skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made bagels a few weeks ago and for the first time tried to make cream cheese to go with it. The product was definitely a cheese, but had a much sourer taste than what I prefer, and a much thicker consistency.

I used lemon juice as an acid because I had it on hand rather than vinegar which I think is the preferred acid agent. Anyone done this successfully before?
You've gone grey my friend. Wrongthink is being thunk by you.
We are a family of four and yearly electricity consumption with working from home was around 6000 kWh. Your numbers for the US consumption are wrong.
Does that also hold up for the bottom quintile?
That's exactly the point, that's how it's sold.

They don't exactly go around telling us that it's cementing centralisation of large corporations, leveraging slave/cheap labour as much as possible until caught while reducing local opportunities and knowledge, environmental impact of mass packaging and supply chains, bringing wonderful tax avoidance opportunities and flouting quality controls and regulations.

But of course, blame the consumer, because it was sold with full warnings but they didn't listen ..
But they are right, and you are wrong. Brain volume is positively correlated with intelligence in humans. In other species, larger brains as a proportion of body size is a sign of selection pressure for intelligence, in ways beyond just size.
Heh, you've just made me consider that the asymptote of capitalism is communism.
Using ChatGPT for a "neutral and expert question" is really broken: it gives the public the opinion that ChatGPT output could be trusted whereas it's so often wrong...

That's really dangerous (beyond the immediate stupidity of asking such question to a LLM) because it may give an impression that ChatGPT answers should be trusted and neutral... It's neither.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I test drove the Polestar 2 and liked it—miles better interior than the Model 3—but them being made in China was a deal breaker. I’m trying to buy less things made in China and dropping $60k on a Chinese vehicle doesn’t really fit that goal. Plus the shady software as you mention.
Can the Orbital Debris Disease Be Cured Using Lasers?
Wait until you read about Wuala. It was incredible p2p file storage but then Lacie murdered it in cold blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuala
> people...who would like to disable JS, but it's just not practical

As I tell my kid when he "wants" something, I want a pony, and a million dollars.

I don't see why the fact that some people might like that matters. I mean, given the choice for free sure I'd "like" it too. But it will never remotely be worth it to build two entirely separate web applications for every website to make that dream a reality, nor do I see the whole Internet agreeing to discard the decades of advancements in FE technologies to go back to script-free HTML.

All that said, boy would that be a great jobs program for developers over age 35 though! Imagine developing for the web with no Webpack, no JS compilers, transpilers, bundles.[1]

[1]: Or whatever you frontend folks use for your toolchain this year, or this nanosecond...
Yes lots of people go around saying how proud they are their trash can is made in the USA...
buy cheap for the first one and if you ever have to replace it you know you will use it enough to pay for a quality replacement. that way you spend money on tools that need it.
What’s the MIT connection? The authors all seem to be affiliated with Tsinghua.
Sense of urgency often made people do the most harm.
Sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing. Who knows in the future there will be a good answer if we wait.
Yes! I really enjoy his videos. Very calming and straight-forward
They do when people (ab)use their tools, like use screwdrivers as chisels, chisels as screwdrivers, and anything metal as a hammer or mallet.
Rust ranges aren't types. In Ada you can specify a type like:

type Temperature is range -100 .. 300; -- in Celsius, operating range for an aircraft or system perhaps

You cannot assign anything outside that range to variables of that type, if the value is known at compile time it won't compile otherwise you get a runtime error (unless you disable checks). You cannot assign an arbitrary integer variable's value (that holds a value in that range) into a variable of type Temperature, you have to cast it.

T : Temperature := 500; -- won't compile
...
T : Temperature;
N : Integer := 50;
...
T := N; -- won't compile
T := T1 + T2; -- two other temperatures; runtime error if sum is outside -100 .. 300

If you want a subtype range you might do something like:

type Days is (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday); -- an enumeration
subtype Weekdays is Days range Monday .. Friday; -- ranges are inclusive in Ada

Now you can have a variable of type Days and try to put its value into a variable of type Weekdays and you'll get a runtime error if it's Saturday or Sunday. And you can use these for array indices. These are actual arrays, not dictionaries, so you don't get the performance penalty of a map/dictionary (though generic maps are also available):

Schedule : array (Weekdays) of ...; -- fill in with some useful type; Weekdays is the index range

D : Days;
W : Weekdays;
...
W := D; -- will compile, may error at runtime
D := Saturday;
W := D; -- will error at runtime
W := Sunday; -- won't compile
W := Monday; -- will compile
Schedule(W) := ...;
By intelligence you are probably talking about IQ, and the studies you are talking about probably didn't normalize for things like childhood nutrition availability or economic class background - which lead to both poorer test performance AND smaller sizes and thus smaller brains.

You could use any correlated metric then and make the same claim - people with more expensive shoes performed better - or bigger feet.

