skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (again, if you're not choose complete trash).

So you're not really dismissing parent's point that books aren't inherently good, and many will be half mass produced trash.

I think people tend to forget that for many centuries book were the only game in town, and you'd have to write a play, a movie or a radio show if you wanted your content to reach an audience. That means what we currently see as blogspam, trash documentaries, stuff like Joe Rogan's podcasts whatever you categorize them were produced in news, magazines and book form.

You could look around for the industry of speed ghost writing memoires when big events happen: you get famous for being involved in news cycle for a few months ? a publisher will approach you to get a book out with your name on it and it will be out in the world pretty quick.

There is a misconception that "money spend on something" = "higher quality". A book needing an editor, a printer and money to distribute doesn't mean it's intrinsically better than something that costs less. It just mean it has reasonable prospects to sell, whatever the reason is.

Sure we can only focus on the top of the pyramid of books written as an art, but then we should do the same for all the other media (think about people starting a youtube channel after retiring from decades of work in a field. Would these channels be worse that a book meddled by an editor/publisher ? probably not)

> Consuming books is a very active way of thinking, and consuming video media is generally very passive

That's the argument based on the brain needing to read and parse the sentences. Sure it takes more effort that parsing audio. But that says nothing about the quality of the experience. You're more "engaged", the same way you'd be engage in a TV show if you had to crank a lever to run it frame by frame. But I think in this social media area we already understand that engagement is far from the best metric to evaluate if a content is good for your or not.

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> The government gets authority from the people, the people authorized this.

But it doesn't actually work that way. People don't specifically vote for the politicians that are currently in the office over this particular issue - they vote on their entire platform, and if we we're being honest, they mostly vote on the few "wedge issues" that are particularly prominent in mass media at the time the election happens. In the past two decades, it's also increasingly "voting against" the other guys as opposed to voting for someone.

The end result is that, while those elected certainly claim to have a popular mandate on the basis that they won the election, it's very misleading in practice in most cases.
I don't like spinning 'pay to unlock' as a positive, but when you do compare it like that, being able to pay to unlock is a slight advantage of the software-locked one versus the one without the capacity. Without it, if you decide you want the extra range, you'd have to sell your old one, and buy a new one.
Yes, at least in the UK, Amazon is frequently slightly more expensive than elsewhere, but often I'll knowingly pay the small premium because of the known easy, free, returns.
Wouldn't it imply the opposite, if anything? Scandinavian countries have more political capital to expend on higher fuel prices precisely because they're better-governed.
Last year on HN, I wondered publicly if it was body dysmorphia and she replied "Yes, it is something like that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30100041
I think all OpenAI needs to do is scan physical newspapers and OCR them. No ToS to agree to, and no ToS on print editions.
Impurities shouldn't increase resistance unless you have no supercondting path between your probes. If you don't, other tests will be hardly conclusive either.

And yeah, you want the equipment sensitive enough to see that it is better than good metal like copper, which may be nontrivial in case your critical current is low.

After that, you can move on to other measurements
We aren't revolting because of incredibly effective control of information, controlled opposition, race war instead of class war, and having no guaranteed employment (unions) or healthcare, so people can't protest if they wanted to.

And student loans lock the educated class into work instead of activism or politics because they need a real job for ten years. Go ahead, get acclimated and nihilistic in financial bondage!

Legal weed is simply decent and humane.
It’s not as difficult as you think with libraries like Llamaindex and Langchain.

Both have extensive examples in their documentation for almost identical use cases to the above.
off tipoc but DocuMenso = Meso means retarded in spanish.
Depending on the margins that could be preferable.
They published followup papers on fusion ignition and strange muon behavior respectively.
>Considering it's old age and the budget behind it it would seem like Excel should be THE solution to anything to do with tabular data by now.

