skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system is not working in our (the citizenry's) interests, no. But it's working spectacularly for the multinational corporations that just happen to finance and produce the news, though. Think that's a coincidence?
> If you want proper serverless, you have to pick a vendor you trust and stick with them.

Some of us have to consider platform risk in our designs and not just ignore it. This is what makes lock-in an issue in the first place. Some times, well, most of the time it isn't an issue. But when it is, it's a huge potentially-company-destroying issue.

Different companies have different risk profiles, and it may be perfectly fine for many to just ignore this risk while others, quite reasonably, have to consider it.
Do you use MFA on your accounts? I guess if the attackers have the MFA seeds as well that wouldn't matter.
> Netflix's proliferation of reality TV (Love is Blind etc) felt absolutely jarring to me at first but it's just the tip of the iceberg.

This should be seen as a death-kneel for any channel/service, yet those cable channels keep going after decades of truly terrible TV.

I wonder what kind of person these shows pander to.
That's probably because it's GPT-4, not the free tier GPT-3.5.
I wish you were right. People talk about it "failing" because it fails to meet the expectations set by capitalist platforms, and you are exactly correct - Mastodon is a throwback to the time before these beasts inundated the earth with their tidal wave enshittification.

But I just closed my account this morning cause there is a large mob now who are quite determined that this will be twitter 2.0, and they are already bullying the culture in that direction.

Once the schism comes I'll go back.
Stab in the back feels apt for signing something to get money in exchange for not saying bad things, only to go and say bad things once the OP realized there would not be consequences for that.
Software intellectual property is (for better or worse) primarily enshrined in patents, which have a limited exclusive lifetime.

The content industry’s intellectual property is primarily enshrined in copyright, whose exclusive lifetime greatly outstrips most human lifespans.

It’s not contradictory to be for the first and against the second.
Yes, I was one of those people :) I don't feel it was the same though. The best way I can describe the difference is in terms of control. Back then, I was in control, even if I was vegged out in front of the T.V. Now if I'm online, I feel like I'm being fed on a drip.
You find "enlightenment" in urban centers like Odessa, St Petersburg, Moscow and Kiew. The spot furthest east could be Kazan. And in the very East of Poland there's Warsaw. The rest of the vast country is rural and Orthodox. The Baltic is enlightened, but as soon as you get to Vilna and Minsk it gets suspicious.
It’s not that we care about their intent, it’s that we care about whether their conclusions are more likely to represent a genuine effect vs. sample bias. If we are testing everything we can think of, we need to be more conservative about our statistical tests to reflect that. That is, helping to determine if what you found is actually useful or not.

Further a lot of science finds things pass the statistical test but are still not useful, which is a different kind of problem.

If you do an experiment and see something interesting you should probably follow up on it. But it’s the difference between saying “there’s a 5% chance that this is just sample bias” using basic methods and “there’s a 90% chance this is sample bias using methods that account for how many things we tried”. Who knows? Maybe your finding is novel, important, statistically strong, and useful, without you having planned to explore it. Maybe you accidentally found penicillin.

The two big problems is that people don’t know how to do these calcs (a lot of which don’t really make any sense because they try to assert independence into things where independence is impossible) and they don’t mention the things they tried which didn’t work which makes evaluating their claims impossible.
...yes? Does me having an opinion about the state of my society as a result of following what happens in it bother you?
The best way to support a show you like is by being a million people. :-)
Yes the tech industry is built on intellectual property but the movie/TV industry is built on false scarcity.
The music industry used to follow this model until the advent of Spotify.
We had a brief time at the advent of streaming where it looked like Movie/TV was going this way, but they reversed course.
I have a Netflix subscription, if you want a cut of that subscription, by all means show your content on Netflix and I'll watch it there. Add it to prime or whatever too, but I'm not maintaining ten subscriptions.
Part of a VERY long history of non-media companies buying studios and regretting it later. It’s sexy and sounds good until you get into the actual business part, which is terrible.
Yes I was going to say the same thing. It's a branding that has been applied by the license's proponents, and I personally reject a lot of what they call "ethics" as well as the idea of whatever monitoring and enforcement the restrictions entail - maybe calling it a religious license would be better.
Comedies and Cooking are pretty cheap to produce so they are under less pressure.

Hmmm.... I wonder if a comedy series about cooking would bring in viewers? :-)
What do you mean? "Though I don't read this as being about political or social issues."
If you don't speak fluent French and want to live there (as a tourist is fine, although outside MTL + Quebec City, English proficiency by the residents should not be assumed), your government dislikes you and is generally trying to make your life harder in as many ways as it can think of. I would expect that to continue getting worse.

On the HN/startup crowd note, that includes mandates that business in the office be generally conducted in French if you have 25+ employees, and there's significant enforcement powers to those mandates now.

