skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Popular literature of years past looked more like those trashy-cover, cheaply-made, deteriorating, fits-in-a-suit-jacket-outer-pocket-without-wrecking-the-drape, thin genre novels you sometimes see carefully preserved in bookstores today, that never saw a hardcover printing (LOL, why? Pick one up, and 99% of the time they're clearly hastily-written formulaic crap), than Hemingway or Melville (the latter of whom, famously, had to be "re-discovered" in order for us to recognize his name today—he'd vanished from pop-consiousness very fast). Or "penny dreadfuls" (similar deal) before that.
> An introduction to a concrete skill that would at one time have been padded out to fit into an hour long movie or lecture might become a 30 minute youtube video and then a 30 second tiktok

It's a thin illusion. Brain candy masquerading as real food. Those snap-cut tiktok cooking instructionals aren't teaching my girlfriend to cook the dishes any more than a snap-cut BJJ youtube short could teach me how to do a berimbolo. She's gonna have to read a recipe and spend hours in the kitchen, and I'm gonna have to spend hours on the mat with a training partner.
IMHO think it is something of a looking back / looking forward situation. Looking back, the Twitter brand has indeed accumulated massive goodwill. Looking forward, it would appear that some kind of LLM is replacing search (bard.google.com replacing google.com; chat.openai.com replacing bing.com). Elon has been very busy establishing the new https://x.ai/ as an alternative LLM "to understand the true nature of the universe", with no fewer than 11 new key executive technical employees this July. It is clear that looking forward, Elon has a hybrid vision of Twitter morphing not just into a WeChat clone, but going well past that and potentially knocking on the heals of ChatGPT/Bard as the next obvious incarnation of search.
I don't think it's nonsense. Patreon, OnlyFans, etc are basically things that should've been apart of Twitter UX from the jump, all with a simple 'Subscribe ($X /month)' button, the overlap in their user interfaces is no accident. IG is already trying to do this as well already, but its niche limits its scale.

I would hazard a guess that pre-Musk Twitter, for whatever reason, had fears around bringing payments onto the service, particularly in the case of sexual content and resolving that, but this led to a situation where other services spring up to fill that void.

However, Twitter Blue was a case of having your cake-and-eating-it-too where I think Musk wanted a story on cash flow not dependent on ads ASAP. In truth, Twitter Blue should've exclusively been a service tier for creators who want to monetize content on Twitter; a case naturally requiring verificaiton. That would've given an incentive and a rationale to the extant pre-Musk creator class that bemoaned its introduction, but Musk really fucked that up by trying to exploit Right wing allegations of Twitter being biased towards the Left (which it never was, rather, the reverse was true[0]) to make up for freaking out advertisers.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...
About the only place I spend cash regularly is the farmers market. I typically take out 80-120 dollars on my way to the market and come home with anywhere from 0-60 dollars and a pile of produce. I also probably bought coffee and something for breakfast. As far as spending goes, I know the money probably went towards food (or was it flowers or some crafty thing?) but it's really just a black hole where I ultimately end up categorizing it as "cash spending" in my budget software rather than trying to rebuild where exactly it went.

Credit cards work much better for me.
I agree that many topics are hard to explain to a five year old, but ELI5 can be very helpful in forcing people to simplify their writing. Many people explain things in an unnecessarily complex way, and ELI5 at least makes them think about the target audience.
> some random private company decides to rate you

