skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.leefang.com/p/msnbcs-mehdi-hasan-gets-basic-fact...

Maybe you're actually the one falling prey to false information, and harming others by spreading it. From the article:

The Taibbi-Hasan debate speaks to the sorry state of affairs in the U.S. news media. Every journalist gets things wrong occasionally. Taibbi has conceded that he made an error in one of his tweets, though not in his congressional testimony, and swiftly corrected it. Many of Hasan’s claims have been debunked, including his false claim, first flagged by journalist Aaron Mate, that he “never said a word about the Hunter Biden story" and of course this CISA-EIP issue. Hasan’s version of journalism means never correcting his own falsehoods. But since Hasan works for a cable news network where exciting a polarized audience is the chief performance metric, he is sure to benefit from the gotcha-style assault on Taibbi.
I used your example to show how the 2 indexes solution is better on PostgreSQL, but the one composite index is the best one for YugabyteDB (PostgreSQL on a Spanner-like architecture): https://dev.to/yugabyte/one-fat-index-or-two-indexes-on-each...
Yes, concurrency on a single core CPU is simply not possible. That's why multitasking OS's didn't exist until multicore CPUs became a thing.

If only these "Gophers" knew anything about computing history!
I've found sleep very reliable on macOS, and both sleep and hibernate reliable on Windows.

I once had my work PC unhibernate and not pop up the login box. The computer appeared to be running normally otherwise; I just couldn't log in, and I had to tap the power button to shut it down. This stuck in my mind due to its rarity.

Can't remember ever having a serious issue on macOS. A couple of my programs sometimes don't survive the sleep/wake cycle, but it's intermittent, and I'm always in the middle of something else when it happens. I've never lost any meaningful work.
I also had anesthesia exactly once so far & my experiences are similar. basically remember going under and then groggily becoming aware of the doctor & being informed that operation is done. I do recall my surprise at that statement as there was no experience of passing time. I feel this was fundamentally different from sleep in quality (or even deep meditation).

I to have pondered the consciousness vs intelligence question and tentatively concluded that consciousness is useful in developing of intelligence so as to provide factors to optimize for like energy, attention, physical goals etc but beyond that its not necessary. Intelligence is basically subdividing a signal into realistic subcomponent and then putting it all somewhat coherently to come up with a bigger picture as I see it. I feel the set of tools available to current crop of AI/ML architectures are sufficient to produce a human like intelligence if we/it figures out how to assemble it the 'right' way.

consciousness OTOH, I am not sure. that (human consciousness) may be very specific to makeup of human brain and some non-modeled things in individual neurons. this does not means AGI cannot be conscious but its consciousness would be really different from human one. For humans I do lean towards Penrose's Orch-OR thesis that consciousness maybe innately quantum in nature. not sure how much evidence exists for or against it.
>Also the effect isn't that people misjudge their knowledge, it's that they misjudge their place within a distribution.

Put differently, isn’t this saying it’s a misattribution of confidence? In the context of the original claim about investing, that seems very relevant.
That's the CDC, a totally unrelated building which even then isn't very close to the wet market, which is not a very popular spot in the city. The WIV was many miles outside the city.
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Agreed about the "attractor country" comment; however, at least we have some restrictions on borders. I agree with the parent comment that this issue needs to be addressed by the federal gov't. I wonder if some states could even be incentivized to support such systems by creating rehabilitation communities which would bring jobs (and yes homeless) but still more $ in general. FL and AZ sort of does this with old people and some states seem to do it for addiction treatment centers.

X% of the population will always need some gov't help and Y% will need gov't help at some point. I think we need to stop negatively viewing these groups as sponges on society. Ability is a spectrum, and we don't criticize someone w Down's Syndrome, and so I don't think we should be so harsh on people who are homeless / have trouble holding down a job / low-ish IQ / and even those who fried their brain w drugs / etc.

