skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PDF: https://www.academia.edu/1241294/The_importance_of_what_we_c..., https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20115802
Generally, people in HN don't let that small detail get in the way of making strong assertions on these matters.

These threads are always massive, embarrassing trainwrecks of naive takes on cognition and consciousness.

It's like HN just woke up and refuses to acknowledge the relevance of the extensive prior literature on these subjects. Instead, people seem mostly fine with making shit up.

Embarrassing.
Blazing a trail for the clinical use of rapamycin as a geroprotecTOR
1. You can't change `free` output, you'll break SO many scripts.

2. Most things which report memory usage in a user-friendly way _already_ do this in an obvious way. (Htop shows disk cache in a bar graph, but doesn't add it to the "used" counter.)

3. Should UX always compensate for some fraction of users' misunderstanding of how their OS kernel works? Or would it be better for them to ask the question and then be educated by the answer?
I think that yes, it's technically possible with a good amount of work at all layers of the stack. The bigger worry I'd have is purely about time. The Docker images for the Rust playground clock in close to 2 GiB, and there's 3-6 of those. No one is going to wait to download that to run a small program.

Now, because no one has put in all the work to make it happen, I don't know if this would be a real problem or not, but I haven't yet heard a comprehensive counter argument.

Some related ideas:

- Client-side interactive terminal for WASM https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-playground/issues/374

- Compile Rust Language Server into WASM https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-playground/issues/357
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Hi HN --

I'm one of the cofounders of Forth, a news feed for news. (https://www.forth.news)

Today seemed like a good day to share widely. My cofounder and I are former journalists, who know how important it is to be able to trust the news that you read. Today, a huge number of people -- especially the under-40 set -- are getting their news from social media, even though it's being overrun with misinformation, disinfo, propaganda, and just made up stuff.

We decided that if we were going to doom scroll, we'd want the stuff we're reading to be true.

All of the posts on the site come from real journalists. They are who they say they are.

I know journalists are not always held in the highest regard on this site, but I will point out -- their livelihoods come from a reputation for accuracy. Sure, humans get things wrong, but a responsible journalist check out a story before posting, and will correct the record if they make a mistake. That's what we expect, and it's listed right in our Editorial Policy. (https://www.forth.news/docs/editorial)

Please let me know what you think, and if you find this helpful.

Jared
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So the solution to that is to restrict the 1A even more?! That makes absolutely 0 sense. If the pretty doomer outlook you said is true, then who would you trust to restrict the 1A? Politicians? You said they are corrupt. The masses? They are apparently under the influence of propaganda.

I also dislike the weird double speak here, where you argue that to save democracy we can't trust the people. Maybe you are knee deep into the thought bubble you mention too. (Not saying this as an accusation, more so as a sanity check )
"democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried"
Most of these techniques are engineered to not cause much of a performance degradation. Otherwise there would not be much uptake. Also they are often implemented in compilers which produce native binaries so the impact is low.

The mitigations for the various hardware sidechannel attacks discovered in the past year have a bit larger impact. But you don't need these at all on your local computer, only in shared environments.

As a rule of thumb each mitigation usually costs a single digit percentage, seldom double digit. Of course in a system multiple mitigations will be at play but the impact should be far below 100%.

The performance impact of scripting languages, interoperable web standards and bad implementations are far worse :)
In L.A. county, if you receive mail at the residential address or are staying there for more than three consecutive days, you're legally a tenant. So if the person breaks into a house when the owner is on vacation, stays there for a week and gets mail there, yes, the once-trespasser is a legal tenant. Seattle area is the same; makes it super easy to squat.
It seems like they are going the exact opposite direction: https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-form...
Literacy rates have gone up, minorities have a bigger voice than perhaps ever. Trust in legacy media (propaganda machines) is at an all time low. It seems like the issue is that each voice is a drop in the bucket now while there are naturally giants throwing their weight around. I'm not saying we don't have new problems which need new solutions, but to fault the 1A I feel is misled. In a world where free speech is still under constant attack, we should reaffirm the strong foundations we have rather than uproot entirely.
This reminds me of the many articles stating that pirates didn't wear eye-patches to cover up an injury but that they used them for for their eyes to adjust to the dark when entering a ships hold. Even though there's more evidence that eye injuries were probably just common across pirates.

Applying Okkam's razor I'd conclude that most medieval staircases were probably build clockwise simply because most staircases were already built clockwise.
Indeed - there are even UPRNs for bus stops, defibrillators, and post boxes.

I have also seen lamp posts, EV chargers and fibre infrastructure street cabinets receive them. No need to be a house or building!
I find it's a bit annoying that almost all their images assume root access by default. Their init script does a bunch of things as root and only switch to a non-root user at the very last step before starting the main process if some magic environment variable is discovered. If your infra does not allow root users in containers you can't use their images.

