skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The AI effect occurs when onlookers discount the behavior of an artificial intelligence program by arguing that it is not "real" intelligence.[1]

> Author Pamela McCorduck writes: "It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'."[2] Researcher Rodney Brooks complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'"[3]

> "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."

> —Larry Tesler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
https://archive.ph/d7HCu
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Sure, but ultimately when kids receive vastly different childhood educations, it will eventually fracture society because we're all starting from a completely different set of beliefs. Even if some schools are "better" or "worse" for the most part they have similar curriculum. As time goes on and that curriculum diverges, it'll make the political fractures in society today seem like a walk in the park IMO.

The social aspect of schooling is just as important as the educational part of it. There's a reason growing up when we had home schooled kids that joined for their high school years, they were the "weird kids" - they just had absolutely no idea how to interact socially with their peers. And for some folks that carries on to adulthood.

Disclaimer: my parents were public school teachers, and seeing the system deteriorate feels like a travesty. The number of parents who think school is daycare is disheartening to say the least.
So after e10s, Quantum, Azure. Are there any upcoming major changes to Firefox or Gecko?
And if they become public schools with worse management and driven by crazy people.. what then?
Yeah I think maybe we are making the same point in a way?

I felt the poster was discounting the article because the author had the opposite political preference on 2 topics. They lead with - "I figured out as soon as I saw the link title that the author's examples for "luxury beliefs" would just so happen to be associated with a feminist and anti-racist outlook."

To me reading the criticism of "my side" by reasonable writers from "the other side" is only additive. Also, logically that's exactly where I would expect the criticism to come from. You may even gain some perspective and re-evaluate your position or adjust your argument. This is how we grow.

As you point out, one can have a complex set of preferences/beliefs/things they support that do not fit directly into blue|red binary as a whole.
> Who does the pruning, and what is considered repressive?

Any social media company should be able to prune to whichever degree each company wants to. And the pruning doesn't have to be about whether speech is repressive in X way. It can be as frivolous as "Ban all people who like carrots" to something as serious as "Ban people who think X about Covid". In other words, I personally don't support the Westminster Declaration beyond situations involving government coercion.

> For purposes of this discussion, let's talk about the origins of Covid-19 and how surgical masks had little effect on the lab-borne virus. Or we can talk about how anti-maskers' rhetoric harmed a vulnerable population, and how discussions of lab-vs-wild distracted us from what should have been our immediate concerns.

> Should the government talk to Twitter about my statements to that effect?

"Talk to" is very broad. In my opinion: "Hey, this post might have misinformation" is okay because it's just a heads-up, not a suggestion of an action. By okay, I mean legal under the First Amendment. "We would prefer that you take down the post" is okay because it only suggests an action. "We want you to take down the post, or we will do Y" is not okay because it's coercive. "Take down the post" is not okay because it might have a tone of finality and thus coercion. (I say "might" because determining the tone of a written text is inevitably subjective.)

"Should" the government talk to Twitter? Not necessarily, and it depends on the topic. But at the same time, not every kind of moderation-related communication between a social media company and a government should be frowned upon.
Take them out of public schools, I guess?
What fraction of web sites do you believe were tested on Firefox on Android?
> Not to mention all fonts appearing bolder than they should compared to Chrome and Safari.

No they don't. https://imgur.com/a/p9V4GdN
Yet again, that’s about the data, I think the blog post focuses on the applicative aspect
A bit part of the lawsuit, was that the buyers agent compensation was ONLY visible on MLS to other registered agents.

So, when you were looking online, you had no idea if the houses you found where offering 3% or 1.5% buyers agent commission, but your agent was, and could steer you to the higher paying homes.
typo! I meant “not”
> Second order effects of schemes like prohibition are much worse than the original problems.

There are loads of countries that have illegalized alcohol and not devolved into levels of organized crime that the US did. Specifically, nearly every Muslim nation on earth. I feel this one example is way overplayed by advocates of legalization
Even the best team make design decision that turns out suboptimal when the requirement changes.

Also, even the best team will sometimes make mistake.

Db schemas are unforgiving.
When you learn a company has been purchased, you adjust your priors on their behavior (based on past behavior, reputation, etc).

When Amazon bought One Medical, I expected the product and the customer service to be slowly watered down.

If it happens invisibly, I'm operating on historically established trust that is outdated, and I have no way to know it.
> Bulk freight mostly doesn't need radiation shielding or life support services

Most freight, e.g. food, medicines, robots, requires some shielding. And some requires temperature or even pressure regulation.
Chess: Chinese World Champion Disappeared
Table renames don’t break anything.

