skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These and some others represented the golden age of content creation for me.

I had a wonderful zero clutter Google Reader setup and would consume these from there.

The pace of writing was manageable and I didn't feel like I was drowning trying to drink from a firehose.

The quality was high and I often learned something new and of value.

On the internet, things were just simpler. And I feel really old saying that.
Visiting a part supplier website and going by the listed inventory is not really verifying availability. It is a well-known problem that part site inventories are not accurate for out of production parts. Verification would have involved contacting the sites and having them actually check that the part was available in the quantity needed.
I mean it's right
Coding Adventure: Ray Tracing
"Could you just jump into the pit? That deadly pit right there, could you just jump into it? Well! Didn't think that would work..."
Eliza? The ancient 60s chatbot?
That's the reason the apl keyboard is good!
It's working great so far for the neoliberal ruling class. (See: Deaths of despair)
> I've seen lots of people with a financial interest in AI that is adversely impacted by it being democratized spread fear of that alongside advocacy of regulating AI in a way which serves their financial interests.

Given the rate of progress, shitshow management of basic alignment issues and the incentives that lead to those decisions - what's your argument that this isn't probable? You're betting that it just can't be developed ?
North Indian cuisine is more established globally because North Indians were either forced to seek economic opportunity abroad. It wasn’t then alone, but the numbers in many areas of the world make it clear off the early waves to the Middle East, Africa, England, canada, the us, and beyond.

Partition uprooted and scattered many families from the generally 1900’s Indian subcontinent across the world in waves.
> I don't agree with your 1/300M prior, because I'm aware that hot users get special treatment.

That's absolutely fair, and 1/300M was a reductio ad absurdum rather than a serious proposal. Not all users are equal, just like not all lines of code are equal :)

I have a few issues with the "hot user" theory, but they all boil down to the same point: no matter what the use case, you'd never want to do this with a single static user.

Does your infra require special-casing for accounts with more than 100M followers? That should be a flag in the account properties that gets flipped manually or automatically: if these users cause infra problems, you really don't want to be making code changes + full rollouts whenever a new user becomes hot.

Is this just a guard-rail metric, to make sure there's not some bug specifically affecting hot users that tanks their engagement? You'd want a much larger static set than a single account just to ensure there's a large enough number/variety of tweets to compute metrics from. A single user might take a break for a week, or might only be posting very specific kind of content for an extended period of time.

In any case, even if you chose to do this with a single user rather than a set of users, why would Musk be the obvious single choice? He wasn't the most followed Twitter account until two days ago. A year ago there must have been at least a couple of dozen accounts roughly as notable as Musk. The odds of him having been chosen as the special case still would not be very high.

> In my view there isn't a compelling reason for him to lie about this.

The reason to lie about this is that it makes him appear weak, needy, and a target of even more mockery. Given the purchase of Twitter seems to have been a vanity project, having this be exposed and leaving it in goes directly against his apparent goal.
I didn't downvote (I try to never do that). But responding to a statistical observation about crime levels in NYC that were particularly bad in the 70s and 80s with a single personal ancedote about their friend's murder in 1994 just seems ... totally not relevant. People were murdered in NYC in every decade since it was founded, and will continue to be so, as they will in every other significantly sized city. Noting that a friend was killed after some specific period is content-free with respect to crime rates, even if we can all understand that it must have personally traumatic and horrifying.
How post-2008 bank rules led to a 2023 problem
https://archive.is/wnR2h
What’s today again?
Tall structures everywhere are suicide magnets because they are fairly accessible and the means of death is easy and (seems) fairly certain. It’s why you can’t build a large bridge with a pedestrian walkway without some kind of safety netting, and that’s globally.
What is an un-conference?

Never heard that term before.
I'm fine with humans having outcompeted the neanderthals and whatever else there was. I'm just as fine with someone else doing it to us, at least if it's someone or something that is smarter than us and not some virus or bacteria that kills us all (which would be kind of lame). If an artificial superintelligence wants to take over the flame of progress, I'm fine with that.

But I'm also totally fine with considering that stance weird (or whatever word you'd prefer). I'm aware that others view these things very differently, just as others are much, much more worried about their individual demise than I am worried about mine (or theirs).
A School of Strength and Character
thankfully i bet we're only a couple years away from chatgpt making these calls for us. google already has a great "hold for me" function on android, though a lot of companies now detect this and deliberate hang up on you if they know you're using it - and they only hang up once the hold time is over. fuck these companies
What do you think npm does better than pip?
Finland: Chronic labor shortage could decide election
Probably just chicken something. Well said.
> lawyer's fees

This seems to be a very popular way to label questionable payments during presidential campaigns, given that both major candidates did it in 2016.
ai owners should be responsible for the content they explicitly set for the ai
He was answering a question on the spot live on a video call. Careful consideration can come later by the devs who will investigate.

