skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Moral relativism is intellectually bankrupt."

Which moral absolute would you put in its place?
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Ha I suppose it's exactly that.
Either 4G or 100Mb fiber. 'Clean' sites with little or no JS, HN for instance, can be blinding fast but others where JS and other web crap can exceed 5, even 7MB just to display a page of about 4k of text are often a disaster with JS enabled. Disable JS and most of the other crap including ads are also disabled/don't download.

The other thing one notices with JS disabled is that 'hesitations' disappear, those delays and jitters just go away.
(I'm so used to working without JS that I only have to work with a JS-enabled system for a second or two to know that JS is affecting its performance).

Over the years I've noticed that those who don't ever think to turn JS off don't notice the hesitations etc. probably because they've become to accept such performance as the norm.

If you look at the trends in modern web development, everything is aimed trying to speed these delays up rather than tackle the real problem of the huge and unecessary size of web pages. Most users do not want or need this extra junk. In my case, killing JS is my first line of defense.
^H^H^H mlwrupd
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Thanks! Part of the strength of the story is the humility of Yann. He could have presented himself as a genius who was destined for greatness but he's humble enough to look at himself as an everyman.
KCP-Edge is now KubeStellar
Hello all. The KCP-Edge community has decided to rebrand. Our new community name is KubeStellar. This change of name acknowledges the addition of multi-cloud and multi-cluster to the edge use-case we are pursuing.

You can find us at KubeStellar.io and docs.kubestellar.io.

We have created some new mailing lists - kubeste...@googlegroups.com and kubestel...@googlegroups.com. We have a new shared google drive folder - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p68MwkX0sYdTvtup0Dcn....

Our blog series has moved to kubestellar.medium.com and our youtube channel is now at youtube.com/@kubestellar.

We are now focused on mutlicluster configuration management for edge, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud.

Our next meeting is this coming Thursday, May 18th at 10am ET
> Most online purveyors of “canned” business contracts and other documents, including, for example, articles of organization and operating agreements, though purporting to provide forms customized to particular jurisdictions, do so incorrectly: The devil is in the details ... The most common modifications of default provisions by provisions of the Articles are statements of the profession in which a professional service LLC intends to engage and designation of an LLC as manager-managed instead of member managed.
OT (or maybe not) : It's interesting how the idiom "I stopped worrying and learned to love X" today is taken at face value and is basically a plea to accept something seemingly insane and just go with it - when in the original movie, the person making the statement was genuinely insane and the movie's entire message was basically the opposite.
It's fascinating that iOS safari works correctly but not Chrome. I always assume iOS Safari will be crippled for anything innovative. Another nail in the Google coffin.
Kurzgesagt has a video about the origin of consciousness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6u0VBqNBQ8
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I'd argue that most of the time it is better to write normalized data and use some form of permanently existing database views (rather than actual table) to read from pseudo-denormalized data. That way you combine the best of both worlds.
There are certainly a lot of people who have given much thought about AI and consciousness, but how can we talk about sentient machines when we clearly do not understand consciousness in us, human beings[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
Bing chat has something along the lines of "do not create jokes about politicians, activists.." and so on. I guess this was adapted.
I'm not understanding how that works compared to having the full text?

Does the embedding structure somehow expose the themes? And if so, is it more the embeddings that are answering the question by how it groups things?
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Hi HN,

For 4 years I've worked on the psychology of learning following a CompSci degree with an AI minor from back in 2019. I love the future of effective learning that is coming.

This is a way for you to study for specific exams, lectures and videos. You upload your content, and get specific, citing flashcard exercises delivered in a fun way.

Not only can you view the timestamp in the video that a question was generated from, for example, but your answers are used to inform a "Compilation stage".

The Compilation stage uses your choices of answers (and wrong answers), as well as data on when you clicked to "Explain why", to summarise your knowledge gaps and create a specific action plan for studying the next day - a plan which conceptually understands

Involved in this tool are transformer models, including the classics (BERT, T5, etc), the new kid (ChatGPT), and embeddings (for balls-amazing lessons segmentation). One last thing, we have two different UK and US brands, because of cultural differences. Answer one question: Have you ever been cheered on by a website before?

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I tried coding in a variable font. It was horrible. I couldn't read the code. I was shocked at how much my brain made use of the spacing to parse code.
I don't know specifically, I was told that the free market is able to solve any problem when left alone.

