skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is founded on 3 pillars of unethicalities.

1. Data Privacy - They will try to find every possible way to sell your data and not get noticed. An easy example of that is when fb started throwing fits when apple didnt let it track users activity across all apps by default. They tried to hide behind the fact that it would "severely" affect small businesses.

2. Depleting Mental Health - They will try to find every possible way to keep you engaged on the platform. That is often done by algorithmically promoting content that inspires extreme emotions in you. Emotions such as anger, jealousy, lust etc. Experiencing these emotions for an extended period of time EVERYDAY is not healthy for maintaining a good emotional balance.

3. Fake News - They will try to find every possible way to shrug off responsibility for spreading fake news. This affects politics by creating echo chambers, healthcare by preventing people from believing in the correct diagnostics and other areas.

I agree that nobody is stopping you from opening facebook, but facebook is like smoking. Everyone only wants to try it once, and then many fall into the downward spiral.

I was reading somewhere that how resisting facebook and all of facebook products everyday is not possible with the will power reserves that an average human has.
This is because he is competing with psychologists and researchers employed by facebook who have been studying human behaviour for years.

I do not have any sources to back my claims. Social Media has personally affected me a lot so I keep reading about the phenomena out of curiosity.
Here's one little article that breifly describes what I am talking about.
https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peop...
Given a place to live, Finland’s homeless were better able to deal with problems
Ulaa – A New Chromium based privacy focused browser from Zoho
Ulaa - A New chromium based privacy focused browser from Zoho.
Does the market need another chromium based browser that claims to be privacy focused?
Jeremy’s Iron
Regarding C), I think it actually gets tough.

> but its cheaper and easier to use this existing, available, code to do the job.

What often happens is that the existing, available, sometimes even popular and well regarded code has lots of issues that you may only find after you deploy the thing. Then, you need to decide what tack to take. Can you engage upstream? Do you end up maintaining third party code yourself to fix the issues? Working around quirky bugs? You may even find yourself so frustrated with all of the above that you wind up abandoning the dependency and writing something new in-house.

But honestly, getting back to the topic, sqlite is not one of those things. Sqlite is a very solid library.
Most people don't object to increasing rural highway capacity. However, the increased traffic has to go somewhere, and nobody likes busy streets in their neighborhood. Not in the suburbs, and not in the city. People generally want less traffic in their area, not more.

Urbanists tend to prefer walkable cities. They want to use less above-ground space for traffic and parking, leaving more space for buildings, parks, and public squares. Highway capacity expansions work against that, because they encourage more people to drive into the city.
"zero guidance" and "zero requirements to proceed" are not the same.

I'm talking about "zero guidance" mostly, but I'll switch to progress requirements since that seems to be what you're interested in.

in Breath of the Wild, you are free to go up against Ganon unarmed, if you choose. you will lose, but you can do it. in LoZ, you can't reach Ganon without meeting the prerequisites to gain entry. those are both gates to progress, but one is implicit and one is explicit. in both cases, the games give you very little help on how to proceed until you seek out that info yourself. I prefer when you are given the choice about how to proceed yourself.

in BotW, if I am a skilled player, I can make whatever weapons and food I have go much further than I could if I were an unskilled player.

in LoZ, the requirements are the same for everyone, even if you are capable enough as a player to kill him before you collect all the gear, you can't. you have to do it all. those are rails. rails are bad. it's not handholding, though, which is good, because handholding is also bad. to me.

I liked Zelda 2. A lot. you may choose to use that little factoid to dismiss all I've said, and that's your prerogative, but I also loved the first Zelda, and the third. and Ocarina of Time. and many others. it's when the game leads you by the nose to the end that I dislike things, and that's what Skyward Sword was, very much.
Levelized cost already takes into account the capacity factor of the sources. On a per-peak watt basis, PV is 10x cheaper than nuclear.

We can look at the cost of providing steady power (synthetic baseload) from renewables + storage. This is the most favorable comparison for nuclear, since any varying demand enables storage to serve double duty (smoothing variations in both supply and demand). For reasonable cost assumptions, particularly for when any nuclear plant started today could come online, renewables beat nuclear. It's important to use more than just batteries for storage; batteries are not well suited to long term storage.

https://model.energy/
This article does not make sense to me. City's main point of attractiveness is high density. When you have a place with lots of resources ( usually near rivers ) people will move there. The more people, the more business which means if there's any place for any nice market then hitting the biggest cities first is a good bet. Yes, this means the more houses you build in an area, the more people will move there which will increase the attractiveness of a city. Attractiveness can be represented as value. This, in no way means you should stop building houses in places that are the most attractive. Quite the opposite. Build until the price drops or the cost of even higher density outstrips the benefit that could be gained. Eventually too many people will be priced out. You might not like the idea that only the very rich can occupy the highest value spot in a city but thats just free market.

