skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (Notice how baseless comments can sway either way)

No they can’t! ;)
There’s usually an alternative. The state by definition has no competition in its territory. I think that makes companies a bit better.
Agree. Once off purchases have to focus more on sales and then who cares what the user thinks after. Subscription software must continually justify it's existence against the competitor since the user can jump ship at any time for free.
are you now ingesting 2 boards of crackers and cheese every day instead?

(kidding)
The role of the Australian Government in doing absolutely nothing to help an Australian whose human rights are being trampled is telling about the structure and priorities of Western power...

... and how "Eastern" it's starting to look.

Freedom, along with a whole lot other words, doesn't mean what it used to mean.
> Just curious, what point of view makes daily running seem sad?

If I was to guess, it's similar to the tone of the article. You can't beat time.

Eventually they'll be forced to stop and there's a particular sadness in watching those who used to be able to do great feats no longer do them.

For me, it's the same sadness as watching a sharp mind like my grandfather's succumb to alzheimer's. It's not quick, and it's not painless for everyone involved. For me, it was years watching him forget me, his daughter (my mother), and eventually language all together.

Better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all?
Compare gpt-4 with a baby and you'll see that predicting the next word in sequence is not human intelligence
One wonders how different the world would be if IEEE754 decided to use two's complement instead of sign-magnitude. Or alternatively, if two's complement was rare and almost all mainstream hardware (due to some historical reason with inertia) was sign-magnitude.
Wow such a cool game. I thought I would play a few levels at work when it was time to take a break. I ended up taking an early lunch. This game is so addicting.
I agree, but I can also view such strident commitment to a fixed set of ideas to be pretty unimaginative, or lacking in categorical ambition, lacking in exploration perhaps depending on the person. My father for example has not been on a plane in 34 years. Not for any legitimate practical reason, though he'd come up with something if prompted; almost like he's archived his exposure to the world in 1989. He has no idea what it's like to even book a flight, how much it really costs, how security procedures have changed over time, and has no ambition to ever leave the continent.
> a foundation of modern society

For most people, it's entertainment. And before the internet, we had newspapers and television and radio and telephones, much more easily blocked by authoritarians than the internet.
I'd like to see this experiment tried on someone from one of those cultures/languages that don't have words for relative direction. I've read that they tend to "always" know which cardinal direction they're facing.
A lot of people are arguing that 0 is not a distinct number from -0 in regular math. But regular math doesn't have +Inf, -Inf, or NaN either.
It doesn't work the other way though. If you have a new device, old versions will often not work.
What does this have anything to do with what I mentioned? I pointed to Gab as an example of why not curating your site is bad and what it leads to. This is why social media sites ban highly inflammatory content.

You said blacklisting from any source is abhorrent. Then I recommend you post on Gab until you realize why curation is necessary.
EU draft rules propose tougher cybersecurity rules for Amazon, Google, Microsoft
Commenters here seem a little fixated on the fact that the technique scores poorly. This is true and somewhat problematic but exploring the data it looks to me like this could be more a problem with a combination of the scoring function and the limits of language rather than the methodology.

For example, look at https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/neuron-explainer/...

It's described as "expressions of completion or success" with a score of 0.38. But going through the examples, they are very consistently a sort of colloquial expression of "completion/success" with a touch of surprise and maybe challenge.

Examples are like: "Nuff said", "voila!", "Mission accomplished", "Game on!", "End of story", "enough said", "nailed it" etc.

If they expressed it as a basket of words instead of a sentence, and could come up with words that express it better I'd score it much higher.
> deploying small gas generators to nearby street poles

It looks just as amusing as it sounds: https://old.reddit.com/r/Lineman/comments/13c07dl/honda_gene...
They already peddle AI: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/08/we-asked-ai-to-create-t...
The land has been above-water since the middle Triassic. So yes, much older than thousands. The most recent non-European owners didn't leave much in the way of title (they took possession of it by conquest); so it is important to keep that in the conversation.
In Canada is pretty easy for tech workers..
Yes. There are plenty of really good ways to transfer files on the ipad now.
As a person, you can tell what you think you do and don't understand, and you can explain what you think your reasoning is. In practice, people get both wrong all the time. People aren't always truthful about it, either, and there's no reliable way to tell if they are.
Those sites hosting degoogled Roms might be blocked themselves by the ISP.

In addition, certain countries may require you to run approved Roms, and if you don't you can face prosecution.

This has been done in action in India with ISPs like Jio to block TPB for example.

