skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I play games like GTA or Skyrim and, after being awestruck by their vast, beautiful open worlds, go outside to explore the real world in the same way and get bored much faster. Why is that?"

Because if you take an NPCs stuff in real life, it turns out vastly different for you than in the game.

" the distance between the things is so much larger than in games that I have to spend most of the time just navigating between them. In games, I can get from one interesting thing to the next in minutes or seconds."

This isn't quite true. Because there is more detail in real life, the distance between things is shorter than in games. The difference is that games only focus on what most people are interested in, so the distance between those things are smaller. The game is designed to be gratifying, and thus it needs to be near instant. Just like the algorithms feeding us Facebook content, it's designed for your engagement. There are plenty of interesting things in the real world if we are interested in the details.
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Yes, that's the point of making money: so that your loved ones (probably kids) could do art or whatever else.

What's the point of it all if you can't invest in your loved ones? Are you a bad person for loving your kids more then some other random kid that they would be competing against? I fail to see anything bad about this.
> Governments are the obvious providers of such neutral ground.

Quite the opposite. They're as non-neutral as anarchists except have literally the inverse positions on major issues (which they enforce with violence.) That's hardly neutral.
With the rage in the question this will never lead to a sensible discussion.
It might depend on who you follow. For the small number of people I follow who also have a small number of followers, it means that people who are more invested in Twitter show up at the top of the replies. So it hasn't made it any worse...if anything it is better. However, I could see that happening more if you are following people with millions of followers. (Though their replies have always been a mess.)
Yeah, I was just about to reply about fishbone diagrams too. Those are an improvement on the right direction.

But notice that they don't fit the GP's explanation at all. As strange as that may sound, causality is not unidirectional in a complex system. You are losing data by coercing it into that, and that data is quite often relevant to how you fix a problem, even if it's not commonly relevant for identifying the problem.
The Federal government controls immigration policy, and also wields tremendous power through taxation.

They also control inflows of money from outside investment.
> Dutch too in high school. Is that not everywhere?

I've never heard of this in US public schools.
I don't think it's fixed yet?

biggest bugfix in the pipeline is that bfoster just figured out the 'missing backpointer' bug, but that's just in the btree write buffer, it wouldn't cause data corruption - and the fix for that isn't in yet
They're configured and administered by professionals though, not your grandma (probably).
does this mean grammarly will stop working in slack/google docs or is that using the first party sdk which would be unaffected
The main financial drag on the LEI change has since softened [1], as have the new orders component of the ISM index [2] and consumer confidence [3], the main non-financial ones. In line with the trend of June portending better months ahead than did May.

Given we're attempting a novel monetary maneuver--essentially, the opposite of stagflation--I'd widen my error bars on macroeconomic heuristics.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YFF/

[2] https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/...

[3] https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence
> Ultimately the people who are being punished are responsible for stopping the punishment by removing their government.

Yes, all of Ukraine with an actual army, drones, rockets, tanks, artillery and zillions of cash from NATO countries struggles to contain Putin's gang, and Russian people must remove him from power barehanded, while the EU help comes mostly in a form of sanctions, visa bans and cancellations of service by such companies as Grammarly.
I hate how a twitter link only shows the exact tweet and not the replies/context/etc. Not even when the person has multiple tweets about a subject. (I forget what this is called.)

I have mostly stopped clicking on twitter links these days.
I think it did both - seems like a barbell distribution. Medium drinkers became heavy drinkers, others drank less - but there was a change in the distribution. Lots more non-alcoholic options popped up as well, both for purchase at home but also a lot more restaurants list NA options for fancy drinks while out to eat.
Did you never had a manager ask you how your workplace can be improved?
When running for real the background ends up black. (unlike the preview, which works properly)
It's almost like Unions of the 1950s was for workers. Its 2023 and now we need Unions for consumers.
Malware isnt even the worst part about windows by far these days. Windows is essentially a downloadable telemetry engine; a spyware go-kart with a login screen. When its not cosplaying a mall kiosk barker, flogging various wares and useless dreck its curated through your complacent surveillance, its gaslighting you like a toxic ex into thinking you dont "need" a new browser because this ones better and good and okay. When its time for an upgrade, you'd better hope you have hardware for it because Redmond will expend the same tireless energy gaslighting you about your 'obsolete' 5 year old PC thats performing just fine as it spends reminding you to check out its ghost town app-store and microtransaction rodeo. Oh and did you somehow manage to install chrome? sorry but most of your apps wont remember that preference for longer than it takes Microsoft to find out you had an opinion that wasnt approved by the marketing department.

