skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you & appreciate that prose is an art & craft in itself.

Prose, iconography, pictures, spoken word, voice inflection, body language, etc were the only games in town before the advent of computers. Now we have algorithms, graph data structures, set logic, as tools to work with information. Prose can be analyzed using NLP, but it is verbose, full of throwaway words, & the expression of scoped intent of meaning can be improved.

One major weakness of prose is the difficulty of gauging breadth & completeness of expression. When writing software, it is easier to perceive if a program is incomplete. Compilers, type systems, automated tests, & runtime errors guard against bugs or issues with syntax or logic.

It is more difficult to parse the prose to understand if all of the essential pieces of information (i.e. logical premises followed to their conclusion) is present in the document. If a conversation is started about a document pointing out missing logic or a fallacy, it is difficult to counter a chain of reason other than quoting phrases & responding to those phrases, possibly taking the phrases out of context. There is also a trend toward rivalrous attention dynamics in online conversations. If you look at Hacker News, many of the threads repeat each other & the disagreements quickly turn into bickering. Such patterns of conversation could even be identified with simple algorithms with can be open.

A graph data structure allows the context to be transmitted so if a phrase in a graph is quoted, the context comes along with it. If the phrase is separated from the contextual graph, the meaning changes. An assertion or counter assertion could be tested using Set logic. Phrases are less likely to be taken out of context, diminishing strawmen. The full breadth of unique points can also be aggregated. I think tooling with expressions being in a graph would also disincentivize bickering & rivalrous attention dynamics.

The cool thing about writing software is that one participates in the trend of evolved tooling of expression. Whether it's writing a library, creating a program or app, writing a language, an experiment of expression is conducted.
Agreed, I actually agree with the judge here (even though I disagree with her rulings and behaviour otherwise):

> she added, asserting that asking him about the memo on the stand would be “designed for media consumption and not for any great search for the truth.”

It really is press fodder that will get 10x the attention of their buddy-buddy relationship between regulator and admissions office. The fact they were close friends and having lunch together regularily seems like a bigger story and a serious conflict of interest that gets glossed over to focus repeatedly on the joke memo + the judges reaction. The memo may have some minor relevance to the case for credibility attacks but this case is about much more than an individual DOE regulator's personality (especially considering it was the gov official not the Harvard guy who wrote it).

But I guess the Streisand Effect cancels this out regardless.
The only value Docker Hub offers is that Docker refuses to make Docker consume non-Docker Hub image sources conveniently.

Remove Docker vendor lock-in and what you are left with is: Docker Hub offers the value of being able to serve static files over HTTPS.
I think that's true when the source is first written. But # of devs only ever goes up during maintenance lifecycle, while loc may not change much.
The partner can sell arms on a loan. There's a million of possible arrangements.
it’s like “world peace”
I feel like I'm witnessing another moment where HN gets stuck on its own ability to play devils advocate or be the "Technically..." crowd.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959843/

Speaking as an American, the reason we're here is because people have had too much sugar, fat, and salt shoved down their throats. From Kool Aid having over 50% of daily sugar per serving while being labeled as a good source of vitamin C. Lucky Charms touting iron and magnesium while also having an over abundance of sugar. Because companies like Post write shit like this:

"Sweet Dreams cereal is made with delicious and wholesome ingredients, a nighttime herbal blend of lavender and chamomile, and curated vitamins and minerals like Zinc, Folic Acid and B vitamins to support natural melatonin production. "

This is a dessert that's being sold as a health product. It's a piece of an ongoing problem. Yes there's people who can eat before bed, yay for them and their awesome bodies (or sad for them if they're those real but not at all the norm people who can't gain weight no matter how much they eat and wish they could bulk up), unhealthy eating is a problem and this stuff isn't helping.
Nestlé is the company that bribed hospitals in poor countries to tell new mothers that their artificial milk was better than breast milk.

Once they had been on the bottled milk they can't go back to breast milk so when they leave the hospital the mothers are forced to buy the artificial milk.

Many of them can't afford it so the babies starve to death.

This is what the corporation you trust has done. Literally killing babies for profit.
A good and quick video summary of the paper[1], which surprised me as to the extent to which LLMs like GPT-4 have advanced:

'Sparks of AGI' - Bombshell GPT-4 Paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35301376

The paper shows that GPT-4 can use tools and assemble results into an answer, solve Leetcode mediums (and a few hards) and even an IMO 2022 problem, generate full code for a video game based on a high-level description, and display a theory of mind (modeling what others are thinking). This is pretty amazing (and frankly frightening) progress, questions of consciousness aside (which seems unlikely).

