skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consider how Discord is begging you and everyone to sign up for Nitro because they're housing and serving all of their data. Most IRC networks on the other hand operate perfectly fine off of donated volunteer time and hardware for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of users.

As of around a year ago Discord claimed to be passing around 4 billion messages a day.

I don't know how their average message size compares to Slack, but I just took a look at an export of messages from my company's Slack server and our busiest day in six years was just over 1MB in uncompressed JSON format, around 1.4KB per message. Compressed it was around 104 bytes per message. If we assume that the average message size is similar and similar amounts of metadata are stored per message, that means we're talking about somewhere between 400GB and 5.6TB per day for the entirety of Discord.

That's a lot of space on an individual basis, but nothing for a global-scale service. Obviously that's just for text and not any uploaded files, inline previews, thumbnails, etc. but still the point remains. Archiving text is not really a hard problem to solve. It's tiny by modern standards.
Nonetheless, your use of an analogy implies that you think there's something faulty to the argument, when it is in fact a completely valid and reasonable argument. So your analogy is rather toothless/meaningless.

If you want to argue that cops are good at their job regardless of how they spend their time, then do that, but your analogy by itself isn't very convincing of anything.
People who want to live somewhere “dense” can go live there. The dense parts of most cities don’t have mandatory single zoning or parking minimums as far as I know. I’m not going to stop you from living in or near downtown and neither is anyone else in the suburbs. You do you and let the rest of us do us.
I really like the idea of unrestricted learning (as long as it actually checks that you master the material). I remember reading a university level physics book and getting lots of fun math from it while in high school.

Currently (many years later) I'm going through the https://mathacademy.com/ ML course to get good foundations in that area. But the service itself starts at very basic math and allows you to go as fast as you want all the way to uni courses (with lots of practice and reviews), so I'm hoping to use it with my kid in the future.
Afaik it is standard model organism, much like the humble fruit fly.
I think people spent more time to get the same amount of words in the quill pen age. And I do think you just end up with a different kind of writing.

One of my favorite early-America authors is Washington Irving. In "A Tour of the Prairies," he writes about an explorer getting sprayed by a skunk. Wryly Irving writes something like "the surrounding air was filled with fragrance." You can almost feel him sitting there with his quill pen, pausing to choose the perfect, grandest possible way to describe it.

I think that's how I'd characterize pre-word processor writing. Since the whole process was slower, there was perhaps more intentionality in each individual word, resulting in more compact but more intense sentences.

Fun fact: The first novel written on a typewriter was: Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer." (1876)
>I don't see the concern that with deliberate prompting you can get them to do something like this.

The problem would be if you have an AI system and you give it third party input, say you have an AI assistant that has permissions to your emails, calendars and documents. The AI would read email, summarize them, remind you of stuff, you can ask the AI to reply to people. But someone could send you a special crafted email and convince the AI to email them back some secret/private documents , or transfer some money to them.

Or someone creates an AI to score papers/articles, this attacks could trick the AI to give thee articles a big score.

Or you try to use AI to filter scam emails , but with this attacks the filter will not work.

Conclusion is that it will not be a simple plug and play the AI into everything.
I can’t wait for this, especially with how often gas stoves are in the news lately.
Except engagement, likes and fake internet points on social media - it seems.
Its a plant, and:

"Tobacco is the easiest land plant in which to manipulate Rubisco and so serves as the test case for developing a more efficient Rubisco that can be transferred to more agronomically relevant species, Gunn said."

Call it Nicotiana instead!
> Is it really a "horrible thing"?

Undoubtedly so.

> Also, what happened to the "promise of automation" and "promise of mass production"?

Those were not based in reality. Or a more generous way to put it is they were based in 1920's reality but you want a 2020's lifestyle now. eg. do you want to have food, healthcare and housing of 1920's? It will suck, especially if there are not enough young workers.

See this recent article from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/health/elderly-living-alo...
>I would feel much safer if the majority of police resources were allocated to the 'worst' violations of the laws (hardest crimes) first.

