skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely empathize with this sentiment and understand where you're coming from. However, I've been writing tutorials and documentation for awhile now, and while editing my videos I realized that I would often say "see, simple" after explaining a topic (which is equivalent to just simply in my opinion). I realized that 99% of the time I said that, it was filler and unnecessary, almost like a nervous tick.

Aside from that, of course it's simple for me! I'm the one writing the documentation or creating the tutorial. I've tried to simplify the material into digestible steps. However, this also means I know the subject at hand inside and out. My target audience doesn't necessarily know it as well as me.

So, instead of saying, "see simple" in my tutorials, I began asking myself, "is this concept truly simple for my target audience?" If it isn't simple, then that points out an area I need to clarify and simplify further. I only consider the video/documentation done when I can truly say to myself that the technical content is concise and simple enough for my target audience. This leads to better technical writing (no unnecessary filler), and it leads to a hopefully thoroughly thought out description of the material at hand.

So I don't believe people are being babies or shamed into quitting their careers over a misplaced "simply". Rather, I think they're subconsciously understanding that the writer of the documentation wasn't ruthlessly cutting down the material. I think "just simply" often points to lazy writing, and people pick up on that. Good documentation is ruthlessly concise, truly simple (as in its reduced to the smallest piece of information possible), and it conveys the necessary information quickly.
LaMini-Flan-T5-783M outperforming Alpaca-7B in human evaluation is impressive, and I wish Flan-T5 got some more love from the community, there's too much buzz around Llama based models that could be invested into improving a more open model (Flan-T5 is licensed under Apache 2.0 vs the restrictive license of Llama).

Now I wish someone fine-tuned Flan-T5 on the dataset from Open Assistant, that could be a truly open Alpaca competitor.
A System to Organize Projects
Sorry - how can lobbyists do this? Are they part of the writing process?
I don't think that's what the article says:

> LeCun expresses an engineer's concern that without true intelligence, such programs will ultimately prove brittle, meaning, they could break before they ever do what we want them to do.

> "You know, I think it's entirely possible that we'll have Level 5 autonomous cars without common sense," LeCun told ZDNET, referring to the efforts of Waymo and others to build ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) for self-driving, "but you're going to have to engineer the hell out of it."

I think the discussion in the article is focused on "actual problems".
> Ah, you think that the EU spies on their own citizens but is above spying on allies?

Provide evidence please, but we both know there is none.

> Like how Denmark helped the US spy on the EU?

Yet another case of the US spying on its allies.

Edit: You keep editing your comment so it's hard to properly answer.

> Allies not OK, citizens OK?

I've already wrote you here[0] that I find both cases despicable, but we're simply talking about US foreign espionage here.

.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35765353
I think it makes more sense that very advanced aliens would live in VR paradises they created. Anyone who has read Diaspora by Greg Egan knows what I am talking about.
> While you can argue we knew our military was doing terrible stuff, without her leaks it wouldn't have been clear what terrible stuff they were doing.

The Iraq war logs weren't even mostly about us. They were mostly about our partners. Her testimony aligns to what those databases were for. [1]

> Source? While I'm not 100% clear what her motivations were, I've never heard that claim.

I was trying to find the chat logs from IRC that make that situation a lot more emblematic. She was having relationship issues at the time and was demurred by long deployment times/work. (To her credit, I did a similar deployment for roughly a year and they are exhausting) In her testimony she glosses over much of what was in the chat logs, instead trying to explain her actions from a place of promoting "national discourse".

The helicopter gunship situation is accurate. If there's anything she released that was useful it was that.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/01/bradley-mannin...
In this future, what is the point of music at all? Music used to be a communal thing. First it was songs around the camp fire, slave music, clubs. We have always experienced music together. Even after Spotify we have shared our favorite songs and playlists. We still go to concerts. But if no one has the same frame of reference anymore and all music is atomized and personalized. And nothing means anything anymore. What’s the point? Just background noise?
there are two factors that control market prices: supply elasticity and demand elasticity.

commodities with inelastic supply and inelastic demand are prone to very wide price swings.

inelastic supply means that increasing prices don't increase supply. in the case of lithium, it take time to bring new production capacity online, so supply is very inelastic in the short term.

inelastic demand means that increasing prices do not decrease demand. in the case of lithium, batteries are a very valuable product, and the raw cost of lithium is a small percentage of their total value, so increasing prices for lithium do very little to reduce demand.

the price movement here is totally predictable and exactly what you would expect based on standard economic formulas taking into account supply/demand elasticity. it is not speculation or gambling.

demand went up, supply lagged, the price spiked, supply increased, the price went back down.

electric car sales may still be growing but growing at a lower rate, and projected demand growth is probably decreasing relative to projected supply, so the price is falling.
I’d suggest that strategic military secrets are warranted and beneficial for national defense.
A large black hole would be far superior power source than a dyson sphere.
The fact that it has not been leaked is not proof of the negative. The US had been spying on Europe for 50+ years before Snowden and the US continues to spy on Europe right now without any further leaks -- by your logic that must mean that the US isn't currently spying on the EU, right, or there would be leaks?

