skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> still survive for centuries as one country

You have drunk the koolaid, my friend.

India became 'India' in 1947. Before that (and even now) it was exactly like Europe ... many languages and cultures and food very very different from each other (ask a Naga what he has in common with Tamilians or Kashmiris), a large shared Hindu ethos similar to how Christianity was a common factor for Europe) and lots of warring kings with their own territories. There was no "Indian" identity.

About Congress ... no defence about their fuckups. But don't be so dismissive about what they accomplished. I say this as no fan of Indira Gandhi.

Remember that India had become free after 200 years of enslavement and harm to our self-image, from being one of the world's richest areas to the poorest, and millions of lives had been torn asunder under partition.

In Congress's era, esp. Jawaharlal Nehru's time, we got a beautiful constitution, the premier institutions and facilities (TIFR, IISc, IITs, FTII, BARC, AIIMS), developed a massive power infrastructure with hydel and nuclear, became a nuclear strong power, developed an in-house rocket and satellite program etc. It had a strong court system; recall that Indra Gandhi was thrown out by the Allahabad supreme court on electoral fixing.

Manmohan Singh was (and is) a learned economist who righted many of IG's fuckups. He led the 1991 reforms. A large large portion of the projects that Modi has lent his beaming face to were fully funded and started in the Manmohan era (Chandrayaan, Mangalyaan, Atal tunnel, UPI, Aadhar, so many airports and highways). The Modi govt has been successful in rebranding all of them in his image, but don't be fooled.

I can give you a huge laundry list of things that are terrible under Modi. The COVID response, the complete takeover of august institutions by deranged Hindus, the complete submission of the media, the complete takeover of massive projects by a few crony friends (a profitable and well-run Mumbai airport was taken over by Adani, who literally had zero experience in running airports, with no formal publicly transparent process). The "PM Cares" fund, which every single govt employee and every corporate was FORCED to hand over money too, apparently is not a fund of the govt; there is no transparency about how much money has been collected, let alone spent where. I could go on about how every minority (Dalits, Muslims, tribals) have been rogered.
I think you can reach them on their forum as well, for example https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Security/Welcome-to-....
> by virtue of you having posted this here

But it's not even the first time this issue was posted here. I'm not sure that approach works with Google.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34193047
CS Lewis's quote highlights the importance of addressing the logical validity of an argument before attempting to explain the psychological reasons behind it. This approach is essential to avoid committing the fallacy of Bulverism, which involves dismissing an argument based on the presumed motives or biases of the person making the argument, rather than addressing the argument itself.

In the context of AI and decision-making, it is crucial to evaluate the logical soundness of arguments and systems before delving into the psychological factors and biases that may have influenced their development. For instance, when assessing the effectiveness of an AI-assisted decision-making system, one should first examine the accuracy and reliability of the system's outputs and the logic behind its algorithms. Only after establishing the system's validity or lack thereof, can one explore the potential biases and psychological factors that may have influenced its design.

Several papers from MirrorThink.ai emphasize the importance of addressing logical fallacies and biases in AI systems. For example, the paper "Robust and Explainable Identification of Logical Fallacies in Natural Language Arguments" proposes a method for identifying logical fallacies in natural language arguments, which can be used to improve AI systems' argumentation capabilities. Similarly, the paper "Deciding Fast and Slow: The Role of Cognitive Biases in AI-assisted Decision-making" explores the role of cognitive biases in AI-assisted decision-making and provides recommendations for addressing these biases.

