skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Less about the technique and more about the optics. Astroturfing is about building the perception of popular support. Bots pretending to be people can be astroturfing, but so can people putting up signs, people writing legislators, writing to newspaper, etc.

The idea is to make it look like support for/aversion to something is organic and popular (grassroots) when it's entirely artificial (astroturf)
There's also "proof by picture", in which you can hastily attempt to prove or disprove something by drawing a suitable diagram in your exam booklet. You have to be darn sure of what you're doing though... ;)
Cloudflare use it to ingest 6M/s

https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p...
I'm 36 and have been building websites as a hobby all my life and this looks better than my stuff :S
It’s also very slow to build
Aesthetic aside, I really admire Notion’s extensibility and rich API ecosystem — it’s given rise to website builders like https://super.so and https://potion.so, something that I haven’t seen with Google Docs/One Note
What character was removed from the alphabet? (2020)
"It would have been confusing to say “X, Y, Z, and.” So, the students said, “and per se and.” Per se means “by itself,” so the students were essentially saying, “X, Y, Z, and by itself and.” The term per se was used to denote letters that also doubled as words, such as the letter I (for “me”) and A. By saying “per se,” you clarified that you meant the symbol and not the word.

Over time, “and per se and” was slurred together into the word we use today: ampersand."
A friend of mine founded a company in this space (https://www.joincake.com/). From what I know it is more on the side of helping you build your own solution, rather than delivering all of the technical aspects.

The technical integration would be some significant effort to work out: do you need to run a credential management service? Can you get away with just having account recovery codes, specifying beneficiaries for specific accounts, etc? At first glance it feels like a massive amount of integration work would be needed
It's not subjective, it's.objective.

This solution for tuples is objectively worse in every way, throughout, network bandwidth, code complexity, maintainability, error likeliness.

You're just clearly someone who can't admit when they're wrong.
Card Games Unveiled: Exploring the Underlying Linear Algebra
""We discuss four famous card games that can help learn linear algebra. The games are: SET, Socks, Spot it!, and EvenQuads. We describe the game in the language of vector, affine, and projective spaces. We also show how these games are connected to each other. A separate section is devoted to playing Socks with the EvenQuads deck and vice versa." - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.09280.pdf
We call this, “Reddit”.
sickos.jpg YES!

I can't count the number of services or things I've had to use which invent their own query language instead of using SQL. In every case the language is empirically worse than SQL, especially when it's some mangled hybrid to make things "easier" coughNRQLcough. The silliest part is, if we all just fucking used SQL the tooling and integration would be much fucking easier and/or free. Not to mention, in almost no organization will you have the time or resources to not make something that's a half-implemented, poorly spec'd, rubbish version of SQL.

I think the biggest problem with SQL is that folks feel like they don't need to know it or that it's not useful. Oh dear beebs, it's fucking useful. Next time I personally need to build a rich query interface, I'm just using row level security and opening up Postgres.
Reddit users could –> Right To Be Forgotten – Removing posts from social media
An appeal to authority would be “Experts disagreeing with you proves you wrong.” That’s not what they’re saying.

They’re taking as read that the top level comment is wrong (as explained by a number of other comments), and making an observation about the circumstances surrounding the incorrect comment, as well as the theme it represents in the broader discourse.
> the _only_ place where it offers a readability improvement over ext-methods is using `join`

No love for let?

from item in items
let frob = Expenseive(item.P1)
where frob > 3
selec new { frob, item }
Agree that people should not do active investing, although the solution would be passive investing (index funds), which allow you to focus on friends & family without missing out of the economy's long term gains.
NASA Cassini Data Reveals Building Block for Life in Enceladus’ Ocean
That mostly seems like an expression of low empathy by users of a large sub, which largely tracks.
Strong bias on HN about replication. But the ability to implant false memories has been widely researched and replicated. This isn't a stretch. Memory is very fallible.
Are humans still in the loop?