There's plenty of evidence of the EU spying on allies. I can't tell if your implication is "Europe can't maintain smart enough computer scientists and engineers capable of spying on the US" or "Europe has the moral high ground and doesn't spy on allies".

Both are naive.
Yet parallel societies don't develop in Muslim countries. Why is that?
Buddy I live in a random ass town where basically every cop is considerably meaner than anywhere else I’ve lived (anecdotally), and I go to the big city nearby for work OFTEN, usually in the not so great or industrial neighborhoods. I don’t worry about biometrics because, frankly, I’m my photos app is locked, my text messages are all backed up, all of my storage apps require a pin, and I don’t keep passwords on my phone.

They want me to unlock my phone and give it to them, I do it. I then file a claim with apple care and get a new phone because I pay $10 a month for theft protection.

Use common sense, don’t live your life in fear
Genuinely confused how people think AI will "democratize" music by allowing people to "create without a gatekeeper". What exactly does this mean? Music has already been democratized. You don't need a label to release music and build a following anymore. Mainstream acts like Radiohead and Chance the Rapper have proven this over and over again.

The catch here is that you need to do something new and original to attract a following that way. Training a computer to generate a Drake song (or imitate McCartney's voice) doesn't empower new artists like AI evangelists think it does. If UMG can pay someone else to copy Drake's flow and release a new Drake track for 1/10 the cost, that isn't "democratizing" artistry, it's extricating the artist from the art altogether. If you do want the support of a label for your own work, you need to meet the right people. AI-generated music doesn't change that.

The only "gates" these people want to get by are ones put up by practicing music enough to make something novel. AI might be useful as a tool to assist actual musicians in their processes, but in my experience the musicians that create interesting music do so because they have a strong vision, not because they're exceptionally technically proficient.
There is security beforehand. Not seen specifics on this event, but metal detector arches have been part of it in other events.

The playing hall is, I think, essentially closed after the start of the match.
There's room for debate over some of the advice in Elements of Style, but "omit needless words" is a great one that every expository writer should take to heart. The advice to use common words in favor of "fancy vocabulary" is also good.
Ask HN: What eInk reader you use to read articles/books?
> You can search all you want but there is no evidence or proof whatsoever of EU countries spying USA top government officials.

Nonsense.
https://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squar... https://www.dw.com/en/german-intelligence-spied-on-white-hou...
There are 0 merit scholarships available to whites. All scholarships at the major state universities in my state have a race based restriction.

So the scholarships aren’t merit, or <race>, but race + merit, presumably to help filter out and select applicants.

I was shocked when I found this information; I assumed that most states had race-blind merit scholarships, but that isn’t the case I guess.
Leaking sources and/or methods gets people killed. Good people often living in terrible places and circumstances, many of them. Maybe most. It also makes good information more difficult to come by for a long time.

Nations spying on nations (even allies) feels terrible but in practice is probably a net good for all. It reduces uncertainty, and uncertainty has historically been a major trigger for armed conflict as one side feared the other side was preparing to strike, so struck first to gain the initiative in case their fears were well-founded. History has shown that judgment to be inaccurate in some significant cases. Wars have also been avoided by good intel.

On the non-kinetic side, espionage better informs policymakers as international agreements are forged and followed. Uncertainty between nations is generally a bad thing for both nations.

We badly need to address nations spying on their own citizens, especially reciprocity arrangements to circumvent restrictions on such. But pending an unlikely utopia of humans all learning how to cooperate at scale for the first time in human history, nations spying on nations is probably a good thing for the planet.
You ain't seen nothing yet. It still hasn't reached its peak.
It's not for everyone, and that includes a lot of landlords.
If it's the delay that killed it, that's really still an unforced error.

They had Windows CE in the 90s, and Windows Mobile in the 2000s.

They were in a good place to be able to release a smartphone in time.
Yeah, and it's why I think it's fundamentally impossible to prevent retaliation against whistleblowers. Organizations act in favor of self-preservation, like any living thing. Whistleblowers by definition act against them, so an organization will always benefit by removing them. Failure to do so will prolong the damage and encourage further transgressions.
No it doesn't. At least it doesn't make financial sense.

I believe that Vancouver banned gas for home heating but left the door open to allow gas for cooking, but when I read articles about this at the time of the change, contractors quoted said it would be really silly to go to all the effort to create a gas hookup just for cooking. Likely would be very little uptake, and only by super wealthy enthusiast cooks who demand gas for some reason.
My tinnitus is in a range I can hear fine.
Blue check costs less than a subscription to the NYT. Hardly a marker of wealth?
If an Alien civilization has the means to visit us, they are beyond the point of needing more resources.