Where did you move from that didn't have a private company assess your creditworthiness before issuing you a loan? If each bank/credit card company did so separately, what is the issue with outsourcing it to a specialist?
Flying door handle first, with Déja Vu roaring in the background. (I might be exaggerating a little. Also not a pilot.) It looks like you have to use the rudder and bank slightly so that the plane is still flying "forward" but the nose points away from that direction.
Counterargument: this blogpost is worthless. You get all the way to the end and then find out he hasn't actually tried it, not even on a toy model. It's just a neat idea he thinks will work.
I used F.lux for many years but Night Shift is better IMHO. Should Apple instead refuse to build in feature if a version exists in the world? Also F.lux was free, so I'm not sure exactly what was lost, it seems like it's still around if you prefer that over Night Shift.
Better to use something that's specified for usage like this and much more guaranteed to not change, like example.com.
None of that means it's good, and it certainly doesn't mean I have to like it. In fact, clickbait titles on good content is worse than bad content because it makes it look cheap before anyone reads the first word.
Relax, dang usually fixes them anyway
I posit that this retreading of old paths was very good for the industry.

All the truly important CPU design features were first invented using discrete logic for mainframes and minicomputers. Then, 20 years later when it became possible to fit them onto a single chip, they were all out of patent, which is precisely what made the early microcomputer industry so competitive. When none of the important stuff could be patented anymore, you could only compete on merit, not by getting a government enforce a monopoly on some critical piece of your design.
As well as heavy LLM use, we're also using vectors (with pgvector) for searching text content which is displayed in a table. Works very well.
The NSF budgets millions to fight a problem not demonstrated to exist
You'd think that by now crows would have collectively learned that dogs are not really a threat
now if only we could teach humans to also not annotate when they have nothing to add
>I could understand this if it was acquired and then heavily censored

This has happened. Impression count has been decimated for anyone without a check. Bonus points if you've ever blocked Elon or posted with a sentiment he disagrees with.
their "innovation" is making tunnels only big enough for a tesla instead of a train. So you save on boring cost by trading off throughput/operations cost...
God, I hate LINQ. When dealing with code that uses it, it's like you're reading a detective story where suddenly TYGER TYGER BURNING BRIGHT IN THE FOREST OF and then back to murders until WHAT IMMORTAL HAND OR EYE and then murders again.
Actually it is closer to Zuckerberg‘s meta rebrand. You don't save a company by slapping in a new brand and wasting billions on VR without doing market research.
> How often do you tell people no?

A few times a day.

> I find it pretty common to get a visceral reaction when I disagree with people,

I only find this common with people who are very sensitive (not that there is anything at all wrong with that). An interesting corollary I've found as well: very sensitive people tend to think the rest of the normal world is equally as sensitive (something I've picked up from having a very sensitive partner for over 5 years now; a partner who has many very sensitive friends); they somehow seem to forget that countries like Germany have people that are super direct as the norm.

> I think it's a relatively universal human trait to resent dissent

I hear far "worse" from good friends on the spectrum or from Germany or Russia and it's rather easy to chalk it up to them just communicating in a different way.
> Subjective qualities like color and pain?

Colour is perceived. The "what is it like" to see colour is the qualitative illusion. Ditto for pain.

> What about dreams and imagination?

What about them? Does Midjourney plausibly imagine the scenes it generates?

> Illusions are misleading conscious experiences, usually perceptual

Illusions are misleading perceptions. There's no reason to throw "conscious" in there at all, it just muddies an otherwise simple concept.
Easiest way to get a feel for the self-hosted version is just to play around with the sandbox in the web app and enter fake data if you like. The planning experience is essentially the same.

If you did end up jumping for the self-hosted version though and hated it for whatever reason, I could always refund you.
What happens when a bear finds a GoPro? [video]
I wonder if part of this is a function of time passing / getting older rather than purely cash vs not.
You can subnet /64. You'll just lose SLAAC. (+ some idiocy around some devices that refuse to implement both DHCPv6 and manual setting of IPv6 addresses)
Show HN: I wrote a WebUSB driver for the Xbox kinect
imagine i find a sql injection vuln in a site. i have 2 options:

1. report it like a good person

2. exploit it and dump the whole damn list of hashes

1 is research. 2 is blackhat shit. i agree the anonymization was bad, i agree rolling your own crypto is dumb, i'm arguing by addressing it the way he did, ederer is (consciously) attempting to break the valid role of anonymity and introduce a chilling effect.

