skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see many startups claiming, and in fact starting their existence with the very declaration or on the pretext, that “We are not like X. We are not going anywhere. We are not for sale” et cetera, I am pretty sure most of those founders would have been spending sleepless nights giddy fantasising about the moment when X acquires them.

So now any social network kind of service, which isn’t legally non-profit and open source and preferably federated, doesn’t get any cookie from me including the ones like LetterBoxd and StoryGraph.

But the problem is federated services, where you have to “choose” an instance among other frictions and all, are kinda doomed to fail. So I just use the established ones until they are unusable and keep my data regularly exported if it’s worth exporting, that is. It’s just sad.
> about early 18th century English sailing ships, but the lack of automation is part of the romance

The highly hierarchical and structured command structure of a ship means that autonomous and intelligent human beings each make autonomous and intelligent decisions on the best course of action in a way that doesn't require constant and immediate upper layer attention all the time.

The more limited amount of human beings required to upkeep a ship those days are mainly because of manpower shortage and cost reasons, not because the removed humans were "worse" at doing such operations.

Those automation flows are in my opinion the same thing, they're replacing things because of manpower shortages or high costs of the previous thing, not because they're better.
The circumstances are very active, and AI has real potential to act as a force multiplier for them.

We've already seen this with troll farms and campaigns of seeded insanity like the Q Cult.

Existing AI tools can make similar efforts cheaper and more effective, and future AI tools are likely to be even more powerful.

There's a huge difference between how an experienced technical researcher sees AI and how a politician, war lord, or dark media baron sees it.
Would the average user equate "localhost" to "my PC"?
I doubt it.

It's good that they're doing it but the fact that they need to explain "localhost" suggests it's the wrong word to use. I'm not sure why they aren't using saying "your computer's resources"
Its not database but customer gateway that matters. If Goodreads has B&N link prominently some customers will move.
Astronomers observe time dilation in early universe
Nerds screaming for decades: The lock-in effect of the big companies will bite you in the ass.

Normies: But it's so easy and i can't be bothered to understand what i am doing anyway. Go away

...The inevitable happens...

Normies: Where are we all supposed to go now?

Rinse and Repeat.
China is way more regulated tha the US. China is a transitional socialist state with free market elements. It’s not close to the much more free for all with power concentrated with top companies and people like the US has.

Can you point to what isn’t a capitalist market among nation states or regions?
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Minor differences in syntax are not what makes programming (in general, and when it comes to learning a new language) hard.

As an aside, I really like that I can grep source files for a keyword such as `fn ` and get a good idea of how many functions I am defining, and where they are. This gets especially powerful with multi-cursor editing.
> it says NaN above the title

That is the name of the blog, the domain is nan.fyi.
I think you have to be logged in it seems, as when I click in private, it asks for login first :-/
IIRC they initially gave you a text for each star like

1 - I hated it

2 - It was okay

3 - I liked it

4 - It was great

5 - I loved it

I thought it was helpful for framing what a score would be but I haven’t seen this in the app or anywhere for a long time. At least it avoids the problem of Amazon where a review is like “Best book I’ve ever read but the copy I received had a rip on the dust jacket - 1/5”.

Learned through experience to skip anything below a 4 or very high 3 now. Probably missing some interesting stuff but I don’t read that often anyway.
> Apple does UX well.

I hear people say this often enough to question my own sanity, because I don't find Apple's UX to be very good at all. I find it confusing and it makes things difficult to figure out.
I'm trying my best to "argue in good faith", but if you want to change the topic or respond to different parts of an article than what's relevant to the topic it's really helpful to clarify that. I did figure it out, but it'd have been faster if things were clearer.

Feel free to not respond to any of the points made, but the arguments so far are in good faith. If you think they aren't then the problem is on your side.
> is this like a minefield waiting to be walked over

"This looks odd to me so no one else can possibly understand it"is not a rigorous argument.

Both Scala and C# have this. I've used it in my own code to clean things up. It's fine.
"This might be a risk"

"No it's not, it hasn't materialized"

Risk: Possibility of loss or injury

Risks, definitionally, are things that have not happened yet.
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Consider the comparatively simple case of these LLMs providing decent enough chatbots to fool a majority.

If you deploy them on social media in a coordinated fashion, you can easily sway public opinion.

You only need to train them to adhere to psyops techniques not sufficiently well known nor easily detectable. Of which there are many.
CFG halves LLM model size requirement
>Do those people actually believe the bullshit they're spouting to the general public?

With the kinds of salaries they make? Absolutely! I'll believe your butt makes chocolate ice cream for the kind of money those people make ^1.

