skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s one mode of operation, but it’s not the only mode. Using prediction to respond is mostly the lazy, non-interested approach, or useful if you can’t quite hear or understand someone.

I didn't say it's the only mode. I said it's the starter mode. At least for me, this mode is always the point at which someone's words, or my response, first enter the conscious processing level. If I'm very uninterested (whether because I don't care or because I'm good at something), the thought may sail straight to my mouth or fingers. Otherwise, it'll get processed and refined, possibly mixed with or replaced by further thoughts "flowing in" from "autocomplete".

> What I feel lot of people have started doing is trivialising the mind. Hoping it’s all “this simple” and we’re three versions of ChatGPT away to finding God.

That's one way to look at it. I prefer another - perhaps we've just stumbled on the working principle of the mind, or at least its core part. For me, the idea that concept-level thinking falls out naturally from adjacency search, when the vector space is high-dimensional enough, is nothing but mind-blowing. It's almost poetic in its elegance.

And I mean, if you believe the human mind is the product of evolution, and not a design of a higher being, then the process must have been iterative. Evolution is as dumb as it gets, so it follows that the core paradigms of our minds are continuous, not discrete, and that they must be simple and general enough to be reachable by natural selection in finite time. Of all our ideas for how minds work, transformer models are the first ones that - to me - seem like plausible candidate for the actual thing that runs in our head. They have the required features: they're structurally simple, fully general, and their performance continuously improves as you make them bigger.

Now, to be clear, my take on LLMs is that language is incidental - it so happens that text is both easiest for us to work with, and the very thing we serialize our mind states for communication. But the "magic" isn't in words, or word processing - the "magic" is the high-dimensional latent space, where concepts and abstractions are just clusters of points that are close to each other in some dimensions. I think this isn't an accident - I feel this really is what concepts are.
I write down stuff I'm grateful for everyday in my Gratitude Journal. It's the best way to recall and remain happy to kick start a busy day.
I confusedly admire bigots and racists? That doesn’t make any sense…
> he has worked to revive and reorganize the study of a region that sometimes forgets it has a history, a culture, or even, famously, an accent. (Pronounce that first syllable through your nose.)

Huh? My parents are both from Boone, in the center of that map. I'm from Iowa City. My mom says "warshed", which is distinctive, [1] but I don't think any of us say the first syllable of "accent" through our noses. Anyone know what this is talking about?

[1] https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/why-do-people-say...
Powershell Pitfalls – Stack Overflow
If it’s any consolation, every time I see the Sparkle update UI it reminds me of a much better overall Mac UX and makes me glad some semblance of it still exists. I could certainly critique the design in some ways, but I think it was quite good at providing a consistent upgrade mechanism across the whole ecosystem at the time, and it still has some distinct advantages over the multitude of equivalents that exist today, across MAS and Chrome-style background updates and the kitchen soup of Electron. Even if the interface could be improved, its consistency over so many years is a testament to how well it already solved the problems it addressed. If I could, I’d go back to the de facto standard of Sparkle updates to native Mac apps in a heartbeat.
"Repairing Your Car in Your Own Garage Is Considered Illegal in Sacramento, CA", 400+ comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34081331

"50k repair manuals for most vehicles 1982-2013", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35491294
EVE is famously anything-goes, with corporations (EVE equivalent of guilds) being very careful about who they accept specifically to prevent this type of attack. I would be very surprised if there were any moderator intervention about it, as joining up with corps in order to drain their bank accounts is expected behavior.

As another example of EVE conventions, in 2012 the biggest trading hub was attacked [0]. This is nominally a safe area, and indeed the NPC security responded to every attack. This was part of the cost-benefit analysis of the attackers, who were aiming to drive up the price of resources that they had hoarded. When other players complained to the developers, the developers found it hilarious, and helped advertise about the attack.

[0] https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/64307/what-is-bur...
Institutions are allergic to short-term, acute risks that result from their actions. They are insensitive to long-term, chronic risks that results from their inaction.

Meta-risk, the risk that comes from not taking any risk, needs to be drilled into everyone's head: the public, journalists, politicians, IRBs, etc. I think the concept that not taking risks is risky should have its own label, but if someone doesn't like "meta-risk", maybe they will accept "risk tradeoffs".
> Or, in business terms, beauty has terrible ROI.

Must be a complete and unfortunate coincidence then, that the richest tech company on the frickin planet rose to that prominence through "beauty", at least as their critics still like to call out.
> I am willing to first attribute to ignorance before discrimination

I think ignorance is a fair answer for an individual like you and me.

However when you are a giant organisation, the organisation can be evil without anyone individually being so. In organisation ignorance and evilness is really hard to distinguish, and easy to conflate on purpose.

It is the job of the leadership to not be ignorant, or at least to hire someone who isn't.

