skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a good diagnosis of some of our issues, but it’s a really hard problem.

When we go the other way, and allow actions that harm people, we have an unfortunate tendency to allow those harms to fall… extremely disproportionately on those with the least burden to bear the harms and the least power to be compensated for those harms.

I think, as the other poster noted it really comes down to the individualistic nature in which we try and address some of these collective action problems. We need to acknowledge that the solutions will cause less overall harm than not implementing them, but also recognize that the harms from the solutions may fall unevenly, and find ways to socialize the damage those solutions cause, rather than leave that damage on the powerless.
All those issues you mention may be driving the lying, and as you mention there's an accountability problem. More transparency would help.
I'd reply with a big fuck off.
Relearning C++ After C++11
Yep, and dismissing doomsday claims on this basis is a heuristic that almost always works.
Who knows? He puts out the impression 99% of his rhetoric isn't from any plan. As if he has a couple talking points and then extemporizes on everything else. Reading into it any further without evidence just fuels that narrative that we are a bunch of "Foamers" and living in "La-La Land."

The fact that he didn't provide any evidence to back up his claim about productivity of workers and only mentioned how unfair it is for some people to work from home makes me think he's hiding the true motivations. Probably something along the lines of conservation of the status quo. "Don't change things too fast for me!"
Basically, the legal equivalent to the trolley problem. Worth noting that there are solutions in our legal code for this. Good Samaritan laws would be a good example.

However, even in a world without such countermeasures, if the negative externalities as a whole are drastically less than what would happen doing nothing, it stands to reason that simply paying the price for the negative externalities would still be logical and it would have the advantage that those negatively impacted by those externalities would not feel like they are disproportionately bearing the burden of the action.

> But if you get treatment and the doctors make a mistake and their actions cause some unintended harm, then there's someone to blame and sue, even if your statistical outcome was drastically improved by their intervention.

Doctors still have a lot of cover, even if they make a mistake, for exactly that reason. The real challenge for doctors is the difficulty preventing the litigation itself. Even if they win in court, the consequences of being subject to so many lawsuits are dramatic.

> The same problem is going to exist trying to mitigate climate change. Positive actions to reverse the problem will create negative externalities that hurt some people, but doing nothing will be drastically worse.

I think the bigger problem is that mitigating climate change will necessarily change the winners and losers, and the current winners have more power than the current losers.
> Of course, if other developers find your project interesting and want to contribute, they may have their own features and use cases in mind that don't necessarily overlap with what you have planned, which doesn't however mean that it has to be a "wrong direction".

Yes it actually means exactly that -- it is the wrong direction. Since you have one person who wants to build something concrete and he doesn't owe it to anyone to support them if they want to change his thing to something else.

As I wrote in a deeper comment: if you want to build a shed in your back yard and your neighbor asks if he an help, you'll welcome them right? But then imagine the neighbor, for reasons unknown to you, wants to actually build a greenhouse and starts not doing what is asked of them and actively replaces building blocks and does stuff you don't want them to do. In your own back yard.

You will say this is not OK and want them to leave, I am certain of it.

Then somebody like you (the parent poster, a 3rd person in the picture) appear out of nowhere and claim that you are not a team player.

So I don't see how your comment follows logically at all and it's even more puzzling that it's the top comment. Makes me wonder if the people who blindly recite some theoretical democracy manifesto would be so generous if "the team players" you are defending started wanting to demand the right to change your back yard. :)
Blasting pixel data from the CPU to the GPU is normally about as "happy path" as it gets. The entire architecture is designed to make that kind of operation super efficient and super fast.

It's the opposite direction (GPU to CPU) which is a pain in the ass. Still fast if you do it correctly, but it's easy to end up with a stall.
yeah, unfortunately there's no support for consumer keyboards with Bluetooth in QMK (understandably, it's an entirely different layer of complexity).

I'm not a sufficient keyboard nerd, I just want a compact well-spaced portable keyboard with Bluetooth and multi-device support, possibly also rechargable.

The market is full of such devices at decent pricing, but you need to cope with various firmware bugs which you only find after purchase...
There is no Nobel prize for math or computer science, though...

I worked on a few projects that were trying to develop foundation models for health care, aviation, and other domains. In particular I trained an LSTM model to write fake abstracts for clinical case reports.

We ran into many problems, but maybe the worst one with the LSTM is that a real document repeats itself a lot. For instance, somebody's name might turn up multiple times and the LSTM was very bad at that kind of copying. The LSTM community was arguing about solutions to this problem, but the attention mechanism in transformers makes it easy.
Do people expect interest rates to lower again any time soon? Inflation just recently started trending down.