Yes, we want to avoid perverse incentives and incentivize people to be productive members of society, but we also need to recognize that some people will always need some help, and as a society, I think we should help them, striving for a future with little to no involuntary poverty.
Facebook's Proxygen is also pretty neat: https://github.com/facebook/proxygen
I had a similar experience not too far away in Marina Del Rey. I would work remotely out of their small public library but there were so many homeless people to the point all the tables were occupied. They mostly used the electric outlets and DVDs so I ended up going to a paid co-working space and being around like-minded individuals with plenty of space.
Average wind and solar generation is increasing at coal's expense, but what about the extrema time periods—when one energy method is producing much more, or much less, than usual? To fully replace coal, renewables need to produce all the time.
didn't know nvidia patented matmul and dot product
I highly recommend this book, which I received as a birthday present (hint, for your friends or loved ones who are into space stuff.)

Every page is filled with these georgeous, highly detailed pictures, and a running commentary from the astronauts or author.

You won't be disappointed.
If a single staff person caught a virus, then anyone they interacted with and gave it to went to the market, then that's all it would take.
I think the issue isn't how much citizens are paying in taxes. I think it's how the government is allocating those funds. For example, my town I live in has average rent prices for 1 bedroom apartments ABOVE the medium HOUSEHOLD income. Our homeless population is starting to get out of control. Every day there are 3 to 4 homeless families with their children at the local mall intersection asking for assistance, because the city only has 13 units set aside for homeless housing.

But we spend 100s of millions a year on one public high schools sports budget.

The government is the party that should be responsible, and I'm tired of the onus of the responsibility being put on the citizens. Why else do we PAY taxes for if not for these social services?
Are there any domains that only accept evil packets?
Newbie in machine learning here. It’s crazy that this is the top post just today. I’ve been doing the intro to deep learning course from MIT this week, mainly because I have a ton of JSON files that are already classified, and want to train a model that can generate new JSON data by taking classification tags as input.

So naturally this post is exciting. My main unknown right now is figuring out which model to train my data on. An RNN, a GAN, a diffusion model?
I was playing with this today made a simple add function that just takes two arguments and adds them and asked it "what is 10+5" and it called my function as you would expect.
Then I made my function multiple the numbers.
Weirdly gpt called my function twice then simply ignored the functions data and returned the correct answer.

Pretty impressive.
It's susceptible for funding because the marginal cost is (typically) close to zero after the first unit is sold.
Microsoft is the devil. I'm sorry, but from "the beginning of time" that company has sought nothing but a complete monopoly.

How could the github guy sell that platform to M$!
On their LinkedIn platform they force C# jobs on you instead of, in my case, Go, what I searched for.
You search for Go, you get C# results, if you're logged in.

Why am I being so dramatic, because it has been going on since day 1.
TCPA, now TPM, forced on you if you want to use their latest OS.
Their browser sending images you view to them.
Telemetry, who knows what kind, that you can't turn off.
Copilot that steals other people work they published in good faith.
And they have their hands everywhere.

Aren't you tired of this kind of unreality, dystopia tbh.
I am. I'm tired of not just Microsoft spying and abusing me but also Google and most of all the 3 letter word agencies in the US.
Just an hour ago I was locked out of Github because they're forcing 2FA on me.
Screw them. I'd rather not have a Github account than being forced to do 2FA.
I've been on the net since 1995, not a single hacked account.
I'm just fucking done.
Microsoft is my new #1 enemy, again.
It is peculiar how all of these recent "conspiracy theories" as named by corporate media eventually turn out to be true.
Ask not how you can help the mods, ask how you can help the reddit admins.
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

The quote came to mind while I listened to a Radiolab episode on police surveillance [1]. We usually take it to mean opposing tyranny, even when convenient. But that might be too simple.

For every Patrick Henry there are dozens who prefer not to die. If we let the security situation devolve out of sympathy, or inequality increase in pursuit of efficiency, those people will snap and prompt a brutal backlash.