In conclusion, it is essential to prioritize the evaluation of logical soundness in arguments and AI systems before exploring the psychological factors and biases that may have influenced their development. This approach helps to avoid committing the fallacy of Bulverism and ensures that discussions and evaluations remain focused on the validity of the arguments and systems themselves.
Slightly related: SMBC's guys have recently published a book on related topics, claiming it's got a lot of bibliographical research in it (disclaimer: haven't read it yet.) http://www.acityonmars.com/
~~~Well, besides the whole thing about my previous comment that everything you write in Discord stays in Discord and is basically not findable unless you're already a part of the Discord. While phpbb (or any public forum really) is by default readable by anyone, so searching for questions let you find answers without having to sign in and join the forum.~~~

Edit: Misheard parent...
That’s also how it works in the US. The numbers are just bigger.
(I have Ventricular Fibrillation and have been de-fibb'd twice, the second time by an implanted device).

Exactly! Defibs can't restart a 'stopped' heart. They instead resynchronise the muscle fibres when the heart's internal rhythm has got messed up for whatever reason. They can (try to) fix a heart that is quivering rather than beating cleanly.

But the defibs themselves can sense the difference and won't apply a shock if the rhythm isn't shockable. You should always get one out and let it try to shock if it can.

Coming back to the main point, when I had my first VF episode, CPR kept me alive long enough for the staff at the place where it happened to find their defib. The doctor at the hospital who implanted my ICD told me that surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was something like a 1 in 5 chance. The surgical team were clearly of the view that I was very lucky to be there. And, yes, I got broken ribs. This was the most painful thing. I had too sleep sitting up because getting up from lying gown was too painful. Sneezing (and laughing) were also fairly painful. But a small price to pay.
Reform and re-form are different words in contemporary usage. Destroying an object to use its resources to make a new one with a different purpose would be re-forming and yes that is what I'm advocating here.

I was careful to indicate which meaning I intended in my originally comment, but of course you can never be so careful as to avoid a bad faith nitpicking here on hacker news can you.
With regards to Starlink, there's a backlog. The link there shows Starlink launches in 2023. If you look at the register (https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/spaceobjectregister/index.htm...), there's a list of submissions yet to be processed. But for those that have been, Starlink makes up a majority. For example:
https://www.unoosa.org/res/osoindex/data/documents/us/st/sts...

Note the "USA-###" launches in there as well with the basic orbital characteristics. (USA-327 being the first mentioned above, a ocean reconnaissance satellite.)

I take comments of China berating the US with collision threats with a grain of salt. But it does of course highlight the need to share such data and for parties to act in good faith.
I was under the impression that the key concern here is being criminally prosecuted, not sued. Even if they obviously didn't do this on purpose, depending on how they communicate it to the companies involved, the worse case scenario is that it could be perceived as some kind of phishing attack / fakeout done with malicious intent. Even if they could prove their innocence, no one wants to deal with something scary like that in court.

While I'm not familiar with the nuances of each European nation's computer fraud laws regarding this, I can't imagine this would be any different there. Especially as Cybersecurity becomes an increasingly international concern.
Odd that you lump a person's choice of their own pronouns into a legitimate complaint that all she seems to have is prejudice and ad hominems.
Total Real Returns Chart for NVDA: https://totalrealreturns.com/s/NVDA (with dividends reinvested and inflation adjusted). It's been a bumpy ride since 1999! Trendline is quite positive but you'd have to have some real conviction to hang on with that volatility.

Comparison chart with NVDA in red, TSMC in blue, diversified semiconductor industry ETF in green, AMD in orange: https://totalrealreturns.com/s/NVDA,TSM,SMH,AMD
Detecting Dataset Drift and Non-IID Sampling: A K-Nearest Neighbors Approach
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Isn't avoiding losing any money the best case scenario for people who buy now?

Even for people within the company, the pie is not getting any bigger so the only game in town is to become the best skilled politician to try and increase one's own slice.
> This seems like an obvious thing to do, but I’ve never heard of anyone else doing it.

There was a day when this sort of thing was pretty common. Close to standard practice.
Apologies for a slightly off-topic question, but people discussing tone are probably the ones with an answer!

I have a series of "mixtape" mp3 files and I'd like to generate a list of the songs within the one long file. I'm aware of musicbrainz, but is there anything that works on a single file with multiple songs? Perhaps my best bet is to generate 10 second long files sampled every two minutes, then run the fingerprinting on those individual files?
> It's weird

It's not weird, this is standard in academic computer science. It would be weird to do otherwise. In a theoretical dissertation/paper like this you can't just randomly bring up compiled assembly, it's completely and utterly off topic, it's not any more on topic than bringing up if the code was ran by an interpreter, or JVM, or transpiled to Haskell, or ran on GPU etc...