Demonstrating that people who grew up impoverished performed poorer than people who grew up wealthy, by using the proxy of the mass of their heads, isn't very convincing.
I'm against all regulations that impact mutually voluntary economic interactions between consenting adults (so every regulation with the exception of those relating to interactions with minors and the environment), so I believe we are disagreeing. I fully support targeted government intervention that does not violate the freedom to contract, i.e. is not a regulation, to produce public goods. Where we agree is that we both believe that some level of government intervention is required for optimal economic function. I just restrict the type of government intervention that I support to types that don't suppress the free market.

Yes, markets are artificial, in the same way that a peaceful society where murder is prohibited is artificial. Doesn't mean they are not beneficial.

>>That is why health care free markets don't work. When you are having a heart attach you aren't shopping around for a bargain price.

Emergency care is a small subset of healthcare spending, that should be government provided. The rest is far better provided by a free market. The example of the cosmetic procedures industry, and how it vastly outperforms the healthcare industry with the advantage of being more market based than the latter, shows how beneficial market freedom is:

https://www.ncpathinktank.org/commentaries/the-market-for-me...

The industries at the top are the most government run/subsidized, and the ones at the bottom the most consumer/market driven:

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-or-century-3...

Healthcare is not exception to the rule that more freedom in the market generates more efficiency and innovation.
My impression was always that this was an east/west-coast thing. I could be wrong!
I only spent a few minutes skimming thr paper, but:

1) there are a lot of papers claiming to be the successor to the Transformer, and not all of them are cited; e.g., the MetaFormer is missing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11418.
Another candidate that wasn't compares against (or at least argued why it wouldn't make sense to compare against) are the Hopfield Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02217.

So until a more solid Related Work section is written (their section is actually called "Relation to and Differences from Previous Methods") I reserve the right to be skeptical whether their model is the "best" successor to the Transformer.

2) they say in the abstract "We theoretically derive the connection between recurrence and attention" but I couldn't find a longer theorem-proof section. So either this is done only in a cursory manner, or the proof is very easy.
Recurrence and attention have been around for a long time as concepts, so surely there are already proofs in similar contexts of this fact (I am not working in this particular area of Machine Learning, so I don't know the SOTA by heart, but I strongly suspect that these aspects have been discusses previously; thr Hopfield Network paper I linked to unearthes some theoretical facts about attention, for example).

So -based on my very cursory reading- this paper seems like an interesting approach, but I do see some holes in thr execution. Time will tell whether Rentetive Network will become mainstream or not.

Ok, this was my five minute review of the paper. Now I have to urgently return to completing my actual reviews for NeurIPS, haha.
This really speaks to me and my experience. It’s not AI’s ability to beat me in my own domain, it’s the ability for me to extend my domain to a different style to achieve the results I want. I think folks that underrate the technology are evaluating on “is it better than me (or the person I know who is great) at this” when what you point out is more: “can it help me do this, like that” — that’s where it shines. Further, I think folks under appreciate how being able to extend what you “know” to a different format (ie different language) enables you to determine the next set of problems that help you either: (a) find the right partners with the right skills or (b) ask the deeper harder questions about your gaps.
Until you went to withdraw any of that money…

I get what you’re saying in theory, but show me a bank with 0 capital…
> it goes against the Unix philosophy of do one thing and do it well

For me, Perl shows just how restricted that viewpoint was.

After I learned Perl, I stopped caring about tr, and sed, and many of the other "one thing well" command-line tools. And I've no desire to swap out and modify the 's//' component of perl.

Perl does "one thing" - interpret Perl programs - even though it also replaces many things.

I know 'rmdir' exists. It does one thing, well - remove an empty directory. It's been around since the first release of Unix.

However, I use "rm -rf" because it's easier to use a more powerful tool which handles empty directory removal as a special case.

You can also change your viewpoint and say that Fossil does do one thing well: it's a distributed project control system. That's a new category I just made up, to highlight just how subjective "one thing" is.
First time I see someone plainly refer to 'Holland' and it's not in The Netherlands but actually a city in Michigan.

