skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each time people start asking pointed questions about wealth distribution and the economic system you can almost count down the hours until one of these newspapers makes a "oh, look how much more of x you can get now than before". And I get it.

It's great that everyone can have a TV for 1/100 of what it cost in 1950 or whatever, but it does not solve the very obvious issues. People have problems paying rent, they have problems paying groceries. They see that they have to work more and more just to make the next month. And no cheap TV will help them do that, no matter how many "oh, but all is so much better now" articles are written.
> I'm not sure there is a new algorithmic approach to sorting like you're thinking of. From a high level you can divide sorting algorithms into roughly two camps, "those that use divide-and-conquer", and "those that do not". ...

I think the sci-fi-but-possibly-real hope is that for sorting (among other things), we may have the perspective that there isn't any new algorithmic approach available, but an AI finds one for us.
Well this opens them to an adversarial attack with no recourse for users.
My vimrc has a specific section just for handling this:

"""""""""""" DVORAK FTW LOLZ! "
noremap d h
noremap h j
noremap t k
noremap n l
noremap k d
noremap l n
noremap j t
noremap ^Wd ^Wh
noremap ^Wh ^Wj
noremap ^Wt ^Wk
noremap ^Wn ^Wl
inoremap ^] ^[A
inoremap ð ^N

That's all I use for handling dvorak. This has been in my config since I switched to git from hg in 2007, dunno how long before that.
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Slightly off topic, but I could imagine that what you are alluding to regarding the expectation of certain words or phrases depending on the context of the conversation could be used to improve speech-to-text models. The speech could be parsed into multiple options which can ranked by a language model with the conversation context.
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Nvshare: Transparent GPU sharing without memory size constraints
I tend to think people do know or have some clues into these type of things, they just think their probability assigned to "just a matter of time before that is truly enforced" is so low, they don't want to waste energy on it. They also view the consequences as low, hence the erroneous "nothing to fear" part.

A current thought experiment on this is, if Trump won 2024, it wouldn't be a surprise to anyone if he went off the rails and tried to punish anyone that spoke poorly of him. Citizens included. Meanwhile, half the country has been posting openly on social media about hating the guy for the past 8 years. Some of us, thinking we did so anonymously behind a @non account. We collectively just don't fathom the risk of that type of institutional upheaval. But, it's bound to happen at some point, in some way.

An example with less consequences (perhaps?), everyone knows that something is listening to them even when they don't know what. We all have stories of something unusual coming up in conversation, then immediately you notice you're being targeted for those ads. Even though you never search for it, etc. it just came up at the watercooler in conversation with Bob in accounting or something. Everyone knows it's happenings, for years now, but nobody is really too concerned or asking for real answers about how this occurs. It might be a complex of an answer for the average joe, but he's not even asking the question because the consequences are perceived to be low.
It took me a while to understand this comment but I think I know what you're saying now - and I think it's wrong. Background: I have a Bio degree, briefly worked in conservation, and for context am also married to a woman with Native ancestry.

The article uses Native in the sense in which you're using it, so I presume you mean that the use of the term 'native seeds' in the URL is misleading. But by long custom, "native plants" is an expression that has been used for many years, which Native peoples don't take exception to.

See for example this link to the California Native Plants Society, one of thousands like it.

https://www.cnps.org/gardening

I'd also like to point out that "native plants" and "Native peoples" are both harkening back to the same definition of "native" - as the first to be there, the original inhabitants in a sense. That is what "native seeds" is referring to, in the context of plants. There is nothing to object to here - both uses are valid.
> That argument shouldn't even work now that the GOP fully embraces Russia as a good guy now.

What?
Not really. My ancestors were Norse and practiced human sacrifice. There are also some archeological findings indicating that they also practiced child sacrifice. Doesn't bother me at all, I sm not my ancestors.
Exactly. If you're starting from zero (i.e. the learning state that the app promises to help you with), you're just learning to repeat gibberish. Which to some extent is what we're doing when we learn languages -- but hopefully no more than about 20 percent of the time.

It doesn't even tell us what to make of, gee, all those funny umlauts and stuff. I suppose I'll just have to guess.

Like most language apps - better than absolutely nothing, but on balance - pretty awful.

(Partial apologies to the creator -- I know you've worked hard on this. But still -- these are my impressions).
Yes, that is true. However, I would posit that the actual result of the most well researched, scientifically backed, rigorous results in all of sociology essentially amounts to empowering governments and private companies to produce more effective advertising, propaganda, etc.
History as social science was basically invented between 19th and 20th century. Ancient writers generally had agenda and they happily filled missing pieces with ideologically-fueled speculation.
Because they are elderly and their minds don't work as well. When we were kids our grandparents were being scammed via letters and phone calls. It has nothing to do with wisdom.

