skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Struggle you can’t overcome is unnecessary suffering. Better to just meet your basic needs and reduce your expectations to optimize for happiness. This has been the general theme of everyone I’ve spoken to, regardless of how they identify, who has hopped off the career ladder and just makes ends meet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET

https://www.google.com/search?q=people+opting+out+of+the+lab...
Wait till you see the memory bandwidth that 1 thousandth of a cpu gets you.
An option to try it without logging in would be nice.
Since it has offline support it seems like that should be possible?
>There's no alternate history where different government policy in China could have completely averted the famine of 1960. It was a very poor year agriculturally.

Except the one where China hasn't destroyed much of its industry, or alienated much of the world, and thus can trade for food.

Your examples are illustrative as well, inspite of your intention - the next three famines you list (1942, 1936, 1929) all occurred during a civil war in which Mao was a major player on one side, and at a time when part of the country was at war with/under occupation of imperial Japan.
> Here they complain of a lack of trust and 'disunity' but say nothing about why they are worthy of trust. Indeed they scapegoat information for it, what should be a basis of trust. It comes across as the same ole corrupt "shut up and be good pawns again" attitude.

Good assessment.
Data requirements are overstated - you can train on longer and longer sequences and I am pretty sure most organizations are still using the “show the model the data only once“ approach which is just wasteful.

Compute challenges are more real, but we are seeing for the first time huge amounts of global capital being allocated to solve specifically these problems, so I am curious what fruit that will bear in a few years.

I mean already the stuff that some of these low level people are doing is absolutely nuts. Tim Dettmers work training with only 4 bits means only 16 possible values per weight and still getting great results.
Huh, the article is missing ginkgo as an example. Mulberries are merely messy in the ground. Ginkgo nuts smell terrible.
All customers of Redhat should start daily sync of all source RPMs. That way, Redhat can't find out who is sharing source RPMs with Alma and Rocky. Right now, customers just sync binary RPMs.
cowboys == cowbots... :D
"it's really hard to run an effective school or cyber security enterprise without money."

GP is actually understating this; if my budget and revenue is $0, then I cannot run a school or enterprise at all and it will file for bankruptcy and close.

A strawman is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one being discussed. I never said that a budget should be $0 or "without money". That's a reductio ad absurdum.
It's unethical
Also check out the interview Ezra Klein did with Jennifer Pahlki on his podcast [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...
Great, write a blog post on him then and post it here for us all to read.
Have those reports from George Hotz been confirmed? It seems plausible to me, but also suggests to me that we have further to go by using that parameter budget for depth rather than for width.
There is no way to get around it without risking legal issues.
Sony has way more exclusives than MS— why would it be catastrophic to even that particular playing field? This just sounds like Sony fans pissed that a few games are going to get taken away.
I'm personally of the opinion that the social difficulty of switching layouts is too great and I'd compromise with an ortholinear split qwerty board, which should alleviate most of the problems associated with typing.
I'm not an expert in type theory, but something like Scala's path-dependent types might work. In the following example (which I copy-pasted from [1]), every object of type Foo has some associated type Bar. You can have multiple objects that are all of type Foo, and they might have different Bar types. Therefore, to refer to a Bar type, you have to reference the specific variable you're talking about – such as in "f1.Bar" below, where f1 is a variable name, not a type name.

trait Foo{
class Bar
def doNothing(b: Bar){}
}
val f1 = new Foo{}
val b1 = new f1.Bar()
val f2 = new Foo{}
val b2 = new f2.Bar()

f1.doNothing(b1) //fine
f1.doNothing(b2) //won't compile

Applying the same idea to TypeScript, you could imagine using 'keyof' on values instead of types. So instead of

keys<T extends object>(o: T): (keyof T)[];

it would be something like

keys(o: object): (keyof o)[];

And the keys returned for an object would only let you index into that specific object, not any other object even if it had the same type.

[1] https://wheaties.github.io/Presentations/Scala-Dep-Types/dep...
>> instead the signs said "you have no reason to touch this"

I'm going to assume that those buttons were placed out of the reach of most three year-olds.
Curious to know what are your rules modifications.

By terrible house rules I mean things like collecting money on "free parking", limiting trade or not auctioning unbought property.

I have yet to see commonly practiced house rules that improve the game. I am sure there are, but most people who know enough about game design to actually improve on the game typically don't play Monopoly.
Thanks to Numba, you can even JIT python to native machine code and gain 10 - 30x performance boost. And you can even compile the code to CUDA GPU code! Pretty cool to do that in python, rather than in a C dialect.
This is kinda what Biden was talking about with his "war on junk fees".

Apparently Ticketmaster is gonna be dropping them now. Of course, I'm too cynical to actually BELIEVE that but at least it's in the public discourse now all the way up to the PRESIDENT.

