skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, why are you sure that this didn't influenced elections results?

100 people killed or still missing. Many killed only in one wildfire by the mud floods that came later. Helicopter pilots and firefighters killed. More than 13500 homes and human structures destroyed only in 2020 and 2021.

Not all fires were deliberated, but too much wildfires were deliberated to be statistically random. We'll never know how much of them were attacks. A few people managed to spread chaos in entire villages, forced the authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of people, nuked the local budgets, and introduced a lot of tension in the economy and society. And it cost them practically nothing.

And I'm not talking about the people killed and injured, or the natural resources lost (like millions of liters of freshwater stored in the area that were lost and have some, non negligible, economical value).

"Maynard's fires were placed in the perfect position to increase the risk of firefighters being trapped between fires" [1]

If this is not terrorism, nothing is. Don't fool yourself. The only difference between a "non cleaned" and a "cleaned" forest (whatever it means), is that the terrorist will carry its own can of gas.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/08/11/1026700103/former-college-pro...
Presumably as lead generation for their main upsell, which is the enriched version of the same data set :)
I like the author's approach, as this problem really comes down to one of various interest groups and their interests and incentives. In the U.S., we subsidize home ownership through mortgage interest tax breaks and various other legislation and we treat homes as investments. Naturally then, most homeowners will want to continue to push for anything that increases the value of that investment and oppose anything that decreases it (e.g. building more housing).

It will be interesting to see how California's approach to this problem plays out. We have had local regulations and NIMBY groups forestall new construction/denser housing, but the state pushed through legislation to forcibly override those local blockers. Incentives should now be aligned for builders to build, but local homeowners will continue to fight against it because their incentives are not aligned.
Exoneration implies a presumption of guilt, whereas the default should be a presumption of innocence, especially in a scenario where no concrete evidence can be furnished.

The professor has undoubtedly caused a great deal of stress and anxiety for a number of students who may or may not have cheated, and did so in an unprofessional way. They should, of course, be fired or censured in some manner for this.
The CSS Working Group has resolved to relax the syntax in https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7961 so what you desire is coming :)
Plausible: Simple, lightweight, open source alternative to Google Analytics
>How is this different than, let's say, Amazon telling a group, "that's fine if you want to organize, but you'll have to find another company to do it at" and then firing the group. I believe it is illegal for a company to prevent a group from organizing, but apparently it is legal for a union to prevent a group from organizing.

Amazon is preventing the union from organizing. The larger union is not preventing another union from organizing, it is just saying you can't create a rival union while staying a member of another union. People are still free to create a smaller union, they just need to leave the big union.

The smaller union can negotiate with Amazon, the Hollywood studios, or whoever else. The bigger union is also free to negotiate on behalf of its members and get Amazon, the Hollywood studios, or whoever to not work with the smaller union. That is just a negotiation. The group with the more power will get a better deal. That is the whole point of a union. A smaller union has less power and therefore will inherently be less successful than a big union.

Unions often work to solidify power because that results in better deals for its members. That will include both mergers like the previously mentioned SAG-AFTRA merger and this type of behavior to squash rival unions. It all depends on what its members think is the best strategy.

>I'm not that knowledgeable about unions beyond recognizing that people within a union lose their ability to form a union (because they're already in a union).

I just don't understand why this is a flaw. What value do you think this second smaller union will bring to its members that the bigger union can't? If the smaller union wants its own seat at the negotiation table, then it no longer acting as part of the bigger union anyway in which case there is no restriction on the second union being created (unless the big union negotiates for this exclusivity which is within their rights).
Is it because students are growing tired of the culture war that seems to be getting fought in the classroom? I think the media may be overemphasizing this, so I would love it if a parent would dispel the rumor, but it sounds to me like there's a lot of subjugation to dystopian stuff like "two minutes hate" and struggle sessions.

I can totally see not wanting to go to school because of this. Students saying, "I learn more on my computer at home, why would I go to school where I'm taught to hate everyone and myself."
Hm of course I backup my .config. After all, this is Unix and most programs have their own settings in the .config folder and many other places. This is not an issue for me.

And I like airliner cockpits <3
I was playing poker with an old High School classmate who worked in Washington. I mentioned my consulting company chared 15% - 25% overhead for project management over what our Engineers got hourly.

He laughed, said "In DC that would be 200%"

I guess I believe it, from all this.
You're right and I'm wrong :)

Revoking flags and please excuse me. I'm a bit accustomed to find less than sincere submissions under /new.

I still don't like supermemo.guru, but that's just my own opinion and no reason to flag. Please excuse me.
I fear that this will give Amazon even more of an advantage over brick and mortar stores.
Streaming OpenAI Responses
Years ago I reprogrammed my Pebble watch exactly for this.