Right now US supply has shrunk so prices don’t seem to be declining enough to offset the rise in interest rates; the monthly payments for anything in the market are still eye-watering even factoring in price declines.
> This field is going to change very fast

It will be slowed by bureaucracy.

Example: To be SOC 2 compliant, you need to have change management controls in place. How do humans manage change management if an AI is doing everything for the humans? Would humans still be doing code reviews? (AI might be so great where code reviews are obsolete, but compliance / regulations may still require humans in the loop)

There's also a -huge- subset of software that is extremely mission critical or heavily regulated by compliance where all current compliance frameworks assume there's a human in the loop. Ripping the human out of the loop would require re-writing the regulations / standards (which I guess AI could help with) but I think the change will come slower than you're predicting.

Change won't be slower because of any technological barrier necessarily (this is debatable), but because it will absolutely take a very long time for humans to fully trust AI and its output.

The era we're in currently feels like where Tesla was a few years ago. Really cool concepts and proof that self-driving "works", but there are so many edge cases which limit its complete roll-out and makes the original promise of "everything will be self driving in 5 years" seemingly achievable, but 5 years later it hasn't been achieved, and remains simply an assistive technology with many limitations.
Same! I love self-checkout. It's easy for me to breeze through when I just want to pick up a few items.

If I need to buy something that requires a human employee (like alcohol), I just use regular checkout.
Of course we care about mathematical rigor.

> Yes, if you define the rng circularly, then you can make the assumption,

We’re agreed then.

> but then you cannot make the claim of 1/2 per term, since they are not uniform.

As mathematicians, we’re allowed to make multi-step arguments. The first step rand(rand()) = rand() * rand() holds for any distribution that scales multiplicatively with the argument, as we’ve agreed. The second step E[rand() * rand()] = E[rand()] * E[rand()] holds for any two independent distributions with finite expectation. The third step E[rand()] = 1/2 holds for this particular distribution. An ideal mathematical rand() satisfies all three of these properties, so this argument that E[rand(rand())] = 1/4 is valid in the mathematical reals. (And it’s approximately valid in the IEEE reals, which is all one typically asks of the IEEE reals.)
>It’s an interesting hobby where fans have played no matter what the company does and the company knows that.

I don't think thats true. They walked back their license BS over fan outrage.
What about reducing trade and travel between the hemispheres? Sort of a de-globalization approach?
Volkswagen Is Not Microsoft
Thanks, I always forget about SRP since I think about it at the AMA level and get my water from Phoenix.
OP should just calmly tell OpenAI that they are not infricting on the trademark, because it's not in the same business domain.

OP should not communicate with OpenAI without a lawyer at this point.

The one exception is if this vaguely threatening letter turns into a formal cease and desist, and OP cannot budget for a lawyer.
Thank you for letting me know, this information is crucial. The CPU-only compatibility of transformers.js might make it too slow for text-heavy websites. I will immediately study a way to throttle it.

However, the Chrome web store review might take some time to allow the update.
No, but I typically write the delivery date on the bottom with a permanent marker (Sharpie).

I also do this with e.g. camera batteries, vacuum batteries... basically anything that costs more than $50.
> Do you consider if reasonable or likely that a private citizen would shoot an unarmed, nonviolent person at their door?

Reasonable? No.

But its a kind of unreasonable that is far from unheard of (even when it is “in their driveway” rather than “at their door”.)
There must be a minecraft version of this critter somewhere.
> but it has been ongoing for a much shorter period of time

That's worse, not better! https://xkcd.com/1732/
So pretend to work?
I'm a single dad of a 5 year old, here are some ideas I have found helpful:

-Work to become the kind of person you would like them to grow up to be- they will follow your example, not your instructions
-Slow down, be patient, and protect them from the stress and rush of adult life. If you are late and angry at them for not getting ready quickly, realize this is your fault not theirs- you didn't plan ahead
-Be emotionally available. Validate rather than dismiss their concerns. Really listen to them. Be happy when they share difficult feelings or mistakes they made with you, instead of being angry at them. At the same time, don't be too emotionally vulnerable- they don't need to stress about your adult problems.
-Encourage their passions and interests
-Spend lots of quality one-on-one time with them, especially doing physical things outdoors. Take them fishing and hiking solo. Hours spent in nature one-on-one with a parent are the most valuable time in a kids life.
-Be loving and kind to their mother, even if you aren't together anymore. Never complain or say negative things about her.
-Help them be part of a community where they learn to know, trust, and interact with people of all ages- join clubs and bring them along, etc.
-Adopt the mindset that you can take them to do fun activities together, and they are never a burden preventing you from doing what you want, but actually a chance to share what you love with them. Kids can do a lot more than you expect.
-Learn to set boundaries and enforce rules with calm and kindness. Anger and losing your temper are weakness, not strength. Respond to conflicts the way you would hope they do as an adult.

