skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these discussions typically get very, very confusing.

What do we actually mean by "true creativity"?

Why should it be that our mental mechanisms of forming decisions and ideas should not be possible to implement as a mathematical model?

What is the experiment that we use to prove that information that is computer generated is fundamentally different from that of human outoput?

What do we want to measure here, in order to confim what idea?
In my other comment I’m arguing that limiting children’s access to media is orthogonal to the issue of censorship. I did not declare what Florida is doing is acceptable. They have used a blunt instrument to remove many books when only some of them are clearly unsuitable.

No, the Dahl books should not have been banned from school either, because they did not contain harmful material. In any case, a content warning or contextual note would be preferable to rewriting them.
I feel rather than people trying to poison or fingerprint the data of a third company, the AI-operating companies themselves will add such markers to their models, to find out who used their model output for training.
> Please don’t let HN become a support forum for reddit

Or PayPal

Or eBay

Or Stripe

(I could keep going but you get the point)
At a certain point Reddit might decide that it’s simpler and cheaper to pay an ops person $15/hr to manage a high-profile subreddit than deal with the unpredictability of volunteer moderators. That’s ultimately where this is heading.
it seems like an inevitable step along the quest for power once you already have billions and being able to buy all the things loses its challenge
> It seems that it does not support Windows natively,

It'll likely run on top of wsl
I will ask chatGPT to respond in "California Corporate" style, to know it more.
> Because adding brains and storage to hardware is expensive.

I disagree with this; it's expensive if you need the device to support Python or C# or similar. A $5 esp32 chip has enough storage and RAM to both act as a controller for hundreds of devices, AND run a minimal webserver to provide an interface for the user to automate those devices.

> And people actually like controlling their hardware from out-of-the-home, which makes doing everything locally even more complicated.

I second this: people who want home automation also want the ability to control it from their cellphone anywhere in the world. Unless they are technically proficient enough to setup their own public-facing server that is on 24x7, the customer is almost always going to prefer the device that is connected to a proprietary vendor's cloud.
>a guy who 'might uppercut me' sounds like a great male role model

On average, men are more likely to aspire to be Thor or Captain Marvel than they are to be Rick Moranis's character in Ghostbusters. They are more likely to take guidance from a larger, stronger, and more assertive man than otherwise. The military has already figured this out, just look at the stereotypical Drill Instructor for an extreme example of the concept. Do you dispute this, or are you simply speaking of what works/doesn't work for you as an individual? A single anecdote doesn't really tell us much about what society-wide initiatives we should pursue.

Also, Andrew Tate is already out of jail and currently under house arrest.
This would be a weirdly clumsy approach for Reddit to take. I don't know whether they're too ethical to do something like this, but surely they're too competent to do it in such a silly way. Simplest explanation is someone else did it, perhaps to frame Reddit or perhaps for a more boring spambot-related reason.
In chemistry, the part with the chemicals can be kind of challenging. The more toxic, the less you would probably want to do it on your own. Many labs require more than one person on duty as a safety consideration. I would usually suggest "don't try this at home" :)

Throw in trying to make progess with electronic chemical laboratory instrumentation and there's an even bigger hurdle.

And that's without even necessarily getting into actual electro-chemistry.

Regardless, I did it anyway in what became my private practice, but definitely not at home nor in my spare time.

As far as the CS aspect, I just wrote the code myself as I went along, they didn't have commercial software when I got started, and when it came out it was not exactly what I needed plus too costly for just one person anyway.
Oh, it's not a request for tech support ala the 'I'm locked out of gmail' posts that come up regularly here.

But I would like for others to know about this, if for no other reason than to add one more bit of motivation for people to create competitor sites.

Personally, I'd especially like to see a non-free but inexpensive offering with a reddit-style interface that caters to niche communities.

Let reddit have the cat videos and memes that litter their front page; that's what they want anyway. There needs to be another place for hobbyist communities.

It's easy enough to stand up a Discourse server, but there's something to be said for the network effects of a single site with a large user base.
Exactly this. If one person with spare time on their hands can do that as a side project, one can only imagine what a government-backed actor can do with this technology. I would not be surprised if in a few years we suddenly learned that half of internet comments are bots, similarly to what happened to email (most of email traffic nowadays is automated emails & spam).
Also, if I am understanding things correctly, that's gross pay which means Uncle Sam will be taking a fair old chunk plus they're effectively self-employed which means agents, managers, lawyers, etc. will also be taking a chunk. One page I saw suggested ~50% of it will go in tax and expenses before the writer even sees any.

