skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more useful for diffs or when you have search/match patterns that can differentiate by color. Especially in longer/bigger files.
Before long, if these NN refinements continue at their current pace, it's going to become impossible to tell synthetic HN posts from organic ones. Going to get weird.
Being generous with your friends is not a political position, I don’t think it adds much nuance to our understanding of their political opinions.
It's also worth considering if the act of inventing something horrifying is actually immoral, or if using it for immoral purposes is.

For instance, dynamite. We would not have the society we do now without dynamite. The fact that it can also be used to destroy property and kill people makes it a deadly invention, but was it immoral to invent?

Of course dynamite is nothing compared to the Atomic Bomb.

Or maybe inventing it for the purposes of killing people makes it immoral regardless of other possible applications.

How much does intent matter, versus outcome?

And then, does it absolve the inventor if they had pure intentions but others used their inventions to do harm?

Is it all moot because trying to live a moral life when others are willing to be immoral will basically never work out in your favor?
In a sense, the claimants are becoming shareholders of this company. That is, like shareholders, they have a claim to a certain portion of future cash flows. Like shareholders, they should be hoping that the business continues to thrive so that their claims can be paid out.

The decision not to cut dividends in the face of an earnings shock is a pretty common one and not generally a sign of an executive team attempting to enrich themselves. It's more of a sign to shareholders that the executive team has faith in the robustness of the business, which helps if the goal is to survive the present difficulties.
> The amount of privacy we've globally lost just for a few advertising dollars is atrocious.

What is the actual consequence of this "lost privacy"? What would be tangibly different in your life right now if you hadn't "lost" it?

My answer - nothing whatsoever, no harm comes to me at all from some statistical algorithm calculating what ads I might want to see, and in fact I've bought several cool products off Instagram that I didn't know about otherwise. This is a completely illusory harm that has been made up by what is essentially a cabal of professional agitators and propagandists.
There is a whole spectrum for undesirability, from bad diets to genocide.
Yes but the barrier to start a internet-only small business with advertising is the lowest it's ever been. Before you were either only local (bad luck if there's already a pet store in your town), or you had to be huge. Online advertising is a great equalizer that has allowed many regular people to run successful businesses without much starting capital.
When the company I work for was buying a brand new swiss grinding machine (which enables the manufacturing of some extremely precise parts), I had to fill and sign a very strange statement about:

- the exact kind of goods that we will use the machine for

- certify that we will not use it in any nuclear explosive activity, or unsafeguarded nuclear fuel-cycle activity, or the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons

- that we won't transfer the manufactured goods or the machine outside of specific countries without the consent of some kind of swiss economic affairs office.

I got the same kind of vibes.
Who and where?

Russian propagandist, on Russian tv. You just have to wait for some horrendous act of indiscriminate killing by Russia to occur in Ukraine and they come out to justify or glorify the horror.

I don’t particularly blame them for their cynical actions, it’s their job.
The article is fine, inspirational, interesting, and all that, but one quibble: reporting ratios is potentially misleading. If grandmasters spend 4 minutes falsifying for every minute ideating, and amateurs spend .5 / 1, that's great. But what if amateurs spend 30 minutes coming up with a move vs 1 for masters? Could be the grandmaster is faster at ideation by a larger fraction than he is faster at falsification. That also makes sense in a "just so" sense, because maybe falsification is brute force with a large depth of search, and ideation is more like a lookup table - just see where your pieces can move.

I thought maybe I could find some primary sources, but the [1] notation is just footnotes.
This is missing the point - AC is problematic for exactly the reason you quoted - it produces CO2. My point is that it doesn't need to, and only does because our leadership is some mixture of corrupt, incompetent, or uncaring.

There is no technical reason why 99% of the household energy produced on Earth can't be free of direct carbon emissions. It's a societal issue that it isn't.
> To really appreciate these books, find a translation that is up-to-date

On the contrary I think reading a 100 year old translation of a 2,800 year old story is enlightening on a different level
It would work if adblockers were honest and didn't try to evade detection. Free -> accept ads, otherwise pay. Fair.
Weapons that automatically kill people are prevalent. It may seem trite, but that's exactly what most mines do. Some anti-ship mines are smart enough to distinguish friend from foe using acoustic classification and would be programmed to only kill enemy ships and ignore friendly ships.