there is a big difference between reporting a bug and using a rack of a100s to crack and hold info, with the subtle undercurrent that it could be released.

there's an obvious conflict here. ederer et al. don't like ejmr, so instead of looking to actually help, they went after something totally outside their usual just to be dicks about it.
It's more private than literally any other existing form of proof-of-personhood. Why is it a terrible idea for humanity to try?
AFAIK, this changed in 2010 at a federal level.
What if there was UBI, and everyone was guaranteed food, healthcare, education, and a home. Then they were basically encouraged to just follow their passions, whereever that takes them whether it's art, science, music, etc.

Imagine that everyone who's in replaceable fields simply grew up to be scientists, and entertainers. Those were basically the only fields left to go into, and scientists are more like project managers directing AI towards finding solutions to specific goals, and making new discoveries, etc...

We could fix a shit ton of issues with 70% of the population being scientists or science adjacent in their "careers" which that word is more like "life's work" or a hobby, than what it is today.
Once again, the imperial system of measurements almost killed them all...
Permit me to tie a couple of personal observation on this topic.

I do not think we "lost" our ability. I think we changed our thinking.

I think the world has mostly accepted the "good enough" versus "perfect". As we all have heard, to become an expert, on average we need to pursue the subject for 10 thousand hours (? Malcolm Gladwell). But, we do not need to spend 20 years practicing. We can obtain "good enough" in a few weeks, or even few hours (obviously depending on the subject).

For example, to win the Grand Prix de la baguette de Tradition Française de la Ville de Paris (i.e., French Baguette Competition of Paris), many spend a lifetime perfecting their craft. I can teach you in a day how to make an edible baguette that the average consumer will enjoy.

I think our "attention span" has shifted to "good enough" in many instances. I do not think this destroyed our attention span capability, it just made it slightly different.

Final anecdote to "prove" my point we did not lose our attention. I have taken ADHD-diagnosed boys to camp and fish. Of the twelve (ages 12-16), only one could not sit patiently and watch the line and bobber for extended period. He became bored, and started whittling for the same amount of time. Once they returned to "civilization", they "became" ADHD again.

As someone already noted, in my experience humans cannot multitask. We can context switch, some very slowly, and some very fast. But, we do not multitask.
Posting this link to HN (and then describing some unrelated events of the last decade) is asking for it to be fixed? No, it's just griping loudly about one's pet bug, which is one of a zillion in a project as large as Chromium, hoping that somehow this shames Google into reprioritizing it.
Rather than engage in a conversation that will wind up being ultimately a superficial argument or confirmation of your current stance I recommend a book. It's called "Theology and Sanity" by Theologian Frank Sheed of Australia.

Arguing deep topics with a few lines of text every few hours is no way to be persuaded. But it will all too easily confirm your current ideas simply because you will get tired of it and you will conclude that nobody has any valid arguments against your position. This is why you have to get really serious about it and study under people who have "been there and done that" already. You will have to take the time to go through the entire process it cannot be done online.

It is strange that Atheists immediately discount philophical, theological and other arguments. For example, personal experiences and accepting the testimony and authority of those you trust is perfectly rational. It's not fullproof but it's still rational to do so, because there are many sorts of things that we have to accept as true based on such evidence.
They don't publish specs on consumer cards, so it's all speculation without heavy reverse engineering.

There seems to be people saying that it's not just voltage spikes, it's power failure corrupting data at the FTL layer, that the card wasn't designed to recover from.

If it were up to me, SD based devices like the RasPi would have a tiny capacitor, diode, and supervisor circuit, so that the SD could never lose power until at least a few ms after the CPU did, but I'm not the one in charge of such things, all I can do is spec a UPS or an industrial card.

Or more likely, just keep the logs in RAM as much as possible and use fatrace to hunt down various card destroying daemons.
> I worry about the loss of the implicit firewall that NAT offers.