Changing columns must be done to both tables in a transaction. Unit tests verify that the table columns match.
Attorneys are so ridiculously cheap compared to the realtors. In my area there are discount real estate attorneys that will do sales/purchases for $200, and the normal price is like $500 which is nothing compared to the real estate agents getting like $10k on an average home in the area.
A buyer's agent should be paid by the buyer, since the agent is working for the buyer. You could agree to do it, or you could reject their offer if they ask you to pay the agent commission.
your guess is incorrect
> In what way? What are the "necessary terms"?

Much like tech standards/specs laws have a section defining the terms used in the law. So, GDPR defines these things. In the context of GDPR tracking probably doesn't even exist as a term. There's personal data that you can't pass on to third parties without user's consent and similar things.
at 6% of the median 500k for a house, they have about 30k reasons to fight that tooth and nail..
I can recommend you KVM from level1tech, I'm using personally version 2DP x 4Computers, but recently I saw they offer 4computers KVM without monitors version, I have no idea what magic they use to know when your cursor reached edge of the screen but it looks exactly what you described is your need
> putting down $500 earnest money on a $300K house would look suspicious enough to get you ignored by the buyer

Assuming you mean the seller here? If I were the seller I too would ignore that kind of offer but first I'd let it push all the other escalation clauses up ;)
Exactly. In my case, I thought of finding the seller after sale was final, and ask if their agent presented my offer. He'd then maybe sue their agent.

I didn't care enough to pursue that route.
Counter-counter example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/24...

The Bystander was a huge problem in China as recently as 10 years ago, until Chinese authorities made changes to the law.

It's still an issue in India today. (https://www.outlookindia.com/national/explained-delhi-teen-m...)

Quite oddly, the bystander effect is biggest in countries that celebrate collective action, and the smallest in countries with strong individualist bents.
> Its max supply is uncapped

Sure. If it gets bigger, it can be addressed then. As it stands, it isn’t a problem.
In that architecture, the central API effectively becomes “the database”, because apps depend on it just as much. Most of the same rules would apply to the central API’s schema.
What's up with all of the namecheap bots in this thread? There are like 10 accounts defending namecheap like their lives depended on it.
I will second this. I went to a normal parochial school and my wife went to a normal public school and we both agree that our higher-than-average educational outcomes were due to self-teaching and tons of parental tutoring.
Dude - any realtor paying attention has been watching this (and other) cases now for years. You think we haven't been monitoring this along with state legislation, Congressional action, MLS rule changes, and all the other things that have potential legal impact to our business and our clients? NWMLS (for those of you in WA) made rule changes over a year ago that were good changes regardless of the outcome of this case, plus the legislature made clarifying agency changes that go into effect in January. We're not the trolls you all think we are.
Does 24 hours include learning how to use a game engine that you've never used before? When you've never used ANY game enginer before?

Maintenance and new features are more of the same already done. Networking code is a library. Sound is a library. Cross-platform is a library. Shaders are a library. AI fixed bugs.
Keeping Tailscale clients up-to-date
I love Ken's blog posts and this one is right up my alley.

> introduced in 1973, Ethernet is the predominant way of wiring computers together.

That sentence does not really convey how hard it was for Ethernet to win the network L1/L2 protocol wars. It was fairly popular right from the start because it worked well enough (better than it should) and was very simple to understand, configure, and operate. It also kept evolving with new media.

But there were other systems it had to compete with, in some use cases (ISP's) well into the late 1990's/early 2000's.

Engineering workstations (Sun/SGI/IBM/HP) were early adopters but often had to integrate with mainframe/minicomputers running things like:

- Token Ring: IBM was the 800lb gorilla at the time
- FDDI: supported 100mbps over MMF!
- DEC LAT

In the PC sector

- Novell/IPX: was very popular in the 80's and persisted well into the 1990's. Most DOS games like Doom *only* supported Novell/IPX
- Macintosh: AppleTalk
- There were many other proprietary PC/DOS protocols but they were not memorable

In the ISP sector

- Ethernet was very popular but consistently lagged in supporting the fastest link speeds that ISP's needed. The industry rapidly shifted to 1G (1999) and 10G (2003) Ethernet once they became widely available.
- FDDI: 100mbps over MMF. The MAE-EAST peering exchange in the mid 1990's used DEC Gigaswitches with unique switched FDDI 100mbps Full-Duplex mode where each port was it's own separate FDDI domain.
- ATM: Telco types last gasp at optimizing for circuit switched networks (phone calls) at the expense of packet switched networks like TCP/IP. ATM over Sonet/SDH however supported much faster link speeds initially.
- Packet over Sonet/SDH: Allows the use full-size TCP/IP packets over high speed fiber (Sonet/SDH) links without ATM segmentation. This is what many OC3-OC48 ISP circuits were running before 1GE/10GE took over.

