skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wikipedia doesn't seem to mention any contamination issues

FTA:

> St. Louis’ baby teeth were, indeed, packed with radioactive metals. The study found that children who grew up at the height of the Cold War in 1963 had 50 times as much Strontium-90 in their teeth as children born in 1950.

I'm sure we'd know a lot more should we ever be deemed worthy to know.

> What is left in St. Louis are unanswered questions, and unknowns that extend further still. The Army’s documentation alludes to “certain special tests,” still unidentified. “Thus,” Martino-Taylor writes, “an unidentified set of additional covert test in St. Louis was conducted by the Army Chemical Corps, SRI, and Ralph Parsons Company that rose to a classification level higher than ‘Secret.’”

> Ralph Parsons Company—now Parsons Corporation—is a defense, intelligence, security, and infrastructural engineering firm headquartered in Centreville, Virginia, down the street from the Central Intelligence Agency.

> A lot of data from these studies has gone missing; discarded by the Army and other entities. Nothing you need to worry about. At one point in her research, Dr. Martino-Taylor traveled to California to put in a copy order for boxes of Philip Leighton’s papers. She had hoped to find that his files contained more information on the St. Louis experiments. Instead, Stanford University pulled the collection the very next day. As of 2022, the materials remain in the possession of Stanford’s general counsel, closed to the public.

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> Radiation didn't vandalize the elevators or mug residents in the hallways.

Never mind that illegally, secretly, and non-consensually irradiating the residents is a wildly worse crime in itself, the social conditions you point out are part and parcel of the same mindset responsible for all it.
Nice tool. How do you plan to drive awareness/growth?
No need for cynicism or a grand plan, this is just a few lawyers who could find no case law to justify their argument, so they made something up and proceeded to blame ChatGPT for it. They had several opportunities to "nope" out and apologize to the court, and they doubled down EVERY time. These lawyers deserve to be disbarred, no question.
I mean basically a company just has to make money, and today, dealing with a colo and all is probably just going to get in the way of that for the vast majority of companies in the early stages. Making the claim that relying on cloud is a big mistake is a pretty bold claim as well
But is the video VHS or Betamax? :)
Definitely. Offline maps are great but the only offline routing option is by car. If you want to walk, you have to figure it out yourself based on the driving directions.

I can see from a business point of view that it might make sense to optimize for drivers, but it's irresponsible of them to ignore the impact they have on users. They're creating a self-perpetuating cycle.
>We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive.

It appears he has confused the reddit AMA for an IPO prep call.

What a tone deaf farce...

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/comment/jnk...
For me the most interesting parallel is from (I think) GANs, and other generative AIs. This is similar to the idea in psychology that we are really doing a lot of projection with some correction based on sensory input - as opposed to actually perceiving everything around us.

Also, real synapses are one of the most abundant features of real brains and are the direct inspiration for NN weights. I'm not sure the artificial brains help understand real ones, but they do seem to validate some ideas we have about real ones.
I agree that the earlier claim about kids somehow not catching/spreading were egregious.

My takeaway was that evidence-free predictions should be treated differently to evidence-based predictions.
Just plain and simple facts.
I'd like to see a site that punishes people for downvoting for the wrong reason.
Impressively concise implementation, really interesting paper! Benchmark looks quite questionable though -- e.g. they use fp64 (while any sane person would use at least f32, if not f16), batch 1 (while normally one would try to get the max batch size which fits into memory, and it would reach 1 only for much bigger models or inputs), and also measure the time including transfer to/from GPU (while it would normally be interleaved with GPU operations). Not sure what results would look like in a more realistic setup, but still getting within 2x of PyTorch even in such a setting looks impressive!
the landlord probably extracts the vast majority of money from them. why do we give them a pass?
Everyone writes in school, I assume. Not everyone learns to write well, in fact I suspect that most do not.
You can't ignore it because it's not a "detail"--it's a crucial feature of the thought experiment that doesn't work for the universe as a whole. What you're suggesting is like saying, in my thought experiment I assume that 2 + 2 = 5, just ignore the fact that 2 + 2 is actually 4.
Now it finds keywords in any order. Like "x265 batman" or "rarbg batman".
> What’s the relevant scientific development that would change how experts define the term