Will anything actually change? Well, I hate to be cynical but I am...
Hah, I got 11% and I selected the car, the police, the ambulance and the tank. Does everyone just get 11% no matter what?

Edit: reading further, yes, everyone gets 11%.
When "the work of others" is to further a monopoly, it should not be considered acceptable.
Re: speed, you'd likely get orders of magnitude better bandwidth out of a real network of 128 servers instead, though latency would be lower here.
"While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality"

Are you sure?
>No country would risk a tactical nuke in their own territory, that's self-defeating.

No one had done that, but that's the general theory as to why South Africa developed nukes.
I strongly disagree with this view, not so much the emergent part, but rather that "any sufficiently powerful cognitive system" can gain consciousness. To me, it suggests that consciousness is magic, because it doesn't matter how information is organized and stored, it doesn't matter how information is processed, consciousness will be able to emerge miraculously from even the most disorganized chaotic mess of information processing. This view has come up a lot recently, because it's the only explanation that allows for AI to be sentient, AI models which are just software running on computers.

However, the brain is highly organized, wherein the various types of sensory input are fed into specific regions of the brain which specialize in processing that type of input. Many areas of the brain have topographical structures which are reminiscent of the type of sensory input they process. This is evident in Retinotopy for visual inputs and Tonotopy for auditory inputs. You will not find such topographical structures in a computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinotopy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonotopy

You have to ask the questions, why do we have meaningful conscious experience that is sensible, coherent, and well formed? And why is consciousness not random chaotic nonsense? Because the brain has had hundreds of millions of years to evolve to process sensory input such that it yields a sensible conscious experience. This simply isn't true of any technology today.

On the other hand, experiment with psychedelic drugs and see how crazy your conscious experience can be. The fact that our day to day experiences aren't like that is significant and evident that the brain evolved to process sensory input for conscious experience.
In my experience, you can just force DNF to download from certain regions, which fixes the speed for me.
However nothing like that exists for Zypper.
Perhaps surprisingly, it isn't particularly useful for general encyclopedias like Wikipedia. Real life is messy; it doesn't always reduce cleanly to a set of key/value pairs.

Where extensions like SMW really shine is for wikis which discuss highly structured content, like content in video games. Another extension which I've seen used in this space is Cargo [1].

[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo
"The problem is, we're not hiring people to build to a spec. We want to assess your decisions and ability to go from a basic problem to a first implementation"

You could have told the candidate that, then. That would have been some useful information to have for the hours the candidate put into their submission. Or like "hey, we're going to just skim over this with a subjective list of check boxes".

I have enough experience that I probably would have smelled this before I got that deep into the process and noped out, but for the hopeful mid-level/new-senior devs this sounds pretty demoralizing.
When youtube and reddit started almost every website had an rss feed, so I doubt anyone had to sneak it in.
It seems consistent with the behavior we see when using GPT4 in chat mode. Every once in a while it will change its answer as it’s generating it, as though it’s switched which model it favors to produce the response. GPT3.5 doesn’t do that.
There is an enormous pule of Dolchstoß explanations already collected to be used on as per needed basis. The events of today are adding to it but far from dwarfing it.
Yep. This is how I follow people on youtube. So much more convenient.
We need a way to make tight little specialist models that don't hallucinate and reliably report when they don't know. Trying to cram all of the web into a LLM is a dead end.
Yeah and what's wrong with techies?! We're a pretty smart bunch I like to think ;)
Putting an emoji in every single sentence really makes it hard to read or take it seriously though..

I just got this response to a prompt telling it to stop using emojis after every third word:

"I appreciate the effort you're putting into this, but I know that you're not being serious. I'm designed to be empathetic and understand human emotions, and I can tell that you're not actually upset about the emoji thing"

ok...

GPT-3.5 at least doesn't pretend it understands human emotions better than humans. Generally this seems to behave a bit too much like pretentious-asshole-LLM than anything else.
Yeah, it’s a big bummer that VSCode is getting the attention first it seems.
For instance there’s nothing for Vs equivalent to the VSCode Copilot Labs plugin, which brings a whole bunch of new useful functionality.
Blowing up the Kakhovka Dam is classified as an offense similar to blowing up a nuclear power plant.

It should be a pretty clear signal that they've lost control, as the damage the dam causes is larger than that of a small tactical nuke.
Quick and dirty simple solution - nice!
Cool story.

I remember reading somewhere that Buffett said that he saw that the more mills Berkshire had the less profit it made, so the rational thing to do was close mills. Genius ;-)
> And with this I'll take my leave from this discussion as it no longer feels fruitful.

You're talking to someone who's name is tensor. He's already nailed his flag to the mask on the issue of NN and ML.

