skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, not much.

What makes me cringe is the fact that people pose as this is some kind of a virtue. C'mon, these people live in an environment where protests are not only unrestricted, they are endorsed to some degree as a vent-out method that allows people to feel good about themselves, and governments to continue their bloody business, so people can simply excuse themselves on the next election cycle, while profiting from the spoils of war.
AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity
Autism: Is It in the Water?
> If they called it houselessness it would be too easily solvable.

Only if one believes that the lack of a home or a house is the root cause of the individuals problem.

A drug addict provided with a house as a home will turn that house into a cesspit in very short time. The drug addict does not clean, does not take out the trash, does not repair. The drug addict will invite other drug addicts to the house, essentially turning it into what is called a drug house. The house can no longer be lived in, and it stops being a home.

Now, is that really helping anyone? No, it is not.

Helping homeless people is a noble cause and should be done - Finland is doing good there. Helping SF drug addicts is a noble cause and should be done - but not
by giving them a free house. They need help with their drug addiction first and foremost. Having somewhere to shelter while they get that help is a necessary part of the solution but it is the solution.

Mental issues and drug addiction frequently overlaps but otherwise the same argument applies. Help needs to be directed on the root cause and issues and homelessness is a symptom, not a cause.

You disruptors out there, get going. Where is the unicorn hidden here?
> The singer is also facing claims over Thinking Out Loud in the same court from a company owned by investment banker David Pullman that holds copyright interests in the Gaye song.

I expect we'll see more of this as investment firms continue to consolidate copyrights. It's not at all clear to me how any of this promotes the progress of science or the useful arts.
> Purely engineering firms fail in the long run as they drift away from what buyers want and chase interesting things because they think they know better.

Eh, it's not about purely engineering. Many businesses who are not related to engineering fails exact same reason. They only care about short time growth and loses. Happens all the time.
It was legal, but sold for profit. And the problem ballooned because the state and society did not care. It was legal, lots of people made lots of money, everything was great apart from the fact many people died.

What I am arguing for is the exact opposite. The drugs should be sold with no profit and only to addicts, thus eliminating the motivation to sell more and enlarge the market.

Something similar is done in Switzerland, with state provided safe injection rooms, or in Portugal. But for that the mindset would have to change and I am not sure whether this is possible.
the conclusion of your argument is "this has absolutely no chance of making any dent in the network as a whole" which is faulty. much of the network is hosted by providers that charge for upstream overage: https://bitnodes.io/nodes/?q=ipv4#networks-tab. if a pool's full node is tcp/8333 exposed or a conventional full node is attacked on a vuln host there will be financial/operational consequences. this attack is a "nothing-burger" until botnet skids demonstrate otherwise.
Author here!

> What about the very important case where I accept some suffering in the short term to reduce suffering in the long term?

Great point.

Any recommendations on how to think about expected value when minimizing suffering?

Also, I think pain and suffering are very different, and I completely failed to communicate that in the essay.

> These questions (What do we do about time? What do we do about society?) are just two examples of the hard questions where all the work gets done. The post doesn't explore them. In fact it seems to assume as a premise that hard questions don't really exist.

I purposefully avoided hard questions in this post. I'm much more interested in systems that reliably lead to good questions and good-enough answers.

But I should've addressed more about how to think outside of yourself. Lately, I've been reconsidering my beliefs around "changing the world" and trying to focus more on my family and community. Still searching for the right balance

> (All that said I don't think we should go too hard on the poster - at least they are trying, which is more than most people do!)

Thanks :)

But based on this comments section, it looks like I should've tried a little harder haha
Exactly. I watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, and quite a bit of Youtube. That's it. I haven't had a TV for the last fifteen years though. Broadcast television is completely irrelevant to me. I don't really care about watching sports so I don't miss that.

I mostly consume media on laptops or desktop PCs. Watching on mobile is tedious for me; so I don't do it. I consume news in written form so I don't care for the editorialized dramatized version that is still popular on TV. Whenever I see that (on other people's TVs or in hotels) it always strikes me how dull, one sided, stale, and boring that content is. Just not a very efficient way to learn about what's actually going on in the world. Which I do care about, especially international news. And not having video, makes me a bit more detached from the drama. I get the facts but not the "OMG this is so terrible" infotainment angle that CNN and others thrive on. Whether it's tsunamis, earth quakes, political scandals, etc. I read about it and then move on with my live. I don't need to see the dead bodies in the street, see some weeping people, hear some outraged people commenting, etc.

