skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we are on the tail end of a generation that grew up without internet trying to govern generations that did. The single question that helps me decide whether someone is equipped to address the underlying problem, is asking if they understand the differences between good and bad social media. The difference between good and bad social media is based on the target audience and how potential dark patterns implemented or addressed.

As someone that grew up with social media and the internet from the moment I could read, I struggle to understand how social connections worked before it. Broadband become mainstream in just the last ~20 years. Social media that quantifies someone's popularity absolutely affects teenagers' mental health. But social media also means support groups on reddit and places like HN.

The surgeon general wants to explore and understand the way different social media affects mental health. But the way this issue is presented by NYT, and in general, categorizes all social media as the same. This framing is going to make younger generations ignore these "warnings" as out of touch, because it is. Similar to how my parents call every game console or video game, "playing the Nintendo". These overgeneralized discussions make most people dig in to their already held beliefs. This also gives overbearing parents fuel to invade the privacy of their children, which harms children's mental health, and leads to trust issues, more than social media ever will.
Android ARM SoCs are a tiny part of Qualcomm. What you should actually know Qualcomm as is: "The company that developed or acquired all of modern wireless comms tech, and thus gets paid very high license fees for everything that includes anything that talks to anything else over the air."

Although I think they are building up the ARM SoC business because some of their key patents are about to expire?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoloxodon_falconeri:

“Palaeoloxodon falconeri is an extinct species of dwarf elephant from the Middle Pleistocene of Sicily and Malta. It is amongst the smallest of all dwarf elephants at only one metre in height. A member of the genus Palaeoloxodon, it derived from a population of the mainland European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus)”

Not quite piglets, but getting there.
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44 here and not a speck of grey in my beard!
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I like the idea of “paperclips” as a substitute for the change of what money / profits mean “post Realwirtschaft”. Finance keeps on reigning supreme (ever increasingly) since the 80s. Why not change the vocabulary to better reflect that.
The set of species that could conceivably do anything remotely similar/recognisable as such is basically primates. Within which there's no non-debunked evidence of intelligence/learning on anything like the same level - and they even benefit from the existence of us studying & trying to train them.

Another answer of course is 'they have, but they're extinct/superseded now' (others of the homo genus).
Yep, it seem our executive branch, 3 letter agencies want to bypass all of those be Judge Dredd.
> De linking them means you can scale the two appropriately independently.

It's definitely situational, and this can be true! But, generally its this kind of scaling optimization on everything that has us drowning in microservices today. If we can afford to "steal" some compute from the DB server, and minimize the amount of infra spun up for things that are basically scripts, I consider that a win.
Eh... I loved SC4, but the peak of the franchise was 2000 and 3000 (either one is fantastic).

SC4 trended heavily towards unnecessary complexity.
Softmax takes a vector of arbitrary values and converts it into probabilities such that all the elements of the vector add to 1. Transformers use this to decide on the fractions.

This could be seen as "soft attention" where in theory there would be few winners for every "attention head".

It's also possible that the only purpose the softmax actually serves (or at least major component of) is that of normalization. Without it, the variance in the internal network dynamics between training samples would be fairly large (some training samples may have tokens that interact heavily, while others not). Making optimization problematic.
They aren't unaccountable. There are mechanisms and precedents for ignoring the results of the court and for the other branches to manipulate the composition of the court through normal (e.g. nominating and confirming appointees) and extraordinary processes (e.g. increasing or decreasing the size of the court).

As an admitted non-American, writing forcefully about a branch of our government that you don't understand, and essentially advocating for dramatic changes to our constitution to reign in this branch of government that you don't understand but do not like, it is transparently obvious you have some bias such that even ChatGPT can detect and characterize it.

Why are you so hung up about the word 'bias'? Just own it. Americans almost certainly criticize your country and its government.
I do when i can. I have protonVPN but then most of the times i get banned from usual sites or get captioned to hell.
I kind of gave up, as I believe this is the natural outcome of having real anonymity: abuse.
Some day, we'll all have Jansport backpacks.
I would add the caveat that Chess is a game where the nature of the rules mostly eliminate any advantage of numbers, which is not necessarily the case for other sorts of competition.

I'm still quite concerned about the risk of rogue AI, as it's not even necessarily true that humans will have the advantage of numbers, or be able to bring our numbers to bear. And a smart AI will try to divide us and conquer, if it comes down to a conflict, including recruiting humans to its side.
NYC is declining also according to your numbers.
Bloat.. they can't resist the temptation..

