skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I get the rest of it, I don't follow on using immutability as the test of what you are non-judgmental towards. People can have immutable qualities that are completely incompatible with any form of social contract. I'm thinking violent behavior attributed to various mental disorders. Disorder being applied not as a judgment, but simply to indicate it doesn't allow them to have what they consider a fulfilling life, what with the rest of us commiting them involuntarily. There may or may not be medications or treatments that might modify those situations. If there are, then we are asking them to modify their natural state to be accepted. I think in that specific case and perhaps others it is reasonable of me to demand that of my in-group. I don't want to get stabbed because they were instructed by a command delusion. I know the medicine and treatments are not ideal. And if they fail to comply with treatment, or it doesn't work, I reserve the right to judge them for their nature.

The parallels for orientation are clearly there, and given enough clockwork orange type abuse, I'm sure you could make me attracted or repelled by just about anything, but I don't choose to judge people with sexual orientations that differ from mine, not because it is their immutable state, but because there are no valid arguments for it harming me or society at large. Population seems to be managing itself. If it was runaway, I might judge people who engaged in behavior that might add to the population, and if there was barely a breeding population of us left, I might judge those who didn't.
Doesn’t seem like an operational issue, seems more like 99.9% design coverage of preventing these issues from arising.

I will say, I’m not very satisfied with just “improved security tooling.” My gut is telling me that there is a better solution out there to guarding against credential leakage, but I feel wrangling memory dumps to have “expected” data is a fools errand.
There's no audible difference between signing "she's said" and "she said", the s's blend together. Any possible difference would be entirely obscured by stylistic choices.

Even vocalizing normally the difference is hard to tell. Try saying "She said I love you" vs "She's said I love you" – unless you make a point to completely stop in between words there's basically zero distinction.
> Curious to know how Scott's ingroup deals with... the gender critical, considering EA/post-rationalism's commitment to gender ideology.

Perhaps you will find one answer here?

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...

As for e/acc, I have no idea what that means.
All mainstream aliens movies till the end of cold war, and many now, are about how anyone foreign is a great and must be preemptively neutralized.

I wonder how much of this is following the crowd, and how much of it is shaping it?
https://archive.ph/HSgei

This doesn't seem as mysterious to me as the article suggests. We were still primarily roaming hunters 1.4m years ago. It's not difficult to imagine the uses a more aerodynamic rock would have...namely, you could be more accurate throwing it.

But I'm sure this occurred to researchers, so maybe they're expressing this as "there is no evidence of how they were used" and not "we don't have some good ideas."
Not to mention San Francisco and the very-nearby Central Valley are likely quite different.
I find it so curious how people are perfectly happy to accept human casualties so long as it’s the the status quo / caused by a human.

Every time an autonomous vehicle causes a car accident, there are many people calling to ban them. Yet when a human causes an accident, it’s “just the way it is, people need to get to work, nothing we can do about it”. Doesn’t matter if the rate of incidence is lower, people would rather have more accidents they can emphasise with. Human bias is so fascinating.
Similarly relaxing in my armchair, a deterministic universe is compatible with a CSPRNG as long as the information required to recover it's internal state is too diffuse to recover, or is outside the light cone of your adversary.

Eg, rolling a dice is deterministic, and I imagine an algorithm exists that could recover the value of a dice throw from a recording of the sound of it rolling and it's initial position. But once that sound has turned into heat, and that heat has conducted itself about the walls and into the air, I don't think it's possible to recover the sound.

See also:

"Is flipping a coin random?" (Numberphile)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYnJv68T3MM [8m]
The reason Vercel was selected for this privilege is pretty simple, to my understanding: they volunteered and committed engineering resources to partner with the React team to work through a pretty major and experimental new API with a lot of expected breaking changes.

Child of a sibling comment has more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408918
When Meta tried to force users to sign into facebook for their quest everyone hated it so they backtracked to allowing standalone oculus accounts.

It's no secret Instragram has an issue with bots. Meta probably wishes their VR platform had the same problem haha.
> Do you really believe that browser makers will not implement optimizations if we start getting pure WASM apps?

They've already done that. That's why compiled wasm storage exists.

Streaming, diff updates etc. are not the property of the browser, but of the app.

And, again, browsers cannot have unlimited storage for downloaded apps.

> Why not just use desktop apps you ask? Well, people apparently don't like desktop apps

People do want to use desktop apps. Instead of actual desktop apps we get shitty web apps running on Electron.
How to make a custom PCB business card
> Does performance tuning for Wi-Fi adapters matter?

If you're willing to potentially sacrifice 10-20% of (max local network) throughput you can drastically improve wifi fairness and improve ping times/reduce bufferbloat (random ping spikes will still happen on wifi though).