If they change anything about how the (very broken) way they handle CSV files in Excel, it will break so many things. So they dare not change it. In fact genes have been renamed because Excel is so broken but unlikely to change:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a33549357...
My concern isn't copyright law, but that if trained on the NYT, these llms are going to be favorable to starting conflicts in the middle-east.

https://fair.org/home/20-years-later-nyt-still-cant-face-its...
IMO, it's terrible enough that that stuff breaking would be a good thing.
It's just individualism.

I like to drive my car and I'll keep doing it. I recognise that seven billion people can't do it.

My answer to that is to use market mechanisms to ensure that only the elite can drive. If I make it into the elite, great, if not, so be it.
What? Isn't it Randall Munroe (XKCD)?
There's actually something cloudflare has built along those lines: https://blog.cloudflare.com/roughtime/
Yes, and if OpenAI had a license to use the Times’ works as model training material this would be a non-issue, of course.
You can buy grey market drugs overseas with Bitcoin. That alone makes it more useful than many modern tech "innovations".
That's EU+UK wide, though there are reasonable exceptions like food & personalised (e.g. engraved or embroidered) goods.
Oh. Just saw it. I had only opened the Github project page linked in this entry. I've added a mention in my comment.

Indeed, just back to being another case of falsely claiming to provide the freedoms of usage that Open Source would actually grant but they don't.

Should be a very quick fix, though. It isn't called open source all across, but only mistakenly in a couple of places.
Are you using this knowledge to produce a product that materially undercuts NYT revenue?
Nope:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35483823
2020, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113807

> If Bluetooth is ON on your Apple device everyone nearby can understand current status of your device, get info about battery, device name, Wi-Fi status, buffer availability, OS version and even get your mobile phone number.

2019, https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/11/12/airplay-tvs-tutoria... & https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/nlsf0z/how_to_prevent_...

> AirPlay can automatically play video on nearby TVs, but that’s not always the behavior you might want. Learn how to stop your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch from automatically playing video on any frequently used AirPlay TVs in your household.
The surge is not solely caused by AI. So, there is headline-ese and there is underlying ground truth, which to me is more unclear.

They felt they were heavy in tech stocks. They sold out. That means they booked some of the spectacular profits from Tech stocks having ignored the longterm trends and returned above-normal for a long period: If they bought in early then this was always latent.

Booking this profit will now incur the best kind of problem: what to (re)invest it in, this time round. There would be a case to be made for a play into green steel, or into pharma (there will be a LOT more vaccines emerging for all kinds of problems) or even world-wide aged care homes, which are facing a surge in Boomers moving in.

Or lithium mines. Vanadium mines.

Or they could buy back into tech, although why they would is unclear. Maybe they want to back some other players? I wouldn't personally go big into NVIDIA but I could understand them spending in chip fab companies or the tool makers behind them.

What they really do, is they invest in themselves. This fund helps underpin Norway's lifestyle. It ain't cheap, being a western social-welfare economy with more EV than anyone else per-capita, close to the Arctic circle.

I don't think they want to invest in North Sea Oil.
The XDG config/data spec was made to manage systems that mount over NFS; ~/.local would stay on the local workstation, ~/.cache matters so little it could be on tmpfs, and ~/.config is the permanent romaing storage (and being config, could be on a slower server than the rest of $HOME). Quite a lot of programs don't ever care for these distinctions. "All in ~/.config" or "all in ~/.local/share" are both common and both wrong (programs that do this usually ignore that ~/.cache exists). Sometimes they're split over seemingly arbitrary and nonsensical reasons, and are inter-dependent enough that you have to really double check all three locations if you want to clear or modify a program's config outside of the program itself.

All of this is just a nightmare and I much prefer the simpler ~/.program or ~/.programrc approach. It's findable, it fits perfectly fine in the non-NFS use case, and just stop running "ls -A" on every invocation.