Changes in terminology can also come from changes in culture and/or values. The word "retard" not being used in medical circles is an example. But if we have to point to a specific scientific development, there have been a lot of recent studies on trans which has grown the knowledge base as well as increased cultural awareness among medical experts of trans. Referring to people by their desired pronoun can be thought of as attempting to avoid their alienation in the spirit of not doing harm.
After WW2, post offices around the world discovered philately, in particular, the penchant for philatelists to collect "mint" stamps. The post office could literally mint stamps in endless variety and sell them to the suckers (philatelists) who think they're collectible. Since these are never affixed to envelopes and mailed, it's free money for the post office. Imagine that, you print up a sheet of paper and sell it for $10 to $100.

Ok, they are collectible, but they're still worthless as having value beyond the postage value. Sort of like NFTs.

If you want to collect stamps with any collectible value, ya gotta go before 1940.
Thank you for this summary, i am new to Elixir and ready about this cool stuff makes me want to keep learning the language
I'm not sure what timeline you're exactly trying to prove or disprove. It makes sense to me that he'd make a post describing a call with Reddit, after he had a call with Reddit. He doesn't have to describe exactly everything he describes, but fact is: Reddit is claiming he is costing them 20 million dollars per year, he suggested a buy-out for half that. You have to actually prove he tried to threaten them, because the non-threat explanation makes perfect sense - because of course the developer of an app would make posts about the status of communications regarding these changes!

If I'm missing something you're alluding to in the beginning I'd appreciate an explicit explanation :)
But the units of energy you need to store are directly related to your efficiency.
As someone who came of age in the era the OC waxes nostalgic about, I can't find a lot to recommend about this post, nor do I think it's accurate. From where I sit, the internet today is richer, more diverse, and more accessible than it was in the 90's, the 00's, or the 10's.

Consider that one of the top links on HN is the OpenMW project. What a great project. If I want to go deep on that, there's a forum with a wiki, a discord and an IRC and a public gitlab.

I don't want to go deep on that. But there are literally hundreds of thousands of communities into which I could dive deep, some of which I do. I've been involved in home hydroponics groups, poker forums, online chess study groups, an Everquest emulation community, community-run RTS and fighting game tournaments.

I've dug into sites hosting side-by-side translations of the Tao Te Ching, Soto Zen communities, forums for recovering from addiction.

I've found music and books and events that I never otherwise would have found.

I've learned to read rudimentary Japanese using web apps. I've vastly improved my classical guitar form using YouTube channels.

... and on and on and on. I'm on this wonderful internet every day for much of my day, co-creating communities with other people.

There are deep, rich, giving communities everywhere on the internet today, not gated behind walled gardens. I wouldn't describe these as "shit" (or the homophobic slur the author seems think constitutes peak internet diction).

I'm glad these communities also existed in the 90's. Personally I grew up into things like the Quake 2 modding community and MUDs. Great stuff. I'm glad the internet has continued to grow and thrive and has evolved into what it is today.

edit: correction, by "more accessible" I meant "discoverable." I genuinely don't know whether or not the internet is more or less supportive of visually impaired users, for example (I can imagine it being far worse).
It is a well known situation. The best thing is that I don't think it was intentional, contrary to other well-known "offenders".

Experts Exchange was well known for showing up in search results but not providing the answers without paying. Many people hated it and wanted search engines to implement some sort of deny list to filter it out automatically.
Presumably, you are paying for your Reddit usage through Reddit's ads.
Er, are we comparing ACME clients or shell alternatives?
Do you know how this site works? and it seems stopped updating.
The counterpoint here is that there is already a cause of action for this type of incompetence and it's called malpractice, which is a pretty reasonable road to remedy. I don't know if you actually think these were "fraudulent court documents", but "fraudulent" actually means something very specific and this ain't it. Even if the court is considering sanctions (which is not the same as disbarment), that seems at least partially related to the attys' failure to address their failure once they were aware of it.