There's a huge thread https://forum.openwrt.org/t/aql-and-the-ath10k-is-lovely/590... that has stuff about enabling and tuning aqm, and some of the tradeoffs between throughput and latency.
I'm quite certain it influenced his thinking. I fail to see how that's reflected in his "how to have a good dinner party" ideas, other than that the servants bringing the food to a southern US dinner party would have been enslaved, and the ones bringing them to a northern US or UK dinner party would have been free. They wouldn't have been invited to chime in in most cases. Kind of an unavoidable consequence of having servants at all.

Even at a self-service potluck, someone has to provide the utensils, the drinks, the food refills, and the cleanup. Usually someone volunteers for that role because it's easier for them than making a dish, and it is contributing to the party.
Symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning is a quite interesting field. I think the design choices of projects like wikidata.org and CYC severely limit the application of this though.

For example, on the wikidata help page, they talk about the height of Mount Everest:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:About_data#Structuring_da...

Earth (Q2) (item) → highest point (P610) (property) → Mount Everest (Q513) (value)

and

Mount Everest (Q513) (item) → instance of (P31) (property) → mountain (Q8502) (value)

So that's all fine, but it misses a lot of context. These facts might be true for the real world, right now, but they won't always be true. Even in the not-so-distant past, the height of Everest was lower, because of tectonic plate movement. And maybe in the future it will go even higher due to tectonics, or maybe it will go lower due to erosion.

Context awareness gets even more important when talking about facts like "the iPhone is the best selling phone", for example. That might be true right now, but it certainly wasn't true back in 2006, before the phone was released.

Context also comes in many forms, which can be necessary for useful reasoning. For example, consider the question: "What would be the highest mountain in the world, if someone blew up the peak of Everest with a bomb?" This question isn't about the real world, right here and right now, it is about a hypothetical world that doesn't exist.

Going a little further afield, you may want to ask a question like "Who is the best captain of the Enterprise?". This might be about the actual US Navy CVN-64 ship named "Enterprise", the planned CVN-80, or the older ship CV-6 Enterprise which fought in WW2. Or maybe a relevant context to the question was "Star Trek", and we're in one of several fictional worlds instead, which would result in a completely different set of facts.

I think some ability to deal with uncertainly (as with Probabilistic Graphical Models) is also necessary to deal with practical applications of this technology. We may be dealing with a mix of "objective facts" (well, let's not get into a discussion about the philosophy of science) and other facts that we may not be so certain about.

It seems to me that successful symbolic reasoning system will be very, very large and complex. I'm not at all sure even how such knowledge should be represented, never mind the issue of trying to capture it all in digital form.
This part of your answer is suspicious:

> from my perspective, it's not worth putting in all this effort for someone who isn't willing to even register for free

How does free registration benefit you? It's just more cost for you (time to deal with problems, money to store the login information, and additional load on your server). The only way your statement makes sense - and the only reason you'd care that much - is if you're planning to monetize the information.

Good luck, but it's too shady for me.
As a kid I would trace around the track. Starting with zero, I would add one if the track bent left and subtract one if it bent right. The answer needed to be +/- 12, 24, etc. because 12 make a circle.
I personally used Telnyx, which usually isn't detected as "VoIP" because they offer actual SIMs with these numbers, usually for IoT applications. Sometimes they are still detected though, which annoys me a lot because usually the services that bother to do that detection are the ones I least want to have my phone number (ex: OpenAI)

I've resorted to hawking sites like BugMeNot and using the trash/spam accounts there, which usually manage to have some phone number or have performed some sort of weird exploit to get into their system somehow. It's how I managed to play quite a bit with ChatGPT around the tail end of 2022 when it first came out, but these days the rate limits are so strict that I can't ever get a single message through any of the shared/trash accounts (which is probably their objective).
>You can tariff items which are made by slave/subpoverty labor

What are 'normal', middle-class wages in developing countries are 'extremely cheap' by US standards. You can't really solve that problem unless you tariff literally everything.

Subsidizing critical industries- sure, I guess. What's the definition of that? Does it include cars? Clothing and shoes? Appliances? Vacuum cleaners? I don't think anyone's disputing that like military goods need to manufactured domestically, but kind of by definition 95% of goods are not 'critical'
Amazon’s Last-Chance Meeting with FTC in Antitrust Case Breaks Down
I feel it can be said, without "conspiracy" or paranoia, that there's
a widespread will to bury all activity around this bill.

Government doesn't want it debated or scrutinised. Tech companies want
it to go away. The media doesn't understand it and cannot communicate
the issues. People are scared or too pre-polarised to take a position.
It's been kicked into the long grass by 4 prime-ministers. Even
mentioning here that it is complex and worth examining both sides gets
one down-voted to hell (judging by my other comment).
Global version and carries no warranty, meaning imported. You can find all sorts of weird imported stuff in Amazon and NewEgg from third party sellers.

