skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How about reporting back once you’ve convinced a billion people to change their habits?

For better or worse they’ll be forced out of their habits against their wishes because the economic physics just doesn’t work. Unless of course they are ready and willing to go to war and to exterminate populations for resources.

Ideally we avoid a lot of that by just building sidewalks and planning now, but to your point - can’t convince people. Who moved my cheese? Boomer central, etc.
Here is something that may be of use. When someone sends you or hands you a contract, read it. If they hand you a contract and expect you to sign it on the spot either ask to look at it overnight or sit down and read it in the spot. Anyone who expects you to sign something without reading it should feel shady.

Read it with a pen in hand. You are allowed to change things in a contract. People often give you things as pdfs or paper with the implication that you shouldn’t make any changes. If you don’t understand something in the contract you may just want to cross it out.

It’s true that many contracts are take it or leave it deals, but you never know until you try. And you want to know where you stand. Also the back and forth leads to a lot of clarification. Always be very polite.

Get your own copy of the signed document.

All of this applies to employment offers, leases, work for hire, etc. IANAL
We hung out more, too, but that's because we were young and had fewer responsibilities. Now we're old and a bunch of us have kids or parents to take care of, jobs with varying hours, and we often had to move for our or our spouses' jobs.

We can bemoan these facts but I don't think it's accurate to blame screens or the internet. If anything the internet has made it easier to stay in touch despite the aforementioned life changes.
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A couple of suggestions to help you get started, that aren't in the manual...
Sorry if this is spammy but I run a BASIC discord for all variants here

https://discord.gg/Sm2UBQqB9u

Jump in especially if you've had a chance to work in ugbasic to chat about it.
> how many people are running 7 year old androids

Ironically, me.

I changed the battery last year, it costed me 13$ (~12 euros), it is as good as new.

Now it might be that my Android phone is Chinese as well, so it actually costed me less than 10¢ a day. Even if I had to replace my Android smartphone, I could have changed it 3 times in the past 7 years and still spend less than buying an iPhone that lasted me 7 years.

I could still easily sell it for 30-40 euros, making it even cheaper.
There will be two groups of people: those who figure out how to use AI to their benefit and those who don't
This is about a university, not the NSA. Sure, there are other security measures you need to take (known botnets etc.) but a blanket ban on all outgoing network traffic? That's just excessive.

This isn't the first post the author has made about their university's network infrastructure. The HTTP/3 issues start being named years back.

The university, as an organisation, doesn't seem to want to move away from the old way of doing networking. There's no indication this is a "we have to hotfix it for now because our new systems are done in 2030" network, and every indication that they're stretching their current design for as long as it'll hold.

Even if they're doing this for security reasons, the days of unsecured bastions with a strict firewall around them, as suggested by their latest infrastructure blog post, are long gone. I highly doubt security is the reason the university can't move on.

With no migration plans as far as I can see, they're setting themselves up for failure again when HTTP/4 inevitably comes around, or when strict networking peculiarities cause the next QUIC/HTTP3/TLS 1.3 bug the author will have to dive into and figure out.
What an unexpected mechanism
War is not COVID-19 with bunch of anti-vaxxers running around.

Twitter can't possible tell what is misinformation in a war.
#embed is what I really want. And separators.

> Standard C advances slowly

They're not joking, either. C is conservative to a fault, I think.
Is it though?

I grew up in the Bay Area listening to “Live 105” the local Alt-Rock station. It doesn’t even exist anymore. There’s maybe one station on the dial that caters to a demographic younger then 40.

I’m not sure radio is still relevant for anyone under the age of 30.
I disagree to an extent. I know people on WIC, TANF, etc. who get subsidized internet, discounted property taxes, etc. Almost all of the ones I know game the system to their advantage one way or another.

I see people stop working because they'd rather not deal with others when they already have their needs met - I have no problem with this.

I see people who continuously pop more kids to keep the gravy train running - this is an issue.

I have seen people sell the products (a lot of it is food) they get for free and people who sell the vouchers because they already have too much; this to me is an issue too.

I see people who lie all of the time to get benefits they wouldn't qualify for otherwise; literally millionaires lying to get free stuff from the government.

I don't have a big social circle but it seems everyone I come into contact with is on the take and sucking hard on the government teat.

I think the approach needs to be more holistic and consider all of the different programs people qualify for - between WIC/TANF most people will get more food than they can consume. I think they should be nontransferable (maybe it already is, I don't understand how people end up selling them) and I don't think they should be progressive. Means-testing should be ended and everybody should qualify for these programs.
As I read it, this is the stuff which is already getting past such filters.
I visualized this codebase here: https://codeatlas.dev/github/codeatlasHQ/the-algorithm/main

Maybe this is helpful to anyone for navigating what's in there!
Are there objective standards for being rich?

