skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...since it hopefully makes some HN readers a bit more aware that they're being played.

How are they being played? There isn't any deception here. The plan Iron Brands touts is literally "submit interesting articles first". That is what people are trying to upvote.
Help My Political Beliefs Were Altered by a Chatbot
Oh come on. "Semantic similarity" is just heuristic bullshit. It's not a scientific term, or even a mathematical concept. Don't try to pull rank on me without even knowing who I am or what I do just because you can read wikipedia.

And note you're still not saying "why" or "how", only repeating the "what" of someone else's claim.
As an executive, I wonder if she was aware of the Dinobabies policy?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/12/business/economy/ibm-age-...
Just to be on the same page, you're advocating Twitter to get out of any country that does this, right? Is there any social network capable of functioning without being banned from the country by outright omit government rulings? fb? Ig? mastodon?

The reality is not all countries have 1A like the US. Unfortunately, any social media, message app, etc... has to comply (to a certain extent) with the government and try as hard at it can not to compromise its values.
> But I've always been uncomfortable with the opposite extreme position, the implicit reaction to the moral panic. The argument where TV, movies, games, social media, it's not possible for them to have any real effect on their viewers psychologically, regardless of content, even when they're exposed to dozens of hours a week in some extreme cases.

Hard agree. The example that won't leave my mind is product placement: As a marketing concept it revolves around the idea that consumers seeing your product more than others means your product will come to their mind first and therefore purchase it more. It's why so many characters use brand name goods on TV. Companies spend good money on this - they wouldn't do that if they didn't think it worked. And if seeing our favorite character enjoy Coke makes us more likely to be Coke, why wouldn't be influenced by other things? Who says you have to 'sell' a physical product for this to work?
That's not it. I think there are multiple calls to open AI one for assessing the input and another four assessing the output. Sometimes one of them goes through. The output is an assessed so you can get through with the same prompt
It's early days with ChatGPT and its ilk and successors but already the line has been drawn: on one side are those who reject all output and answers because some of it may be false; on the other side are those who accept that some of it may be false but believe themselves capable of distinguishing fact from "hallucination."
Same here. I don't think I've ever been offered more beer than at the last in-person job I had. Our employee handbook had an alcohol use policy that boiled down to "if you wanna drink on the job, you can, just don't be sloppy about it."

Many, many anti-DUI Ubers were expensed.
It doesn't seems to be true.

There were articles that Microsoft was helping AMD, but the denied it.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/microsoft-and-amd-ar...
The ones i've tried are pretty terrible compared to google's OCR which is really good but closed sauce
Every type of energy/work generates heat. That's entropy.

What you're describing is a runaway greenhouse effect, which depends on the composition of the atmosphere. Venus hit one without electric cars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_greenhouse_effect#Venu...

> A runaway greenhouse effect involving carbon dioxide and water vapor likely occurred on Venus.

Carbon dioxide is also responsible for global warming on Earth, so putting more of it into the atmosphere with fossil fuels would be the thing to stop/mitigate.
How Not to Regulate the Web
Anecdote: I recently had a very good repair experience with Asus. Free and fast shipping both ways via Fedex -- overall turnaround in a week, and the issues resolved. Based on the repair experience, I wouldn't hesitate to buy an Asus laptop again.
ApocalypsAI: Skynet Not Needed
This reads more like yellow peril hyperbole than reasoned arguments. The CCP is deeply unpopular in the US, and most US institutions are engaged in a demonization campaign against China.

TikTok is horrible and toxic. It should be banned, or at least tightly age-restricted. But I have seen no evidence they're worse than or a bigger threat than other US-based social media empires, and the proponents of those ideas tend to gesture towards vague communist conspiracies rather than point to observable evidence.
Fun fact - a good percentage of YouTube and Spotify views are fake.
You jest, but I also found it here:

https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-t...

Maybe a typo in both cases?

Maybe it was a romanized translation of CCP, or perhaps poster wrote C++ a lot, or CPP really was associated with CCP. However, I don't yet know what it stands for.
Microbenchmarks are meaningless. Not sure why people keep posting them.
communist party of pugs
That sounds both plausible and also considerably dysfunctional from build team perspective
The matter and thread protocols eliminates the walled garden issues that lock you into those ecosystems, and promises greater interoperability.