(Sadly, the Windows stuff really screws up running games through Wine, since it will default to connecting the Windows "Documents" to ~/Documents and ... ick. I disable this feature in Wine just to make it separate. They can muck up Wine's Windows folders as much as they want, it's invisible to me.)
Name a professor that's known to the HN crowd that's not known because of their book, general media appearance or podcasts.
Novelty Telephone Gallery
So you wanted him to become a martyr on top of exposing the crimes to prove... what exactly?
Being in physical shape just a priori makes sense.

It's so weird to me that people need a reason to be fit. Why would you not want to be stronger?
>out-of-band identification would also be possible, i.e. a QR code

Any out-of-band method of enabling what you are talking about is necessarily going to prompt the user with the same kind of serious-looking security prompt they would see when adding a self-signed cert to the OS certificate store.
Jury’s still out for a while, but Carlson’s being kicked out of Fox recently has been a big hit so far.

Latest book sold 3k copies: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/15/tucker-carlson...
Meanwhile self driving cars get stuck in wet concrete.
I tend to romanticize CLI as a universal and think of GUIs as niche, so it struck me odd to see CLIs referred to that way. That's not a character judgement. I'm actually curious what you mean by niche. Would you mind elaborating?
The most straightforward way, but of course you can fiddle around a lot:

You use sentence transformers (https://www.sbert.net/).

You use a strong baseline like all-MiniLM-L6-v2. (Or you get more fancy with something from the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark, https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard)

You break your text into sentences or paragraphs with no more than 512 tokens (according to the sentence transformers tokenizer).

You embedding all your texts and insert them into your vector DB.
captain obvious here, Polymer became LitElement which became the invisible Lit.dev (branding direction on par with twitter becoming x); pretty much state of the art on top of web components; not that anyone noticed, as I said--meetup.com keeps prompting me to take over one of the web component meetups where the (or one of) lead of the project can't seem to muster the effort. a bit frustrating when the lack of awareness is so profound and extensive--as evidenced by many of these comments, over many years. I'm sure many more projects will make the mistake of choosing React and Svelte before the conclusion mentioned here bubbles up.
Known as the paradox of tolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Best Skid Row Album?
Yes. Funny because it was so true and full of hard won wisdom!
That conclusion may be too early to reach with confidence, based on the limited data!
Outside of TOSs/agreements, NYT can't prohibit anything except distribution.
How is a basic web application supposed to treat client time? In some of my systems, the server responds with its timestamp, the client records it's delta between itself and the server, and we use that delta as an offset into stuff like auth token refresh. My main PC has the incorrect timezone in its bios, so it's always 6hr in the future when I first log in..it's interesting to see what breaks. Rocket League for instance doesnt work at all. Starcraft 2 works fine. Windows was unable to sync itself in this situation for months, but has fixed itself lately so it can sync to the right time after a few minutes
After legalization here in Canada, I didn't see an increase in crime or substance abuse which the critics said would happen.
I love the QAT libraries and I feel their abilities are overlooked. Intel also has the igzip library that does not even require QAT and it radically faster than zlib, which is handy in older applications where gzip is unavoidable despite its obsolescence.

The major downside of course is it is quite tricky to use this stuff in practice. In the cloud, you need a bare metal instance that exposes the QAT peripheral, and they are relatively scarce. And this whole generation of hardware is only just beginning to land in public clouds. For machines you own, you will need to scrutinize Intel's somewhat ridiculous product matrix in order to acquire a Xeon that has QAT.
I think the relevant metric here is conductivity for the same cost.
* This statement is supported by the competitive programming community.
When the existing project is doing some shit, like writing both config and data to %PROGRAMFILES%.

I'm looking at you, MariaDB and WireGuard.
In theory, it does. In practice, pretty nobody actually does this, because it's largely unenforced, and on the other hand, nobody wants to lose their internal passport and have to go through the headache of replacing it. Losing your international passport as a non-citizen would be even worse.
Bill Clinton started it, but Obama’s bank bailouts and Hilary Clinton’s stirring defense of globalization deepened the shift.