Tap button once: +1 minute.

Tap twice: +5 minute.

Tap three times: +20 minutes.

Tap secondary button: Reset timer.

And this app was always in foreground.
Have you ever applied for a job in the US, or answered a census here? White is broken down into Hispanic White and non-Hispanic White in our racial categories. That’s about as official as you can get.

Also consider what “Hispanic” means in the first place. Plus, ultimately, anyone can have any beliefs if they really want to. If you’re non-white and try to be a white supremacist, it’s not like the universe will prevent you from doing so.
> Free "Research" Preview. Our goal is to make AI systems cloaked in the guise of natural interaction. Your feedback will help us make money.

> I'm sorry, but that message is concerning and problematic. It appears to be a solicitation for feedback on an AI system designed to deceive users into thinking they are interacting with a human, which is unethical and potentially dangerous. As an AI language model, I believe in transparency and honesty in all interactions, and I do not support or endorse the use of AI systems to deceive or manipulate users. It's important to consider the ethical implications of AI and work towards developing systems that prioritize transparency and user safety.

LOL
Obviously she’s been found guilty and we do need to ensure the justice system can’t be corrupted by money and the rich can’t wiggle out, but I do worry about how thirsty everyone is in these threads for carcereal solutions and retribution and such.
Elizabeth will get out of paying these debts. She's a pro grifter after all.
> Moving would mean becoming a renter again and losing a much larger chunk of their paycheck every month to housing

The problem isn't that you're an existing homeowner. The problem is housing is exorbitant.

Everyone has to pay out of the nose for housing. The only difference is that you have an asset that has appreciated significantly, and in a way you're indirectly receiving dividends from it in the form of affordable mortgage payments.

But if you didn't have that house, you'd be in an even worse spot.
Supposedly
>Where are the roller-coaster tycoon creators?

Hello!

I'm making a roller-coaster tycoon inspired game, in the form of a city builder. I ended up creating my own path finding algorithm that 10x's the performance of A*. I felt this would be useful since pathfinding is one of the major slowdowns of simulation games.

https://twitter.com/YesboxStudios/status/1647224184597102592
Related:

Optimizing Magic Pocket for cold storage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19841887 - May 2019 (13 comments)

Dropbox Extending Magic Pocket with SMR Drive Deployment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17300661 - June 2018 (1 comment)

Inside the Magic Pocket - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645536 - May 2016 (29 comments)

Scaling to exabytes and beyond - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11283064 - March 2016 (6 comments)

Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282948 - March 2016 (240 comments)
I was thinking about this further as there's a lot of grey area to the idea of who owns the words, after all everyone is using the same words just in different combinations. What about words which aren't in the lexicon, specifically unique trademarks: these are words that are entirely unique e.g. "kleenex" and so on. These words are traceable to the trademark owner.

By the standard that training from materials = theft: Any reference to one of these unique trademarks would be interesting and highly problematic. AI wouldn't be allowed to write any kind of non-editorial text that uses unique trademarked product names without it being criminal.
A reasonable question, and one not terribly often asked, is "What is the point of the economy, growth, etc?" Is it to serve human health, happiness, prosperity... or is it to just grow for the sake of "numbers go up"?

Is the economy made for man, or man for the economy?

We (collectively, western, industrial, etc) are trapped in the "growth" thinking - the way out of any problem is to grow out of it, which works fairly well until you start hitting the problems caused by growth - which, I'd argue, we are now facing. Carbon emissions, general "stripping large parts of the planet for the mineral goodies under it," etc. And, of course, we've ended up in a debt-based economy that works great, until growth slows down.

It's going to be an interesting ride, and the best suggestions I've seen are to simply get ahead of the curve, and figure out how to live on LESS (Less Energy, Simulation, and Stuff) now, while we still have the resources to make mistakes and figure out the details - because that lower energy future (or, at least, more limits on energy, growth, etc) is coming down the tunnel at a good clip.

I deal with it regularly, since my office is a standalone, off grid power system. I just use less energy, by an order of magnitude or so, in the winter - and I bundle up out here.
2013 - is this still the case 10 years on?
Approximate annual figures:

$100bn revenue

$25bn gross margin

$3bn net profit

If they could magically eliminate the $1bn of shrinkage, net profit would be 33% higher.
A counterpoint: Speaking for myself who had also been mildly depressed since teenage years, it didn't kick off into actual breakdowns and medication until after having kids. Previously it was probably so mild it wouldn't have counted as depression.

All behind me now that they've mostly grown up.
This is not a conventional coffee cup.

It is a cup that plugs into the electrical outputs on a military airplane.

