skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people were forced to leave a lot of land all over the world. Borders shifted constantly within Europe. People were constantly expelled and relocated. Now of course they shouldn't have been, but that was a long time ago and we've generally agreed not to do that anymore.

Should former Roman land be given to the Italians? Should the Louisiana purchase be undone because it was the result of a military defeat in the Napoleonic Wars? Should the non-first-nations parts of California be returned to the Mexicans because it was ceded in the Mexican-American War under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? What framework do you propose we use to decide which land is worthy of sovereign rule - and which isn't? Which groups are worthy of sovereignty, and which aren't, and on what basis?

I think all groups should be represented within the government and there's no reason to revisit the question of sovereignty because there's no framework that makes sense. There's no easy place to stop that isn't totally arbitrary.
This seems like a trash clickbait article that undercuts the huge gains and usefulness of generative AI to pander to the naysayers. Yes, they are not perfect, but they are very useful!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36175315
Because real estate in those countries is also eye-watering expensive.
Something smells fishy here. Why would a pilot eject if the aircraft was flying in a stable condition?

You're safer in a stable aircraft than trying to escape from it.
I'm unsure what you've seen. Most countries in the world compensate at full salary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#By_continent
Yep, screened out of most I’ve applied to. I don’t tend to get past the very rigid bureaucratic checklist they do. Local government too, can’t be exactly sure why, but I assume it’s the lack of a degree.
This doesn't seem as damning to me as it does to Gary Marcus. Humans routinely fail to generalise in this way, which is why we routinely use cloze deletion flashcards to train recall of various different permutations of a fact. I could quite easily imagine myself personally knowing the quoted fact "Tom Cruise's mother is Mary Lee Pfeiffer", and yet being unable to tell you who Pfeiffer was, because it's a kind of leaf node of my knowledge graph, accessible only by indexing into the Tom Cruise node.

The linked paper (https://owainevans.github.io/reversal_curse.pdf) is purely empirical, and the results which I tried to reproduce did indeed reproduce across a few tries and various prompts of ChatGPT 4.
Also Kagi is still in the phase of "let's give users what they want" instead of in the phase of "let's give shareholders what they want".
Well, I guess we can all agree that our planet cannot support X amount of people with a certain quality of life and sustainably for the then-on future

Parent post hints that X < 10B, but I'd wager many believe X < whatever we have now

It is obvious Earth could hold a very large human population - but not for very long, and not (for those people) very well
> With automation and robots, we can support a population without an eternal underclass of serfs to throw their vitality into the meat grinder of capitalism.

But then the people who own the robots won't feel special...
'Clean up your watch later list" is a neat use case that might be worth supporting directly in some way.
I am convinced that a lot of the reason why Google search went downhill is that they started using more AI. Specifically, using it to try to interpret what I'm searching for rather than taking my word for it, which leads to irrelevant search results.

That's just my hypothesis, of course. I don't know for certain. But it does make me very skeptical about using AI to help search the web.

I want a robust set of search modifiers instead.
Just go here

https://kagi.com/summarizer/
> It’s terrible for a hospital’s business to have their ER clogged by people who don’t have emergencies and can’t pay.

It is already a big enough problem they don't seem to care. Hospitals in less affluent areas are getting interest free loans from the state to keep emergency care from bankrupting them: https://calmatters.org/health/2023/08/california-hospitals-b...

> So they aren’t going to deny people primary care because doing so will just cause them to wind up in the ER.

You seem to be confused that I am speaking to some hypothetical future situation. Hospital networks require you to either pay outstanding balances or meet with someone to arrange a payment plan before you can be seen. Taking away the ability to report to credit is only going to make them more aggressive in this practice.
If a shoe fits on one foot, it fits on the other too. Aka the "M".

The "Russia is a madman, but we're not" is... difficult to square logically and historically.

Beneath all the political and PR charades, during the Cold War the Soviet Union was generally as terrified of the West pre-emptively nuking them as vice versus.
> learn some other way. Find some other domain of knowledge you always wanted to learn, and learn it

This is a multi-year commitment. Look at how long it is to go to school for a degree
I wish we’d all settle on Avalonia and pretend whatever Microsoft is pushing this year is just not happening.
I mean, you can just click the button to send the nudes. It's a sign, not a cop.
It is a niche subset of an enterprise only product along with a specific update number. If you don't know what that is, it doesn't impact you. The fact it doesn't impact you nor many people, is their whole point.
Kagi needs a free tier.

even if its only 10 searches a day, it needs something. I am never going to use it unless I can try it out for a while.
Sharded Doesn’t Imply Distributed
I don't think this screen would prevent anyone doing CSA from sending that M, and a C independently wishing to send SM is not necessarily being A, so I'm not sure what you mean
Actually not quite. Backups (assuming you are doing single node) still needs you to decide on your SLOs - RTO (how long it takes to restore) and RPO (how much data lose you can suffer) numbers. On the instant snazy end you have streaming backups and recovery and then on the other extreme you have backup once in N hours/days and restore taking how ever long it takes to restore (so you have customer outages you need to negotiate.