Whether or not that constitutes "AI" (pointless discussion since nobody can decide what "AI" truly means even in conversations about state-of-the-art LLMs), it's a weapon autonomously monitoring its environment, classifying targets and killing them without a human in the loop.
now that is the interesting bit really. what makes the wikipedia based LLM hallucinate less?

the only thing i can think of ad hoc is that wikipedia contains less conflicting or unclear information which helps to avoid the LLM getting confused. also the information is more organized, and it is clear which articles relate to each other.

this would show what i think we already knew that LLMs can summarize the data they get but they can not evaluate or verify it.
> COG

https://wiki.opencog.org/w/The_Open_Cognition_Project
The 24 rules, which will go into effect on August 15, require generative AI providers to adhere to core socialist values and register their services with the government.
Come on: if you're excavating an ancient village and find a layer of charcoal littered with arrowheads and skulls and find totally different pottery before and after the charcoal layer, then unless your brain has been codrycepted by fashionable academic nonsense, you're going to conclude that someone conquered that village and replaced its people --- not that the charcoal layer represents some kind of ceremonial swords-to-plowshares peaceful pottery replacement ceremony. For 50 years, academics insisted on the latter interpretation. If you'd read old books, you'd know the post-1960s consensus was nonsense even without ancient DNA. Ancient DNA merely created a body of evidence so totally compelling that not even diffusionists (the "pots not people" crowd) could stick to their stories and keep a straight face.
For those interested, a fairly comprehensive book on backyard metalcasting from scrap (from the ground up) is David Gingery's Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/build-your-own-metal-working-s...

Starting with green sand, scrap metal, charcoal, and a pot, pour parts to build a lathe, and so on.

It looks like he has put out quite a few "how to" books:
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/david-j-gingery/381968/
>gzip approach not better than dnn models but mostly competes and much cheaper to run

Does it? It looks to do worse than FastText in all benchmarks and kNN is not a cheap algorithm to run so it might actually be slower than FastText.

edit: It looks like FastText takes 5 seconds to train on the Yahoo Answers data set while the gzip approach took them 6 days. So definitely not faster.
[[Insert off-by-one error joke here]]
I really enjoyed this article. I would recommend others check out "Advice That Actually Worked For Me" by the same author. This same topic is mentioned in #6.
https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/advice
Google wanted more control over the Internet, so they created a browser that they controlled and pushed it on people by leveraging their monopoly in a separate area. You know, the kind of thing we used to think was bad in the 1990s.
> and all linked citations

I wonder what percentage of Wikipedia citations are actually currently available on the internet. For example, here is today's featured article[1]. The majority of references on that pages are books, journals, magazines, television, and unlinked news articles that can't be easily accessed. Plus on more niche topics, it is common for the externally linked references to disappear over time.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)
Cryptocurrency mining doesn't have to pay better than breakeven today if you don't mind holding for the next bull run.
That and the fact that most people saw Google search as the first web page when they opened a browser (or if not then most just navigated to it) sure was a killer combo.
Logging into PSN was (is?) broken for a very, very long time. It was for at least 1.5 year, but I switched after that so I couldn’t tell beyond that.
There's already enough problems with CSS and what it can do that I want an add-on which either disables it entirely, or allows only a tiny subset of it.

I can appreciate a clever use of CSS the same way I can with JS but for my day to day browsing I don't want either being able to do whatever it wants because far too often what websites use it for is user-hostile.
I'm just as concerned about behavioral targeting for non-advertising content. It seems weird to disallow targeting for one type of content and not another. Behavioral targeting of the majority of content (advertising is a minority) is increasingly the norm, and it is what is making society more stratified and balkanized.
My use of the term "conservatism" refers to the "averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values" or "tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions" definitions, not the meaning associated with American politics.
StackAid is better in this regard:

1. Is bootstrapped rather than VC backed as far as I understand
2. Treats itself as one dependency among many, so it isn’t favored over other receivers
3. Rather it is penalized against other receivers as it at most will get 7.5% of one’s monthly donation: https://www.stackaid.us/
Light is going to bounce off surfaces so they need redundancy and error control anyway. LiFi is built on 802.11 protocols so the higher levels are the same. The lower level is pretty easy to add redundancy to signal.

The advantage of LiFi over WiFi is that don’t have to deal with interference. The light is confined to the room when WiFi can go to neighboring apartments. The downside is that need devices in each room. If they can get speed higher, within the published ranges not the crazy one, they can do same job as WiGig.

Another advantage is that light diodes and receivers are simple and cheap. My guess is that it is easier to scale LiFi to higher speeds or make super cheap. But that may only work for special cases.
A tangent of a tangent:

My way of doing imperative coding for data science with Python is to write a price of code in Sublime Text, copy and paste to iTerm, run, and get back to the editor. But of course I mapped shift+Enter to do all of that for me. I much prefer this setting to Jupyter Notebooks.
If this story is true the paper is not solid.

Claims in the abstract and claim 3 in the paper, as well as much of the publicity around the paper is just wrong.

It takes gzip from being great out of domain to being middling at best. It goes from something really interesting to a "meh" model. The main part that was intellectually interesting is how robust gzip is out of domain, if that's gone, there isn't much here.