I’m not suggesting we re-criminalise homelessness. But the status quo, with the permanent homeless population, isn’t working. I don’t know how much one quashes one’s sympathy for the less fortunate and sense for technological progress to achieve these ends, but it’s becoming clear we have to explore toward that boundary. Open-air hard drug use, theft of non-essential goods, aggression and refusal to receive psychiatric screening (note: not treatment); these seem like low-hanging fruit to target zero of. Hell, make it part of a grand bargain to improve the transient homeless population’s wellbeing.

[1] https://radiolab.org/podcast/eye-sky
It's only one claim in a large body of independent evidence pointing to bat coronavirus research at WIV being the source of the pandemic. Additionally, the collaboration between US-based coronavirus researchers and the Wuhan group dates back to 2013. The fact that the virus appeared pre-adapted to replicate rapidly in humans also is not aligned with previous zoonotic origins, where an adaptation process could be tracked over time as the genetic sequence evolved. Furthermore, the Ecohealth Alliance grant proposals to DARPA etc. for work to be done at WIV involved direct modification of the spike protein sequence, which in Sars-CoV2 has a codon usage pattern optimal for human cells. The question of whether WIV had the original bat coronavirus sequence that was modified into Sars-CoV2 is opaque due to WIV's deletion of their online database of sequences and further refusal to cooperate with investigations.

Overall, the most plausible scenario is that WIV researchers collected the original bat coronavirus sequence from cave(s) in southern China, then applied various research procedures such as serial passage through humanized mice lines and cell cultures, along with specific CRISPR-type modification of the spike protein, to generate a virus with optimal properties for replication in humans, which accidentally spread to human researchers and the people around them (including a superspreader event in the wet market). From there it spread globally by train and then airplane, causing millions of deaths and trillions in economic damage.

Why does it matter what the origin was? This kind of reckless and irresponsible research must be strictly curtailed to prevent it from happening again. There are dozens of mammalian viruses in nature that are harmless to people but which could be modified by these processes into novel pandemic threats to which human populations have little innate immunity.
please click "aye" on the right side to support this! and then write a little message. This actually makes a difference.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S6686
I don't think this is reasonable or even in users interest if they stop and think about it.

I don't want social media platforms to be required by law to turn over all of the data that they have collected on me to anyone who asks.

EDIT:

So in section 2.A.3, anything that could be publicly visible to third parties is now accessible to those thirds parties via API. Anything you privately shared with third parties is now accessible to them via API. Your public comments, likes, friends ect. Alternatively, your private messages can be exported via API if the recipient gives permission.

>2. A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM MUST PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO
ITS CURRENT USERS OR THEIR AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES THROUGH THE API
CONSISTENT WITH SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION:
(A) THE USER'S PERSONAL DATA THAT THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM CONTROLS,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION:
...
(III) THIRD-PARTY DATA WHICH IS EITHER (A) GENERALLY AVAILABLE TO ALL
ACCOUNT HOLDERS, OR (B) MADE AVAILABLE TO THE USER BY THE ACTION OF THAT
THIRD PARTY, AND WHICH IS COLLECTED BY THE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY TO MAKE
CONTENT DECISIONS THAT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IMPACT A USER

It is hard to believe I am reading section 3.A correct, but this would also require the social media company to update their database at the request of the API user. pretty wild.

>3. A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM MUST PROVIDE ACCESS THROUGH THE API NECES-
SARY TO ALLOW THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS ON BEHALF OF ANY CURRENT USER TO
WRITE, UPDATE OR TAKE ACTION ON:
(A) THE USER'S PERSONAL DATA THAT THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM CONTROLS,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION:
(I) DATA THAT IS GENERALLY AVAILABLE TO ALL ACCOUNT HOLDERS, INCLUDING
USER'S NAME, USERNAME OR HANDLE, PROFILE PHOTO, BIO, AND LOCATION;
(II) USER DATA AND DATA GENERATED BY A USER AND COLLECTED BY THE
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM THAT FORMS THE BASIS FOR SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS,
INCLUDING USER FOLLOWS AND FOLLOWER DATA, AS WELL AS THE TOPICS USERS
MAY FOLLOW;

So in theory, anyone could make an API request to reddit and it would have to turn over all public information on the site, at no cost.
Before I get painted as a Trump supporter and therefore blind to my team, I’m not. Don’t support him, and when listening to him yell about China virus and then listening to people calmly say that was racism, I went with the calm people. But the man did get the PDB every day. Maybe he heard some of this intelligence and made some leaps to suit his purpose.