"They added two more lanes to the freeway, but the traffic is worse than ever.” But that’s a wonderful result"

No, its not. Thoughput is a function of speed * vehicles. Having a 6 lane highway at a crawl is as effective as a single lane highway at decent speed. Induced demand is complicated to grasp but the core is that highways are terrible at moving lots of people and any additional highway will make more people drive to match the highway's new capacity. A neverending traffic loop. Trains, trams, buses and cyclepaths all move more people which should be prioritised. Many countries atleast have priority for buses which makes them a better option. Most american cities treat them like another car but with lower status.
Lately I occasionally put my phone into airplane mode. It sort of / not really emulates the feeling of old phones and gives a taste of relief from suddenly not being online and at the beck & call of notifications.
That's fair, although that movie is itself a little bit "how do you do, fellow hackers?"
> The emacs bindings for Mac are too limited

Curious, where do you find them lacking? AFAIK they’re present in all cocoa apps. Are there other apps where you wish they were supported, or is it that you wish for more bindings besides the mentioned C-a, C-e, etc?
rotate tenants? looks like another case for weak renter protection. in germany you can't terminate a renters contract unless you evict them. time limited rent contracts are only allowed if the property is not available for rent after the time limit ends.
One of my uni subjects required us to write a C to MIPS32 compiler, due to the lecturer being a fan of MIPS. No yacc, no gcc, do it all from scratch.

An interesting lesson from it was that the argument about differences between compiled programming languages and scripts (which also arose during the course) is ultimately pointless. You can write a compiler to compile a scripting language, and you can write an interpreter to interpret and run something like C. So its not the language which matters but the compiling or interpreting.
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Your bias is that you are against Web3, so unfunny jokes and incorrect information by other Web3 haters is totally cool, but in-depth explanations, or presentations summarizing years of work in Web3 to produce free helpful open source software, are silly and to be criticized without even engaging with the substance.

Stop wasting my time.
The article isn't great but your analysis is probably worse.

No per Capita analysis? No income analysis? Only two cities?

This is actually a challenging question to answer. Thankfully other people have done research and we can reference that if we actually want to know the answer, rather than just prove our priors to ourselves.
Tesla could never reach full capacity at GF1 because they couldn’t find enough people willing to move to Sparks, NV. Also why they picked Austin for that GF.

The nomad tradespeople you mention exist, but they are rare, and most likely dwindling as they get old and die and no one replaces them (a problem all trades currently).
This appears to be a description of a theoretical attack to cause a specific target networked Bitcoin node to consume quite a bit of bandwidth by returning blockchain data to the attacker. It doesn't seem like this would have any effect on the Bitcoin network at large, however. While I don't doubt that there exists an obscure client vulnerability that could be patched, it seems far-fetched and alarmist to categorise this as a "bitcoin exploit".
It is quite likely GPT-4 uses one or even two sparsity approaches on top of each other (namely, coarse grained switch transformer-like and fine grained intra-tensor block sparsity), if you look at the openly available contributors' research CVs.

Google, in collaboration with OpenAI, has published an impressive tour de force where they have throughly developed and validated at scale a sparse transformer architecture, applied to general language modeling task: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12763

This happened in November of 2021, and there is a public implementation of this architecture on the Google's public github.

Impressively, due to some reasons, other up-and-coming players are still not releasing models trained with this approach, even though it promises multiplicative payoff in inference economy.
One boring explanation is conservatism for NN training at scale, where training runs cost O(yearly salary).

Let's hope the open source side of things catches up.
Yep, still plenty of those of folks, mostly for challenges on the weekend. I'm always impressed by how they can keep two games in two different formats straight 4-5 hours into it lol
Building a large supply of high-rise apartments can certainly decrease prices... see e.g. downtown Chicago which has cycles of over-building apartments resulting in lower rents, then waiting for rents to rise before building more.
Here's 40 lines of python code that I've found to be unreasonably effective at accomplishing something similar:

https://github.com/jiggy-ai/pydantic-chatcompletion/blob/mas...
SCWO has been eyeballed for decades as a way to clear superfund sites. It’s used from time to time for chemical cleanup.

The hard part is building a ceramic that can handle heat, pressure and the corrosive salts produced during the reaction. Apparently it’s a Pick Two situation.
I am amazed that people haven't gotten used to these "internal Google doc leaks".

This is just the opinion of some random googler, one among over 100,000.

For some reason random googlers seem like to write random docs on hot topics and share it widely across the company. And someone, among those over 100,000 googlers, ends up "leaking" the opinion of that person to outside Google.