What outcome could you possibly expect? He's not going to change his mind regardless of any discussion.
Worked great for USSR, Venezuela, Cuba, ...

FDR also had to deal with things like state's rights... But why worry about nuance?
What is this? It looks like a voxel renderer with a hexagonal grid on it? There doesn't seem to be any explanation of what it means or what it's showcasing.

The repository[0] isn't too enlightening either, although an interesting footnote is that it's written in "Skew"[1], a programming language I've never heard of, but that seems to have been created by the same person. Somewhat interesting.

[0]: https://github.com/evanw/mineverse

[1]: https://github.com/evanw/skew
Did you see the photo on the right hand side?
Yes, we were actually working on it too but had to prioritize some other things.

In future though, we'll surely be adding the ability to use the editor without logging in so. Login will be there if you want to save the notes via cloud sync :)
I'm on mobile, can someone describe what this is?
Link just goes to the main page of MSN. Needs specific link to article.
I guess my criterion for 'grandiose rhetoric' is the bigness of a claim divided by the amount of information provided to support it. When the numerator is big and the denominator is small, that's what I mean by grandiose. It's one of the most common qualities on the internet, and one of the least interesting.

I can't agree that I missed the mark on that comment - what I said seems well within standard mod practice on HN. But it's fine that you disagree - there's always going to be disagreement on specific cases, since we all have different backgrounds and therefore different perceptions. It's the principles that matter.
I'm doubting that federation and decentralization ever 'wins' and is anything other than niche.

What might succeed is running something like twitter or reddit as a nonprofit foundation like wikipedia.

This will not make the idealistic free speech advocates happy at all, but would tone down the advertising and monetization and the API could be kept open for third party clients to easily integrate with and use (Obviously it wouldn't eliminate advertisement as the recent issues around wikipedia having $300M in the bank and still begging for money shows, but it is substantially better than reddit or twitter).
If Five Eyes are targeting you, then you will need to think very hard about OPSEC indeed. Luckily, most of us are not targeted by the Five Eyes.

And when it comes to dragnet surveillance, applications like Signal has raised the bar significantly.
> countries like Venezuela struggle to feed their own people in the modern era

The US would also struggle to feed their own people if they were not subsidizing (something that is considered a crime in capitalism) their own farmers to the tune of several billion dollars a year. This is the reality of modern economies, farming pays close to nothing, and the only way to feed your population is to put large amounts of money into subsidies, something which South America, Africa, and other regions of the world don't have.
That actually makes the most sense, of any reasons for using Typescript, that I've heard. Good point.
This is the kind of insightful music history article I wish we got more of. Wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
Drake's book looks great. I appreciate his efforts to create a mental model and learning approach to NixOS.

I found a set of tutorials on YouTube by Will, to be incredibly helpful at the beginning of my NixOS journey. Even though these tutorials are a couple of years old, they should have aged well.

Drake's book, should help confirm some assumptions I've made about how NixOS works. Given NixOS's declarative nature, I find it easy to copy configurations to do what I want - a handy approach when pressed for time, but it does leave some gaps in understanding that need to be filled.

You can find the tutorials I mentioned at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-saUBvIJzOkjAw_vOac7...

The tutorials are easy to understand and have good explanations
> Sorry my friend. It isn't. It costs money to do anything on this planet ...

> Altruism aside ...

We need resources to keep existing and we need people to work to make resources, in almost every case people need other's work to survive.

The concept that these transactions can and should be conceptualized via their monetary value (rather than civic duty, status, noblesse oblige, etc.) is capitalism.

Feudal nobles needed food to eat the same as us, but they did not live in a capitalist society.

We could convert their military power, their family links to nearby nobles, and the willingness of their subjects to obey them to some kind of monetary value, but all of these things did not behave as capital.

> Everyone tries to earn more than the raw costs to exist. That's your profit. It allows you to save to get things you want, navigate tough times, support a family, go to school, etc.

This is scarcity not capitalism, if you only have subsistence level of resources you have 0 capital.

The main characteristic of a capitalist system if that resource ownership and production happen in a market.

for example Mexican avocado cartels compete in a globalized capitalist market, but the farmer they extort live in very different system.

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I am not passing any kind of judgment on capitalism here, not saying whether we can/should move away from it, but there have been societies not built on capitalism.
I wonder how that works. Naive intuition tells me it should be the opposite - the market generally isn't capable of processing longtermist ideas like food self-sufficiency, so if that SSR drops, you'd imagine it's because as the food market became increasingly free and profit-based, it aligned itself with local preferences and global economy - meaning imports for price arbitrage, and imports for variety.
As someone who has family in northern Ukraine I am now very worried about the possibility of another, Wagner-led offensive from Belarus to Kyiv (the only viable route to Kyiv).