Same reason an Alien spacecraft has never crash landed on Earth - Aliens don't crash the car.
What useful things are people able to do with the smaller more inaccurate models? I have a hard time understanding why I would build on top of this, rather than just the openaI API, since the performance is so much better.
> Yet another case of the US spying on its allies.

I'm not sure if you're being obtuse or just didn't bother reading.

Denmark was complicit in the US spying on Germany, Sweden and Norway.

https://www.dw.com/en/danish-secret-service-helped-us-spy-on...

France and Germany both have admitted they have spied on the White House.

https://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squar...

https://www.dw.com/en/german-intelligence-spied-on-white-hou...

Germany has been found to helping the US spy on EU allies:

https://www.dw.com/en/parliamentary-report-finds-spying-by-b...

This is a childish and naïve stance.

Also, I'm not American. You can stop referring to me in the second person.
Economic situation of a country is a fairly complex picture that cannot be measured by a single scalar value. GDP per capita is not useless, but just one value among many. Same as you wouldn't try to measure an individual's overall health by their BMI alone. It tells you something, especially on the extreme ends of the distribution, but in the middle, not that much.

Yeah, OECD is very political. No disagreement about that.

But I would say that the correlation of "being attractive for FDI" and "having good standards of living among the general population" is rather high and given that FDI tends to predate said growth of standards of living, there actually may be causality.

Excluding resource-rich countries that grew fat on something that comes out of the earth, pretty much every country whose standards of living soared since, say, 1950, attracted a lot of FDI beforehand.

After all, the same things that attract investors (stability, low crime, high educational attainment, reliable electricity supply, rule of law) tend to be good for the citizens as well.
> And the average length of a flight in the US is longer, obviously.

Not really. For US in 2018 it was ~700 miles (https://www.bts.dot.gov/newsroom/2018-traffic-data-us-airlin...), and for EU in 2020 it was ~1000 kilometers (https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/2021-04/euro...).

There are a lot of short flights (anything not coast-to-coast or north-to-south, basically) that skew the average.
The inflation goes way beyond just an increase in the price.

The portion sizes often seem to be simultaneously decreasing, too.

The quality of the ingredients is also often noticeably less than it used to be.

On top of all of that, the service from the staff is also often terrible these days.

I end up paying far more, getting a much smaller quantity of food, what little I do get is inferior, and the overall experience is unpleasant.

It's not just getting the same for more money. It's now about getting far less for more money.
Gas water heaters usually have a thermopile for their controls. Once the pilot is lit which can be done with one of those ignition clicker buttons (purely mechanical). There's no electric hookup to my water heater, nor have I ever had an electric hookup to any gas water heater.

Gas is also often more reliable than electricity as gas is practically always buried while electricity has many overhead lines in the mix.
I would rather go the opposite route and adopt the model in Japan and other countries so we can finally be rid of tips. Restaurants all over the world exist without tips. The US is not a special case

I don't care about the staff asking me how my day is. I don't care how their day is going. I don't care about how "attentive" the staff is. I don't care if the staff has AirPods in. Replace the check ins with a call button. Familiarity with the menu for questions is all the interaction needed. Wait staff can be reduced, since they are just hanging out in the back unless called or serving food.

We can get rid of pretending the restaurant under paying the wait staff is the diners problem to be made up for with tips, because they need to employ people to talk to you while you're eating.

Extremely high end Michelin star places don't really have check ins, they just monitor you and do their explainers while they serve you. That is nice service, but most restaurants aren't at that level at all, and the prices at a Michelin place are so high that there is no need for a tip for the service.
Estimates of:

> 1000000 space debris objects from greater than 1 cm to 10 cm

> 130 million space debris objects from greater than 1 mm to 1 cm

For high aspect ratio debris, it's not clear whether the given size ranges refer to the long or short axis. I wonder how the Project West Ford[0] artificial ionosphere needles contribute to these estimates. Apparently the remaining needles are mostly in clumps, so they might not be estimated at the individual level.

I hope we can develop a good method for space debris cleanup. It would be a shame if humanity ends up suffering from Kessler Syndrome[1]. Time to brush up on how to use a map and compass, I guess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
woks are round (hemispherical) on the bottom, gas is better for heating that shape
I am not a fan of the idea that "oh, the right people are mad, therefore it must have been a Good thing to do!" The same feathers would have been ruffled if Snowden had leaked our nuclear codes. The point is that he exposed wrongdoing, and the public agreed.