I have ad blockers so I never see ads on Youtube. So, it's a completely ad free experience to me. The only sponsored content I see are in video promotions on Youtube.
In the US, too. Dedicated pet lovers will make Instagram accounts for their pets, for lots of reasons. In this case it clearly backfired, but it can be useful for the account owner.
A tiny Turing Machine in C for 2-symbols Busy Beavers
- program is kept on input string
- instruction pointer holds the state
Sure, mine was a tongue-in-cheek comment, but there are cost benefits of bare metal in some use cases, especially if your workload is more or less predictable.
If Openai can win the developer market with cheap api access and a better product, then distribution becomes through third parties with everyone else becoming the product sending training data back to the model. I'd see that as their current strategy.
j to go to the next item in a list is sufficiently Vim-like. Even j is not just one screen line like you’re expecting if you have 'wrap' enabled—that’s gj.

Really, it’s simple domain mismatch. In Vim, gj/gk for physical lines, j/k for logical lines, (/) for sentences, {/} for paragraphs, [[/][/][/]] for sections as they are in certain families of languages. It’s all clearly designed for plain text navigation.

Things like Reddit or an email client or whatever, {/} might be semantically a touch closer, but they’re still not exact matches, and all up j/k is extremely reasonable.
I've been keeping my eye on the so called "GOFAI" for a long time but with recent advances in ANN methods (DL, LLM), does it even make sense to further pursue the former?

Personally, those "old" methods in the 80s make a lot more sense to me than recent statistical methods.
meh

In my org in Google we average over one microservice per engineer. I'll be adding two in the next couple weeks. With the right automation setup you don't notice them any more than you do server instances.
May be evading taxes by cheating is a great thing to get praised.
> if the owner reports it in the first 72 hours

So I could literally go away for a long weekend and come back and be homeless? That's _way_ too short!
Because that would be bad for society. It's important that money moves around as much as possible--every time it does, value is created. Think of it like the water cycle. By increasing the output of the sun (enacting laws to keep publicly-funded code private), we cause lots more money to evaporate from the taxpayer oceans (by solving the same problem repeatedly), and that in turn creates lots more fiscalonimbus clouds in the upper ten percentosphere (where you can find, e.g., large consulting businesses and shareholders). Before long, all that evaporated money (it's actually stock now, the most interesting property of which is that its value expands and contracts to fit whatever everyone thinks it should be worth) will start to precipitate when it's liquidated again, see? From there it rains on unspecified economic mountains and valleys, and eventually trickles back down into the ocean again.

You might point out that increasing the output of the sun in the real world actually result in a scorched, uninhabitable earth, and that also that's not how any of this works but hey, no analogy is perfect. And this one is plenty good enough to convince voters.
Nobody has ever been hurt during a Cannonball run.
> NeXTcube and was surprised how modern the environment feels

Yeah, I started with a NeXTcube ~30 years ago (after Apple ][ and Amiga), and the computer experience itself hasn't really changed materially. Which is stunning, in a way. And sad.
yes - that's why i never made the claim that the entire network was vulnerable to the attack. you are correct :thumbsup:
Timothy Snyder is just fantastic: https://snyder.substack.com/

His class on Ukraine on Youtube is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8

If I had a history class taught like this in college I might have looked at it. I think in one of his classes about Ukraine he mentioned that he was a programmer at some point. His explanations of history are often very input/output oriented or explained almost like an algorithm.

His books are also worth reading and every one of his lectures on youtube I have enjoyed.

He's great at giving historical perspective to current affairs, and probably more than anyone else, I feel like he makes the current political climate make sense.
Also: Renewables have downsides, but they are vastly cheaper and more proven.

There is no reason to assume that the downsides of various other techs are in any way more manageable. (And ironically some of the solutions proposed for the downsides of nuclear are also what you need for renewables, i.e. storage to maximize use of expensive infrastructure with low opex.)
Transformer: Novel Neural Network Architecture for Language Understanding (2017)
Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers With Unlimited Length Input
> An example I see on socmedia regularly: some mogul worth 20 to 100 million, or more, lecturing the rest of us on the value of suffering. It’s ridiculous. Does that guy suffer? No.

It's kind of ridiculous to assume that merely having lots of money removes all suffering.
NFTs are the foundation of Web3 communities.
>> The scale of social problems in the US is on a whole other level.

True. Just for some comparison, if Finland was a metropolitan in US, it would be ranked 10th. Above Phoenix metro and Below Atlanta Metro. I understand the good intentions of people trying to show case 'Scandinavian countries' as a model. They miss many things including Scale.
Yeah but chaperon would be masculine and chaperone feminine.
Look, the inventors of the memristor themselves are already pretty gray-area as far as academic integrity goes. Let me substanciate that: I am not able to judge whether their creation is innovative as an electronics device, but they published a few papers on its abilities to solve optimization problems, and I went to their booth at a conference. In all those occasions, they have a propensity for grand claims that are not backed by their actual data. Indeed, if even half their claims were true, we should all switch to their device for any optimization problem.