People already left the Bing Chat hype train?
What does Opportunity have to do with science?

In this case, it seems like the Opportunity is an opportunity to get trapped in a system that is likely to be both unsatisfactory and unproductive.

My fear is that we've crossed the event horizon and we can't rollback all the alterations that accumulated over the years and gotten academics into a cul-de-sac or box canyon. (Pick your metaphor...) next stop, the singularity, where we will have the opportunity to experience life as a dimensionless point...
They can't be completely arbitrary without user trust. My guess is security directives like invoker vs creator will need to be specified and checked appropriately whenever the assemblies are installed.
Recipe writers in my experience lie about the duration it takes to accomplish anything. I have yet to follow a recipe and finish it in the prescribed amount of time. It’s very frustrating because it can ruin planning entirely. For example, in Stella Parks’ Bravetart, she says her cherry pie can be made in “45 minutes active time, 45 minute roast, 2 hour rest”. The instructions mention a two-hour refrigeration period, another 30 minute refrigeration period, a 75 minute bake, and a 4 hour rest. A 3.5 hour recipe, in no less than 8.5 hours, assuming the active time is correct.
It's the audio equivalent to a Java programmer reading APL for the first time.
> I know they can get a great education

Too bad the people doing the hiring don't know that.
Are you sure that's an induction element? Induction elements don't get hot, only the pan does. Easy way to tell is - does the element switch only turn on when a pan is on top of it?
We know that's not true. The Romans had no problem repelling them at the Battle of Zama. The legion or phalanx would just need to be trained to make noise to frighten them and open up lanes for the elephant to charge through (they weren't keen on charging into a wall of spears), and then you have a dedicated group of skirmishers to hunt the elephants down once they pass the line.
Social media is poison for young minds. My oldest is going into middle school. I'll get him a phone but he will not be allowed to use social media. This includes YouTube. There is no need for it. We already track his iPad use and will do the same with the phone. He does sports, boxing and math tutoring, if he needs more social interaction he can hang out with friends. There is literally nothing on social media that I think a middle school kid needs exposure to in order to become a successful, good, and well rounded person.
Long time ago the company I helped build hired my friend. I took him in as I knew him very well and knew how hard working person he was. He was hired as junior, he made good 2 years with us and then I helped him to hone his interview skills so he could move to next place (I was leaving too due to unrelated reasons). He is now senior and very successful.
> We will work with any relevant government authorities blah blah blah

the problem is that costs money. you either pay the staff to do the moderation at upload, or you pay the staff to handle all the various governments that come after you. either way it's expensive, but dealing with the government's lawyers is probably more expensive. and no, just running through a CSAM scanner isn't nearly enough.
at present you do seem to need a lot of cutting edge GPUs, which have much more centralized production than ore and centrifuges
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Thanks for the details.

I’ve updated many of my comments as I’ve researched.
Even if the explanation about dopamine receptors is a bit oversimplified, the general insights here were really impressive for 2014. This episode is the first time I had ever been introduced to the concept of "whales" in the context of microtransactions.

I bet it has aged fairly well.
> AI is useful. The vast majority of crypto are just scams and unregistered securities. Crypto mining is wasteful.

Cars are also useful but the majority of them (Petrol and Diesel) are extremely wasteful. The difference is however is that there are greener alternatives (Electric). Crypto has also proven to have greener alternatives and a major proof-of-work blockchain moved to a greener alternative method proof-of-stake, showing it is entirely possible.

AI (Deep Learning) has no known greener alternatives, and always requires more compute, data centers, GPUs, FPGAs ASICs, to scale further and the result is more resources is wasted [0][1], for hallucinating chatbots and vision systems that need to be fine-tuned again and at worse retrained.

It makes perfect sense to tax it as after more than a decade, Deep Learning still has no viable green alternative methods to reduce its training, inference and fine-tuning operations.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-data-centre-water...
That's called the tyranny of the majority and it is absolutely not the point of small community creation on Reddit. Imagine you create a reddit and put it work to make it popular enough to get attention only to have some other group come in and say 'thanks we'll take it from here' and take away the community that you created and completely change it's dynamics.
The youtube channel 12tone did an analysis of "7 nation army" that spends quite a while talking about the baseline "triplet" in a similar way the op article. Not the same genre, but an interesting analysis that touches on these concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeytZ8qvbTk
My daughter lives relatively close to Cape Canaveral and hears sonic booms from the returning Spacex first stage quite frequently, as does the surrounding neighborhood.
Database privileges have always been completely uncoupled from each other. If you want some user to just run his code, you can already say so, and that has been true for decades.
Might be too much exposure to RAF Luton (e.g. the Lancaster provides Bouncy Operational Ordnance Ballistic Services), but I was expecting those capitalised words to spell something out.
It makes leadership complicit and is entirely fair if parent is correct; nobody's going to give a shit about wartime grift after the fact.