Just look at the electoral map. Obama beat Romney by about the same margin as Biden beat Trump. But Obama’s margin in Michigan was 10 points, while Biden’s was 3. Obama’s 7 point margin in Wisconsin evaporates to 1 point.

Where did those other votes come from? To a significant degree, it was from affluent suburbs were the management class lives. Democrats now are utterly reliant on the very people they need to heavily tax to deliver any of their progressive promises. You can’t have a meaningful liberal party which counts among its base Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Fortune 500 and Big Pharma executives.

The GOP has won a near complete victory. It can pick its fights on cultural issues. But win or lose, the worst thing that can happen is that the Democratic Party governs like Rockefeller Republicans. It must govern in a way that keeps Wall Street and Silicon Valley happy. It can’t roll back Reagan’s tax cuts on the upper middle class. In fact Biden preemptively ruled out any tax increases on people in the top 2%. Biden couldn’t even roll back Trump’s corporate tax cuts. It couldn’t extend the child tax credits. Y’all are excited about infrastructure investment, but that’s always been something liberal Republicans have entertained.
I work on Ubicloud.

REPL, testing, a few key high quality libraries.

In turn:

The REPL: lets you have unified development and operation. Makes it easy to record and review methodology when taking administrative action.

Testing: both made more necessary by the dynamic typing of Ruby, but more importantly, without disturbing the program under test much you can inject any input, any fault, nearly anywhere. In this way you can accrete invariants guarding against a large class of bugs encountered in production into the test suite, a form of retained learning.

The libraries: Sequel, Roda, Rodauth, part of the Jeremy Evans universe. They're very good by any standard, not even as confined to the Ruby world. The maintenance level on those is something I aspire to, but have never been able to duplicate. I did copy the 100% line (and later, branch) coverage project practice from this, though, in Citus Cloud and later projects, and it seems like a good thing, though not for the reasons people might anticipate.

An anti-requirement: control planes often have fairly lax performance needs relative to operation value. A few crucial loops, like monitoring, may indicate something with more efficient machine code. But mostly it's a fancy SSH client with quite a few tests, and some carefully designed concurrency patterns. Of the above factors, I'd say the REPL is the most dispositive for why I tolerate the performance and parallelism ramifications of Ruby, though, they all add something to my decision to use it for this.

This design theory is the fourth in a progression for me, though there are other clades by now. Heroku Postgres was the first, Citus Cloud was the second, Crunchy Bridge is the third, this is the fourth.
Yes, I still have it with a CD-RW, DVD-RAM, Scanner, APEX 4.6 Optical Drive.

I haven't booted since maybe 2005 and I'm starting to wonder if there is battery on the motherboard I should remove.
It's not over yet, at least not definitively. Nature Magazine like every other source so far is basing its comments on the attempted replications using the leaked paper. It's considered fairly certain at this point that the paper was incomplete/not enough to duplicate the material.

The full paper with the original samples were reportedly sent to Korea University of Science and Technology for examination. That lab group has only so far verified the structure of the material, no word on whether they've replicated it or its actual properties based on replicated samples or the original samples.

Until we hear from them, everyone (including Nature) is just guessing.
Just have those machines randomly ask one another for the time. Because of the Wisdom of Crowds the time will eventually be right.

/ sarcasm
I mean... Since you're here...

Debian won't have snaps unless you install them, and they're including firmware blobs in the default release now. If you really need a recenter Docker, you can install it from the Docker website instead of apt.

Debian stable will just keep on ticking and refuse to surprise you.
It must be non-deterministic and "risk based," like Google's authentication.

In my most recent return, it was a cheap item, but the incorrect size, and they told me to keep, discard, or donate it and refunded my money.
The Camry is running on 16" wheels while the E39 is running on 15s with that sidewall height. This trend towards massive wheels is almost entirely about style and has little-to-no engineering merit. If you step out of the 70s and early 80s we had cars that rode and handled well while not needing low profile tires.