Remember - any traffic over the internet can be logged by your service provider (eg. ISP, VPN, etc)
If you live in a country where internet can be blocked, so can access to power. Satellite relays or other DIY devices or starling or pretty much anything else doesn’t work if you have no power.
Right... they likely did just that (fed fake intel)... then possibly decided that the risk of FSB coordinating good info during the UKR offensive was greater than the value of keeping their fake intel feed? Maybe sends a signal?

It's all just speculation when dealing with spook world.
Article aside, scanning the comments, it is interesting to note the conditioned reluctance to admit the obvious, viz., that men and women are different, that this difference is profound, and that this difference would manifest anatomically/physiologically, including the brain.
Much of the Earth Remains Unexplored
Whatever, there are tens of thousands of amazing books since before 10-20 years ago. Not to mention project Gutenberg.
Not to rain on everyone’s parade, but there is considerable scientific evidence that marathons and ultramarathons are detrimental to one’s long term health. Modest (30 minute at a moderate pace) cardiovascular exercise 3-4 times a week, resistance training, and yoga/stretching is a better strategy for good health in one’s 70s and 80s.
This probably builds a brand reputation for the product of being old and shit. While the subscription product is always delivering the newest and best experience to everyone.
> 30% tax and App Store nonsense automatically makes me want Apple to lose every single court case in perpetuity

We can only hope that alternative app stores on iOS will force Apple to match Google Play's 30% platform fees:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/16/google-play-drops-commissi...
A Mastodon to email client Gateway
I actually have this exact use case. About 25MM files, ~20 TB total. Lot of directories. Many servers (~10), only a few that have the exact same synching file/folder setup (in other words, some servers have only video, some have only code, some have it all, etc, you get it).

It works... pretty well. I won't lie and say it works perfectly with all of our other file utilities and scripts we run, but 95-97% of the time I never think about it.

I use it with SyncTrazor on Windows Server deployments as well as Debian servers and yeah, I could be happier, but I highly doubt there's anything out there that can beat SyncThing overall.

Just know that with that many files the initial scans and DB building will be brutal, and the periodic syncs and rescans will be taxing. Highly recommend getting cheap 1-2U servers with dual sockets and lots of cores/threads - multiprocessing goes a long way in doing the file hashing.

EDIT: I will add that I only use it on servers and not on any client/desktop machines, so I can't vouch for its use there.
You can check with: iptables -V

If it says (nf_tables), you are using the compatibility layer from the iptables-nft package.

It works quite well. Apps like Docker that inserts rules using the legacy iptables syntax are oblivious to the fact that they are actually inserting nftables rules.

It also provides an easy migration path. Insert your old rules using your iptables script then list them in the new syntax using nft list ruleset.

The problem is that it works so well that it seems most users just stayed with the iptables syntax and did not bother migrating at all.
It's nuanced, but it's not because there is no single owner.

If microservices share a database, it's not clear who migrates the schema and coordinating it is nearly impossible because another piece of code in another service may be reading the old schema and break.

Sharing the database means you have a distributed monolith - you lose all independent deployability. It is the worst of both worlds.

The exception may be if you share a database instance, but each service has its own schema and only has authorization to read and write to its own schema.

That doesn't make the single database a service - it would make it shared infrastructure, however. This may bring its own maintainenance challenges but it doesn't violate any principles.
> The state by definition has no competition in its territory.

Been to Pakistan lately?
You see it being eliminated right there in the post. Globalization is moving money to the people who are more needy by giving them the chance to earn a relative fortune by harvesting apples in NZ. It's a fabulous success!

We see this all over the place. Many manufacturing jobs moved from China to cheaper places where people are more needy because so many Chinese were lifted out of poverty.

The best way out of poverty is allowing globalization to continue doing this and have policies that focus on creating abundance rather than seeing the economy as a zero-sum game.

At some point automation will hit a point where we must have something like UBI, but it seems like we aren't there yet.
liquid markets are a very good thing for civilization
Microkernel does seem the only sensible path forward. Even if the kernel is slowly rustified, going to be playing security whack-a-mole for a long time.
I disagree with you. What you have done is very impressive.

Since you have been to film production school, you might be familiar with idea of assembling your considerable collection of wins into a portfolio. With your skills it could be in video form, marketing yourself, your skills and many accomplishments to date.

Biotech is a rapidly expanding field and good communicators who effectively build rapport should be in demand. You obviously are a fast learner to become a nerd in an area for which you have no formal education.

You could also consider freelancing to early stage startups to more effectively communicate their value proposition, etc. A short powerful video with is a great alternative to staid static powerpoints.
I exercise, am skinny, low cholesterol and eat quite healthily.

High blood pressure since 27, genetics.