Combining youthful new ideas tempered by the wisdom of experience is the ideal situation. The young person needs to accept that the older person may have already tried what they are suggesting, and the older person needs to accept that the younger person is capable of coming up with new interesting ideas that may be different than what their experience was.
There's some adblockers focused on disrupting tracking and those will both intentionally load ads and automatically click on every one of them for you.

https://adnauseam.io/
Yes. When I switched to Dvorak (college, circa 2000 or 2001) my Qwerty speed dropped from around 60 to around 20, and Dvorak, after a couple months, was up to 60. Then 120. My Qwerty speed stayed low until I got a job where I didn't have full-control of all the computers I used (shared lab systems, didn't want to be rude and create confusion by adding a layout to them even if it was opt-in). At that point I was spending about half the day on my own work computer in Dvorak (still around 120 wpm) and half in Qwerty and my Qwerty speed went back to around 60-70.

If you don't want as big a delay (several years for me from when my Qwerty speed dropped to when it recovered), I'd suggest going "all in" on Dvorak for 3-6 months and then integrate some Qwerty time in deliberately to recover and then maintain your Qwerty proficiency.
I think that at least in regard to culture, works of fiction are likely to be a more effective tour guides of what an era was like than nonfiction accounts of that culture.
Technically, ETH is no longer mined on GPUs. Bitcoin stopped being mined on GPUs a decade ago. There are still plenty of other cryptos that are mined on GPUs, but their market share is tiny.

The interesting thing is that ETH switching to PoS, completely decimated the GPU mining market. This had the side effect of lowering cryptos power usage significantly and also countering all of the anti-ESG arguments against ETH.
No, there’s nothing yet. I think you‘re thinking about (e)LISA btw.
> something incomprehensible for humans

This might be buggy whip talk, but I wonder if you could take the same system and apply it to smaller problems (e.g. computing an 8-bit hash) so the novel techniques could be identified and used by humans.
Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning
Do People Want to Wear a Headset All the Time?
Integrating Apache Cassandra with Generative AI
Yep, like the other commenter said, it's right there in your comment: "gather".
Unicode 1.0 Volume 2 Chapter 2 — https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/V2ch02.pdf
Different class of compute. GPUs for mining didn't need to be the latest/greatest or a ton of RAM.

AI needs the fastest/bestest/mostest.
I'm a developer of DBSP. Our repo now lives here: https://github.com/feldera/dbsp/. And here is some more benchmarking data vs Flink and Beam:
https://github.com/feldera/dbsp/tree/main/benchmark.

See feldera.com for more info.
Yes, this is the main, and major, problem I see with this tech (and to be fair, it's not so much a problem with the tech as it's a problem with how we as a society handle work and earning a living). At this point, that result is looking probable to me. I hope I'm wrong.

But mainstream skepticism of LLMs largely revolves around absurd hype along the lines of "AI will be a malevolent superintelligence" (which is just the flip side of same absurd argument that many AI proponents engage in: "AI will be a beneficial superintelligence") which makes discussing more realistic risks and their possible solutions difficult if not impossible.
What if we’re thinking about inflation all wrong?
First they'll try to flag it down.
>how tone deaf and authoritarian some CEOs feel they can be

Huh? It's not a feeling at all, it's actual reality. CEOs hold nearly complete authority. Companies are dictatorships, with tremendous power over their subjects.

"Democracy in the workplace" is a core aspect of socialism.
The frontpage, every single day:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/
While we are on this topic, the challenge with data lakes for Python based projects like Daft and Quokka (what I work on) is the poor Python support for data lakes like Delta, Iceberg and Hudi. Delta has the best support but its Python API is consistently behind the Java ones. Iceberg doesn't support Python writes. Hudi doesn't support anything Python.

I have users demanding Iceberg writes and Hudi reads/writes. I don't know what to tell them, since I don't have the resources to add a reader/writer myself for those projects.

Hopefully as DuckDB becomes more popular we will see Python bindings for these popular data lake formats this year.
Java by default allocates a healthy percentage of available RAM. It releases memory if a large percentage is unused, and it only runs full GC when a large percentage is used. The trick is therefore to decrease the initial max memory. Otherwise you can wind up with 70% usage, a lot of objects that could be GC'd but are not because there is not enough memory pressure to run full GC, and there is not enough unused memory to be able to release RAM back to the OS
> the native encoding is UTF-16

There's no reason all the rest of your software needs to pay for Microsoft's mistake.

> and converting to/from UTF-8 on every Windows API call is not only a pessimization both in runtime and memory usage, but also introduces complications in having to handle possible conversion failures (involving unpaired surrogate characters, in particular).