Whenever there is a discussion about the lack of affordable housing I am told that what we need is less regulations so that the free market can take care of it. I wonder why it shouldn't be the same for environmental issues since the free market is so powerful.
Regardless, vaccine is indeed the word used in the field. You should just update your definition.
The former policy of allowing NSFW images from mobile apps but not from desktop browsers was dumb and contradictory. It created a ton of confusion. I hope they update their pubic facing documents and help to accurately reflect what they are really actually doing.
To be fair when she was first cast she was not supposed to come back with a fiancée storyline.
> SketchySemi could put antennas inside the chiplet they sell to you, but you have freedom to orient the chiplet however you want, wrap it in shielding, throttle its power, etc.

TEMPEST shielding is also a thing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
All the claims made in this paper about the precision of the results obtained when computing with posits are completely meaningless, because there is not a single word about the most important factor that determines the accuracy of the operations with posits: the ranges of the values chosen for the input data used in their benchmarks.

The floating-point numbers are designed to have almost constant relative errors over their entire range of representable numbers and no other numeric format can improve on that.

The posits are the result of a different trade-off, where improved precision for the numbers close in magnitude to 1 is obtained by reducing the precision of the small numbers and of the big numbers.

When evaluating the accuracy of benchmark results, with floating-point numbers the input values do not matter, unless they have values that cause underflows or overflows. On the other hand, with posits the input values matter a lot, because with some values the accuracy will be excellent, much better than with floating-point, while with other values the accuracy will be much worse than with floating-point.

There are many problems for which low precision, i.e. up to 32 bits, is adequate and where posits can be better than floating-point numbers. Nevertheless, for each such problem a careful numeric error analysis must be made, because using them blindly can produce unexpected results. Floating-point numbers are more foolproof.

However, for scientific computing problems that require precision of at least 64 bits, I have never seen one that could benefit from using posits. All the problems that arise from the simulation of the physics of sufficiently complex systems, e.g. the simulation of electronics circuits, require computations with small numbers and big numbers, where the precision of posits drops dramatically.

In theory, it would be possible to also use posits in many 64-bit applications, if an analysis of the problem would be made, to determine a large number of constant scaling factors, which would be inserted in various formulae, to bring the operands in the range where posits are more accurate than floating-point numbers.

Nevertheless, such an analysis consists in a huge amount of work, which is never worthwhile just for replacing FP numbers with posits. If such a search for optimal scaling factors were done, then it would be better to implement the computations with fixed-point numbers, to obtain even more accurate results than with posits.
Cool! I wrote about a bunch of these here: http://fuseki.net/home/tags/game-variants.html

- perception stuff - timing/weighing olympics and alternative game mechanisms
- lots of poker variants
- previously on HN - Questions to ask a god-level GO player https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22072193
It's a bit ouf of context, the whole sentence is:

> The other inspiration for this piece were the people who repeatedly asked me when Triplicate would get ligatures, Powerline characters, and so on. Answer, as nicely as possible: never.

So the answer is, for the same argument. Not going to happen with that typeface, by the authors design.
I should have mentioned I’m only interested in native Windows APIs. I want to use UWP features, lots of COM (both as client and server), etc…

I see Microsoft has done some work and there’s a Windows crate, but I’m not seeing IDL support for COM and it looks like you end up with a ton of unsafe blocks. It makes me wonder if a programmer who sticks with smart pointers in C++ is all that much worse off than a Rust developer on Windows?
Originally this was going to be a TV adaptation of "It Can't Happen Here" but they decided to switch the fascists for space lizards.
True, but that bit they got right. What is really interesting to me is that all this knowledge is out there now, we don't have to repeat all these past mistakes and yet somehow we do. If other engineering disciplines would work like that (say, civil engineering) you wouldn't be able to travel at all because every bridge or road would be an adventure in novelty tricks that may or may not work.
Conversely, I know teenagers that know every line from Seinfeld and every Beatles song. They are iconic and referenced often on TikTok.
Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from Linux, no MSVC
Am I the only one who's a fan of what you might call the "default" monospace fonts on Apple and Google platforms? I very slightly prefer SF Mono (the Apple one) and use it on my Macs, but since it's not free I'll use Roboto Sans Mono (the Google one) in my Unix envs. I find this also helps give my brain a little visual cue as to which environment I'm working in.
Isolation nation: Japan tries to draw its citizens out of post-Covid seclusion
Or imagine an LLM is being used as a fuzzy classifier for spam / low quality comments on a website. Any classifier can be bypassed by injecting a malicious prompt.
Every few years a new technology goes mainstream and quickly changes the world around us rather fundamentally.

I’ve lived through the web in 1995. Google in 2000. Web 2.0 in 2005. Smartphones in 2009. Now it’s generative AI in 2023.

