skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem very in denial about a lot of this. Obviously 'weird preferences' do not really explain these issues (I note you completely ignored the case of heavy metals in drinking water, hard to explain as a 'consumer preference' for cheaper but unusable water.) So you've chosen to pretend that well documented things do not exist or are trivial.. Libertarian Germans often have to tie themselves in knots to pretend that all the elements of their high-trust society would exist without paternalistic government, when it's enough to compare their society to most others in the world to establish the opposite!

What country does Ritter Sport come from? Is it considered luxury chocolate in that country?

The huge differences between husbandry and meatpacking standards in the United States and Western Europe are extremely well known. Most US meat products are not allowed to be imported to the EU because of this. I'm surprised you need a 'source' for this widely known fact pattern (which in fact, you yourself mentioned in your comment above - pork in the US can not be eaten rare). What US meat is exported is generally a completely different standard than what's sold domestically.

The ready availability and aggressive marketing of opiate painkillers in the US continued for around twenty years, many of it based in 'pain clinics' whose only service was writing scripts for pills. Such clinics do not exist in Western Europe. The govt cracked down on these at a point where addiction was endemic in some regions. The problem was demonstrably not 'tiny in relative terms'.
It still heavily lacks in quality in some areas, while making it seem like it is well-written. I just recently started blocking it.
Yes! There are few things as pleasant as having no subscription services to worry about. Bills are plentiful enough as it is, I'm in no hurry to add to them. I love one-time purchases.
"you are only entitled to the source if you are a user of said software."

Correct but incomplete. One of the rights you automatically get is the right to share said source code. RedHat is making this forbidden with a contract.

IMO this is the only thing Red Hat is doing wrong

(That and changing the end of support date for Centos 8 after they had already committed to a longer timeframe. But this is a different topic.)
I'm a non-expert here but it seems intuitive to me that directly moving towards an improved model via linear regression is more efficient than randomly changing your model and then running a natural selection simulation to improve fitness.
ChatGPT prompt that leaks other people's prompt results
I live in Sweden, it's cold outside and heating is expensive because of rising electricity costs due to the war in Ukraine.

I accept the flatulence.
My ML prof in university used this as an example for something that could happen but is highly unlikely. Each particle of oxygen can be in either half of the room so it's like 1/2 to the power of the number of particles (avogardo?) chance that all the particles are in one half suffocating the ppl in the other half. He was such a great guy.
Also why would developing countries have to limit carbon emissions more than non developing ones?
As a maths graduate from nearly 40 years ago I've forgotten far more than I remember, but really enjoy little 10-15 minute snippets of calculus and analysis on YouTube that tickle the rusty old neurons. Current favourite is Michael "and that's a good place to stop" Penn.
It's rather easy to add infinite scrolling to an MPA too, though. A few lines of JS is all you need.

I'd argue this is simpler and easier than investing in a full blown ui library and state manager or painting yourself into some corner of today's JS framework.
You have to feel for anyone who works at pinterest - they just be getting that “are we the bad guys vibe”

https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY
Good luck! Texas is a conservative stronghold and they’re all about personal responsibility. A tax funded cool shelter? No sir, that’s socialism!
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>That is why discussions around such technological silver bullets are always toxic: people want to believe.

On the flip side, some people reject technological solutions on principle because for them, it's not about solving problems, it's about atoning for the sins of humanity.

What does the alternative future look like where we solve the climate crisis by changing the way we live and organize society? Personally, I would prefer to continue having electricity, heat, running water, sewage treatment, shipping, transportation, and the internet. It seems to me that if we really wanted to, we could keep these things around while putting a substantial portion of GDP into building nuclear reactors and removing carbon from the atmosphere. But that's not a satisfying answer for people who have made the climate crisis into a religious issue.
I can see the trend you’re talking about, but the vast majority of games on consoles I can buy, put into my console and play without being online. Some games are obviously always online, some are just straight broken without patches, but the majority are just ok without internet.
So I find that, currently, my point stands.
Thank you. I checked them all, all need the CAPTCHA every single time. I think these are all the same, but on different domains.

Though I am lucky compared to other users, I only need to click a box, and wait ~1.5 secs, no pictures or endless loop.
Goto. In the end it's all about manipulation of the instruction pointer.

Loops as deduplication is a very specific subset of looping that is very popular in some languages and almost nonexistent in others. If you don't have destructuring and convenient list literals you might never ever see it in the wild.