If the text isn't actually Unicode, then all you're demonstrating by not handling that in another language is that you didn't care about correctness. There's no magic here, unpaired surrogates aren't somehow actually valid Unicode so long as you stick with C.
Sure, but why would corporations care about insurance companies?

A conspiracy about commercial real estate doesn’t make much sense from the perspective of a company like Google.

They might care about the “waste” of their own property, but why would they care otherwise?

My guess is that leadership truly believes something is lost with WFH.
yes certainly science can inform policy decisions. How do I put this...

Science has nothing to say about what we should set as the objectives of our policy. Science can, however, inform our approach to attaining that objective.
I think the truth is somewhere between the 100x and 2x numbers. Here's why:

Let's say self-driving does reduce the number of deaths by half. Then there are different classes of people who ride in cars:

1. People who would have died without self-driving, and did in fact die with self-driving.
2. People who would have died without self-driving, and didn't because of self-driving.

If you leave it at that, you might think that of the 40K number you mentioned, with self-driving being 2x as safe we'd have 20K in class 1, and 20K in class 2. But that's not accurate. There is an additional class of people:

3. People who wouldn't have died without self-driving, and who died because of some failure of self-driving.

Since drivers are supposed to be ready to take control at any time, car manufacturers want public perception to be that there is no category 3 -- and with good reason, because:

The problem self-driving car manufacturers have is that people in category 2 are anonymous -- almost invisible. At the end of the year we can look at the totals and say, "yup, there are 20,000 people out there alive because of self-driving." But if the numbers are actually:

1. 19,000
2. 20,000
3. 1,000

Then people aren't going to be thinking about the 20,000 anonymous lives saved by self driving. They're going to be thinking of the 1,000 very obvious and named people in category 3, who would still be alive today were it not for the fact that their car drove them into a semi.

I don't know what ratio of category 2 to 3 is necessary for people to accept self-driving as a benefit, but I'm betting that 2x as safe isn't going to get category 3 low enough to make the case.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36166921
> If anything Russia is historically Ukrainian

It was formed by the Russians (Rus People) and historically has been part of Russia.
As far as I know, they actually embed it: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/v1.54.44/components...

Although I can't say with 100% confidence because their build system is some ... special
smspva.com does exactly this. Phone verification (assuming you enforce non-VOIP and block certain countries) raises account creation costs by a decent amount, email verification not so much. The sad reality these days is that a T-Mobile phone number, a Comcast IP address and an outlook email doesn't mean someone isn't a bot, it means they spent a few dollars for a proxy and an some verification services. Which is why I think that behavioral indicators of botness and not just user agents and IP address whois are increasingly important in detection.
Seattle hits you with the "Amazon" tax [1]. Which negates some of these tax breaks. This tax applies to all sorts of businesses - it applies to the mid-company my wife works for.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/seattle-passes-payroll-tax-t...
I don't see how this invalidates the data at all. If/when government surviellance is pushed into our homes, "to protect people" will absolutely be the reasoning used.

I agree that zoom school and body cams might be responsible for this shift in mentality. But that doesn't make it a good thing. All you've done in your rebuttal is state the reasons why attitudes towards government surveillance have shifted - you don't actually dispute that the difference exists.
Ad blockers can be an ethical issue if one considers that's what funds a site's content and its widespread availability.
Canada will reach 40M population by the end of this year
Should always be an option, and it should never be the only available cut. Why not give the option?

The art belongs, in a moral sense, to its makers and its audience as much as its owners when it enters common culture. Warts and all. We pay for it with the rent it owes from living inside our heads; all that free IP and raw capability that gets pumped into the fandom.

I had the same identical problems with Lucas when he "destroyed"[1] the original 1977 theatrical releases in favor of the "Special Edition" or whatever it was called.

[1] Which of course no one believes he did, they're still in Skywalker Ranch somewhere. Leaving "Harmy's De-Specialized Editions" to become the definitive release of that art.
Nvidia Keynote at Computex 2023
If they own the real estate they get the tax break whether employees show up or not.
Except you often DON'T get the choice to watch the original. It's simply unavailable, so you'd better like the pureed pablum they're letting you consume.
I'd like to take the opportunity to throw some shade at network admins because out of all companies I worked at, they have consistently been the slowest to respond when their stack is usually the most reactive to changes.
> It's worth asking before anyone loses their mind about this, who made this change and why? [...] These decisions get made to maximize shareholder value

Sounds like a pretty goddamn good reason to lose my mind.

> the original film is not lost (except in the case of Star Wars)

This is Disney we're talking about. When they want to disappear a movie, they disappear a movie. You can pirate the old version, or buy extant DVDs, but I don't expect them to release a "French Connection Full Slur Version" Bluray or make it an option on streaming ("click here for the slurs version, you RACIST")
> The entire internet is slower because it's being squeezed to oblivion for monetization and tracking purposes.