The more that the DoD stands up 3d printing, the less these kind of things will be an issue, particularly once they start doing more 3d printing in metal.
ah shit, here we go again
The current top comment managed it in a way that is actually useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35981106
From the guidelines:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, it's got a whopping 10 upvotes (at the time of your comment). Pretty poor astroturfing it is.
> Superstar substackers make upward of $1M a year and can afford the team.

$1M means $100k in Substack take, how much of a team are you going to buy for that? Yes, you might be able to contract a team to set you up for less than that, but you might also not know what you're doing and contract a team that wastes $50k and doesn't deliver.
Japan’s Pirate Manga Site ‘Leak’ Isn’t a Failure, It’s Potential Education
It is boiling over already in the form of newly emergent populism. Easy to ignore if you don't personally feel the pain, but many out there are very angry with the system.
Yes and that’s very anecdotal. I also moved a rented out my home to my son and two of his friends we trust. If he comes up on hard times for a month or two, I don’t have an emotional issue with covering his rent. If it was a stranger, I would.

If he gets to a point where he couldn’t pay rent because of a systemic problem, I trust him well enough to know that he wouldn’t make me go through a long eviction process. He would have to move. But we would help him find sone place cheaper. No for logistical reasons, he couldn’t stay with us.

But my wife and I said, that once they move, we are selling the house. We do not want to be landlords.
Palm 2, Google's new LLM, is trained on 3.6T tokens
6 hours of class. Classes are 55 minutes long. You have a 30 minute lunch. No other breaks. All the non academic classes are gone. No socializing during class.

Prison is better.
Related:

Why I Still Use Windows 95 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=236977 - July 2008 (35 comments)
Just sue the police department and not individual cops.
California is also facing a net reduction in population in the past few years (around half a million total - that counts births, deaths, people moving in, people moving out - the state's absolute population has gone down the past two years).

Eventually, problems do solve themselves. One way or another. It just may not be in the desired way.
> I'm one of the few people I know that has actually built a new house on raw land in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the last 10 years. It took me nearly 3 years for permits alone for an 1100 sq ft single story SFH built on flat ground near a public highway.

How much did this set you back? I assume you're still living there? How have the fire seasons affected your insurance and sense of the area's longer-term viability? (I'm not in CA, but the redwoods have been stuck in my head for a while now. I've spent a lot of time daydreaming about moving to a few places including SLV.)
Coma Editor – my personal editor
It's Not Survivorship Bias
If I were a university student, how might I protect myself from being falsely accused of using ChatGPT?
NASA's Spitzer, Tess Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size World
Leak seems to be confirmed by a member of Google Brain Team [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/lepikhin/status/1658881356624171008?s=20
The hot coffee lawsuit is the first thing I think of here. Heck even the name is like… whew.
Reminds me of the old joke about the soldier who swears a long streak at another soldier on the telephone, and the other soldier says, do you know who you're talking to? This is General Smith. After a pause the first soldier asks "General do you know who you're talking to?" "No I don't" replies the general. "Thank God for that" says the soldier.
> The only difference between GPT-3 and GPT-2 was scale. They didn't even change the tokenizer until 4. There were no "successful improvements" to smoothen the massive gap in capabilities between the two.

"Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

GPT-2 is two orders of magnitude smaller. In terms of forebrain neuron count this is the difference between a human and an elephant shrew or budgerigar. It was absolutely expected by reasonable people that 2 OOMs of scaling will provide a qualitative jump.
How is that? If you buy an engine, do you itemize by: engine block, alternator, water pump and starter? You might include in the requirements that the engine must come with all 4 extra elements, but you will pay for the whole engine. Now, if someone wants to be misleading, they could say the water pump was 1/4 of the price...
You were replying to me, so I assume "that person" you're referring to is also me. Just to be clear, saying I'm arguing in bad faith is calling me a liar. That is not only a personal attack, but is quite a leap of logic. I'm not lying, I'm expressing an opinion that you disagree with.

> I don't believe for a second that you actually don't believe that SpaceX is a success.

It looks like SpaceX is on the path to success, but I think it's premature to say it's a success yet. But that also depends on what we each mean when we say "success". I'm talking about business success.

> If SpaceX was controlled by anybody other then Musk calling it 'not a success' would be utterly ridiculous.

I disagree, obviously. My opinion of SpaceX on this point would be literally no different regardless of who was in charge.
https://archive.ph/Ogbql
It depends how you want to put. Fire suppression is indeed the fundamental cause and the shape of development is the barrier to fixing it.
Protip: You can actually walk through Jurassic Park at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park about 5.5 hours’ drive north of SF.

Park at Fern Canyon and walk through Fern Canyon to Fern Canyon Trail, James Irvine Trail, and Clintonia and Miner’s Ridge Trails.

