skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife has it, mainly she is unable to conceptualize that she is wrong and thus never learns from experience. For example she started a lawsuit against the neighbors, that she funnels tens of thousands of dollars toward because she thought the property line was further into their yard than it actually is. She recently told me we own the entire town and made some nonsensical statements to justify that belief. I'm going to try to get the lawyer disbarred because he is clearly taking advantage of a mentally ill woman.

She acts out in order to gain attention. From ruining the family finances like in the first example to engaging in affairs and luring men from the internet to appear at the house. She has made false claims against me to the police. Refuses to clean up after herself, leaving huge messes, while complaining about a single item I might leave out. She lies, a lot. She doesn't seem to understand that I don't trust her anymore after all the lies, to her that's in the past even if it was a few minutes ago.

I'm stuck due to my kid and family courts bias in favor of mothers. 14 more years.
J-school in general is probably a poor criterion. Someone who has just done a bunch of reporting (and other things) isn't really less qualified to do journalism that someone with a J-school degree.
> filial piety

Interesting addition, and not one that a lot of people who had shitty childhoods would say is appropriate to include.
thats exactly why. It was a simple serial connection that could connect directly with other simple embedded systems. My local Lowes home store had a palm pilot that controlled their security system, and it was still in use just pre-COVID for exactly the same reason.
I guess I need to sit down and study this stuff in more detail, but do I understand correctly that the code you shared makes the decisions for each position independently? I am just astonished that this produces any coherent output. Also it is not clear to me how the length of the output sequence is determined.
L1 DRM for browsers already exists. This is about providing an extra layer of security to sites that may need it like banks.
Not an expert at all, but I believe that OpenAI uses this in some of their GPT apis which are meant for programmatic use. I've seen it theorized that offloading the rote grammar stuff to a simple process that is meant for it lets the LLM use it's "brainpower" on the complicated stuff more effectively. No idea if this is true.
Principal Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.

Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?

Principal Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?

Principal Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

Lisa: Then we're stuck with gorillas!

Principal Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

Lisa: Hmm.
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And readers should be skeptical of journalists. And everyone should be skeptical of everyone. Skeptical thinking should be a way of life.
If only the wikimedia foundation would fork firefox, then the open web might have a chance.

Wikimedia is honestly the only organization with the right ideology, the right business model, and enough money to do something like this sustainably.
It actually is important. Let me try to explain: the way he phrases it is is as though he needed some internal level to be crossed before he would change his mind. Even though he is way out of his area of expertise. He should have said instead "I didn't know what I was talking about". That way others who also don't know what they are talking about (see some of the commenters in this thread) might take the hint that this isn't about your personal standards for facts, it is about the scientists who have devoted their lives to this subject whose standards apply.

So he could have done a better job on the retraction.
Do you have a quote from Eich saying that because you've provided no source.
WeWork tried to brand itself as a “tech” company. I agree it’s possible to sus out what companies are actually in the technology space but the label is thrown around far too much.
You could be discharged from a job which is formalism for being fired, so I can see how a literal translation could lead you there.
This sounds like the start of a great children's book
Thank you! I always felt that Diablo was a step backward in computer RPGs, and it never grabbed me the way that Baldur's Gate did; even though the vibe is great as you noted. The randomized dungeons just feel like a treadmill of same art and room layouts, no characters to talk to or memorable events.

Somehow I WAS snared by "Book of Demons," which looks a lot like a diablo clone but with some card mechanics and a unique feature when you can choose the length of a dungeon (specify a number of minutes) to tailor the session length to the time you have.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/449960/Book_of_Demons/
Thank you. I've always been bothered by this lack of seperation.

The 'dirty' parts of tech:
* media
* social media
* PII repackaging and unethical sourcing
* targeted ads

Neutral or clean parts:
* e-commerce
* business automation
* technical and educational information
At least I can fix it from Windows, because it's just some uefi parameter that gets borked. I have the command in a text file on my desktop.
> If China had to meet the same absurd standards as the US and Europe we would be hitting climate goals no problem.

China's per-capita emissions are far lower than both during the time period, even with net manufactured exports.
>really comes down to being statistically literate

A lot of people writing scientific papers aren't statistically literate.

It also seems that what was considered first rate methodology even a decade ago is now considered deeply unreliable.
Unlike "monkey JPEGs", a ENS domain has actual utility. People are not (necessarily) buying it to speculate. They can buy it to use it.
I'm guessing they don't want to publicize the real answer.
How Benjamin Franklin Helped Foil Early American Money Counterfeiters
I've worked with homeless people in a shelter environment before, and my experience was that the most prevalent psychiatric issues among that population were schizophrenia, bipolar disease, and various addictions (especially alcoholism). There were a few who I thought had some ADHD issues, but I don't know if that led directly to them becoming homeless or not. Granted this does not constitute anything like a research study, but it does suggest that just treating people for ADHD might not have a lot of impact.

