skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course, you'd need a lego-sorter-style device to separate the sand into different colors afterward.

Well that nerd-sniped me. Maybe a very small vibratory feeder so you can handle individual sand particles? Would require the sand to be fairly homogenously sized, but that's nothing some sifting can't fix. One of those usb-microscopes for checking sand color perhaps? Then you get to the point where you want it going fast, which might be tricky...
On StackOverflow.com you are allowed to answer (most) questions even if your reputation is low.
Exactly. The top answer is often wrong and you have to look at an edit on the third answer to see "Since 2021, this is solved by doing x y z".
> It sounds the same with "tweet".

May be in certain cultures. I have never made that connect. I am from India.
Doing it this way instead of your suggestion seems to be garnering a lot of free press. Many companies would pay large sums of money for the reach he's gotten just for changing the logo to a letter (and it's yet to be seen whether the change is permanent, or just a temporary publicity play).
> Or it could be that academic study and modern knowledge work is just severaly outdated in their data delivery methods compared to contemporary techniques used in tools that "cause attention span issues" like Tiktok.

Some things take time. You don't perfect a painting technique, explore a family of variations in a musical theme, analyze a complicated social issue, or solve non-trivial equations in a 25 second slice.

The students that I'm talking about-- they can ask their peer a question that they're interested in learning the answer to, and then have their attention wander and lose state in the time it takes their friend to finish chewing. This used to be pretty rare; now it's distressingly common.

I'm all for multi-modality and different ways to present information. But most people need to develop the skills to show up and think deeply for >20 minute spans.
On Discord? Really? My experience has been that if I don't know what the popular community discord is and what channels to search, I will simply not find an answer. For me, my Discord experience really suffers from Discord not being indexed by search engines.
> can only do it with a warrant

This isn't true, if you're talking about the USA. Within 100 miles of a border, CPB and homeland security can conduct warantless searches, without probable clause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Martinez-Fuer...

This range includes the all but one of the largest American cities.

That's just the law, though. Functionally and practically speaking, the cops can break in and kill you without a warrant, and do so frequently. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/ They can also kill your dog, and frequently do https://aldf.org/project/dogs-shot-by-cops/
A simple tool built in under a day, it works with handwriting too. Would really appreciate any kind of feedback.
Also Russia is a direct cultural inheritor. As in the mongols became the Russian aristocracy, like they became Chinese aristocracy.
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A certain danger lurks there: how the inventor of the chatbot turned against AI
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It’s asking for feedback the author knows how to deal with (and disregard).

You know, if your government body of choice came up with a terrible idea in a draft bill and enraged the population, it would not be appropriate for them to go on TV and say “the population should offer constructive criticism in the form of legal arguments”. So what the fuck is this guy saying exactly, that you feel is a valid approach to handling public outcry?
> Can't you sign your own certificates?

Self-signed certificates are banned in HTTP/2 onwards, which is really irritating when it is used for internal server-to-server communications.

You have to set up a Root CA certificate and use that to sign a second certificate. It's the same thing but with extra steps.
I think the hate is mostly from media turning against him, which IIRC started to happen before the Twitter debacle. What has he done that normal people would care about enough to start hating him?

I would still expect some hate from the sort of people who (rightly) complain about Google Reader being turned down. But normal people don’t care about that sort of thing.
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I like your description because it's relatively succinct and intuitively suggests why the modified softmax can help the model handle edge cases. It's nice to ask: How could the model realistically learn to correctly handle situation X?
Looks pretty easy to compile https://github.com/interkosmos/xroach
You seem to blame the users and relieve SO of any responsibility or inefficiency.

Sure, times change, but it's definitely not the fault of users that a platform is becoming obselete.

This like a chef saying: "People in the past used to like it" in response to anyone criticizing the meal
I just use the plain old website with a greasemonkey script to filter out posts from certain users and sources along with other posts and comments containing key words that tend to provoke uninteresting discussion.
Still cheaper.
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Pretty much every American is a top 5%’er on the global scale.

The only thing they seem to contribute to is… the global scale.

> top 5% childhood positioning, services, access to material and equipment, and more.