Beyond that, the economy has lagged that of other provinces over past decades, although in recent years that's been less true - remains to be seen if that performance is a break with the long-term trends or not.

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More subjective:

It's generally going to be the "big government" model. Highest taxes on high earners in Canada, generally a reputation for more social services, more regulations.

Climate's pretty rough to many, although not extreme by Canadian standards. Still, it's a big difference from Southern Ontario or Vancouver.

Montreal is basically the only major "world" city, Quebec City is about the only other one of some national/international significance.

While it may look big on a map or as a number, in reality nearly the entire population lives in a relatively small corridor and much of the land area of the province is virtually uninhabited and in many cases basically inaccessible short of a helicopter or serious wilderness expedition. It will not feel anything like being 4x the size of Germany even if it technically is, for an example.

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Anyway, the power is cheap because it all comes from large hydro plants up north, they're blessed by geography in that sense.
Do you think things would change if you stopped following the news?

If you take the time you follow the news now and spend it voluenteering at an LGBT group, do you thing that would do more or less for your cause than watching the news?
Are you saying that say MIT and Caltech students don't have higher than average IQ? It's almost a certainty that they do and I'm sure it extends to the Ivy league and other elite schools.
This idea that LLMs will get progressively dumber because of a training feedback loop is silly.

If this ever did become become a genuine concern companies training LLMs would just use preexisting datasets and selectively add additional data that they can verify the quality of.

Not everything is Reddit. I doubt the NYT is going to start publishing BS. Scientific journals like Nature also aren't going to start publishing BS because of LLMs.

There will be plenty of great resources to train future iterations of LLMs, even if the days of just scraping the entire internet for a dataset has passed.
Because the news tends to focus on negative events, one of the things you probably do in the morning is read about the most distressing occurrences that took place worldwide in the past 24 hours. This can give you the impression that the world is a sad and dangerous place, but it's actually a problem of limited sampling.

Although this phenomenon is not new—the saying "if it bleeds, it leads" has been around as long as newspapers have existed—there is a new aspect to it due to the constant exposure we have today. Instead of simply reading the morning paper or watching the news in the evening, many people now compulsively check for the latest atrocities every few minutes. They also receive forwarded articles from well-meaning friends, which further incentivizes sensationalist media to produce an endless stream of emotionally and mentally toxic content.

The media tends to exaggerate minor flaws and inefficiencies in our otherwise remarkable modern civilization, presenting them as existential disasters and oppressive systems. Even the relatively minor inconveniences of life in the 21st century are portrayed as hardships comparable to slavery, the Holocaust, and the Holodomor combined.

Consequently, some of the most privileged and safest individuals in human history are led to perceive themselves constantly as threatened victims engaged in a desperate battle against an oppressive regime. They literally fear for their lives while walking the streets, despite the fact that, by any rational historical standard, we live in a nearly utopian society. :)
> he said into the black box that when a man kills his wife, it's the wife's fault.

That's not what I read. He said a woman can drive the man crazy. The use of the word "crazy" show that the captain understood that such an action would be madness. He simply highlighted how interactions with their wives could be so infuriating to some men that they do crazy things.
I don't think it's true that companies disregard the ivies and instead look for leadership recruits at no name schools. Source?
Meta's Threads skips EU, but will come to the UK tomorrow
Isn't part of the goal with deliberately weird names like this is to alert callers that HERE BE DRAGONS so, like, don't call this unless you've read _and understood_ the source code?
I'm disappointed that the article is only making the (somewhat pedantic) distinction between source code and weights. From the quotation marks in the headline I hoped that it would instead be making the distinction between human-readable source code and machine-readable compiled form.

For example, IMHO (IANAL) an AI code-completion tool that had been trained on GPL software is (or should be) only be legal to distribute if it is accompanied by the training code _and all the code ingested during training_ (or an offer to provide such code upon request).
Were they shoving their arm through the window? Did they need to do so? Is their safety more important than that of a civilian?

These are leading questions, because the answer is obvious: if the choice is a dead cop or a dead civilian, a dead cop is the only moral choice that can be made. Optimizing for the safety of the police is how you turn police into fearful, scared "warriors" who view the citizenry as their enemy, like we have in the United States.

Risk is the police's business, taken intentionally and with foreknowledge on behalf of the citizenry. Or else they're bullies with badges.
Superstition? I think they're getting results. It works.
That is the thing. Is taking your phone to Apple and getting the battery swapped out every 18 months really that prohibitive? Are all the other compromises worth it?
> It's an anti-pattern to stay incommunicado from users for too long or only involve them at the end for UAT.

In my experience it is key to involve users at a very early stage, as even just one level up key processes are lost.