Now let us involve multi node, (both replication and partitioning of shards). As shards go and up and down ensuring data is in sync etc is a hard consistency problem and needs man years of operational excellence and bug fixing.

So when people think databases - they think of the cool stuff - the database engine that does relational algebra and handles SQL queries. That is (IMO) only 1% of a practical, performant, reliable database (offering).
> preventing me from joining e.g. NSFW discord servers wholesale

Is this something that iOS (or some other client) does? Or just hypothetical. I don't keep up with these things aside from when they reach HN
I liked StartPage/Ixquick results much better than what Google used to show. Maybe they still do but wouldn't know as I stopped using it after they got acquired. Didn't/don't they rely on Google?
to be honest, I don't actually know but I've heard it from multiple people when I was in Medellin in reference to girls. none of them were "flat and round." I think it just refers to them being from the same area. "american as apple pie"
> CloudNativePG does not use `StatefulSet`s for managing data persistence

This is awesome. StatefulSets are an endless source of pain.
"I would love to have a linux OS where IO devices (screens, cameras, etc) just work."

That's been my experience with Linux Mint, for years now. Try it out on a Live USB and see if your hardware works with it.
This is a weakness of the training data, not the architecture.

Training is not only about learning information, but also learning how to handle it. It will only learn to reason "if A-> B then B->A" if the data contains situations where it must do this.

In the paper, their training process contained no examples where this reasoning was necessary - only A->B relations. It actually got worse than the base model, because GPT-3's training data did contain some examples of B->A relations.
Every bank I've ever used has had functionality to do csv exports (or xlsx, for which I have a one-liner to convert to csv), which can trivially be imported into gnucash.

At least in the UK/EU, it seems to be a common feature.
April Fool's Day 2009. Put that in the title.
https://www.theonion.com/congress-forgets-how-to-pass-a-law-...
Hi, I used this Python library (https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/) to get transcripts. It works great.
Interesting! Privacy concerns aside for the moment, I would guess that there is some "optimal" compression dictionary over some transferred data set, and that Google/Chrome of all people would be in a position to calculate it and distribute it along with Chrome.

Then Google could ship that dictionary to all (Chrome) browsers and update it once a month, and ship the same dictionary to anybody who wants to use it on the server side. Browsers can indicate which shared dictionaries they have preloaded and if there's overlap with which dictionaries the server has, the server can just choose one and use that to compress the stream (which seems kind of like ciphersuite negotiation). Compression should be faster and use way less memory if the sender can assume that the receiver already has the same dictionary, and if there's any problem, both sides can just fall back to on-the-fly compression with inlined dictionary like we've always done.

There are almost certainly different optimal dictionaries for different locales / countries, each of which could be calculated and distributed in the same way. Even if the 'wrong' dictionary gets used for a given request, it's (probably) not catastrophic.

I guess it might be possible for an attacker to indicate their client only has one dictionary and request pages that they know are disadvantageous for the server to have to compress with that dictionary. Even then, server-side heuristics can account for a lower-than-expected compression ratio and, again, fall back to on-the-fly dictionary calculation.
They have/do, here you go:

https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
According to data and studies, paying moms to go to health check ups works big time https://www.amazon.com/Super-Crunchers-Thinking-Numbers-Smar...
> To survive the flood of revenue optimized content..., you need an active [software] agent working on your behalf

How long do you think it will be before that software agent's output will be just as riddled with commercialized content? I think we might have only a short window where we get to enjoy the fairly unadulterated output of the base LLMs by the large providers (yes, I'm aware that they're screening for safety already, but there could be a lot more coming). Imagine a dialogue like this: Q: What should I watch out for when buying new car tires?

A current answer might be something like: Here's a list of things to watch out for when buying car tires: A, B, C, D, E. Remember to always consult with specialists. Shall I explain more about the topic?

A future answer might look something like: According to experts like the professionals at [tire shop near you], here are the things you need to watch out for when buying car tires: A, B, C. You can use this coupon to get a 10% discount off your next purchase at [tire shop near you]. Shall I book an appointment for a free consultation at [tire shop near you] for you?
this should help https://www.tiktok.com/discover/Paisa-girls
Because no underage person has ever sent or received a dick pic?
would have gone with shaggy, but yeah maggie works too
This is one of my favorite things to see whenever I visit the British Museum. I just love the mental image of bored guards playing a game to pass the time on a slow afternoon at the city gates.