Men are/were being conscripted to defend that country. Knowing your leadership is selling you out is actionable information to those deciding whether to answer the call.

But this could also be psyops/lies/propaganda. Russia put a lot of effort into influencing opinion over the last two decades.
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I mean... 79% of Democrats say the FBI is doing a good job (https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-10-0...).

I'd say the US is democratic with a polity that is deeply split on some key issues. But that doesn't imply the government doesn't reflect the will of the people (sometimes the will of the people is "a hot mess;" this was one of the deep concerns of the people who set up the Constitution in the first place).
Modern labor struggle is social justice. Just see the most successful labor leader in recent years, Christian Smalls, see how he talks, and what he emphasizes. See also various union statements by Starbucks worker’s unions.

Climate change, gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, BLM, #metoo, those are all integral to a modern union. And raising those among your labor concerns has proven to be effective in building up the solidarity required for meaningful action.
There is such a project, but sadly I am not involved with it right now because I am spending all my time trying to get a new job.
I understand the intent behind copyright laws and I agree that people should be able to profit from their creations, but the extreme lengths to which copyright has been pushed and abused (for example DMCA) is incredible to me. I don't doubt that if it could possibly fly, they would try to ban browsers. Not that my opinion matters, but it's eroded most of the sympathy I have toward it and I'm getting closer to the "copyright should die in a fire" camp than I normally would.

It's obviously a bit in the future, but I look forward to the day when you can just use AI to generate new music, movies, TV shows, etc that are unencumbered so you can watch them wherever and whenever you want, even in 4k on Linux! I'll have sympathy and sadness for the individual creatives that lose the ability to support themselves, but not for the mega corps that have brought us to where we are now.
> I don't really understand how we can have a so strong resistance to UI changes among IT professionals.

This is easy to explain.

UI changes always bring pain to established users. There is no way around this. Users will accept the change if the benefits of it exceed the pain it brings.

IT professionals spend a great deal more time interacting with the desktop than most users, so they become "established users" more quickly and rely on UI patterns more strongly. So when the UI changes, it hurts that much more. The benefit of the change has to be that much greater to compensate.
They're not talking about the general population, they're talking about a niche career where salaries are in large part driven by performance-related bonuses. "On Wall Street" is perhaps too generic, and sure talent will always factor in too, but there are still trading jobs that exist where work output correlates directly with pay. The fact that across jobs nationally the correlation doesn't hold is irrelevant.
No, this is still true.

Even with your own wallet, the exchanges set the value of what is in it. Even if you trade P2P, the exchanges are still an overarching influence and can easily manipulate prices as they see fit using their unlimited supply of "stable coins".

Face facts, cryptoland is owned by the exchanges. They operate with all the power of the Federal Reserve minus any oversight or accountability. There is nothing accountable or transparent or "free market" about it. When trading crypto, you are totally at their whim and mercy.
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As others have pointed out, Google could scoop up tons of riders in a heartbeat, by announcing a ride share platform publicly (which would get tons of news coverage) and by advertising the feature within Google Maps, Waze, etc.

Google only needs to put together a one-sided marketplace, where Uber/Lyft had to build a two-sided marketplace. And Google already has a connection to billions (at least hundreds of millions) of potential riders.
That's exactly right. Uber self driving was burning through the tune of billions of dollars a year when covid reduced revenue by the tune of 70%. Not exactly sustainable w/ only a few billion dollars of cash on hand.

As terrible as a pedestrian death is, the reality is there's news about Tesla accidents and near-accidents on the news all the time and people still love the brand. Sometimes it's easy to forget that Uber/Amazon/M$/etc hating is not as widespread in the general population as it is among tech bros.

As for Otto, my understanding is Uber pivoted similarly on the freight side, with a partnership w/ Volvo Autonomous Solutions.
It's only a disaster when there's a non-simple failure on one part or the other.

