skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions (2018) [video]
The complexity of written language is going to keep biting features like this in the ass if people want them to “behave”. Doesn’t matter how many filters you put in place, there’s always more and more creative ways to ask for an infinite amount of “bad” prompts.

If we’re going down this route of boringness, why not skip the middle man? Just allow only certain words, in a certain order. You could pre-generate those and just serve the ~500k images after careful appraisal for optimal boredom. People seeking a boring image to reflect their boring lives can type keywords into a search and see functionally infinite boring options.

[business] [women] [thumbs up].jpg

[dog] [happy].jpg

[man] [with coffee] [thumbs up].jpg
The thing is if you need a vector _database_ there is no reason why it can't be a pg extensions. And if you project is only small scale there is probably some HNSW pg extension library you could use.

But what is most times needed instead of a vector database is a efficient fast responsive vectore approximate KNN search system with fast attribute filtering which overlaps with a fast an efficient text search system (e.g. bm25 based)

And if you then go to billion vector scale things become tricky performance wise.

And then you reach the same point at which companies do things like using warehouse approach where you have a read only extremely read optimized mostly in memory variant of their db they access for searches only and changes from their main db a streamed to the read only search instance, potentially while losing snapshot views, transactions and similar.

You could say that approx. KNN vector search is the new must have feature for unstructured fuzzy text search, and while you can have unstructured fuzzy text search in pg it's also often not the go-to solution if your databse is just for getting that search.
That is technically true. However, I do find that a lot of people I know tend to get new phones well before they actually have a need for them.

I don't entirely blame peoples' consumerism; As somebody who once worked in cell phone sales, the mere act of visiting a carrier store is likely to land you in front of a salesperson who is incentivized to sell new phones and lines indiscriminately. Not to mention the incredible amount of advertising that goes into phones - if people only upgraded when they needed new phones, I don't think Apple, Samsung, or Google would feel the need to advertise the new ones so aggressively.

HN is likely a much more tech-literate crowd than the average person, so I think to a lot of us it seems silly to buy new phones every year. But I know that every time Apple releases a new iPhone, I get a call from my dad asking if it's worth upgrading from last year's model. I say no, nothing has changed, but the next time I see him he has it. Why? Because the salesperson made such a convincing case, not only about the merit of the new phone, but the fact that they could give him such a "deal" on it.
Until you want to use software that it doesn't have, and then you are adding third-party repositories.

Which is still just code from the internet.
Probably depends on one's role in the org. As an IC I've never had this be a problem.
I highly recommend you to check out ReScript. Amazingly fast compile times.

Watching typescript teams spent 30 seconds on the recompile is insane for me.

in fact, the whole ocaml family of programming languages are mega fast.

The most important feature of a very fast compile time is that you can load it with types after types and write in your whole mental model, without worrying about your build process slowing down.
Rather than all this effort to work around the flaws of the transformer model, maybe researchers should be looking for a better architecture altogether.

The absolutely insane amount of compute that transformers consume could probably be better used for neuroevolutionary search.
for comparative purposes snap do 4b a year and are a bit flat, same as Pinterest. Last 10k I saw from yahoo is 2016 where they also did 5b top line.
Grades in university have done absolutely nothing for me. Good grades nor bad grades. What I got out of schooling was quite literally an education – access to perspectives and paradigms, learning methodologies, some expertise in a couple of fields, confidence in working with others. You know... learning.

There's not a lot of value in using AI for targeted tasks like a school essay. Nor is there much value in getting a grade for a targeted task like an essay (not only would the grade be high-noise and low-signal, it also has a tiny or non-existent practical effect).

I wonder if these AI tools will to some extent highlight the meaningless fluff (crust?) that vestigially hangs around. If our current incarnation of task-oriented AI is really good at some particular thing, and we humans readily hand that thing over to AI without regret/loss, what are the chances that that thing really mattered in the first place?

(Note that this is not to hypothesize that all things AI does are non-important.)

I personally believe that we have a weak grasp on the things we do that don't matter. We do a lot of things because we have always done them, and some of these have not been adequately questioned in years/decades. So any indication of what's important or not is very helpful.

(I'm aware my circumstances are unique – maybe for some grades in school have had a significant influence in their lives – I personally have not witnessed this, in myself or others.)
I'd love the telephoto camera for outdoor shots, but I can't stand the price or the size of the phone. Even with the Google Fi discount of $300, the price($500 with trade-in) is too much to justify.

