.
I really believe in AI-as-an-assistant to every job being used by a billion people in the next 5-10 years.
DeFI cannot coexist with either OFAC or AML in the picture.

Those are the fundamental roots of money as a top-down control mechanism. Those functions alone are responsible for making the finance sector a de-facto extension of the United States Government and an effective extension of Law Enforcement.
All I was really getting at was that it sapped the love (and money) out of the job, like the OP was suggesting for them and Midjourney. Once your art/talent has become something that either the common person or a machine can do, your only option as a career is to move on and diversify. It’s unfortunate, but has been happening for decades in all industries. Anyway, just sharing my experience of it happening to me.
I can relate to almost everything you wrote (bar the fan). I hate car noises and ambulances/fire brigade cars. Here they additionally honk all the time which is additionally maddening.

I can't wait to move out, which hopefully happens soon.
too lazy to look it up right now but VE against infection was around 60-80% within 4 months of taking the shot
Can I switch to a different window manager, because I really don't like the default in macos - specifically a tiling WM.
Bitcoin is trading at 28k. When the dollar is endlessly printed, all you need to do is not sell your bitcoin and eventually you'll come out ahead. Because the dollar supply is infinite, it is not zero-sum.
> You have no idea if the alternative code you would have written would have been idiomatic or had some critical flaw.

But I have a feeling for both, which is one of the key components of the skill in our trade.

For idionmatic code, I know the degree to which I'm following how things "should" be done or are "usually" done in a given language. If I'm uncertain, I know that. GPT won't tell me this. Worse, it will confidently claim things, possibly even if presented with evidence to the contrary.

For critical flaws, I know the "dark corners" of the code. Cases which were not obvious to handle or required some trick, etc. I'll test those specifically. With GPTs code, I have no idea what the critical cases are. I can read the code and can try to guess. But it's like outsourcing writing tests to a QA department. Never donna be as effective as the original author of the code. And if I can't trust GPT to write correct code, I can't trust it to write a good test for the code. So, neither the original author of the code (GPT) nor somebody external (me) will be able to test the result properly
Snow Leopard came with a certain ethos that I think was very appreciated: there were few feature changes and no aesthetic changes, but all the work went into the "under the hood" systems, lowering the memory footprint and preparing for the transition to all 64-bit everything. It was one of the rare times that a software company released a new major version with no consumer-apparent changes except for increased speed and efficiency. HN's audience might have a soft spot for that sort of thing.
If America bails on Ukraine, as some politicians want, it will be a signal for everyone on this planet: you're on your own good luck.

At that point you have two options: conciliate with the baddies or arm yourself. Including nuclear weapons- even Japan is rethinking it's stance on nuclear proliferation.
This is nothing new really Europe was a war torn continent for a thousand years.
> We've seen Google - it organized the world's information.

Which quickly devolved into nickel-and-diming AD placement above all other metrics. Their search engine is basically a giant shop now.
Oh neat. I’ve been using Notes extensively since the beginning of this year. Daily journaling. Personal TODO lists, grocery list (shared w my wife), and gym/workout tracking.

It works really well and has way more features than people realize. If you’re looking for like a “Notion-lite”, the answer might already be on your phone/MacBook.
A system that has produced 25 million millionaires in the US alone is doing a bad job of scamming people out of money.
I haven't seen a lot of evidence yet that SVB was necessarily pursuing a risky strategy. Certainly, proceeding at all without a risk manager is risky in and of itself. However, the "risky" investments that I have heard described thus far are mostly treasury securities. They simply had too many for a time horizon too far out. There is no bank right now that could withstand a withdrawal rate of nearly 50% of total assets in a single day.
Personally I don't use for these main reasons:
- zypper is very slow, and unlike DNF there is no way to make it fast
- docker doesn't offer an external/official repo for it, you can use Podman but you are stuck to the officially shipped version
- support lifecycle is kind of weird
Firstly I think the most important thing in engineering is nothing is free. If you change a parameter in your design something else has got to give. If you increase the cargo capacity of a plane it is probably going to have a slower cruising speed. The hard part is finding the sweet spot that exactly fits the requirements of the client or use case. And also! now a dosen of other parameters have shifted to, like weight balance or climbing rate. How do these fit in?

Now for software, let's say you have two clients with almost identical requirements for a piece of Software. The only difference being one of them thinks time to market is important, the other one has less focus on time. As a software engineer you should produce two very different pieces of Software for these clients. You will have to make decisions based on the time it will take to implement something and also understand the effects of this on other aspects of the end product.
> But what is violence to you?