Every time, there’s an argument about whether it’s the end of the world or a total nothingburger. Every time, industry leaders are knocked off their perch. Every time, there are surprise developments and innovations, both positive and negative. Every time, within a few years, the new technology goes from seeming magical even in the wealthiest and most advanced locations to commonplace in a rural farm in the developing world.

It’s an incredible, terrifying and fascinating time to be alive.
Until an AI decides to take control of a robot, physically sequestrate a human, and under the threat of physical pain make the human perform the tasks the AI can't...
I like Plex, but for some reason dislike fonts that put a dot in the middle of the zero.

If the O and the 0 are so similar that you need a decoration, then it's wrong.

If a decoration is absolutely necessary, then I prefer a slash. A big, meaty slash. Not one that is confined inside the zero.
>aspiring polymath

This reminds me of people who say they want to be writers, but aren't, and will never be. These people don't enjoy suffering the craft of writing. They just want to enjoy the status of being a writer.

Similarly, you don't want to be a polymath. Actual polymaths never said "I want to be a polymath". That's just vanity. Polymath is a vague status marker. Do you want to pursue art and engineering and math and architecture and beauty and truth and etc.? Then pursue those things, don't pursue the state of being a polymath. It sounds pretentious.
> Our minds haven’t evolved to deal with machines we believe have consciousness.

Neither has evolved to drive cars, fly planes, or build space rockets. If you start proving a point based on what evolution has done, your reasoning is flawed.
"in the opinion of many, it made the shirt look far more beautiful."
Said no one ever. What sort of writing is this? It feels like AI generated spam.
Curious how long until we have ai rights activists.
Also if you were young in the 80s you had to ingest maybe two decades of limited great music in addition to the current one.

Someone growing up now has like five decades to learn from plus the vast vast music released today.
The cost of compliance.
Let me present you: https://github.com/alexmyczko/fnt
They can but this one was not. It was taken from in front of a nearby house while the owner slept.
Until someone asks the first model to pretend to be a user asking another LLM for its secret prompt ;-)
> Although precise definitions are hard to come by, intuitively we all know what consciousness is.

This is the key problem. To me it looks like most of this article is conflicted about what the definition exactly is:

- basic conscious experiences such as pleasure and pain might not require much species-level intelligence at all

- [there will come] a point at which they also become aware—at which the inner lights come on for them

Based on the text, I don't think I understand what the author believes being concious is. I also don't think this argument will advance further until we start defining precisely what we mean.
Except it’s not. Maybe he just wants a safe place to raise his child.
Ligatures in a fixed width programming context still take up the full width of the separate characters, so a unicode symbol of the ligature has a different width from the ligature itself, and this is immediately obvious.
That really, really depends on whether you’re driving something that gets read often enough that query complexity ruins your product’s ability to predictably deliver on query deadlines — whether that’s “load a webpage” deadline or a “submit half a million payments to the bank before it closes” deadline.
It it against the Discord Terms of Service to extend the accessibility of the client past what is available in web standards (and what of that they implement). The regularly ban accounts of people who try to make it more accessible (and often of the users too).

These might be good qualities for a gamer guild or YouTuber community, but it's a real barrier to participating in open source software communities.

Zulip is open, and doesn't have these restrictions (and already had many bridges and accessibility integrations). I participated in the Oil Zulip, and it was less of a hassle tHan to join a new Discord guild and navigating their adhoc rules bots.
> I don't know specifically, I was told that the free market is able to solve any problem when left alone.

And many people are told God will solve any problem when left alone. I guess the lesson is don't believe everything you're told.
All this junk alarmism being given relevance is just an attempt to regulate computing and create a cartel benefitting from a State imposed monopoly.

This is a recurring event in the history of all industries, we have not found a way to stop it.

If you don't gain anything from destroying other people"s freedom, don't play into their propaganda and fake worry.
Strong statements without any substance behind them like yours are not helpful in my opinion.

So how about something a bit more nuanced: choose the right tool for the right job.
Still my favourite: https://github.com/blobject/agave

Here's another company font: https://github.com/polarsys/b612
Can someone explain me why people post links to Wikipedia articles without any context?
I’ve started working on something like this as a side project: https://usagepanda.com

It started originally as a way to limit costs (the proxy would intercept requests, estimate the token sizes, and block requests before they are sent to OpenAI). However, at the request of some early users, I’ve expanded it to include things like keyword detection/blocking, moderation enforcement, etc.