^1 testing the theory on the other hand...not so much.
This is the real “safety” problem with AI. Since it’s so good at generating convincingly wrong answers, eventually we are going to build it into all sorts of mission critical systems and and everything from finance to healthcare will start to accumulate sophisticated, non deterministic failures over time. Like a trojan horse or a perhaps a civilization-level virus.
Explore downloads an EXE. No. Thanks.
Indoor photos can still provide good clues. I had no idea where the first picture was. I guessed somewhere in Vermont. But that second picture had me guess West Virginia because David McKinley was in the photo.
Does the S model still come with parking USS? My 2023 model Y doesn’t have them and it’s unforgivable. Unless they revert back to shipping with them or drastically improve the vision counterpart then I don’t think I would get another Tesla. I’m hoping that in 4 years when I change car someone else has come up the curve in terms of infotainment and charging infrastructure.
Facebook instagram and tiktok, as you say, do not have the same searchable level of useful information in super niche subjects, which turns out to be the crucial difference afaic, the rest is noise.
Quantum computing is not a competitor for general computing. It solves certain categories of problems much faster, but not most of them.

In fact, nobody yet really knows what those problems are. There are a few real-world problems that quantum computers could theoretically help with, like factoring large numbers, but nobody is really all that close to implementing them. There are problems that can be implemented, like this one, but they are of no use whatsoever. They just happen to be feasible to implement.

The implementation does suggest that they're building up a toolbox of physical parts that could some day (years, less than decades) be used on real-world problems. The class of such problems appears very small so far, but there is reason to think that we could find other problems that matter. (For example, in the realm of AI, which is very compute-intensive -- though thus far nobody seems to have any specific implementation.)

Think of a quantum computer as a magic box on the side that solves a few problems. If you had it, you might completely reconsider what kinds of problems you want to solve. Solving it via the magic box might require a complete reconsideration of how you frame the question -- like discovering a wormhole that lets you get from Atlanta to Seattle instantly, so how would you redesign a trip from New York to LA?
Quite so, which is why retrospective analysis like "The CIA helped start The Paris Review and that made literature friendly to neoliberal ideology" are confections of confirmation bias. Nothing is ever that pat. But tidy little conspiracies are also never the goal. A nudge is both all that is realistic to aim for and a few successes are all you need to shift public perception.

Arming every ambitious cult leader wannabe from some retrograde backwater with an information war WMD deserves some caution.
> Why do you think that Amazon is concerned that a database is enough to threaten their business?

Didn't the GP already answer the question you asked of them?

>> It was a purely defensive move to prevent anyone else from acquiring or partnering with Goodreads, because their database of books and reviews could be used to instantly start competing with Amazon's book business. Amazon snuffed out that threat of competition in an instant.

A catalog of user reviews is a pretty important feature for a successful eCommerce site. To the point where I've seen some "review sharing" between non-Amazon sites (the specific case was an eCommerge platform showing reviews from their own site and the manufacturer's direct-to-customer site). Goodreads was ready-made to provide that to a competitor, which would give them a shortcut around that moat.
Actually I think the UI is pretty good compared to, say, modern Reddit.

The usage patterns are the problem.
What about the other 14?
Author here. I didn’t talk about this in detail in the piece out of respect to James, but long story short, it was messy. But on the other hand, it gave him a chance to ship the sudden backlog of units he had (560 units in three days!).

He did sell the devices on his website in the meantime.
> Our websites include LowerMyBills.com

Oh, know that website from http://bash.org/?258908 (and only from there). Did the guy get fired?
> If not, it also just renders humanity a very small phenomenon compared to something else that is far more intelligent and will become incomprehensible to us, as incomprehensible to us as we are to cockroaches.

This seems like the reaction of an atheist who already overvalued human intelligence.
As a trail runner, same - I really look forward to a future where decent glasses can show route details/programmable workout info/etc. and I can leave the watch at home. Less crap to carry + more info readily available would be awesome!

I know that's not the problem Apple's solving here, but I'm hopeful that anything they can do to push AR will filter down quickly.
I'm not being hyperbolic, i'm looking at the grafana stats on the matrix<->libera bridge, and the total connected users from Matrix fluctuates between around 10,000 and 12,000 users (bearing in mind that connections from Matrix get kicked if the user from Matrix hasn't been seen for >30 days). https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat implies there's around 42K users connected to libera overall, so we're talking about 23% of the total network participants here.
I'm not sure it's exactly "what customers want" so much as it is the sweet-spot or intersection of the two curves: "what customers want" with "how much cost and risk owners and managers are willing to put in up front"
This also applies to humans.
AFAICS, openSUSE Leap is SLES compatible, official, and free in both senses.
Sounds like a company whose end users are mostly not their customers.
But I'm not asking you to find me credible. Why would I, this is an anonymous account, as is yours. If you can't reason about things except via who's saying them, then this really isn't the site for you. That's why we have to debate issues and facts.
"Friday" according to whom/where?
It kills lab animals in small does and that's plenty of evidence for me. You don't have to be convinced but the evidence is very clear for me. Rates of cancers and dementia have been steadily increasing since the introduction of synthetic chemicals so the causal link is pretty obvious.
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I was specifically thinking of the movie industry, as I know they’ll spend outrageous sums on computers because the tab nothing and they need the best.