The way the US supreme court interprets the 1st amendment is a good bar.

In the US, direct violent threats, and things that are likely to cause imminent lawless action can be illegal, and most everything else is allowed.

Almost all speech, in the US, is protected, and there are only a couple, pretty specific and rare situations where people get in trouble for speech.

That's a good metric, and solves all the stuff that you brought up in the rest of the post, where you pretend like this is a question that hasn't been discussed to death, and solved, in conversations surrounding the 1st amendment, already.

So whatever the 1st amendment protects right now, is a great metric for what should be allowed.
Don't confuse the US before the collapse of the soviet union and now. There is a reason it is in the position it is - it actually did stuff countries liked such as rebuilding the world after WWII. When the soviet union collapsed the US needed to pivot - instead a bunch of inept politicians have been doing expedient nothings for 30 years.
If a byte takes 15 minutes, your latency is the time of flight plus 15 minutes.
None of those factors establish a fundamental market price for the dollar - you're simply listing the price of admission for any state-backed currency.

The dollar has declined in value by over 90% since 1933. By your metrics that must mean that the US is in catastrophic meltdown, but of course it isn't.
Among other things it prevents hydrogen engines, or green gas produced from Sabatier process. It's silly
They were never particularly pro-crypto. When miners were buying GPUs by the pallet load Nvidia was publicly downplaying mining and saying GPUs were for gaming.
> http://toastytech.com/evil/index.html

Now that's a blast from the past... these days, everything is in the cloud, so we have server-side evil rather than client-side evil :-P
Apart from magic internet money, I cannot figure out any other way in which to "make myself heard".

Oh there are lots of ways, you just have to accept that many people's first response to noticing your existence will be to get mad at you.
This is a great set of examples for showing off how current chatbot AIs have impressive capabilities but are also prone to getting important details wrong.

For instance:

1. The description it gives of how to generate a Shepard tone is wrong; to make a Shepard tone, you need to modulate _frequency_, not (or not only) amplitude.

2. The Shepard tone it generates is also wrong, but in a different way. For instance, there's no bass at the end matching the bass at the beginning, so it can't be looped to create the illusion of infinite ascending motion.

3. The "Game of Life QR code" isn't actually playing the Game of Life in a way that results in a QR code. It looks like it's starting with a QR code and playing the game of life, then time-reversing the result; so you see the Game of Life running "backward" until you get to the QR code as an initial state. I say "seems like" because I can't be confident it hasn't made any mistakes. This _may_ be what the author intended by "working backwards"? But I took that to mean that it should "work backwards" by first finding a state S that stepped to the QR code, then finding a state S' which stepped to S, etc; so that you'd have a run of the game of life ending in a QR code. This would involve actual search, and there are patterns which simply cannot be achieved this way (have no predecessors).

4. The planet orbit simulation seems to have all planets in circular orbits, rather than elliptical. For Earth this is probably unnoticeable, but Mars' orbit varies from 1.38 AU to 1.67 AU - quite noticeably elliptic - but appears circular in the "simulation".

etcetera, etcetera. There are also plenty of "obvious" glitches in the graphics simulations, but those concern me less - precisely because they're obvious.
> I fail to see how those aren't examples of how this technology benefits society.

Can you list examples of how it has helped society as a whole? Nothing you listed has anything to do with helping society. You've listed things you think are good things, but nothing is a society wide benefit. Building on top of Bitcoin or Etherium is great and all... But how does that help the average person? I've seen no trickle down or benefits from crypto that are anything but pure speculation akin to sports gambling.
Just checked Refinitiv (which is CNBC's source), they are all there...

It's not free to calculate marketing pricing you know... Pay for it...
Thanks for making your app. I’ve used it more than once and it works well. Many export solutions don’t handle attachments but yours does. So kudos for that.

A few years ago I tried to write my own exporter using AppleScript but got stuck by a showstopping bug in Notes AppleScript implementation. Or so it seemed. I hope that bug is fixed now. I just moved on to use your app instead.
I've found YouTube kids content to be significantly worse than general YouTube content. Not to say that there isn't a lot of content inappropriate for kids on YouTube, but the Kids version is explicitly designed to target kids with addictive content. The advertisers targeting children for their products is brutal on YouTube Kids. Since pushing my kids onto the full YouTube, they are consuming better content.
The old hegemony is already on its way out or this re-armament and re-militarization wouldn't be happening. You're literally getting your wish.