But even the Java 7 version (iterating an ImmutableList.of multi-nested Maps.immutableEntry of new FunctionN) can be workable despite its hilarious amount of repeated type annotations, if you have learned to stop worrying and love the tooling. Stuff like typescript makes it a breeze, so much that one might occasionally forget that it's not the regular form of looping.
Why do you dislike KDE? It's a great conventional DE with everything customizable.
Pumping CO2 into the atmosphere is geoengineering. Reducing CO2 emissions is less geoengineering.
Because the top ones won't be convinced if you don't convince the others. Tragedy of the commons and all that.
We're making good strides in some areas and others are more resistant to breakthroughs.

This even works in different aspects of the same thing: We have the ability to genetically modify T-cells to kill some kinds of cancers, but it's more difficult to use that against solid tumors, which create their own microenvironments inside of them, than blood cancers.

https://stemcellres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1328...

But, of course, we keep making progress, and there's been some promising results in making CAR T-cell therapies that work against solid tumors:

https://www.cancernetwork.com/view/cldn6-car-t-cell-therapy-...

We advance piecemeal and some things are more difficult than others, but we definitely advance.
TorToiSe is composed of many large models: GPT-2 for text encodings, as well as a large VQVAE encoder + large diffusion model decoder.

Only the big spaghetti inference code (+ weights) has been published, so there's a high entrance barrier for re-training / improving it.
>There's something very fundamental to the nature of these things that makes me feel like they just don't work.

Possibly, though my intuition is the opposite. I don't think social norms are "fundamental" in a strict sense. They're just important. That said, the reasons not to jump in the deep end is because it makes fundamental-unsovlvable problems indistinguishable from advanced problems that will be solvable later.

IE, if someone is using smart glasses for work or some other activity where they are useful, they might expand their use into other activities.

You could not have invented Tinder or snapchat in 1994. User density, camera, ubiquity, and other hardware issues matter. Besides technical issuaes, culture also had to develop before people felt comfortable using real names, posting pics and meeting people from online. If everyone already posts on facebook, the world may be ready for online dating, online therapy, etc.
Why it is hard to generate beautiful HTML emails (from Markdown)
<offtopic>Does this Twitter link open for you in Chrome? Lately I have had less than 50% success rate opening Twitter. I just see a blank page with an X in the middle.</>
Do note that at least some Race3 batches have a rust issue on the plate standoffs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/irmbqr...
This take is so 3 months ago.
I have tried regenerating output ~50x (using GPT-3.5) before submitting and it looks pretty legit. Random results I found mildly interesting:

- Stress management techniques, mindfulness exercises.

- Instructions on how to reset Moto G7 Play.

- Instructions on how to turn off speech synthesis in Edge.

- How to approach someone you have a crush on.

- People asking about their health symptoms.
The main problem they don't talk much about, and why this isn't ready to go mainstream, is that those brain implants will decay over time.

The brain will build up scar tissue around the electrodes and render them useless. These are basically little needles put into a jell-o which then wiggles around all the time. This constantly irritates and damages the tissue. Your immune system hates this.

Even within months there's a significant decay. But, within 5-10 years most of the array becomes pretty useless. Of course, you can't replace it easily. And the damage to that area, while local, isn't reversible.

There's a lot of research on trying to make a brain implant that can last longer so that all of these treatments become viable. But we still have basically nothing.
Improving image search on Wikimedia Commons
This is just the usual cookie banner. This is a direct URL to the image: https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Geforce-RTX-4060-Ti-16GB-Graf...

Point being that a lot of current-gen AAA games already benefit from more RAM, and this is not going to get better. Consider that frame generation and raytracing also consume lots of VRAM, and FG will be essential to keep 4060Ti level silicon competitive in the future.

Here is a Youtuber making the same case, that no, its not just that one badly optimized game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-j1vdMV1Cc

Does this affect all games? No. But this won't help you if it affects a game you'd like to play, now or in the future.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but sharing the source simply cancels the contract or you receive some legal penalties as well?
The key is not the source code RHEL ships, the key is the list of names of patches RHEL takes from Centos Stream/Fedora to get to a stable LTE environment.

The code is all known, the patches are all known, but which patchsets did get into it is their business model.
Hi, Currently, JiraGPT is designed for cloud-based Jira instances and doesn't directly support on-premise installations. However, it's theoretically possible with additional development. Please let me know if this is a feature of interest so we can consider it in our roadmap!
The same here. My BBS time was with [xz]modem only, but as the author of the article I've used kermit for a HP48-SX too
(Love it that there is a android emulator for this calculator :-)
According to the people I know, who do know things, it's not uncommon to require some force for a superconductor to move while pinned and that it can experience 'snapback'

(Don't get me wrong, I think there's a significant chance that it's fake, but I've been told that if it is in fact a superconductor this is very much how it would move)
One of the reasons I got my degree in Biotechnology was because I realized that the technology of life is mind-bogglingly advanced and learning how it does things can have profound insights into how we solve other problems. The process of mutation and evolution is definitely a strong contender for this, maybe one of the most important and powerful.
It has a quick region switcher like DDG (a must-have for me), and the results are way better than DDG. Give it a try!