You’re right, Apple stuff is certainly used in tons of other industries by people who either need them for a specific reason or just prefer them.
I don't remember the details, but the reason the 2019 paper was challenged was because Google did not take into account quantum simulation optimization techniques when estimating how long the computation would run on classical computers. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a similar situation here, where unconsidered optimizations prevent this from being quantum advantage.
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Well the article does mention "high net worth users" so maybe it's time to bring back the notorious I Am Rich app[0]

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It only took five hours for an AI model to design a functional computer
The machine promises to make our dreams come true and the computer is the best machine. I call it a worthy expense. /s
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You almost had me, covert dataset labeling company. Where's the input box to tell you what Transformer I would be based on my name and zip code?

Most /s but also maybe not.
While you are right, I believe searchability is not a criterion for earning to be be called a "social network".
You can probably emulate that pretty easily with a Raspberry Pi, which contains a huge amount more processing power, but I guess I understand how its just "not the same".
Is there a way to save the ASCII art?
Not quite std, but Rust's heapless lib let's you use a statically-allocated Hashmap. The distinction is its max size is declared on construction.
Hey nice hyperbolic strawman you've got there. It's actually the opposite. Transphobes think sex is interchangeable and can be imposed from the outside. The rest of us think gender comes from the inside and simply believe in loving and supporting people regardless of how THEY express their own gender.

People like you want to impose an external concept of gender onto trans people that doesn't comport with their self image. You want to forgo the medical science and drive trans people into depression and suicide because the idea of it makes you feel yucky.
If @detourdog meant AR/VR in the snow crash / Metaverse sense, I guess the apprehension is similar to the discourse about "Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)" a couple of days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526645

People tend to turn to substances / AR/VR / texting / phone calls / read books / ... to take the edge of confronting the sometimes harsh reality. Of course, there is no way in which AR/VR is likely to intrinsically improve interaction, but is is so much worse that we need to worry?
No, it is not correct. Transformers have two components: self-attention layers and multi-layer perceptron layers. The first has an autoregressive/RNN flavor, while the latter is feedforward.
I believe it's much more about nutrition, though there is a difference in oral microbiome too. Explanation at https://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/12/dr-mellanbys-... (The author, Stephan Guyenet, is not a carnivore-diet proponent afaik.)
I've been liking the recommendations from https://thestorygraph.com a lot. They can import your goodreads reviews.
AR will take off like crazy when they develop lightweight, clear goggles than can display color with a range of opacities. A million jobs are begging for HUDS that guide the worker, but the current equipment isn't there yet.
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Hofstadter said, "Well, maybe as important as the wheel."

If AI significantly surpasses humanity in cognitive ability, then I think it will have a much bigger impact than the wheel. (I loved GEB and DH's other writings.)

LLMs have really improved a lot of the last two years and they have shown many unexpected capabilities. I am guessing that they will get some more good input (text mostly), a lot more compute, and algorithmic improvements, so that may very well be enough to become better than 99% of humans at tasks that involve only text. Tasks that require video or image processing may be a little bit more challenging. Having very smart AI's controlling robots may just be five years away. (I recently lost a bet about autonomous driving. Five years ago, I thought that autonomous cars would be better than human drivers by now.)

I'm frightened by what AI will become over the next 10 years.
We can fix that with software
> It's typical American usage where everything is awesome, amazing or exciting

there are two aspects of American usage in play, just want to clarify. One is that Americans simply are more optimistic in the way that de Tocqueville noticed 200 years ago. Then layered on top of that are regional American differences where people in the northeast are optimistic but speak in a grumpier way ya fackin bastid, people in the middle are, okadiddlydokily, friendlier how they win friends and influence people, and people on the west coast really lay the positivity on thick, double rainbow all the way.
So someone who doesn't believe in the things that you believe?
Acknowledging how things are isn't fascism. Imposing your ideas about how things should be in a way that harms trans people is fascist.
Also, if the problem is safety related, is it really solved? Because I don't think the parking break of any car is able to stop the car when the engine is pushing it. Instead, I've seen some catch fire because the driver tried that.

If it's just for maintenance, I don't see any problem with it being electric.
Maybe Valgrind has an API now to attach a backtrace to a custom allocation out of an arena. I haven't touched that in years. I did the initial Valgrind integration in 2009 and just maintained it with changes to the gc.

I see this in the current manual:

VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK:

If your program manages its own memory instead of using the standard malloc / new / new[], tools that track information about heap blocks will not do nearly as good a job. For example, Memcheck won't detect nearly as many errors, and the error messages won't be as informative. To improve this situation, use this macro just after your custom allocator allocates some new memory. See the comments in valgrind.h for information on how to use it.

I can't remember whether I saw this before; i.e. is this something existing that had not been useful, or is it something new. I will look into it.

It does look like it should be attacking the same problem: that the errors aren't detected well or nearly as informative in blocks carved out of larger block by custom allocators.
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you're extrapolation, thus you're using it as a causation.

Let me give you an example:

Swiss cheese has holes, by studying its properties you can find a correlation between the size of the cheese and the total volume of holes.

You do another study and find that as you increase the size of the holes the cheese, you're left with less grams of cheese.

by your logic, which extrapolates between these two unrelated studies finding different correlations, you can confidently state this:

more cheese correlates with more holes
more holes correlates with less cheese

more cheese == less cheese

outstanding logic, indeed.