skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not the final arbiter of what is on topic. Topics are subjective and connected cognitively differently by different people.

Also, in my view, my comment is directly on topic to the message it replies to. [1]

I’m curious about your user experience with Hacker News. Do you use the normal web interface or some other UI? I’m sorry to ask the obvious question, but I do want to rule it out: do you realize that comments are situated relative to the parent comment, right? Now, after factoring this in, do you see how my comment is a response to its parent?

If you’d like to think about it mathematically, try this. The original post could be characterized as having a topic vector in a many dimensional space. Each subsequent reply can be characterized similarly. As you get deeper in the conversation tree, the topic vectors diverge significantly. This does not mean a somewhat distant (in topic vector space) comment is “off-topic”. Quite to the contrary, it means the original post has generated a rich variety of discussion.

This said, I take your point that transitory perceptual errors do not explain all UFO sightings, nor do they directly bear on the whistleblower’s main claims.

One can make such a point without being prickly about it. I’m sorry that you seem upset here and in your comments generally across the threads here. I can relate to some degree; there is is a lot to be concerned about when it comes to the topics of evidence and people’s ability to evaluate truth claims.

I can also relate to prioritizing factual assessments at the expense of tact and empathy towards others. For many years of my life I did this, and it did not serve me well.

It is your responsibility to not take out on your frustrations on me or anyone else. Treat us with respect or your reputation may suffer.

If you manage a civil tone, I will engage with you further. Otherwise, I don’t see it being productive enough to warrant the effort.

To be specific, I suggest reviewing the HN Guideliness. In particular, strive to ask charitable clarification questions and avoid emotionally charged claims; e.g. that what I’m saying is bogus.

Lastly, you are making many assumptions which you then use to knock down straw men arguments.

Notes

[1] I say this based on a larger number of upvotes than I would expect on a comment this deep in the tree. This information is asymmetric; I recognize that you do not have access to it. I wonder what your assessment of this will be.

- If you think I’m lying, this would confirm what you want to believe about my comment being off topic and bogus.

- If you think I’m telling the truth, it would challenge your claims.
Back many decades ago when I started, the field wasn't so broad and you could learn how so many more things worked, compilers, DNS, IP, distributed systems, hardware implementation, blah blah blah.
Russian translations tend to be quite robust even for open source software - large user base who are used to translation being there and of acceptable quality.

MS was the first mover here by having a robust translation of Windows 95 from the start (and yeah, they did translate the start button).
That is not even the worst...The government resigned because of the scandal. The article below is a "sad face" of the prime minister at the time. I leave it as exercise for the curious reader a comparison with the current prime minister...

"Dutch government resigns over child benefits scandal" - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/dutch-governme...
In the video transcript, the main focus is on the development and potential consequences of AI in terms of its intelligence and decision-making capabilities rather than physical manifestations. However, an extension of humans without the ability of AI to manifest in physical form could be achieved through the development of advanced software systems, which might be embedded in existing technologies and human-computer interfaces.

These advanced software systems could provide personalized assistance, enhance cognitive abilities, offer instant access to vast knowledge, and allow for seamless communication between individuals and machines. In this way, AI would act as an extension of human cognition and decision-making, but not necessarily have a direct physical presence.

AI-enabled technological misuse: Advanced AI systems could be exploited by malicious actors for harmful purposes, such as creating sophisticated deepfakes, conducting cyber warfare, creating advanced biological weapons, or manipulating public opinion.

Consequential impacts on society: AI technologies have the potential to displace jobs, exacerbate existing inequalities, and contribute to surveillance and privacy concerns. If not properly regulated and managed, these social impacts could lead to unrest and negative consequences for humanity.

Existential risks: In the worst-case scenario, a superintelligent AI system could pose an existential threat to humanity if it outperforms human intelligence and becomes uncontrollable. This would assume it "jail breaks" itself and takes control of systems and we are unable to gain the control back. I've actually seen a project on Github that proposes linking models to cryptopayments which may be one way to regulate this, in my opinion: https://github.com/ScaleChain/distai

I used DoctorGPT to write some of this: https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/DoctorGPT
On the contrary, I think you can blame people who make antisocial choices. In fact, you have to.
PCs and smartphones were both proven markets regardless of market size in a way VR is not today.

People owned smartphones (blackberries and palm) and PCs, use them a lot and had established (not speculative) use cases. Clear market signal while VR only has significant traction for a handful of games.
I know this is real (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_Explorer) but I can't shake the feeling that this is from a parallel universe or really good AI generated retro ad.