It’s intended to be universal.
The insinuation that any country can destabilize our democracy better than we can is an affront to american excellence.
Because open source work barely pay the bills? I did a lot of open source contributions for some time, and if it wasn’t for family support (living for free with them) I would be homeless. And unless there’s a serious change on how to fund and pay open source developers, I don’t think much will change.
Perpetual options already exist, ie squeeth
Climate change can be stopped but won’t be. Whether or not it can be is irrelevant to what actually happens, which is to say, it’s going to be a disaster.
> The company has a pending application for a UK banking license for the past 28 months; the turnaround time for that in the UK is 12 months

Wow...I'm a bit surprised. We've had a pending application for VAT registration in the UK since sometime in the 1st quarter of 2019. I had assumed that if a government is so short of resources that they can't manage to process applications to collect taxes for them, they would probably also be very slow on applications for financial things that don't directly give them money.

Every time we ask about our VAT application, they just say it is still processing. They told us to collect VAT, but to call it something else like "additional fee", and hold it until they get around to processing the application.
I recommend checking https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/

It explains the full pipeline - how to download, collect, and analyze this sort of data.
Haiti at risk of famine as farmers kidnapped
laughs in share buybacks
Carbon Capture Is Hard. This Plant Shows Why
Please re-read your parent. Same concept here. If you make it that comfortable, then why work? Keep in mind that there will always be people who want things the programs won't provide that they're literally willing to kill for - drugs, the newest iPhone, in-style basketball shoes, etc.

Now, I do agree in a parallel way, but with a different solution. If we fix structural problems preventing people from being, or having hope of being, productive members of society, than that can prevent some crime.
(Context: Matter is an application layer protocol to control smart home devices, bring them into your Wifi or Thread network, and they ought to work with Homekit/Google Home/Alexa/Smartthings/Home Assistant etc. at the same time)

I'm currently working on a Matter device myself and the overengineering is unreal.

The idea is great (standardized messages over IP, no internet required, open source SDK on Github) but if they had just used MQTT with some standardized JSON messages and two or three fixed onboarding flows it would have solved the same problems with 1% of the effort.

But now the project is absolutely massive, almost 1k pages for the base spec, 1M+ lines of (mostly C++) code for the core SDK, no stable or even well defined API, almost no documentation. Progress is glacial, unsuprisingly. Bug fixes do not seem to be backported to older release branches but there is no source code compatibility either, so the security story will be interesting for sure...

Most discussions seem to happen on an internal Discord server and Wiki for paying members only, so the project is not that open either.

I really hope that the entire thing gets scrapped and a simpler approach will rise from the ashes...
You make an excellent point, but I can't help but think there are ways to make curlies visually distinctive without also making them look like poorly-done graffiti tags. There's no accounting for taste, but to me those are just plain ugly.
Lexy's Labyrinth – unofficial Chip's Challenge emulator
For the first year of Covid I was trying to drink more water. So I bought a lot of glass spelligrino bottles and would drink 1-2 every day. I would usually squirt some mio in it for caffeine and flavor.

And I would drink through the day while on zoom just doing normal meeting stuff. And since I fidget, I would peel the labels off.

After a few months someone asked how I could drink so much wine without getting drunk. I thought it was funny how people just assumed I was brazenly drinking wine out of the bottle all day.
I don’t think anyone has heard of nest.js and just assume it’s a typo of next.js
Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia Drove Many Covid-19 Deaths
I found many ClickHouse-related projects in a dedicated cluster - "House of Clicks" :)

But ClickHouse itself somehow appears in Kubernation, and ClickBench - in Datapolis.
Nice names btw.
All of these "verifiable" claims all originate with one man and have no evidence.
"It merely has all of the byproducts of intelligence, its not intelligence though!"

I make this statement in a frank way to rhetorically get the point across. I find myself continually surprised by the general community's desire to reject the intelligence claim in its entirely. I make no claim that this intelligence manifest in the same way human intelligence does. I make no claim that this intelligence can even be measured in the same way a humans intelligence does. What I do claim though is that it is intelligence - intelligence that relates to humans in the same way the mind of a crow might.

The dominant mindset I have observed in my life thus-far when people discuss human intelligence is the pattern matching perspective. Humans are differentiates by our outsized ability to pattern match being able to successfully manipulate these patterns. We now see something nonorganic with amazing pattern matching abilities. We have previously seen other organic entities with impressive pattern matching abilities. Why must this situation be any different?

My overall claims:

- Intelligence is best measured by outcomes. How some entity is best able to manipulate its existence (however that existence may manifest)

- Intelligence can manifest in more than one way. An entirely mechanical system could be considered to have some level of "intelligence"

- Considering something intelligent or to have desires is not anthropomorphizing. There are many non-human entities that we consider to have these properties.
Perpetual futures are so nice compared to regular tradfi ones. Having to roll over your ES or NQ futures serves no purpose (and it's not like any other future besides the front month is liquid anyways) and is probably just a scam by CME to induce more trading volume.