1. AI (say ChatGPT or whatever LLM you like) makes blogspam

2. AI (Google Pagerank etc.) fooled into high-ranking it

3. AI (unnamed scammer) searches for a suitable comment form to post spam on, pretends to be real human as it does so

4. AI (Google Ad network or similar) selects best bid for an advert to show to the fake-user in #3

4. a. AI (Amazon, eBay, etc) has meanwhile been placing bids:

dictionary.filter($0.isNoun)).map { "\($0): Buy it cheap on Amazon!" }

5. AI (products scammers) look at "best" opportunities on Amazon, create fake listings to match each noun in 4. a.

6. AI (same scammers) upvote the fake reviews for the fake products for the fake nouns advertised to fake users on fake blogs,

but the metrics… which are A/B tests… which is GOFAI (AKA applied statistics)… say it's good, so everyone keeps doing it.
That's precisely the content I had a dim memory of. Thanks for the summary. Good points and assessment.
> funnel money into third party security firms

The question is whether Abbott is more motivated by that, by gun fetishism, or by the outrage (and national exposure) it's likely to generate. Probably about equal parts of all three IMO. A real trifecta of malfeasance.
I think those are all of Stockholm's subway, station Hötorget and the Central Station. The director Jonas Åkerlund likes to sneak in images of his home town. He also used a clip from a game show on Swedish TV without permission.
I recently read that George Washington was often frustrated that his slaves would not work hard and needed to be constantly watched and threatened to be productive. This reminds me of that.

If you have completely misaligned economic incentives you should expect misaligned performance from your employees. A founder or executive stands to reap so much more from their effort. Expecting someone to give up large amounts of their time in the prime of their life for mediocre pay on a project that they have little to no agency over is crazy.

It amazes me how angry capitalists get when the employees act like capitalists.
UFOs are always a distraction or trap. Their presence in the zeitgeist means that something needs to be hidden.

In the 70s, they were rolled out to explain away testing of the Tomahawk cruise missile. In the 80s, the F117 stealth fighter. And so it goes.
Making a Game for Everyone
The old 'what if evil terrorist' nonsense.

Terrorist would hurt 1000x more people buy destroying the rails along a high speed train route.

Stealing nuclear waste is incredibly hard and borderline useless.

And Russia and China don't need to attack civilian nuclear waste, if they want to nuke you they can just do that.

Do you actually really believe a general in Russia is sitting around thinking 'mhh we can make the civilian nuclear waste leak and then maybe the cancer rate is slightly higher in 20 years'.

To actually come up with a scenario where a country is seriously hurt by civilian nuclear waste takes about 3 tin foil hats on top of each other. And the is proven by the reality that civilian nuclear casts are standing around lots of places barley protected and have been doing so for many decades with nobody giving a shit.

Be more afraid that China pays for pro-smoking ads on twitter, because that's gone cause more cancer.
Can you collapse all comments in HN? Sorry for the newbish question
I've long wondered if there would be any performance advantage for an API server to zero-copy the DB response to the browser, deserializing from the DB wire protocol on the front end.

Or perhaps sending DB query results directly from DB server to browser, with the API server just initializing and securing.

Thanks for pointing out how JSON from the DB is another option for moving a bit of processing elsewhere in the stack.
I think you're missing what they're trying to say. You can still select what you actually need in a different order, but changing the order gives more immediate feedback from autocomplete. The order has pretty much zero impact on the performance of a query. A parser would still have to read out the whole query, and it's not expensive to unravel into a more efficient implementation if it would really help.

The problem is that SQL forces you to think about what to select before you even say where you're selecting from. There's nothing a client can do to recommend columns if it doesn't know where you're selecting from. It's pretty cumbersome to have to SELECT * FROM x and then go back and erase the * to actually get auto-completions.

It basically forces you to tell it what you want before you even know what the options are.
I think of Hacker News as a source of interesting things that I as a nerd, did not know & this fits.
In all serious, I've been talking with my colleague a lot about this.