What we really need to know is median pay per year but I suspect that's going to be a difficult set of numbers to find.
Forgive my ignorance: what do student do with all these books? I did my U/G & Masters in Physics in Exeter UK. We used only 1 actual textbook (University Physics by Young and Freedman, about 45USD new). I bought 1 more by choice (Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary Boas) because I needed some help there and the lecturer was weak. But all the actual information I needed was covered in lectures, tutorials etc. Assignments were class specific and produced by lecturers. How does the US system actually use all these books?
> You must go far out of your way, at Bloomberg, to encounter a container that works the same way as in the ordinary C++ STL.

When I worked in the group writing the Bloomberg Enterprise backbone we would go out of our way to avoid using the BDE/BSL library. OP is right about it not working the same way as ordinary C++. :-(
This has nothing to do with past or future.

Or having digital drugs is the future now and healthy is the thing of the past?
Straight termination is illegal in most places, but more subtle yet unmistakenable steps can be taken. For instance freezing bonuses and other compensation over performance claims, or "promoting" an active movement leader physically away from the group, cutting budget on projects that directly affect prominent members, or moving them away from the critical projects thus killing their evaluation etc.

Sadly, fighting strikes and unions has probably become an art at this point.
It's the feed that allows them access to public posts that is a big problem. Let's start with children accounts where the feed is restricted to friends / followed accounts and only in chronological order.

As I type this, I realize this is exactly what a lot of us have been saying should be done for adults too. And why is it that all social media either moves towards this nebulous endless feed or actively pushes it. Very telling.
Then the problem of scale and incentive applies.

There's no incentive to create/host interesting content if there's no way to recoup the costs for creating it and/or distributing it.

I do agree that non-monetized things are interesting, however a lot of interesting things happen because there's an actual budget and means of supporting oneself and family.

I say this as someone who ran a netlabel that gave away all their content for free, and still regularly gives away plenty of content that isn't directly monetized. The moment a tune saw any kind of popularity, bandwidth for free downloads became a problem in terms of scale (could no longer self-host from home) and then ultimately cost.

Something could be decentralized and FOSS, but also allow you to inject your own ads. That isn't a difficult problem to solve, but PeerTube has no interest in doing it, yet would be a sure-fire way to turn it into a big deal.
Doing the math, I wouldn't expect it to get people back in 5 days a week . . .
Honestly good on them. We've seen that the rise in ChatGPT spam has led to spamming of repositories with poor quality PRs [1] and this whole AI craze just feels like the SEO disaster hitting mach 10. The quality of content or answers doesn't actually matter, just that it's formatted in a way that seems authoritative. This stuff needed to be purged from the internet yesterday.

[1] https://mastodon.social/@danluu/110335983520055904
I find that dealing with peer pressure and understanding that you can go a different way when everyone is making some bad decision is an incredibly valuable lesson for teenagers, although also most difficult to take at that age.
And I thought it was be from Portugal, but when I read it's from Spain I adjusted to "from Iberia".

But now someone else mentioned Italy. I wouldn't be surprised if it traces its roots to ancient Rome or Greece.
the CEO admitted to editing a user's comment in a fit of rage
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Brett Cannon's proposal for a struct syntax for Python
I have taken Andrew Ng's courses on DeepLearning.AI and I highly recommend them if you are interested in quickly building LLM-based apps.

I suggest taking them in the following order:

- https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-eng...

- https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/building-systems-w...

- https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/langchain-for-llm-...

Note: although I only have basic Python skills, I am still able to follow these courses
I think the nuance of those practical limits are very important — we have a terrible case of misinformation going on and unfortunately that noble goal is easily weaponized. Also, paradox of tolerance.

So the negative echoes you might here is more of a reaction to those who weaponize it.
OK, so if someone got married and changed their last name, you would feel OK continuing to refer to them by their maiden name? Even if they no longer used that name and asked you to use their new name? You wouldn't expect any kind of social consequences for that?
We deeply believe in the core mission of the Stack Exchange network: to provide a repository of high-quality information in the form of questions and answers, and the recent actions taken by Stack Overflow, Inc. are directly harmful to that goal

Unfortunately, this seems a naive take; the core mission of the network is to serve the commercial purposes of the business.
Show HN: Web Scenarios Support for Low Level Discovery (Zabbix)
Zabbix has great feature "Low Level Discovery" but it doesn't support Web Scenarios. Let's fix that problem.
Parental controls/monitoring are an acceptable invasion of privacy. There's been a big push by these companies to at least appear to care about privacy, which results in parental control apps being limited in what they can do. A few companies that really care have innovated to try and help, but its still a challenge and often forces a bad UX on the child and parent.

Offering parental controls built into the platform appears to always be an after thought by these big companies. They'll release a non-innovative copycat solution as lip service eventually so they can claim they care. Beyond that, based on how poor their solutions are and how difficult to setup/maintain/use, seems like they don't actually care.