>I’m more confused by how you would coat your teeth while drinking, do you swish it around in your mouth every sip?

I mean we are really going down a rabbit hole, but the water goes in my mouth, I swallow, my mouth remains wet with some residual water.

Unless you're opening your throat and pouring directly in, I guarantee water is touching your teeth, even with a straw.
Whatever one feels today about React, there is no doubt that it has given functional and declarative programming an important light.

Not in the sense that React itself is functional or declarative (it isn't albeit its roots are in Ocaml), but the style of programming it introduced to many millions of web developers made a sizeable chunk of them interested in fp and many of those percolated to strictly typed FP in TS, Elm or Haskell.

Pretty much every major fp language has tried to implement their own declarative UI after React's success, be it for terminal applications or native development.
We noticed that most Midjourney prompt galleries either dump every single Midjourney image ever made OR just show anime, boobs and sci-fi.

So we went and made thousands of images that actually look like something you can use for graphics/web design and other commercial creative projects.

https://freeflo.ai/

Looking for feedback!
Yeah, then you'd just block based on the client IP which is in a header, rather than the IP on the connection.
I had Wave...it was free. Accountant was OK w/ it then asked me to change to Quickbooks after 2 years. I understand Quickbooks has a lot of functionality that's great for CPAs, but none that I need. I'm the one who spends hours a week in it.

The only reason why I said yes is because of the many CPAs I've interviewed they were the best (they probably aren't the best, just a lot of them are terrible).
This makes sense but I feel there might be an opportunity for people who knows how to train compact versions of these LLMs which run on local machines and solve a very specific use case for that business.

What could be a bootcamp like curriculum for someone who wants to learn only how to train a LLM (upto a sellable standard)?
Things like extreme poverty already kill many people today.

The risk of individuals suddenly falling into extreme poverty is a very real one.

But none wants to talk about how to mitigate that problem.
It's not about your startup it's about your end-up
You're right, there are plenty of papers focusing on real-world performance. I chose not to capture the nuance because I wasn't sure how to express it succinctly.
Food addiction is a better example I think. You have to learn to moderate, you can't just go cold turkey.

I am sure AA doesn't bother with moderation because abstaining is simply that much more effective.

Even if you went on a month long screen detox in the woods you are going to "relapse" at some point when you get back. The AA model is just not going to work in this situation.
> It would seem the real purpose of this is to train an AI agent on appeal to authority.

I hope the real purpose is to train an AI agent to understand why appeal to authority was always cosidered to be a logical fallacy.
Can you provide any evidence that the User Agent name was a trademark issue. As in the name exposed to websites. Because that is the only thing that matters here and also where everyone claims to be a variant of Mozilla for compatibility.
Planet Money episode made by AI (sort of)
> European developer to consider because taking a US job

Nitpicking, but this is technically not possible. The US company has to have a EU presence or the developer needs to be self employed and invoice the US company
I think this may become the basis of an operating environment where you do not have to concentrate on "how to run" something. Instead, you get straight to the job of deciding "what to run" so you can reap the benefits in no time without all the devops and SaaS drama.

The closest contemporary thing is fly.io, but recently they became less strategic and more opinionated. Another attempt is sandstorm.io but it was abandoned by the original authors. So... maybe WASM and the initiatives like WASIX will give it to us?
Why should it?

Germany is connected to the largest grid on this planet and there is always need for power on it. Looking at the charts, most of it went to France, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Besides that, the grid pumps energy in reservoirs for example if necessary.
Half the comments here sound like they were written by an AI.
The New Climate Law Is Working - Clean Energy Investments Are Soaring
https://archive.is/FiCEy
>Historically humans are not outcompeted by new tools, but humans using old tools are outcompeted by humans using new tools. It’s not “all humans vs the new tool”, as the tool has no agency.

Two things. First LLMs display more agency then the AIs before it. We have a trendline of increasing agency from the past to present. This points to a future of increasing agency possibly to the point of human level agency and beyond.

Second. When a human uses ai he becomes capable of doing the job of multiple people. If AI enables 1 percent of the population to do the job of 99 percent of the population that is effectively an apocalyptic outcome that is on the same level as an AI with agency taking over 100 percent of jobs. Trendline point towards a gradient heading towards this extreme, as we approach this extreme the environment slowly becomes more and more identical to what we expect to happen at the extreme.

Of course this is all speculation. But it is speculation that is now in the realm of possibility. To claim these are anything more than speculation or to deny the possibility that any of these predictions can occur are both unreasonable.
I can't tell - is this satire? Good faithing it - this could only be (partially) valid if the old ways didn't work, which they still do. If you've been pushed out, you haven't been pushed out of the industry because of the change.
