skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry you got that impression, that is between you and yourself as it were. I don't have anything to justify, as once again, my one and only agenda is as you say pursuing the truth without favor or prejudice.

It does not matter to me in which direction the paper is politically slanted one iota, or what conclusions it so desperately seeks. The ends don't justify the means, sorry.

It matters very much to me that it isn't anything like science, and worse, that it masquerades. You can dance around this all you want.
Out of my depth, but ca the SAM outputs be mapped for 6DOF models of the objects directly?or would you still need to use the resultant dataset to train 6DOF or key points for that matter?
India needs this solution, most western society already have payments pretty much solved
> Using one single narrow criteria to completely disregard any & all other similarity is a shame & a sham. This is a huge disservice & actively harmful to understanding the world.

Just pick a different fucking word. Why do you want to use the term microkernel?

It’s like insisting that a rock is actually and airplane because they both fly through the air. It’s a pointless redefinition and everyone qualified to talk about things that fly won’t call it an airplane and will be confused about what you’re talking about.
It was obvious that commenters on HN were wilding out about this specific case—but even though the outpouring of rage about homelessness/Chesa Boudin/race/etc was clearly out of proportion with this single incident, it was useful to read people's thoughts. Just because people think differently than I do, doesn't make me less inclined to want to hear them or understand them. In this case, it was illuminating to see that there were so many people who were primed to perpetuate that narrative.
> Are there like hidden or incomplete/developing selves?

Yeah, pretty much. We know there's probably at least one entity that we're not sure counts as a full person or even a member, and past that we're just not sure.

A fun fact is that we're pretty sure that entity thinks in only words and doesn't have a mind's eye (or that mind's eye only visualizes text).

> No disrespect intended.

None taken~

-Emily
Real letters to wives don't include patriotic and political phrases about children being raised in a new paradise to come, except those written by cult members and those (in this case) written under duress.
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Ask HN: Why hasn’t there been a “Starbucks for Chai” in the US?
On a recent trip to India, I had about 3-4 cups of chai a day from street vendors. I don’t even usually drink chai in the states but the street chai in India is addicting. The best part is it’s more a mild caffeine hit than coffee, so spacing out 3 cups a day works well.

It also tastes just as good if not better than a Starbucks drink if you get masala chai. It has to be like the street vendors though, not the Americanized version you can already by in the stores.

The unit economics for chai are much better than coffee. It can be sold at a lower price point, better margins, and higher frequency. Imagine a store you pop in an out of in 1 min to get your morning cup and spend $2 max.

The US doesn’t have a huge tea culture, so I could see why chai hasn’t naturally taken off. However, I would argue that places like Starbucks are less so satisfying the need for coffee and more so satisfying the need of caffeinated sugary drinks.

Why can’t chai satisfy that need?
You knew this had to be the case when Costco starting having car displays again in store…
Commercial speech does not have the same rights as personal speech under the law.

I can scream "dang for president!" to my hearts content, but if my employer pays me to scream the same sentence it is subject to campaign finance laws.

The developers are free to write all the code they want. The issue is doing to the benefit of the Tornado Cash criminal enterprise.
> Don’t expect to see immediate benefit from Rust by writing a small Pong application.

This is easily solved by writing a large Pong application in Rust.
> > For SSB, the aim was to be able to gossip feeds via untrusted intermediaries, with patchy network connections all round, and be sure that the intermediaries haven't added, changed or removed any posts in the feed.

> why would that need a blockchain (even without proof of work), as opposed to simple signed, timestamped, indexed posts and having the reading client app check the signature and post indices?

It depends on how the message is signed. If the message format's this:

sign_message(message + timestamp + index) + message + timestamp + index

The 'index' can be manipulated: The signer (malicious or not) can resign an old message & effectively overwrite a previous message.

sign_message(new_message + old_timestamp + old_index) + new_message + old_timestamp + old_index

This means that in the event of such a resigning, it's the app's responsibility to prevent resigned messages from overwriting old messages.

Blockchains prevent this at the data structure level because signature hashes are effectively random, meaning they're near-impossible to tamper with:

whole_message := prev_message_hash + sign_message(message + timestamp) + message + timestamp

wherein prev_message_hash := hash(prev_whole_message)
The rich also enjoy healthcare
I don't think using the word "best" on the landing page is very smart.

In fact, you don't even provide a demo page of your own analytics, so how exactly is a anyone supposed to judge whether or not you're the "best", not to mention be comparable to something like Plausible, which has always shown its own analytics as a demo experience.

There's definitely a market for this kind of analytics (many similar products have been launched in the last 2 years), but you should probably rethink your strategy a little bit.