The best I can do is: you're rich if you don't have to work to maintain your lifestyle. Anything else is going to be relative to some arbitrary evaluation scheme.
> Jobs. Most people don't have the luxury of working fully remotely.

Then you commute. Yes, sacrifices are required but it's not the end of the world (or collapse of society, as GP put it). When I moved to a cheaper place over 20 years ago working remotely wasn't much of a thing so I had to drive 60-90 minutes (occasionally 2 hours). It wasn't great but it was a pragmatic solution that allowed me to have a nice place to live and leftover money to save.

> A lot of people would rather struggle to make rent than raise their kids in a community with high crime, bad schools, poor healthcare, limited prospects and a general atmosphere of despair.

There is a very wide gray area of reasonable places with reasonable prices between the extremes of San Franciso/Manhattan vs. economically depressed areas with "a general atmosphere of despair".
Yes, I do think that the most promising path we are aware of to AGI is exactly the route that OpenAI/Deepmind/Anthropic/FAIR/etc are taking.

In fact, I don't think anyone would disagree with that statement.
I'm not sure it would be that different but mmap has the benefit that it can swap directly to the model file on the disk instead of making a copy in swap space.
So this matches a pattern of submissions that eventually is or should be flagged. Can we not post GitHub issues that represent inter-project drama? It's not the discussion here that is the problem its effectively bringing commenters FROM here to stir up drama there where tensions are already high.
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Psychological issues often stem from mitochondria not working properly, i.e. neurons not having enough energy to work well. Fix mitochondria and many psychological problems disappear.

See e.g.:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18979198/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mitochondria-may-hold-keys-to...
no sure it is relevant, probably all heavy lifting done in C++ and Rust
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=render&path=&...
Nope.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9606284-a-man-s-friendships...
Melanie Silva, CEO of the Fair Association should have her title changed to ' "Melanie Silva, toilet scrubber at Walmart." What a pathetic excuse for a human being.
The code under discussion has nothing to do with forcing anyone or anything to the top of a feed. It’s entire observable effect is to _measure changes in engagement_. Any use beyond that is speculative.

However, if you believe that it was to be used as part of a system for increasing engagement, then you are asserting that it is a system with no control groups, which is a stupid mistake that wouldn’t be made by an undergraduate taking their first statistics class. They wouldn’t make that mistake even on the first day of that class, because they took a class in statistics in high school!
> am 73 years old and I’ve had a difficult life, but a long and good one.

I just got back from visiting my grandmother who is a few weeks away from turning 100. She still lives alone, cooks her own food, walks without assistance, has a tremendous memory and still has the mental acuity of any intelligent healthy young person. Her son, my father is 75 and is a physician and still works 60 hour weeks (which he considers to be retirement hours). I started laughing when I read the doctor considering 73 to be a long life. That age feels like barely out of middle age to me.
> [which anyone who understands] how a multi headed attention transformer works [would know is impossible]

How is that productive? The author already claimed in their changes that they aren't an ML expert and asked for advice.

It could be written like

multi-headed attention transformers frobnicate all the weights in their QKV matmuls. <supposition ... I would look at IO rates during inference ...>

You have an opportunity to teach rather than admonish.
That's kinda spot on (maybe a little more early Steve Reich than Glass), and the disappearance switching to another actor was clever (at least it looped!), but they could have dragged it out another 8 hours.

Also, King Missile took a funny jab at Glass, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa5hjsm4tZY
The program wasn't temporary, the assistance is. TANF was never meant to raise people out of poverty, it is a program designed to help those that fall on hard times to recover quickly, hence the job training.
Correct link:

https://donuts-are-good.github.io/shhhbb/
>and going on lots of really really long walks.

What I found helps is spending as much time outdoor as possible, preferably in the sun and in the wild nature, especially if they're light hike. Try to do that at least half a day every weekend.

Hope you get better.
It costs a lot of Delta v to move an ice asteroid... But on the bright side, there's a lot of ice on the ice asteroid which can be split into hydrogen and oxygen to help.
Can you contrast your description of transformers with how human general intelligence works? What exactly is present in human neural architecture that gives rise to consciousness? How can we be confident that our current AI approaches can “necessarily never gain consciousness”?

I’m genuinely asking. I think I disagree with your certainty, because my overall impression is that we don’t really understand the foundations of intelligence or consciousness. But perhaps that’s ignorance on my part.
The new 'slow' random!

http://random.hd.org
Usually the contenders dont fight in their own countries but in the rest of the world using proxy wars.
It becomes particularly bad if you're looking for anything money can buy.

Lightest laptop? Here's are 10 lists of laptops that exist in 2023, with zero effort put into distinguishing them. As if SEO spam wasn't bad enough on its own, Google started ignoring your query to serve more of it.