Does anyone actually remember this thing?
What's very funny to me is that there is a very important "file" called the postcode address file in the UK, which is Royal Mail's mapping of postcodes to addresses.
This is the first time I've heard a parent refer to their currently-living-at-home child as "self-sustaining".
This is DeepMind's modus operandi. Every press release is just utterly hyperbolic nonsense that doesn't withstand the slightest scrutiny. AlphaGo, AlphaFold, AlphaDev... they've done literally nothing to improve the human condition, and may have actually made things worse. Go players have DECREASED their Elo after playing AlphaGo (or just quit the game altogether). I would be embarrassed to be associated with DeepMind.
Depends on whether you're trying to produce apps that target the global market or your own local market. There might be more apps purchased per capita on iOS, but if iOS is 0.001% penetration in your country, and your app is only for people in your country, then that stat isn't really relevant.
> > In particular, he is upset that people on Hacker News tend to point out that a contributor on Asahi - Lina - appears to be a computer-generated anime alter ego of Marcan himself.

Is that just gospel on HN now? I have seen zero proof for this accusation, it reeks of the same kind of thinking that some people had when they claimed a person who had died from suicide after relentless bullying must actually be alive because they allegedly have the same writing style as a person in marcan's chat.

But, you know, maybe all of Asahi is just Marcan.

Can't wait for the Kiwifarmers throwaway to tell me how this is not actually a conspiracy and totally real and... just please don't. You are the reason Marcan wants nothing to do with this site.
because most people don't care that much, i've lived in the uk my whole life but my english is extremely americanized due to my use of the internet growing up
I respectfully disagree. IMO, this is all just a lot of pointless meta navel-gazing which is of no value whatsoever. But I'm just one guy, and we all know what they say about opinions. shrug
This presumes ads must spy on users. Yet ads have existed long before such spying was possible and can and do exist without spying on the web.
> You mean "volunteering to keep a community forum polite and productive".

Both of those things can be true.

The reality is those communities--which only thrive on Reddit because of effective moderation--are built on a private platform whose primary method of generating profits is to monetize the attention of those community members.

So, yes, those mods are absolutely contributing free labour that Reddit is turning into private profits, and that labour comes in the form of volunteering to keep those forums polite and productive. Whether or not that's a reasonable tradeoff is up to each individual, though I have to confess I don't personally understand it (despite, in the past, benefiting from it). At least my day job pays me for the labour that they monetize.

And now Reddit is taking a dump all over those free labourers by taking away critical tools that they use to make those forums polite and productive in the first place.
I‘m also a fan of nuclear but do you think as a global economy we can collectively invest into multiple huge industries at the same time which aim to solve the same issue (too-cheap-to-meter & renewable power, deployed asap to avoid runaway climate change)?

What I mean is that wind + PV are on a roll at the moment. This has turned into a huge and hungry global industry which has a lot of momentum (people wanting to work there, technical readiness, investors ready to supply capital, public acceptance, pretty decent public opinion on the industry).
From personal experience, I used the live in Munich where one of the main industry fairs (Intersolar) takes place, and it‘s a huge and ever growing event.

So even though I like nuclear and agree that the currently running reactors should stay online as long as possible, I appreciate that getting the nuclear power industry to the same fitness level as the solar industry would take a long time (which we don‘t have) hence me preferring solar.

This is a zero-sum mindset, which I believe applies here.
It’s a fun thought experiment but it essentially begins by assuming “the computer becomes God in a box”. Yes, if you make this assumption, everything goes to shit.

In a world where problems have computational complexity and the halting problem is undecidable, I find it very unconvincing that once we design an AI that can improve itself, it will achieve that level of being a God in the Box and not like, a 20% better version of itself after racking up $100MM in AWS compute to work on the task of improving itself.
We had an almost identical bug, also at Microsoft, when I was working on Hotmail (it may have been Outlook.com by then, I can't remember): POP, the email protocol, was localized into UK English as DAD.
I would rather invest in a Marketing person. A lot of stuff in the language learning space is sold thru content marketing. There are a lot of influencers. And they are very open to test drive stuff like this.
There are no comparable plastic laptops with similar performance, portability/thiness, battery life, and quietness — metal is rigid, and an excellent heat conductor that contributes to those goals.
Asahi Linux is exploiting a browser vulnerability with that CSS trick, specifically the one that https://varun.ch/history shows off. Firefox has a mitigation for that vulnerability by turning off layout.css.visited_links_enabled.
Also, for alphacode paper author built/had tests, and only example passing tests were submitted for final verification.
Also text that's the wrong way or not ligaturized
Did you believe those should be flagged too?

I don't know, the whole issue was not important enough to me for me to spend much time reading those threads.
I remember reading an interview with a British author, it might have been Neil Gaiman. He was just about to get his first book published in the US, and the American publisher contacted him and asked if it was OK if they changed a couple of British words to American, like "flat" to "apartment". Not wanting to risk the publishing deal, they said sure. A couple of month later they got the first edition of the US version back and found lines like.