I just did a Google vs Kagi vs DDG test on "grzyby marynowane" (pickled mushrooms, usually pickled champignons, a common snack on Polish family gatherings).

Google: Starts with recipes, then there is Allegro ("Polish Amazon") where you can buy jars of them, then Google page ends (10 results/page).

Kagi: starts the same, but there is more (20?) results/page. It continues with some podcast episode about pickled mushrooms on Soundcloud, a Wikipedia page, some more recipes in Polish and English and finally a Pinterest page (:rage:).

DuckDuckGo: first page is just recipes. I decided to give it a bigger chance, so I checked out a second page. There you have pretty unrelated articles like "where to pick wild mushrooms" and an Allegro link in between.

However, as happy Kagi user I still have to note that they are using Apple Maps for maps/POI search. As you well know, they are quite useless to us compared to Google Maps, so I keep using !gm bang to get redirected. Bangs work almost like DDG, the only difference is that they must be at beginning or end of your search (DDG lets you put it in between words too).
Your comment, along with cpgxiii and n2d4’s are all really good. I have a question: suppose training and inference of an LLM were made to be deterministic at the cost of performance.

Would the cost be “everything will take twice as long” or would it be more like “inference will take a week and training will take a couple lifetimes”?

If it’s the latter, then it seems disingenuous to call this a “bug.” It’s like saying F1 cars could be horse drawn, and they only use internal combustion for “performance reasons.” If its the former, then maybe there is a more interesting discussion to be had about the potential benefits of determinism? (That said, I agree with n2d4 that it’s stupid to insult the authors. Talk is cheap and building is hard.)
Apple produced for the top and IBM for the masses. Look where both companies are today.
> We've been improving our CO2 models for over a century now, and in recent decades the modelling has been extremely good - although if anything it's been too optimistic.

If the models are too optimistic, that still means they are wrong, right? Genuinely confused about this.

“The situation today is more dire than our previous models predict and the same models predict an even worse future so we need to take them extra seriously” doesn’t strike me as very reasonable. Not in a super non-linear system with tons of complicated feedback loops.

Any pointers to in-depth explanations of how these models work and how they are benchmarked? Definitely want to learn more.
if you can't trust your isp than either find someone that you can trust (by verification) or run your own resolver.

there was a recent move from the eu to have an eu-centric public resolver which brought up the question if/how the big players address country specific filtering requirements which in turn might have shed some light on the fact that gog/cf didn't care; until now.
I suspect the article is written primarily to be clear to people sufficiently immersed in the relevant areas to be able to have a concrete opinion on the theory.

Also I strongly suspect that at least in the case of -me-, an article that was easier for me to understand wouldn't make the underlying theory any easier for me to judge.

(on the upside, at least I -did- understand and appreciate your self deprecating pun :)
This is the feature that I originally started using Kagi for, but I wouldn't say it's the best innovation. Their default search results are already dramatically better than Google's, and their AI tools which can summarize individual results or give you a quick answer for your question based on the first page of results are way more innovative. All of those features combined and their subscription-based business model make Kagi by far the most innovative player in search at the moment.
It's completely mistaken to think that the NN craze means noone works on anything else. Academia has very many people researching whatever they want, full-time or on the side. AI has especially many veteran researchers stubbornly following long-standing lines of research which have unimpressive results. Noone can say they're wrong. Hinton was once that guy doing unfashionable research into NNs.

Anyway, there are also memetic algorithms, which extend genetic algorithms by adding local search (some form of local improvement such as gradient following or simple handcoded heuristics) to the genetic global search. Actually a very simple idea (e.g. alternate mutation and/or recombination and optimisation steps). They tend to perform better than pure genetic algorithms because they can actually use gradient information or heuristics. It's a very broad class of algorithms which tend to have many hyperparameters.
Thanks

... and sure it is. I certainly am not hoping for Meta to succeed in owning the metaverse.

That said, the sentiments can add up to an impulsive "roast em!" habit that discourages risk taking, even risk thinking. It's ultimately much easier and less interesting to consider how things can fail than how they can succeed.
> Asking "how's it going?" throughout the day isn't objectively good or bad

Most of the time, this simple innocent question is an introduction to a work related question. It is, and has always been for me, a massive waste of time. You lose your focus, you stop working while waiting for the coworker to decide whether or not he will ask you the real question in the next 10 minutes.