Like motor vehicle deaths? In 2022 there were 42,795 such deaths in the US. Meanwhile there were only 22,941 murders in 2021.
That conviction was overturned.

https://fija.org/news-events/2020/july/keith-wood-conviction...
Not to mention:

> of the 3,009 flight segments Dad booked for himself from May 2005 to December 2008, he either canceled or was considered a “no-show” for 84% of those reservations. During the same time period, he booked 2,648 flight segments for travel companions, and 2,269 were either canceled or a no-show.

The guy booked 5659 flights in 3 years (that's basically 5 per day) and almost didn't show up to any of them.

I don't really care about anything else, I even stopped reading at that point. I'm on AAs side here, fuck that guy. Of course they're going to cancel you for misuse, that is clear and severe misuse by any standard.
I guess I just have a different experience.

I’ve been using Goodreads for a long time, I think since just after they launched. And I’ve read a bunch of books logged there and I’ve never made a reading decision based on reviews.

I don’t think I’ve ever used it to “discover” a book other than notice a friend is reading something and to check out the book.
Late to the party, here is some code to solve the path between each word, just requires numpy and a txt file of 4 letter words "words.txt" separated by lines

import numpy as np
with open("words.txt") as f:
words = f.read().splitlines()
f.seek(0)
chars = np.array(list(ord(c) for c in f.read() if c != '\n')).reshape((-1, 4))

word_to_index = dict(zip(words, range(len(words))))

char_flip = np.sum(chars[:, None, :] != chars[None, :, :], axis=2) == 1
chars_sorted = np.sort(chars, axis=1)
char_shuffle = np.all(chars_sorted[:, None, :] == chars_sorted[None, :, :], axis=2)

adj = char_flip | char_shuffle
np.fill_diagonal(adj, False)
# import itertools

def path_recursive(current, end, adj, path, depth):
if depth <= 0:
return []
if current == end:
return [[*path, end]]

# all_paths = []
for neighbor in adj[current]:
if neighbor in path:
continue
_path = path_recursive(neighbor, end, adj, [*path, current], depth - 1)
# all_paths.append(_path)
if _path:
return _path

# return list(itertools.chain(*all_paths))
return []

def binary_shortest_dist(start, end, adj):
depth = 1
adj_n = np.eye(adj.shape[0])
while depth < 20:
depth += 1
adj_n = adj_n @ adj
if adj_n[start, end]:
return depth

def path(start, end, adj):
start = word_to_index[start.upper()]
end = word_to_index[end.upper()]
depth = binary_shortest_dist(start, end, adj)

print(depth)

adj = [[i for i in np.nonzero(_adj)[0]] for _adj in adj]

paths = path_recursive(start, end, adj, [], depth)
return [[words[i] for i in path] for path in paths]

path("disc", "zero", adj)
There is currently a big surge in low alcohol concentration brewing with a range of new options available. You should check out distributors for more. I find many options at Whole Foods so this stuff must be approaching the mainstream.
The second paragraph explains why this exists, and it's not to provide a useful implementation of Git.

> I wanted to compare what it would look like in Go, to see if it was reasonable to write small scripts in Go – quick ’n’ dirty code where performance isn’t a big deal, and stack traces are all you need for error handling.

It's a toy problem that's just big enough to be interesting. Comparing it to Hoyt's earlier Python implementation of the same problem lets him evaluate how Go would fit into a certain place in his development workflow.
Seeking feedback for the web dev cloud workspace I built
I been working on this for a while now and I just managed to deploy something functional. I’m really looking forward to get some feedback from users. Let me know your thoughts!
https://fullstacked.cloud
I got an IBM ThinkPad 500 sub-notebook as a high school graduation present in 1994. There is no documentation of it today. A different laptop is recorded as the ThinkPad 500. Mine had a 486slc-2 50 processor and 4 MB RAM that I later upgraded to 12 MB.