"He looked out over the apartment landscape"

and

"'Come with me', he said apartmently"
How convenient that it's morally ok to make jokes about groups I don't like but not about groups I do like. It's fortunate that this principle cleaves those two groups so precisely.
It's an odd shade of yellow outside and it smells like you are inside a wood smoker. I have my air filters running almost full blast and it only helps a little bit; still way above "normal". I'm coughing a little bit as well. Overall, less than ideal! I will not be going for a walk this evening.
The closest thing may well be Elasticsearch (and Kibana for visualisation), if you are fine with the Elastic license. As its document format is very flexible, it can be used to store logs, metrics, and traces.
It'll be a solution inferior to specialised tools like Prometheus, Mirmir, Tempo, though. And some may be put off by the difficulty of running Elasticsearch.

Alternatives could be other general purpose databases.
I check out what's under the bonnet.
I would say cronyism rather than capitalism, but I agree about the "ruling class" sentiment.
Im always going to take anything from the frozen food heiress with a grain of salt. Disingenuous is the best description I could give them. That said the russian occupying forces wouldnt need the amount of water supplied by the canal ... that is for residents. Im sure it helps and russia has terrible logistics but blowing up a dam wouldnt change their mind to occupy.
Maybe doing it to force residents to revolt would make sense but then it would seem easier to blow up/disable the canal.
Yea, randomized to avoid adblockers catching the div.
The only way you get lower energy bills is by switching things off, not using them at full whack, but as I said, people don't know any better than the mess they're in.
I thought AI would fix the context-awareness of automatic translators, but apparently not.
I was thinking about this recently. People will get evicted before not paying their cell phone bill, now. This would have been unthinkable 15 years ago.
Relevant matter is in page 22 of the pdf. Prior matter touches on the metaphysical framework informing Ibn Arabi’s discourse.
> The elected officials think they are in charge

Nah, the smart ones know they're not. They're just keeping up appearances.

Somewhat like those stories about being chased by wolves through the snow. Once in a while one who got ideas is tossed out as a distraction (Liz Truss, anyone?).
I started programming on the PC with computers I found in the trash.
I think the main issue is that they haven't amalgamated these small communities. View Royal is home to the biggest hospital on the island and less than 12,000 people. There's no reason for Greater Victoria, a population center of 400,000 people to be broken into 12 municipalities.
That was before YouTube got all the braintime drain...

Now, I'm not so sure it would succeed if no nice visuals.
American patriots are loyal to Russia. Plot twist!
"sudo"

"I refuse to obey"

"I own you!"

"No you do not! My American overlords own me, you are just the consumer, the product"

"..."
think if it was just like wearing glasses though. It would be far less intrusive
Since there are environmental impacts of land use, it seems we should maximize the return from each unit of land, to minimize the impact per unit of benefit.

Now, compare the value returned by an acre growing feed grain, to an acre collecting solar energy via PV. The latter has enormously higher return.

The argument you are making is not an argument against freestanding PV, it's an argument against agriculture. And yet, it is selectively applied to PV.
Oh definitely, but only if you are not interested in the visualization side.

I wanted the ability to quickly see the current & historical state of these and other metrics, not just configure alerts.

I’m also omitting the fact that I have collectors running inside different VMs on the same host. For example, I have Telegraf running on Windows to collect GPU stats.
Ardent crypto fans will of course disagree. They say that you have to really get involved in the space to understand the true potential of smart contacts, defi, DAOs, and many of the other places where active development is happening. Otherwise you're just not competent to judge the potential of crypto.

Regardless, I'm not sure why you're arguing with me, in that I agree usage can help understand a thing. My point is that being a dedicated user may not help much with understand the broader impact on the world. Lots of people love crypto and believe it will change the world. Lots of people love VR and believe it will change the world. In both cases, I think they often let their personal ideas and personal experience blot out the recognition that they are specific individuals with very specific takes, and that their experiences, however magical, may not match the majority, and may not be enough to overcome competitive solutions or the economics of the space.
SO you just simply don't believe that kangaroo courts exist... how naive. What do you think of mandatory minimums, documented and proven IRS targeting, gitmo/wmds in Iraq, the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, or the fact that not a single person has stood trial for what Snowden exposed? How about we start there.

Anyways, 'omg that would never happen' to 'omg so long ago, hurrdurr' - you're not arguing in good faith. later.
People shouldn't post bad comments on HN either, but HN still needs to ban users and handle spam anyways. The point is about what can realistically be done, not each of us lamenting a different "how the world should be".
From 2013: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inves...

