skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data point is meant to be illustrative of broader habits and behaviors which put the lie to the absurd notion that there is robust pharmacovigilance being conducted on the COVID vaccines. So if we apply your line of reasoning across the board, why would any adverse event ever be recorded, followed up, or investigated? After all, bad things happen all the time, and we're giving out billions of doses. What do you think the typical bias of the typical doctor has been since the vaccine rollout started?

Where did you get your figures for the likelihood of a cardiac event from the COVID vaccines? Were they stratified by age? Were they derived from trials conducted by the manufacturers, who we now know to have excluded cardiac events from the trial results for no apparent reason other than "couldn't possibly have been our Safe & Effective shots"?

Why have excess deaths remained persistently high in countries which saw a high degree of vaccine uptake, when they should be expected to decline after a new contagious virus runs its course and the vast majority of a population gains exposure? If the answer is "Long COVID," then a.) why were the vaccines so ineffective in protecting against long-term sequelae, and b.) how is it possible to disambiguate the causes of deaths without, again, properly placebo-controlled RCTs?

> When you give billions of people the vaccine you'll get basically everything happening after someone gets a vaccine including a death by train derailment.

This is such a tendentious, dishonest argument. As though "hey maybe these shots which are known to cause a lot of people heart problems caused this sudden cardiac arrest in a 42 year old who had just taken them, I would bet no one even looked into it at all because everyone knew to trust the Safe & Effective Vaccine" is somehow comparable to spuriously linking them to a train derailment.
This is like forcing a human to answer questions about brain anatomy.

You’ll be lucky to get anything reasonable at all.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#List_of_l...

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_datasets_for_machine-l...
They are brutal towards proselytizing ones, certainly.
> (But you don't, so I suspect you're not good at logical reasoning)

Perhaps I'm not, but at least I'm good enough at it to be able to have a discussion without resorting to insulting the person I'm talking with.
>Markets don't pay you what something is worth, they pay what the cheapest participant is willing to sell it for.

I believe 'what something is worth' is defined as what the market is willing to pay.

And sometimes the customer will pay for something that isn't the cheapest of something, which is why I'm writing this on a mac.
Oh these poor poor NYC landlords, hardly evading the bankruptcy under the unfair and unjust pressure of the evil renters. /s
Doesn't mean the smaller models are anywhere close to the capabilities of GPT-4.
I already decided I will not buy cars with touch screens or cars that limit my usage (for ex. Tesla limiting how you can use its battery). I am guessing I will keep driving my 12 years old ICE car for another 5-6 years. It seems to work: car makers are starting to go back to buttons instead of touch screens [0]. Maybe the same will happen with these features (charging $/month for extra engine power / remote car startup / heated seats)?

[0] https://slate.com/business/2023/04/cars-buttons-touch-screen...
This is borderline ignorance in this age of privacy erosion. Is someone overhearing your phone call the same as a warrantless wiretapping program?
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Libraries are under continual space pressure. Books come in, the buildings stay the same size. Thus, "weeding."

And of course libraries have succumbed to a kind of identity panic, "Who are we in the Age of Google?" Everything is online, so ... let's just pitch this stuff to make room.

Make room for what? Again the identity panic: maybe we are a community center, so let's set aside space for this and that and the other thing, which is still more pressure on the extant catalog.

And so those big shelves of microfilm just sit there, haven't been looked at in ages, might as well pitch 'em. It's all online now. Now. Maybe not later.

I worked in an academic library for a long time. These problems are endemic.
This is one of my favorite ways to build Next.js sites, and adding in Dynamic when needed is Next's superpower. Thanks for noting the the new app/ folder supports it!
Remember when people were using gitlab because it was an open source bigtech cloud free alternative to GitHub?

At that point there are not anymore good reasons to favor Gitlab against GitHub regarding the path they are following.
It's tragically funny how much the modern economy depends on consumerism and buying worthless goods. Yet from a public health standpoint, overconsumption is not healthy and should be discouraged. It seems there is a conflict between what's best for the economy and what's best for society.
Facebook isn't on bail. And as a metaphor, bail is not relevant to the situation.
I would make the argument that the persistent trend of increasingly unusable UIs is because companies don't focus enough on what makes a good UX and just go with whatever flashy crap is fashionable this sprint.
Ah, I didn't realize that had been nationalized (not technically a "National Park" though).

I've paddled through the "waters" bit a few times (geez, 20 years ago); lack of access would definitely help the overcrowding.
> Expat literally means "living outside of your homeland". So by definition an immigrant is an expat, but an expat is not necessarily an immigrant.

In practice, though, "expat" is used by people who want to define themselves in terms of where they're from, and not admit (to themselves any more than to anyone else) that they are where they are and are probably going to stay there for the foreseeable future: "I don't belong to the riffraff here in the country where I live, I'm an expat, which is something far fancier."