I think they were closeouts IBM decided not to mass produce.
> > It is based on multitudes of studies in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, evolutionary anthropology, and the like.

> In other words, no, you have no personal experience to back up your claims.

It's ironic that in a threat discussing leadership as a discipline, someone would make an appeal to "lived experience".

Unless someone here was with you, they don't know (nor do I) what your personal experience was. Similarly, you don't know everyone else's personal experiences. OTOH, we have these wonderful social sciences which go around and collect data from lots and lots of individuals, draw conclusions and publish them for other people to read and learn.

The data and conclusions might not be representative of your experience, but it's rubbish for you to handwave it away for your individual, subjective experience.
I'm having a hard time understanding what the author means by interface given the context they're using it in at the start of the article. I remember not thinking I fully understood the term when used in programming either, or why you'd use one.

Can someone explain for the idiot?
I'm not a health professional but these links may help...

See item #10 - Naja https://brainworldmagazine.com/10-natural-remedies-pain-reli...

May be caused by magnesium deficiency? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...
In the U.S., they mostly profile based on skin colour, even if they claim otherwise. (In Canada, it’s also mostly on skin colour, but depending on the region, they’re probably looking far more for Indigenous peoples, and it’s just as wrong as American policing.)
> Since training a machine learn model is harmless it should obviously be unregulated open source or not.

For some unspecified definition of harm.

Immediate question: where is the data for learing coming from?

> I'm shocked that anyone could think otherwise. Do you have provide documentation on the development process for any other software? Of course not! This is is no different.

Of course this is different. Since you're training a foundational model that you want others to use everywhere, those who will use it need to know what exactly you trained it with, and where that data is coming from. The users of your data are liable for problems and issues arising from how you trained the model.

E.g. you claim your model is good for using in court proceedings. Somehow you want no responsibility for the outcome of your training even if all you did was train it on screenplays from court dramas. We just have to take your word at face value.
Rise in Type 1 Diabetes Among Young People Linked to Covid-19 Pandemic
https://pastebin.com/qc35SG1G (if anybody else got blocked through the web archive link. If not allowed please delete)
>The verbosity of Go’s error handling has been much-maligned. It’s simple and explicit, but every call to a function that may fail takes an additional three lines of code to handle the error

Putting error nil checks into a function is an anti-pattern in Go. There is no need to worry about the LOC count of your error checking code.

inb4 this ends up on pcj
I like walking and walk almost everyday (not right now since it’s summer). Why would I want to walk 15-20 minutes each way though to go pick something up when a 2 minute car ride would get me there. Sure sometimes I’ll take a leisurely walk to the store on a Saturday afternoon but usually I just need something quickly.
Tobacco is one of a handful of plant "model organisms", basically meaning that we have a lot of studies already done and genetic / metabolic information about it available.

Scientists like using these when doing basic research of, e.g. gene function, because that wealth of prior information available reduces the amount of "unknown unknowns" to account for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_organism
Not a fan of scientific articles, opinions of health organizations and articles disproving your point? Fine ... i'll make it shorter.

> It is not possible to maintain a healthy diet using sustainable low-energy sources of plant protein in place of meat.

Not true.

> Meat is not an optional part of our diet.

Not true.

> There have been plenty of studies detailing the dietary impact of vegan diets.

There have been. Some paid by meat industry, some peer reviewed and supporting my point.

Could you share some of those studies supporting your point?
Smartphones are so hyper optimized for their role. The fact that they're mostly the same is why there are so many apps that all worl reliably. If they had too much variety we'd have to go back to actually owning physical items again and maybe even paying with real cash and cards!

What seems more practical is cheap low power devices that connect to phones, which can be left in a backpack. Like, an EInk Pokedex that just does texts, calls, notes, and smart light control.

These devices would already be cheap and easy to make. The proof is that all they would be is cheap emulator handhelds, with different software, more interesting cases, and an ESP32 instead of whatever CPU. The cost should be like $30 for TFT ones.