But if we were all lied to about the origin, our family and friends died because of this, and xenophobia or racism was used as a shield to deflect criticism from the people and research techniques that got us into this mess… that isn’t something you just handwave away.

There are hollow suit blowhards hijacking every avenue of conversation around every important topic, right now. That research mechanism, gain of function or splicing together viruses… it’s being done again. To say that we have to reject what the blowhard says even if they are right about something, I can’t buy that.

If this is true, that research is too dangerous and needs to be stopped and treated like nuclear weapons, because it is.
Not really. You can easily find this information. Perhaps start here?

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/matt-taibbis-puff-piece-on-...
Not a trucker, but I believe it's because trailers with lower ground clearance will bottom out if you aren't careful with your route planning. Things like rail crossing with aggressive approach and departure angles would be pretty risky with a low to the ground trailer.
The cost to run the service though is as close to zero as you can possibly get.

It just feels somewhat inhumane to take something away which is a marginal cost and at best and doesn't cause harm.

I mean, Libraries themselves do not need to exist, they are a service, they don't earn money, under pure capitalism they can't exist. But we know as a society that it improves social mobility and education.

and I mean, you can't do a lot these days without access to internet.
Let's be honest, that's already happening anyway.
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One thing i do hope though is that if instances that want to hide content, or users hide content, that the instance also publishes that data during syncing. Which is to say, i want to write a custom instance but i don't want to mistakenly leak something someone wanted to be private.

In theory it's a well understood problem-space in the Mastodon stack, so hopefully they only federate/publish what they are okay with being public. But it's concerning regardless.
Dangerous virus research has continued in the interim.

The real question is if there is little to no regulation or even acknowledgement of failures, it's only a matter of time before this happens again.
What's your address and WiFi password? Maybe we can turn your neighborhood into the homeless camp known for free wifi.

Homelessness is a complex subject but the impact of homeless people is not spread evenly. The people that live in that neighborhood (I used to be one) don't want it concentrated there. A few homeless people might be tolerable; a major camp is not, and free wifi at night acts as a magnet. I don't blame them at all for shutting it off.
FTP servers at that time for MP3s were ratio servers. You had to upload something in order to download and at a specific ratio of kb. Most wouldn't give you credit for uploading something they already had as well.

Finding the songs was no problem. I can remember some kind of web search engine. It was just too hard to get a collection going to even be able to download something though. I guess the idea was to rip your cd collection but that idea simply didn't occur to me at the time.

Napster took off because it was a free record store at a time when everyone was use to paying $13 an album in 2000 USD($23 adjusted for inflation).
Wouldnt this be possible with a solution like Guidance where you have a pre structured JSON format ready to go and all you need is text: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
It’s not super important to your point (altho it goes towards pricing I suppose) but Fly doesn’t resell a public cloud, but instead owns/rents hardware racked in a bunch of regions.
But how else can you show 30 days' events on a small screen? I find the agenda view better for planning stuff.
I’m not so sure that it won everyone’s minds, more that it’s something that sounds like a generally good idea in a meeting. Like, who would go against making unfun things fun by making them toy-like!

I’m similar to you, ADHD and whatnot. I was generally weary of using gamification in our use case, but surprise surprise - med students aren’t the rebel type! Only problem is - we would have to invest insane resources and research into figuring out how to have them do exactly what we want. Currently we’re leaning towards keeping gamification parts but only sparingly sprinkling them in just several key moments of achievement.