Will be interesting to see if mining archives of "low background steel" data (anything created before chatGPT exploded) will become a industry.

Another interesting impact... older, more established tech suddenly has a non-trivial advantage over new, cutting edge competitors because LLM are well trained to work with the older tech.
I see your point, but it is not universal. There are a number of reasons sellers choose FSBO. I have spoken with thousands of FSBO as an agent and as DearMonty on my website. Here are a few other reasons: 1. significant inside real estate knowledge who know how the system works. Examples are contractors, attorneys, title company workers, and there are more. 2. Poor experiences with agents. 3.A need to be in control. 4. They recognize the significant asymmetry and conflict of interest of the agent. Yes, there are bottom feeders and they need us more, but they may be harder to convince. Time will tell. I appreciate your feedback/
Iced is still the most capable atm, but Vizia and Freya are also worth looking at. The great thing is that the ecosystem is mostly made up of modular composable libraries, so to a large extent once one framework gains a functionality they all do.
I could go for a Dunkaccino.
One that I had opened with "London 1987" at the start... That was easy, as was the 1908 Olympics one.

Had one which had a ton of clues -- no smoking on the underground, Ongar still open, phone numbers being "01-xxx-xxxx" rather than 071, etc.

A video shot in the 2010s would look very different quality than one in the 1990s though. And you'd see people on mobile phones.
The problem with SQL is that it is not a (very) composable language.

The documentation for EdgeDb goes into some detail about that and shows an alternative better language for data-queries.

https://www.edgedb.com/showcase/edgeql

To understand why SQL is bad, you must first be shown something better, and EdgeDb seems to be such better more composable language.
That not what we're talking about though, we're talking about aggregating the the result of a subselect to reduce the throughput of a SQL query.

I'm just pointing out it doesn't achieve that.
>It obviously wouldn't work with the modern police, because they would overpower you

Never go into a police interrogation without a lawyer regardless of innocence or guilt. That's our only counter today.
Garbage in, garbage out

The real moat openAI might have in the future is a “mostly human” dataset they managed to scrape before the generative AI frenzy
This is a super cool project! And I love the super-simple Vercel deployment.

I wasn't able to get the AI completions to work with my OpenAI API key; not sure why.

I don't completely understand how I'm supposed to use this as a stand-alone deployment if I can't create more than one page. I think the answer is just that the project is young, but I'm not certain.
Note:

"If, however, you wish to submit a right to be forgotten request to any of the social media companies by using your own words, you are free to do so and the law is very clear that there is no requirement to submit right to be forgotten requests by using a pre-prepared form from the social media or the internet company."

Mass usage of this option would create an insurmountable admin burden, which, while unresolved could represent a sufficient legal liability to serve as a sort of "poison pill".
I remember reading a story on here about the two daughters of the founder of the false memory institute who served as expert widnes for the defence of multiple sexual abuse cases accusing their father of incest himself and having invented this false memory thing as a psychological cope.

Maybe it was this one
https://www.thecut.com/article/false-memory-syndrome-controv...
It needs to be a stop on the Jubilee (or possibly Bakerloo) line, as the relevant dot matrix is only installed on one (or possibly two) types of train.
I’ve written a ‘what to do upon my death’ checklist with some explanatory instructions for my family. What to first and when, where to find things, contacts, reiteration of cremation vs. burial, etc.

I have a ‘fire resistant’ case for…fire, but I also put relevant death documents there. So, my wife can just grab that case.

And trust me: Get a legal will, no matter what state laws you live under. Cheap, quick, easy.

Other than that, it depends a lot on your situation—married, kids, amount of possessions, special requests, etc.
Casey Newton proposed, partly tongue in cheek I think, that as LLMs advanced, it might spur investment in and a newfound appreciation for Journalism as way to provide fresh source material for the models
APOD is great. I'd love to hear an overview of the various ways it's published and their choices on how. The ways to publish "daily interesting stuff" have changed so many times in 28 years.