I guess I'll stick with my Pixel 5A.
man if you think that's bad let me introduce you to the automobile industry.
I don't think you are correct. Google ngram viewer supports the idea that any occurrence of the phrase 'sopping to' is so rare as to be probably an error.

You can usually "sop up" == "soak up" something which leads to the common "sopping wet".
You can also have a "sop" == "morsel".

"Sopping to" makes no sense in English.

Sources: google ngram, wiktionary, merriam-webster, concise oxford 1971
"I used a magic 8 ball to predict the future."

"They don't predict the future."

"I know their predictions are statistically quite bad, so I used a magic 8 ball three times to make sure there wasn't any doubt."

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How much allure for these products is there that a college professor can be on HN, know that the tools don't work, and still use them anyway?

And how are students supposed to combat that kind of misuse if even educating professors about the problem isn't enough to make them stop trusting the detectors? And for a professor to then to brag about it on HN that they're being responsible as if they expect to be praised for it?

It's just so frustrating to read... What do you do if you're a student in that situation, do you have to sit your professor down and not only show that the tools have problems but also explain the concept of correlated error?

I kind of feel like the only way this changes is with legal challenges to colleges until they eventually ban the tools from being used in grading. Public pushback isn't going to change it, schools aren't going to care about that. And if educating about the problems isn't going to change behavior, I can't expect students to walk every one of their professors through a stats class. I don't know what if any legal rights at all students actually have in these situations, I'm guessing most colleges have boilerplate that if they decide to randomly fail you tough luck.

But at the very least, @jccalhoun you should stop using these programs yourself; you have the individual ability to make your own classroom better, and you should.
I have a 13 Mini. The battery is typically at 30-50% in the evening. Generally never have to worry about the charge during the day. Perhaps it's time to replace the battery if it's at 80% of health or below?

If I travel and have to use GPS most of the day / take hundreds of photos, I carry a small 5000 mAh battery to charge up on the go. I think it's a reasonable accommodation for a phone that's perfectly fine day-to-day.
If it's uninhabitable, the city should remove her, and they can fight over whether he pays her money or not in court.
Electric cars can and did exist without computers. There was an electric car driving on the streets of Paris in 1859. [1]

I would argue it's the other way around: regenerative breaking is a nice to have, but good luck building a production ICE car without a ECU that comes anywhere close to meeting emission standards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Trouvé#/media/File:Cap...
> There’s something else going on, too: Scientists are shielding the public. They say: “We don’t want people to give up,” or “We don’t want the island nations to feel abandoned,” or “We don’t want people to lose hope.”

This is called out by the author, but in my opinion as soon as you start changing the truth to fit a narrative you are not being scientific. If their model says we are missing the mark and we will get warming of 4C then this is what should be reported.

What would we say if a scientist doing Alzheimer research said that their new medecine could reduce symptoms by 50% even though their data shows that the reduction is only 10%? Even if it's not for money and purely so that patients treated with the medecine would "keep hope" we would call that person a liar.
The boomers are retiring. Yes, really, that's what's happening.

And it is going to get far, far worse.
It passed EMC so the ferrite is not needed and omitting it is literally a million dollars decision. And no surprise, the spectrum images he posted look fine. It's not and never was about eliminating all emissions, and his problem is purely putting the thing right next to the receiver.
Not necessarily -- there are a lot more wood-burning stoves in a world without solar panels, and we don't have the population that we had 500 years ago.

It's not like rewinding a tape or time travel. I would predict we start moving backward and simply do not stop -- not at 500 years, not at 1000 years.

A positive feedback loop is just someone else's interrupted homeostasis.
They've posted their incident report: https://blog.cloudflare.com/1-1-1-1-lookup-failures-on-octob...
But compiling the non-go assistant process is not going to be any easier than cgo, right?
Reverse Engineering and Modding Mario Pinball Land (GBA)
The scientists would love nothing more than to discover a whole new area of study, alas ESP doesn’t lend itself to study despite the overwhelming statistical evidence (?) because it’s made up.
I'm not great on tort law. IANAL. But let's say the law says "The court clerk shall issue all requested documents within 7 days", and the clerk takes 11 months to get you the documents and due to their tardiness you lost your job, wife, children, residency, whatever.

I'm not feeling that you could sue, in Illinois at least. Sure, the law said they "shall" do it, but it's directory, not mandatory. It just looks like it is mandatory. I know 100% you cannot prosecute a government official for Official Misconduct[0] in Illinois for violating a law that says they "shall" do something unless it also has an associated punishment for the specific statute they violated.

