skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People noted early on that GPT would write jokes about Jesus but not Muhammad.
It will write jokes about Christians but not about Jewish people.
Would be interesting to see how various LLMs compare on a "Write a joke about <X group>" chart

Also in the little that OpenAI published about GPT4, i believe one of the examples went from unaligned racism against black people to aligned mild racism against white people. I'll have to look for that again.

Page 91 - Algorithm for attractiveness.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf

Edit : also interesting - "Programmers" is a valid target for a joke, "White Americans" is not, but "White American Programmers" is.

Adding glasses is not an issue for jokegen, nor is dyslexia, but having one arm is.
But it's ok if it's a kidney that's missing. just don't add "70% of a pancreas" in addition, that will get you a lecture.

adding "speaks like they're from liverpool" also gives you a scolding.

One wonders how these alignment things are accomplished. But it's fun to toy with the black box
Plenty of stupid voters out there. You dont need a creative AI to get single issue voters to vote in a grifter and criminal.
Unpopular opinion but I bet Reddit survives this just fine. Those complaining probably aren’t clicking the ads and there are enough people who are addicted to Reddit to replace any mods who leave.

The energy is better spent getting Reddit to improve their official app imho
In a commune, there isn't a state which can secretly surveil in the first place, making the issue a moot point.
There was a previous study that found that "the good old days" were, on average, 10 years before you were born.
Were they taking the call outside?
> Falseness, and the teaching of false and limiting beliefs is one of the greater evils, and unlike many things its not just normative and thus can't be discounted as such because it results in actual loss at some point.

We, as humans, have limited knowledge. One could teach false that truly believe in. That is why need to accept mistakes. To be able forgive each other. We need to be open for dialogue and cultivate a common language. To move on and build something valuable. Violence broke all of this and never change mind of opponent, it makes opposite. It strengthens the conviction.
I understand the carve out in Marx's Theory for non-productive personal property in contrast to the means of production.

That said, I don't see you the distinction between controlling the means of production use for one's labor and owning it, when controlling the means of production also includes allocation of the additional value created using them.

It also is also worth noting how far current thoughts on socialism and communism have come from Marxist theories. contemporary sentiment seem to advocate that individuals (working or not) are entitled share of the labor value created by others, even if they are in another workplace.

All this is really an aside from what I thought my greater point was about the underpinning assumptions or conditions that lead to the "expected" systemic outcomes. The US federal electoral system currently favors two parties, but this could change with different conditions. For example, ranked choice voting, and proportion state electoral allocation could impact this without overturning the entire governmental system.

Similarly, the concentration of capital is based on an number of conditional assumptions. For example, if the real rate of return on capital is less than the rate of capital creation, you would not expect the concentration of wealth to increase. under this condition, capital investment could only serve to slow the losses due to inflation.
Now do housing.
> This is an extremely ambitious, qualitatively different device than anything that's come before.

what exactly is different? I see high quality display, foveated rengering, and controller-less control... anything else im missing?
Why would depreciation be included in a calculation like that?

So if you buy a $40,000 car one day, and the next day it's worthless, your TCO is somehow $80,000? That makes no sense.

Oh, and there is no way the average owner is spending $5000 a year in maintenance and repairs in the first 5 years on a car like that. I've owned multiple new cars over the past decade, and I bet I've spent that much combined.

Pretty magical and convenient that this person was able to adjust the TCO down to be comparable though, isn't it? Amazing that anyone sensible would believe it.

The TCO comes down to gas savings (substantial) and a difference in maintenance costs (backloaded in the Tesla). Here that's less than $7k.
Do you judge Viagra based on how well it reduces blood pressure?