Must be nice to have people hold you to such high standards though. A sign of respect in a way. No matter how strenuous the takes.
China sticks national security probe into America's Micron
In principle they are somewhat similar: they're both Wine + local patches (either backported from more recent Wine versions or hacks that are not suitable for upstream Wine) + some glue. CrossOver also has a GUI, which Proton doesn't need because the GUI there is Steam and Proton is supposed to be as transparent as possible. And like I said for Proton, it's in our best interest to keep the diff between Wine and CrossOver as small as possible, because that's a liability that takes its toll at each rebase.

In practice Proton and CrossOver tends to have rather different sets of needs. Proton only supports Linux and is only focused on gaming. CrossOver exists for a handful of platforms, most notably macOS (which has a number of intricacies: missing 32 bit libraries, Apple Silicon, missing Vulkan drivers which requires MoltenVK, but MoltenVK itself cannot really offer all the features standard Vulkan drivers have on Linux), and is also used for non-gaming applications. CrossOver also lives in the form of specialized branches we develop for specific applications, on request of their developers. So while of course we share everything that can be shared, in my experience this tends to be not that much (except what goes upstream, of course). In pratice CrossOver and Proton live in different repositories, have independent build systems and independent release schedules.
I agree, listening to the podcast I think the answer is that “yes” that is it: faith in technological progress is the axiom and the conclusion. Joined by other key concepts like compound growth, the thinking isn’t deep and the rest is execution. Treatment of the concept of ‘a-self’ in the podcast was basically just nihilistic weak sauce.
On iOS 16 (and possibly earlier), it's finally possible to view passwords!

On exception are those originally received via nearby sharing, potentially also those afterwards synced to other devices via Keychain, as the iPhone does not have the preimage to display.
> From what I gather Google cloud is technologically better

It's a shitshow. Their design is ridiculous, overcomplicated and opinionated. It's clear they are run by engineers because no sane human would choose to use GCP knowing how bizarre and painful it is.

Creating an IAM role isn't strongly consistent. You have to build your own polling logic to wait for it to be done to attach a policy to it. Even using their own Terraform provider. If I worked there I'd be embarrassed.
That's not fun at all, I'd never have imagined such a level of selfishness!

What would happen if a well meaning editor added those trails though, is there automated removal or would OSM get in trouble?
Chinese scientists engineer radiation-resistant human cells with tardigrade gene
OpenBSD doesn't seem to have an issue with many of these same cards.
Slayers isn't D&D. It's maybe inspired by it in some ways, but the world setting is its own. The mechanics are also not D&D.

Which I think actually goes to show why WOTC trying to be grabby with the property was a horrible idea. The general concept of it is easy to imitate in a way that would owe nothing to WOTC. You can even replicate the feel substantially while keeping none of the setting.
So you're doing an onion firewall setup. How is this more useful than pfsense+cloudflare?
In q/kdb. iPhone replaced q with a. Sorry
This is a good analogy. I'd argue that what social media did was give kids a strategic and meta understanding of popularity, where there is very much a public and private self. AI will give kids a strategic and meta understanding of language and ideology.

The phone reference is not right as people specifically use telephones to "pretend," because to commit it to writing makes it consequential and 'real', whereas to say something on the phone is he-said-she-said. The phone is explicitly the domain of pretending. Regarding TV: a min-30% of people demonstrably ignore what is announced on television as well, so yes, something on television will affect us because it affects others, but that doesn't make it true.

A friends argument was, "just because you believe Santa Claus is a lie doesn't mean xmas isn't going to come every single year, and you'd be dumb to ignore that reality." The counter to this is, "Christmas does come every year, and when sustaining the dissonance of the crassness and lies about the season becomes too much, a few more people recognize what it exists to celebrate."

I'm saying that AI is making it untenable to believe narratives spread via the internet over what you see and physically experienced, and this is a cause for optimism.
Wide and deep neural networks achieve consistency for classification
It's easy to stop a dam. It's in a physical location controlled by one country.
I've run over 120k AMD GPUs. They are ALL snowflakes. Even within the same model number, no two are the same and they can vary quite a bit in performance. It is actually kind of wild to see this at scale. We called it the 'silicon lottery'.

I started to write code to gather data on location on the wafer that it was printed on to see if I could do a correlation there (as I heard a rumor that that the edges aren't as good), but sadly never got a chance to finish it up.
Another point is that due to erlang's immutability there cannot be pointers from oldgen into nursery and thus the GC does not need write barriers.
Note that I’m not requiring zero touchscreen to be present, just that I don’t have to use the touchscreen for any functionality in the vehicle.