Sure managers known the happy path, but often the weird exceptions that needs to be handled aren't documented and get forgotten by higher-ups.
“America By Design” and “Forces of Production” by the historian David Noble[1] discuss the relationship between capitalism, management, and the development of technology.

From Wikipedia,

> “America by Design”…was published to unusually prominent reviews. Robert Heilbroner hailed it as a work that "makes us see technology as a force that shapes management in an industrial capitalist society.”

> “Forces of Production”…recounts the history of machine tool automation in the United States. [Noble] argues that CNC (computerized numerical control) machines were introduced both to increase efficiency and to discipline unions…[and] argues that management wanted to take the programming of machine tools…out of the hands of union members and transfer their control, by means of primitive programming, to non-union, college-educated white-collar employees working physically separate from the shop floor.

- [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Noble
> Frankly, you seem to be looking for controversy where there is none. […] there's a point where it starts to veer into sinophobia.

If that is the level of conversation you seek, I will stay out of your conversations. I was happy to learn something about state-owned news outlets, thought the article was perhaps overstating things a bit by using “flocking” for ~20 illustrators, and also found the overall tone of the article to be oddly celebrant as opposed to factual. Make of that what you will and I will try stay clear of you from now on.
Productivity matters though (especially at 5-6 figures per seat!).

If the CAD designer can't get the rest of their job done with a Red Hat box, do you want them carrying two laptops and or using an HDMI switch, or that they spend 30-60 minutes futzing with .so's until the one special snowflake program starts working on their main machine?
> It seems like lately a lot of our CEO's decisions lack backbone or conviction. It seems like he go the role of CEO by yes-maning Bezos

For sake of argument, I’m assuming Jeff Bezos decided who to succeed him.

Your observation would imply that you think Jeff Bezos made a poor decision. He is often lauded for his insights and good decision-making, but of course that doesn’t mean one is infallible.

Do you think his choice was wrong and he made a mistake?
That's neat
"Actually a dunce cap"?

Let's see. Bill Gates dropped out. So did Mark Zuckerberg. Steve Jobs went to Reed College (where?) and didn't graduate.

Maybe Peter Thiel's perspective is a bit distorted?

> Absolutely everything happens in only a few cities...

Maybe Peter Thiel isn't the only one with a bit of a distorted perspective?
Yes but you need 10s or 100s of GW of hydrogen electrolyzers, which are expensive, and they will only be running a small % of the the time (when there is excess renewables).

I'm not sure how much existing natural gas infrastructure can be reused given how much lighter hydrogen is and I assume it needs much tighter tolerances on all the equipment compared to natgas.
It's not just about market competitiveness. It's also about keeping capabilities in Europe and not being fully dependent on a foreign entity with questionable leadership.
> I wonder what kind of person these shows pander to.

An absolutely massive audience that just wants to switch off at the end of the day rather than engage in a deep drama or similar. I'm not exactly defending it but don't underestimate the size of that audience.
Yes, except without the frame.
(Restrict cross-origin requests if you worry about security.)
Sorry, I understood what you meant. I was trying to say something a bit more subtle, which is to say, I think the reason why Pawoo has lost relevance over time is partly because of the fact that it got defederated a lot early on, and this has probably caused a bit of a downward spiral, broken window theory style. It discourages some legitimate usage of the platform, which inherently increases the ratio of unwanted usage to legitimate usage, which discourages legitimate usage further.

There are other things, too. Pawoo is still somewhat integrated with Pixiv, but I believe they sold it to Russel in 2018 or so (can't recall) off the news of new Japanese regulation regarding social media that they did not want to be involved in. This seemed to be a huge blow as well.

Then there's the fact that for Japanese sites, moderating English-language comments is very hard. The rules and moderation standards would ideally be kept consistent between languages, but this requires somehow both good communication with moderators and also moderators that speak fluent English. I doubt there is much proactive moderation of English content on Pixiv/Pawoo/Misskey/etc., and the majority of it is probably mostly ignored by Japanese users of the platform anyway. It's not like Twitter isn't full of a lot of the same stuff, especially since Twitter suspensions are treated as a joke or at worst annoyance by the majority of the userbase. (And honestly, it is also unclear to me that Japanese users would overwhelmingly be in favor of moderating text comments that express illicit interests anyway, so as long as the text itself isn't somehow illicit. This could be a blatant mischaracterization but they seem to err on the side of less restrictions to speech in general when it's in the gray area.)
all your resolution is clumped up in the middle (around the fovea), and generally, nobody treats vision as being a rectangular grid of pixels (for many reasons).
New AI systems could speed up our ability to create weather forecasts
Having worked with some teams/stakeholders who have programs and SOPs that are very tightly coupled with the excel, csv data handling I do have a few observations:

- These processes and SOPs are actually quite optimal for low scale use-cases but as organizations grow they find themselves in a tough space where even after you have a hiring spree going on everything seems to be falling apart and not maintainable.