The "dangers" on smartphones are not limited to just a few apps. Dangerous content is found everywhere. Social media, texting, chatting, web browsing, video games, etc. Dangers include accessing "bad" content, but also simply accessing good content too much. "Bad" content is found everywhere, including "acceptable" sites/apps. So whatever the solution is it needs to work on every app. For example, loads of apps use a Webview (built in web browser in the app). A child could use an "approved" app by mom n dad to then access the web to view whatever content they wanted using the webview.

Its actually a very difficult problem to solve. Think of the headache tech has moderating content... now you have to moderate with very limited knowledge about whats actually being done on the device (each platform has different limitations). And to make it worse each parent and child has a different set of rules for what is okay vs not okay for that child based on their beliefs, age, culture, etc (basically a custom set of moderation rules).

How do you build a solution thats easy for parents to use but actually works? Its difficult. A dumb phone or no phone is often a wise choice, especially when the child is young. Eventually parents need to realize its their job to prepare their child for adulthood, so that means giving them unfettered access to a smartphone (ideally with some parental monitoring) so they can coach them to use it responsibly.
Rapid degradation, like recording multiple generations of VHS tapes. The LLMs make the internet dumber, the LLMs get dumber by learning from it. Rinse and repeat.
It doesn't matter. Reddit has never had any affect on my life or anyone I know. It never comes up in any conversation I've ever had. If reddit went away today, I'm positive no one walking down the street would notice or care. At least not enough to make them stop their walk.
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I am dismissing it because I don't see if feasible to implement this. To keep this practical, please tell me how would you implement this for 10.000 kids.

Concrete plans:
- Will you give parents those free phones?
- Will you control entering the schools by type of phones?
- Will this be a list of 2-3 phones allowed? Is this an intervention in the economy that other companies will do?
- What kind of timeline will be needed to implement this?

I do agree we should start implementing long-term solutions. But as a parent, I want a solution now, these years :) for the current generation
"But what if they were correct answers?" is largely an irrelevant hypothetical side-issue.

In practice, as reported in comments at https://meta.superuser.com/q/15021/38062 and in many other Meta Q&As, the answers that people are lazily machine-generating at high volume are far from correct; and the consequent upvotes that they garner reveal the unsurprising fact that there are a lot of people who vote in favour of things based upon writing style alone.
Most have never hired a lawyer either. But it's either that or try to learn as you go, with all the dangers and pain and suffering that entails.

Hiring an expert is simple by comparison:

1. Research a few experts in the domain.

2. Go for consultations (paid or otherwise) with 3 of them.

3. Hire the one that you're most comfortable with.
I don't know if that's a fair comparison... AMD might have bought ATI, but they're not exactly the same company anymore...

Plus back then the concept of needing drivers for hardware was rather new... prior to SVGA, DOS games talked to the hardware directly or just dumped data into a chunk of memory for the video card to display.
Neither Brouwer nor Hilbert claimed the other was wrong, only which axioms they preferred to use.
I don’t think that generations would be the important difference here — free speech in a pre-modern media world was entirely different than what we have in the modern, chaotic disinformation-y one.
They’re usually not good answers, and they’re subject to the bullshit asymmetry principle.
Ah I suppose I misunderstood. A rainy-day fund is always a good idea to have. I thought you meant a fund that is constantly increasing or being spent to grow the company arbitrarily.

You're right that if there's a spell of no work for my firm, we have to dip into our own pockets, because we don't keep a rainy-day fund or any "company money", but that's just because there's so few of us and we were already freelancers before getting together. Even when it first started as a "capitalist venture" there was no company money, just work and get paid. This is a good idea that I'm going to be running by the other guys.

I've never seen anyone leave the group due to a dry spell, and that's because if there's no work then there's no work. Being in the group only increases the number of jobs each worker has access to, because each of us are like advertising agents for the rest. If we're on our own, there's only one person spreading the word. We could go work for one of the capitalist firms in town, but they have a similar amount of work to do, and it comes with all the downsides of not being in a co-op.

I urge you to not use my hillbilly construction crew as an idea of what a large professional firm would look like under worker-ownership. We're just some dudes who like to hit things with hammers.
I don't have the sources available, so the following is a short summary from memory:

Paper is produced using a mix of recycled paper and newly harvested trees. Overall, paper is usually recycled up to 7 times, and it really is due to the need of recycled paper for each production. Actually, paper manufacturers have whole departments responsible for the sourcing of recycled paper.

Trees come from, most of time, dedicated tree farms. Those are, by virtue of being needed, operated in a sustainable manner, meaning new trees are constantly planted to replace the harvested ones. Due to the growth periods of trees, there are a lot more trees in those forest than are needed for harvesting (fun fact, the term sustainability comes from 19th (?) century book about wood and forest cultivation).