https://www.datacentermap.com/
I thought this was one of the better contributions to the "AI will take our knowledge worker jobs" discussion.
If only someone had built this 25 years ago...
Maybe if Linus maintained a paid product that included that home directory.
Why didn’t you just leave lol
One-third of galaxy’s most common planets could be in habitable zone
I think it’s more a matter of how the JS community has grown in general. The whole “class” thing is something a lot of us brought into it when we came from other OOP languages, but in 2023 it is very rare that it is “better” to build a “class” than to simply build the functions you need.

As far as I know you can still trundle on with some of the old react, but at the same time, things change. It’s not like you’re coding C# similar to how you were 10 years ago either. I know that having been away from it, it was interesting to see everyone using “var” instead of types as an example.
Having six kids does not help your finances living in a Tier 1 city (assuming you need at least a three bedroom for that sized family). Each one costs $250k-$300k to raise 0-18 (per Brookings) without accounting for daycare, private school, or college. Hard to have sympathy for the financially irresponsible.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/08/30/its-getti... (2022)

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2017/01/13/cost-raising-chil... (2017)

https://gothamist.com/news/it-could-cost-you-500k-to-raise-a... (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991744 (additional citations from a previous comment)
- The USA is about 400 years old as a "civilization" (idk) and 250 years old as a nation.
- Throughout all that time, immigrants were mostly trying to escape political and economic conditions in older nations
- The first 300 of those years, the majority of the land was sparsely populated frontier
- Its settlers were in violent competition with the original inhabitants
- Its settlers were often also in violent competition with each other, mostly over natural resources (mining claims, grazing range, etc.) but also over political control (slave vs free, Mormon vs non, etc.). Wild-West cowboys vs other cowboys (and cowboys vs. indians) fighting was still happening up to the 1920s
- Regional governments arose mostly bottom-up from settlers self organizing. This was a matter of principle, but also a practical necessity in privately-settled sparsely populated regions.
- The nation was established by a civil war although it's not called that (England vs colony)
- *When the nation was founded, a future civil war was a foregone conclusion.* (North/"Free" vs South/"Slave" although this was *not* a strict equivalence) The first hundred years ish was a mostly linear progression to this civil war! And the subsequent 150 years have been strongly influenced by it as well.
How do they get networking and sockets working in the browser? As far as I know, no browsers allow raw network access. Some apps can get around this by using things like a websocket proxy, but this relies on routing your network traffic through a third party. It'd be great to see this solved and to let users host ephemeral network servers from their browsers.
I have been using React for almost those 10 years. When I first started out, I was writing Java for Android. I then got a contract position writing AngularJS 1.2. A couple years later, Angular 2 would be released but by then I was already beginning to write small React apps. I also made a small app with React Native for an audio company. By 2016 I was working at a popular Fortune 100 company on the first team to migrate their existing JSPs to React. By the time I left that place, React Hooks were in beta and gaining steam. I was lucky enough to work with a Facebook Alumni who hated React, so we used Vue. It felt like a more opinionated React in some cases, but I really enjoyed the experience. Now I'm back to React and a lot of the same problems exist. Some things are just hard or extremely tedious to do. Some places rely heavily on external libraries which cause so much bloat to the system it can feel slow (even when it's not). Most places I have been to are extremely opinionated about how their app is built, despite it being the same thing (for example, there are 20 different ways to build an e-commerce site). But the places I have enjoyed the most had a hackerish culture, so people weren't insanely opinionated so long as you got the job done, which I feel like React is great for. I have unfortunately not used NextJS, but I have used Nuxt which has been wonderful. I'm semi in between jobs right now and have been looking at potential offerings, and I haven't seen a huge need for these frameworks yet. If NextJS is anything like Nuxt, I think I'd be happy to work in them. But I may also look for the places that offer a completely new experience.
How are fame, speaking engagements, and book deals not a form of profit?

She's intelligent and worth listening to, but she has just as much personal bias and motivation as anyone else.
Computer scientists (and of course engineers) both care about real-world performance, but some computer scientists just care about the theory.
I wouldn’t use such strong words, but you’re right. Not everything needs to be made for beginners. I keep remembering what Rich Hickey said that seems relevant:

We should not sell humanity short by trying to solve the problem of beginners in our stuff. We need to make things for people to use, and we need to teach people and trust people to be able to learn how to do that.

https://youtu.be/QCwqnjxqfmY?t=1914, https://youtu.be/QCwqnjxqfmY?t=2063
Microsoft’s $20B Cybersecurity Behemoth
I have really enjoyed his podcast: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record

I also find it very interesting that he has not done technical engineering and production for a long time. He remains very high-level in his advice to artists.