- You almost always do lose out on an audit trail. Now, you don't always need an audit trail but if you find your org sharing tons of excel docs being shared on a regular basis you do need a tech integration to solve it. The lack of it means a gap in identifying things that can be made simple and no way to identify / fix things that may have gone wrong over a period of time.

- I fully agree with the statement
. Ideally, it seems, support both. Allow rapid ingress and egress of data to/from Excel . The data in systems in software systems is useless it's almost always meant to be consumed by humans (mostly). And that just means while I do most of the authoritative processing in file format that computers do well with I allow it to be converted into a more human readable format which happens to be excel in some cases and visualizations in others.
As a counterpoint, my YouTube feed is great these days. When I open it up, I get more of what I want to watch. The hardest part is choosing which video to watch in my limited time.

I think the key is that I subscribe to channels I want to watch and I use the like button on videos I want to see more of.

> I've noticed over the past few years though, that no matter how much I try to tweak the algorithm, I'm just getting mindless junk. And shorts are the worst of it! They're deliberately designed to hook you in, so they're very hard to ignore.

If you're actually clicking the shorts ("very hard to ignore") then you're going to get more of them, period. I get an occasional shorts line in my feed but I scroll right past it.
I was like going to write ‘are u joking’, but you make the same point so well. This article is at best oversimplifying and misleading.

Besides I doubt this ‘my weights your weights’ thing is a thing at all.
> We're also plateauing with LLM performance, they aren't scaling past 200B it seems even with 1T+ token training (that's why they "copped out" and did MoE for ChatGPT)

Can you point out to anything other than speculation by Geohot here? I heard the same thing, but all of this has been circling the twitter sphere and I haven't seen any supporting research to back up this claim.
How to communicate with your future self
It's not working for the multinational corporations either. They're getting fined in the trillions, they're losing workers faster than they can replace them, their profits are shrinking again, and the world in which they conduct business is destabilizing.

There isn't some comfortable ruling secret society pulling any strings, it's just a lot of unpredictable people doing unpredictable things.
Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site
> We're going to look back on the era of prestige TV fondly.

I don't think prestige TV is necesirely expensive though.

The wire, breaking bad, Andor, the bear, severance all can achieve incredible results without hollywood budgets.

If anything big budgets have not translated into quality, see GoT, Rings of Power, Stranger Things all getting worse the more moeny thrown at them.

prestigue tv is about talent, and having longer story lines, it just allows for more character work than a movie, but not because of that does it have to cost exponentially more.
Because our country continues to dismantle our social apparatus in favor of the private interests. Creating a public social network is, in retrospect, quite obvious. Once, we did similar things for libraries, hospitals, schools and roads. We very feasibly could have socialized the phones lines and the internet began as a public good, though it has since been carved up. But Why? I think the answer lies in a blindspot that obscures all possibilities which are not profitable.
When I first started using PageOptimizer Pro, it was primarily for the E-E-A-T features, as it’s become such an important ranking factor today with Google.

There is so much AI content out there, so Google wants to know what websites have real people behind them and which are purely AI-generated content.

So let’s test PageOptimizer Pro, or POP, as it’s also called.
That's a completely different axis is the point, you can not solve the issues the viaduc solved, let alone build anything even remotely similar, using roman materials (to say nothing of techniques).
Or it's just credential stuffing matching email with plaintext passwords from other old breaches, or they created 100 accounts and thus know the password, etc.

Until a more detailed investigation/write comes out it's difficult to say for certain what they have, if anything.
In general the news gives me a very superficial and sometimes factually inaccurate view of events. This is startlingly true in just about every situation where I've had first hand knowledge of the event in question.

One alternative I've heard is for people to simply research candidates and issues before they vote and ignore it at all other times. That seems reasonable at least for state and federal races where there's little ability to effect change outside of voting cycles.
I wish people would just stop using the term AGI, because they are not able to use it in a precise way.

It's like they are conflating all aspects of cognition and life, and discounting the reasoning on the basis that GPT-4 doesn't have those other aspects.

No, LLMs do not have many of the cognitive abilities that humans or other animals have. LLMs also do not have a stream of subconscious experience and are not alive.

But yes, a few LLMs like GPT-4 can reason and solve problems in their own way.
> I'm waiting for Netflix to ask me to purchase a second account for my sibling who I share my Netflix account with, and when that happens I'll immediately cancel it. There's nothing there I watch anymore.

If you don’t watch anymore, like you say, then why have a subscription at all?
Pattern selection by material aging: Modeling chemical gardens in 2-d and 3-d