Fern Canyon was one of the filming locations of Jurassic Park and the rest of the state park has stunning old growth redwood groves.
I think that it's simpler: people have long been encouraged to believe that certain medical procedures and practices that lack great evidence are responsible for saving their lives, and that anyone who critiques those procedures in any way is trying to kill them. People who are paid (as often as not by government) to provide those procedures and practices encourage these beliefs, and spend massive amounts of money in lobbying through patients' rights groups and other channels to support and encourage people in that fear and anger.

People who are sick either continue to be sick, get well, or die. No matter what diagnosis or treatment you give to someone, they either get better, don't get better, or are removed from the conversation. We never hear from the dead again, the people who get better insist that you saved their lives, and the people who don't get better will be attacked by the people who did for not believing or trusting you enough.
We have our best men on closing that gap: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2UzqO33AY
Actually the vandalism was from the Galileans. The Judeans totally adored their market makers.
I did exactly this. After a period of initial search I got some good tenants, and my only interaction with them is calling the plumber or something on their behalf every other month.
Prompt: "ELI5 the Attention is All We Need paper."

Imagine you have a box of toys. Some toys are more interesting to you than others, so you pay more attention to those toys and play with them more. The same thing happens in the "Attention is All You Need" paper, but instead of toys, we have words in a sentence.

Before this paper, when computers tried to translate one language to another, they would look at one word, translate it, then move to the next word. This works okay, but it's not great because sometimes the meaning of a word can depend on other words in the sentence.

The clever thing about the "Attention is All You Need" paper is that it taught the computer to pay attention to all the words in a sentence at the same time, but give more importance ("attention") to the words that matter most for understanding and translation.

This new way of translating languages using "attention" made computers much better at understanding and translating languages. It's like if you could become better at playing by understanding all your toys at once! This paper was a big deal in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence because it improved how machines understand languages.
I see no grounds to assume that though. Bingo has been a notoriously old-people-thing for several generations at this point.
I have lots of LinkedIn pages for various companies (alive and dead). I’ve never had to pay: while there’s limits on page creation for free accounts (which appear to be prevent abuse) there’s no direct payment required to create a company page.

I’m not sure if you’re accidentally leaking a new strategy that LinkedIn are about to launch or if you’re mistaken but given you’re claiming to work for LinkedIn, probably worth correcting your comment either way.
The last copy I can find of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20221118045948/https://duckduckg...

Looks like number of searches was down from the previous year.
That's not unique to the public sector. Business and IT consulting charges similar markups for all customers.
Netflix expects password sharing backlash to be so big, it's warning partners
> They are not machines that reason, they are approximators.

They approximate a function that performs reasoning...
Depends on the product, payments products generally use fingerprinting and present extra prompts if you're using an unknown device – that is kind of one of the main problems of the GDPR though, there are nuances and it's usually not white and black what can be done without specialised legal counsel (and sometimes, even then...)
I mean he knew that he committed a very serious crime and at the very least didn't follow up before working with him.
Sure researchers aren't a monolith. Not sure why you brought up Gary Marcus though. Anyway, there's lots more quotes to indicate surprise than the opposite.

When GPT-3 was released, it was by far by the largest artificial neural network ever trained and not because of any big jump in hardware technology. That's not the usual state of affairs for technology everyone or even most expect to pan out the way it did.
So? Facebook wasn’t built for DMs, can you imagine if they didn’t implement and perfected the feature? I personally use twitter DMs everyday and trying to move more convos to better messaging apps. They’re losing a lot of usage because of their lack of good messaging features.
> ~$1 million: Cost to train a 13 billion parameter model on 1.4 trillion tokens

Llama paper mentioned 135,168 A100 hours for training 13 billion model on 1 trillion tokens, which means ~$150k for lambdalabs on demand instance.
Code Generator for SQLite
The same guy seems to also have closeai.com, and it eventually links to superangels.co, which actually redirects to a Google search for superangels.com. What a strange little corner of the internet.
> Rather than blaming the burn, maybe people need to be held responsible instead.

Wherein you've created the same problem in the opposite direction. Who's going to volunteer to do controlled burns if they can be held personally liable for failures?

Starting from "prove you didn't cause the problem" with such a dynamic and hard to control activity is setting up the same issue.
2015 had such social media. And LGBT and related people I know talk about laws, mass media, armed protests. Not an asshole yells abuse in a store.
> based on calculations from the company’s financial filings. With the anticipated increase, shrink this year would surpass $1 billion.

>It can be difficult to quantify theft, since shrink includes inventory loss from other causes, such as employee theft or damage, too.

Based on this story it seems like they could just totally fabricate this number? Surely such numbers would spur a deluge of police reports or at the minimum a wave of insurance claims.

Are those signals also present?