So pair that with some crpyto people claiming to "emulate" memristors, and that's a lot of red flags already.
Rocket Lab's success has basically nothing to do with Jacinda Ardern?
And South Africa the no 1 space power, I guess. SpaceX was founded by someone from there.
A full-scale attack on Ukraine’s labour rights
productivity.
Closed source. Not interested.
Only removing it from the UK App Store would be necessary. Why would they need to lay anyone off? And yes I guess they are prepared to remove WhatsApp from the App Store. It would not be the first country to ban WhatsApp. It’s actually quite common for countries to ban WhatsApp in a tantrum and then unban it later when they calm down.
About IRCAM, I remember experiencing a spatial audio demo there, almost 30 years ago.

Put their headphones on. The sound seems to come from one side. Turn your head towards it. The sound comes straight in front of you. Intuitive and neat. In all VR headsets nowadays... Very cool place.
Great idea! I'm going to try this.
Yep, but they still had bugs, and often the minimum turn-around time was 24 hours. So it does not sound like a net positive
I've never seen an assert explain why
Perhaps exhausting the public by repeatedly bringing in the same bill is part of legislators’ bag of tricks to force-feed undesirable legislation to their citizens.
Is it known what autistic people use it for? Different for each person?
Gitgud
Java uses this pattern in some places, for example you can usually pass a custom Comparator to anything that needs comparisons (like sorts).

Fully separating implementation of an interface from the data can create quite a lot of additional complexities. See my comment elsewhere about encapsulation and version stability.
Good, hopefully this will be the second implementation that the W3C standards committee will accept, so SQLite is an approved web standard instead of the disappointing thing we got.
> Ultimately, we have responsibilities to ourselves and our loved ones. Reflect on your life, talk to your friends and family, and if you think introducing restrictions on your social media use would improve your/their wellbeing, then do so and see if it helps. Xx

Absolutely, and I'm not suggesting I shirk my responsibilities as a parent. One of the things that annoyed me when I was a kid was parents wanting to restrict TV and video games, because they didn't want to take their precious "me-me-me" time and devote it to actually raising their children.

This isn't the same thing though. You can be as present and involved as possible in your kids life today, but the web trumps all. It's all pervasive, all encompassing, and normalised. You could switch the TV off, or talk about problematic themes on it, but the web is a different beast.

If you lived through the before-times, you saw the difference between then, during, and after the iPhone. The kids have never been alright, but as one of those kids who was on the wrong side of the outer-edges of not-alright, I can tell you that the situation now is dire in comparison.
Creating a “Best in Industry” E-Commerce Platform with Self-Contained Systems
Thanks, will have to try this out.

Is the use case of handling lists of resources on scope or is the intent more for "global" application config. It does look pretty flexible regardless. Congrats on the launch and nice job on the site. It looks great.
World Video Game Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2023 Inductees
Technically, it could fly as an argument for (involuntary) manslaughter versus murder, certainly if one replaces “into the crowd” by “over the heads of the crowd”, or if the crowd isn’t very crowdy, and there’s evidence that the shooter explicitly tried shooting through the crowd without hitting anybody, say as part of an act.

The typical “into the crowd” implies that the shooter knew it was almost certain to hit somebody, though, so I don’t think any judge or jury would put much weight into such an argument.
Depends on your application. AFAIK they are still used in games because they are easier to control and people want to play against simple AI agents.
There should be a law that prevents bills that get shot down from being reintroduced in X years, and also to disallow the same person/group/party from reintroducing it (i.e., it has to come from another person/party).

Like double jeopardy style.
This segregation of people based on social class (as well as ethnicity and/or native/immigrant divide) is a big social problem that was unfortunately exacerbated by poor policy choices made in past decades. Today it is recognized that developments should mix people from different backgrounds and income levels in order to not create neglected "problem neighborhoods".
Archived version of the original Mastodon post: https://archive.is/fM06z
Holy shit, thanks for bringing that up, I had never heard of automatic differentiation. So cool!
This is an absolutely fantastic book!

Read it to learn how to program, learn a bit about AI as an added benefit.
I’ve been employed as a software developer for my state for almost 2 decades and just wonder what software should be included. I would guess 75% of what I develop is internal services and intranet garbage. The rest is one off tools full of garbage code and hardcoded credentials.

Should other divisions that are also publicly funded also have their work available to the public? Perhaps HR should have a GitHub repo for all of their communications?
> Personally, those "old" methods in the 80s make a lot more sense to me than recent statistical methods.

Same for me.