There were probably many dozens of other competitors that even I'm too young to remember. Some of these were later modified to run over Ethernet as you can see here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethertype
A lot of people use three screens. I don’t, I use one, but people do.
The default thing in preindustrial societies was no formal education for the vast majority of the population. The elite - a small slice of the population - was homeschooled by private tutors, and artisans (also small % of population) went into apprenticeships. This isn't really analogous to a vision of the world where the majority of the population is schooled at home.
> Some selling agents refuse to do this because it's pretty shady, but definitely not all.

This is a blatant conflict of interest. My god.
I wasn't making a dichotomous claim about wealth. I was pointing out that housing may not be the primary driving of well-being. It's easier to illustrate with an example where lower income people report being happier, despite having less resources for good housing. Similarly, we could point out to poor people who are isolated and unhappy but that also misses the point.

Back to the original ask, I would be curious if there's data that shows housing as a primary driver of well-being, above those other elements.
Do you see the deposit amount and all the details of the escalation from the triggering offer in that case?

Say I saw that the triggering offer had a measly deposit and I suspected it of being fake. Would I be on the hook to prove it? Technically if I rescind my offer at this point I lose my own deposit, right?
Another’s devils advocate is that part of being a senior engineer is writing good public facing one pagers that communicate the problem and the solution.

Sure you shouldn’t have to do that for every single change. But when something significant comes along it’s wise to document it and socialize it.

If OP had done this they may not have been asked to make PowerPoints or dread conversations or hide anything. They could just point at the public doc that explains it all in technical non political language that also educates other teams how they can improve too. This is leadership and mentorship opportunity.
This is a pretty strong take. I'd be curious whether you believe that education is inherently indoctrination, or whether all current education approaches are just also indoctrinating?

I disagree on both counts, but it seems like the claims there are pretty different in how extreme they are.
In practice, it typically happens across administrations, i.e. the effect is accidental. (We forget what an asset having a fresh executive every decade makes.)
Ask HN: What happened to video progress bars?
It seems all notable platforms are deliberately getting rid of this crucial UI, it has become frustrating, especially if you wanted to skip parts of the video or rewind to a specific point in the video, which are reasonable user behaviors.

I find myself downloading videos to "solve" this.
> What makes you think they won't one day push an update to just upload that local data?

I'd imagine it's a buffer; presumably someone using Firefox for a decade with telemetry off won't accumulate ten years worth of telemetry pings.
> It was definitely useful for making sure I was doing it the correct way, kind of like have an expert on call for any questions.

I've found it to be shockingly good at this. I end up asking a lot of questions like, "what is the best directory structure for a project on {foo} platform?" or "What is the idiomatic way to do {x} in {language y}?" It has the advantage of having seen lots of projects in every language, and for some questions that automatically leads to a good answer.
Reintroducing Serve and Funnel: even simpler sharing with your tailnet(or world)
Difference is thatbin one case it is a scandal that is investigated. In the other, there is no one to investigate, no rules are broken, it is just homeschooling exactly as meant to be per law.
What was the drivers BAC? Does anyone know?
If we forget free will, then I will grant your position regarding statistics.

But suppose you could collect every bit of evidence in the universe and use it in a massive calculation to guess what my next decision would be.

This would be a test of whether I had free will, or whether I was simply doing what the universe made me do. If I wanted to demonstrate free will, I wouldn’t be aiming for random. I’d be aiming to make your guess wrong as often as I could.

If I could make your guess wrong 100% of the time, this would not mean that you could simply flip the bit on your guess next time. You can modify the calculation after every guess and it wouldn’t matter. I’d still do what your calculation thought I wouldn’t based on previous history. If I could do that, that would be a magical thing. Yes. I would have demonstrated completely free will according to this test.

This is why we call rand(), not freewill().

Free will is not random at all. It means you wear the shirt you want to wear, not a completely random shirt.

Oh, and before somebody objects, yes this is a terrible test of free will. Because whether I want to score high or low on the test or in the middle is up to me if I have free will. ;)
Same can be said about the whiteboard cleaning liquid and the smelly markers as well.
If you're selling a $2M house, you're willing to pay more for someone to get you a good price.

On the flip side, no one is going to pay $5k to sell a $30k house.

Flat rates don't make sense. Maybe you think the percentage is too high.
I don't understand why long strings take so much time. Is this on purpose to show that it's a long time? It's a nice detail.

Are you using infinite precision integers? It's not necessary, you can calculate the logarithm of the time and then uses normal float point numbers to show the first digits of the result.