Something interesting about the legal profession is that it is self-regulating. The state bars are typically not government organizations. Attorneys know that confidence in their profession is extremely important and they strike the balance between preserving that confidence and, you know, destroying someone's livelihood because they don't understand how LLMs work.
The other commenters got it: ...and then the neighbor with the cats and the traps and the camera and the occasional feral cat locked in her bathroom moved in.

Before then... One time I woke up to my girlfriend-at-the-time standing in our bed in tears, wavering over me with a baseball bat in hand. We were in good standing at the time, so I was confused but thought I was done for. Turns out she was trying to hunt down a big fat rat that she saw waddling across the dresser.

I had just finished a thirty-hour stretch of work so I was in no shape to deal with it. She broke some things with the bat, and it ended up waddling its fat ass back into the walls. I think it ate some poison because it ended up scratching at the walls for about a week as it slowly expired. Then the stink arrived and it took about as long to leave.
Federation makes it easier for users to join. If you don’t need that, there are plenty self-hosted alternatives. For example, HN itself.
Sometimes best alternative is just absence.
which “reputable journalists”? How come you don’t give exact names, it’s always very general. “It’s been reported” by who?
> Bear in mind that China has pretty much no oil and these 055 destroyer boats are diesel&gas turbine powered.

Well, then they are lucky that Russia, now sanctioned by the West, has no choice but to sell all their oil to China, at discount prices.
Can't you just have them take a look here and observe the impact of these things?

https://goo.gl/maps/MqkLCrLqNr4usuj29

Seems like we did enough of this already.
Unfortunately, that's just a form of metastasis 8-(

When M$ makes the realization that Apple made decades ago, and abandons
it's proprietary kernel for a POSIX compliant (linux, BSD, etc) kernel
then there will finally be hope for the world...
A few that come to mind:

- Unix/Linux fundamentals (processes/threads, builtin commands, scripting, file system/permissions, basic system admin, etc.)

- SQL

- Writing & communicating technical topics (i.e. how do you distill complex technical concepts to the appropriate level of detail to have meaningful discussions with the target audience; applies to all technical topics and becomes more important as you advance in your career)

- Testing (unit/integration/e2d; but more conceptually, how do you gain confidence that your code does what it's intended to do?)
We should be so lucky as to have so much excess energy to throw away freely of green hydrogen.

But that future is nowhere in sight.

For starters we currently have 90 million tones of H2 that is made from fossil fuels. We should focus on making that green before we consider NEW use cases for it.

As for what to do with the excess energy:

1. Store it in hydro
2. Make water.

#2 is real informative. To make 1 kg of H2 you need ~9kg of pure water (let’s call it 10 for simplicity) and 50-65kWh of electricity. To make those 10 kg of water by desalinating seawater you need 0.035 kWh.

So instead of creating 1 kg of hydrogen, we could create 13,800-18,000 kg of pure water.

Given all the water problems we’re having, that might be a smarter use of that energy.
https://github.com/rdavydov/rarbg-dump

LIVE at https://rdavydov.github.io/rarbg-dump/

Made a DB out of "everything.txt" from https://github.com/2004content/rarbg

Made a back-end with FastAPI that talks to the DB and serves requests

Made a front-end with day/night theme to search the DB via the back-end

Deployed the front-end to the GitHub Pages

Dump is fully migrated into 2 DBs, total number of magnets is 3.468.029.

The largest RARBG + EZTV dump so far, around 3.5 million magnets. No file sizes, dates or categories, only torrent names and hashes.