It's also too much magic for my liking. Some software distributed as a single executable binary gets packaged in some over complicated base image on top of another base image, when I can technically just copy the binary into a scratch and call it a day. I understand the benefits when they have to manage tons of images at scale, but my life has been much easier with images packaged by myself or the upstream projects.
The article is from the point of view of a responsible historian.

There is no evidence of the myth being true. There are no sources in history suggesting it.

It might be true. But there is no evidence that it is.

Proving it false is another matter.
It’s the first thing that popped into my head.
The only thing that is sabotaging nuclear power in the US is cost. It has been given an economic leg up that most industries could never even dream of. It's just so expensive that that often isn't enough to make it viable.

That is the reason for its (quite successful) attempts to brand itself as the New Green Jesus.

>For the arsenal part, the military has its own reactors

Yes, the military does have its own reactors. You are quite correct in this one specific fact.

There's a revolving door between the military and the private sector for nuclear engineers and the industrial infrastructure they both rely upon is shared. The parts required to construct nuclear reactors are quite specific, you see, and you need specialized industry to provide it.
"fancy asset catalog management system" - was thinking about building such solution lately - do you know any open-source solutions of this kind?
Why....why were you running in your underwear?
I know many humans who wouldn't pass this test, e.g. in their non-native language... [ insert humiliating attempts to speak <language> ]

Try instead to give GPT more examples of pronunciation (1000+) and then I suspect it'll do fine.
Well, the company named in the title was Evony, which has been running chumbox-style ads since before the word 'chumbox' ever entered the lexicon. They don't just not care, they have been targeting exactly that since they published "Come play, my lord" back in 2009.
Mailing addresses often have little to do with local governance; they’re for the USPS. Just tells you where it will be processed.
While the article provides guidance on utilizing standard software and services to construct a basic video upload platform, it lacks deeper insights into advanced scaling techniques.
No it’s one of those “plastic hunks with a led” that plugs into an outlet or even a car cigarette lighter.
If there are several thousand such towers in Europe, then chance of 70% of them all being clockwise due to use of coin flips seems unimaginably small. More likely the first one happened to built that way and most others copied that until someone wondered if you couldn't go the other way instead. Or maybe it is connected to handedness in some other way (easier to draw the design? To lay the stone work? Traditions around who should pass who and how if somebody going up encounters somebody coming down? Who knows...)
> This persistent response to LLMs is bigger news, to me, than the fact that LLMs can’t think.

I can testify that people will be manipulated by sleight of hand (the physical act) even after they have been alerted to it. Now transfer that weakness to a domain where most people have zero equipment and training to form a sound judgement.

Its a big and complicated world and our brains are wonderful but limited. We have to rely on trust for the vast majority of information we digest.

When organized coalitions of individuals subvert the channels of trust we stand exposed as idiots.

The principal characteristic of the digital era is, alas, not harnessing this amazing technology for societal benefit but betraying trust and violating unspoken contracts - for profit.
This gives me Black Mirror-fueled nightmares... not least because those videos suggest that a Black Mirror scenario may not be that far off and what probably saves us for now is battery capacity.
There is no data loss from disk caching.
Isn't that a like like saying people are irresponsible when they fall for dark patterns?

This involves money and profit. Privacy policies involve money and profit.

In both cases, there are clear financial incentives to make things confusing to the benefit of the financial institution.

Because credit cards got so bad, they added "nutrition labels" by law. These are the required disclosures that take about APRs, penalties, grace periods, fees and minimum finance charges, etc
I am not a medieval stonemason but these were lifelong craftsmen and I doubt they did it without a lot of thought. They did it with one specific thought it their mind I suspect, it was the way that they were most familiar with doing it so it was the fastest / easier / cheapest way to do it! The same reason any modern craftsman does quite a lot of things.
This is cool. I think another thing you can think of to add is maybe how to validate your product. When we were building Typogram (https://typogram.co/) it was one of the hardest thing to figure out.
> Are Hornets better or worse than wasps

Asian hornets are much more efficient killing people. I think that this should count as worse.

But the much more stoic European hornet has a special place in my little heart.
The problems being related to the backup generators make me think about the current Freefall arc (written by a nuclear engineer, even), which focuses in part on a unethical space station manager who is skimping on maintenance regimes to create a temporary life-support failure (requiring the use of backup generators) that would trigger the automatic reallocation of unused manufacturing robots from a nearby in-orbit factory to bolster his workforce and lower his labor costs (storyline starting around ... here http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3800/fc03702.htm, although prior to that are a few fun strips about procurement bureaucracy)
It's been working very well. If there's one saving grace to X/twitter, it's the community notes. It makes for a very very outrage-reducing experience.