Thats why AI ethocs teams where the correct move.
I’m with you on this. I suspect with hindsight the Twitter story will have “self importance” and traditional cultural factors like journalism and political institutional buy-in as major factors behind its apparent significance. Its friendliness mainstream media and news, where it was perfect for news that hashtag trending could be monitored.

Did any other platform ever get so much attention from mainstream media?
No it's that corporate membership history is immutable and public on characters. So it's a bad look to be an old character with a string of now bankrupted, stolen or overthrown corps on your history.
> This technology has been available since then

No, it hasn't lol.
I couldn’t reply sooner because I have noprocast on but my numbers were a bit off, I was repeating what I heard on a tech podcast. According to the numbers they had to release it was a bit higher https://www.axios.com/2023/04/07/substack-gets-writers-to-in...
Actually I lied, I was laid off at the height of covid (company folded), I just decided to take a long sabbatical and try other things rather than going right back to a job; looking after family (kids were off school for almost a year), side projects etc. I also don't regret the time doing other things, only the lost opportunity to make bank and I suppose the 'not-a-wage-slave hole' in my CV, but now I need money sooner than expect, for reasons.

Most jobs themselves do not appear to have become much more attractive since last time, to say the least, and on top of that, it seems they've turned recruitment into some kind of hunger games competition.

I think in general the level of trust and loyalty workers are going to be willing to give will be much reduced, let's say, so I think this little game, and I do think it's game rather than necessity, is going to cost them in the long run.
TIL. I was semi-hoping someone would fill in the gap! At the same time I'm wondering why the heck my doctor won't tell me these things.
How many of the companies with the largest market cap (top 15) were also in the top 15 20 years ago? Why do you think Google will be an exception to this reality?
I can hear the music at a live gig far better with a good set of musicians ear plugs. Live music is often so loud that it seems to get distorted within my ears, but the ear plugs bring that under control. The fact that I can hear properly for the next day or two is a bonus.

I do find it unusual, though, that I can still feel the bass in my chest even though the music is no longer unbearably loud.
Can't tell you how refreshing this is to experience.
It's been year since i played it last. But in the little corp I was a part of the leadership had phone numbers and/or IM on each other to get people online quickly in emergencies. The commitment was unreal.
So if AI can generate datasets better than it's own datasets...well that's pretty damn substantial.
Disappointed to see the website doesn't even feature a jitterbug mode as a tip of the hat to The Wizard of Oz (1h 52m)
Yeah, but if google solve distributed processing just imagine the cost savings elsewhere (imagine involuntarily crowdsourcing video encoding, it would save them millions)
Is it really a conversation, though? I rarely see “thought leaders” actually engage with their audience in a meaningful way.
It's interesting how we've seen the rise and fall of titan walled gardens from Compuserve to AOL to MySpace to Facebook, and yet on the other side of the world WeChat seems to go from strength to strength.

What's their secret sauce?
The profession came first. And then licensure was added to make sure that bridges and buildings didn't fail all the time and kill people.

But it never quite reached the level of "Attorney" or "Physician" so we have this ambiguity depending on the field of practice, especially since the explosion of Software Engineer jobs.
Back when computers were first going mainstream, there was discussion about taxing them so as to provide for the folks whose jobs would be lost to them --- never went anywhere, but this is a discussion which we need to circle back to.
They will be working to create the models that automate the company out of existence.
I have an uncle that has this funny habit of answering the door before you ring the bell. That sounds impressive until you learn how many times a day he opens the door and no one is there. He's schizophrenic. The cost of increased sensitivity is a higher false positive rate. If there were no drawbacks, evolution would have given us heightened senses 100% of the time.

I'm not suggesting you had any sort of psychiatric issue. I'm sure your increased sensitivity was very real and very grounded in realistic expectations of reality. But, are you sure that there were no false positives that came with the heightened sensory experience? Did you ever check that the thing you recognized as a garage door opening down the block was in fact a garage door opening down the block? Could it have been some other subtle sound you normally don't pick up on?
Disclaimer, been an extremely long time since I played as well, I think 12 years in my case. Though I honestly kind of regret quitting. Back then I thought EVE was merely an early progenitor of what would be a bunch of better sandbox MMOs, and was upset with some of the directions CCP was going and potential they were squandering. Little did I know :(.

>Endless arguments on whether this is a feature or a bug. Last time it was more of a sociel engineering and betrayal, this time it's more of a mechanical exploit.

One thing I do remember a lot of us being frustrated by though was that while they sunk lots of development effort into "walking in stations" and planet stuff that wasn't space, a lot of the corporate mechanics stayed pretty primitive. I do think it's kind of a bug if more serious corporate structures couldn't be developed. EVE would have been a neat place for smart contracts and programmatic corporate structures and so on, just let everyone go wild setting up constraints and checks within some reasonable computational cap. Interesting options to tie in (or not, depending on reputation, could be another neat set of tradeoffs) to NPC governments as well. But having a lot of corp/alliance aspects be kinda clunky in terms of management, comms, stores and so on always felt like one of the various wasted opportunities.

