skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deterrence has a role.

As you point out, it's not most efficient path to resolving differences in America, but I can't say that forcefully pushing through police lines, breaking windows, and illegally entering the Capitol should be allowed to happen without penalty.

People make their choices, and they pay the consequences -- they're not puppets completely devoid of individual agency.

But yes, it's endemic in current American culture that incitement goes unpunished while action takes the charge. In politics, in business, and in religion.

If we want to solve underlying problems, there need to be more disincentives to whipping your supporters/employees/believers into a frenzy.

Shared culpability seems a good start.
Fair assumption; but anyone who’s done any research into the history of education in the U.S will tell you that phonics has vastly superior outcomes to “whole language” schemes.

Learning to read via phonics vs the alternative is like the difference between being born into wealth and opportunity, and being born a slave.

No hyperbole.
I just saw chili peppers being advertised as "natural Viagra" today in Amalfi.
"One enormous transaction shows that Ely Abbey, now known as Ely Cathedral, paid Thorney Abbey 26,275 eels to rent a fen" -- Ely Abbey/Cathedral are probably named after eels: see section 8 of https://www.historyhit.com/paid-in-fish-strange-uses-for-eel...
I appreciate the sentiment, but i do not agree with the solution.

The actual solution is to extract a function. What is the legitimate excuse for not extracting a function (other than being lazy, which i will not accept as an argument)

Edit: Just to enhance my comment, having a separate function with a distinct name enhances readability and maintainability. Readability is enhanced because a clear name lets the reader understand what is happening in the function (this attribute is lost with self calling nameless functions). Also, less lines need to be read to understand the wider context. Maintainability is enhanced because 1) more readable code is easier to reason about and change and 2) extracting a function means it can be reused
the chatgpt api also returns a probability of how right it thinks it is, it really is a shame that value isn't displayed in the web version
ChatGPT has an option now to browse the Internet.
Yes, but as you know, this discussion isn’t to prove that the US is the worst country in the world. We don’t even consider countries like those that you’re talking about in these conversations because they’re so behind and barbaric. What’s the point of even bringing this up except to distract from the discussion? What are you trying to show or prove with this? Remind everyone of things they already know? Your comment is an attempt to invalidate the legitimacy of the concerns posed above, and nothing more. Most of us though we’d move past the idea that murdering citizens is barbaric, and has no place in the world, yet people like you insist on telling us that we’re OK because we aren’t that, or that it’s not so bad here because it could be so much worse. That’s not useful in any sense.
I think it involves CD-ROMs
A credit card costs more in the long run, otherwise credit card companies wouldn't be profitable.
Just to follow on from what some others are saying, it may be because of tokens.

These are the 'words' it sees in the poem: https://i.imgur.com/EzffHiZ.png

To be able to answer the question correctly, it essentially needs to memorize how long each of the tokens in its vocabulary are. One token seems to range from 1 character to 5 characters normally, but I'm sure some longer tokens exist, too.

Judging by how often it fails at tasks like this, it seems likely that the model isn't aware and is just blindly guessing (as it always does).
> i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant.

I don't buy it. From personal experience I know that certain mental states can reduce or exacerbate fears.
and now he's evicted -from public housing- so what do you think the next move here is? My guess is he'll bounce back and forth from jail to the street until he dies.

feels like an extra janitor would be a better solution here rather than a surveillance state.
I like making money and exercising power. I like the feeling of getting what I want when I want. To help people (family/charity) you need money, resources and health (being able to). Politics is fundamental at all times, meaning human relations.

My wish is to die without a single penny in the bank. As I get older it gets clear how much time is worth. We have so little time to actually do what we want before we get too old.
I agree. It was obvious to anyone paying attention. But most people still believe there was some truth to it because the media lied for years. The report was important to get those people back to reality.
Par for the course, no? Knuth's work this side of the 80s is always very thoughtful, very methodical, but slightly detached from the cutting edge/fast pace of modernity. Don't even mean that in a bad way.
Because those tokens appear in lists of 5-letter words.
The “always” is probably an exaggeration, but the original prompt failed for me every time, while the stricter version succeed in all of my 5 attempts. I’m using GPT4 via the official ChatGPT UI to be specific.

"Every snake likes quick brown jumps."

"Every great dream needs brave heart."

"Every night Brian reads about space."

"Every house holds sweet music tones."

"Every swine likes sweet green grass."
Yohimbine has been around for a long time and it fits that bill: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohimbine
Many of our “signals” that something is researched and at least somewhat true are going to start failing us. We may not even realize how subconsciously we do so.
85 years old.

Rides his bike routinely.