Checked on a map and it's actually near a place called Zeeland, which is also in The Netherlands. Wow "Noordeloos" also sounds Dutch. I guess they just have many Dutch-named towns over there.
15 years to build a very competitive car and 21 year to build a plane like airbus sounds pretty good actually. It’s actually not that long for a country. It does require a consistent policy encouraging domestic production, some level of protectionism.
Funny you mention it, I do have mild tinnitus. It’s also interesting to mentioned Zyrtec. There’s a whole subset of cluster research/sufferers that call them histamine headaches. I’ve wanted to explore anti histamines as a treatment but now that I have mine under control I hate to rock the boat.
I know the psychedelics part is a lot, but there are several ways to tackle it. Growing magic mushrooms is very easy. Some people are also experimenting with LSA, which naturally occurs in seeds you can get online. I haven’t tried it but I imagine it could be effective. Another option I’ve considered is magic truffles. They’re legal in a lot of places due to their obscurity, but they contain psilocybin just like mushrooms. A micro dose that’s almost non perceptible every few months is enough to buy me years without headaches. It’s seriously amazing. Several well respected research hospitals and universities are digging into it right now. There’s definitely something to it. I imagine it has to do with the fact that they’re linking up with your 5-HT2A serotonin receptors. I believe they’re the same receptors that common anti migraine medicines bind to. Both psychedelics and migraine medicines fall into the triptan category of drugs.
I’m definitely not a medical researcher and it’s been awhile since I did a deep dive on all this, so please verify/research anything I’m saying, but I hope I can at least point you in some of the right directions.

One last thing worth looking into is the link between vasodilation and cluster headaches. There seems to be a direct link. I think some of the theories are that the dilation of the major blood vessels in your brain pushes down on nerves like your occipital nerve. That seems to track with the areas I experience the most pain. I’ve experimented in the past with vasoconstrictors as a way to ease the pain. Both caffeine and psychedelics are vasoconstrictors for example. And they seem to be the two most agreed upon remedies. I believe exercise is also a vasoconstrictor, which may be why intense cardio seems to help me when the headaches start to come on.
So you're pretending there's a problem with the research instead of there actually being problems.

Have fun playing make believe.
Wouldn't KSM help with that? If the security concerns aren't a factor.
Skyrmion[0] is 2D structure. Hopfion[1][2] is 3D.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_skyrmion

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopfion

[2]: http://hopfion.com/
Ah, this is why you have a bad attitude about the “D” part of “DVCS”, right? The workflow for art is “I need to lock that graphics asset so that no one else edits it while I’m editing it,” which you can’t do with a DVCS. Disallowing exclusive edits is generally what most programming teams want; otherwise it’s a daily occurrence to try to get someone to unlock a file they locked for editing and forgot about.
I know, I try to do that when sharing links too. I remember way back when Google results used to link directly to pages.

Actually I was just trying to Rickroll-you-by-proxy. A shorter link to the same site as GP's that is a real news story of people being Rickrolled by QR codes on fake parking tickets.

Only reason I used the site's own shortner is the URL would have given it away. Besides it was longer.
Showing Elizabeth I in a new light
Then give examples. You can't give 0 examples (while the comment you're replying to gave a list) and pretend you know better at the same time.
Right, but how many of these tools could you have invented (or even learned to use) by yourself, with no prior knowledge about tools to guide you? Even "primitive" tools like wooden bows and stone arrowheads are the result of generations of accumulated knowledge.

You are as smart as you are because other humans taught you.
1. Did you calculate in your per capita share of commercial/industrial use? 2. Feel free to provide more accurate numbers with a source.
Git server is just setting up ssh keys and a directory. The code base viewer runs with apache which is also pretty simple to get all set up
No. You're pretending that 100 year old research from racist eugenicists is valid science.

Nutrition correlation? Yes. Access to education? Yes. Low stress from high income and fewer cognitive loads? Yes. These all lead to taller adults that then have "bigger brains" ... and that's it - that's why it's only detectable at all (and that's questionable depending on the metric), at very large population sizes, if any.

It's not like people who win the Nobel Prize and Fields Medals are 8 feet tall giants. We also don't see someone that's say 5'0" and 90 lbs and think "they can't possibly have anything intelligent to say! Look at their stature!"
There's this perception of Earth itself as a beautiful and perpetual utopia, because we live such absurdly brief lives. But this planet is brutal, and has killed most of everything living on it - repeatedly. [1] This will continue to happen endlessly in the future until the Sun itself extinguishes all life on the planet, permanently. Earth is essentially a bunch of short term 'surprise' death traps, and one very long term final death trap which we can at least see coming.

And there is no escape, except through intelligence of a certain sort, which happens to be the exact sort humans have developed, which will enable our species to eventually spread beyond just this one planet. The awesome thing about human intelligence though is not only will we ultimately use our intelligence to ensure our own perpetuation, but I suspect there's no doubt we'll have a "Noah's Ark" working to perpetuate the lives of many of our cohabitants who will literally all go extinct, permanently, without us - or without some unbelievably revolutionary change in their own intelligences.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#The_%22Big_Fi...
I address more in the other comment. I was more trying to head off the oliver stone, "it was exclusively the Soviets", which was the original post. The article is okay, but spends too much time on the mental faculties of those involved.

No, I have not forgot the firebombings. They should have weighed the firebombings as the same. But they didn't. Some of it was that it was novel and a single bomb. New capabilities seem to leave an impression, such as V2's for the ability to hit a target without warning, even though they were cost ineffective. But, they were not grasping their predicament.