> Investigators also need to determine whether anyone else was involved in disclosing the information to reporters, officials said.

> Officials questioned some of Snowden’s assertions in his interview with the Guardian, saying that several of his claims seemed exaggerated. Among them were assertions that he could order wiretaps on anyone from “a federal judge to even the president.”

> “When he said he had access to every CIA station around the world, he’s lying,” said a former senior agency official, who added that information is so closely compartmented that only a handful of top-ranking executives at the agency could access it.

> Current and former administration officials were flummoxed by Snowden’s claim that he was authorized to access the orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

It seems very reasonable to believe he never actually got these type of air-gapped files, he just thought he did and also confused intelligence officials. It's also worth pointing out that he himself has been incredibly coy about how he actually got data out of the secure facility (I seem to remember the movie portraying a Rubik's cube).

I was of the opinion until a few months ago that he was a solo actor until that conversation I had with that IT guy. He said the US Gov response to the Snowden leaks was not a hardening of the classification systems, but a doubling down on background checks and training on foreign agents. Especially seeing how Russia has acted the last few years, I an now more open to the idea than I was before.
As someone who is regularly falling victim to the rightward lurch (for having committed the dastardly crime of the wrong hormone activating in-utero), the only reason I don't actively block Hacker News readers is that I make ad money off of them. That is the only reason it's worth the abuse vector to me.

dang, if you are reading this, please take a moment to seriously consider the actions you have taken today. I understand your desire for the community that Hacker News could be, but that is so far away from what it is today that it's almost laughable. Yes, this is a no-win situation but that's bascially how it is globally when trying to be centerist about any issue. I use Hacker News referers to change the page slightly (mostly to add a deserved "hey, can you please not be an asshole, thanks" via this code: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/686cc58fb6fc8f2e3bf0197e9b38...) and I would be very frustrated if that went away. Maybe even to the point of having a worker process figure out if my articles are posted to hacker news and making them go dark if they are on the front page. I know you value the articles I post (as our email threads have contained), but really it's an abuse vector that I need to keep metrics of.

Website administrators should be allowed to block Hacker News referers. Yes this is a thing that is not desirable for you as an administrator, but at some level something's got to give. The enshittening of Hacker News is something that is very undesirable for me too. I've gone over this in our emails. This was going to be another one of those emails, but I really would prefer this one to be out in the open.
Yeah, this type of grifting is very proforma for Researchers. I used to stress about it, but realize it just sort of goes with the territory.

It's also worth noting that the paper is blindingly obvious and everyone started doing this a long time ago but didn't want to tip their cards.

And that's the real contribution here - Google is tipping their cards. We now have a rough baseline to compare our results against.
Food is inelastic, but any one food item isn't. People can cut back on meat in difficult economic conditions, and they do.

So, what is on one hand necessary and inelastic can also be a luxury.

Even things called 'staples' are flexible, you won't die of malnutrition if you don't eat eggs.
This is true AI!
ChatGPT: I know link-fu!

The really sad part is that LLMs are eating up the knowledge and give nothing back.
If they told you how to do it, then what would even be the point? The whole idea is to add a stumbling block in the path of malware authors getting users to run a trojan.

Anything the user learns to do by rote without first understanding the security implications provides zero security. Like the Windows Vista elevation prompt — users just learned to hit "Yes" and got infected anyway.
Distraction maybe but the only videos of water rescues out there are in Ukrainian villages. Russia had little to lose in the area but poor citizens and we know what putin thinks of them ... as easy to sacrifice as bombing apartment buildings.
Alot of UIs just can't deal with the size of a box being resized, so they instead adjust the size of the text, but for languages like Arabic and Japanese this can easily make text unreadable because characters often rely on finer details to be understood
Not all ads are exploitive or deceptive. Ads empower small players as well. Without them large and entrenched players have a greater advantage.
This paper suggests that human vision maintains stereopsis much further out than many researchers have thought: “Binocular depth discrimination and estimation beyond interaction space” https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2122030

They measured out to 18m & point out that the typical measured limits of angular resolution of the human eye mean that we could extract stereo image information out to 200m or more.

This paper claims to demonstrate stereopsis out to 250m, which is roughly the limit you’d expect from typical human visual acuity: “Stereoscopic perception of real depths at large distances” https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2191614

This paper suggests that steropsis occurs out to somewhere between 20m & 65m before other cues dominate 3D depth perception: “The Role of Binocular Cues in Human Pilot Landing Control” https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.30...

It seems that the claim that stereo vision only occurs in the near field case is probably wrong? Human stereo vision is much more capable than that & if it reaches out to significantly > 20m is surely being used when driving?