... NAT does not offer 'implicit firewall'

It's just what Average Hacker somewhere on the net can't route easily into your local network. If this is no longer an Average Hacker or he is sitting on your wire then the only thing what your NAT 'offers' is your false sense of security.

And by the way, nobody, noone forbade you from having explicit firewall rules denying anything from anywhere, not explicitly allowed. Just like it is done in a proper IPv4 configuration.
How do you propose measuring developer productivity though? Lines of code written? Unfortunately we've yet to figure out a metric for developer productivity other than "a feeling" and as a developer, sometimes I work better when other people are in the room. Unfortunately, the cheap pixels with a high ROI that are available to me don't travel well, so I either have to go somewhere and be confined my laptop, or someone else has to come to me and be confined to their laptop. (Having an office where that happens is so passé these days.) I have no idea if Apple Vision will let that be different, and $3,500 is too much for me to shell out, but I want to be in my home office but also have my home office colocated with everyone else's home office. Maybe I can setup my office in a self-driving car and it can shuttle me and my desk around to meetings.
I played many of the games covered in the series as a kid thanks to kindly senior software pirates on my local BBS and my mom purchasing a copy of both the Lost Treasures of Infocom and the sequel.

The only problem was that I was too young to really get the genre, it was difficult, so I only ever beat the easier ones, Zork Zero, Wishbringer, Enchanter, Sorcerer and Spellbreaker. The others completely wailed on me, I could barely get a third of the way through the original Zork without being eaten by a grue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom
This is a similar complaint to "I can't run a server from home because my ISP wont give me a static IP".

Sure, it's a problem, but not one with the protocol.
What it’s like to be married to a dying man
> their existence is contrary to everything we thought we knew about neural networks prior to building ones that worked so well

Why is this true? Because their existence implies some sort of preferred basis that aligns with the dims of the neural network, which is surprising?

It's not obvious why their existence is so contrary to what we knew.
Are the grocery stores in your area advertised as “free”? Mine aren’t.
I came here to say the same thing. Defined benefit pensions are very rare these days in the UK.

Also I have to add that your sentences saying, "workplace pension cash-flow priority" and " corresponding income stream" are very confusing.

I think the figures for the UK example are not great. Living expenses, health care, and medical expenses are a lot larger than seems correct.

Also you should probably put a tool tip defining concessional vs non-concessional Australian superannuation. Also that should be in AUD rather than £

Amazing interface BTW
then i think that's why you're so cavalier, you don't understand the area you're discussing. ejmr is an actual important site in econ, and by cracking and holding that info rather than just reporting a bug, ederer is creating and maintaining a chilling effect because "wahh, he doesn't like what people say about him on there"
The "share receiving high ratings" graph near the bottom is quite illuminating.
That's not quite right. The attacker doss the vzeroupper rollback. Any registers in the physical file that haven't been overwritten can be exposed as a result, regardless of what the victim did.
I just upgraded one of my dietpi systems and it has switched to systemd. So far for my light duty it's stayed up.
Before superintelligence scifi stuff we'll probably get some sort of superworm. Some rogue autonomous agent network that is improving itself via some framework like SKILL[1] going around 0-day'ing systems left and right and wreaking havoc.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11944
think the author is talking about having to fix the extra vector in V to be zeros and making sure to not compute/apply gradients to it
I find NeverSSL.com is a short, easy-to-remember URL for "oh crap am I in a captive portal or not".
Might you think that source code would be much better proof and easier to send out?
Recipe tiktoks are like 30 seconds long - faster to watch the whole thing than scrolling to find the recipe on a bloated blogspam recipe site.
Scientific computing has got to at least be interactive. Julia provides that in spades, but Rust is basically painful.
Chat-tuned ones do, but the base models don't. For example, Llama doesn't, but Alpaca has "### Instruction:", "### Input:", and "### Response:".
Thank you. I came here to make a similar comment. Anytime I see a "tour" I know the interface is going to be annoying to get used to.