Wow, amazing how it comes back in pieces. It really is quite the project whatever its flaws. A lot of other MMOs from its era have come and gone. Glad it still exists at all.
You do not need a database. It is trivial (and correct) to create a ~'<x>-status' topic. In the forward arc you are reliably propagating job requests (acked). In the backflow the processing status of job is posted for anyone interested. You can even propagate retries, etc. It is an MQ and RabbitMQ shines in defining complex dispatch toplogies.
Interesting you said Abrahamic religions, While impact of chrisianity on Europe, Middle East, Americas has been well documented.

There hasn't been much of discussion or writing about the extinction of cultures, syncretism, open border civs at the hands of Islam.

Greek / Roman / Indian influence in Eurasia to Indonesia is probably another tragedy that the world forgot.

Only pockets like Bali remain from that era now.
Anecodtal of course but I have family that says warsh (Warshington DC) in southern Appalachia. I always assumed it was a hillbilly sort of thing. No connections to the midwest/"midlands" that I'm aware of.
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I've had two companies where HR made things better, but much of that was because I became personal friends with at least one person in HR.

A lot of HR professionals genuinely want the employees to be happy and healthy and all that. A lot of HR professionals are stymied in their efforts by other executives that either prioritize money or came up in hardship and think everybody should experience the same hardship.

To be clear both of the companies in question were small US Federal government contractors. Since pay is pretty standard across the sector, the way many choose to distinguish themselves is though benefits, culture, and things like that.
For people doing embedded development using MSDOS (which plenty of people did back in the day) Borland C/C++ version 3.1 was the gold standard of IDE and compiler tools. Turbo Debugger using two displays (one was a monochrome display - remember those?) was incredible. I still have a copy archived for safe keeping.
That occurred to me too. You want something that has meaning but isn't insanely generic. So something between "Notes" and "Nostr."
Hi waves I am a hearing scientist. There is not enough information provided in this write-up to judge the data. Take it with a big grain of salt. There could be UI/UX factors that are not accounted for which could swamp out any sort of meaningful information about tinnitus perception, for example.
Great, now we need to raise taxes to stop tectonic plates.
I know the skull tapping method you mention but unfortunately I only get very temporary relief using it - 20 or so seconds - and it's quite an unpleasant experience, if we are thinking of the same method. Mine is: hands over ears with fingers wrapping around back of head such that middle finger tips just touch, lift index finger on to middle finger, press index finger down hard onto middle finger and slide it off such that it quickly slaps the back of the head/neck (similar to a standard thumb-index finger clicking motion). Repeat this for 10-20 seconds using both hands to get about 30 taps. It's loud, not quite but almost painful, and doesn't provide very long relief for me so I don't use it much.
I wonder if a much better solution than warnings would be something at the OS level analyzing the screen and fading out contrast or something any time it detects flashing patterns that could trigger epilepsy.
Agreed. It's hard being 'the good guy', and the uninformed will make you a villian sometimes. Not easy at all, sometimes no matter what you do, it's criticized.
OpenAI has not provided specific details about the sources of their training data. However, it's reasonable to assume that content HN has contributed to GPT's knowledge base up until 2021. Given the usefulness of HN, it is likely that it is already part of the training set up to that point.
Lady Tasting Tea: An Example Where the P < 0.05 Criterion Is Friend Not Foe
Maybe there is something about the agricultural tractor (or similar industry) sector where the amount of research and development, manufacturing, sales, support investment it takes, on top of the sales prices/duration, customer dynamic, product lifecycle, etc involved means that the few players who can do it need to earn some margin through service to stay alive profitably.

Of course, maybe they're just money grubbing capitalists.

But I think there's more factors than meets the eye, and this behavior is not without cause.

Otherwise, as you say, plenty of players should be clamoring to offer a fix-it-yourself brand that people would flock to and be loyal to.

Maybe sometimes there are real reasons for the way a market and a product are structured.
this isn't the first time i've seen this article (or the version from another year i guess) and it always brings me a lot of joy to see a list of "the best" of something, clearly written by somebody who cares a lot about the subject and really believes that what they're writing is the truth.

and the conclusion is that the best ones are the normal ones you can get in every store, you don't need to custom order weird stuff from japan. you don't need to hack together something out of the parts of two different things. the best rollerball pen is the one i've got a dozen of in my cupboard, and i can buy more of at the office supply store down the street.
The posts with the biggest reach are consistently from right-wing sources on Facebook (or were when they released this data). Is the suppression just highly targeted?
Bookshop.org survives and thrives in Amazon’s world
Constantly innovating can also be interpreted as 'having no standard'.