> I've been keeping my eye on the so called "GOFAI" for a long time but with recent advances in ANN methods (DL, LLM), does it even make sense to further pursue the former?

I think it still matters. Plenty of examples in the tech industry where "old" tech/paradigms became the new "hype". They say it's all a cycle.
Quality is not lack of bugs. That's a component, maybe.
One of the longest anagrams I know that doesn't involve obscure medical words is "astronomers" and "moon starers." Both of these phrases contain the same letters but in a different order, making them anagrams of each other. This anagram contains 11 letters and is quite interesting, as both phrases relate to looking up at the night sky and studying celestial bodies.

ChatGPT
In the US, many states put homelessness people on buses to western states like California. They don’t want to deal with them in their own states and then complain about how NY and especially California have dirty streets and homeless problems. The cognitive ignorance is amazing.

The US has many institutional problems in sectors that impact life. No nationalized healthcare, very short training of police officers with no federal standards & longer programs as they have in the EU or other industrialized nations.

We have a prison industrial complex where we imprison more people than ANY other country.

And we now have a fully broken political system. Between Citizens United unleashing unlimited dark money & a 2 party system where it is more important NOT to do anything involving improving things other than tax cuts for our wealthiest.

Homelessness due to unemployment, bankruptcy, medical bankruptcy or mental/psychological issues are obvious results.

There is tremendous room for improvement across all areas, but there is too much institutional & corporate influence in maintaining the status quo.
> You do lose the ability to look up the old price and apply that

For certain e-commerce sites that would be a big loss. This is largely a solved distributed systems problem and I don’t see how passing the cursor back to the server is any more complex than calculating prices.
Somewhere I have an old T-shirt from when I was consulting for Apple.

It had a sketch of a trashed-out beach with all kinds of garbage and debris.

The caption was:

I helped Apple wreck a nice beach
1. I don't know what kind of world you live in to think that USD 3500 is "less than one week of a developer salary for most companies." I think you really just mean FAANG (or whatever the current acronym is) or potentially SV / offices in cities with very high COL.

2. The problem is scaling. To support billions of search queries you would have to invest in a lot more than a single GPU. You also wouldn't only need a single van, but once you take scaling into account even at $3500 the GPUs will be much more expensive.

That said, costs will come down eventually. The question in my mind is whether OpenAI (who already has the hardware resources and backed by Microsoft funding to boot) will be able to dominate the market to the extent that Google can't make a comeback by the time they're able to scale.
Generally I hate the idea of making everything into subscription, but maybe I like this. There's NO people really need such overkill performance, but BEVs might have such performance because of other reasons. Bigger battery for long range and powerful motors for AWD will make vehicle can go fast, but it's not practical and dangerous. Make it subscription and only speed badass people pay for this is looks good idea.
For the vast majority of human history, the only transmission of information between generations were oral stories. Modernity defines nations by their borders, medievality defined it by their feudal alliegances, but true antiquity defined it by their mythologies.

I always wondered how much was lost in the long transition from the natural oral to the new written tradition. Do we humans learn things differently when hearing them than when reading them? After all, voice is multidimensional: pronounciation, tone, gestures are completely lost when conveyed into text. Why do people go to political rallies or speeches instead of just reading their contents? Why do children go to school instead of just reading books?

History is full of lettered peoples being guided by oral traditions. Maybe there's a good reason why the Rabbis took 1500 years to write down the other half of the Torah.
Europe is failing because it's not a single entity. It's a loose cooperation between many countries.

Insane amount of talent is wasted because of "so called" european language and cultural racism.

Companies are still "national" instead of european and talent is not appreciated. Taxes are sky high and so is national, cultural racism. You think a brilliant bulgarian scientist is treated the same by his French colleagues?

Until this changes and europeans will start treat their fellow europeans fairly nothing will improve.
That's two or three apartment blocks, so maybe 200-500 apartments? Don't have exact figures at hand.

The municipally owned rental housing (available to anyone) which you talk about, together with different forms of social support help people from falling into homelessness in the first place.

Those few apartment blocks used for the "housing first" scheme are the help people out of homelessness. These houses are not normal rental apartments, and have social workers present, etc. These are not available for rent for anyone, and no-one would voluntarily choose to live in one of these if given alternatives. They are somewhere between a shelter and a normal apartment.
Ha, Ringo did complain that "they're stealing our best riffs."

I'm glad everyone can laugh about it now.
The Schrödinger of Data Protection
> But I despite hate more.

Lol at your hate statement and that he received any penalty. His annual salary massively jumped up to $242 million as Google fired tens of thousands of employees, many with no notice. He has now >800 times the median employee's pay. Anyone would love to take those penalties. You might want to take a small step back and objectively evaluate your shining bias.