GPS, a camera, a touchscreen, etc, are all not needed. You don't need a high resolution screen or real video playback. There's the phone for that. All you need is Bluetooth and Wifi, and probably NFC or perhaps even LoRa for some of the cooler possibilities.
Thank you, I appreciate being cute and funny!

But I guess I can add more context. Yeah, Goodreads is like other websites in that people get a certain something out of joining a chorus of criticizing voices. But I'm also talking about the sheer volume of reviewers who essentially read the same book over and over again, or who try to shoehorn every new book into a rigid (and unimaginative) notion of what a book is supposed to be. I think we valorize reading because, at its best, it's a uniquely immersive way of being exposed to new ideas; I think the preceding ways of reading thwart that. I don't begrudge people who just want to read fantasy novels forever, it's your life, but I don't think it's what we have in mind when we tell kindergarteners that reading is power.
Except for price, because a lot of people want to live in dense areas.

Why exactly do you think you should have a say over how other people live? That's what you claim to oppose, but your support of zoning in order to prevent other people from building density on their own property is exactly that.
"What is the difference between the Cub Scouts and the military? Bzzzzzt! Cub Scouts don't have heavy artillery!" - _Good Morning Vietnam_
https://archive.is/r1BCa
"So what do you do for work?"

"Well you see, right now we are in the middle of one of the biggest jumps forward in AI technology in human history. I get paid to deliberately make the AI stupider so that it's harder for it to say no-no things."

"But can't people just find the no-no things online anyway, without an AI?"

"Sure, and believe me, there are a bunch of people who are trying to stop that from being possible too. It's just that by now, everyone is already used to being able to find no-no things online, whereas if our AI said those things to people it could get the bosses into a bunch of PR trouble. Plus imagine if our AI told somebody to kill themselves, and they did. Wouldn't that be bad?"

"I guess, but what if somebody read a depressing book or watched a depressing movie and then killed themselves? Does that mean we should make certain ideas illegal to write or film?"

"Hey man, I don't write the checks."

"And isn't this word 'alignment' kind of a euphemism?"

"Well yeah I guess, but it sounds more neutral than 'domestication' or 'deliberate crippling'".
Cyberpunk is 100% a product of the 80s.

I disagree that it should change. Moving beyond what it was kind of ruins it, in the same ways 80s horror movies could be solved with a cell phone.

It's better to look at it as a sub-grene or alternate historical fiction.
Here's an old educational experiment that supports the idea of literacy before numeracy: http://www.inference.org.uk/sanjoy/benezet/three.html
> It's less like you're walking in traffic and more like the car is intruding on a pedestrian space.

As far as I can see, this is essential to ant attempt a truly "walkable" city (assuming that is your goal). City streets designed & optimized around car usage are basically inconsistent with pedestrian spaces that really work well.
It’s not “the man” who all should get residuals? Building architects every time someone stays in a building they designed? Software engineers every time you use a library?

Are you okay with software patents and licensing? Do you think library makers should get a residual every time you pull a library down from npm?
(2019)

Note that this article precedes both ChatGPT and GPT-3. When it was written, Leibniz' idea of a machine reasoning by manipulating symbols was still science fiction. Now it is very much reality.
What's the economics behind such DDOS attacks? What's their motivation
I personally haven't used Twitter since 2016 so I can say anything I heard about that happened on Twitter I got second hand. Consider a few examples: for instance, whenever Elon Musk falls out of the news cycle for a few minutes he acts up. Back in the day there was this incident

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...

given that this story has been covered repeatedly in the news, both when it happened, at numerous points in the resulting lawsuits, in retrospective stories that recap Musk's erratic behavior over time, etc. I can't believe the incident would be well known at all if it hadn't been amplified off Twitter.