I imagine directly connecting these LLMs with a logico-mathematically-specialised neural network (or enabling two-way communication with the latter using symbolic language) would open up the range of their problem-solving capabilities, which currently stumble on certain technical procedures and forward/backward planning. Think of how math coprocessors were added to early microcomputer CPUs.

Then, giving an LLM motivations without sufficient aligning for safety could really be opening up Pandora's Box. A neural network might not be wired up to robotic devices that it could use to manipulate things in the real world, but it communicates with humans. Such an LLM might try to persuade humans to do things according to its (programmed or otherwise) motivations, things that we might not really want.

[1] Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
> With DNS, blocking would mean making the whole site unavailable.

The site is still available, just not through its DNS entry.

> With their IPFS gateway they are just filtering individual items.

They can filter as broadly or as targeted as they want.
A diabetic coma is caused by a lack of blood sugar. Sugary cereal would certainly not cause it, at least in the short term.
Eschew labels, be yourself, be free.
The SEC doesn’t have to help a company which is actively skirting the law to craft its legal strategy. They do have to provide evidence to a court when they file an enforcement action. That’s how laws work.
<< Is that a real question?

I am genuinely curious how a person reconciles two seemingly opposing views:

"It gives everyone a guaranteed weekly timeslot to spend time together."

where everyone is everyone except:

"except restaurants, attractions, hospitality and essential services".

I could easily give in on essential services, because a lot will ride on how broadly they are defined, but if the goal is 'family cohesion' building for everyone then as few groups should be excluded as possible ( which also means that businesses that people, who usually have even less leisure time than most of us -- restaurants, attractions, hospitality -- can recharge ).

I will be honest. For me it the line drawing always tends to be the most interesting piece, because it tends to indicate what the individual really values. In this case, and this is not a shot, because it is very human thing to do, they value 'their family cohesion' and 'their ability to participate in various leisure activities' over those who have to serve them, while they bond with their loved ones.

For the record, the line listed by parent is not unreasonable, but can you give me an argument as to why it is not amazingly selfish way of looking at society ( Sunday for me, but not for thee ).
firing hellfire missiles is insanely expensive

Mass production can change that! The more we use on pigs, the less per unit!
Education does not equal intelligence though. I know educated people who are not half as intelligent as my uncle, who really is not that educated.
It feels like swift went into an evolutionary arms-race against csharp and typescript.
Switching from common law to civil law systems should fix a lot of that up. This wouldn't be possible, considering the amount of law that would need to be written to replace an existing common law system but it's an interesting thought experiment.
If you ever live with a parrot long enough, you'll realize they're really little feathered dinosaurs and start to imagine many of their behaviors aren't too far off from their extinct relatives.

I've had a couple for over a half a decade and they surprise me with their intelligence and their behaviors every day. Decided they might be the pet for me after studying birds in the wild for many years before that.

That said, they're also a handful and don't suggest anyone adopt or buy one on a whim. They tend to latch onto one person. In my case, they love my wife more than me, but we're still "bros". That means they stop caring about attention from me as soon as she walks into the room. It's a little annoying, but that's just the way they are with bonding to a mate for life.

Many parrot rescues will let you foster one for a while, just to get an idea if they're the kind of companion you would want long term
Didn't we all learn of the dangers of poppy seeds in that very special episode of Seinfeld?

How could the hospital possibly not know about the false positives?
MET: Mission Elapsed Time, HH:MM:SS, from liftoff. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.step.html @ 109:24:23
only if they are boring, which probably is good feedback about the job.
> "underlying differences in the attributes” of Asian Americans

But doesn't this mean that AAs were on average less interesting people, or whatever the personal score is trying to judge?

How can that be true?

It seems so much more likely to me that admissions officers understood that if AAs got similar personal scores to other groups then AAs would be overrepresented, and so the admissions officers (implicitly or explicitly) scored more them more harshly.
What’s the problem? With more investment, there is more clean fresh water, which is (directly or indirectly) good for all. The more water a golf course can recycle or reclaim, the less drinking water it siphons.
Truth is though, I often skip logging calories because it's a PITA to do it. I have to scan the package, but I already threw the package away or it's dirty or covered in blood. I have to weigh things, but the food scale is in the other room, and I already mixed the ingredients. It's just a lot of extra steps to log calories using the currently available apps; I don't think I've ever logged a meal with less than 20 clicks. Removing small annoyances like this is what good apps are made of.
Why do we collectively put up with this anti-democratic shit?

The entire back and forth between the judge and the reporter was just totally irresponsible and shows the Judge's lack of dedication to the principles of a free and informed society. That alone should be worth disbarment.