I had developed sites for 25 years. I still have a corporate site that was developed 20 years ago, and it returns more results, and is faster to render than most of new fangled SPA I seen deployed on servers 20x larger.

I do agree with you that SPA (react and its ilk) have cleaner benefit of composability of components, but I would posit that AJAX and component state/props has made for less reliable web. I often find myself in situation where SPAs crash mid way during concert or flight purchase - be it JS error, or network instability. Reloading the page doesn't get SPA to resume where it crashed, but often throws additional errors, saying I am already mid way in checkout (but I can't continue), or invalidating session (but still remembering that my other session was in process of buying a seat, so I can't reselect the seat I wanted. Finally, they are terrible for bookmarking or sharing.

So the composability of components, a benefit, came with a need for developer to be extra careful about failure modes, resuming states, bookmarking directly to specific content. Most developers are not careful, and the old html per page model forces different mentality for dealing with failures, and content availability.
Yea, lol, what was I thinking!? It’s not like my granny uses TLS ECDH SHA1 right!? Oh, wait, everyday she does? The tools adapt; email has never had to.
Yes. Indian religions and greco-roman religion probably both had roots in proto-indo-european religion. There is a website that explores these roots at piereligion.org
That 20khz one tracks for me. Sometimes if I over caffeinate I get that. I think the neurological explanation is right. Its as if certain brainwaves are leaking into the region meant to represent sound waves.
Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor based on wlroots that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. [0]

[0]: https://hyprland.org/
Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imaginatio
Powershell is incredibly powerful with | and %{} for transforming collections and SUPER simple .net integration. You can write commandlets in c#. It was one of the bright spots of my time at Microsoft.
We’ll make it happen!
A very good capsule history of how the electric power industry developed, the effect of the 1935 PUHCA, and of interconnects. (Usually not easy to find all in one place.)
https://archive.is/vvq14
It's a Three.js website (you can click the X at the top to go to the main site). I tested it on an old Mac so it should be fine...? Thanks for letting me know.

Edit: Made a change to improve performance when a page is activated (paused Three.js rendering), and here's a markdown version: https://tuckerconnelly.com/management-leadership.md
To add to that, the leaked documents from Snowden described a query language not unlike doing Boolean searches. Nothing close to GPT’s ability to comprehend human asks.
You most certainly can make videogames with 20 people or less. You cannot make AAA videogames with 20 people or less.

The current best example of this small team methodology is Stardew Valley.
Thanks, this was a very enlightening read. Getting product on board with the labor involved in implementing this is going to be a different story though.
Have you had much exposure to tinnitus research? Is there much promise showing, assuming there is some going on, in terms of an eventual treatment?
Such as the political arrangements to distribute the gains of high yield farmer equipment, fully automatized factories, high frequency trading bots? It is not going to happen.

What is going to happen are private robotic armies making sure private owners remain private owners.

And then, we will go back to times where people were not citizens by default and had fewer rights.
Waymo says dense S.F. fog brought 5 vehicles to a halt on Balboa Terrace street
Using it on a low end mobile device, the smoothness of animations and responsiveness is amazing.
They forgot the best of all(for general use, fountain pens are still fun): The uni-ball powertank.

It's a pressurized pen for less than $2 in the ten packs!!

It's not the most luxurious feeling to write with, but that doesn't matter when you just need a few quick sentences and checkboxes now and again. Pressurized pens are ideal for the modern use case of occasionally filling out something, usually in a hurry, with a pen you haven't touched in a week.
I similarly fell in love with fountain pens. My writing was finally legible.

That said, I just don't use pens often enough for it to be viable. Ink's dried, tip needs cleaning, etc. So I went back to my trusty old ball points I so hate.
AI Regulation: Human Alternatives, Consideration, and Fallback
By that logic we should ban peanuts, or at least highly control them.
Unfortunately, this perspective seems very head-in-a-bubble to me. It's a tiny tiny number of people who think the problem with Twitter and Substack is that they aren't federated. Federation isn't a feature people broadly care about. If it makes the platform work better, great! But I don't think that's the case for Mastodon or any other federated platform I've come across. It's the opposite, they make concessions on the experience in order to support federation. That would be ok if those sacrifices were for functionality people really want, but federation just ... isn't that.
It's just reactionary politics
They are proposing regulatory recourse here https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/human-alte...
Congressional testimonies are just show business to let politicians market themselves. There was nothing stopping the FCC or whoever from requiring T-Mobile to agree to penalties if total headcount did not reach certain targets at certain dates.

No one in leadership had intent to ensure a minimum number of jobs.
There's a clone called WordTsar that runs on Linux and Windows, MacOS (though lightly tested), etc. http://wordtsar.ca/