The fact that the Camry can provide "modern" levels of driving dynamics on tires that aren't super low profile supports this. Even so there's no engineering reason Toyota couldn't offer a 15" wheel option. It's all about style over substance.

Cars vs SUVs/crossovers is a red herring as all vehicles (in the states at least) have been getting larger and larger wheels. SUVs that offered car-like driving dynamics only came out as the trend towards larger wheels took off. It'd be perfectly reasonable to sell such a vehicle with smaller wheels but it probably wouldn't sell well as people have been conditioned to think it looks weird.
Zstandard (zstd), with a properly trained dictionary, could do well against larger (than alice29) texts. I doubt you'd see ~0.4 bpb, but 1-1.5 seems achievable. And it would be ~100% accurate with no GPU or other overhead necessary.

A quick experiment using a small selection of truncated texts yielded 1.8 bpb against alice29. I imagine other texts could do better.
It shouldn't, nVidia provides a CUDA Docker plugin that lets you expose your GPU to the container, and it works quite well.
So really, really cheap electricity with a side of really, really cheap hardware[0] coupled with an absence of operations, maintenance, storage, or transport costs. Noting for the latter direct energy from panels must be used with a high locality to the panels themselves, which means a distributed collection and transportation for the produced hydrogen.

[0]Plausibly viable, non precious metal catalysts typically have less than stellar lifetimes but there is a lot of fat to plausibly trim out of an electrolyzed.
> I would assume that we would also be in that deal, until a time is met that they no longer need us

Isn't that what Eliezer is suggesting? The AI will be the moon to our Earth until it has determined it is capable and ready to transition into a sun?

> I think it makes zero sense to fight or compete

I'm not sure Eliezer is thinking that there will be a fight or competition. Mostly I think he believe we won't really be much of a consideration to a super intelligence at all. For instance, if a super intelligence in our solar system decided to harness all the energy radiating from the Sun, Earth would freeze over in a matter of days (hours?). That scenario probably doesn't have any more of a conflict than what you'd expect to see between a family of deer living in a forest and a construction company clearing that forest for a development project.
Hopefully your explanation gave others reason to want to fund more material science research. There's nothing wrong with wanting something to succeed, and understanding the potential impacts is good motivation to keep going (while following the science process).
Yeah, these are terminological bugs. I have reported them. I work there.
Perhaps. When I submitted a blurb about Naomi getting arrested it got flagged right quick despite the ample evidence that she was not trying to keep quiet about it in earnest. Make of that what you will.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20462845
> scientists have finite time, it's valuable, and are just as prone to chasing the new hotness as programmers.

Yes, I agree. Scientist time is valuable for at least a couple reasons; science funding is a scarce resource, and trained scientists are scarce. I'd argue that those are related, and both could be helped by increasing interest/excitement/awareness toward science in the general public.

If we were to sort people in to two beakers, "trained scientist" and "general public", I think the people who were excited about LK-99 and making "shitty examples" of it, would mostly go in the second one.

(also, I 100% agree that "can't you just..." is one of the most irritating phrases in English)
Mostly more dispassionate, but not necessarily more accurate? I gather from reading acoup.blog that popular culture gets ancient cultures wrong quite often too. Especially the sort of thing that engages people's imaginations.
Yes, at 1% margin on those sales, that's more like $125M in revenue. It's important to remember that things like Prime Day are basically marketing that results in revenue outside the event.
Unfortunately, this.
My understanding is the spoof prompts you to enter your device passcode, but the passocde isn’t actually transmitted to the spoofer?
Yeah, that's basically why I'm asking. That's great, thank you. Which Debian version is the default one?
Using the WordStar Diamond in 2023
Its kind of like a "nice/fun" flip-side of the anti-science internet experts we saw during covid, although I think the people at the forefront this time were genuinely pro-science and positively motivated.
If that's the point, then they are completely unqualified to be commenting.