Don Norman's "Design on Everyday Things" is a must-read for anyone working with UX/UI. Also https://jnd.org/affordances-and-design/

(Of course, these affordances change over time, so some of the conventions/examples are a bit dated, but the spirit remains)
Boring...
Is it racism to point out cultural differences? Especially here, where neither side is even painted as a bad thing?
We're operating for a good cause -- to build a high-quality remote platform.
I feel that it's my right to make a judgement call on his behavior.

After all, he proved again and again what a sad excuse of a human being he is.

But I don't think it's OK to judge his mental state as an outsider.
But also now I have a magical machine in my pocket where I can tap the screen a few times and get a book read to me sped up to my optimal input speed.

Those two things (audiobooks on my phone, the default feature to enable play at 2x-3x speed) have vastly increased the information I absorb.

Now if only someone could come up with a screen/document reader with a decent text-to-speech and decent content filtering, it would be truly magical (read just the bulk text not and don't vocalize every single piece of text, most of which are major distractions to flow and don't need to be read)

Part of the reason I'm learning a bunch of ML things is so I can make this for myself.

On that topic, does anyone know of a really good, open, text to speech model? All of the ones I have been able to find have ranged between garbage and mediocre, none near "good enough" for the thing to be useful to me.
(2022). Someone tell me how the Germans who work at this company can stomach it… they are a mere single generation removed from half the country being controlled by a totalitarian surveillance police force.

The Stasi could only dream.
A vision of the future. Camera pans across a shoebox sized apartment, suspended above a nondescript city with light pollution, air traffic and highway noise. The space is furnished sparsely with generic wall art and take-out containers. Camera shifts to a middle aged, impoverished wageslave sitting alone, displaying a nervous tick, and staring in to their iMirror with an expression of concerned gravity. The camera zooms in to the lips, which begin to move: "Model me this..."
What do you think is going to happen before it's displayed?
It wasn't really the goal of my experiment to fix this issue for sure, I was trying to see if you could improve attention by decoupling the key used by a position for itself and for future tokens.

Open to being wrong here, but wouldn't it be functionally similar to adding a constant to the softmax denom? the function could sort of learn a specific position to have sink and q multiply to one, then removing it before multipling with v would be exactly identical?
The Haskell culture clearly dictates "i = fromString s".

And as a consequence, Rust has it standardized as "i = from s".
Look at Avatar (2009) vs the sequel. The original was ~3 hours long, and a pretty ok movie. Kept the attention of everyone in my family from beginning to end. The sequel was 15 minutes longer, but we gave up before the end of the first hour because it was atrocious, particularly the paper-thin "dude, bro" writing.
As someone who bought a ~$150 knockoff plotter, I wouldn't recommend them unless you're unsure and just dipping your toe into the hobby. The plot quality will suffer -- even small amounts of backlash or slop in the mechanism and pen carriage will result in irritating and unfixable offsets in finer detailed plots. The bigger issue is actually software support -- all the hobbyists shell out for the Axidraw, so it's the only well-supported unit on both an art-software-workflow side and plotter-driver-software side.
> IF he hadn't blue origin or somebody else would be in the spot.

What is your basis for this belief? Blue Origin was founded two years before SpaceX, by a man who was far richer than Elon Musk, hired people connected and accomplished in the space industry and with that opportunity has accomplished far far less. They've never put anything into orbit, even as a test. SpaceX's success has not precluded Blue Origin's success. Blue Origin hasn't succeeded despite hiring many of the best people in the industry because they're unfocused and undriven. Blue Origin is poorly managed by Bezos, not hindered by SpaceX's success.

Really, explain your reasoning for thinking otherwise. I would love to hear this.
Pick up some Dostoyevsky, it's still some of the greatest prose ever written and still feels very fresh.