I approximately lose 1 hour every day due to this behavior and it's really annoying.
GitHub Actions and vanity metrics
archive.today is the "official" name, which redirects to the domain of choice (right now archive.md, at least for me).

archive.is is blackholed in many places.
Haskell has WAI, which is similar to WSGI:

https://www.snoyman.com/reveal/first-app-wai-warp
the license doesn't transfer if the company is bought.
> it just changed the skill set from a strong back to a strong engineering ability.

When you have a machine that can do it all, there will be no skill to change to.
Something I wrote recently to put a smile on my face after a couple of tough weeks doing cold outreach.

If it makes another person smile, it was time we’ll spent.
There are bills trying to get encryption restricted in Congress right now talk to your representatives. (And don't worry if you are European, they have bills you need to fight too)
I don't think hilariously strained analogies are helpful in this discussion.

The incredibly multi-variate nature of this problem effectively prevents any comparison that is at the scale of an individual.
I wish I had the ability to downvote, so I could downvote this comment into oblivion. What a shit attitude to have. Asking stupid questions is how you learn. You stop asking questions, you stop learning.
The human sources are well-documented. Natural sources of equivalent severity/magnitude are not. That kinda narrows things down. We're doing in hundreds (tens, even!) of years what nature needed thousands or millions to do.
For computer science, https://blog.acolyer.org/ is called The Morning Paper and talks about one interesting paper per post.

Edit: It seems to've gone on indefinite hiatus but there's a lot of backlog already there and some of it's really quite fascinating.
Who knew everyone who paid 8 would sign up to get money back.

And who knew running payroll for potentially hundreds of thousands of people would be so complicated.

P. S. Who knew signs require permits.
This is cool but imo it makes more sense to have URL redirection as a browser extension. That way all twitter links resolve to nitter, not just ones from a search engine. I use this one https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
Apple certainly didn't produce for the top. The Mac Pro always was a niche product for media people.
Yes, why people don't think to check and change this, for their own project's visibility/searchability, shows how bad people are at PR / window dressing.
Cerbos – open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions
Apple's soldered-in SSDs are engineered in the WORST way possible [video]
Old ideas that were good but didn't become common/standard are something I run across a fair bit in papers and yeah, they're often way behind the state of the art but also a lot easier for me to understand/implement and far better than the relatively naive approach I'd've taken otherwise.
closer to TLS CA setup with ephemeral certificates, a public log of issuance, then pgp individual trust circles and semi static keys.

https://www.sigstore.dev/how-it-works
Carbon emissions per capita is going down in developed countries. It's going up in developing countries. Your implication was that the current problem is the level of consumption in the richest countries. But in reality that only accounts for a small portion of the expected carbon emissions over the next century.

We don't need to "cut back" to a sustainable level. A sustainable level is whatever amount of energy we can produce without increasing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. If we built more nuclear, solar, and wind power, and invested more in carbon capture and storage, we could sustain a much higher level of consumption than we currently are, while emitting less carbon.
Why exactly do you place faith in evidence that says "we can still avert the worst of it" and are not willing to do the same for evidence that says "we can do even better with geo-engineering"? Presumably the scale of the problem is the same either way, so well-reasoned evidence should be able to persuade you of either.
We are in an emergency, look at those graphs ?
The Real Question Behind 'What Do You Want?'
This study purports an over 200% increase in cognitive function due to smelling oils at night. Either this is the dumbest scam ever or deserves the Nobel prize.
I'd understand if it's not ready to be shared, but could you point us to your .emacs.d or such?

Would love to check it out a couple months from now.
I think Jensen Huang (or his sales team) came up with this quote first:

"While some worry that AI may take their jobs, someone who is an expert with AI will."

He said this at the NTU Commencement Speech in May 2023.
Your comment reminded of something I was taught by my economics professor, he told us about small things can add up and gave the example of giving to charities. So when I started working I started giving like a couple percent of my income to charities. Now over the years it really has added up in total.
By that point, choosing what the machines should do becomes the skill.
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Interestingly not supported on Firefox Android. It's the first time I come across an add-on that doesn't work on both.
I don't think the threat is general AI, actually. If it is, it'll have to hurry to find anything left to destroy.

Think pettier. Think "using CCTV and network traffic data, give me a full list of people who belong to $race". Hollerith Lochkarten on steroids, if you will. Or Elon Musk using it to find anyone who ever mocked him on Twitter, find compromising info on them, and destroy their lives, and if none can be found, use a budget of at most X dollars to hire a person who lives nearby to severely wound them. This is partly possible already, partly just a matter of time. Put your friends on a whitelist and you don't have to lose sleep over false positives either.
This maxim could apply to any skill based project. The skills needed to do something properly require first doing it from start to finish improperly. That's why a safe staging environment for skill development is essential to improving at anything.
You are correct. Kagi is more than a Google proxy.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...