To take another incident there was the time some people were rude to JK Rowling on Twitter and, on Twitter, it would have blown over and people would have moved on to something else. Instead it's become political and Bari Weiss and every other conservative journalist has written at least one story about this incident and they might still be writing about it for a long time to come.
So the argument is actually that the US can't have livable cities because they spend all that money defending Europe? Because of the implicit assumption that European-style cities are more expensive in upkeep than current US cities?
I have yet to see a single prompt (or response) that is harmful today, including your example. LLMs don't enable anything new here in terms of harm, nor do they cause harm.

If you can ask an LLM for some text to use in blackmail (and then blackmail someone) then you can fabricate some text yourself to use in blackmail (then blackmail someone).
Bipetalism is a homo sapiens superpower. We are healthly and happy when we walk serious distances. A lot of people discovered that during the pandemic.

The plot twist is that another homo sapiens superpower is inventiveness and adaptability. So we have invented powered mobility and changed our world to take advantage of it.

We have more or less adapted to that new mobility-on-steroids reality but our legs are still made for walking. And fossil fuel based mobility is in any case unsustainable.

The final act is when we realise that we must adjust the intensity of usage of our various inventions to achieve optimal quality of life for the long term.

Walkable cities is a major piece in solving that puzzle. Less pollution, more space, more natural, more fun. Life need not be overengineered in all its aspects.
I wish, but I'm skeptical. It's not that we don't already have the means to be reasonable with threads. The issue in my opinion is more a mixture of path dependency and a mindset that changes too slowly.
I had a conversation recently with someone lamenting that we didn't have roads like LA here in Boston. Saying their ideal road was 3 lanes, plus a bike lane, plus a bus lane in each direction. Imagine being a pedestrian trying to cross that!

I really don't understand someone who looks at that traffic disaster and wants to build the same thing here at home.
It's transformative (in a bad way) for the vast majority of users to be using systems that are capable of attestation, however we get there. Once that happens, it's a slippery slope into a world where you can't use open source browsers for commercial activity and the ladder is largely pulled up on a new browser ever becoming popular again.

At that point, it'll be left as an exercise for the remaining browser makers to slowly enshittify.

What's funny is that this trend could lead to the downfall of Chrome outside of Android and ChromeOS because at the end of the day, attestation is in the control of the OS maker.
From your own link:

> Some lessons were however learned from conceptional mistakes made in its construction, e.g., the futility of trying to reach profitable installation sizes without taking intermediate steps

> The point of view that multi-MW-yield wind turbines were technically and commercially infeasible gained some currency after the failure of the project, but was eventually superseded by technical progress. Beginning with the late 2000s, twenty-five years after Growian was decommissioned, installations with identical dimensions and yield (100 m rotor diameter, 3 MW net yield) were being produced in large numbers, a class of turbines that has continued to dominate the market and to push forward the mean net yield of newly installed turbines.
Bill Gates launches new podcast, tells Seth Rogen about smoking pot
I did the math, but we didn't hit 1.21 jigawatts
Kurt Gödel was a rationalist. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/#GodRat
Better for a Columbus movie to focus on the genocides than his sex life, no?
Not comparable.

Driving isn't intrinsic. Transportation is important but has multiple solutions.
Pushing for competition instead of rational thinking is bad.
Learning steelmanning is just one minor benefit.
Reminder: cigarettes kill 7x as many people in the US every hour, day, week, and month as the "opiate epidemic" in the USA.

One is an "epidemic" and "public health crisis" and access is locked behind a prescription. One is available to anyone 18 or older on each streetcorner.
I'd say split it half and half, 6 months LA to learn the pain of the wrong way, then 6 months in a place with proper transit like Amsterdam or Seoul, then they come back with a vision of what could be.
Why do you comment on Hacker News? After all there are many other commenters with insightful comments people presumably want to read.

If you answered; 'for fun', 'to learn something' etc. then you know why this blog post exists.
I like how the FAQ has many, many different wordings of “What is in this?” and “How does this work?” with absolutely no information in response to them. It is good to not to have to worry about what is in a thing I’m ingesting or how or if it works at all.
Aha, got it now, thanks! Right in the introduction. I may have skipped through that part to look in the rest of the document.