Plus, you can just vote on which one is true or not. And I don't think a simple majority is enough for that.
I think of this as the "abstraction level problem". LLMs work at the wrong abstraction level (statistical relationships between individual words) for the tasks people want to use them for (high-level reasoning).

Image generators have a similar problem -- they suck at large-scale composition and have problems with details like hands because the abstraction level they're working at (individual pixels and their close neighbors) is much lower than the level that a human artist works at.
Well, yeah. But (DAMON and friends aside), Linux doesn't handle that non-zero marginal memory cost well today.
"That is either an incense dispenser, or a ceremonial ... sarcophagus."

"My German is pre-industrial, and mostly religious."
going down you mean ;)

I would counter argue that one may prefer to hold the ramp in one's strong hand...
This is so wrong it actively hurts.
Tell me you've never done any Android development, without telling me...

This is such a low-effort "take" without any effort to justify _why_ you'd want something like this. There's a high amount of impedance mismatch trying to write GUIs in a non-GC language like Rust which _has_ to run on what's essentially a Java VM (ART).

At least with a language like Go, it somewhat makes sense, and has been attempted: https://gioui.org/

All this Java/Kotlin bashing is getting really old, especially for a forum like this one.
> [Trustworthy advertising] is founded on the idea that the ["advertisers"] will be a group of honest, well-behaved actors. As the internet at large has proven time and again, this is a hilariously naive idea.

I'd prefer the "community" bullshit over the "advertiser" bullshit.
Link to blog post about Alvis: https://xeiaso.net/blog/alvis/

I'm torn, on one hand it feels like a useful application of LLMs and on the other I'm worried there's a non-obvious way it could really mess up. But that's an unfounded guess until proven.

EDIT: Oops, this is satire. Now I know how people who took The Onion at face value felt.
I have to admit I had that thought - if I needed to get down a narrow staircase in a hurry, I'd prefer if it were anti-clockwise.
But apparently another competing theory is that clockwise staircases allow people to put their right hand against the wall for balance/safety... implying if they had anything to carry (including a lamp!) they'd prefer to do so in their left hand, which isn't too convincing either. But in fact on further consideration, the fact that if you have something largish to carry, you'd probably want it on the wider side, and would be more likely you'd carry it in your right hand, might have something going for it...though I'm not sure why that would be obviously more so going down than going up (and logically I'd expect more things would be carried up from the ground floor than v/v, particularly shortly after building the castle. From the upper floor you can discard used/broken objects by tossing them over the side!).
The problem is scale. You either get cost savings using utility scale Megapacks, or you get scale with cookie cutter Powerwalls in each home (sometimes, but not always, paired with rooftop or ground mount solar).

In the end, whatever is fast and cheapest wins vs bespoke solutions. As the post notes, Powerwalls at homes are cheaper than more transmission infra. The logistics around installing this kit is also easier than big infra projects.
I don't think I'm a fear mongerer but the amount of reasonably qualified jobs that can be displaced by the models we have now seems huge. In the hands of a qualified human AI-manager they are incredibly productive when the output doesn't have to be cutting edge.

I know people who have already automated most of their own job and some colleagues through linking together disparate AI models. Think graphic designer at medium-sized law firm. Or copywriter at a scientific publisher. Those jobs are going, going, gone.
No company would pay Twitter for a comment section to be shown on their ads just as no company pays for an adblocker to hide their ads. A hypothetical service would be paid for by the commenters.
No, very often extra ram comes bundled only in high end configurations, so you have to buy a much more expensive i7 cpu, or you're charged an extraordinary amount (like +$1000 to go from 16GB ram/512GB ssd to 32GB ram/1TB ssd for a Microsoft Surface), or it's just straight up not available for the model you want.

And what if you want to buy used and upgrade?

Laptops without replaceable ram are disgustingly cynical e-waste and shouldn't be allowed.
A broader look at credit card industry, for those who can pay off monthly balance, is those people use it to get more points than they would with the debit card attached to the checking account where the funds sit for the autopay.

Rewards and benefits on debit cards are low or nonexistent due to regulatory pressure in USA to have lower network processing fees than credit cards.

Europe has lower card network fees than USA, so there are fewer rewards cards available.
That was absolutely me too, until about a year ago when I lost the ability to sleep in (at all, I cannot sleep past 8ish). It's been a painful adjusting period.
Alternative explanation - maybe the training data is full of internet discussions, and it's just that we we really bad at self correction online.
I’ve heard about, marveled at, and generally known about the amazon my entire life. I’d say it’s easily as important in my mind as anything else critical for life on earth as we know it. Genuinely would be willing to pay more for goods/services to ensure its continued health.