That being said regular futures do make sense for stuff like commodities.
It's geopolitical, and the 'content' stuff is just populism.

Insta is hosted in the US controlled by Western firms, not privy to the CCP and that's it.
‘bliss points’ and ‘mouth feel,’ food industry plays role in eating habits
Warby Parker, Allbirds, Everlane, Parachute Are Embracing Actual Shops
My HP printer was about as expensive as a couple of cartridges. They are the McDonalds of printers.
You might check your math here buddy. Sure a combine (which is called that because it does three jobs all at once, reaping, threshing and winnowing) may cost 100$/hr over it's useful lifespan, but it replaces much more than one person (more like 150-300 people), especially when you consider that harvesting is extremely time-sensitive, sometimes in a matter of hours...

Edit: after some research and calculations, my estimate is that a single modern combined harvester can replace between 350 and 700 men.
I think it's a pretty pragmatic view.

The political system has no interest or even real incentive to fix climate change. Money has corrupted our governments too deeply to alter course in time.

There's nothing that you, I, or any individual can do to affect our current trajectory. Not at any scale that actually matters.

The only answer is to stop producing fossil fuels right now full stop, no conditions, no "phasing out". And that is simply not feasible because of money. Because we've spent the last half a century ignoring the problem.

What do we do? No amount of voting or recycling or buying new cars is going to make any change. It hasn't for 20 years. By the time our society gets its collective head out of its ass enough to vote for political change, we'll already be deep into global famine.

I predict two general scenarios:

1. Status quo. Nothing changes, world governments will attempt a massive last ditch effort far, far too late to make a difference. A huge portion of all species die. From there pick your favorite post-apocalyptic movie.

2. The people wisen up and overthrow their governments, string up oil execs, and force decarbonization at any cost.

We are currently, right now, TODAY at the stage where we must decarbonize at any cost. Literally no cost is too high. If we shut down oil today, it will be hugely disruptive and destructive to global society. A lot of people will die and many, many more will suffer. This will go on for decades most likely. But the alternative is most likely an extinction level event. Global famine and plague, entire species going extinct, loss of coastlines, entire ecosystems collapsing en masse.

Fundamentally, I don't think human psychology at scale can handle that. I expect that nothing barring miracle technology is going to save us, and in our current socioeconomic system, that might be even worse than nothing.

So yeah, I think we're doomed. We let capitalism go on for too long and it's too late to change direction. Those with power have systematically taken it from the rest of us so that the people with the incentive to survive longer than their career don't have the power to. The rest have the power to build nuclear bunkers under a mountain, or a rocket to Mars.

All because some men wanted to see a number go up.

Maybe we'll crack fusion and suck all the carbon out of the atmosphere, but that again simply buys us another few generations until our industrial waste heat boils the oceans. Until then, rich men will attempt to use carbon capture as leverage to extract even more money and power. "Pay me or I turn the climate up another degree" is not far off from what they're doing today.

The only thing that can save us is widespread revolt, strikes, overthrowing governments and forcing action. We've given the political system nearly a century to sort this out, and they are very clearly not interested. It's going to kill us if we don't do something.
The Stochastic Parrot(dox)
I don’t think deniers are being replaced, this is a very odd perspective

There are still plenty of people who are and who are becoming “deniers”. It’s not really hard to imagine given how much hyperbole comes from the climate “enthusiasts” (if we must slap labels on people)

The “doomers” are actually people who a generation ago would have been the enthusiasts, but because the hyperbole and often outright deception was so strong they have been disenfranchised to the idea that anything can be done.

And how can you blame either the deniers or the doomers? The movement is full of charleston’s who will say anything to get more power and wealth for themselves. The people with the most money and power live in lavish palaces flying private jets around the world to lecture us plebs that heating our homes is killing the planet. There’s more farce than truth and the result is everyone’s in a camp of nihilism because of it

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/al-gore-history-climate-pre...
Serious question: what are you doing on an individual level to help?
Yes, which is why burning fossil fuels is bad, we're releasing energy that didn't radiate into space during a time where the environment was already much hotter... and even at an extreme point coating the earth in solar panels would affect our albedo enough to increase the temperature, regardless if we use the energy they create.

Heat is actually the limiting factor for our growth on this planet. We can grow food off planet, we can't really increase our heat radiation rate.
I work on embedded systems that are rarely user facing, so ease of maintenance tends to directly improve the customer's experience for the overall system.
I think it's catching on because it's easier than feeling like you're complicit in not doing anything (providing you an out) and it's something for people to project their other ennui onto.
This is amazing! I love this effect of showing me that my little project that I was working on fairly solitarily is actually part of a community of other people doing similar work that I can reach out to/collaborate with etc!