Still not legal for US companies to distribute Huawei phones, though.
You don’t need to use the app store. You can just SSH into the device and run the usual apt commands from the command line. Yes, this is obviously nothing the general public would ever do, but we are on a news for nerds site here.

> buy up some mainstream phone and sell modded versions of it with kill switches

Making the connections for the several different kill switches (cellular, wifi, microphone) on a phone whose form factor was not expressly designed for that, would probably result in a rather ugly-looking hack. Moreover, on the PinePhone at least, the cell modem is separate from the wifi chip, so you can kill one while leaving the other on, but I believe that on most phones they are part of the same SoC.
Unfortunately tables are a major weak point in the writer codebase.

Hopefully you will be happy to hear that a company has funded some improvements to that part of the code, and those improvements should roll out over the current and the next release.

ODT files are theoretically human-editable, because once you expand the file (using e.g. unzip) you have a small set of XML files, which can be edited as text and then wrapped up into an ODT again.

Finding "corruption" is not really a thing (at least for writer documents), the spec for writer documents is sufficiently complex that parts of it are in conflict with itself, and compromise solutions must be found in the code.

The writer code to lay the document out is sufficiently complex that it has multiple chunks of guard code specifically designed to make it give up when it cannot make reasonable progress.
I would have thought the joke would be to bet against everything that makes it to the front page of WSB
> Could you share more specific details? Happy to look over / revise where needed.

Sure thing! I'd say first off, the solutions may look different for a small company/startup vs. a large enterprise. It can help if you explain the scale at which you are solving for.

On the enterprise side of things, they tend to buy solutions rather than build them in-house. Things like Informatica, Talend, etc. are common for large enterprises whose primary products are not data or software related. They just don't have the will, expertise, or the capital to invest in building and maintaining these solutions in-house so they just buy them off the shelf. On the surface, these are very expensive products, but even in the face of that it can still make sense for large enterprises in terms of the bottom line to buy rather than build.

For startups and smaller companies, have you looked at something like `dbt` (https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core) ? I understand the desire to write some code, but often times there are already existing solutions for the problems you might be encountering.

ORM's should typically only exist on the consumer-side of the equation, if at all. A lot of business intelligence / business analysts are just going to use tools like Tableau and hook up to the data warehouse via a connector to visualize their data. You might have some consumers that are more sophisticated and may want to write some custom post-processing or aggregation code, and they could certainly use ORM's if they choose, but it isn't something you should enforce on them because it's a poor place to validate data since as mentioned there are different ways/tools to access the data and not all of them are going to go through your python SDK.

Indeed in a large enough company, you are going to have producers and consumers that are going to use different tools and programming languages, so it's a little bit presumptuous to write an SDK in python there.

Another thing to talk about, and this probably mostly applies to larger companies - have you looked at an architecture like a distributed data mesh (https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-mesh-principles.html)? This might be something to bring to the CTO more than try to push for yourself, but it can completely change the landscape of what you are doing.

> More broadly is the issue of the gap of what you think the role is, and what the role actually is when you join. There are definitely cases where this is accidental. The best way I can think of to close the gap is to maybe do a short-term contract, but may be challenging to do under time constraints etc.

Yeah this definitely sucks and it's not an enviable position to be in. I guess you have a choice to look for another job or try to stick it out with the company that did this to you. It's possible there is a geniune existential crisis for the company and a good reason why they did the bait-and-switch. Maybe it pays to stay, especially if you have equity in the company. On the other hand, it could also be the case that it is the result of questionable practices at the company. It's hard to make that call.
Even GPT-3.5's translation quality is overwhelmingly good. I can literally throw chunks of text at it and most of the time it's a reasonable translation. I basically don't use Google Translate anymore except to cross-reference (and even then it's not particularly good at that) along with a dictionary.
Amazon Andy Jassy shouldn’t make RTO decisions in echo chamber of CEOs feelings
We had a couple. Irregardless of their design, they were great cameras. They still work. It's amazing when you can put on your 40 year old telephoto lens, and everything just works. (Manually of course.)
you are one person, and one person counts for nothing.. it is a Great Game and the participants are projecting power via an app, to "clients" in the millions. Your data is aggregated. Faux-control about "signing up" is a scrap from their table.
They even force TCPA, sorry, TPM.
The thing we fought so hard against 20some years ago.
20 years later they just do it again, and no one protested. No one.
Hooks felt like a big make-work project to let folks claim high-impact commits on a project that didn’t really need any of those, anymore.
Also worth noting that it is strongly in his interest to craft and filter his public dialogue with the interests of the Russian state in mind. It is a basic fact of his existence, whether it is something he thinks about explicitly and often or not. Of course Russia isn't going to execute him or throw in in a gulag, since he is more valuable to them as a political set-piece that somewhat undermines America's moral high ground. However, that doesn't mean they can't lean on him considerably and make his life severely unpleasant in myriad subtle ways. There is no way he isn't acutely aware of Russia's reputation for brutal coercive tactics regarding their political enemies and targets, especially domestic ones.