Then there are specific queries that are reinterpreted as generic ones. You get 5 results or so, then it starts dropping keywords on a 2-3 keyword query.

It's infuriating.
Where is the evidence that the government is effective at managing money, as you imply?

I would agree with that last comment. Currently, social spending on homelessness IS wasteful. LA's Prop HHH is a joke, it's only led to the rise of the homelessness industrial complex. It's not the equity built but the red tape...

Many people here support a strong central government. However, I do not.
After this article I went and started reading about "roulette computers" and apparently there are 50+ sites owned by a single scammer, that all have the same layout: https://www.roulette-computers.com/

And apparently he owns this network of forums and review sites that all funnel towards this scam. Very interesting... It's like as 100x worse than mattress reviews it looks like

I wonder if there is an actual legitimate roulette computer that exists (which is mentioned in this randomness article).

Maybe the scammer made this post on PCG-Random ...
In other words, you are saying that an HTTP server can detect distinguish between when the client is doing `curl $url | sh`, and when the client is doing `curl $url | sh -c 'cat > /tmp/file'`.

I'd love to hear the mechanism that the server would use to do that, if you have the time!
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> you can make some educated guesses based on naming

This is what people are doing.

> but generally you want to check those guesses by seeing how, where and why a variable is used

Agreed, but without the full source code available, this simply isn't possible.
I mean the jobs that can most easily be done from home are most easily replaced because all they require is a sufficiently intelligent agent, human or artificial, on the end of an internet connection, no physical presence.

Not talking about any given company or person’s decision to work from home.
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I'd argue that living without a fridge, a washing machine, a heat pump, smoke free light and a car is more difficult than having those things.
Defense spending is a third rail in politics.
If asbestos was introduced today I'm doubtful it'd be outlawed
Exactly! In Canada the remote work should be encouraged, before the pandemic, a friend used to drive from his small city to the train station to go to Toronto, then public transport to the office plus walk, totaling 2+ hours in the morning and another 2+ going back, I remember him always exhausted, that or taking the 401 by car plus the wasted gas. Now, he enjoys the time with family and more energetic most of the time, while staying in his small city, contributing to its economy, how’s that a bad thing from the gov perspective?
I think Festen (The Celebration) has a score of 10/10. Also appreciated Idioterne (The Idiots) but 7/10. Are there more suggestions here? I remember Fuckland was not well received in Argentina.
There are already AI for preemptively blocking DNS records that look suspicious, a few of the DNS services I'm aware that OP could (and should) set up for his father are NextDNS [0] or AdGuard DNS [1][2]. Apart from dynamic detection using AI and heuristics both of these services also ship with DNS-level blacklists, you may also blacklist or whitelist specific websites if any lists generate issues on safe websites.

[0]: https://nextdns.io/

[1]: https://adguard.com/

[2]: https://adguard-dns.io/en/welcome.html
Blackberry Torch??
OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model (Nov. 2019)
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks and Wizards of the Coast CEO Cynthia Williams are looking to grow the future of Dungeons & Dragons through “the type of recurrent spending you see in digital games.”

https://kotaku.com/dungeons-and-dragons-dnd-fifth-edition-on...
This article's argument boils down to Newtonian physics being, in theory, completely deterministic, thus not "true" randomness. It says, "tools exist to predict the path of a roulette ball (using data gained after it has been released and before the croupier calls, “No more bets!”), at least according to people who make money selling such gizmos". Key phrase there is according to people who make money selling such gizmos.

It leaves quantum randomness for a footnote, after spending many words saying that if you use a big enough permuted congruential generator, it's random enough for cryptographic use.
Agreed! Definitions matter, as another reply pointed out, I differentiate high income (a fairly attainable goal) with “rich”, or more specifically wealth, where the person is not dependent on the employer. Note that one cannot say “not dependent on others”, as people are always interdependent - stocks represent companies selling products, landlords depend on renters, etc
Ask HN: What’s the Best Way to Break into Startup Investing
Throwaway account.

I am an accredited investor and have capital to invest. However I’ve never raised funding myself (always built bootstrapped businesses) and don’t have personal connections in the tech industry (despite having lived in SF Bay Area previously for over a decade; don’t live there anymore). Essentially aside from my own experience building startups and capital to invest, I don’t have any sort of connections or are with the in-crowd with the rest of the tech industry. I also don’t have much of an online social presence and don’t care for it so that hasn’t helped.

Anyone else in the same position? What’s the best way for me to break into investing in early stage startups given my current position?
Looking at a lot of what you folks posted, it seems like PFAS are in just about everything, and there's no realistic way to avoid them without an absurd amount of effort. And they are unlikely to be regulated soon.