I can tell myself it doesn't matter but when I'm honest - it saddens and maddens me that there are those who live terrible (health wise) lives, are objectively terrible (just bad people) people, and will outlive me by decades.
I raced road bikes throughout my 20s. A few days ago I hit the 10 year anniversary of my last race. At this point in my life, I can barely relate to the person who practically organized their whole life around racing and was deeply embedded in the local scene. But I completely relate to your feelings about the season coming and going. Even a few years after hanging up the cleats, I would still sometimes get the itch to drop into my city's local crit. There is something a little cultish about bike racing that is hard to give up. I don't know anyone who managed to have a healthy relationship with it for more than a decade. But it is a lot of fun at its best.
A Robot Made of Sticks
Because it's a real time-waster to need to setup accounts on each device again and again, setup email signatures, setup canned responses, configure as needed etc. Apple has been able to sync accounts and signatures since the original iPhone with their Mail app.
This tool is really lovely, great work!

I'd be curious to see Softmax Linear Units [1] integrated into the possible activation functions since they seem to improve interpretability.

PS: I share your curiosity with respect to things like deep dream. My brief summary of this paper is that you can use GPT4 to summarize what's similar about a set of highlighted words in context which is clever but doesn't fundamentally inform much that we didn't already know about how these models work. I wonder if there's some diffusion based approach that could be used to diffuse from noise in the residual stream towards a maximized activation at a particular point.

[1] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/solu/index.html
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservative...
Humans can be held accountable so it’s not the same. Even if we’re a black box, we share common traits with other humans. We’re trained in similar ways. So we mostly understand what we will and won’t do.

I think this constant degradation of humans is really foolish and harmful personally. “We’re just black boxes etc”, we might not know how brains work but we do and can understand each other.

On the other hand I’m starting to feel like “AI researchers” are the greatest black box I’ve ever seen, the logic of what they’re trying to create and their hopes for it really baffle me.

By the way, I have infinitely more hope of understanding an open source black box compared to a closed source one?
There are many companies and industries, not everything is like that. If you're OK taking a pay cut, the process to work on the film industry (VFX), or bio industry, is definitely much easier, and the work can be more meaningful
The so-called deep-state exists in all countries that have not experienced recent revolution. The deep state is simply entrenched unelected (appointed) bureaucrats who continue a steady policy who only marginally change course during elected government changes. Only revolutions tend to almost completely sweep out the old and usher in the new guard. In France you have the sciences po graduates. In America we have the Washington Establishment which consists of revolving door politicians|lobbyists.

In any case, the world is gravitating to Us vs Them in politics to win by divide & conquer.
Use ChatGPT to Convert Other Language Source Code to Delphi
A LAMP stack is definitely not as uncommon as you think.

Perhaps LNMP (replace Apache with Nginx) is more common these days but not that dissimilar
Abundant solar means you can just rip the nitrogen right out of the air.

Sounds like the cost is in the ballpark already:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/01/19/pulling-fertilizer-ou...
If you had accounts on the NeXT machines, you wanted to work on your papers there, because it was much less likely to crash and take hours of work with it.
Gotta love those million dollar speaking fee paychecks.
Matician Brings a Service Model to Home-Cleaning Robots
We had a use case at one of former jobs where we had to lookup entries in hundreds of megs of static key/value data (vendored with the app), but it didn't have to be super fast and we didn't want to waste any RAM on it. Since everything is on SSDs, I wrote a lib[0] that was just seeking sorted data in files with pread and binary search. Worked perfectly for our needs.

[0]: https://github.com/maxim/wordmap
We don’t need one perfect system as that is a fantasy. We need multiple systems with multiple sets of commercial interests and governance. Starlink is useful as one among multiple systems.
Have you completely adopted ChatGPT to write mundane documents?
I'm wondering how many of you have completely moved over to ChatGPT to write those mundane, dry documents we all love to write.
Janet Yellen too. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/01/yellen-made-million...
AI research has put hardly any effort into building goal-directed agents / A-Life since the advent of Machine Learning. A-Life was last really "looked into" in the '70s, back when "AI" meant Expert Systems and Behavior Trees.

All the effort in AI research since the advent of Machine Learning, has been focused on making systems that — in neurological terms — are given a sensory stimulus of a question, and then passively "dream" a response to said question as a kind of autonomic "mind wandering" process. (And not even dynamic systems — these models always reach equilibrium with some answer and effectively halt, rather than continuing to "think" to produce further output.)

I don't think there's a single dollar of funding in AI right now going to the "problem" of making an AI that 1. feeds data into a continuously-active dynamically-stable model, where this model 2. has terminal preferences, 3. sets instrumental goals to achieve those preferences, 4. iteratively observes the environment by snapshotting these continuous signals, and then 5. uses these snapshots to make predictions of 6. how well any possible chosen actions will help optimize the future toward its preferences, before 7. performing the chosen actions.