That's the set of contingencies that contracts are supposed to address.
> All the tech professionals I know with hard skills that have sought jobs in the last 6 months find them most of the time in less than a month.

I'm curious how representative that sample is.

A few months ago the AI startup I worked at pivoted and laid off 15%. AFAIK the majority of us, all very technical, are still looking for work.

Note: My situation may be a little niche. I live in the middle-of-nowhere, USA, so I'm trying to restrict my search to remote jobs. That rules out most of finance, and many Alphabet-related jobs. I really, really hope I don't need to move my family to find decent work.
Aren't there at least a few studies that indicate better long-term mental health outcomes among kids who don't use social media until later in life? Sorry for the lack of citation, but if that is true, wouldn't that pretty much obviate this problem? If, on balance, the outcome is better, then whatever short terms shocks they may experience are better than the alternative.
tldr of article; engineering is about trade offs. As humans we are susceptible to hype cycles and financial influences. Now let me tell you about a bunch of things I have personally decided are not worth considering the trade offs of under any circumstance.
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>For that kind of money you could buy an M2 iPad Pro with more performance and a lot more battery time than 2.5 hours

This has a strong https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 vibe to it.

The computing-part hardware specs don't matter at all, the same way you don't compare the cpu specs of a phone or a synth to a laptop or tablet. This is about the interface, pads, firmware, comprehensiveness and convenience as a Live controller and as a standalone performance sequencer/drum machine/instrument.
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They are different things, but there is an entire scientific field that connects the two.

The phenomenon of people forgetting stuff is not subjective. It's not one person in isolation thinking they just forgot something. Forgetting is a phenomenon on which there is a lot of social feedback and repeatable experiments.

You seem to be denying the possibility of ever connecting science back to individual perception. Denying this makes any and all science completely meaningless though.

It's not limited to observations about ourselves. You could ask the question "but aren't you hallucinating?" about absolutely everything required to verify the outcome of a physics experiment for instance.
And even then, it is normally planned that finished goods are shipped by sea, and it is only when things fall behind schedule that air shipping is used as a way to get goods into the right place in time for release day.
The European hyena bit off what the Russian Empire hyena bit off 30 years earlier. Which the European hyena bit off 15 years earlier. Which the Russian Empire hyena bit off 20 years earlier. Which the... isn't it convenient to cherry pick one point in history and base all your truth on it?
That's a neat comic, thanks for the link!
It has been 25+ years since the merge, surely there is no distinction anymore given people retire in that timeframe.
We sure did =) Thank you, zephraph!
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That's what they thought about Google Video, but then Google decided to buy Youtube. Technical advantage (which Google has in strides) does not always translate to business advantage (which Uber has done remarkably well for itself).
The elites chase the money. It's definitional.

Rapidly emerging profitable technologies create fortunes and the elites chase the fortunes. There's no conceptual difference between the iPhone and the steam engine or steel mill in this regard.
That's not at all how it works. You're arguing against points where your understanding of the related technology is poor.
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Say you're selling a lightbulb and millions have bought it and then one day the millions of bulbs you've sold to millions of people all explode at the same time.
> the traditional financial system has cleaned itself up enormously

I beg your pardon? Because we haven't heard of any Madoff or subprime loans lately, you are willing to say that with a straight face?
Abstaining from social media is not isolation. There are more healthy ways to interact with friends without the perils of social media platforms.
the hype of driverless taxis will explode a new app's customer base immediately. no need to tap in into the existing ecosystem.
>Ableton could have made an app to run the Live engine controlled by the Push.

And it wouldn't have pads, dedicated dials, MIDI, inputs and outputs, MPE, and everything else. It would be just a big screen with a iPad-like touch UI. So nothing like this.
Will check it out - have Mastodon setup now so will see how I get on with that!
But we have very shifting and at times unhealthy beauty standards? I don't think it's that absolute.
Haha. Good one.
When we were growing up, people weren't getting paid to get us to click on lemonparty.
Every kid through history was horribly isolated before we got smartphones and social media, I guess.

They're already spending the best hours of every weekday for like 3/4 of each year with their peers. More, if they do any other activities that involve other kids. Seems like quite a bit. I'm skeptical that they'll be harmed if they can't catch up on the latest bullying-memes, creep shots of other students, and tips for getting old guys to send you money online (all real examples, and none of them one-offs—trends) at 1AM on a school night.
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