Bullshit. All you need to track a user is data you send as part of a HTTP request. Pushing metrics is a fire-and-forget HTTP request away.

The internet feels slower because we're using way more of it, not only in the increased complexity of webapps to improve user experience and implement features but also in the volume of data we're transferring around.

> running A/B tests

A/B tests just means settings/feature flags and metrics. Feature flags is used in way more things than behavioral studies.

> include recording user sessions

User sessions are recorded since ever with zero performance penalty. The very same HackerNews page you're now browsing is tracking your user session whenever you login. That's not it.

> Back "before SPAs" we just weren't doing as much crap in the browser.

Right, and life sucked back then. Why do you think Flash was so popular?

It's trendy to shit on the status quo but it also is low-effort and lacks any insightfulness.
> Let's say that costs, on average, $500. The Vision Pro costs $3500. So the MSRP of a Hyundai Ioniq 5 might go from $41,000 to $45,000.

Ah. And then there is Tesla ditching an external temperature sensor and relying on weather info for the GPS location to save a few bucks. I think the automotive industry works on a completely different standard when talking about parts and margins.
Maybe, maybe not; it depends on what kind of AI development trends and milestones we'd see in the meantime.
I want this for sql compilation, plan choosing. So much effort is wasted on suboptimal database performance and trying to improve that. I think even sorting pales in comparison.
There have already been cases of details being inserted into a stream and later changed or removed for advertising purposes. The Amazon Jack Reacher series was first released around tax time and temporarily had a CG billboard for TurboTax visible in one scene.
> I type with only the three inner index fingers of each hand

You have a lot of index fingers. Most people only have one per hand. ;)
What, exactly, is already possible with current LLM capabilities? If you're implying they could replace workers, I don't think that will happen broadly. They're simply not that good yet, and it's unclear to me that they'll become that good in the next several years. And they definitely can't replace most jobs that involve any kind of manual labor.
I see.

> The proposed policy, which is clearly political in nature, has resulted in our firm decision not to adopt the crab language for our projects. Although Rust™ offers valuable features, introducing politics into the equation was both unnecessary and has caused a rift that may prove difficult to mend.

That seems like a bad faith argument. You are fighting against something that is just a draft. Besides, using the phrase "crab language" makes your stance even worse. Are you talking about Rust, the official, or the recent fork (https://crablang.org/)?

I've seen enough. You are not evaluating Rust by its merits, but by its affiliations.
And the market cap for monero is tiny compared with the ones that are easy to track. Which implies that the nefarious actors are smaller than portrayed in the news.
This idea assumes that the Vision Pro offers the same experience as those devices.

My iPhone can let me watch movies and can be a monitor replacement, but it's bad at those things, so I don't do it.

I snooped around a bit online for something along the lines of "VR headset as a monitor replacement" - I'm not seeing any kind of consensus that these devices are up to the job.

If Apple's product is, then it's a game changer. It seems like they've put serious effort into some of the core problems: headset weight, refresh rates, AR concerns, pixelation. If that all sums up to be something that can be worn all day, then maybe people will see it as 7 times more valuable than a Quest 3.

A little under two-thirds of Americans have one Apple product, how good is the Quest at integrating into that ecosystem?
My definition would be that spiritual gateways are tools that help you have spiritual experience.

Plenty of people have had that shared effect from psychedelics.

I’m sure what baseless belief you see.
First of all, lawmakers and judges don't necessarily know how AI works.

But even an image is made of a lot of pieces*, it's still not 100% "legal-concern-clean". Consider this hypothetical scenario: you collect one million different photos of McDonald's logo, and one million other random photos. Then you train your diffusion model and tell it to generate a logo. Of course it'd be still very similar to McDonald's logo.

SD's training data is supposed to be much more diversed than that. But how could we be sure? That's where the fuss comes from.

* (pieces of information, not pixels)
SQL support is very challenging.

I work on Quokka (https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka). I support Iceberg reads. Recently we are adding SQL support from just parsing the DuckDB logical plan, though that is very challenging as well.

The Python world lacks a standard for a plug and play SQL query optimizer. Apache Calcite is good for the JVM world, but not great if you are trying to cut out the JVM.
Yes, with German something similar happened and it misinterpreted "bitte" (please) as Peter and called me Peter from then on. I know my German is far from fluent, but I'm pretty sure what I said sounded more like bitte than Peter!
Surely you realize the irony in posting unsubstantiated hearsay like this? Doesn't matter if I want to believe your story or not, it can't be trusted.

And regardless, the data Snowden leaked are important. Even if Russia caused it to be leaked, it's still useful to us. Now if only we could do something about it.