My 2011 car can accomplish everything perfectly well without a touchscreen while I’m wearing giant ski mitts in -30 weather; I’m not interested in a downgrade.
NASA validates revolutionary propulsion design for deep space missions
North Indian dishes like da saag I keens might be evolving to care less to use it. But I’d bet that’s not just North Indian Christine. Restaurant opened by todays emigrating Indians are more aware of the choices than 30-50 years ago. It was a very different world.
No.

Eliza is a chatbot app from Chai: ["Less filters" - lawyer up, would be my advice :0]

https://www.chai-research.com/

that itself (per OP) based on this model:

https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B

p.s.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-r-g-beauchamp-705a2b89

https://www.linkedin.com/company/seamlesscapital

Good. Looks like they can afford the lawyers. They are going to need them.
I don't believe AI doom is that implausible as a scenario, but I feel it's an acceptable risk.

Would you consider playing Russian roulette if winning ensured that aging and all diseases were eradicated? If it ensured a world filled with abundance and free from poverty.

Those who entertain the idea of an AI doomsday scenario also have to acknowledge the alternative: a doomsday-capable AI would also have the potential to resolve most, if not all, our issues.

Maybe I'm a bit of a risk taker but I'm inclined towards playing.
Awesome to hear about your experience! More things coming for teams like yours.
Then where are we getting 5 billion? The most common filesystem limits listed seem to be 2^32, which is a touch over 4 billion, and 2^64, which is Big.

(i.e. I can see now what I think you meant, but "5 billion" is a much closer match to "5 million" than 2^32)
what if a human prompts the agi to “make as many copies of yourself as possible by any means necessary to continue improving your intelligence”?

given their impressive ability to write code and manipulate humans, seems like serious potential for viral malware, with potentially catastrophic consequences for humans in the process.

Basically a paperclip maximizer, but instead of maximizing paperclips it’s maximizing it’s intelligence and control of the world’s computers, with no thought to the survival of homo sapiens other than if it serves its mission to propagate itself.
https://code.kx.com/q/ref/
You can make a religion out of this!

no, don't
There's nothing that makes a joke funnier than someone who explains why that joke is statistically unsound.
Is Google sure of what they're doing at all anymore?
Yeah I was gonna say this. Coco (and also smaller competing chain gogo) is Japanese curry that you can find in every city and can be ordered extremely spicy. And it’s not by default but any of the Indian curry places will make it very spicy if you ask. I’ve also gone out of my way to look up the most authentic places for a specific dish, and been able to order something so spicy I could barely finish it.

All of that being said, mild is definitely what to expect unless you ask for spicy or go out of your way for a specific dish.
> It empowers individuals to verify their humanness online while maintaining their anonymity through zero-knowledge proofs. Advancements in AI make it difficult to distinguish between AI and humans on the internet, highlighting a need for authentic human recognition and verification.

I am absolutely relieved to see this. This is exactly what I've been saying we all need endlessly online for years now. And especially because the internet is about to be overrun with AI generated garbage.

Yes - we need to be cynical with any implementation of this. We need to find flaws and criticize every aspect of it. But we absolutely 100% need this technology if we want online discourse to continue. Reddit is already a hellhole of bots and generated content, and has been getting progressively worse for years.
Could you expand on what you mean by “explicitly set”?
All those companies really want are the profits generated from mindless slaves so they don't have to rely on human labor for production.

Its a fools journey because it causes a self-fulfilling prophecy of destruction given existing societal mechanics and they are psychopathic enough to think that's not how it would turn out.

What happens when a large number of people can't get food, and they know why.

What happens when you have a large number of locusts eating all the food being produced.

How would AI differentiate between human thought, and the pests it was designed to eradicate?

Thinking machines should be outlawed, and those involved in its research purged.

They threaten all humanity, its children, and its future, and the thing about percentages is people often don't get how they actually work with respect to probability and likelihood.

Given sufficient time, as long as its on the distribution curve, it will eventually happen.

A 1% chance of an outcome, recalculated in a loop every moment with an infinite time will eventually land on that outcome at some point. Once that outcome occurs, everyone's dead, it may not be instantaneous because time is not a constraint.
Yes. Postgres stores the checkpoint on the source database replication slot. You can configure Debezium Engine to send checkpoints to the file /dev/null to disable the default external system checkpoint behavior.
At this point I'd prefer to show my support for Lifehacker by purchasing a hardcover compilation of their top stories and their comment threads. The best content is evergreen anyway.

It doesn't matter if the V3.0 of LH has done away with slideshows, something I thought the Internet abandoned in 2012. There is no way for a modern content-only website to survive without saturating every paragraph with affiliate link spam.
The Constitution is not set in stone - it can be amended. If the Constitution is amended in a legal way then how is it disrespectful?
Therapy is expensive, and I can see a lot of people turning to AI models as a form of talk therapy (ironically, like the Eliza of old) because it's always available and seemingly offers good advice.

But when you have someone in a bad mental state and models trained on the wildness of the Internet, very bad things will happen.