Similarly, I enjoyed once seeing the preserved birch bark doodles of a schoolboy named Onfim from ~800 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim
On Windows it is the ads, on Linux it is the restrictions.

"Type your password". "Sure, once again, my dear Linux". "You can not write that file". "Oh, sorry, my dear Linux, for looking at the files of master root"

Every system finds its way to enslave the user.
He doesn’t, if he’s honestly ok with that.

But you only have so much time, why not pick a goal that is achievable? Seems like a waste.
It's pretty obvious that LLMs are not human like intelligent but are just statistical models. They can't produce anything novel in the sense of finding a cure for cancer or solving millennium problems, even though they have embedded knowledge of all human knowledge. The easiest way to test this is by trying to get them to generate a novel idea that doesn't yet exist but will exist in a year or a few years. This idea shouldn't require experimentation in the real world, which LLMs don't have access to, but should involve interpreting and reasoning about the knowledge we already have in a novel way
Is this an eat-the-poor satire?
That's a delusional viewpoint. "Doing nothing" is absolutely on the table. In fact, it is the most likely outcome for a very long time to come. Pretty soon, you will hear about geoengineering solutions. Whether you like it or not, it will be seen as the most realistic solution on the table, if not the only one.
Hilarious to quote the guidelines at me. I wasn't "assuming the worst" — I was just pointing out that it's very odd to gratuitously mention your SAT scores. (I've been on HN for a decade and never seen anything like it; it looks like you're rather new, so might not have that background.) It doesn't prove how much or little you used your calculator. People who get 650 or 710 use their calculators too, perhaps even more! If you had said "I used my calculator a lot, though not at the level of math competitions," that would have been more enlightening. I appreciate your mentioning the 5 AM partying context, which definitely helps.
Some years ago I built a custom tool similar to this which downloaded financial data from my Chase bank account and converted it to beancount (another text-based accounting tool).

Chase charged like $10/mo or something like that for using OFX to download your bank statements (which is pretty ridiculous considering what it is). Eventually I abandoned it because none of the other bank accounts I needed to track offered OFX or anything similar that I could find, and just gave up.
They ship you 79 lb. Pelican case to do self service battery swap? And a technician needs to login to review your work!
> SSH could really use a better default key fingerprint. It's 42 characters of base64.

You can get an ASCII graphic for the host key with the VisualHostKey option. For example:

ssh -o VisualHostKey=yes tty.sdf.org

Alternatively, you can set this option permanently in the SSH client configuration like this:

echo VisualHostKey yes >> ~/.ssh/config
ssh tty.sdf.org

Here is an example output:

$ ssh -o VisualHostKey=yes tty.sdf.org
Host key fingerprint is SHA256:ZjwbO7AU8rHJExYrmZS2LqGZ7WfdoELfMrF54W92PYA
+--[ED25519 256]--+
| ... |
| .oo o |
| .=.* |
| . .* B |
| = o O S. |
|+ + o.o*E=. |
| o o O.++ o |
| o X = +.. o |
| + + +.. . |
+----[SHA256]-----+
user@tty.sdf.org's password:

This graphic looks like a pigeon to me. Similarly, the one for github.com looks like a cat to me. For each server I connect to via SSH I know what the ASCII art for the host key looks like. This familiarity aids in performing TOFU in a hassle-free manner.
I do consultancy too, and I rarely turn my video on. I certainly appreciate that some folk are prone to want video on though.

I'm blessed to not have clients like that!
Genetically Modified Pig’s Heart Is Transplanted into a Second Patient
> Isn't this memorization at the end?

That would be overfitting and it's a known issue you're trying to avoid during training.

> How can we correct for this in the transformer architecture?

I don't think the post really answers whether we need to. It may be just a case of this type of idea not being well represented in the training data, so didn't generalise during training.
Aside from the camera which I use less and less I'm still happy with my OnePlus 7T from 2019 which I bought second hand. I did upgrade from a OnePlus 3T which I bought new in 2016.
People aren't going to put up with the grid taking power away from your car. If we fear battery life today, this will amplify that problem significantly.
I don't think that's such a big issue nowadays because which devs shops enter the market to make money by making new Windows GUI apps nowadays, in order to be confused on which GUI libs they should start with? Not that many.

I don't see anyone wanting to write Windows-native apps anymore. App development moved to the web.