I think it's because everyone secretly just wants in on the scam, and thinks that they are cunning enough to get their hand stamped if they do the right set of actions.
never buy an ATV from Amazon, obviously

But sir, it says "SMART DEALS NOW". Are you sure one shouldn't buy?
Those schools are also where most of cutting edge research happens. And that’s why the folks who go there have such strong networks and an in-crowd mentality.

I am trying my hand at networking and I find that I get ghosted like 80% of the time when people I talk to from these backgrounds find out I’m not as qualified on paper.
You're going to learn a lot of skills on the way to your goal.

The good news being anything you work on will look good on a resume.

Overall don't know how many months of rent/food budget you can cover and so no one here can really answer how much risk to take.

Good luck!
"A higher number of those billionaires, Nobel prize winners, and political leaders in the US went to elite schools like Harvard and Yale."

Again, any numbers on that?

"not because they are the smartest, but because having an elite school degree unlocks opportunities"

Or did they go to an elite school because they already came from money, which is the true source of those opportunities.
How is this still a problem with drug tests? This has been happening for decades now.
> But it seems to be working out for them.

I'd say this pressure to monetize more of their services shows it's not working all that well.
As they freaking should. I can't get their export of tax data to line up for the cost basis vs the gains there were random nulls in it and I don't know how to fix it. All the crypto I had was bought on Coinbase, and it doesn't know the cost basis.
What are the figures by year? Is 2021 an outlier?
> The minimum IQ required to graduate college (and even some masters degrees) with decent grades can’t be much more than 100 at this point, but was certainly more like 115 or even 120 in the 1950s.

Sounds like you're just making this up. Have any studies on this or something not anecdotal?
If there are no factual errors, then reliable citations should be easy enough to provide.

I'd like to see the study that says no one (that is, 0.00% of the population) needs to eat much in the morning, let alone several hundred calories before lunch.

I wonder if the tallest person alive agrees? Or manual laborers who skip lunch? Or Jonas Scott, a man who has a damaged GI tract?

No medical or dietary benefit to "eating much of anything" before lunch? For anybody on the planet? Please think critically.
Roger Penrose is a remarkable mathematician and has made profound contributions to mathematics and its application to General Relativity. But his opinions on Quantum Mechanics, (e.g., its relationship with conscience) are very fringe, when not outright quack-material. Nobody takes him seriously on this topic and he has made no recognizable contribution or proved anything that would grant any credibility to the idea.

Sabine Hossenfelder is a peculiar character. She raises some good points regarding the futility of a lot of the phenomenological models that are published, in my mind they are little more than busy-work to have something to publish and survive the publish or perish attrition that researchers must endue. And she is right that is not the way to do science. It's a form of overfitting and throwing things to the wall in the hope something sticks. But this is mostly due to publish or perish. Discovering something deep is very difficult and if you have to have several publications per year to renew your contract you have strong incentives to build a silly toy model with little chances of being right. But the problem lies in the incentives that have been set up in academia. Remove them and most of those silly publications will disappear. But then it's hard to establish a different set of incentives that ensure those that most deserve funding get it. Beyond that fair criticism it's hard to understand what she proposes as an alternative. She doesn't bring anything constructive to the table. Pack it up and de-fund physics until our technical means allows us to probe the Planck scale?

There is certainly an argument to be made on how much funding different sciences should receive given their potential contribution to society. And I see a lot of low hanging fruits in other sciences that would grant most funding going there. But theoretical physicists cost pennies to our society; they are few, poorly paid, and require little more than pen and paper. At the same time, theoretical physicists have contributed to this date immensely valuable contributions that make our developed world possible. It's my perhaps biased opinion that they have had the most outsized impact into our progress. It's sensible capital allocation to keep some funding in the chance they keep changing our lives for the better as profoundly as they have done in the past.

There is this apocryphal quote that summarizes it quite well, it is said that William Gladston (british minister of finance) asked Michael Faraday what was the usefulness of this electromagnetic field he was researching. To which Faraday purportedly answered, "I don't know, sir, but one day you may be able to tax it". Even if this particular exchange didn't happen, it contains a very valuable truth, when you are researching the frontiers of science the practical application is not always obvious but that shouldn't deter us from doing it.
I think there’s a tendency to self-describe as an X and start throwing around the lingo of X, to stave off concerns that we don’t really know what’s going on under the hood. Fake it ‘till you make it.

Personally I have an aggressively bad brain for lingo, so I try to get people to describe what they want in little words. If actually describing what they want in easily understood terms just happens to clarify things, well that’s a nice side effect!
Maybe, maybe not.
Could also be read as the very real racism / discrimination of East Asians towards Southeast Asians. Especially a white collar educated East Asian vs a more recently immigrated working class Southeast Asian family.