If I was the reviewer for this paper, this would take the paper from an accept to a "submit to a workshop".

Also, kNN methods are slow O(n^2).
Apparently I try too hard to falsify the falsification. I became convinced that h4/g3 pawns could be used as a trap while I march the b-pawn. Bd5 Bxh4 b5 Bxg3 Qxf7 Qxf7 Bxf7 Kxf7 b6! and the pawn can't be stopped.

Except it doesn't work, I needed to falsify the falsification of the falsification 4 move down the line to see why :)
A bit off topic but I've just started using Google Lens to extract whole pages from books with my phone. Near perfect conversion to text is great for taking notes.
Let's Encrypt has definitely been a net positive to the internet as a whole. I do wish more services/tools had cleaner integration. I've switched to mostly using Caddy for personal web and reverse proxy chores as it's just much easier to deal with imo.
On the other hand, sometimes newer translations do not justify the hype. I've put a lot of time into discriminating between available translations of stuff that I've read. People say, for example, you can't read The Count of Monte Cristo unless it's Buss's translation published by Penguin, or you can't read Garnett's Dostoyevsky. Well, okay, but when pressed about what the purportedly less faithful versions of Dumas get wrong, I've only ever heard mimetic regurgitation of nonspecific claims (on par with "don't read K&R; it's awful") or when someone actually articulates something concrete and falsifiable, it doesn't hold up—"That actually was in the 19th century translation that I read, so..." And notwithstanding whether Pevear and Volokhonsky's The Idiot was done by folks with more reverence for the original, theirs is basically unreadable from where I'm sitting.

It's also worth pondering whether the newer translations are riding on the coattails of their denigrated forebears—"would this have been as well-received and become a staple in the English-speaking world if the newer, purportedly better translation had been the only game in town from the beginning?"
Okay, this is a rather cool diagnostic feature by Lenovo. One thing though, the Lenovo diagnostic app APK can be found and sideloaded rather easily as I did to see if it actually worked - and it did by bringing up the correct error code. Why Lenovo restricted the installation of the app to certain OS versions is rather silly.
I hope somebody makes a game of Trivial Pursuit with generated questions sourced from Wikipedia.
This is not quite true, because poker is fundamentally adversarial, while startups are mostly not adversarial, at least not directly.

Startups are a beauty contest where each player focuses on maximizing the things about them that appeal most to a panel of judges (customers). Similar to the scramble competition that Benenson cites here, rather than an arm-wrestling contest.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31400660/
> urban legend

That's disappointing. It sounded so cool! The part of this story I recall is that overpasses were spaced widely enough to avoid interfering with airplanes should they need to find a landing spot.
Good points have already been raised, but don't neglect the rise of smartphones. When you get a Google phone that already has Google's browser installed, and it works relatively well, why would you change? Add Chromebooks into the mix, and those meet a lot of people's needs, why change?

Then, if you get a laptop, you'll want to have all of your passwords and bookmarks synced, so instead of using Edge, you grab Chrome. never even thinking of Firefox.

Finally, in the early 00's, Firefox users had a reputation for letting you know about it. Forums of the day were full of signatures with a Get Firefox link in them. You don't really see that level of fervor anymore, because the difference between Firefox and Chrome today is nowhere near the difference between Firefox and IE back then.
> sometimes I wish there was just a standard language for programming

Good news, there is such a standard, and you can buy it here: https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/incits/ansix3531976r1998

Some choice quotes from the Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I ):

> PL/I (Programming Language One) is a procedural, imperative computer programming language initially developed by IBM. The PL/1 ANSI standard, X3.53-1976, was published in 1976. It is designed for scientific, engineering, business and system programming.

> IBM wanted a single programming language for all users.

> The language is designed to be all things to all programmers.[vague]
Iatrogenic deaths are still incredibly high today. Modern medicine is the evolution of the doctors regarded highly enough to treat the president, not the people who filled their prescriptions in the woods.
> AM-2 Aluminum Matting, Portable Aircraft Arresting Gear and Marking (lighting) Systems. AM-2 matting is the base upon which the entire EAF system rests.

> AM-2 matting consists of 1 1/2" x 2' steel rectangles ...

So, are they aluminum or are they steel? Or some structure involving both?
> A tiny percent savings on a huge cost is a moderately big number, yes.

The thing is, say it takes me an hour to shave off ten bytes in the final build. Value my time per hour at 200$, and the saving of that ten bytes over a year at Wikipedia scale at a thousand dollars, and even investing five times that amount into yak shaving would still be net profitable.
Via ChatGPT: Here are the main points:

The most dangerous thing about school or college is that it trains you to confuse work with employment.

It's hard to find work you love; it must be, if so few do.

If you think something's supposed to hurt, you're less likely to notice if you're doing it wrong.

It's easy to imagine having passion for something; the hard part is the doing.