Lukashenko is not an independent agent, he is Putin’s slave. Zero chances Prigozin just retires in Belaruss.
It's some sort of first-person voxel renderer, like the classic versions of Minecraft, but with godrays and ambient occlusion. It doesn't look like you can modify the world at all, it's just some basic terrain with some sort of hexagonal structure built over it (?).
Reminds me of Joplin
Often in code reviews and other discussions to describe some alternative approaches.
Because I am using them in different go routines and I find Go channels are pretty good at handling the synchronization as well as I can.
We like to think that international politics is a group of intelligent and suave individuals working things out, but it is much more predictive and instructive to consider it as toddlers brawling in a preschool whilst their parents are brawling at the local tavern.
Reasons : there is a significant amount of work needed to get codes to work on a distributed hybrid or gpu-only fashion. It's a completely different coding paradigm that needs significant studies before commercial entities adopt gpu use at scale. All-gpu solvers are starting to be developed, such as fun3d GPU[0], but features are very limited. GPU development is starting to catch up in the community, so it won't be long before a significant portion can operate heterogeneously or in gpu-only mode.

[0] https://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov/GPU_March_2021.pdf
What if it's a discussion about Terms of Service (ToS), and for some particular reason the Pornhub's ToS is relevant? The site itself is nsfw but if someone makes a claim that their tos says it's okay to kick puppies then you kind of have to link to it to support your claim. And how many ways around linking directly to the domain are there? hub for pron, bay of pirates, etc.
Backports are important for long term support. Say, you have some-pkg-1.2.5-83.el9.x86_64, CentOS Stream will have some-pkg-2.10.32-3.el9.x86_64 (with extra features, enhancments, security fixes), while customers want just CVEs to be back ported to some-pkg-1.2.x

This creates problems for long term support, as it requires more resources, who understand the code base for some-pkg in order to apply selective fixes. Right now, if one knows how to build rpms and how to integrate them is enough to become a clone of downstream RHEL.

I think, only Oracle can pull off this feat, as they can put more people to work to solve this problems. 1:1 compatibility becomes hard, as 1000+ packages need to be taken care of.
Semantic technologies, linked data never really delivered. The "Semantic" aspect was in sense a hyped, exaggerated term, long before ML/AI hypes became regular abusers of linguistic precision at the service of marketing.

But had they been adopted for what they are: well defined metadata according to vocabularies and ontologies that following accepted, interoperable standards, the development of ground truth and knowledge graphs would have been much more advanced that the current state.

So my guess is that projects like semantic mediawiki, wikibase etc will eventually see renewed roles and gradually link with the more statistical and algorithmic processing of information.
Another recent (but not called out in this article) is the "Textbooks Are All You Need" paper [1]; the results seem to suggest that careful curation and curriculums of training data can significantly improve model capabilities (when training domain specific, smaller models). Claiming a 10x smaller model can outperform competitors. (Eg. phi-1 vs. starcoder)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
What's to pretend? Venezuela is free to trade with the majority of countries in the world. No one is blockading their ports.
I add 'edit' once I think someone will have seen a comment, and certainly once there's a reply, but if there are no replies and the glue hasn't dried yet, I often take the first few minutes to edit. Lately I've taken to including the marker "[editing...]" whilst I'm doing that, but I can't remember if I did it in this case or not.

I use the word 'scolding' quite a bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., so it's not as if I was trying to hide any tracks there! But I don't use it in the spirit you're describing. I guess I use it to slightly mock the process, including my part in it. This whole internet forum thing is mostly trivial and largely ridiculous.
When the environmental left starts taking nuclear energy and carbon taxes more seriously, I’ll start taking these warnings more seriously. As of now, the impression I am left with is that the people making these dire warnings think climate change is less dangerous than new generation nuclear power plants, which aren’t particularly dangerous all things considered.
I will happily tell any q-anon devotee that their opposition to the 'main narrative' is not not valuable and they are not closer to the truth for it. It may be a mentality from which they derive a sense of self-worth, but that does not make it a net positive influence on their own lives or society generally. Delusion is perhaps the worst way to derive a sense of self-worth.
So if you guys are into diary and personal note keeping I am just working on a telegram bot that do just that.

@Simple_DIary_bot

That you can use: http://t.me/Simple_DIary_bot

I wanted it to work with audio messages so you can just send an audio message that is send to openai whisper and a text is extracted.

It also send an reminder everyday so that I don't forget my daily entry.

Technically it is all based on AWS Lambda and Dynamodb.
But this provides interesting signal: under certain circumstances, Putin is willing to flee via private aircraft for safety. Whether intentional or not, stimulus and response has been observed.