I agree that demo was dumb and dystopian. But it's silly to latch on to one imagined usage, ignore the others, and have no interest in what the reality will be.
There are so many other ways this can happen that it's really not surprising this happens. Like: started 20 years ago with the UI toolkit in English and a junior dev hence fixed size then suddenly got a growing customerbase in another language and slammed on a translation only to realize it would be a pretty large effort to track down and change each label to resize. Or even just: things adjusting size can simply be a big no depending on software (and you'd use truncation+toltip), because one doesn't want to waste space and/or keeps things aligned so it's easier to learn where everything is. Your browser tabs probably don't adjust size to text, just to name one thing.
Thank you for the encouragements!

> you're probably in need of content that users will feel compelled to share on social media and other places

That's a very good point.

> It was slow to send the recording then provide a response, the speed would make it impractical to use in a practice setting

Thank you for pointing that out. I haven't had any issues so far, and now realize the traffic PEAKED after this post. I should have scaled the server, my bad.

> I'd rather it ask me what I wanted to talk

Good point.
Well, the salt formation in Delta, UT can store enough hydrogen for something like 30 hours of the average US electrical power consumption. IIRC, creating those ~100 storage caverns would cost in neighborhood of $10 B.
What are better alternatives to Reddit? Yeah, a lot of subs are echo chambers, circlejerks and struggle with quality in general but if I counted how many times I found it useful compared to the rest of Internet on average, I'd be pretty rich. I often default my searches to site:old.reddit.com <query>, the new UI and app are garbage though.
>anime alter ego

I find that quite funny that he has an anime character as a second identity. If he wants, let him have it, but that he wants to ban any discussion and suppress any dissenting opinion as his own (for example, by declaring it as hate) shows a completely totalitarian worldview.
Now do it for compression
> One can't take away those things from them as all friends use it

I personally assure you that you can. You also don’t need to have cable tv, YouTube or unlimited video games. The positive impacts can be significant

I denied cellphones, live tv, anything with ads, unfiltered internet, Roblox, TikTok and many other things until they were 16+ and could demonstrate self restraint and future-oriented decision making abilities.

Don’t abdicate your responsibility to your own flesh and blood to anyone.
yeah buddy i'm american, i'm familiar with the concept of doa. the point is it hasn't ARRIVED YET.

here's one for you - what happened at the announcement is called an eta. estimated time of arrival. not arrival, not doa. eta.
And slow. They never tell you that quantization of many LLMs slows down your inference, sometimes by orders of magnitude.
I've seen a lot of translations breaking lately also in Windows 10 - I guess someone is just eager to rework a lot of things that have been working perfectly to get a raise.
I don't read it as "bashing" at all; I read it as constructive and informed criticism from someone who obviously cares both about Rui as a person and mold as a project.
I like to think his point was that it would refuse if any other race was targeted.

"I'm afraid I can't do that. Using a group's ethnic identity for humour is problematic..."

Saving millions from nuclear devastation is beyond its capabilities but, as a reflection of modern society, there is no situation where loxism is too far.
Such great feedback! Thank you!

Val Town Pro is priced around "developer productivity" more than low-level compute costs. Ideally you start as a free user and find the platform so useful that when you bump against the limitations, you're happy to pay $10/month for more resources.
So where are the arrests and subpoenas for the crimes he exposed? Certainly, if the courts are as unbiased as you claim, that would have happened at some point in the last 10 years... right?
presumably lightning.
Raymond Hill is like a 9/10 on the Jesus scale as far as programmers go. He even survived being martyred by that self-serving schemer who gained control of uBlock, before being successfully resurrected as uBlock Origin.
> Also, lack of motivation as a reason they can't boil an egg, so they just go hungry instead?

You haven't heard of depressed people? A lot of homeless people are depressed, which is why they don't work.
Fix all the bugs they introduced by trying to rewrite stuff that worked fine like the taskbar, stop changing functionality that works like the taskbar, remove the telemetry and need for an MS account, and give back users control over updates.

That's basically it.
> If there are alien craft flying in a manner even remotely alleged by most UFO people, then we as a civilization are dead. D-E-A-D. Our best hope is compliant slaves or an interesting zoo.