Strawman, moving goalposts, etc.
Yes. Microsoft has a character mark for "X", as mentioned in the article (https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76041368&caseSearchType=U...). The reason that's allowed is because it's _narrowly tailored_:

> Providing on-line chat rooms for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games; providing on-line electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games

> Entertainment services, namely, providing interactive multiplayer game services for games played over computer networks and global communications networks; providing computer games and video games downloadable over computer global communications networks; providing information on the video game and computer game industries via the Internet; and providing information on computer games, video games, video game consoles and accessories therefor via the Internet

So for _those narrow usecases_, Microsoft can (in theory) enforce a trademark over the character "X". Any attempt to use that trademark here would be tossed immediately IMO.
Just some random musings about Stackoverflow:

SO is at its best when it’s actual error debugging IMO. When you google some specific error whoever else has the similar error it’s right there. I feel like GitHub is replacing this more and more though - I often get the GitHub ranked specific error higher than Stackoverflow these days. Usually you get better discussions on the GitHub issues too, for a multitude of reasons. Two off the top of my head:

1. all of the people working on the stuff related to the issue are very close by

2. the moderation is not nearly as heavy handed as SO.

ChatGPT is also much better than SO as well if you can give it enough context and the thing you are working on wasn’t built on stuff released after 2021

I also really like Stackoverflow for current event type stuff, like black swan type events. One recent example is when google’s Paris data center was on fire and infra guys were helping each other out trying to get systems online.

All of this combined means that StackOverflow the forum is probably on its way out though. They made the mistake of taking VC money and the model hasn’t really proven profitable so they have really made some poor decisions to please the vc overlords.

I won’t miss Stackoverflow much other than nostalgia unfortunately - better alternatives have arrived. Seeing the decline of all of the other Stackexchange sites kind of sucks though. There aren’t better alternatives for many of those
Anecdotally it seems like Google is favoring spam sites that have crawled answers from SO
Nah it would be bad if the user-agent contained a string describing the users ethnicity and you'd block them based on that though.
Sorry, I am not following you.

I don't think we need to understand the details of how it works to conclude the ROI is ridiculous.
I believe `req` borrows inspiration from `requests` and applies a functional approach. Maybe it will become a similar standard in the community? The idea then is that you have the high-level library but the building blocks are available for low-level control.

You have a good point about HTTP though and I am not sure if it will improve given 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 all imply different trade-offs as well.
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Impress me with your achievements and then we’ll have something to talk about, anklebiter.
You should be able to compile the GTK front end of WebKit nearly everywhere.

The Mac front end uses macOS APIs and Apply is super selective which ones they port to Windows and WebKit would force them to open source this.
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What if I block the latest version of Chrome, but allow the previous version? Is that allowed under your proposal?
> here’s a classic SO thread

My favorite example, from "TeX stackexchange" :

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/100574/really-wide-h...

Quote from the actual answer (which is not the bogus accepted one):

The question wasn't "should it be done?" But, for the same reason men climb mountains, "could it be done?" The answer, [...] is yes. Thus, we introduce [...]
Not the OP, but I find the idea that people should help authorities convict themselves absolutely abhorrent.

You shouldn't be even compelled to help the government convict your loved ones, much less yourself. The government has enough money, powers and people at its disposal, why should they be allowed to be lazy and strongarm you into helping them against your vital interests?

Go far enough in that direction and you'll end up with show trials.
To be fair, the article does have a direct link to the referenced technical study published in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37708-7
No, I will not be giving a scan of my eye. So this is going to be a hard pass.
Nice write up but referring to a 767 as a Jumbo is just plain wrong.
I understand all of that - I just question Google's algorithm that prioritizes answers from 2013 vs answers from 2021 for similar queries.
Read-only is definitely an interesting and compelling idea.
https://github.com/bmitc/fsharp-science-and-math-notebooks/b...

I have had the book for years but recently started properly going through it with F# inside a Polyglot Notebook. I have all the 2D diagrams drawn up until the book starts with the stochastic drawings, which I'll tackle next. F# makes it so nice to build an embedded DSL for the L-systems and then the turtle interpretation of them.