So realistically, what's going to happen to people? We're all inevitably going to accumulate a bunch of PFAS, so what exactly can I expect for the future of my health?
PiHole would be great here imo, throw in some HTTP/3 blocking and it's an easy way to keep his devices free from ads and other badware.
GPG is so criticised because of the web of trust concept.
That doesn't make sense - obviously black-only laser printers exist and manage to be compliant just fine
You can read more about how the eff has determined that 'all major printer manufacturers have a secret agreement with governments to implement tracking'. There's no link to the specific agreements though since they are secret. It's just known that printers add colored docs to track documents and it's also known that this is required by various governments throughout the world.

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
Data moats?
Data not on the web, both for the first pass of training [1], and for fine tuning / RLHF [2].

Maybe compute would be a moat...can you run it in inference cheaper? Conditional computation, very quantized models. Probably training compute is not a moat however.

Not sure what SOTA is on callouts to oracles (e.g. calling out to Mathematica or some database) during inference, but maybe if you could use.

I would look at BloombergGPT for inspiration on a SOTA vertical GPT [3].

Probably speed to deployment & integration & sales would be a moat too, as once you have customers using your stuff your competitors will have more trouble selling to the same folks.

[1] In the recent interview on Lex, Sam Altman referred to "data from partnerships".
[2] Probably very reviewed by human raters.
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17564
It helps optimization. One example is if you have code like this:

if(condition) {
error_stuff()
abort();
}
normal_stuff();

If the compiler doesn't know that abort exits the program, they have to compile the normal_stuff path under the assumption that the error path might have run before it. This might result in suboptimal code.

Currently, many compilers support annotations such as __attribute__(noreturn) and __builtin_unreachable() to manually indicate that a code path is unreachable. C23 is now standardizing these features (with a slight tweak to the syntax).
can you read? it was in the article. Actually based on your arguments you clearly can't.
I strongly believe the opposite. Fighting poverty should focus on things intended to prevent people from becoming poor, including in the next generation, not helping those already poor - more often than not, they have their life choices already made and they are impossible or incredibly difficult to alter, that's not a good allocation of resources.
uBlocklist does this far more elegantly. It's another one of those tools I forget about until I use a browser without it.
mmap is like tightly scoped, targeted swap. If the PoR is on disk, the OS is free to reclaim that memory for something else at anytime. It really is a beautiful hack, but if you turn on swap for the system in that way, it has to balance memory usage across all the running programs.

In this use of mmap, there is nothing to swap out as the source of truth is always on disk. During general swap usage, memory has to travel in both directions.
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, by Bruce Schneier
So, when you order from the average restaurant, you get a meal made of pre-portioned frozen ingredients containing sometimes questionable substances and you also get poisoned by the packaging. And the restaurant industry is complaining. Makes sense. (If you are a German-speaker, ZDFbesseresser is a worthwhile channel to watch. We basically all but stopped going to or ordering from restaurants.)
Fair enough. I don't think that's what the parent comment was trying to say and I certainly wouldn't want to say that in general. However, some times it is true, but those people still deserve kindness and care. Life is hard. My personal intent is to try and remain as healthy (physically and financially) as I can so that I can minimize the chance of becoming a significant burden.

It is personal for me. My grandfather spent several years spoon feeding his mother who had severe dementia. He didn't resent her. He loved her but it still impacted him. When his own health later degraded to the point where he was going to need more care from the people he loved, he couldn't live with the thought of losing control and being a burden to his children so he ended his life. It was not a spur of the moment decision. He had all the legal and fiscal matters lined up. He even had his tombstone in place. He lived a full life with lots of close family and friends. Was he a coward or a saint? Maybe some of both. Maybe neither. Maybe he was just practical to the end. I haven't figured it out.
Is there a better place to host such projects?
Appreciate your insights, I will pass them along to the author.
it's complicated... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3003984/

"A mild and transitory vasoconstrictor effect exists, which depends mainly on the caffeine concentration in the VSMC. However, the main and predominant effect of caffeine on the vascular wall is vasodilating, acting equally on the VSMC directly or indirectly and also on the endothelial structure."

The paper also says that withdrawal headaches are caused by vasodilation so I was wrong about that.

"When you abruptly stop the consumption of caffeine in a habitual consumer, there is a greater number of available adenosine receptors, which potentiates the vasodilation produced by adenosine, causing the symptoms"
Knock knock.

- Who's there?

Knock knock.

- Who's there?

Knock knock.

- Who's there?

Knock knock.

- Who's there?

- Philip Glass.
I'm not going to argue for this position, but I've heard it said that men tend to work with things and women tend to work with people.

So rather than white/blue collar I'm thinking that a distinguishing feature might be whether you need another human in the room to do the job.

Of course it's absurd that there would be gendered jobs, but then we live in an absurd world.
Surely if being tired was not about your brain, then sleeping would simply involve lying down, not being unconscious :)