And im from the sw US.
One of the “features” of the Enterprise plan is:

> Artificial General Intelligence

This may be a useful tool, but do we really need to do this?
I wonder in LLMs either need to be rethought/retrained to say "I don't know" instead of guessing (I have no clue what would go into this) or...

if we somehow are able to take a "test-driven-approach" with them.

Upfront, we tell it what criteria must pass. Connect it to a "test/task" runner of some sort per prompt. Then, it keeps trying behind the scenes to come up with an answer that passes the criteria (to prevent humans from having to waste iterations on 'no, you got it wrong, try again')

However, I will admit... most of the time when the LLM can't solve it, retrying and retrying over and over slightly different ways really doesn't typically end up in success. If the task is "too complex" for the LLM, I have yet to find a way to break it down context wise and overcome the limitation.
And it gets more perceptible when moving the caret (more pixels to track and you're actively tracking).
Yeah it makes the more "polarised" experience a lot easier to digest. It's an amazingly effective tool, especially since it's not just some dude at twitter HQ writing them. So you can see them pop up on almost any post.
Ask HN: What online businesses do you find dumb but make a lot of money?
You may be focusing on the leetcode label, and not the rest of the fail-fast zingers that are ubiquitous. Only a subset are actual leetcode.
The first mistake and you're done, due to the high number of applicants.

If you've got networking to let you bypass the BS, that's great. But most interviews (by number) are "cold" interviews that conduct these almost exclusively. Due to lack of trust and extreme fear of failure.

The only offer I've received in years was because, while they did this type of test as well, they didn't take the results too seriously. One out of maybe a hundred attempts that year.
No more than I need to understand every dynamic of walking to know that my goldfish doesn’t do it.

For a lot of us, LLM behavior and thinking are so plainly and obviously dissimilar that the endless comparisons look somewhere between naive or manipulative, depending on who’s making them.
Evergreen.
One can spend US$100 on some fancy Nike running shorts, but they're still just one step away from boxer underwear. And that shirt with the name of the last race you ran? Yeah, fancy t-shirt, i. e., underwear.

IOW, I was being facetious. And a little self-denigrating, to make sure I don't take myself too seriously as an athlete.
> To be clear, this article does not attempt to explain why 70% of stairs were built clockwise

I wonder if it's easier for right handed masons to build a staircase in a particular chirality. What percentage of modern staircases are built in a particular direction?
Yeah.

For perspective, Norman keeps were often built with a large internal cross wall, so even if troops made it through the stair door and swarmed into the room they'd still have to fight their way into the other half of the floor. By the stage these expensive and space consuming walls were defensively relevant, defenders would have already lost outer walls, viable long-term food and water supplies and much of the garrison defending it... and any real chance of holding out. But an invading army would still lose more men storming it; so it functioned as a deterrent.

I've heard this "it's a myth" argument before, but 70% of staircases is quite a large proportion of staircases spiralling in a particular direction which would offer the defender a marginal advantage to be pure coincidence. Particularly when the ratio of clockwise to anticlockwise staircases in Norman castles was about 20:1; it was later generations of castle of builders who added many more anticlockwise stairwells, in an era when individual tower defence was less importance, and builders may have simply forgotten or come to doubt arguments about the defensive advantages of clockwise spirals (the blog's arguments for why spiral staircase defence is rubbish work here of course!). Contemporary cathedrals which were not at all defensible tended to build clockwise and anticlockwise spiral staircases as matching pairs, so it wasn't like there was some other sort of massive aversion to stairs in a particular direction.
Uh yeah, I'd say even 1 day in jail or prison is too much of a punishment for having TikTok installed on your phone. This is fucking bonkers.
I think the slam dunk against the myth is simply that there's no evidence for it at all. If you have no primary sources or archaeological evidence, and the only "source" is tour guides, then there's no reason to believe it.

It might be true or it might not, but talking about it as if it's definitely true is simply wrong.
Does disk caching not include write caching?
TikTok already aggressively censors anything critical of the US establishment; it's much easier to find right-wing content on Facebook and X now than on TikTok.
This is very long for something that's quite simple: If your input space is small enough that it fits into an 8- or 16-bit LUT, try it. If it's faster, use the LUT; if it's not, don't use it. Really, that's all that needs to be said. The cases where LUTs this small crop up are so rare that you lose nothing by trying. There's no use in trying to predict the performance when you can just measure it.
> Correspondingly, Tencent has holdings in many American companies, Reddit and Twitter being two. Should Reddit be forced to buy out their holdings?

I mean, yeah maybe. If there's a real national security risk it would make sense. Not that I think either of those companies are in any way trustworthy, but let's not compound the dangers to the public with CCP interference.
Definitely not for everyone, but you might be surprised what extensions people install just for the chance of getting a coupon (often expired or invalid) for random ecommerce sites.