The test of whether people love what they do is whether they'd do it even if they weren't paid for it—even if they had to work at another job to make a living.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige.

The recipe of life is, to a large extent, just an attempt to avoid these traps.

To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire.

You should be careful what you let yourself admire.

If you want to stay happy, you have to do something.

A job that seems glamorous from the outside can be a hell when you have to do it every day.

The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to want what you think.

It's hard to find work you love, but if you're not afraid of trying and failing, you can find it.
relations between Russia and Georgia began to deteriorate, reaching a full diplomatic crisis by April 2008, when NATO promised to consider Georgia's bid for membership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
Pigeons, mostly. They poop on everything and that accumulated poop can be a real health hazard.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/pigeon.pag...

If you think birds don't poop a lot remember there are entire islands made of bird poop.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nauru
Forgive my ignorance, but what is there that's not machinable shape-wise, but is still castable? The more difficult the shape, certainly, the more difficult the casting?

Am I missing something?
Hmm, I looked at the list of the world's most dangerous cities, and even scrolling all the way down did not reveal a single Russian city (its mainly South and Middle America, South Africa and the USA). Can you give a citation for your claim?
There are other ways to accomplish this other than bankruptcy. Judges combine cases together all the time.
I'm still surprised by avgas. It's like aviation is 50 years behind.
Ok, no "outrage" here @somenits. This is a variation on a "bad bank" scheme that normally is suggested only where jettisoning the toxic liabilities from the main entity will facilitate a government bailout of the resulting "bad bank". That's what makes the scheme work, normally. There isn't a bailout on the way for J+J's bad bank, and the closest suggestion of any value-creation from the manuver comes from disassociating the consumer brand from consumer injuries they allegedly caused. However, that doesn't sound like a compelling case for such a remarkable corporate manuver.

So then, what we are left with is a "bad bank" scheme that is devoid of a compelling legitimate justification, which you yourself do not offer. This naturally raises an inference that J+J hopes to cram down tort claims via the maneuver. Perhaps the cram-down is in administrative overhead associated with litigation. Maybe it's some kind of mismatch in claim acceptance or approval criteria. None of the materials explain, and while I adore Matt's writing the bottom line is it looks like a shell game and that's from someone with no "outrage" whatever involved.
Firefox should act like a startup in the growth phase. Pretend it has X users and is ready to grow, instead of acting like it has X users that it's trying to hold on to.

If Firefox were a growth startup, we'd see all sorts of strategies coming into play: recommendations, ways to invite friends to try it, gamification, doubling down on what differentiates it, focusing on a niche then expanding that niche, trying to stand out and be more memorable, etc.

For example, Brave is doing some of those things

The nice part is that, because it's owned by Mozilla, users don't have to worry about a bait and switch at the end of the growth phase
I was an avid Firefox user, until it started adding services that I never asked for, namely Pocket. Things that should have been an add-on were now a core feature of the product.
> the frequency of people saying stuff like "I loaded Wikipedia onto this battery powered Raspberry Pi in a Pelican case, now I'm ready to rebuild civilization if it collapses," and seemingly believing it.

As someone who inched closer into the doomsday prepper scene before swerving far away from it, I assure you that people in that subculture have a lot of unrealistic beliefs about their own capacities and resources. I don't think it's Wikipedia's fault that they (and you) are taking a quote about Wikipedia's never-ending goal and interpreting it as if it is their description of what they are.

An even worse example of deceptive marketing would be a compact folding multitool marketed as "the only tool you'll ever need." Even with that, I'd say that if you actually believe that you can rebuild civilization with that tool solely on the basis of that marketing slogan, then that's your fault as much as it is the marketers.

And a minor nitpick: the standard prepper info archives also include collections of various survival guides and resources that are specifically written for these kinds of purposes.
> myADP

For years they had a terrible implementation that only worked in _old_ versions of IE. They had no incentive to change because they were the main players in that space. I loathed them because their tagline was "Anytime, anywhere" which was clearly missing an asterisk.
And if you did want to write it in close to one line, it wouldn't be particularly difficult either.

Simply outlaw _selling_ (or giving away) of ad space in public.

You want to put your own logo on your storefront, side of vehicle, brochure, public bus, charging station? Sure. You want to sell that space to the highest bidder to place their own ad? Nope.

This would eliminate 99% of billboards, bus stop ads, etc without creating any ambiguity as to whether a business is allowed to identify itself in public.

One caveat might be that it would be desirable to carve out an allowance for e.g. "10% of sales go to Charity X".
So? You have said nothing to refute his point. Pention funds are capital.

You don't need to optimise returns on capital at the cost of a generation that in currently young and working. Pention system can be managed differently if needed too.
In my experience, the app worked perfectly and diagnosed the error via their video instantly.