And possibly by a few naïve fuckers who don't actually mean it that way, and don't realise that that's how they're coming off because of all the stuck-up arseholes who do.

HTH!
The UK government exists to do the right thing for the people who own the country. The larger population are assets. Technically the country is a constitutional monarchy, but the 'constitution' is a joke. Most people in the UK can't even articulate what it is, and if you look its core document (Magna Carta, which is written in Latin) it's basically a negotiated settlement between a monarch and lesser aristocrats designed to securely distribute a certain number of privileges across the latter: https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/magna-carta-english-t...

It's not the current government that's on its last legs, it's your system of government. With the upcoming coronation, police are being given sweeping new public order powers and opponents of monarchy are being pre-emptively warned not to upset the apple car or face penal consequences. Meanwhile the establishment press regales the populace with an endless torrent of nonsense about how many twists are in King Charles' gold braid and what sort of 500 year old pie recipe will be served at the royal feast.

After briefly abolishing the monarchy and establishing a parliament, the UK went back to being an aristocracy and went in an imperialist direction instead. The peasants and later the working class were willing to put up with it by virtue of feeling that they were at the top of the international heap and thus far better off than all those savages in the colonies. As imperial dreams faded under the stress and cost of war, the country pivoted to being the center of a 'commonwealth', but at its core its still an aristocracy, with nearly unlimited privileges for the very rich or the very well-bred, and open-air prison conditions with bread and circuses for everyone else, kept in line by an especially cynical press. The whole Brexit mess was based on nostalgia for the days of Britain being an empire with a built-in moat. The only things saving the UK from international irrelevance are money (in the sense of being a tax haven for the very wealthy), a seat on the UN security council, and a small nuclear capability.

Nothing is going to change until the country becomes a republic, and the only way to get there is to abolish your benighted aristocracy, confiscate its assets, and convert a subject population into citizens by refactoring your legal code to make it meaningful and comprehensible to schoolchildren. Otherwise it's just going to continue down the Harry Potter theme park track.
> The problem is that most people want to go to a small number of very popular places.

That is because they are the prettiest and most desirable destinations. This is unsurprising. People want to see Yosemite, not some barren nothingness out near Ridgecrest, CA or Kingman, AZ.

Just because land is owned by the USFS or BLM and has public access doesn't mean it has any real recreational or attractive value that would draw visitors.
Is that a relevant comparison? The moat in maps is primarily capital-intensive real-world data collection/licensing.

The (supposedly) leaked article attempts to show that this aspect isn't that relevant in the AI/LLM context.
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> There's only so much genius you can get into a few thousand lines of code.

Einstein's paper that introduces E=mc^2 is about three pages long.
Agreed. The context was with Prime Video where they had microservices that needed to pass video frames around to one another, and they did this by uploading the frames to S3 from one service, and downloading them from S3 in the next service: https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-th...

The first major "fix" was moving the logic from these separate services into a single service so that the network steps were not necessary. Once they only had a single monolith, it made sense to explore tools like EC2/ECS that run single services well, and often for cheaper than serverless tools when you have predictable scale (or otherwise efficient auto-scaling).

For companies operating at extremely large scales and dealing with expensive, hard-to-cache operations like video monitoring, it's likely financially and computationally worth it to optimize that scaling. For many of us, it many not be worth pre-optimizing that (even Amazon in that story tried to use a step-function based approach to start with). Or it may be worth starting with serverless, expanding your app in production, and changing over once you hit sufficient scale and can predict your usage.

When the tweet that reads this story sensationalizes the story as "jfc the prime video team absolutely kneecapped AWS serverless", and then in the follow up tweet says that AWS says folks "can't" use serverless when the tweet they reference says "should", and then this HackerNews post reduces even more context in its title, this does feel quite misleading.
Government institutions were targeted. Isn't that enough? Does the perpetrator's purpose have to be intuited to make it a heinous crime?

It's hard to distinguish between this act and a 'legitimate' terrorist act. Same result for you and me.
There are a number of pay for apps like Halide that make the iPhone camera more useful beyond what Apple provides using the same underlying hardware.
Perhaps it's more to the point that your problem wouldn't be solved by lowering the voting age, as that would still not give you a perspective tens, hundreds ... thousands of years into the future.