This is more like a blog post of some random dude over the Internet expressing his opinion. The fact that random dude ended up working at Google should not bear much on evaluating the claims in the doc.

A website published that with a title "Google ..." is misleading. The accurate title would be "Some random googler: ..."
> An individual car is the epitome of freedom

Nailed it. The car is the symbol of liberty and freedom, and not without reason. People who present public transit as an alternative to cars confound me. I will choose my own car over any kind of public transit every day. I even try to avoid flights if I can drive to my destination in ~12 hours. I can take a lot of luggage, stop and relax at my leisure, have good food, not submit to security checks. Cars are literally better in every single way to train/bus/tram etc.
Turbo and davinci should be equally non-conversational. When you use GhatGPT it also has InstructGPT on top of turbo which is what makes it conversational, together with RLHF.
I can't be the only one who looked at the top picture and thought it was Mr. Bean about to spit out toothpaste on some hapless soul as he drove by.
The architecture is described enough to re-implement it and train it on known datasets/benchmarks such as VQA2. A single man with a medical degree named Phil Wang ('lucidrains')[0] has the ability to reproduce most of these papers by himself. He has 246 GitHub repos[1], most of which appear to be reproductions of models which are only described in papers that had no associated code or models released, such as [2]. Often it appears he releases code within 2 weeks of a paper's publication on ArXiv.

0: https://lucidrains.github.io

1: https://github.com/lucidrains

2: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/coca-contrastive-captioners...
> This is why a number of researchers have been arguing that diagnosis-centric research is a dead-end.

Just sounds like they've been diagnosing by symptom because they didn't know the actual etiology. Once it's known shouldn't they just change the diagnosis to be the new, more specific condition? Seems like diagnosis is still the goal?
And yet, by the magic of there being only one way it could happen, the day that someone destroys the last copy of the microfilm will be because copyright prevented the people who wanted from keeping a copy from doing so.

It isn't like there is any shortage of people thinking that sort of record is worth preserving. Lots of people do. There is a shortage of people legally aloud to make copies. Because, as mentioned, copyright.
I was also wondering what is exactly the illegal part in a service to check cards, except for who's using it for what.

I'm maybe naïve to this, because I don't know how the check is being performed.
More readable PDF:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=677...
Not OP, but as someone that's now rebuilt 4 serverless systems into monoliths (across 4 orgs) and achieved some pretty stunning results, serverless would be useful if all of these things are true:

1) Your workload is fairly simple
2) Your workload is unpredictably spiky from low lows to high highs
3) Latency is not a concern

If any of these aren't true, you're probably better off using a monolith (but you should think logically about your individual use case).
I agree that real estate is complex and simply plotting density vs price along any dimension isn't very useful. My analysis is as complex as Scott Alexander's and arrives at the opposite conclusion.
With more convenient keybinds you'd get the same associations, just with different keycaps/fingers (like cat would be cut a tag or xat could be aXe a tag), so it's not worth it using the bad defaults on account of this
Not being forced is the wall behind which every un-ethical tech company hides.

- Nobody is forcing me to use youtube, but youtube has years of collection of important tutorials and educational material.

- Nobody is forcing me to use facebook (and its products) but fb has gathered users over the years that forces me to use the product in order to remain a part of the social sphere. Kids feeling left out in high-school because of not using instagram is an example.

- Nobody is forcing me to use Netflix, but if I want to watch the trendy movie that my friends are talking about, I do not have a choice.

If you see the pattern, tech companies by the virtue of their money have created a social effect where they might not "force" me to use their product but I have to use it if I wish to remain a part of the society.

It is difficult to swim upstream and the companies by the virtue of their deep pockets have shifted the flow that helps them make the most money.
> I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the concept.

It's worse than that: I've not even tried to understand it.

> The main idea is that you don't move on to a later skill until you've shown high proficiency in the skills that it depends upon.

Okay. That idea is foolish and regressive. The human mind learns on multiple levels simultaneously. A single "lesson" can evoke or participate in many "learnings" over the course of a pupil's life. You can teach a skill and the skills that depend on it at the same time, if you know what you're doing.

Arguing the details of how Bloom is a crank is uninteresting to me. I would sooner study the "evidence" of the free energy generator crackpots, as I would be slightly less certain that I wasn't wasting my time.

You don't know what you're doing. Doing it harder and faster with computers is not a good idea. I pity your student and you as well.

> Plugging my ears and going "la la la" about the evidence and just doing what I want is not how I will make anything better.

If you want to discuss how the weird shit you're doing to these kids will or will not prepare them for the world where computers talk and think better than they can, I'd love to do that. If you want to passively condescend to me because I won't taste your particular flavor of pseudo-scientific kool-aid I've got better things to do with my time.
> Why are we talking about this?