Some parenting advice that has helped me:

-The daily dad: daily parenting tips and philosophy by e-mail https://dailydad.com/
-Book: Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids by Kim John Payne and Lisa M. Ross
-Podcasts and blogs from Janet Landsbury https://www.janetlansbury.com/
I've read a lot about Mr Musk's intelligence and many people commenting on those stories would often claim his intellect was media hype.

I never knew and obviously still don't but he's equating the environments needed to do things such as welding automobile frames with software and marketing and accounting? It's fairly obvious to even a third grader that the job environment and necessities for a cafeteria worker and a bookkeeper are quite different.
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Nice. Looking forward to part 2.
Expect more 2-hour cutscene fests. As a recent egregious offender Hogwarts Legacy comes to mind,; I think actual gameplay lasted around 10 minutes in the first two hours and the rest was cutscenes.
yeah, and change is time. there is no notion of change without time, and Id argue that there's no way to measuring time without change, so change is indeed just a different manifestatin of time
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Epstein Assisted Noam Chomsky, Botstein with Financial Transactions
An extremely brief google search tells me that controlled burns require firebreaks, knowledge of the wind patterns (something called a downwind backfire?) and presumably continued monitoring/support from firefighters to actually be a controlled burn over the area that needs it.

I think what you're describing is a total fantasy.
It's a 2.64GB CSV file with the following columns:

handle
type
name
website
founded
industry
specialties
size
city
state
country_code

15,263,246 rows.

I think the main listing for Google is this one (as an example):

10361050:company/google,Public Company,Google,goo.gle,,Software Development,"search, ads, mobile, android, online video, apps, machine learning, virtual reality, cloud, hardware, artificial intelligence, youtube, and software","10,001+",Mountain View,California,US
>You would go to jail.

You could go to jail. In some state's in the US, it is by no way guaranteed.
Create an IPCC-like body to harness benefits and combat harms of digital tech
On the topic of future "rogue AI destroying humanity" especially via political means. This would only happen because we're such a stupid, selfish species. We evolved into what we are, we're animals and we still often show it.

The tech isn't necessarily the problem; it's us. Why should it be possible for an AI to manipulate the news and have millions upon millions of people believe a false rhetoric (whether initiated by the AI itself or on the whim of a controlling human) - is that the fault of the technology? Or of us all, how quick our species is to anger, to assume, lazy and avoiding fact-checking, to scrabble for more more more personal resources even though we have enough already.

The problem is humans, imo. But I guess that's what makes us human. I am not an AI ;)
GPT-4 Prompt: Can you ELI5 Transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper

Sure! Imagine you're in school, and your teacher asks you and your friends to work on a group project. Each of you has a different set of skills, and you need to work together to complete the project successfully. In this analogy, the group project is like a sentence or a piece of text that a language model is trying to understand.

Transformers are a type of model that helps computers understand and generate text, like in our group project. The key idea behind transformers is something called "attention." Attention helps the model figure out which words in a sentence are the most important to focus on, just like you and your friends pay attention to each other's skills to complete your project.

The "Attention is all we need" paper introduced transformers and showed that by using attention, the model can learn how to understand and generate text more effectively. Instead of focusing on each word one at a time, transformers can look at all the words together, decide which ones are the most important, and use that information to understand the text better.

So, in our group project example, transformers help the model work like a team, where everyone pays attention to each other's strengths and helps each other out. This makes the model more powerful and able to do a better job at understanding and generating text.
> Stallman changed his mind in 2019, by highlighting that harm can exist even without coercion.

It was 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21092184
I’d much rather go to a store with self checkout than one that doesn’t have it.
I was being sarcastic because none is better, it's what we're used to. I can do measurements in both imperial and metric, but because imperial is widely used in MY country, I find it "superior", same with everything else.
Development notes from Xkcd’s “Gravity” and “Escape Speed”
The Red and the Black
A Conversation with Jason Moran
Coast redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) are not serotinous. Giant sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum) are, but that's not what's in Big Basin.

Coast redwoods propagate by stump sprouting and seeds which don't require fire. Fire is important in their ecosystem for clearing out fuel but is not at all required for reproduction.

https://ucanr.edu/sites/forestry/California_forests/http___u...
Experiments with the new WASI workload in .NET 8 Preview 4
I used to play around with Langton's Ant a lot.

The longer patterns remind me of the climbable game assets in "Below the Root" and "The Jungle Book", early games by Dale Disharoon/DeSharone that I played on an Apple II compatible, though they were available on DOS and C64 as well.