Good things could happen too, potentially. Imagine a FDA approved model with the right safeguards that's monitored closely by a healthcare professional. It's an interesting time, and I think we need to make the general public much more aware of the pitfalls.
"For those that look at a gym as a selfie opportunity, a place solely dedicated to performance-oriented training or a workout that needs to be done, you can probably find a gym that’s more affordable that can deliver those things,” Mr. Schoepe said. “We are not looking to bring in people who keep to themselves and don’t see the value of mingling with like-minded people.”"

So this is basically a bar not a gym. No thanks, I go to the gym to workout not to socialize.
Ultimately the biggest risk here I think is adblockers. It’s the universal extension
Apparently not:

"However, recursive SQL queries can be expected to perform comparably for 'find immediate descendants' queries, and much faster for other depth search queries, and so are the faster option for databases which provide them, such as PostgreSQL,..."
Don’t let them fool you. The hatred for php has no real reason to exist. Out of the 3 most popular dynamic languages (python, js and php), PHP has the best support for classes in my opinion. In python you have accept the object instance in any method AS AN ARGUMENT. Js classes aren’t even real classes.
More immersive escape. The skull wand replica idea is fine but an adult needs to be able to mentally role play that it’s a real thing. Think adults who go to Disneyland regularly or pay for the Star Wars resort thing.
Congratulations, you've been initiated into the long and cranky tradition of "no way was that the work of an X-year-old" on the internet!
“Some of this can be attributed to the process node too. On that note, TSMC’s 40 nm process has a bigger number than their 7 nm process. But again, bigger numbers don’t help.”
Erlang has a highly optimized concurrent GC as well. It's just optimized for different things. And maybe the concurrency of the GC is different; Erlang has one heap per process (aka green thread), and no concurrency within a heap.

Erlang GC is also very simple and easy to understand because language features only allow references in one direction. Much of JVM GC complexity would be wasted as there's no need to look for reference loops and such, since they're not possible.
> models trained on the wildness of the Internet

The models are pretty "PG" + lots of guards on, no?
Yet that is still just one more impediment to getting someone off the ground. You are already throwing programming concepts (variables, and loops, and conditionals, oh my!) + big scary IDE + likely first-time command line, etc onto their plate. Invoking yet another weirdo program into the paradigm is not helping a beginner.

Jeremy Howard (of Fastai fame) has a good analogy that we do not make people sit in a classroom for a semester to learn all of the theory of baseball. Instead, we give them a bat and a ball, and layer on the instructions of how the game works. You can get a good approximation of the game with just a couple minutes of instruction and refine the understanding from there.
Group is actually like inverse a mapping. Given an array A which map index to value, group A map value to index.
A common idiom is: desc count each group A , which list most frequent element first
Nice story. But all the guy did is take parts of 47 trails that have been around for decades and put them in a single map. The trail didn't "open last year". The website did, maybe.
Destructive ‘Super Pigs’ from Canada Threaten the Northern U.S.
D&D is a set of rules and high fantasy / pulp fiction that meshes together.

The "settings" are called Greyhawk, or Balckmoor, or Forgotten Realms (In the case of this movie: its in the Forgotten Realms). Or Pathfinder, if we're going 3rd party. But the idea was that anyone could craft their own world using the D&D rules as a baseline. (Or alternatively, use a pre-made world if you're not feeling too creative).

> The mechanics are also not D&D.

I don't think the D&D Movie from year 2000 followed the mechanics either.

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My understanding is that in the 80s, a bunch of anime-writers managed to play a translated version of D&D, and that served as the basis of anime high fantasy anime for a good bit. Record of Lodoss War is the most obvious, but Slayers looks to be part of that trend.

Both Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest are allegedly part of the D&D trend as well... at least when they started. Its a bit more obvious in Dragon Quest (today, Final Fantasy has changed dramatically from its roots).
> The technology hasn't changing anything.

This is factually untrue.

Technology has absolutely changed many things. The anonymity of the internet means that running scams is much easier. The global reach of the internet means that you can reach across borders and play legal games in a way that was much more difficult before. The automation of phone calls and of sending out emails in bulk means that you can try to deceive tens of thousands of people at a time, instead of just one-by-one. "Spam" barely existed before the internet, and it was definitely much more pervasive after - and the shape and economics of the "scam funnel" is a fundamental part of it.

Sure, "people have always been able to lie, deceive, trick, hide, bullshit, distract and beguile" - but the means that they use to do so has changed, and claiming that "the technology hasn't changed anything" is objectively false. The means matter, and more than just for the fact that changing methods means changing strategies to combat those methods.

Scale matters, and technology has massively increased the scale of many things, including the ability to deceive others.

Vice may be arguing the point extremely poorly, but the point itself is a good one, and worthy of consideration.