I did a quick search and was only able to come up with the abstract for a study that claimed ADHD had a ~4-5x higher prevalence among homeless individuals than non-homeless individuals. The abstract alone indicates a couple potential issues with the study (e.g. subjects were only white men, and they used a population sourced from people who had gotten treatment at a particular medical center), and it doesn't indicate any causation.

I don't really think ADHD meds are regulated to keep people homeless, and I'm not sure about the meth epidemic being related to ADHD, but I don't think it would hurt to get people the treatment they need, whether they can pay for it or not.
I'm building a GraphQL based headless CMS currently, ~2 months away from an official launch. It's currently wholly lacking official documentation but feel free to give the index page a peek and see if it's something you'd be interested in trying out!

(or if you just have general feedback or learnings from your own experience, I'd love to hear that too!)

https://brick-cms.com/
My wife had it. Not anymore. Still BPD, but not anymore wife.
Dolphin wasn't made for the steam deck, and I don't think being steam deck verified was ever in the cards. The games it's playing was after all optimized for GameCube or Wii, not any desktop OS. Even if it was, the big problem with figuring out "the right settings" comes down to opinon.

That's the tradeoff for the sweet beautiful freedom of a customizable emulator that people proceed to use as a reason to bash Nintendo for laziness or whatever. If you don't like something running at 30 fps you get to change it. If you don't care about that customization to begin with I question why you buy a steam deck. Becsuse thr steam deck at the end of the say is advertised as 'just being a PC". Up to the ability to ditch Steam OS and throw Windows on as a dual boot or exclusive OS.
Can someone ELI5 what's going on here? I'm reasonably familiar with LLMs, but I can't quite grok what Georgi is doing here and why it's so exciting for some.
https://archive.ph/bsdO7
Based on most of the lawyers I know? Poorly.
Why is healthy food so expensive in America? Blame the Farm Bill
The Gallup link above does show differences based on political orientation.
This level of cynicism is the cause of the downfall of society.

Journalism is as necessary as government. As necessary as speech itself. Particularly in the age of perfect facsimiles of audio/photo/video evidence facilitated by AI, webs of trust and reputable sources of information will be as important as ever.

It is dangerous and wrong to insult the profession as an idea.

None of this is to say that journalism is flawless any more than government or society is flawless. But it is necessary.
Just reading through the GPT4 documentation it doesn’t seem like there’s a ton of difference with what you’ve mentioned.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions/c...

Of course we now know that GPT4 is a Mixture of Experts, so under the hood they’re parallelizing computation. They also include a way to modify the logits with presence/frequency penalty terms.
This seems like a comment made wearing Apple-tinted glasses.

1. It's recognition that in a match up of "Pro v. Pro" products, Apple Vision Pro trounces Quest Pro

Uh, Vision Pro hasn't been released yet. Its definitely miles ahead in concept (and priced to match); and seems to have got a better idea of the high-end possibilities. Its clearly not a consumer product at that price though.

2. If Apple is going to mainstream the AR/VR market

This is silly. Apple is way behind here. Meta has sold millions of headsets - no way is Apple mainstreaming anything in comparison. We can review the situation in a few years, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

I'm very pro Apple's vision (ha) here, the Vision Pro is an exciting concept - but could really do without the framing that seems to not see that Apple is a laggard at the moment (possibly for sound strategic reasons though I suspect its a bit of both).
If anyone currently in Hamburg, Germany plans to watch this movie, the movie theater "Savoy" (seems to be independent - no chain) offers the Oppenheimer movie in original English language (no dubs/subs) in the original 70mm version.

I think I'm gonna attend next week.

Edit: I'm seeing the list above which claims there are no German cinemas who have the original 70mm film. However this[0] German cinema in Hamburg clearly claims to have original 70mm version ("OV"). Not sure if I either misunderstand something, the list is incorrect, or if the cinema is lying?

[0] https://savoy.premiumkino.de/vorstellung/oppenheimer/2023072...
Here's my understanding of how this works (please someone correct me if I'm getting this wrong).

Language models emit tokens one at a time, starting with the prompt that you give them.

If you have a conversation with an LLM, effectively you can think of that as you giving it a sequence of tokens, then it generates some, then you generate more and so-on.

This grammar trick effectively takes advantage of this by giving you much more finely grained control over the tokens. So you can do things like this:

Give me the address of the
White House as JSON:

{"street": "

Then the LLM can return:

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW"

The moment you see that closing double quote, you take over again and inject:

",
"City": "

It fills in:

Washington, DC"

And so on.