Is able to compose and remember a list of 20 detailed questions to use in evaluating new technology, while riding said bike.
Then it's a behavior that can only be gotten away with if said populace also has a stockpile of W80s and other H-bombs (and is flooded with guns and wannabe domestic terrorists)
Trivially? Their entire budget was $174B in FY 2023 [0], it’s not trivial to get a split Congress to increase education funding by 57%.

The executive branch can’t just unilaterally decide where to spend money, they spend money that Congress allocates.

[0] https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-education?f...

I am not arguing against increasing teacher compensation, I’m just explaining why it isn’t trivial to address it.
I've had a nerd boner for semantic web constructs for years. My take is it's more useful than ever in the age of AI. Both for machine synthesis, but also for escaping the flood. Metadata, shared bookmarks, make the internet a place to explore and stake out again.

Multiplayer Roam + NFTs
In another thread today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36011856

user mikequinan posted a link to:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

where you can find many details on how HN works (and also some reasons why it is designed in such a way).
I wake up smiling every morning that I don't have to worry if some npm fuckup is going to blow up my project or disable it in production.

The grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence.
I wish the world map would show me some points of interest. Otherwise, cool concept.
Personally I like both projects, as I hope I made clear in the OP - I sense that there's some history and strife here that I'm not clued into as an outsider.
Someone can run these through right now if they wanted to.
Do you think this was at least news to the ESA?
Does it have enough propellant to deorbit?
> I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others,
and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic
and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same.

Haha.

Maybe someone with GPT-4 access can check if it has improved. But I find it essentially regurgitating its sources.

I am by no way an expert in questions I ask it. But I find the answers generally speculative and not helpful.

I have been asking bard and chat gpt once in a while "What's the internal representation of strings in Java"?

This is a good question to test its information retrieval capabilities. because your average blogspam site or tutorial doesn't cover the this.

They both somehow fail to convey me that it's a combination of char array and a cached hashcode.

At best, chat GPT told me a 3 paragraph sentence that java String was an array of UTF-16 characters, which is not quite the case since JDK 9 as I know. There's no mention of compact strings.

Other day I asked what's the GCC pass which deduplicates similar function definitions. Both chat gpt and bard made up their own pass name.

I am no expert in these topics, nor in ML or IR. But I don't believe LLM is the way towards information retrieval.

If it's ingesting everything it reads, it would be worse than pagerank, right?

Granted, it does normie stuff pretty well, like writing a data class or making HTTP request. But as soon as you need something deep, it is worse than useless, because it confidently claims incorrect stuff.
I find that most of the things I read can be pretty effectively summarized in a single thesis sentence and a few additional sentences to generally describe how that thesis was supported. If you're only reading things that can't even be summarized in an abstract, you must be reading a lot of unopinionated biographies?
> With billions of videos hosted, the key goal is to keep users engaged by serving up content they're likely to enjoy, thereby increasing view times and ad revenue

Maybe for some users. I just use youtube to find a specific video I need (because people have stopped writing useful how-to's now that they can just make a 10 minute video covering about 1 minute worth of text), and a full text search would be so, so useful.
Gotcha, must be aliens then.
Yet nobody here has thought of just localizing the shortcuts like Microsoft Office and macOS have been doing for ages. Solves this problem very elegantly. Ironically, Word is the “professional” editor of most professions outside of coding, and people do learn the shortcuts to use it effectively.

This obviously varies by country, but at the places I’ve worked at, most people used the local layout instead of the US one. They couldn’t bother relearning it and then switching every time they wanted to enter some text in the local (Slavic) language.
Welcome to academia, where human effort is cheaper than office supplies!
> I agreed to the job, requiring only that they pay my travel and food expenses, no stock, no pay.

Why would a professional take no compensation for their time when specifically sought out by the company?

I can understand taking cash only (in case of conflict of interest concerns), but I can’t grasp not taking pay in this situation.
I firmly believe if you locked Knuth to a desk with a computer his output would fall precipitously.
I'm sorry but an upvote is an insufficient reaction to this comment.

In decades of considering State privacy abuses and their roots, I haven't come across an analysis that so succinctly encapsulates the whole of causes+outcomes as this one. It is one of the most Modern America things I have ever read.
I totally agree, and surprised it's a bit controversial here. I understand that reading for pleasure can be different than reading for comprehension

But I lean towards reading for comprehension. I have a wiki which includes all the books I've read. The good ones get their own wiki pages with the main things I learned, and other notes.

A key point is that I don't take notes while I read. I only do it LATER -- because if you can't remember what to write down for a few days, then you probably won't retain it, and it may not be worth retaining.

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As a specific example, when thinking about this -- I wonder if anybody has read "The Signal vs. The Noise" by Nate Silver? I remember reading it because a friend had a copy.