I read it in Feedly, using a third party RSS feed with larger images. https://acme.com/jef/apod/
I guess I'm not in the C# community. `let` is pretty annoying to reproduce with extension methods. Also, when you use multiple `from` clauses, you get access to all scopes, whereas with `SelectMany` you only get the parameters of your current lambda.
You can look at the assumptions under https://model.energy/ which were based on cost data in Europe (I believe there's a link to the source).

Per-kW cost of electrolysers is already 1/2 of the total per-kW cost given there in the 2030 assumptions (but that may include other equipment).

Cost of storage caverns is well known from natural gas, as little as $1/kWh of capacity. Cost of combined cycle plants to convert the hydrogen back to power is also well known, as these will be nearly identical to natural gas fired CC plants (just the details of the combustors will change.)
Does the no-js crowd also use aluminum foil hats?
> These artifacts exist. The academic experts have unanswered questions and cannot rule anything out. Could it be that our theory explains it? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes.

I like how none of the followup commenters understood that this statement is the logical form of the entire inquiry that AAT uses and that they apply to literally everything. That's The Joke.

The follow on would be, "Given the evident uncertainty about something so important, are we morally obligated to investigate further? Do the only ones who would object have illigitimate status to preserve and something to hide?"

Maybe I'm the only one who finds their folksy harmlessness funny, but I think it's brilliant.
When I was first introduced to mathematical proofs, I was perplexed by how fuzzy and intuition-based the notion of proof was. A "convincing argument", really?! There is no knowing, as a novice, how detailed those "arguments" have to be, what parts you can simply assert without further justification. Usually the teachers themselves can't explain what the criteria for an "obvious" and "not obvious" step is, they just know it intuitively from experience. Writing proofs, then, is a lot like having to learn to ride a bike: Instructions are mostly unavailable or useless.

I later learned that there is indeed a precise way of learning proofs which doesn't rely on intuitions of what counts as a rigours inference step: Formal logic together with a natural deduction proof system. Natural deduction is a formal proof system which resembles actual ("natural") proofs in mathematics, unlike other proof systems.

In such a proof system, inference rules, like modus tollens or universal instantiation, are strictly defined. Only the given inference rules (and those which are provable from the given rules) may be used. Coming up with such proofs still requires creativity, there is no algorithm. But there is no ambiguity in what counts as a valid or invalid proof or inference step.

Of course, this is far too tedious for actual mathematical proofs, since every little step needs to be done explicitly, e.g. even applications of modus ponens (rule: "A, if A then B, therefore B"). Moreover, mathematicians rarely prove anything from axioms, they start from other statements which are considered more trivial. But I think it would be helpful for many people to first learn logic and deduction "the precise way", and then do actual mathematical proof where you can jump over more obvious parts.

But that's not how it is teached in mathematics or computer science. Students are thrown into the cold water, and only receive tips&tricks, but no rigorous introduction. Ironically, the one subject which often teaches formal logic as an early introductory class for undergraduates isn't mathematics, computer science, or physics, it's philosophy.
Cars in 1995 look very different to today, but the biggest difference is the lack of people staring at phones
Interesting insights... it is going to take me a couple of reads to comprehend all the value here. Thx JDAW

P.S. Thx for the PDF version
I'd be happy to setup a call sometime, do you have an email address? I've seen a whole helluva lot of that space (though it has been 5-6 years now since I was there). The company was called Househappy, before I left the company pivoted into being a home ownership platform instead a buy/sell platform. I'm still quite sure that we're started the trend, on housing websites, of a photo driven approach :)
Note that twitch VODs don't stay up forever, Andrew did mention that he would upload to peertube, but I don't know if he did.
Malloy is another thing to check out in this space

https://www.malloydata.dev/
Wireless charging is stupid and inefficient. If someone tried to sell you a petrol pump which works by spraying a jet of petrol into your car from 5m away would you get it?