Windows is like a zombie clown at a haunted carnival, shambling from booth to booth just long enough to offend by its very presence before it shuffles off back to big top corporate america, arguably the only place it still exists to an audience of appreciative patrons at all.
It's almost as if outsourcing all jobs that aren't done in cities to China wasn't a great idea.
I have a knee-jerk reaction to sites that reveal things or animate as I scroll down. It was cool the first time or two…years ago. Now it feels gimmicky at best, and more often it obscures the page in a way that makes me feel like I need to scroll the entire page before reading it so there’s no hidden surprises.

Of course this also boils down to intent - is the page an art thing where presentation plays a part in the interaction? Cool. But I was on a product page for a home media server that did this and it was painful - I wanted specs, testimonials, information, and I had to scroll through animations and slide-in text and all kinds of stuff to get a grip on the -product-
I worked there relatively recently.

DigitalOcean is organizationally incapable of making anything in-house anymore.

I want to blame leadership - and to be clear, leadership sucks - but the problems are pervasive through every layer of the organization.

The only significant launches in the last 4-5 years have all been acquisitions or built by partner companies and whitelabeled.

Every system and every team has massively circular dependencies on one another , so it's just a massive circle of "we can't move until they move".

The tech debt is insane. Everything is slowed down by terribly-run and massively underfunded internal "platforms" teams for kubernetes, CI/CD, various internal databases, etc.

If you want to build something useful you basically have to ignore upper management and do it in secret until it's done and so integral to the systems that they have no choice but to allow you to support it.

Asking leadership outright to invest in minor maintenance for systems the entire company depends on is never approved.

The bar for engineering practices, code quality, and system design quality is comically low.

All the systems are massively distributed, but there is no understanding of distributed systems issues.

I was told multiple times that "CAP theorem doesn't apply here" and gaslit that an asynchronously replicated MySQL instance that sometimes spiked to multi-minute replication lag to the read replicas should just be used as if it were completely consistent between master and read replicas.

Tons of stuff was just run as singletons with hand-rolled in-memory rate limiting to avoid having to understand distributed locking or semaphores. These systems inevitably start falling over a few months after creation, but you're not allowed to evolve it into a correct system, you just have to support that garbage forever.

Brain drain everywhere due to low salaries. Even engineers barely capable of committing working code were getting fat raises to leave.
This is very buggy. I submitted a pic and it never finished. Mobile UX is pretty poor with minimal user feedback. The footer has a typo on the word conditions. Cool idea, needs work
Android malware isn't rare or harder to come by at all. Every so often even Google has to remove a whole lot of apps from the store due to malware and these are apps that went live and were downloaded. Some of this being even more intense malware than on desktop, as people rarely store contacts or SMS on a desktop (Joker malware for example). You've negated your entire point.
Reading old books (1800s and earlier) has done much more for my writing than apps like Grammarly. Much of the style is obviously dated but there was a cultural care and precision for language that remains invaluable for learning. I'm sure there's some survivorship bias here, which is a feature in my opinion.
>> Simplified taxes does not have to mean lower taxes. You're conflating 2 issues.

When did I suggest lower taxes? I suggested sales tax increase which would offset removal of personal income tax.
Yes, it should cost (some) money. But, my question was general non-availability of service accounts and charging full seat just to do routine tasks.
The UK is certainly in this mess right now.

Interest rates only work if the economy is rate sensitive and large amounts of fiscal spending has made developed economies today much less rate sensitive in my opinion.

In the past when central bankers raised rates the vast majority of borrowing and spending occurred in the private sector so as rates rose borrowing and spending would fall. Today a huge amount of borrowing and spending is done by the government where that rate sensitivity doesn't really exist.

In the UK for example something like 40% of adults are on some form of government welfare and that welfare has increased in line with inflation over the last year (~10%). So basically 40% of adults in the UK have income which is inflation hedged by the government.

But worse still is that the government is now borrowing more than ever in the UK to hedge inflation for UK consumers while also paying more than ever to service its increasing debt. So this is a toxic combination of higher inflation, higher rates and ever more debt.

I keep trying to explain to people here in the UK that the government are basically screwed and we need to cut spending now before the public debt burden gets any worse. Unfortunately I don't think people here really appreciate the magnitude of the hole we've dug ourselves just yet and think we can just spend our way out of this like we have in the past. Even wealth taxes won't fix the deficit we've created with debt-to-GDP in excess of 100% and government borrowing rates going to 6%+. Wealth taxes might raise $20-30b in an optimistic scenario – but our deficit is twice that and growing.