Many years later, off the top of my head, I can't remember a single thing in that book. Question for other readers: can you remember a single thing from it?

I think maybe it's because I kinda knew most of the stuff in that book? I will refer to my notes.

On the other hand, I've been re-reading Antifragile by Taleb, which I first read in 2012 I believe, and it struck me how many things I absorbed unconsciously from that book, which I didn't ascribe to it.

For example I remember talking about "hormesis" during COVID, i.e. small errors and stress. And also I took up some light weightlifting because I thought it was a good complement to bike riding. i.e. having 2 different kinds of exercise

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edit: Just went to back to my notes on Silver's book (finished January 2014). Surprisingly I was extremely positive on the book -- I said the writing was engaging, it's well-sourced, very good set of topics (weather prediction, earthquakes, terrorists, poker, basketball, financial markets), and novel insights

Though the funny thing is that I didn't say what the actual insights were. The only one was the importance of knowing when you don't know, which I also got from Taleb

So maybe I should go back to that book and see if I still think it's good, and if there were insights I didn't get elsewhere

It's funny perhaps that my perception of the book has been clouded by Silver's reputation. I think he has been criticized for "predicting the present" and of "horse race coverage", and I think that's true now. But back when I read the book, I probably had a much more positive impression of him!! Very interesting
Giving kids a happy childhood and setting them up for happiness and contentment is of course implied. Either way, I think the vast majority of people who are alive want to remain alive, so I never understood the sentiment that it's selfish to bring someone into the world. It's only selfish if you benefit while someone else suffers. Bringing kids into the world is a win-win, at least in the developed world where birthrates are plummeting way below replacement rate. In this case it's a win-win-win (third being society).

What might be considered selfish is to not have kids when we are way below replacement rate, while expecting to be taken care of by other's kids in old age. Unless we reach AGI and humanoid robots soon, the food, housing, services and healthcare has to be provided by younger people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cfs/ or similar might be a better place to ask this.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36006561
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> Mostly the opposition to enabling killing yourself is ideological, and seems to be particularly prevalent among people with strong religious opinions.

Kevin Yuill is an atheist. If you want the non-religious argument against state-sanctioned suicide read him (though, of course, as an individual he doesn't cover every anti-euthanasia atheist's point of view).

I'm sorry for your particular situation.
You reminded me the case of Nicholas Zakas [1]. Please read it carefully and make an appointment to your personal doctor to check you for lyme disease; it matches your case since you have mentioned the number of years you are dealing with this chronic issue.

https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2014/04/02/i-have-lyme-diseas...
There are no fee at all using Brazil's pix.
There are better and worse ways of dying though. Getting cancer while you're still young enough to have fun and enjoy life and spending a lot of time in pain and going from one doctor to another isn't really how I want to go.
Which could lead more people to improve their critical thinking skills, too optimistic?
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That is indeed what advocates of spaced repetition say.

Personally I find that knowledge that’s internalized and used does not decay. And devoting effort to refreshing the DRAM for knowledge I’m not using seems like it fails the YAGNI test. Let my brain’s cache eviction algorithm do its thing. If I learned something once I figure I can probably learn it again.
> My goal isn’t to have some kind of personal knowledge base to prove how much I’ve comprehended to myself.

The reason many people accumulate wealth is to spend it, not to stare at it insecurely. It goes without saying that knowing more things expands the number of things you can do.
Inciting violence is not constitutionally protected speech.
I mean, yes, if you keep asking it in different ways until you get the right answer and then stop, Clever Hans can count.
does overcast light work? I'm thinking of places where you don't see actual sunlight for weeks at a time. Like the outer Richmond
What about the prosecution of the law enforcement who literally unlocked doors, shepherded people inside, and then led them into chambers?

If you think Jan 6 was anything more than a meandering of useful idiots by a conspiring state, you are the other useful idiot.
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It’s not just the cost, it’s what humans are drawn to.

If you sort content by what leads to maximum engagement the stuff that comes out on top is absolutely not informative, intelligent, or positive. You get repetitive addictive filler, inflammatory fear/hate/outrage porn, and lurid tabloid style trash.

When you scroll the limbic system appears to be in charge, not the neocortex. The lambic system seeks only dopamine. The easiest path to dopamine wins.

This means that on an ad supported web content like the above will swamp everything else. There is zero incentive to produce anything else.

AI can now produce maximally engaging content on demand, so the future is Twitter or TikTok but largely without human creators. The future of the open web and free apps is a Skinner box full of AI generated outrage porn and silly filler that scrolls forever, only pausing for ads.

The dynamics can be very different when people pay directly for content. The neocortex appears to get more involved in buying decisions than passive consumption. But very very few people pay for content so there is either not much of this or it will have to be expensive.