“Your customers won’t even have to plug anything into their car. FuelSafe just safely hoses down the car with fuel! Over 45% efficient!”
Talking about the gameplay outside the dialogue is a bit silly though. Why people still love it are writing and plot. The mechanics were simply the bog standard mechanics of the day and don't matter much.

Which games would you say have bested it in terms of writing/plot? I see a few but not very many really. Disco Elysium would be the first but that also stands alone in terms of quality. (That said, don't get to game much anymore so could very well have missed a lot...).
It’s still a big saving overall if the alternative is a JOIN causing a cartesian explosion in the number of rows
I like how you are thinking and I wondered if the company operates as a monopoly or is in a very small market, people won’t have alternatives to pick from and so their demand inelasticity combined with AI will lead to bad choices about A/B tests. I assume this is already problematic without AI, as it seems many company’s don’t know what made them successful as they ascend and A/B tests lie to them. When their product is in hot demand they think every stinker is a rose by misinterpreting the noise.
Brokers and agents both. From the customers perspective the agent is the company. Some companies forbid the agent from cutting their fee. Some agents are offended if you ask. It's the wild west out there. Very fragmented industry which is part of their problem. Thanks for your question.
AdNauseam

I didn't know there was another, hopefully someone will mention it?
Microsoft Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
Thank you but I didn’t mean that and I am aware of that word. I meant actually “anti humanity” — something that kinda goes against the grain of humanity. Inhuman didn’t cut it either.

Otherwise I’d have said “am I a misanthrope”. No I don’t hate mankind at all and what I mentioned isn’t hating either.

I hope I was able to explain that I did believe that word wouldn’t fit in for what I wanted to say. Maybe some other word? sch………ude isn’t that word either I guess.
Couldn't that be a way to address the issue of current LLMs hallucinating?
Consent. You either respect it or not. If you believe you don't need someones consent and they believe you do, you have a pretty serious conflict in front of you.
“concurrent meatspace mergesort”

I like it
I am familiar with Home shake. I wish them well.
Indeed. And yet, there's the stubborn idea that the prices of electrolysers will not continue to decline along an experience curve. The same blindness occurred with critics of solar and wind.
> This is why our programs today must never have lines wider than 72 columns—this honors those that came before us.

You know what? I like it.
Maybe https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck too?
Yeah, they ended up pivoting into home-ownership space after burning through cash and doing a CEO swap to secure new investment. Now it's sort of "car fax" and concierge experience for owning a house. It's a good idea, but real estate is a really hard industry for tech (IMHO), and it's just capital intensive to make any progress.
How would you propose we differentiate between students "playing along" and students really having false memories? Couldn't I discard any psychological study by saying "well, the participants could have faked it", since it's by definition not falsifiable (any test could also be faked)?
Flying the F-35 stealth fighter can leave pilots looking aged
If the studies are based on asking people if they remember the false event, they are susceptible to the same critique.
> And much like Twitter, Reddit has remained valuable not because of any amount of venture investment, but because of millions of users that choose to post there for free.

That's the money quote from the article. It's also true of stack overflow, and flickr and Tumblr. That's what Elon and spez miss. Why do they miss this? Is it arrogance or a genuine blind spot?
The most likely scenario is that at some point next 300 years we figure out advanced fission or fusion and if we do so burning that waste up isn't that big a deal.

If the danger were a nuclear explosion destroying a city, then you would have point.

But its not, the danger is maybe a slightly leaking cask could maybe lead to slightly higher cancer rates in a certain area.

> So you must store 1000 more times the fuel for it to be truly sustainable

Instead of one 1 football field it might be 1000 over the next 10000 years. Yeah horrible, we can't possible spare 1000 football fields full of parking lots.
And you had to make really sure that the battery was completely secured when you replaced it. There was even a warning on the screen.

https://www.gottabemobile.com/samsung-galaxy-s5-water-test-d...

> If you remove the battery, the Galaxy S5 will remind you to make sure the back cover is back in place securely.
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