Why here? Because, as I said below, I posted that in response to this specific thread somewhat by mistake. I was discussing racially motivated changes in university acceptance criteria on a parenting forum and pretty much the same example was being used as an example of the thinking of those calling for the changes.

> And great example of anecdotal evidence.

Is anecdotal the new dismissal word of 2023 or something? "Oh, sure that happens and you see it near you, but that's just an anecdote - if you can't show it happening worldwide it doesn't count!"

Racialized teaching is in schools, rarely with justification this blatant though. They're using this rhetoric to justify getting rid of advanced classes and push groups of people entirely out of academics sometimes. If you don't follow schools and local politics I can imagine why you don't hear about it though.

> The only effect your long comment has is to further radicalize people into believing

Oh, I thought you were using the actual meaning of radicalize - you know. Violence instead of speech, etc.

> that nothing should be done to support minorities

No... That what should be done to support minorities is the same thing that should be done to support the majority - full and proper academic standards.

You should never need to talk about a student's race, or even take it into account. If a specific group of students really need extra help, use class analysis (ie, poverty) instead of racial analysis.

> Think twice before writing reactionary nonsense

Is this like calling me fascist, or do you actually mean something by this label?

> btw, the source you quote here, Unherd, has this article at the top of their website "Why lesbian women should sleep with men". Laughable.

I don't pick and choose source sites by their overall ideology so I didn't check the rest of their site before sharing the opinion piece.

But, yeah .... That is laughable. Can you believe that homophobes are literally attacking lesbian at pride parades and dyke marches for saying things such as "Lesbianism is female."

Note the Benford question mark in the headline though, it's sarcastic - the content says lesbians should not sleep with men. Sadly though, the article is in response to very real calls for violence against lesbians.
France and Finland have had excessive difficulty with their EPR.

My hypothesis is that modern economies with high wages will simply not be able to build a nuclear reactor economically. It appears to require a certain amount of 20th century technological advancement, but not so much economic advancement that labor costs are too high.

France had a much better track record with nuclear in their first round of building. France can also build large construction projects without the massive cost overruns that the US has had. But they can't seem to get a next gen reactor built.
> No remote access

What would that be useful for? If I am away from my car, I absolutely don't need to "access" it. It is not a home server or something like that.

> security notifications

What are those? Notify me that my car is being broken into? Maybe it is good-to-have, but far from crucial.

> navigation facilities

No thanks, I have a phone for that. I can connect it to my car's screen if needed.

> No watching TV while charging?

No, it just takes a couple of minutes to fill up. You should try one of these new-fangled internal combustion engine cars. They are amazing!

> No OTA updates that obviate the need to take it to the dealership for routine fixes?

What routine fixes? My car has never needed a software bugfix in the decade I have owned it.

> No open source location analytic API?

Huh??! Is this a satirical post I've fallen bait to?
As a googler, I believe that googlers should be paid top of market. I love to see my fellow Sundar getting bank
None of those people are sociopaths. You are just projecting. You haven't met the person or know anything about them.
Regarding assertions:

The sections "If you think you're using enough assertions, you're wrong" and "Bonus: Sanity Checking" can be considered a subset of "Design by Contract"[0].

Regarding:

However, comments can become out-of-date, and you might
not be lucky enough to stumble across the right comment
before you embark on a refactoring adventure.

Not if comments are treated as first-class citizens, just as important as the code change(s) which make them out-dated. Better still is to ensure unit tests are "executable documentation"[1].

Regarding "Prefer end-to-end tests":

In my experience, this leads to unit test atrophy, degrading system verification to rely solely on integration tests ("end-to-end tests"). This has often resulted in higher coupling and always resulted in interminable build times.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract

1 - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1546...
And then there's i3wm that by default uses jkl; not hjkl because that keeps your fingers home. Between that and leaning on emacs/readline bindings I'd probably have a bit of trouble with vim these days.
I mean, past 12 months crypto hasn't been very volatile. That is part of why it looks like it is outperforming all these banking institutions who are rather volatile in that the regulators are forced to invent new regulations on the fly otherwise the whole system might collapse. Nobody has any confidence that their money will be safe except, ironically, people like the Silicon Valley Bank depositors.

In crypto, they lost FTX. That seems to have been about it. No rule changes required. I can self-custody if I don't trust the exchanges.
Existing thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35819305
That’s a Rick and Morty episode
Yes Ghost profiles is what people used to refer it to.

Browser fingerprinting is how they are able to track you across the internet despite having no connection with facebook.

One way to fix this to stop your PC from communicating with any facebook servers.

- Firefox provides an extension for this.

There must be other methods that I am not aware of but if anybody knows.