At the moment, the site feels quite bland (maybe it is a side project, I don't know) and you should perhaps focus more on explaining how you achieve certain things (E.g. How exactly are you compliant?).
> you’re allowed to use values you haven’t grouped by and haven’t aggregated? Sounds like MySQL to me

The default settings of MySQL have forbidden this since MySQL 5.7, released in October of 2015: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/group-by-handling.ht...
It's just what happens in these types of forums when a topic becomes popular. Mostly laypersons (typical HN user wrt ML) read the articles and comments, they vote based on the layperson's opinions, technical people's voices become lost in the mix or get downvoted because the layperson doesn't understand what they're talking about.
Change the name of expert mode. You're having to tell each single user to turn it on, because probably like me they think it means "answer as if talking to an expert"
The real story is Taibbi's toadying imho.
This is still GCC, so it's guaranteed to be under the GPL
> [...] increasing levels of income inequality.

What exactly are you talking about? Global inequality has been on a downward trend in the last few decades.
Apple India iPhone Output Soars to $7B in China Shift
Lead Detective's Police Report:

Case closed, mugging. Occam's razor.
I think a lot people probably experienced or witnessed petty theft or assault, and figured those same people might commit murder at a high rate. When you have a personal experience like that, or multiple, the natural reaction is to apply that experience to another situation.

It actually says a lot about SF that people would jump to that conclusion. SF is not in a good place. It has deteriorated over the past 2 decades. But it's not why Bob Lee is dead.
Ha! Everyone was thinking it was some thug or homeless person and blaming the libs.
Bitcoin has been effectively run by a company since they bitcoin gold fork. Not even to say that's a bad thing, but the network was being guided by a company set on limiting bitcoin throughout while building the L2 lightning network to solve that problem outside the bitcoin protocol

> Bitcoin is more akin to TCP/IP, whereas crypto is more like those dot com companies, except crypto doesn't provide anything useful to anyone,

When you say crypto here do you mean cryptography, cryptocurrencies, or a subset of smart contract based projects? All currencies, whether bitcoin, shitcoins, or USD are ultimately pump and dump schemes the all meet the technical definition of a Ponzi scheme
God I just don't buy the "these people will go on to benefit humanity" argument anymore. We don't need more tech companies. We don't need more hedge funds. We don't need to feed our genuinely brightest minds into the wealth consolidation machine.

Occasioanlly one of these people will find some one-off bit of brilliance that lifts an entire class of people out of poverty, but that ticket has an expiration date tied to the 19th century. Eventually those free spaces will run out. They're already starting to in the western world.
Huh? Shareholder primacy might be a good idea, but it's an aspiration at best.

In practice, companies are run for the benefit of their managers.

Especially when they talk about something like 'stakeholder capitalism', because it's inevitable the managers that decide which stakeholders to listen to and how to balance their interests.
> or an implementation that runs on bare metal

There's https://github.com/whily/yalo apparently
Hmm, tempting to make a thing that just loops:

description = gpt4("describe <yesterday's output>")

and chain that into

new_result = gpt4("<yesterday's output> was described by a human as <description> but it should have been visibly apparent as a unicorn. provide SVG output that <extra blah blah>")

and post that as today's output. I wonder what we'll get. I'll do it manually.
Same here. When he was still young, my cat used to sit on my shoulder while I was trying to get computer work done. He passed away almost 2 years ago. I haven't been able to get another cat yet because I am pretty convinced he was something really special and I am unlikely to be as lucky a second time.
"Effective Altruism" (centered around William MacAskill), the "Rationalist Movement" (centered around Eliezer Yudkowsky), the general billionaire philanthropism (most prominent being Bill Gates), the "Universal Basic Income" crowd (of which apparently OpenAI and Sam Altman are spearheading a research project), miss the greater context in which charity takes place: all charity is fundamentally ineffective, charity is the side effect of a failed system, charity will never bring revolution and even worse charity will actively suppress revolution. In a better system there would be no need for charity.

Revolution used to mean pitchforks and guillotines (the French especially loved them), but today, funnily enough, that would be ineffective even if the people would be able to close their favorite streaming channel and wake up. Even in the 1950s it would have been ineffective. A revolution in the 1950s would have probably looked like this: 100% taxation over $50 million (in today's money). Like in a memory-constrained video game, once you reach 9999 coins you can't store more. We should have capped capitalism a long time ago, give the lucky winner a medal, and that's it. We could probably try today this idea, but (i) there is no coagulated we to make it work after at least 158 years of divisiveness and (ii) it's probably too late and it would also be ineffective.