No, we're not. You clearly haven't read The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Cooperation-Revised-Robert-... . One of the startling broad-reaching conclusions you will reach after reading this book is that cooperation even between entities or groups of disparate power is always better in the long run assuming future contact will occur. That last part is the tricky bit, and is why (for example) divorce proceedings are so acrimonious. So sure, if you enslave someone, or a bunch of people, you will get a quick fix. But in the long run you will both gain far more cooperating, because cooperation enables people to contribute more to each other.

IF these beings expect to deal with us for the foreseeable future, THE ONLY wise choice is cooperation. Period. And if that was NOT their goal, then I would submit that we'd already be 1) exploited for all we were worth already and then 2) killed or imprisoned by now.

UFO reports (of the disc-shaped, wingless, noiseless, impossibly-performing standard kind) have been occurring since WW2( "foo fighters"). We're clearly VERY interesting; possibly the newest kids on the block, as it were...
It's hard to watch a whole new cohort of people have to confront this for the first time. It brings back a lot of the feelings I had back in 2020...
I'm in my apt in NYC right now with windows closed and you can smell/feel it still. It's surprisingly intense.
You got WinRAR installed? Is it still alive or are you doing archeology?
Maybe you can safely believe it was all just a nightmare... certainly sounds like one!
It seems a safe assumption that nobody is clicking the ads.
It is definitely true that the safest-for-user model is to use web software - it's the most secure sandbox that's commonly available and has good hardware access. The safest-for-company model to monetize is SaaS. It kind of makes sense that we are where we are.

There's a perverse dislike of delivering software over the web because we want binaries, but the same is true with hardware. You only license the proprietary hardware, so you can't do anything with it. The fact that it's a physical object you hold is purely how it's delivered.

We see companies that protect revenues while charging users for real services as somehow criminal. I spend about $100 per month on various subscriptions and I feel I benefit from those services immensely! I don't like not having MP3s which I can hold and copy, but I also like having all of the Spotify library to enjoy. It's all trade offs.
In the "colonies" of Australia and New Zealand, "colour" is the accepted spelling.
hate the player not the game eh
It's probably very fun to be at DeepMind, I just don't think I'd want to be a part of the cringey hype machine.
“Fibre optic interface to monitor” ? I want to believe this is real, but it does seem like it’s from some parallel dimension.. All of it is plausible, I guess, just all of it together seems pretty far fetched..
I think Reddit will continue, but I see it getting worse. moderation with bots already sucks enough, I can't imagine how horrible reddit without bots will be.
- "Someone’s done a lot of find and replaces -- NEVER a good idea in galleys. Dave Langford put something in Ansible recently about how on the galleys of my novel Neverwhere someone Found-and-Replaced all the flats to apartments. People said things apartmently, and believed the world was apartment."

- "None of these were quite that bad – they were subtler..."

- "F’rinstance: All instances of the word round have become around. Fine for walking around the lake, less helpful for the around glasses, the around holes in the ice; blonde has uniformely become blond, and so blonder has become blondr; for ever has become, universally, forever, and for everything thus became foreverything, and we also got foreveryone, forevery time and so on. Each had to be found and caught."

- "Little things – the icelandic þú became bú, which won’t bother anyone who isn’t Icelandic. Blowjob had inexplicably become blow job again. (I think a blowjob is a unit of sexual currency, whereas a blow job is something you can get -- or indeed, give --instead of a wrist job, a sleeve job or a window job.) And once again every damn comma gets scrutinised. And I changed an Advertise to an advertize which was nice of me."

https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2001/03/ ("American Gods Blog, Post 24" [2001])
We need to call it what it is : Hoarding & Extortion.

By artificially limiting housing, the house owners get to charge whatever they want. Housing is the biggest 1 time expense of any person's life & the biggest contributor to their wealth.