Now everyone is going to have to survive the aftereffects of the resulting power vacuum.
Or a high speed link with all the submarines. It's really hard to communicate with a submarines hundreds of metres under water as radio waves don't go through that much water.
why? short and long-term memory is really easy to do. Even my own basic assistant has it (running on fine-tuned curie model)
Modern AI is less than ten years old. Digital money is older than crypto.

PyTorch: Initial release
September 2016; 6 years ago

Tensorflow: Initial release
November 9, 2015; 7 years ago

> In 1983, a research paper titled "Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments" by David Chaum introduced the idea of digital cash.

> The first artificial neural network was invented in 1958 by psychologist Frank Rosenblatt.

In the limit, the dates don't really matter. I'd wager both fields have had roughly the same human capital afforded to them - I'd be happy to be shown otherwise.

Neural networks really only had a scaling problem to overcome, and most people knew it. What's the technical problem with crypto?
Secure private chat is about not being heard.
> "I'm gonna someday" is not "addressing" the complaint that things aren't documented, other than to make an excuse.

By acknowledging a complaint as valid I'm kind of addressing it. :-) Some things are real problems that I don't have the time to fix quickly. I can either make promises that I can't keep or be open about this. From time to time someone gets inspired to help.

> "It's not Clojure specific" is immediately followed by "so there are some protocol responses that people had to reverse-engineer that are tightly coupled to Clojure metadata".

That's a side-effect of under-specification in the protocol and it's mostly related to the names of keys in the responses. The data itself is quite generic, but the names of the keys came from Clojure terminology and in some cases it might be better to change them. Not a big deal for sure, but rather an area for small improvement.

> "We added the other serializer options much later and almost nobody uses them so we must have made the right decision" - there's a huge amount of conceptual inertia when there's a default; the only thing this observation supports is that the default isn't _unpleasant enough_ to compel users to switch.

Perhaps that's just inertia indeed. From my perspective if something is really needed/much better it tends to get used. I can only speculate at this point why the new serializes didn't take off.

Hopefully this follow-up makes my responses a little bit less odd.
Own implementation of MSVCRT.DLL (C library - just C90) and KERNEL32.DLL (subset) too, that do 32-bit MSDOS-like calls.
How exactly does this not end with doom for something like GPT-6 or GPT-7?
You are an agent probing things. Probe all the things.
Annoyed, I'd say, but it's okay. You want to talk about something else than what I was talking about. I cannot follow you there.
Nvidia has (essentially) 100% market share in ML and 50% greater market share than AMD in desktop/gaming[0].

First, a top of the line card like the 4090 blows away everything else in terms of perf. Second, it (and other Nvidia hardware) is actually usable for something other than driving a display/gaming.

In the end a 30% (or whatever) premium for cards that offer better performance and can actually do stuff results in the obvious (buy Nvidia).

Nvidia isn't angry about anything.

[0] https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/amd_s_gpu_market_s...
Taking initiatives to protect your life from government meddling seems to track.
> What was wrong with Linus’ screen that couldn’t be fixed and how did switching to Linux fix it?

I remember this incident so I can elaborate.

While Apple is known for "consumer premium" hardware, they have not necessarily been leading on anything. They source premium hardware from a few generations ago and mass produce it and market it at "consumer premium" prices.

When Linus was trying to find a replacement for his older Macbook, he was unimpressed by the screen resolution and quality went with a Dell XPS 15 Developer Edition instead. This was around 2015.
Isn't this public information anywy?
Reading the comments have made me wonder: how much editing can one do and keep the author's association?

How does reusing the author's name, changing their work, work? Are groups able to republish under an author's name because the author sold their name rights? Or is it something else?

If so, how much can the owner change and still attribute to the author? Could they write a whole new book and put Agatha Christie as the author? What if they just "edit" the current book with 100% new contents? Or 50%? Where does editing end and writing begin?
I find the lack of updated views on computers astonishing?

I work with a lot of different people with a lot of different operating systems.

Today, for most people and their needs, Linux is an EASIER operating system to deal with than Mac Os OR Windows.

As much as I would love to credit the amazingness of Linux, it's mostly because a lot of people can do everything they need in a browser + a few basic apps.
Cryptocurrencies enable people to do so much more than speculate on price and trade pictures of apes.

https://cryptome.org/ap.htm

https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_org...

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/09/crypto-remittances-are-a-l...