It's going to be interesting to see how governments deal with over the next decade because the cost of health care and pensions are only going to continue to increase so either we'll be forced to increase tax revenue to unprecedented levels with destroying the economy, or we borrow ever more to fund all of this spending and eat the cost for it via inflation. Well that or cut government spending.
I mean, sure you can work around it, but from your own link:

>since the time and memory complexity of self-attention are quadratic in sequence length
I’ve heard Beaglebone Blacks are great (never used them), but have to say the experience with Blue was awful. I had a hardware defect that’s apparently commonplace. It gave me the feeling (maybe unjustified) that there’s a low bar for slapping the Beaglebone label on a product. In contrast, none of my several RPi’s have had any hardware issues, and I’m pretty brutal with them.
Who has a domain tools enterprise account? Probably an interesting rabbit hole to go down. Looking at all the domains tied to SH.
I like the sandboxing model but virtual machines add way too much abstraction and overhead. Apple's approach is really good here IMO, as a user I need to be able to do things like select any file at any time, and it will under-the-hood add that selection to the sandbox
The local reports were that Anchor had been slowly losing money for years before the Sapporo acquisition. Supposedly Sapporo was intending to use the Anchor facility to brew Sapporo locally and then eventually found out that the site wasn't really suitable or would require too much renovation. Whether this led directly to the Stone deal, I don't know (I doubt it, given relative sizes, but it may have been a contributing factor). In general, even before the Sapporo acquisition, Anchor was slowly getting pushed out of local bars by other, smaller local breweries. Once I started seeing things like Standard Deviant's kolsch or Harmonic's pilsner taking up one of the taps in smaller restaurants that only had 2-4 taps, the writing was probably on the wall.

I suspect one of the local breweries will be happy to acquire Anchor if Sapporo's going to sell it off at fire sale prices (c.f. Cellarmaker/Rare Barrel, Drake's/Bear Republic).
I never said being a virtuoso was worth anything, that's a new discussion.

My point is just that some music is incredibly valuable economically, and most is not worth anything at all.

Which is clearly true.

As such, music is not an interchangeable commodity it's an extremely idiosyncratic and heterogenous market.

I've heard the argument about how nobody cares about "better" music and so on my whole life. It's like the thing people like to talk about. But it's kind of boring, there's no definition of better that everyone is going to agree on.

For example I think Pitbull fucking sucks, deeply and profoundly, and objectively. When he rhymes Kodak with Kodak in the song "Give Me Everything" I want to throw rocks or other durable objects at whatever speaker is subjecting me to that fucking song. Somehow, 12 years after its release, this is still happening to me on a regular basis, usually within the first 2-4 hours after entering the state of Florida.

But people seem to like it. So that's the only actually objective way to determine the value of music. All the other ways are just people talking.
Fruit is a commodity, but there's many types of fruit. And when you drill down, there's a tons of types of apples or whatever, but they're pretty much commodities.

Some are more valuable or desirable than others, but if you want fruit and you can't get what you want, you substitute with something else.

Music has a lot more variety than fruit, and some varieties are much more valuable, but still. If you're thinking about a career in music, realistic goals are going to be in education, maybe session musician, live music at entertainment venues (theme parks, cruise ships), maybe symphony; maybe something in support of music like a sound tech at a venue, etc. Being a headlining act is a career, but not a lot of people get to do that.

> You could let your playlist run for years, but you don't and nobody else does either because repetition and familiarity and quality are things people care about musically.

I mean, I typically listen to a specific internet radio station and it feels like they have let their playlists stagnate, but I still listen to it. So I wouldn't say nobody does. They've been down for the last two days though, currently listening to a local radio station with similar tastes (but they're constantly adding new music to their catalog).
Canada actually has a national crown corporation that exists solely to improve housing affordability https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca . They funded or built significant housing supply for decades up until the 1990s when their funding plummeted. Wikipedia has an excellent history write up of CMHC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Mortgage_and_Housing_Co...
They could at the very least not import 1M a people a year (many of whom come here to study at diploma mills that result in no real career skills and considerable debt) at a 38M population, and limit corporations and non-citizens from buying property.

It's on the provinces to get rid of zoning and speed up development of new housing starts, but the Feds are pouring gasoline onto a house on fire with no regard for the rest of us. We wouldn't have such a significantly declining birthrate if people could afford to have children of their own in Canada.
>I think the short of it is that it seems to me that you are confusing a system having very good heuristics for having a solid understanding of principles of reality.

Humans don’t have a grasp of the “principles of reasoning” and as such are incapable of distinguishing “true”, "different" or “heuristic” assuming such a distinction is even meaningful. Where you are convinced of “faulty shortcut”, I simply think “different”. Multiple ways to skin a cat. a plane's flight is as "true" as any bird. There's no "faulty shortcut" even when it fails in ways a bird will not.