But take the Soviet case to it's conclusion, and that the bombs had no impact on whether they thought the war should be continued. They could have waited more if it was just the soviets, as all the stated Soviet plans do not involve Honshu. You likely had a couple months at the minimum, even if the soviets rushed. And it's not like I hear any worries of communism in anything, Japan had a pact with them and tried to use them as a third party. So why not try to negotiate openly with the US/GB/China/Soviets then? Half their cabinet thought to try even after everything. No, hirohito, thought the US was going to bomb them to bits in the interim, whether by firebomb or atom bomb, and the offer was only going to get worse. So they ended it.

This isn't to say that maybe the atom bombs were needed to come to that position, as the previous bombings might have been enough. Or maybe a few weeks of waiting would have been enough. I ponder if their had been no bombings of any kind, per the rules of war, would Japan have surrendered given the Soviet involvement. I would guess no, considering the margin given and the longevity of such an event creating a way to rationalize out, but still something to think about.
Software is comparable to apples or oil, because they are all economic goods.

Note that I am referring to commodity software (because that is what this thread is about). The reproduction costs are negligible compared to the software development cost.

Perhaps for a better understanding of my point, consider book publishing, or limited edition prints of art. The scarcity is almost completely artificial.

Microsoft and Oracle, for example, have grown to be extremely large companies due to this possibility of selling the same thing at nearly no extra cost.

If you think this is normal, then that's fine, but commodity software is most certainly (as you hint at yourself) not a good fit for economic models based on scarcity.
There is recent research into intra-race correlations.

You need to stop lying. First to yourself. Try having a factual basis for the words that you write.
Off-topic, but did anyone else find the broken back button super annoying?
Tasteless would be best as a dirt cheap replacement for plant protein in animal feed.
switch to 12 hr time :)
> If you are running a process that, for example, forks 128 of itself, do you want every library it uses to have a separate copy of that library in memory?

Fork uses CoW, right?
Teach your LLM to always answer with facts not fiction
That's an interesting, and wrong, definition of "wrong".

Git, Mercurial, and the like make every full copy of the repo equal. By convention, we often use central repos like GitHub, and commands like "git fetch" and "git push" as fast ways to sync their contents. We don't have to, though.

I can clone a remote repo, then work independently for months. I do this all the time with the Mastodon server I run. I periodically pull in upstream changes, merge them into my working copy, then push those changes out to my worker instances. I might SSH into one of those servers, fix something specific to it, push the changes out to the other local servers so that they're all synced, and repeat for weeks and months on end.

And because each of those repos are equally "official", all branching and merging operations are equally easy on each one of the peer machines. Although it's conceptually possible that it could be just as easy on a VCS that doesn't work with full clones, I've never seen it.
But no one looking to seriously buy tools goes to Harbor Freight, expecting to pass that tool to their child or grandchildren. They go there to buy the crappy chinesium grade tool that gets a job done. If they find that they need the tool often enough, then they buy the heirloom grade one.
The reason it was likely done away with is because it was abused. There will always be cases like that, most you'll never hear about. The mentally ill are also an easy target for haters with government power.
> In my experience, most customer service reps want to complete their tickets as quickly as possible to meet the companies quotas.

Yes, that's kinda of how that customer ended up in that situation. But most of that comes from the quotas etc., and AI will be 100% aligned with those.
> about 1/2 or less than their US counterparts

And how much relative to their Indian counterparts? This thread is about customer service.
Right now we rely on people hitting “rock bottom” and hoping they snap themselves out of the addiction cycle at that point. The sad truth is the majority of people cruise through rock bottom and eventually end up dead. We need to support people before they get there and use therapy when people feel bored getting high all the time. Prisons are a massive cost to the tax payer already, a wholly alternative system for drug addicts could and should be created.
I knew the scepter of "race science" would come up from one of the "big brains = smart" people. Cool. Let's end this now. I'm done responding.
To me, those are the verb and the noun respectively.

"He will finance the project." "The project got its finance."

With silicon, I think I stress the first syllable, if any.
Retroshare is still being updated and used (there's at least a few hundred on right now). It's relatively feature complete, and you can route it over i2p or tor as well (which is uncommon for this kind of tooling, in my experience).
Sure, and I was that person with the svn -> git migration at a different gig. Ideally our behavior matures over time.

For me, at least, two things eventually made git really manageable: github and the O'Reilly book. After those git was a no brainer. Even with git becoming the de facto standard, if you don't need the integrations it's not so unreasonable to use something else (altho bzr's been discontinued).
No, this was not a war at all by Wikipedia standards.

The deletion nomination was closed under an informal Wikipedia guideline called “WP:SNOW”, which is shorthand for saying that there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that it was going to result in deletion, because the comments to keep the article were so overwhelming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...