Now it finds keywords in any order. Like "x265 batman" or "rarbg batman".
I've had Bing Chat (GPT4) hallucinate research studies. It even generated links to them in citation indexes.

The authors existed. They do research in the area, so the title was very plausible.

But the paper didn't exist.
The Double-Decker Airplane Seat Is Back
That wiki page says

> According to Stephen Wolfram: "The idea of a notebook is to have an interactive document that freely mixes code, results, graphics, text and everything else.

By that description Smalltalk with its workspace goes back to the 70s. (I don't know if there's anything closer to the Mathematica notebooks from that era.)
It's too obvious a statement to add anything to the conversation, isn't it? No one has ever argued to the contrary. Every time you sign on to ChatGPT, you see a message to the effect of "Warning: I like to make stuff up."
The fast travel's not actually that limited, you just have to work for some of it. Like if you don't learn the mark, recall, and the two intervention spells pretty early on, yeah, it's painful. Otherwise, it's barely less fast-travelly than the next two entries in the series. The game provides the tools to solve the problem, it just doesn't give them to you for free, and it doesn't push them at you with flashing lights around them like "DEFINITELY GET THESE ASAP".

... which means that younger-me totally did two entire playthroughs without ever learning any of those spells, of course. Ouch.
> Greed is always part of it. It’s a part of everything.

That statement is doing allot of heavy lifting.

Greed: excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.

That definition of greed is certainly not a part of everything in my life.

Can you name something that that greed leads to something good happening?
I believe electric motors _are_ actually intended and advertised to create movement which is correct, and come with warranties and liability about reliability. (Or maybe I missed a joke in here somewhere?)
Many people are willing to sell their dignity for the right price, however. Me included.
Sorry, I was unclear, by easy I meant simple. Dockerfiles are simple. I've yet to find an equivalently simple way with Nix.
The left hand in that photo should be a humanoid robot hand. Didn’t actually read the article
This is insane… We know it’s dangerous. But here it is still used in food ustensiles used by millions.
Everybody has this painful urge to reinvent the trivial in an incompatible way.
An almost textbook example of how not to do comms.

Insincere, lazy, and easily proven wrong on several fronts, this has absolutely made things worse. There are several major subs on the fence now joining the blackout due to this performance.

What were they hoping to achieve here? Seriously?
The EU massively and hamfistedly overcorrected on its digital rights legislation. It is so laughably arrogant to think that one could assert control over all their data once it's in the public, particularly in an age of youtube-dl and 'right click to save as'. And now we have endless fucking cookie popups because they didn't have enough backbone to actually ban these bad data practices, rather left in a really obnoxious loophole for which the whole world must suffer.

Data out in the public cannot be controlled. Period. Full stop. Any control you are given is a luxury, which may not last. It is very trusting to think that just because something disappears off the public web, that it is truly gone.

The other problem is that people are wiping their whole accounts. It is infuriating to think that a technical thread, for example, might be missing the post with the actual solution, all because someone thought they were striking back against Wall Street or something. I believe very firmly in privacy but this is one area where the greater good trumps individual concerns.
IIRC, webrings tended to be stuck at the bottom of the page. They didn't pop up or over the content.
You're surprised that M$ took years to support industry standard features?

Maybe you're too young to remember Intel's Memory Management Unit sitting unused in windows machines for years before virtual memory space was available...
Reddit actually used to be open source until mid-2017: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
The eternal September is living proof that no discussion system can scale without robust moderation. Usenet worked when it was a handful of academics, students, and professionals. Once the average Joe got access it went downhill in a hurry, especially on the groups that had the broadest appeal. rec.music was hopeless, but rec.music.classical.guitar would probably be pretty good.