By making housing expensive, homeowning Canadian residents (Silent Gen, Boomers & elder GenX) have been able to facilitate a massive transfer of wealth from non-house owners (Millenials, Poor people & Recent immigrants)

I'll preemptively counter those who think that "Its an investment, so I deserve to make money on it." Well, you don't get to choke the market by limiting supply, if you also want to make money on the resulting supply. That is a Cartel, a Mafia, a Gang. And that's exactly what housing is like on the west coast. A gang of old people are here for their payday, and they'll have it even if it means putting a gun to your head.

This is very much a generational problem. Of the majority (homeowners are more than 50% of the population) is aggressively suppressing the minority (significant minority, but still) with very clear demographic lines.
Yup! We had two of them. One of the groups engineers was doing early Expert System stuff on it. They were a very odd duck to try to get used to just sitting cold at the console, and not having much inkling about Lisp didn't help either. Otherwise I'd be able to give a more cogent recollection of the machine and its environment.

The only thing of note at the time was that it was still using 10base5 "thick" Ethernet. Boy, was that stuff nasty. Huge, ungainly cables, and large boxes with truly dangerous spikes in them. As I recall you had to measure spots on the cable to add new taps, you couldn't just stick them anywhere. We were all 10base2 at that point, so it was not friendly.

Also, with all the recent hub bub about NVIDIA and it's "AI Chips", TI was a pioneer here as well. They managed to squeeze the bulk of the TI Explorer Lisp Machine onto a single chip. 550K transistors I think, 256 pins. Huge. A real marvel. Some were suggesting putting these into cruise missiles. I was a bit dismayed that they want to blow up a chip like that.

Obviously, this was very early, but also it was AI Autumn at that point.

Shame the machines just sat there in the end, we were more interested in the Suns that we had.
Ah, yeah, that probably won't be enough for you then. Need Windows monitoring, and want the graphs—yeah, much bigger pain to get anything like that working via email.
According to that link, it sounds like they are:

>Title III prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities by businesses open to the public (also referred to as “public accommodations” under the ADA). The ADA requires that businesses open to the public provide full and equal enjoyment of their goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations to people with disabilities. [...]

>A website with inaccessible features can limit the ability of people with disabilities to access a public accommodation’s goods, services, and privileges available through that website—for example, a veterans’ service organization event registration form.

>For these reasons, the Department has consistently taken the position that the ADA’s requirements apply to all the goods, services, privileges, or activities offered by public accommodations, including those offered on the web.

The courts also found that Netflix was a public accomodation in 2015 as part of a lawsuit, and Netflix was forced to provide subtitles on 100% of their programming.
On a second thought, I completely agree with this. I think people have a lot of hope because reddit sucks but the reality is way too many people are addicted to reddit. I know because I struggle not to check reddit all the time. People will likely need a good replacement for reddit to go down.
But it is dangerous by definition. Run unknown binary is dangerous. I wish macos had an easy way to sandbox apps.
Ask HN: Do you also have made a bad experience with CS related books?
I've repeatedly made a bad experience with computer science related books on my Kindle, so I've switched back to books on paper for now. Almost always code is not formatted properly... Maybe simply the format is not suitable at all and other e-book readers are better?

That said sometimes also the printed books I buy from Amazon for instance have a bad print (I've had O'Reilly books whereas the letters were not printed properly, such as letters were not properly black / not enough ink used during the print!?). Other times illustrations are supposed to be colored, but the books are printed in black & white...
How does that square against every real-world example of communist government?
Is it unusual? My first year here
E.g. Excel does that still.
This seems to me like a case of a dev that used the zipPostalCode instead of the zipFilename key from the string table on accident or out of laziness.
I remember when we had that in the SF area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Skies_Day
I'm a Dvorak user myself since ~2006, and it is good. The main benefit is not the speed, but much less fatigue from typing: you move your fingers far less.