> Basically all good intentions, but the tool isn’t for good intentions. It’s a tool to make people spend time on something they might not want to spend time on, so why did we ever think it would be a fitting tool for our good intentions?

This is a great quote - we want them to spend time practicing, and our devices are somewhat cool but get boring pretty quick. So it helps to activate them, but now we also don’t want them to fixate on just the devices to get the perfect score ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't think MDMA or ketamine count as psychedelics. They are psychoactive, but not psychedelic. MDMA is a stimulant and ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic. Psilocybin is indeed a psychedelic, though.
https://archive.is/D0XzM
It is consistently reported to be an almost flawless pattern: women do not date/marry down whilst men do. And they continue to show this behavior unchanged even when they have plenty of resources on their own.

Hence, for women wealth is a primary and non-negotiable selector and they do pretty much behave as a monolith in this matter.
> My "source" was mainly common sense (the simplest solution is usually the right one

https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html

75% of all new infectious diseases come from animals. Isn't the simplest solution that COVID also came from animals? Just because it was a bad one doesn't make it less likely. Where did smallpox come from? Polio? Spanish flu?

Is it strange that the lab was near the wet market where it supposedly started? There are about 40,000 wet markets in China as of 2019. It might be more strange if it was nowhere near a wet market. It's a little bit like a psychic helping the police saying "the body will be found near water." Fantastic, most humans live near water.
Are there similar services for people who won't or can't get clean?

I have a vague memory that there was a court decision stating that someone cannot be forcibly made un-homeless unless they're a danger to themselves or others.

I'm sure there are some IANALs here who can clarify my murky memory.
Original Article that TechCrunch is summarizing.

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2023/06/13/boulder-t...

Unsure how I feel about TechCrunch just summarizing another source's article like this.
Every part of what I have described has been somewhere mentioned or eluded to by scientific exploration, yet not one single discussion or exposition likely exists which ties these topics together in a gratifying or coherent way.

Leading trends incorrectly describe consciousness as an “emergent phenomenon” in “some region”, yet separately (and much earlier) the discussion of microtubules as a possible substrate for quantum interaction. I do not believe we possess the technology to observe or replicate how this might work, considering we cannot hypothesize or test how quantum interaction can be reliably maintained at body temperature (the answer I believe to be insulated layering, a properly of 2D crystallography, and mass aggregation.) that electrochemical perturbance occurs during neural firing is an inherent proposition of physics.

Similarly on each other item I have mentioned such as what we call “subconscious” being key to understand underlying “consciousness”, or the programmability of neurological complexities, they seem almost self apparent yet cannot quite be conjectured by formalism.

The luxury of citizen science/philosophy contends with the range of comfortably integrating speculations.
Mehdi Hasan is proof that MSNBC can air someone who's as much of a shouty partisanship-addled blowhard as Fox's Sean Hannity.

Investigative journalist Lee Fang goes deeper into Hasan's allegations about Taibbi – plus Hasan's history of plagiarism & viewpoint-flexible controversialism-for-pay at:

https://www.leefang.com/p/mehdi-hasan-plagiarized-pro-spanki...
I doubt they want them dead. If I had to guess, I'd say they just want them gone.

How many people would look the other way if we were talking putting homeless into death camps and mass murdering them, that I have no idea about.
Sam Biddle: «I found a guy on eBay selling boxes of Cold War-era photo slides from old Pentagon presentations for a buck each so I stocked up. Working on getting them scanned this week/will share the finished product. There are a couple sets from USAF, one from the Navy, and one from NORAD

OK, the original four boxes of slides are uploaded to
@internetarchive
in both JPEG and uncompressed TIFF formats. I'll scan the other 60ish boxes down the line and keep whoever is interested updated as best I can. Enjoy.»

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/1669089736168730628?s=...
No, I'm just parroting the common wisdom of the drug crowd. But looks like there might not be much to worry about indeed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931730/
in other words anything can be Turing complete if provided infinite compute/storage