But because this is all based on a grammar, you can do way more with it than just JSON.

I saw a brilliant suggestion relating to this on Twitter a while ago:

> @OpenAI should add an API argument allowing passing up a deterministic context free grammar.

> [...]

> While I think DCFL is what you want here in the short term, the really best thing is passing up a small WASM binary that simply is the sampler.

> Allow a user to pass up a few KB of WASM binary and give it a few megabytes of RAM to run. Would enable next level LLM superpowers.

https://twitter.com/grantslatton/status/1637692033115762688
I suppose Apple's product is not a VR product but "Spatial Computing"

Quote "Vision Pro, on the other hand, is primarily an AR device that just happens to have a few VR features"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/hands-on-with-apple-...
the laws are something that is written, they are a consequence of writing (where writing is taken as a social technology)

software is something new, it's writing that can write itself, or change itself. it's a bunch or written things which then take other written things and transform them.

this has conceptual consequences for the laws because the technology that the the concept of laws if mounted on top of, has been radically changed by software

hence it's not as simple as relying on 'licensure' which ultimately leans on the notions and constructions emanating from "the written law"

maybe in the future congress is going to have to approve pull-requests to google infrastructure code? heheh
This is such a terrible take. Nicotine is physiologically addictive in the "directly screws with reward motivation" sense in addition to causing physiological dependence through adaptation. The stimuli we perceive through screens are in no way addictive.

Conflating a normal stimuli with something that's actually addictive is more dangerous than the thing it intends to stop because it justifies the use of force in a situation where there's no force used. Not even implicitly like with cigarettes being addictive. If you look at the DSM5 you'll see the only behavioral addiction disorder is "gambling disorder" and that's grandfathered in.

These modern memes about how screens are addictive being taken seriously are themselves the danger. Just like with "porn addiction" or "curing homosexuality" the people pushing it in serious contexts are generally ones running for-profit private "detox" centers or expensive "treatments".

I'm no fan of "big tech" but I can easily chose not to use it. And if I have to use it for work, it in no way forces me to use it at home. Big tech is bad but this line of argument is nearly as bad.
A lot of amazing games already mentioned ITT, I have to emphasize Outer Wilds as one of the really great games to release in recent times.

But my vote goes for Morrowind.

These two games actually have a lot in common. Great storylines and gameplay. But what they excel at above all other games is the exploration. I won't spoil Outer Wilds, but the following are some of my favorite moments in MW early game that got me hooked.

[spoilers]

In the first few hours of the game you're stumbling upon a man falling out of the sky with amazing boots, a naked Nord who was tricked by a witch, a maiden that has become infatuated with the bandit that robbed her, and a spy of the empire that hides hard drugs under his bed.

The guild missions are really well written. The feud between the fighters guild and thieves guild forces you to choose a side - unless you're very clever. The early mages guild mission where they send you, the intern, to go gather .. flowers. For alchemy. They don't mark your map. They just give you vague directions and areas to check.

The world is alien and foreign. Exciting but unforgiving. It's full of interesting places, characters, stories, and history to discover. Even now I think of how many stones I've left unturned in that game that makes me want to go back and play it again.

However, be warned. If you plan on playing, it is rough around the edges. I highly recommend using OpenMW, as it address a huge number of exploits and balance issues.

Further, the tes3mp multiplayer mod is not half bad if you can convince a friend to join your play-through.
See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36820884
"Audrey II is an invasive species to earth, originating 'past the stars, and beyond the moon,' or about 490 light-years from Earth on Kepler-186f. If you had a Falcon Heavy Rocket, a cryostasis chamber, and were willing to leave behind everything you’ve ever known on Earth, you could check out Audrey II in its natural habitat where it is the dominant species.

Otherwise, Audrey II can be purchased from local New York florists for a paltry $1.95, post-eclipse." [0]

[0]: https://carnivorousplantresource.com/the-plants/audrey-ii/
https://twitter.com/GermsAndNumbers/status/16340874678749470...

This is a somewhat flippant take of mine, but is emblematic of a lot of Nate Silver's posting during the pandemic, which is that epidemiologists are all hyper risk adverse ninnies, and we're clearly at the end of the pandemic.
I can't find it but Scott Alexander had an essay where he laid out the hypothesis that some of the personality disorders (narcissism and BPD in particular) came about through evolutionary selection. It's notable that the prevalence varies among the sexes.
The current state of DRM is that you have to find a hardware vulnerability in order to extract a certificate. With this you can now decrypt DRM content, but you have to be careful not to get that key blacklisted.
Thanks for sharing! I take it that was a hand-me-down laptop? My first PC I could call my own was a hand-me-down 6-year-old Toshiba Tecra Pentium II laptop with a 5GB IDE HDD and 192 MB of RAM running Windows 98 SE I received when I was maybe 10. I wish I would have installed Linux or had a compiler handy to learn how to write "real" software (as opposed to Logo in a MicroWorlds Pro environment), though eventually I discovered Linux from a friend's dad recommendation to try Fedora Core 6. IIRC it was painful downloading the ISO(s) over a 512kbps DSL connection, which had a copy of GCC!
Could someone help me with context? I'm OOTL and don't understand what is going on here.
Interesting, what is the system/standard through which payroll companies advance-notify these banks?
Eco himself joked that Brown was one of his "Diabolicals".