I'd always assumed that Dale based his vines on Langton's Ant but the timeline doesn't add up. Dale's games came out several years earlier.

It is an interesting aesthetic subset of digital noise.

Worth noting that Dale also worked on the strange Legend of Zelda CDi games. He had an unusual arc.

https://www.uvlist.net/game-173637-Below+the+Root

http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2012/09/dale-desharone-uns...
If someone has strong feelings about how a UI is lacking, why suppress it in order to be more polite and avoid appearing entitled? That's a very useful signal. Imagine if nobody expressed their strongly-held opinions about UIs; nobody would know what's missing or bad. Why must everyone who complains about something also attempt to fix it themselves?
How the CEO behind ChatGPT won over Congress
> If thugs appear at my door demanding a $50 item or else

If thugs appear at my door for any reason, that door gets slammed shut and I'll be on the phone to get the actual police.
Horrifying. That's exactly why simplewall [0] is among the first programs I install on Windows. Then I block stuff like compattelrunner.exe, devicecensus.exe, explorer.exe, the various Intel / Nvidia driver-related bullshit background processes the first time they attempt to connect to a remote server.

https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
Some tangential digging:

The survey is from https://www.challengergray.com/tags/relocation/ and you can find past information there too.

While this is something that appears to be a "hey, look, 2021 data is even more than the past", it is a trend that has been observed in the before times.

Going from the survey/stats company to an article that one of the surveys was used in brought me to:

Fewer Americans Uproot Themselves for a New Job : https://www.wsj.com/articles/fewer-americans-uproot-themselv... which was published on August 20th, 2018.
Is there really anything substantive in arguing over the terminology?

I'm fairly certain you understand the intention behind his statement. Markets ebb and flow in accordance with forces of supply and demand, and the government pumping liquidity into a market falls naturally into the same metaphorical linguistic space as "cash flows". Money is as liquid as water.

If the motive behind the argument is suspicion that characterizing capitalism as natural is painting it in too positive of a light, then I'd figure that capitalism is as Hobbesian as the jungle.
Social security (has flaws but basically solved the widespread pre social security problem of poverty amongst the elderly)

Food safety, leaded gas and paint, restricted chemicals lists (for safety reason, less of a fan of drug bans).

Bank deposit reserve requirements. Obamacare. Antitrust legislation.

Seat belts (extremely controversial at the time, people protested the loss of their freedoms etc etc).

Alaska’s Permanent Fund. Norway’s government pension fund.
I feel like I would move if I couldn't find any social circle aside from rabid blue-bubblers.
Possibly of interest...

https://github.com/larrykollar/Unix-Text-Processing

A re-compilation of the book by various contributors coordinated by Larry Kollar.

The whole thing compiles in a few seconds on an old Thinkpad (I had to fix a font location warning).
.NET 8 Preview 4
Bing thinks Hitler was in Radiohead
Congress called Huawei a national security risk – it’s still in US networks
What behaviors of indoor cats do you define as neurotic?
I disagree with you.

I've used self-checkout 4 times in 4 different stores in the last week and had a problem 2 out of 4 times. 50% success is not success.

Every store is different:

- Do they weigh stuff in the bagging area?

- Do they scan produce bar codes?

- Does it take cash, or card only?

- Is there annoying lag? (Frequently, yes!)

- Is it going to scan something twice because I hovered, because it lagged?

Also, let me ask:

- Why isn't there space for my cart?

- Why am I juggling stuff in a tiny bagging area?

- Why do the bagging area hooks suck?

- Why is there only one attendant in the stores that have really sucky systems?

- Why are half the self-checkout kiosks closed?

Self-checkout is not made for shoppers. I prefer self-checkout, but I wish good systems were more common.
Man am I in the minority for not wanting to move cause I love the place I live?

Everybody’s talking about money, as if they’re $100k away from uprooting and setting up shop somewhere else, but like - why? What’s so bad about the place you’re at?

All my friends are here. All my favorite things are here. It’s beautiful here. My family is here. Why would I want to live somewhere else?

I bought a house here, yes it was a good investment, yes I’m holding onto my low interest rate for dear life, but - the reason I bought a house here in the first place is because I didn’t want to be anywhere else. If I wanted to live in Seattle or LA or NYC then I’d have moved there a long time ago - I’m certainly not going to do it now, for work, of all things.
Windows NT has had async I/O and named pipes from the beginning. The API isn't identical to what you described but the concepts are similar enough to port higher level primitives.
Thinking logically isn't going out of fashion any time soon. Excel lets you fit increasingly higher order polynomials to a time series graph but you still need someone to tell them that's not a good forecast