A revolution today would take completely other form from the past. After all, "you can't solve today's problems with yesterday's solutions". Today's revolution, able to wake up every single human from whatever slumber and coagulate them into a we, the people would probably be raising the lifespan to 1,000 years. Not 120, not 200, but straight 1,000, an x10 improvement just like the venture capitalists enjoy. The fact that today you might die at 30 and some guy dies at 90 doesn't seem too much of an issue, and you are willing to accept the system for some minor benefit, if any. But if you might die at 30 and some guy dies at 900, now that's when you start having issues.

How to get to 1,000 years lifespan? 2-3 years ago I would have said mind-uploading, thinking that biochemistry has been surpassed by our magnificent, crystalline-structured silicon. After a global pandemic and some personal eye-openings, literally looking inside myself on the operating table, I would say that we won't be near biochemistry with our toys for the next thousands of years, and it won't actually be needed, we can learn to programatically interface with the cells and just say, top-down, "you, the cells, already know how to build an eye, you did it once, rebuild one here", don't scar, regenerate [1]. 1,000 year lifespan is achievable with 100% organ, tissue regeneration, and then the revolution begins, hopefully.

Coming back to the point, an "effective altruism" would put all the billions and trillions into organ regeneration research, however, oddly enough, that's not even in the general discussion.

[1] Michael Levin talk on bioelectricity at Stanford Chemical Engineering Colloquium, https://youtu.be/WM8bQWfmeB8?t=470
The team that built nebula at Slack actually split off and are building a similar type of network, that they give you a single pane of glass to manage, so you don’t have to manage a bunch of separate lighthouse devices manually.

I evaluated it when going through the many available options out there a year or two ago, and it was still pretty green feature wise. Still very cool and could work very well depending on your use cases. See: https://www.defined.net/
Votes and comments aren’t a measure of popularity or importance. They’re super easily skewed by specific communities deciding to hammer the reports or similar - often about things they don’t have technical understanding of.

Other examples would be when Libc++ announced adding bounds checking by default and a huge number of people (from HN and similar) came in to provide votes/+1s or comments with little actual technical feedback
So where do I apply the lubricant?
The index only should apply over non-null values. I'm not sure how anything else makes any practical sense.
I’ve long felt that SQL was somehow backwards, but I don’t know what would be better. ‘Go and get two eggs’ Is better than ‘go to the fridge and get eggs, only two’.
The linked Missouri Independent articles mention that the Missouri Attorney General belives that transgender therapies are "experimental." I'd like to point out that hormone replacement for trans people is older than heart transplants, LASIK, and Viagra, but we don't consider these three to be "experimental" treatments.

The ban on those with depression is a catch-22. Gender dysphoria CAUSES depression. If you have gender dysphoria and depression, then the emergency ruling means you can't get care. If you have gender dysphoria but not depression, a doctor could take that as your condition being "not that bad" and decide not to risk treating you. In my experience doctors are already extremely hesitant to treat trans patients with HRT.
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Sure, but how do you know who that is? And if you give it to 300 random people it probably gets very little done.

I'd certainly do nothing of value with it, and I like to think I'm both a decent dev and a decent communicator, so it's not beyond imagination I could convince someone I was worth it if they were just looking for people to dump $1,000,000 on.
Perhaps when it turns out to be harmful for others. Revenge porn is a thing and known to destroy lives. And people who suffer from it, do not want to file a lawsuit and bring it more attention.

And HN is also heavily moderated. For eg, If you submit a link to dev.to, it will be flagged
This example may be overly simplistic for the point I want to make, but the most common sort of false-factoring I see is when this…

def f(x):
regular_thing(x)

f(v)

…becomes this:

def f(x):
if condition(x):
special_thing(x)
regular_thing(x)

f(v) # in the old code
f(w) # in some new code

Whereas I posit that the correct way to handle the special thing is as follows:

def f(x):
regular_thing(x)

f(v)
if condition(w):
special_thing(w)
f(w)

When junior programmers insist on handling conditional execution paths further and further down the stack you end up with a plethora of optional flags being passed down through each function call.

I found one piece of code where a team had given up and were passing the same **kwargs glob down three of four levels of function calls, with each function doing special conditional steps based on what it saw in the kwargs, effectively a global set of flags controlling logic up and down the stack.

It’s a great example of why long functions are a bad code smell.
Was hoping this would be about broken promises made to devs about fixing bugs and technical debt.
Who says large funds don't have long-term stakes and can't help make long-term decisions?

Fund managers want perhaps to see quarterly profits for their fund, but that's not the same thing as quarterly profits at the underlying companies. Your fund can also profit, if the stock prices of the underlying companies rise.

To give some existence proofs, have a look at how Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Tesla etc had rising share prices long before they ever returned any money to shareholders.