You'd have to get people to vote 1000s of years before they're even born.
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I'd say it's just as likely that human intelligence is just someone else's intelligence too with some bootstrapping from nature. Will a 50000 BCE hunter/gather (assume grey/white matter counts are equal to a modern one) given infinite restarts of their life (but not the ability to build upon or add to a body of knowledge) be able to conceptualize general relativity?

i.e. learning how to track animal grazing patterns and when to find and harvest plants could lead to the development of time systems given there's enough nodes [neurons] to make representations beyond direct stimuli. And if you keep adding nodes to the population and the ability to connect more of them; then the further the development can be pushed and more concepts can be connected with underlying patterns. Do this enough then a certain life-form might get all self-important and decided to start labeling things as intelligent or not depending on how much of their own image they see in it.
> Advanced Protection is nice but practically a non starter or very difficult in a lot of situations, e.g if you're travelling and all of your security keys get stolen and your backup security key is half way across the globe, you'll wish you had 2FA backup codes then.

All security is a trade off. For a good chunk of people that is a rare enough occurrence that it is a good trade off for them.
At best, this article makes an argument that the tragedy is not inevitable. It does nothing to dispel the idea that it is the default and most common result.
Thiel is a hugely rich person. Lots of less wealthy people move in and out of Florida every day. This seems like an excuse.
Seriously. It isn't like anyone needs a Mercedes. There whole brand is around flashing wealth around and crap like this is inline with that. Buy something else.
That is the million/billion+ dollar question. If find it and get there fast enough you can own the moat, and thus become rich.

Note that I am not in any way implying that a moat even exists. There may be some reason AI becomes a winner takes all scheme and nobody else should bother playing, but it is also possible that there is no way to make your product better than anyone else. Only time will tell.
Only if the Euro appreciates, which is unlikely in case of a recession.
Is charging for a feature unlock in a piece of software also rent-seeking?

The feature has already been developed, I have already downloaded the software to my device. It would cost the developer nothing, deny them the use of nothing, require none of their resources for me to use the feature and yet they charge for it.

How is that different?
And people still give me strange looks when I say I prefer my 13 year old car with its manual hand break over any car made in the last 5 years.
This looks like an ssh public-private key scheme but with the private key locked to your (Google) device only. What am I missing. Why all the fuss?
> No, this needs to have the plug pulled on it if we're to keep global warming to 2C.

Bitcoin accounts for <0.1% of global CO2e and has one of the highest shares of renewables in any industry (since it competes globally for the cheapest energy).

It incentivises renewables (by being a location agnostic buyer of first and last resort which buys all excess energy 24/7), reduces CO2e (by making it profitable to combust CH4 instead of venting it), stabilises energy grids (by providing flexible demand response, i.e. can be turned on and off at moment's notice), provides banking services for the global unbanked and financially discriminated, shields from gambling bankers and inflation of the money supply, ...

In comparison to all these use cases and benefits, mere "luxury" energy uses such as air-conditioning, tumble drying, video games, porn, ... all consume more energy and produce more CO2e (e.g. A/C ~100x more). Yet nobody calls to have the plug pulled on them.

Regulate the production of energy, not the consumption.
Let me explain. That doesn't have much to do with a silicon valley remote employee's ability to buy a house here.
How does power output scale relative to reactor size? Is the size difference for "1/3 the output" significant?
Why would a Christian say a fetus is conscious? There's no such nonsense inherent in that faith.

I would extend your "some vegans" to "most everybody" - who seriously thinks complex animals are unconscious automatons? And how would that even work?
Tiny few-celled organisms surely aren't and where exactly the line goes we don't know, and like you say it depends on how the word is defined and used, but isn't "stimuli causes not just reaction, but qualia" pretty standard?
Germany's replacing nuclear and Russian natural gas with coal.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1124448463/germany-coal-energ...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-coal-energy-electricity...
For a comparison to modern language models see also

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/htrZrxduciZ5QaCjw/language-m...
> how guns can be disassembled and carried in pockets

Perfect is the enemy of good. The point is to create obstacles to hinder the assailant and expose them.

Yes, you can smuggle a handgun into school and assemble it onsite. That involves preparatory steps that, ideally, lead to detection and intervention before execution. It stopped the guy who was caught loading rifles in an Atlantic Station bathroom.

Being a nuisance to aspiring school shooters is preferable to the Columbine kids hauling duffel bags of loaded rifles and ammunition into the school for instant and sustained deployment.
Can't you fill W-8BEN form to reduce taxes on the US side?
While I understand where you as a person are coming from, and my below thought is a tangent, I think this sentiment is like the origin story of editorialized headlines.

If one gets dopamine/validation/click thru revenue from others consuming/clicking on media one shared,and further feel "unfairly gamed" when someone else gets that payout, it's a short time before one starts subconsciously appealing to the human lizard brain and sensationalizing media.
Should rile up any rational consumer. Corporation can flex their market power to ensure you pay more for something they can provide for free.
htop-vim - cool
Thinking machines, like ChatGPT, do not have any intelligence because they cannot choose their own thoughts. We give them thoughts to think by our inputs and commands. Therefore _we_ give them intelligence by our inputs. Any measure of (textual) intelligence we have can be output by these machines. For example, we can ask it to do 4th grade arithmetic or graduate level mathematics.