You say humans are "true" and LLMs are not but you base it on factors that can be probed in humans as well so to me, your argument simply falls apart. This is where our divide stems from.

>I don't think you've provided evidence that AI can have a principled understanding while we can show that humans can.

What would be evidence to you? Let’s leave conjecture and assumptions. What evaluation exist that demonstrate this “principled understanding” in humans? and how would we create an equitable test in LLMs?

>a novice would be able to identify that somebody is drawing a circle around it's pieces; your link even states this. But you recharacterizing this as a specific strategy is weird when that strategy causes you to lose the game.

You misunderstand. I did not characterize this as a specific “strategy”. Not only do modern Go systems not learn like humans, but they also don’t learn from human data at all. KataGo didn’t create a heuristic to play like a human because it didn’t even see humans play.

>The paper you referenced similarly shows it is reliant on proximity to the training set, rather than actually understanding the underlying principles.

Even the authors make it clear this isn’t necessarily the bridge to take so it’s odd to see you die on this hill.

The counterfactual of syntax is
Finding the main subject and verb of something like “Think are the best LMs they.” in verb-obj-subj order (they, think) instead of “They think LMs are the best.” in subj-verb-obj order (they, think). LLMs are not being trained on text like the former to any significant degree if at all yet the performance is fairly close. So what, it doesn’t “underlying principles of syntax” but still manages that ?

The problem is that you take a fairly reasonable conclusion from these experiments. I.e LLMs can/often also rely on narrow, non-transferable procedures for task-solving and proceed to jump the shark from there.

>but you haven't convinced me that it can fundamentally change away from it's training set based on an understanding of basic principles.

We see language models create novel functioning protein structure after training, no folding necessary.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367453911_Large_lan...
So does it still not understand the “basic principles of protein structures”?
BeaglePlay also has sub-1Ghz wireless, (along with 2.4Ghz programmable wireless), a PRU (essentially a built-in microprocessor suitable for realtime I/O work). The core processor supports CAN, and a bunch of other features, but I'm not sure if these are broken out in a way that is usable.

Beagleboards are just different than RPis. They aren't really trying to be the same thing. RPis are small computers with simple GPIO meant for turning on and off things, Beagleboards are computer/microprocessor hybrids with GPIO meant for doing realtime I/O.
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Did Grammarly help their employees to escape the draft [0] and moved jobs out of Ukraine? If so, is that moral?

[0] - https://mezha.media/en/2022/06/02/how-grammarly-works-since-...
I mean, yeah? He wants to stay in power, so he needs the population to support him and his supporters enough that they don't violently overthrow him. Objectively, do you think him being overthrown is more likely if:

a) there are no sanctions against stuff like this

b) there are sanctions against stuff like this
Any benchmarks of the CPU?
With respect to your experience cited in your other comment, a lot of my music experience time is a continuous stream of random tracks on Apple's "Made for You" feature.

I'm not particularly partial to what comes up. There's obviously a degree of quality that I'm expecting in order to keep the experience smooth and a set of genre and musical conventions I'm expecting.

I wouldn't say that's exactly commodified, no, but I definitely feel like my engagement with the difference between Taylor Swift and some other well-produced halfway reasonable pop artist is pretty minimal. At least in that act of listening.

I used to care a lot more about this. I used to keep up with my favorite artists and look forward to their releases excitedly. Now, I feel everything is such a continuous stream of mild-novelty that I'm less attuned to these differences.

So in that sense, I think I agree with the grandparent in that something feels interchangeable and indifferent about music. I don't want to pay a ton for it, even as someone who used to love buying albums. Or, at least, the times when I engage with music in that way seem fewer and further apart.

Music seems to serve two purposes. The majority of my listening is unintentional, background listening. Much more rarely am I more engaged in the experience. Only in those latter times do I feel all that attuned to a difference in quality.
With attitudes like this I’m okay not subsidizing rural areas.
"We will give any municipality that fills out this form $23,800,042 to build affordable housing; each 2 bedroom apartment must be sold for $123,456 and cannot be sold above $234,568 for the next 15 years."
Really surprising to me how long it took for the seltzers and cocktail in a can stuff to take off. Especially among college age people my informal survey has around 70% of people preferring their flavor yet until like 5 years ago the only fruity beverage widely available was mikes hard lemonade. And not only do most young people prefer the taste, seltzers are much cheaper to make than beer and require much less expertise. I guess it was just a tradition is hard to break thing.
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