While paper production requires a lot of energy, the industry is by now really good in serving as a way to load balance grids. They sell and buy energy, mostly electricity but also heat / gas, on spot markets and through long term contracts. Bring to readily pull huge amounts of energy, and also being able to reduce energy consumption almost immediately (production and production planning just love that by the way), their overall impact on energy consumption is nowhere as bad as people think. Added benefit, the majority of theirbraw material actually are renewable, they even store CO2 while growing.

On the other side you have electronc devices: rare earths, needing internet and server farms, have to be charged all the time. Raw materials have to be reycled, and not at a reasonable rate. Recycling happens in poor countries and causes all kinds of health environmental problems.

The main reason why retail moves from mailed advertizing to apps is simple: data. Putting the ads in an app, connected to whatever benefit program people are part of, allows for much better data collection and analysis that paper based advertizing.

Books are similar, added benefit of books is basically unlimited storage capability.
>idtech still towers over the source engine for any real "small" projects. The community support + license + codebase is just so much better.

idtech... 4 ? How badly do you hate your job that you agree to put up with this piece of shit ? Even pulling out Godot would be less crappy and have more support than an engine targeting DX9 and OpenGL released in 2002. idtech 4 is barely better than _goldsrc_. Some things ought to die, and idtech 4 is better suited to a museum than any real game these days. The lack of any useful and modern tools should already be a screaming red flag.
Funny because if China did this, everyone will think of them as evil.
I recently evaluated different protocol libraries for inter-language IPC. The state of Cap'n Proto is sadly quite a bit worse than Protobuf. Many languages either don't have an implementation, or it hasn't been updated for several years.

But it's such a good system, I wish we could use it.
Different purpose, but useful character search tool I use:

https://www.amp-what.com/
> History repeats itself

... apart from the bit where it didn't actually repeat itself? There didn't end up being another massacre and the potential for it had absolutely jackshit to do with war and food shortages.
You still need some proof that such thing is happening with FT.

Your original point also was:

> I believe they're backed by the Japanese - who themselves feel threatened by China's economic rise.

So, who are "the Japanese" in this context? The whole country of Japan? Is the whole country "biased" too?
What’s the point of not overworking a waitress and instead put the pressure on those who are doing actually relevant work? There is not a single nurse or doctor I ever met in Sweden who wasn’t overworked, stressed, and underpaid. You can never get more than 10 minutes with a doctor, and never with less than a month in advance. Why? Because hospitals are understaffed because nobody wants to take the responsibility if you can just sit on your ass all day and get paid by försäkringskassan. My kids have been to three different schools and most of the staff is not even trained in education. They literally just hire anyone who is actually willing to do the work because simply put almost nobody cares to take the blow. Plus they are all rude and angry all the time due to stress. But I guess the 19-year old waitress is partying in Thailand so that’s good.
React, but in Python
Is this not the same problem as older numerical keypads on doors? The ones that opens as soon as you enter the correct 4-digit sequence. The cops used a pattern to crack those fairly quickly back in the 90s at least.
“That book talks about sex, it’s bad, but please don’t notice that the Bible is full of rape”
Why does MPEG Transport Stream still exist?
> it was so bad [...] there was nothing salvageable

[1] disagrees. Do you have a better source?

"Batgirl’s test score, which was for a director’s cut, is comparable to scores for the first It (2017), which wound up grossing $700.3 million globally, as well as an early score for the upcoming Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Both of those films tested in the 60s."

(SFOTG is, admittedly, a bit of a flop sitting on about $130m gross currently.)

[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/batgirl-...
I actually always dreamed of something shorter, like an immutable record literal:

(foo=1, bar=2)

Like this, but as a literal:

https://github.com/ksamuel/drecord/blob/main/README.md
I don't think criticising AI on grounds of it not 'understanding' is a strong argument, since we have neither a definition for, nor a way to measure, what understanding is.
Turns out the mods don't like it when told their actions are "too subjective". Irony overflow.
That whole pipeline is kind of a performance nightmare... I think a much better approach would be raw diffusers, at the very least least.

I played with setting up a vapoursynth img2img pipeline myself (with VS doing the motion compensation to help with the temporal latent blending)
Papers to understand transformers/LLMs better
NumPy – 10 Most Common Usage Patterns
The Rust I wanted had no future
I use them every day for generating basic framework of whatever task I am doing, mostly coding. "Write an HTTP request that does this for this xyz test url that takes x y or z as input, create a table with the outputs, sample json attached." etc.

It saves me hours working on mundane shit every week.
> because there are any number of volunteers waiting in the wings to take over to be able to wield that same power.

Yes, and that's why the "good" mods have power (against Reddit), because they know not to abuse that modding power.

Bad mods will destroy the spirit of a community in months if not weeks, tanking their utility and usage. Reddit knows that (or did know that at some point).