That being said, this might not even be that hard a problem, compared to all the problems being solved in AI right now. A fruit fly is already a goal-directed agent in the sense described above. Yet a fruit fly has only 200K neurons, and very few of the connections between those neurons are dynamic; most are "hard wired" by [probably] genetics.

If we want true ALife, we only need to understand what a fruit fly brain is doing, and then model it. And that model will then fit — with room to spare! — on a single GPU. From a decade ago.
Not exactly.

The brits were to blame for process of partition (or lack there-of). The haste, wanton disregard for life, the casual approach towards the largest refugee crisis in human history was certainly avoidable. They were also to blame for further exacerbating divisions via divide-and-conquer.

But the divisions already existed. The idea of a Muslim state had had been stewing for decades in certain circles. It was inevitable.
I appreciate your moderation. This was not flame war, I even gave well cited references for OP to read. I also never attack anyone personally, but I do want them to be more informed.
MTV News shut down as Paramount Global cuts 25% of its staff
> Any receiver using the heterodyne principle (this includes most current digital radio modems) is trivially detected by its local oscillator, often to some considerable range (potentially hundreds of metres).

I'm sorry. This is not intrinsic; this is a design choice. Yes, most LOs just care about getting under legal emission masks, but there's nothing to prevent one from bringing it much lower.

Further, as I explained: the LO frequency of the LNB for the first conversion is often the exact same frequency as you'd use to downconvert digital TV broadcast.

> In the UK, the BBC used to exploit this, with radio detection vans patrolling the streets for unauthorized receivers, to fine people for watching TV without a license.

They never found anyone in a way that could be used for prosecution. "A freedom of information act has revealed that TV Detector vans have never to date provided evidence to be used in court against the TV Licence Non-payer, and have therefore never succeeded in enforcing the TV licence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
Indeed: https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-ma...
Exactly like big tech in the US and their H1B carve out.
> Or they can't, because there are physical limits to the chemical rocket technology.

Awfully coincidental it happens to cost just slightly less than than the competitors.
Hot take, but it's a parental failure to let kids communicate in a meaningful way with strangers via games. This is why DS and Wii multiplayer were so interesting, you could play with strangers, but had canned responses for comms for the most part unless people added the friend code of each other, at which point they might be able to voice chat or use text. You could only share a friend code if you could communicate outside of the game.

Where there's the means to talk to kids properly, you'll find predators. That's a given.

It's also bold to assume that these are children playing Roblox on Linux, when they are in all likelihood actually adults.
Do you have anything to add?
In China, especially in the northern provinces, sticking chopsticks vertically into food is also reviled by adults, as this method is only used to offer sacrifices to deceased ancestors
Well so it is… I misunderstood your viewpoint since it was put so succinctly. With the added context of your reply, I see what you meant and yeah… I was quite argumentative in my agreement, fortunately it was an argument for the same view and you decided to kindly reply and point it out. :-)
It can be done with 16 weeks of training, 3 runs a week 10k, 15k, 20-25k. Each run you just need to train running the last 5k at a faster pace.
I think we're talking past each other a bit. I think that the degree to which America is car dependent is ridiculously stupid for our safety, solvency of our cities, and enjoyment of everyday life. In Europe, many people are comparably rich but there are far fewer cars. There is also significantly better public transit.

If your entire city is designed for cars, and there are some buses that sit in traffic with everyone else, I'm not surprised that people buy cars. It doesn't mean that's what they want - it's just the only option.

In the end I think viable alternatives should be available. I think it's stupid to drive 15 miles into a city on the same 8 lane highway as everyone when 1 or 2 train tracks could meet the same demand and function (and a streetcar/subway/walk for the rest of the journey).

I do not think cars shouldn't exist. I think they're completely necessary for tons of people at the moment, but I think we should invest in other options that are working extremely well in other places.
At the point you decide hurting people is ok you are usually mentally unstable enough to not be aware or care. People this bad in the head end up shooting up a school, or like the last SS/swastika tattoo sporting Texas neo Nazi attack a mall in predominantly white neighborhood. Mindless violence combined with suicide by cops.

Somehow we seem to be past the IRA/Baader–Meinhof politically motivated organized groups, and deep into incel suicides. You wont find Carlos the Jackal in the west outside movie screens.
Are traffic infractions criminal? Violating some traffic laws can be a misdemeanor or felony while most are infractions. I don’t know if infraction is considered “criminal”.