[0] (720 ILCS 5/33-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 33-3)
Sec. 33-3. Official misconduct.
(a) A public officer or employee or special government agent commits misconduct when, in his official capacity or capacity as a special government agent, he or she commits any of the following acts:
(1) Intentionally or recklessly fails to perform any mandatory duty as required by law;
I wish journalists were underestimating people. They have just reached an integrity bankruptcy where they run press releases instead of articles.

The truth is readily available on demand and large numbers of people still behave like children.
The idea that it's a Chinese hoax is actually a Russian hoax.
I know, right? I just bought it.
One set of facts, climate science, tell us the reality of what's happening to our environment. But another set of facts, communications and psychology, tell us what messaging will get people to put forth the greatest effort at combating the problem.

What good are principles if the cost of adhering to them is an increase in actual pain, suffering, death, and destruction? Say whatever needs to be said keep people from giving up.
They may both say so, but only one side is stealing.
The Broodwar replays were really cursed -- I remember that hilarious (perfectly reproducable) bugs of quickly replaying a game which resulted in a completely different replay then the actual game, apparently because the replay missed to integrate all replay information correctly and ended up in a different game state.
Java is my first choice.

C# is a close second. It depends on what the customer knows.

TypeScript third. But first for frontend.

Kotlin could have been on the list. It is a nice language but not worth the hassle (tied to one ide, extra configuration, examples that doesn't work etc).

I want to learn Clojure, and I'd be interested to try modern PHP again.

Every other language I will only recommend if people already use them and know them.

I have used Javascript, Python, Perl and VB (and used to prefer them over Java) but as I get older anf Java gets better I wouldn't waste my time on any of them except Perl, and only because I haven't used it in the last 15 years.
Labor participation numbers are very interesting. However I think they point to a deeper malaise:

There is a segment of society that has checked out. They wont form families. They wont realize themselves. They wont create bonds of love with others.

They survive living off the good will parents, grandparents or the state. Mind you, I consider these people are victims.

On the other hand, people who are trying to form families, form bonds, find it much harder to afford basic things their parents could afford despite selling double the amount of hours to the labor market than their families did two, or three generations ago.
"Sopping to" still does not have any common accepted meaning though. So, if you want to communicate with other users of English it might be a good idea not to use that phrase. You want both your listeners and you to agree on what it means and as far as I can tell only you know that.
nah it's pretty bad https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/uk-beac...
Is there any way to make it safe? I've bought newer pixels and they are a downgrade all around for me. I just want security updates and the ability to browse on-device files/do file management (newer Androids keep restricting further and further)
Vespa is the Italian (and Latin) word for wasp, not sure Piaggio can claim ownership outside of the domain of commercial vehicles under idk EU or WTO rules.
NYT: “Even Michael Lewis Can’t Make a Hero Out of Sam Bankman-Fried”
> Take your money elsewhere. Education should be a market.

You're absolutely right, and any participants in this market should be looking to maximize their grade per dollar spent.

(What do you think they should be maximizing?)
The Deep Adaptation [1] movement has been talking for years about how science has been peddling hopium to the masses (my words, not theirs).

Thinking of climate collapse with the understanding that these changes will happen well within our lifetime can open up new perspectives that can help individuals - and society at large - better deal with what's to come.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation
It hasn't changed that much. In a lot of ways technology has put us into a Zen valley of unknowing.

The only reason people rely on technology for 'order' is because they have been cut off from mapping out the Truth.

It is only through technology that you can destroy/disrupt so much past value in a short period of time and call it progress.

It is deeply sad to watch many thousands of bright lives wasted on maintaining wealth for the status quo. Getting camels through needle eyes, is only a small part of life.
Ask HN: What software do you need, that doesn't exist?
Landlords pay a 500% premium to buy houses here, so, tenants are pretty lucky to only pay 43% more.
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You've had to explain this so many times lol

it's not the intuitive way people expect the game to work, I thought it was a bug too when I found it
Can anybody speak to how Vespa compares to some other Vector Database solutions? Seems like there's so many options today
The mechanics might be different, but the "free shipping" is still subsidized by driving the price of the product itself up. Either way, all consumers pay a higher price, so that a subset of them don't have to pay for shipping.
Love the style, looks fun!
Both bad things can be true.

Crypto is one of the best methods available to Russia to circumvent sanctions and turn their capabilities to hard currencies. This is true whether we're talking about acquiring money by running frauds internationally, or finding ways to be paid for cybercrimes like ransomware.