I tried with accented characters like áéíóú. Does that increase the time because the monkeys have a international typewriter with more non-ascii characters like ñç... ?
I'm not sure it's about socializing with other kids. There's also something about being able to function in a hierarchical organization (e.g. the workplace) that may not be developed in a home school environment.
I need it for windows only CNC software. It’s pretty terrible for that purpose.
I need to let my arm rest on a wrist patch and/or armchair. Else I get inflammation. With my second keyboard (for my Mac) I didn't do this, as it stands behind the first one, and so now I have developed an inflammation.

The advice for vertical mouse I read before. But I like that my mice are wireless (Logitech G903 and Apple Magic Mouse 2).
Why do we as a society need to answer that question?

When automobiles were popularized, entire generations of families and people devoted to horsecraft suddenly found their business model obsolete. Did we as a society need to come together to ask how talented people in the horse industry might be able to continue to profitably dedicate their lives to that task? No, we just let the market figure it out, and allowed change to occur.

Our take an alternate thought experiment. Imagine a world where recipes were patentable. The first person to make mac-and-cheese could patent that, claim ownership of mac-and-cheese, and ban every other person and restaurant from making and selling mac-and-cheese. There would, of course, be an entire industry devoted to this. There would be restaurant chains that own the idea of pizza, burgers, etc., and stop any and everyone else from making that. There would be small and boutique recipe crafters creating and profiting from their unique recipes, too. And of course, people in this industry would ferociously sue anyone who "stole" the recipes that they "owned." And they would ask the same questions you're asking: "What ever would we do in a world where recipe owners don't get to uniquely monopolize their creations because they're allowed to be appropriated by others?" And the answer is: that business model wouldn't simply exist, and the world would be just fine without it.

It's not clear to me why any particular profession or business model needs to be protected into existence. The world will be just fine if some business model that always worked gradually ceases to become viable. I have sympathy for the people in those professions, but it happens all the time, and is a necessary consequence of technological innovation and progress.

In the 1800s, the Luddites smashed up factory equipment and tried to make it illegal, because they wanted to protect labor jobs. Thankfully they lost, and now we have a world with better jobs, which they could not have imagined.
Here's the code: https://bestaiprompts.art/angry-pumpkins/sketch.js
I think my 2014 MacBook on MacOS 12.5 was affected by this too.

I had Ubuntu installed in a second partition and it refuses to boot ever since I installed 12.5.1 on it.
I've consumed a decent amount of content about techniques in magic, mostly card tricks and other close-up magic but also some stage illusions. I'm familiar with the basics and I absolutely respect how much work goes into most tricks.

The point isn't that I'm necessarily completely stumped by a trick (although that does happen), or that I can't enjoy a trick without knowing how it works, but rather that knowing the techniques required to perform the trick is additional enjoyable content to me. It's really no different than watching behind-the-scenes or visual effects breakdowns for a movie that I enjoyed. It's an additional piece of content that I enjoy and it almost always enhances my appreciation for the original content.

> So from the magician's point of view, you really would be disappointed to hear "All I did was to put your card on the bottom of the deck and deal it out."

If the magician thinks that I would be disappointed, that's precisely the misconception I am trying to point out. I absolutely am not disappointed when I hear such explanations.
> Who's 'we' in this case?

Today: Corporate overlords, which is Bad.

That's why I don't propose that there is a solution-in-isolation to improper censorship. It can only work in a holistic approach to greater transparency and respect within our society and on our tech platforms for discourse.

Getting rid of speech restraints entirely (a solution-in-isolation) just results in a different, implicit censorship, where marginalized voices self-censor because they are afraid. So, in other words, it's not really a solution that leads to a better world, it's just an alternative Bad Situation to the one we're in now. It's easy for people to think it's a solution because it's simplistic and because it is extreme, which means it aligns with an ideal that people hold, and everyone believes their ideals are sustainable if implemented to the extreme (yes yes even me etc)

edit: and, yeah, my quip above was kind of stupid.
I went to a violent high school. There were shootings and stabbings. Socialization is overrated.
Yes, the only thing worse is the smell of the whiteboard markers and the cleaning liquid.
Yeah it's hard to compare across models, interested in suggestions here.

We give all models a bunch of few-shot examples, which improves GPT-3 (davinci)'s question answering substantially. GPT-2 sometimes generates something that answers the question, sometimes it's just confused. Click "See full prompt" to see the few-shot examples that the models get.

Our goal was to exercise the full capabilities of each model.
All of those things require me to write code, in an annoying, slow, hard to debug click-drag format. I'd rather the AI write the code for me based on my natural language description of what I want.