We may be going back to the days when actual knowledge and quality discourse was costly, not because of the cost of printing it but as a filter mechanism to find it in the vast sea of trash.

The net was already headed here before AI. Generative models will just accelerate this.
> Fact: There was no such thing as skin cancer before we started rubbing toxic crap like aluminum into our skin to "avoid it".

Recognizable descriptions of malignant melanoma date back to at least Hippocrates.
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This was the 90s. It was a much different time and social conservatives had a much louder voice than they do today.

Even Democrats were against same sex marriage back then.

It was a stroke of genius to have Dole as a spokesmen. He was seen as a conservative and an elder statesmen that everyone respected on the left and the right.
I mean, it does have plugin/web access these days, so if the book did have an online index then in theory it could do the job better if provided that.
I don't think these dichotomies in quality are going to go away. It's the exact same thing in every neural net domain. Self driving is probably the most sophisticated domain besides chat, and there too it's the exact same problem. They can drive a vehicle in some complex scenario with super human performance, and then they randomly drive straight into a highway divider at full speed on a clear day with no traffic.

I also just had a GPTism:

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ME: stop using words like please, sorry, apologize, etc. speak plainly.

GPT: Understood. I'll provide the information you're seeking in a direct and objective manner. If you have any further questions or need assistance, please let me know.

ME: you used the word please, again. stop.

GPT: I apologize for my oversight. I'll avoid using phrases that include "please" or similar language. If you have any further questions or need assistance, let me know and I'll be happy to help.

ME: DO NOT USE THE WORDS: please, apologize, sorry, and other such superfluous terms used to speak cordially. they are unnecessary.

GPT: I apologize for any inconvenience caused. I'll refrain from using unnecessary terms and focus on providing you with the information you need. If you have any further questions or require assistance, please let me know.

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When that happens, people will just go back into finance and other high pay fields that require less education and effort.
Would I get sued if I made cars without cupholders and tiktok started trending "lets accelerate and brake with a cup of hot coffee in our lap" challenge? After all "cupholders are standard for a long time".
> or just plain old age where I can't stand up or whipe my ass

I hope you fully intend to continue exercising, and taking precautions against accidents, as the first line of defense against such a possibility.

> I can't understand people who want me to suffer until doctors finally stop being able to put me back together.

I just don't want the state being the entity that approves or disapproves of your suicide. If you're going to have an assisted suicide I want it to be, at most, through a clandestine network of people who want to kill themselves. Not through a government process.
That doesn't exist in my country, we have a tiny prison population.
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The UK’s Faster Payments system predates UPI. Free, near-instant payments round the clock. IMPS, the tech that powers UPI, came around 2 years later.

But UPI as a layer on top of IMPS is great, especially the idea of providing an easy you@bank identifier. By contrast Faster Payments is like 102030-12345678. And being designed post iPhone was actually a blessing because it allowed UPI to have a mobile-first deployment strategy.

But UPI also makes a virtue out of necessity: the reality that cards and a protected e-payment mechanism are difficult to organise, especially for India’s less-well off.

This then turns into nationalistic chest thumping about “jealous foreigners”, while completely ignoring real issues around customer protection and scenarios that UPI doesn’t enable.

To be clear: I wish UPI well. I also want to see less opportunities for scammers in UPI and for people to be able to use UPI with confidence knowing they will be easily refunded if things go wrong.

It’s honestly tiresome to have reasoned conversations with nationalistic chest thumpers.
podium is the place for discovering random points of interests, at ios it is segregated into types nature, art, life, food..

at world map you can either find the points of interests you saved or others saved publicly

search a user ex: mia then on its profile you can click Map View

yes, it is good idea to add suggestions to world map too
Sounds like the problem is that you went and tied yourself down with a spouse and children when they weren't at the top of your life goals.
Why is it much better?
I found RLS challenging to work with when I prototyped an app with it and postgraphile.

I had seemingly-simple authz rules that RLS made challenging to express. I needed some operations honor the user's row access privileges, but with different column SELECT/UPDATE privileges. E.g., a user can only change a value after the backend validates and processes the input, or they shouldn't be allowed to retrieve their password hash.

Expressivity was challenging, but was compounded by security being implicit. I couldn't look at any given spot in my code and confirm what data it's allowed to access - that depends on the privileges of the current DB connection. Once you mix in connections with cross-user privileges, that's a risky situation to try to secure.
The idea that any posts in this thread "invalidate's this man's suffering" is hyperbole.

Anyway, what's wrong with judgement? Despite some people's insistence on it being taboo, there's nothing wrong with judging other people's behavior.
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