But I agree, they're radically different books which bear no comparison aside from the theme of secret societies. I adore Foucault's Pendulum, it's one of my favorite books. And the first two Robert Langdon books are really fun, despite their flaws, and despite the author's weird claims about factual accuracy.
Probably this paper [1] is very well known among the classic HN audience, but I dare to leave this link here for the ones who missed it. It is an easy read and it just explains with plain words the backbone of the UNIX system as it was envisioned 50 years ago.

[1] https://dsf.berkeley.edu/cs262/unix.pdf
From my experience, it's a completely different problem.

For 99% of websites there is no serious behavioral analysis, and when there it's easily bypassable.

It's as simple as:

wait some random time between 500 and 3000ms before clicking and always make the clicks randomly slightly off from the center of the element

wait for some random time between 50 and 200ms between keystrokes

use ghost-cursor to make realistic movements using bezier curves

Most of the time you get spotted because of some obscure value in some random part of the browser or request headers isn't what it's supposed to be, not because your actions aren't realistic
I know a number of people who grew up in areas where the water was never fluoridated and where the toothpaste had a very low / nonexistent level of fluoridation (rural Australia) and they have ADHD. There's no link.
One big difference is that the authors of this protocol have probably spent a lot of time at IETF meetings
Yeah, but sometimes imperative is just easier.
Mypy is an amazing, should have mentioned it.

Pydantic enforces types when you're working with a Pydantic objects. However, it doesn't help with functions that accept vanilla types as parameters. validate arguments checks that the callers parameters matches the function's type hints.

This is helpful because a static analyzer like mypy won't catch the wrong type being passed in all situations.
My girlfriend had it. Not any more. Suicide...
it's rare for "layman" to find true errors in papers, and you weren't a layman when you did your investigation, as you say in the article.

That said, 90% of all papers contain at least one important error that brings the conclusions into question. Note that even great papers that established long-accepted truths contain important errors, see both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Controvers... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan's...

Similarly, the original 3D structure of DNA from W&C was actually "wrong" but I truly doubt any laymen (laypeople) could have determined that by reading the original paper (which is a paragon of clear and simple scientific reporting).
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

When I was a child, I liked lizards, rats, and frogs as pets, and I also enjoyed the occasional Venus Flytrap from the nursery. I considered some pitcher plants recently, but I had to weigh their effectiveness against cockroaches, and the need to build a whole tropical environment with lights, heat and humidity.

Lastly, that brand of essential oil is the same one I purchase, and it's great. I use them in a diffuser.
Dependency management is a common example; e.g. we want A; A depends on B and C; B depends on D or E; C conflicts with D; etc. These are all constraints, and we can ask a system like MiniZinc to find a set of packages which don't conflict (in that example {A, B, C, E} satisfy the constraints).

I don't think MiniZinc itself is used by any package-management tools, although some use competing tools/libraries. Personally I've used MiniZinc for a related problem: finding a subset of dependencies (of a given size, say 10), which satisfy the most outputs.

Edit: Another constraint modelling problem I've tackled (although I didn't use MiniZinc to solve it) is seating allocation on public transport: if the scheduled vehicle is unavailable, and the replacement has a different seating layout, how can we best assign the reserved seats (taking into account ticket class, seat direction, window/aisle, amenities, etc.)?
Interesting. If this becomes a widespread practice, I suppose Cloudflare could start including bogus client subnet values in its upstream requests.
But everything is A/B tested. What starts out as a bug can end up organizationally unfixable if it has a positive impact on conversion.
The https://freewilly.ai website is just a link to the blog post right now.
Related to Coroutines for Go <https://research.swtch.com/coro>
My ex is a geneticist and used to talk about how evolution rewards rape in many situations, including early homo sapiens.

My point is: it doesn't matter whether narcissism or BPD are useful mating strategies. It's slightly interesting in an anthropological sense, but it has no bearing on whether they should be considered disorders and treated as best we can.
>calling virtually anywhere cost a certain fixed rate per minute.

This is how it worked in the UK. Calling anywhere cost per min and I racked up HUGE phone bills in the early days.