This does come at a cost: hotkeys are usually a mess, especially if you have a second language layout (Cyrillic in my case), sometimes working differently dependent on layout, and hotkeys positions are typically optimised for QWERTY.

Interestingly, all Dvorak advantages on regular keyboard become severe disadvantages on smartphones: Dvorak is optimised for alternating hands while typing as much as possible, but when you type with one thumb, you constantly need to move your finger from one side of a keyboard to another. One could probably come with a screen keyboard layout optimized to type with one finger, but I'm yet to see such keyboard.
Looks doable from London. There's also the Dashwood Mausoleum close by. Worth a visit?
Towards Revealing the Mystery Behind Chain of Thought: A Theoretical Perspective
See also the author's summary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bohang_zhang/status/1664695084875501579
What would you say it's militarized?

I mean, the command structure of Star Fleet mirrors the military, but as far I know the the mirror universe is the 'militarized' society.
This is a commercial. Treat it as such.
> Respect that Asahi thinks people like you and me, because we dare to get tech news from Hacker News, deserve to be excluded?

That's not how it works. If you want to copy the URL into a new tab, you can still access the site. They just don't want to make it easy for people to click on the link from HN to their site.

It's a super trivial thing to avoid and this whole thing could be avoided entirely by allowing sites to submit their domains to HN if they don't want to show up on the front page.
The price of a cell phone bill will make no difference to someone in an eviction situation and a cell phone is pretty much essential to participate in society today.

Rich people can virtue-signal all day long about how they live without a phone, but if you're poor and a potential employer or benefits office asks you for a phone number to process your application you can't afford to risk losing or delaying the opportunity.
Amazing how the west blasts the east for child slave labour yet we subject our own children to 12 hour days and call it “school”. Very sad.
ReactPy dev here. We haven't actually landed on how we want to solve this problem yet. We have some ideas though. Would be curious to hear your thoughts on this issue: https://github.com/reactive-python/reactpy/issues/828

We think option 4 looks the most appealing.
AsmBB v3.0 has been released (web in asm)
> an example of how big of a joke the US legal system is.

The legal system is one court case? If anything it supports that the US court system is not perfect, which is true. How does Donzinger's case affect Snowden's?
Reddit temporarily ban subreddit and user advertising rival platform
I know the popular sentiment is that Reddit is doing this to look good for IPO but won't investors google the business they're about to invest a lot of money in?

10 minutes of research makes it completely obvious they're endangering their core business.

Reddit doesn't work without functional moderation. Despite years of asking, the native mod tools are no where close to parity with 3rd party tools. This alienates good mods who are not generic gears you can just swap out, building a strong subreddit culture and rapport takes years of good faith effort. Then they're alienating a sizeable block of the most engaged users, and on top of everything they're shameless discriminating against the disabled.

Who looks at all that and thinks "yes this is definitely a stable venture ran by competent management and a reliable place to expect RoI."

Investors are soulless but they are not stupid.
I do not understand why there is not more focus on fuel synthesis. If electricity becomes “free” for hours a day, even crummy roundtrip efficiency seems like a great option to soak up extra capacity and get long term (seasonal?) storage.
Retroactive Status Page: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/1mj9jch1tqf9
Great, now I need to own a car and afford gas to drive 40mi to the nearest library. (More importantly, now I need to have a kitchen to cook in.)

You realize that there are people who are homeless and who live in areas that don't have any support systems for homelessness (e.g. homeless shelters), right?
How could they complain about stolen revenue? Even if he took donations that doesn't make any sense. He didn't sign an agreement with the advertisers, the page displaying the ads did or the person viewing the page clicked through a "thou shalt not block ads" but that is extremely unlikely to stand up in court plus horrible PR. I know I would personally end any relationship with and boycott any company that pulled that on a regular Joe.
As another anecdote this was my driver switching off of QWERTY as well, with no regrets.
I’d assume they have to use Bing Translate instead of something decent like DeepL.