There are plenty of people who are punished by the state that the majority does not believe are "speaking an essential truth". For example: domestic terrorists.
Tokenization is a probable issue here, the longer the context the longer the initial processing with llama I think. Possible tokenizer is not optimized.
Maybe it's time to stop that sentiment and ack that we are the future Ancients ;) Or could be. But prospects are bleak so far...
... or it will homogenize that lower 80th percentile (which needs to do something out of the ordinary to stand out) and decrease interest in it even more.
Windows Phone had enough ardent and faithful followers even after it was officially discontinued.

I'd say that it's the moving too slowly and not focussing on getting some key apps working on WinMobile did not let the platform win some mobile.
More controversial opinion is that there's too much ego-stroking fluff in general and everything is "perfect" and "elegant" and "awesome" and "simple", etc, etc, etc. Always reads like appeals to narcissism to me.
The suits know the profit math and find the risks acceptable. The engineers know the mortality math and do not.
Thank you for both insights!
simpleton view as a non-tech person - investors/traders are well known to buy high / sell low and I think that holds true for businesses.

I suspect VR needs more AI in it for story telling and experience as suspect most of the VR work is more akin to 90's expert systems. Open worlds needs standards for open explorations and standards may be the key for all the current LLMs and next generation models to show up in VR.

Assuming FB has been successful in leveraging the inhouse pytorch expertise over these years and hopefully has not lost it's people in their zealous cost cutting when forced to de-prioritize VR. If that is the case, then we have seen that many times over and over - deep pockets and patience wins most of the trades
The quote from the article below [1] demonstrates why the doomers, degrowers, Neo-Malthusians, etc. keep getting resource scarcity wrong. They keep quoting the "proven reserves" numbers [2] that only count what is extractable with current tech at current prices, factoring out new technologies / techniques, as well as reserves not discovered yet or discovered but not yet "proven".

[1] "But while demand for lithium has been subdued, many believe the expanding supply outlook for the metal is mainly what is pushing prices lower this year, with a wave of fresh supply expected to come online from facilities in China, Australia and Chile. Five analyst forecasts, including ones from Bank of America (BofA), JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley that were reviewed by Bloomberg in mid-January, for instance, anticipated production increases of between 22 percent and 42 percent in 2023 alone. “Supply is coming on stream faster than you can say ‘boo’. Demand remains strong, but prices have been unsustainable for some time now,” analyst Dylan Kelly of Ord Minnett recently told Mining.com."

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proven_reserves
I'm sure there is some truth to your statement. I don't think it negates the need for society to protect whistleblowers who do so under a sense of moral obligation though (which is what the article is about).
This is neat. I recently wanted something similar so this is what I did:

1. Zellij split panes

2. Left pane: Helix editor with built-in Marksman (markdown LSP) support.

3. Right pane: watchexec (re- runs commands when watched files change) running Glow (Terminal markdown renderer) on the last modified markdown file (‘ls’ gives you that)

Then you can use ‘gd’ and whatnot to move between references from one markdown file to another.

This is easily composed of smaller parts, so you can use vim instead of helix, tmux instead of zellij, mdcat instead of glow.

It’s really the same process I might use to edit code on the left and re run tests or compiler checks or linting on the right. Since I was already doing those things, turning my terminal into a markdown viewer was trivial.
Media megacorporations won't die on their own.

As much money as they lose; they make enough returns for their owners in indirect ways to be worth the investment. Murdoch and Turner are many things, but poor isn't one of them.

Btw, did anyone else find it disturbing how "do your own research" became a trigger phrase that allows a rather large group of people to discount anything and everything you said? And at the same time, for an opposite but similar group of people, "trust the science" did the same thing?
Palm, Blackberry and Windows PocketPC blazed the trail. iOS and Android were relatively latecomers that arrived with a more competitive product (iOS because it was much better than the previous generation, and Android because it borrowed the ideas from iOS and was free.)
Ive had an idea for a flight sim station for a while, but its no where near diy'able am afraid - to be able to 'mimic' different g forces, im thinking a big 'arm' rotating (like the one soviet cosmonauts and i think fighter pilots were trained on), with a capsule in the end of the arm containing a cage with a chair, rotatable 360 deg, with a screen - so if you need sode Gs, youd just rotate the cage so that your side is facing outwards...dunno about the doability at all :D
There's already a ton of really, really good music in that 80th percentile, that barely ever gets heard. Some of my favorite songs ever have like 10,000 plays on Soundcloud. Lack of quality is not the reason that bottom 80th percentile doesn't get heard (or the converse: it's not the reason that most people don't listen to that bottom 80th percentile).
There have been a few products like this announced recently and they all have intro level examples on the home page. Can yours deal with things like entity-attribute-value model tables?
I asked chatgpt4, and it did some insane formula that uses lat/long and the radius of the earth to measure distances, then asked it to add a bonus 20 minutes for any destination in SF, 15 minutes for any event in Berkeley/Oakland (and it correctly put bounding rectangles on the three jurisdictions).