Rather bigger amounts of defrauding are possible for Americans who figure out how to directly access the American financial system. That doesn't change the way that it is being used by Russia. And the Russian use case is far more relevant to this story - they are undoubtably involved in a shockingly large fraction of the crypto money launderers that were registered in Estonia.
I interviewed maybe a few dozen people in my time at a larger company. I always got resumes but never saw a cover letter, so I don't know if people sent them in or not.

One of the hiring aspects I've heard is that interviews aren't terribly predictive of performance, but past accomplishments are, so I'd read through peoples' resumes and ask them about past projects and what they learned from them - seems like the best way to spend the time. But I was always surprised at how few of my fellow interviewers used the resume like that.

So I was a bit surprised when I was on the other side of the table for my latest job and the interviewer did it to me. It's an impressively competent place and I'm glad to have gotten it.
I hate to imagine what kind of actual societal progress we could have made had these brilliant minds been working on nearly anything else. So much wasted potential just to serve an ad that gets ignored a tiny bit faster.
I mean, I'm not going to say it to someone's face but I'll definitely be judging them. Most of those who have pushed back against typescript have done so for similarly dogmatic reasons or even straight ignorance (I dont want to learn something new), so I'm not sure who is really the winner or loser in this situation.
I don't think they believe its a hoax. A lot of it is also hoping someone else will solve the problem for them. Or because climate change hasn't dramatically changed their normal lives yet that forces them for action. People are not really good at preventing problems, hence why history tends to repeat itself.
Congratulations on... Cheating yourself out of actually researching the material? Of learning something?

Why pay to go to school if you're just regurgitating a Wikipedia page? Wikipedia's free.
Is there any high-level description of the downstream changes in ferrocene and a roadmap of which changes could be upstreamed and which would probably "never" be acceptable upstream?
I'm currently using Pixel 4a (just recently EOL), and I'll probably upgrade my phone this or next year.

Maybe Pixel has a yearly release cycle, but it doesn't mean I have to upgrade every year, that would be crazy. And they can iterate more often to try some ideas more often than once every 5 years.
>World models would need to have logical relationships between the entities being

No they wouldn't. There is no evidence, basically none whatsoever that logical can model reality or that general "perfect logical reasoning" is a thing that actually exists in the real world in real world relationships. None.

No animal we've observed does it. Humans certainly don't do it. The only realm this idea actually seems to work is Fiction. and this was not like for a lack of trying. Some of the greatest minds worked on this for decades and some people still don't seem to get it. Logic doesn't scale. It breaks at real world relationships.

We were using logic for image, speech, language synthesis and just had to throw it away once something that actually worked came about.

If logic was so great at modeling the world, we wouldn't be using LLMs like GPT-4 , we'd be using Cyc, the system with decades of a headstart.

Logic systems are that guy in the stands yelling that he could've made the shot, while he's not even on the field.

>included in the training set (sudoku being an obvious example)

LLMs can play sudoku just fine. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08291
Not sure about Crypto AG level shardy. But they are still shady. When I see Rambus I think "patent troll".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambus

> Rambus was accused of shredding key documents prior to court hearings, the judge agreed and dismissed Rambus' case against Infineon. T

> On January 9, 2009, a Delaware federal judge ruled that Rambus could not enforce patents against Micron Technology Inc., stating that Rambus had a "clear and convincing" show of bad faith, and ruled that Rambus' destruction of key related documents (spoliation of evidence) nullified its right to enforce its patents against Micron.[28]

> Rambus engaged in intentional deceptive conduct in the context of the standard-setting process for example by not disclosing the existence of the patents which it later claimed were relevant to the adopted standard. This type of behavior is known as a "patent ambush".

> Ronald Black, Rambus's CEO, said, "Somehow we got thrown into the patent troll bunch...This is just not the case."[43]

See, they are the good guys after all. It came right from their CEO. /s

If someone is acting like this then shows up with a "here is a cool curve you can use", not surprising people will be suspicious. It's like that neighbor who has been suing everyone in the neighborhood, and calling the cops on kids playing outside, all of the sudden shows with a plate of cookies. People will think twice before trying a cookie.
Authoritarianism isn’t bad because it doesn’t work.

Authoritarianism is bad because it works too well - for the authority. And while the authorities interests and everyone else’s may align well at the beginning, that is very unlikely after awhile. And then there is nothing anyone can do about it.