He is completely at their mercy and he knows it. What is he going to do, cry out to the world that Russia is hounding and harassing him, or otherwise making his already beleaguered situation even less tenable? First of all, who is going to care that can do anything about it, second, it will delight people he almost certainly views as his enemy for him to make any such pleas and thirdly, it starts down a path of no return to start calling out Russia for abuses while you are stuck there with no allies and no way out.

Being on reasonably amicable terms with the power-elite in Russia is pretty much the last, best hope he has in this world. Whether consciously or not, the severe ramifications of burning that bridge are going to weigh on every decision and proclamation he makes. Of course he may always consider this effect and choose actions that upset Russia/Putin without regard for personal consequences. But it becomes increasingly easy to justify the path that doesn't lead to the complete crushing of your spirit the longer you have lived your life staring down the barrel of 5 or 10 different shotguns trained right between your eyes.

And of course it gets easier still when you feel wronged and martyred by the enemy of your friend, even if that friend is born purely out of necessity and circumstance. Anyway, all that is to say, thought I am grateful for his attempt to protect American citizens' constitutional rights and hold the government that professes to fight always for freedom to a higher standard... I have to take anything he has said in recent years as extremely biased and a product of "soft" but very serious coercion (from multiple fronts).
You mean just putting the letters "DD" in front of your reddit post doesn't make you a financial genius about to pop off?
I've found it's more reliable to ask it to write some javascript that returns how many letters are in a word. Works even with Llama 7b with some nudging.
Same thing every so many years. Waste of life
I'm having a lot of trouble understanding the scenario you're imagining here. Are you really just completely fabricating nonsense scenarios as some sort of counterargument? Can we just make up anything we want? "Until the AI hallucinates that Christopher Walken is actually the Egyptian God-Emperor Ramses II and starts grinding human beings into cement to create a giant pyramid in his honor. Is that what you want, huh!?" Does the actual probability of that happening factor into your consideration at all?

Compare that to the probability of human beings air-striking elementary schools, which humans have shown many times they're perfectly willing to do during war.
several folks I know use tools like Obsidian as a digital Zettelkasten for quick[ish] manuscript creation

I use it as a 'pure' note-taking tool

And I accomplish what you're describing ("eat a cookie ... have a cookie") straight in Word (or Pages)

I pretty much never 'delete' a paragraph/sentence/etc ... until I've figured out how I want to reword it - I just move it around and/or write around it until I have what I want
> What OpenAI really wants

1. Get lots of users; 2. monetize everything; 3. go public; 4. sell all shares and get super rich?
And apparently she was also on "Surviving the Stone Age." Fittingly.
Is blackrock's ESG/DEI ratings affecting loans/stock price considered antiskilled? If so then i agree with the title.
It doesn't seem to be that people are complaining about the service defining the rules, merely that the service is dishonest about what they want in exchange for your use of the "free" service.

It does seem very bait and switch.
Personally, I grew to prefer signals and rx and APIs for heavy things. I wish it were easier to hook up some custom class object to a component to use as state, but it always feels clunky.
As REST APIs become more centralized sources of information, the need for flexible reporting on REST API data increases. The Reporting API extends an existing REST API so that its data can be analyzed in an easy-to-use reporting tool....
> Do you think on average Latin American Spanish is spoken at the same speed as Spain?

Faster in the Caribbean, slower in the Andes
Furthermore, just as a practical matter, if you're at a table in a public space (or really even in a private space with a bunch of tables), having a table-wide conversation become pretty hard above more than a half dozen people or so. I've been at way too many events where, even with a round table, it quickly becomes a real effort to speak with more than a couple of people on either side of you.
I wouldn't call "contrarian strategy yields 1.2% monthly out-of-sample performance" a money-printing machine. Should be a small part of your portfolio
Are you sure? Citation from your first link

> Six out of the 12 food-groups showed a significant relation with risk of T2D, three of them a decrease of risk with increasing consumption (whole grains, fruits, and dairy),
It's already perfectly feasible to do. Meta/Apple etc. can just deploy a client that decrypts the message, scans it, re-encrypts (with a different key) and sends it to their storage where they can store it forever and decrypt if needed.
This way they could even have different clients in different regions still being compatible.
It's just that it would suck and would not be secure any more.