Windows apps are mostly all legacy stuff like Notepad++ or $CORPORATE_WARE written in the same libs from 20 years ago, or cross-platform stuff written in QT or Electron.
People woke up to the fact that Unity Technologies is a dirty Ad company. That toothpaste isn't going back in the tube.
I feel like with automation of work, people would have more kids than they already do. They’d have more time to raise them, less concerns about resources or their future.
I wonder if chemically sterilizing almost every young women starting around the age of menarche (to “regulate” their cycles) and through their otherwise most fertile years has something to do with the precipitous drop in fertility in the developed world.
That's not what your article is about though, or even so much as mentions in passing, so I find the critique that the provided data is not about CSAM legitimate
Of course I have no idea how you present yourself or how things exactly are at your location on earth, but they could feel you're overqualified. If you have tech jobs on your resume they could easily assume they can't pay you and/or you get bored at the job and leave quite quickly.

In my experience the best way to get in somewhere is to build a personal connection. Try to reach out by phone or in person to the other side. Make sure you understand the person and the company on the other side. That really helps to get to the top of the list, especially at smaller companies. Then still it can take a thousand no's to get one yes.

Good luck! Hope you land a job soon!
Last week, I started getting popup notifications for XBox gaming (advertisement). On Windows 10. On my corporate locked-down and administered laptop.
What? Yeah, that's a say, but "Paisas" are all the people from Antioquia (Medellin is the capital), Quindio and Risaralda. All of us are Paisas. That say could be referenced to any person from there, because of the look or way to talk or just because we were born there.
I still use Win 10 at work, but even there the ad situation is out of control. They don't just come in with widgets or Bing/Edge. They sneak in everywhere.

I thought that I'd disabled everything that leads to ads, but there was one that kept showing up through the notification center (which I thought I'd disabled). It took far too long to figure out how to stop that one.
Why can innovation only occur with rapid population growth? The foundational premise is not obvious to me.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/2021/4/19/22391675/discord-ios...
Short version of this without the caveats: It's not even Turing complete.

I review a few papers on the topic here: https://blog.wtf.sg/posts/2023-02-03-the-new-xor-problem/
I didn't have to edit the registry

https://www.geekbits.io/how-to-completely-disable-widgets-in...
Ohh cool! I remember playing this as a minigame in Sierra's Robin Hood, starts at 1:53:23

https://youtube.com/watch?v=j5C_aL6Fx4Q
Microsoft should wake up one day and simply recognize that everything that came after Windows 7 had been a terrible mistake, and they should re-release Windows 7. The world would be a beautiful place if that ever happened.
Because what are you gonna do about it? They have the ability (unless this goes through) to prevent you from seeking employment, renting, or buying a roof over your head if you don’t bend over and do whatever they tell you to do.
Just make human fertility longer. It's painfully short. Modern women are only really fertile for 25% of their life, and significant part of that period is spent on trying to become financially stable.

If women would be fertile up to 60, which is also something reasonable for almost every other mammal, we would be swimming in children even in developed countries and will have much more severe issues with overpopulation :)

Currently there is a huge evolutionary pressure towards having longer fertility period so it is bound to arrive in some quantity anyway.
I love me a matrix sequencer, but they don't easily convey things like dynamics, or tempo changes, or key changes. It also requires a score for an 88 key piano be 88 rows tall. A 4 bar rest and 64 16th notes also all have the same length in the sequencer, which is some times helpful but often not helpful.

The Ableton Push sequencer is also designed with using it in a scale-only mode in mind. It gets a fair bit uglier if you enable chromatic mode.
> They cannot offer reasons, a train of thought like a person

That's not correct. Try asking a question that requires multiple steps of reasoning and add ", think step by step" to the prompt. This not only changes the output, but also often improves the quality of the result... like you'd expect it to happen with people.
I'm not so sure. Although the opportunity hasn't really even come up, one thing that Reddit has never done is make an agreement along the lines of, "You can use X version of this software under this license forever," in their own ToS, and then suddenly go back on it and declare that, actually, everyone they had that agreement with is now subject to arbitrary new rules. While Reddit has done some sketchy and user-hostile things in the past, it's an entirely different category.

It's a can of worms that cannot be closed. Even the apology-promises they're making right now are subject to random change, because they've made clear that they don't see their own ToS as binding for them. The article says, "We will make sure that you can stay on the terms applicable for the version of Unity editor you are using – as long as you keep using that version," and we're supposed to be reassured by that, but they've already said that exact thing before and shown that it was meaningless. What's to stop them from deciding next week that they changed their minds on their commitments again? They may have learned that they can't make such grand changes all at once without a boycott, but they could think that they can still roll out the same types of changes piecemeal over the next few years (and they might be right). What's to stop them from finding new ways to skirt around these commitments in the future (for example: adding some sort of planned obsolescence to future LTS versions to ensure that, even though you are technically allowed to use them under an old ToS, actually doing so would be completely untenable)?

Personally, I wouldn't trust anything this company says unless I have a legally binding contract with them, with clear damages defined if they break it (this may be the case for some larger studios, and that's fine for them). They can say anything they want in a PR release.