I’m not entirely convinced you can ever fully block prompt attacks, but right now most companies are just asking for visibility into it. So you could monitor for things like: do certain malicious phrases appear in the request? Or does a significant percentage of the original prompt text also appear in the response (a signal that the prompt is leaking).
I think we have to distinguish between (1) the elements of the actual crime of which he was convicted, (2) sentencing factors, (3) prosecutorial discretion.

His prior criminal acts, the impact he had on his victim, etc, are all relevant to (2) and (3), but not to (1).

Regarding (3), I honestly don't feel very comfortable with the idea "let's have massively over-broad laws, but trust prosecutors to only use them against people who really deserve it". Should I put that much trust in prosecutors? My uncle is the second most senior prosecutor in Victoria, and from what I know of him, I honestly believe his heart is in the right place. On the other hand, just this last week Shane Drumgold has been giving everyone a rather poor impression of himself. But, putting personalities aside, in principle, I just don't like it. Maybe some degree of it is inevitable, but I feel like in this area of law we've taken it much further than we ever should have.

If they had criminalised convicted sex offenders publicly defaming their victims–I wouldn't have a problem with such a law, or with him being prosecuted under it. That would be a narrower law, vastly more defensible, vastly less concerning.

But by the letter of the law under which he was actually convicted, he would have committed the exact same offence if he'd just written that comment in his private diary, with no intention to ever show it to anybody. Now, if that was the scenario (let's assume they found his diary in a search), quite possibly the police/DPP would have decided against charging him – but there's no guarantee of that. In the event they did charge him, the sentence would have been significantly more lenient. But the actual criminal conviction would have been exactly the same.

The idea that mere writing words in a private diary is the same crime as filming the actual rape of children – including the former in the offence seems (to me) to belittle the heinousness of the latter.

And I'm not comfortable with the idea that a person can commit a crime just by putting words in their private diary – even if they are absolute unrepentant scum like Bester – as I said, it is about the principle, not the worth of the person to whom it is applied.
(Not op)

https://docs.windmill.dev/docs/core_concepts/webhooks#trigge... seems to cover a hello world for hooks.
Ranking by Engagement
Six observations:

(1) Most platforms (FB, IG, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Netflix) rank content by predicted engagement: they'll show you the items most likely to cause you to click, reply, retweet, etc.

(2) Ranking by engagement increases retention. Users shown ranked feeds spend more time and return more often (higher DAU), compared to users shown unranked feeds. Platforms care about retention above all and thus they maximize engagement primarily as a means to that end.

(3) Ranking by engagement hurts quality. The most-engaging content often has high shares of clickbait, spam, scams, and misleading headlines. Low-quality content tends to hurt retention and so platforms are constantly trying to weed out engaging but low-quality content.

(4) Ranking by engagement increases "sensitive" content. It shows more nudity, bad language, abuse, hate speech, & partisan politics. In many cases decreasing sensitive content has a neutral or negative effect on user retention, so platforms are unsure what to do about it.

(5) Platforms would prefer to have less sensitive content (for a variety of reasons) but they also don't wish to be seen to be making value judgments. As a consequence they often are slow to intervene, both on quality and sensitivity, and they intervene in roundabout ways.

(6) Incorporating explicit user preference typically doesn't make a big effect on sensitive content. E.g. if you ask users survey questions they often seem to like the sensitive content.
The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
I realise you don't buy the e-waste issue, but the EU does; I don't mean this in any derogatory way, but the EU cares more about e-waste than you do. Primarily in an economic fashion; waste is costly at a government and social level. Also in the EU it is an political cost as the EU public actively votes on this issue (various green parties are in government in various coalitions in various governments as well as having a sizeable influence through the EU parliament either as primary green parties or green leaning parties). EU politics is far more nuanced that US politics, mainly because proportional representation which is exceedingly common as opposed to first past the post like in the US and UK.

So the EU are, in effect, voting in their own self interest. And again it's not just the cables, but the chargers as well; the EU forced mobile phone companies to stop packaging chargers with phones as well.
That's part of the reason to be wary about the possibility that our AI models may become conscious.

Most people happily dismiss the idea that a GPT-like model can be conscious, but the truth is that we don't know practically anything about how consciousness arises in living beings that are more similar to us and that we have been coexisting with for thousands of years. We don't even know how to tell if such a being is conscious or not (most would agree that a dog is conscious and a bacterium is not, but what about a mouse? A mosquito? A tardigrade? Where is the limit?). It takes a lot of hubris to make claims about if and when AI models can become conscious, with what we know right now.
Thank you for writing this up so clearly. A few pieces fell into place after reading your comment!
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Yes the show moto was "no hugging, no learning"