What does it mean if, I click on a repo, and it shows 5-6 links to specific projects? Does that just mean the jaccard similarity index was below a threshold?
That is isomorphic to #3 but with the defeatism pointed at people instead of the environment itself.
What else did you use to calculate similarities? When I tried something similar with HN co-commenters, I just got one big blob with dang and other prolific commenters in the middle. That was not very interesting or insightful.

How long did it take to calculate the Leiden clustering and the force-layout? Do you think it would be somehow possible to compute a force-layout of the whole graph?
My TT feed is funny animals and animal rescue, I've never seen a dark thing and I think TT is very small-c conservative and doesn't want that stuff.

They are not trying to be 'free speech' just 'fun'.

Aside from it's addictive qualities, I find Insta and FB far more toxic.

That said, TT cannot exist as it can be controlled (and is in some ways) by CCP. No reason they can't sell of Western operations (or just do a split, all shareholders get 1 share in new entity), like a big business 'Fork', and everyone can be happy.
I suspect it's a combination of NIH and the big players wanting to control the certification process and chip supply.

Z-Wave has been working perfectly fine for years. There have been protocol upgrades, new hardware, a pretty large ecosystem, etc. Zigbee apparently suffers from interop problems.
Accounting for their username they are either making a joke or trying to assess the potential performance of the strategy even if they get flagged.
I implemented a read-only implementation of git here: https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/cl-git

It’s nearly complete, I just have to finish a couple annoying edge cases around delta compression.
AILandia was big before but now has been growing at an astounding rate almost surpassing Frontera.

Some say it's a cancer others say it's inevitable and here to stay. Probably both are right.

Also, why is Swiftoria so big?
That’s absolutely on point. It seems to me like we’re unable to connect these dots so easily though, and we let a lot of these “cookies” infiltrate our lives readily. We understand eating too many sweets is bad for us, bad for kids, but we seem to struggle to identify why that is and why so many other things in life stimulate the same neural paths and responses.

I try to tell my kids all the time (paraphrasing myself): the best cookies are the ones you earn. The worst ones are the ones you acquire easily.

Riding up a mountain so you can ride down it, ripping around the trails and getting air, coming out the bottom still lightheaded with excitement is incredible. The way up can be hell, sometimes you wonder what you were thinking, but at the end of it all you want more! That’s what the brain needs.

Video games and infiniscrolling on the other hand… Some of the same reward pathways are hit, but there’s no substance there. Just a bag of free cookies that makes you ill.

Edit: I love video games, I’m definitely not saying they’re ruining children or anything. But I mean, video games after a day of getting stuff done and having nothing left on your plate is going to feel like a great reward. Waking up and playing until you feel like a human slug, anxiety ridden about all the stuff you didn’t accomplish… That’s a problem. Not because video games specifically, either.
Matter will lock you into the ecosystem promoted by Apple and Google instead of the ecosystem promoted by the Z-Wave alliance.
The wheel does not need to contain the ball bearing in order to still be a circle, or even a wheel. It just can't be a functional part of a wheel-axle system without it.

Just as one can abstract out the brain from the body and talk about the complexity of the body (less the brain). Such a comparison is fine by me.

But society and the terrestrial ecosystem don't exist without functioning brains in them. And a genealogical relationship doesn't exist at all as a physical object, just as a conceptualized object (such as a graph). And conceptualized objects, such as graphs, typically aren't that complex (though can probably get there if someone dedicates the computational resources to do so).
> Why not send top stockholders to prison while you're at it?

Or just curtail every holder's shares by a fixed percentage, if/when a publicly-owned company is found to have engaged in anti-competitive behavior. If the incentive of maximizing shareholder value is no longer aligned with the interests of society, maybe that's how to fix it.
When I link to http (because I want to share public information that never will need encryption), your browser rewrites that to https and then the user gets an error.
Capita warns customers they should assume data was stolen
Proclivity to mutation is .. sometimes heritable. That's the BRCA gene, no? In the case of RNA repair, If it's not 50/50, there'd be an advantage in repairable RNA.
>has as a stated goal destroying American power and replacing it with their own anti-democratic power structures.

Source?
Do you have any logical reason to not trust him or is it simply “I have a feeling”

I don’t know I can’t say. But scientists in academia and in national labs are salesmen for themselves and their research too, so I think you’re possibly giving him too hard a time compared to them