Even Reddit shows this, with the default (the ones you get if you don't login) subreddits being a sea of trash but a lot of value to be found in the more specialized subreddits.
I fully agree with that! Such that if I missed later evidence, that is on me.
Apple isn't there right now, but the ultimate goal appears to replace computers, phones, and monitors, which is why Vision has a laptop card and operates independently. It's not born of the same concept as eg, a Meta quest which is more gaming oriented.
Is It Time to Give Memory Allocator Its Own Room in the House?
But (how) does the human brain perform backpropagation?
> but I don’t love uninformed cynical takes not backed up by data or experience

Here's some data: When the iPhone was introduced, the global mobile phone market moved over a billion devices a year. The iPhone solved very real problems that people were having, and delivered a device that did everything better than the competition. They put a real browser in the thing, removing the need for WAP and other shitty technologies for consuming content on mobile. They got the form factor and keyboard right. It was expensive, but not 10x more expensive. The iPhone replaced a device that everyone was already willingly carrying around in their pockets, and had been carrying around for over a decade at that point.

The global VR headset market moved 20 million devices last year. For most people, VR headsets are a gimmick, a novelty, they bought one, tried it, put it on a shelf. People aren't carrying one around, people aren't using it as their main computing interface, people aren't throwing away their monitors or TVs or gaming consoles. If someone has a VR headset, it's a non-essential plaything.

The Apple Vision is ~10x as expensive, in a market that's 1/50th of what the mobile phone market was in 2007, and it's still not solving obvious pain points that are stopping people from getting a VR headset. What problems does it solve? What device does it replace?

> When unsure, I remind myself it’s best to reserve judgement and see how things play out and not overgeneralize from my own limited preferences. I tell myself that I am one small speck in the market — i do not represent the market.

"God^H^H^HApple moves in mysterious ways, it's best not to question The Lord!"

Come on. Apple Vision entering the VR market is fundamentally different from the iPhone entering the mobile phone market, which is why posts like this, trying to make Apple Vision criticism equivalent to iPhone criticism, are completely wrong.
There is a quintessential feature that differs nostr from any other social network in the past decades: Your private key proves that you wrote a specific text.

Assuming the scenario where a user is basically chased away from major western relays, he can still continue writing new texts with his private key. As long as some relay located somewhere (e.g. China, Panama, Moon, ..) accepts his texts, then others will still be able to read and know it was from that specific person.

There are other ways to censor a person/nostr: 1) Block the whole traffic related to nostr relays at provider level inside a country. 2) Make illegal to use nostr since it is "unregulated communication media". 3) spam the network with hideous/horrible content, and then market the protocal as "darknet" only used by criminals or mentally ill people.

Any of these tactics are used often. The thing about nostr is that texts don't live just on relays and anyone can easily archive them. This means that history by specific users can be kept and safeguarded for the future. That is mostly the reason why I like it so much. We only know detailed history thanks to the records that survived until our days. Any closed platform eventually closes down their data (e.g. reddit, stackoverflow, twitter, etc) but in practice this is the same as denying access to our collective online history. Nostr will survive woketivism or any other *isms.
No PR professional would have let him answer the Apollo question in the way he did. That made everything much worse.
Indeed, which is why I find their reasoning quite suspect.
> green
ambitious, applaudable, but doomed to market realities
> You can erase them

that's not how economics works. if that's the case, you would not see the Chinese governments (federal and local) doing desperate things to collect more revenues like:

- China considers measures to encourage re-employment of retirees https://hrmasia.com/china-considers-measures-to-encourage-re...

- issuing massive traffic/parking tickets a year after, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, to commercial and normal drivers

- banks preventing normal withdrawals of money. often, deceased's children can't withdraw their parents savings, even with all the official documentations

- government entities delaying several months of owed salaries to its employees https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/11/chinas-cash-stra...
Prozac, Lipitor, Flonase and about of third of new pharmaceuticals are PFAS. Humans can figure out how to use this technology. Destroying 3M just means it gets made in China with no oversight.

Lawyers will win in the end regardless of what happens.
Hmm, maybe that's believable.
My parents had a set of encyclopedia Britannica from 1987. Problem is they got it for me in 1997.