// Figure 1.9 (d)
let kochD =
{ Alphabet = ['F'; 'f'; '+'; '-']
Axiom = "F-F-F-F"
Productions =
[ 'F' => "FF-F--F-F" ] }

drawTurtleSystem 4 defaultTurtle kochD

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the 3D drawings. There may be a way in the Polyglot Notebook to have F# emit WebGL or something.
This article's advice makes more sense to me if I take it as tips for diplomacy as a representative in a high-stakes industry standards forum, where you can't necessarily call it out when someone is trying to pull a fast one.

However, when reporting back to your company, you can and must privately call out Machiavellian plots, sabotage, sloppiness, bad technical directions, business conflicts, arrogance, etc., to the people who need to know that's going on.

If you're not representing a company, but rather, the public interest, then I guess what role you take might depend partly on the overall ethical temperature of the forum, and what influence you can have. Can you do more good by trying to join the cabal circles, with all the necessary diplomacy? Or can you do more good by speaking candidly in public?
Seems you could make a pipeline where a much simpler model adds spaces and punctuation to output from the main model.
while (fork()) {
while (malloc(1000)) {
}
}
while (true) {} // or whatever true was in good old C ;)

my most loved program when I was a young student on a mainframe with 20 other kids.
Did we all learn to actually program?
We used to 'rain-bomb' each others terminals:

$ rain | wall

This was always really fun with the newcomers to the ops centers ..
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There is a german saying: "Satz mit X, war wohl nix." that comes to mind. Anti-Search Engine Optimisation. The world has really passed google by, if this is a valid option.
"Oh – it's not patched, screw web – I'll just use the aws-cli to do whatever I wanted 10x faster."
I resorted to a UserScript to fix the worst of the site's UI problems.

https://github.com/mgladdish/website-customisations/tree/mai...

I'm particularly pleased with the changes to how comments are rendered, especially downvotes and quotes. It makes such a difference to not have the UI be actively hostile to read.
Thanks for this delightful breakdown of how dumb this theory is.

By now I am very much aware that there are lots of people who believe conspiracy theories, yet I am still surprised when those people are from the tech scene. A developer who believes in the dumbest conspiracies is such an odd thing to me. It is so odd to me that someone who supposedly things about problems in a systematic way and has to break them down into their parts, can fall for something as dumb as the richest man in the world taking some sort of payoff to kill twitter.

I should know better by now, but it still takes me by surprise sometimes
From what I can tell, Most billionaires want to change the world.

Most are just far more considered and cautious in how they go about it, because getting it wrong _hurts_everyone_, including themselves.
> It seems like chicken is better than fish is wayyy better than red meat.

You're right, but only if you count carbon footprint. You also have to count in destroyed/damaged/polluted ecosystems, elimination of wildlife, deforestation, energy, etc. etc. if you WANT to have a complete picture.

For CO2 numbers, you can see the original study

Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325532198_Reducing_...

or the graph listing more kinds of meats here:

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
> They should really fire their human reviewers. These are the same ones who keep demonetizing rule-abiding channels and rejecting applications for channels that actually make good content.

But by demonetizing your videos temporarily, they make even more money. They have little incentive to change the system until there is serious competition.
It's a learning experience for kids. It teaches them that they can jailbreak hardware and install free software on it.

The best educational things the school can do: Give the laptops to the kids free and clear, and tell them how to install Ubuntu.
ChatGPT has replaced most of my usage of StackOverflow/Google.

It probably won't last forever without people generating new answers somewhere else, but it answers a lot of things correctly, and the things it gets wrong are easy enough to verify.

I really hope ChatGPT causes StackOverflow to change.
He can get easy press doing anything including with the route I'd outlined. Meta got global coverage for Threads without sacrificing Instagram or Facebook.
This won't even work to solve the problem they're trying to solve. If I'm a scraper or someone that wants to drive fake ad impressions, what stops me from faking the attestation info? There's some mention in the original article about the attester validating the attestation data is signed on the client, but that just pushes the problem down the stack a bit. Someone could still spin up VMs, and just automate the scraping in a real environment that passes attestation. The author is claiming this will ensure only humans are viewing said data, but it doesn't really ensure that, it only adds a couple steps.