Or how shortly into the covid pandemic market prices for stocks recovered, even though the pandemic wasn't over at all: that was purely based on investors looking to the longer term future.

> [...] and their fund may not even own shares in that company in a year's time.

For that to happen, they need to sell the company to someone else, and that other person will pay more for a company with a bright future.
> I don't know how you get that from that article, because I can't see the word "bytecode" anywhere in it. What text in that article do you think supports your contention?

not sure if you're hung up on the word "byte", but it says the architecture is a stack machine and that's what p-code/bytecode interpreters emulate, so whether it's byte codes or word codes, it's essentially the same thing
What an amazing example of sensationalism and rumor milling! Not a single thing was said about the possibility of a second round of layoffs but hey - the fact Pichai didn't flat out denied it must mean it is in the works!
Implications for the search for extraterrestrial life! The unusually unique features of the cells suggest that it MAY have evolved elsewhere in the universe.
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But how many generations of admission for his descendants does that buy? If you are trying to analyze this through some effective altruism lens, you are not going to explain it. Leave EA to SBF.
I have respect for doctors and their skills, but I don’t associate the guys actually running around in a hospital with hard science. They are factory workers, like programmers that produce widgets on a tight deadline. They have a metric ton of shit to handle under enormous stress.
I've asked a close friend of mine something along those lines. His native language is Spanish but he's been speaking English was well since he was around 3, so I think he safely grew up bilingual.

Anyhow, he said his default voice in his head these days most of the time is English, unless he is around his family and is exclusively speaking Spanish out loud with them, in those cases he just naturally continues speaking Spanish in his head to himself as well without having to "think" about it.

But a lot of times when he's not kinda zoned out, or high/drunk/tired, his thoughts sometimes slip into being entirely in Spanish without him even realizing, and when he's reeeealllly drunk he won't even realize for a bit he's speaking Spanish out loud to me as well haha.
If the AI systems can do research, then how will you stop people from acquiring new and potentially dangerous knowledge ?
>"The Lambda Calculus", the physical machine is looked at with disdain and pity, its limitations to be worked around to provide the one true abstraction.

That isn't true. There are graph reduction machines whose natural model of computation is lambda calculus and they are generally very efficient compared to sequential processors implementing Turing machines.
We are right here. Supporting your right to modify your body, modify your consciousness with drugs/molecules, end or extend your life, go full cyborg, or whatever you want. Is that support reciprocated for the things I want to do? Genuine question.
Does that mean I can hire someone to do all the shit CSS wrangling I’m currently stuck with?
Haha that’s so sweet. I’ll just say my cat is the opposite - earning her affection is really special; anyone she chooses to love has already loved her for months. When she finally cuddles up - ah!

So just like people - you’re right - you’ll never find another cat like that - but you’ll find something especially different!
Eh, education is mostly bad for society.

In the sense, that most of education is about signalling, and funneling more money into education just fuels the arms race.

See Bryan Caplan's Case against Education for more details.

(The part of education that's actually about learning has mostly become cheaper than ever, thanks to the power of the Internet. But unless you got a piece of paper from a university, hiring managers seldom care. (Especially outside of tech.))

So donating money to further educational institutions is bad for society. It has a negative impact.
This is exactly my experience as well. Code architecture, metaphors, tests, etc have had larger impacts on both initial development as well as long term maintenance and malleability.

Some times, some type systems actually make people jump through hoops to accommodate their design and then it can actually have a negative effect. Other times, the typing helps.

It’s kind of like really good grammar and punctuation. They can make a story you write better and clearer. But they far from guarantee it. You can write a very good story with subpar grammar/punctuation. And you can write a really lame story that is grammar perfect.

One thing that I haven’t seen much in the discussion, is any discussion about Elixir’s matching abilities. Does Rust have that as well? I love what Elixir matching does for my code.

(Edited spelling)
Since 'gets anything wrong, ever' is the current goalpost for agi (per the Gary Marcus methodology), we have to judge human intelligence by the same stick. Since the author of this article misunderstood the gpt release process, they have proven they are a non sentient pile of trash brain, ready to be processed into hamburger.
Even with modern communications, most Russians publicly deny knowing that their government is committing atrocities against its own citizens. Of course, they know just as well as people knew throughout the Soviet era. Hence the degree of phoniness in a letter ostensibly to one's spouse that is only intended to satisfy the politburo. Could Gagarin possibly have been unaware of recent history or of what happened to heroes who failed?
Actively harmful donations at least have an impact (Classic example: Hitler had arguably the greatest impact of anybody in the twentieth century). This donation probably won’t do much of anything at all, which is notable in and of itself
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