Analogy would be a white guy named Bob Smith working a fancy office job, living in Manhattan making jokes about slack jawwed Cletus the farmer from Alabama.
No. All I am saying is that multiple strange coincidences happens all the time, just a collection of many many coincidences, and bodies missing or charred beyond recognition, whistle blower deaths [0]. Move along, nothing to see here.

Coincidences like speeches getting cut out at the parliament when a opposition party member was speaking, no malice at all, just a well timed 'technical error'[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haren_Pandya#2002_Gujarat_riot...

[1] https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/amid-uproar-in-parliament-co...

In a land where COVID deaths gets recorded on certificates as anything but COVID, you call for evidence ? That is so ... 90s pre-truth.
The SEC can't declare everything a security, then enforce it without providing evidence or guidance to companies trying to be regulated, and then further make videos on twitter declaring that it's as easy as signing a form to be regulated (lying).

I've seen you before in threads and I know you have a giant anti crypto slant, but try to use some logic and not just cower when you see government acronyms without questioning them
legitimately speaking there is no there there or anywhere with crypto but do you know what is everywhere with crypto?

scams.

here, there, everywhere, non stop ads trying to get you involved into the next crypto grift.

I am so elated it is all completely coming to an end.
Rock Band guitars used hall-effect switches on the strum bar, and even used only as a switch I can assure you from experience that while the magnets might have effectively longer lifespans than the rest of the components, they only work as well as, well, the rest of the components.

A hall-effect sensor on a mass-manufactured gamepad or joystick is still only as good as the gaskets, diaphragms, and bearings. If a pot for positioning is dying on a stick before the buttons, throttles/trim levers, etc., that seems to be an indictment of the pot's quality more than anything. For instance on the Switch joycons, hall-effect sensors in theory might've reduced stick drift, but if oil and crumbs and junk are falling into the electronics because the diaphragm sucks, the sensor's the least of your problems.

Hall-effect sensors are great for DIY sticks, though, just for the granularity you get for free and the ability to use off-the-shelf magnets for any config. Even then I still see a lot of pots in DIY designs just for the relative simplicity of the signal.
I found Horizon EDA more intuitive. The developer is also really responsive.

https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> Automobile were faster or equivalent to horses (even early 1s).

The automobile was invented in 1885, but didn't replace the horse until the 1910s.
500. Downvote button I think is available for first few hours of comment.
> Fewer puff pieces on zelensky has the opportunity cost of fewer peices tearing down putins legitimacy. There can truly be no neutrality.

You seriously think uncritical puff pieces on Zelenskyy undermine Russias legitimacy?
The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI
It’s definitely worth including the full quote and discussing what it means.

“Congress shall have Power . . . To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”

Part of the intent behind the law is to promote the sciences and the arts through these exclusive rights. The idea is that creators will have an economic incentive to create, because they’ll have some protection from copiers. The idea was not primarily to promote culture by releasing works into the public domain. This framework acknowledges both means of promotion, the short term protection of profits, combined with the long term acknowledgement that society will benefit from works becoming public after some time. So it is trying to be fair to both authors and to the greater social good, and it requires deciding & balancing what the term length should be.
Also news flash to folks in these threads, the rest of the world is pretty much on board with crypto and making pretty big advancements. Whether people like it or not, this is here and it's staying (by definition you can't shut down things like Bitcoin).

We either catch up as a country and allow innovation or we lost a pretty big future position.
You're not getting it - I'm putting forward that the act is the same regardless of the intention.

You're exposing the same level of vulnerability whether you give it to a border guard, the cops, or your nurse in hospital.

It's fundamentally the same action and same vulnerability, papering it over with "you can trust this particular system" means nothing - the act is the act.
Mind sharing couple of examples? For me it's more natural to do custom headers stuff on webserver's side.

Disclaimer: looking from sysadmin's POV.
That's too broad of a statement to say with confidence
Say, I left them with a friend and there's an accident, I'm still expecting to be contacted for Allergies and Medical History, and so I can make my way there

Having lived in a really unsafe enviroment, there's too many variables that people who live in safe places take for granted, Have you ever been followed by a car? or have you had a family member kidnapped?
Calling the right person (Because local LEO wouldn't do enough until an actual crime had taken place, has saved me and my family more than once)
> Not a single interviewee has even had a good guess in 2 years of open job recs.

Unless a good explanation is an insta-offer, why do you still ask a question you've gotten zero signal from?
The annoying part is that it can be connected to OpenAI service and Azure infrastructure by a fragile API, full of security vulnerabilities. And then we can have smart malware in Azure.

So an experiment like that is best done in air-gapped hardware, with Bluetooth and WiFi physically removed.

On the other hand, maybe we should experience this now, in the open, as a wake up call.