I also find it funny that the authors point to mobile platforms as an example of how this will work well. Last time I worked with ad tech, mobile ads were flooded with fake impressions, and I highly doubt that has changed. The funny thing about players like Google is that they want to be able to tell advertisers they're doing a lot to prevent fake impressions to get them to buy ads, but they don't really want to solve the problem because it would cost them a lot of money. So they kinda play the line and develop tech like this that sounds fancy but doesn't actually stop the problem in practice.
This probrably controversial but recent research suggested that Genghis Khan (original name Temujin, in Kazakh meaning 'blacksmith') is from the Kazakh clan Kiyat (in Kazakh meaning 'cuts') [1]. It's well known that ancient Kazakh nomads literally lived and died by their horses [2],[3].

[1] Genghis Khan a Kazakh?

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2004/04/06/Genghis-Khan-a-K...

[2] A horse in a burial-Memorial ceremony of ancient nomads in Kazakh Altay region:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286946217_A_horse_i...

[3]Horses and Humans: Ancient Bond:

https://astanatimes.com/2023/04/horses-and-humans-ancient-bo...
Tesla is definitely fine to use! In my opinion it relies too much on module-based composition/configuration. In this aspect Req is more functional and less setup-y.
We are discussing the average ROI, not cherry picking the (few) anecdotes where it went well.

If you are going to bring new (and extraordinary) numbers please bring (extraordinary) references.
Oh, interesting! In Thai, peppercorns are พริกไทย, literally “Thai chilli”, where I think most Westerners would think of (and indeed Wikipedia says that) Thai chillis as being bird chilli (พริกขี้หนู, lit “mouse shit chilli”)
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Wasn't intermission because movies was on physical rolls (sorry, don't remember correct name) which had a maximum length and they needed an intermission to change roll?
I believe the idea is that an independent third party will cryptographically sign something to attest that the client is legit.

So you can't fake that unless you have the third party's private key.

If course the question is then, how does the attestation third party ensure you are sending it real information? I've not bothered to read the proposal because I don't care, but I suspect it will require client-side plugins/libraries etc snooping on what is going on kinda like an antivirus thing snoops on things going on.
> You could make a similar argument that the Soviets supported the emancipation of women far more than the west in the mid 20th century, and that women in the USSR had more right to work.
> That framing of course is absurd because women in the USSR also had more chance of their brothers being disappeared, etc.

I don't think that's absurd? Both can be true at the same time, a government can stop discriminating you for one thing, while starting to repress you for another. Whether that's a net negative for any individual depends on circumstance and detail.

It's obvious if you reduce it to the absurd: e.g. if a government decides the abolish slavery (terrible discrimination for a specific group) while also disallowing chewing gum for everyone. Similarly you can construct examples for the inverse (a minor reduction of discrimination vs a great loss of freedom for everyone).

History is pretty clear in its opinion on the (lack of) merits of Stalinism, but I don't think you can construct a general principle in the phrasing you chose.
If I'm following correctly, does this mean that with this change along with a model being quantized, we could see models that are 5% the size (on file system) and memory usage but almost identical in output?
What nonsense. Open wifi was basically the norm for public hotspots at the time, POP was not encrypted, nor was most HTTP traffic.

We didn’t stand a chance.
Heh, you think there aren't sloppy papers in life science? There are guys who churn out paper weekly and no, those things aren't very impactful. I have seen plenty of crap floating around just because it has a big name attached to it at the end of a (very) long list of authors.

It is just an older field with more established "traditions" and big names that reinforce themselves over time. Regardless, I don't think it is relevant. By number, life science research is only behind the military in funding. And by utility, show me one person who does not depend on any kind of healthcare or medicine and I will show you ten people who never used machine learning products (easier to find than you think when we get out of the western hemisphere). It is banal to claim ML has more utility. It sure can make more money, but the impact on a personal level isn't comparable. Society can still function without AI but take away healthcare and you will see it goes to shit real fast.
Have you got some examples of this? I don't have a lot of non-big tech hardware, but my raspberry pi model b still receives updates.