But you are correct, eventually we will wrap these thinking machines into some sort of other machine. A machine that can observe the thoughts it produces with the thinking machine inside of it.

I talk about a lot of this here: https://leroy.works/articles/a-critique-of-alan-turings-conc...
I think that the solution to that has to be in taxation. Legislation that bans something profitable is going to encounter a lot opposition. Taxation is easier to introduce than a ban.

A high tax on connectivity for certain classes of goods could make this less appealing. Add in the requirements for privacy and keeping records that are as stringent as HIPAA, and that could change the calculations of risk and benefit for such rent seeking.
Fair point! It definitely is a mishmash of good ideas. I think the message passing / OO aspect stands out to me as most distinct from other languages, even if it's not as pervasive in the language as in Smalltalk.
Reading classics from another language is often easier, because they're periodically translated into more contemporary language that is easy to read instead of frozen in time with unfamiliar prose. Volokhonsky & Pevear have been tearing through the russians the last few decades for example, and their Tolstoy translations are at pretty similar readability to contemporary fiction.

Anyway the thing I appreciate about reading classic books is it gives you the sense of the ways people do and don't change over time and place. A lot of these books are about people inhabiting societies that are completely alien to me, and the social pressures & incentives on them are sometimes nearly incomprehensible. But then I see them being motivated by the same concerns and fears that motivate me, and it deeps my understanding of the core experiences that drive our actions.

And very similarly you see ways where they don't react the way a person my time and culture would, and so also get a sense of what isn't shared, and is more mediated by culture and experience. These insights and the experience gained from assessing them persist long after the details of the novels are forgotten.

This is also an argument for reading contemporary books too. But the details and experiences are different, and each provides things the other doesn't.
Euro bonds are barely 3%.
"They work on all major platforms and browsers"

Is any Linux distribution, let's say Ubuntu or Fedora a "major platform"? Is Firefox a "major browser"?
Wait until people hear about a popular sex act and it being a misnomer.
Ah, interesting!

My tldr of this is it'll be a transform of easy to read idiomatic react code using hooks etc into more performant code that avoids unnecessary rerenders by statically analysing where optimisations like memoisation can be injected without changing behavior.

Pretty smart stuff but also, yeah, perhaps a bit of a black hole of complexity. I can immediately imagine issues with debugging or somehow relying on the side effects of spurious rerenders and that breaking things in the real world.

You'd hope code like this does not exist in the wild... and yet exist it does :-)
When are Raspberry Pi's going to be easily found online again for purchase? I've eyed them every few months for the past year and have seen in stock 0 times.
Just anacdotally, I see OSM mentioned a lot, guides for contributing, use in HomeLab and Raspberry Pi articles-- haven't check it out myself in a long time, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's continued growth really is inevitable, or even has a cumulative snowball-ball component
The post mentions that they consider "Responsible Release" to be an unsolved hard problem internally. It's possible that they are culturally blind to agents.
This reminds me of Lego's constant campaign about "don't call them Legos" that was similar and it always made me think the Lego company is very pretentious and I avoid them. I don't think that was their desired effect.

https://www.adrants.com/2005/09/lego-gets-pissy-about-brand-...
> The state of the art in facial recognition technology has been superhumanly accurate

On a clear pictures, maybe. On a regular blurry surveillance footage from a gas station camera on a day with bad weather and poor lighting, absolutely not.
I agree in spirit, and I also share an attitude of "if you're hacked, it's your fault." It's Not That Hard to choose to not run random binaries from the internet, and keep your ports closed.

> There's only so much genius you can get into a few thousand lines of code

That being said, Stuxnet? So clever.

edit: Depending on the language or libraries, 1000 lines is a LOT. Cleverness is frequently in reduction or rotation, not addition. Choice of data structure, etc. c.f. the 'k' or 'j' programming languages.
You're asking, then, for something that really no longer exists at all, and it is not an EV thing.
> Really? No remote access, security notifications, navigation facilities? No watching TV while charging? No OTA updates that obviate the need to take it to the dealership for routine fixes? No open source location analytic API?

I've never owned a car that does any of these. I'm very happy with my car. I do not see the benefits of them outweighing the downsides.
> if there were lots of spoilt ballot papers this would be received differently to low turnout.

Do they even count spoiled ballots? They certainly don't report them.

I guess in theory, someone who spoils their ballot has "turned out" to vote, so should be counted in the turnout. So it should be possible to work out the number of spoiled ballots from the difference between the turnout, and the total of votes cast. It would be interesting to see if the news media report it so the difference is zero.