skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a point in time that we can locate when we stopped calling them "requests" and started calling them "asks" even though it's grammatically incorrect?

Propagating* incorrectness because someone with power did it first is surely a symptom of something negative. Is there a name for it?
Congrats for this - Love the bitemporal aspect. It was a real struggle for me in past analytics experiences where we spent a lot of time recomputing key metrics 'as of' certain dates for reporting / auditing.

Been following this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38108044 as well, might interest you!
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That still doesn't click for me. Why wouldn't you make the label/slider part of the component itself. It feels like you have the worst of both worlds. You more or less need/expect it to always wrap those elements but nothing enforces that so this seems very brittle to me, not to mention verbose.

They mention not wanting to pass though all those props:

<super-slider type="range" min="0.5" max="4" step="0.1" value="2" unit="em" target=".preview h1">

We will ignore the last 2 since those are required anyway. How is `type="range"` not the default that you would just set, no attribute/prop needed? Then min/max/step/value all feel like things you could have defaults for and then, yes, pass them through. In forms I'm always pushing towards consistency, I don't want to make it easy to just set random attributes on the underlying element, it needs to be deliberate.

I can believe I'm just missing something but Web Components just seem like extra work with very little gain.
Availability in Software Systems
The comments here have been very focused on the case of implementing some system like this for housing (which to be fair was the example the book used), but as I said in the original comment, I actually don't think this is a workable or desirable system for property taxes on owner-occupied housing for roughly the reasons that you dislike it. Someone's home is not just some financial asset and economic efficiency is not the only important consideration in society.

I brought it up specifically in this context (and article about patent litigation) because I think it is potentially a good idea in some domains (like patent law) where the overriding consideration should legitimately be economic efficiency. I think it is entirely reasonable to design our intellectual property rights around the idea that the person or firm that can derive the most economic value from any piece of IP is the most desirable owner of that IP.
Basically monoculture is horrible for everything but industry.
Am i reading it right that the fine tune a model using 20 examples and 5 epochs? That seems really weird for me
Junipers are fascinating trees to me. Most people find them ugly, (and they certainly can feel that way next to a beautiful Maple) but they are quite remarkable trees. I've seen junipers get horribly torn up by deer antlers, and survive wounds that would have ended a Cottonwood and especially an Ash or a Maple. They are survivors!
Here's a rebuttal of his analysis on China, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1iv0q_SW3E
This is exactly me, I relate with this so much in so many layers.

I feel completely out of control and it feels like no matter how hard I try, no matter how diligently I plan things out, everything everywhere get worse all at the same time. If my tools were working N out out of M today, they will work N-1 out of M tomorrow and it's impossible for anything to get better.

It feels like any electronics I interact with are maddening nowadays. Yesterday, me and my partner needed to set up a timer for 1 hour, I set up it through our dumb kitchen timer, and my partner was wondering why I didn't use my phone timer. Look you don't understand EVEN LOOKING AT MY PHONE is a fucking nightmare at this point because there are going to be N notifications that need my attention.
It also comes up a lot in the foundations of RL - the basis of how it is justified (or in some cases proven) to work is contraction mappings and functional operators.
> until the nineties.

CRTs lasted well into the 2000’s. I think the reference is to the fact that one loses the ability to hear CRT whine as one gets older, since the upper frequency limit of human hearing declines with age.
Dear god.
At least it opens in default browser, and not hardcoded to Edge like other system stuff.
How did you reach that conclusion? On the contrary, my reasons are purely practical. The fact Linus uses Asahi is far from an endorsement for regular users. He obviously has a much deeper knowledge of Linux compared to a regular user, with the skills to troubleshoot and fix most issues.

My reasons for not considering it:

- As skilled as the Asahi team is, they're a small team going against one of the world's largest corporations. Not only does it take immense effort to reverse engineer every single hardware component, the project will always be at the mercy of Apple, who may break the support at any time with a software or hardware update, whether willing or unwillingly.

- The Linux software ecosystem is sufficiently unstable on its own, but also running it on ARM, _and_ an alien hardware environment, presents even more challenges. As much as the Asahi team has made progress here, expecting them to support all variations of software in this landscape is unreasonable. I definitely don't want to have additional issues to troubleshoot, which I'm tired of doing with Linux to begin with. Cue the replies claiming how Asahi works flawlessly...

That's a whole lot of shaky ground to base my computing on, and I wouldn't consider it even for personal, let alone professional, use. Maybe if Apple started opening up and officially supporting Linux on their hardware, I _might_ consider a project like Asahi, but until then, it's a non-starter for me.
You are right, it is easier to write utilizing few relations instead of trying to manipulate static categories and concepts that don't bend to your will. To me this is a signal of quality but I could see benefits to writing this way, such as, if your goal was to get more people talking about the issue proposed. There are also potential downsides to writing this way, especially if you actually care about solving these problems and are at the mercy of governmental and capatilistic systems vs selling a book (Not saying that's what this economist is doing).

I agree that the definition of "work" has changed over time and I'm not trying to be pedantic so let's get to the point, does it matter if it's considered work or not? The real issue most people would agree with is the bad guys are extracting tons of value through the actions of their users. Should those users be paid? The answer is: it depends.

In our current system we would create an organization that can generate money by holding the tech companies responsible to pay users when it is deemed to do so. Unfortunately I don't see the money amounting to very much unless laws change drastically since even class-action lawsuits for leaked data provide very little. I'm guessing that measuring "phone work" would amount to micro-cents regardless of value directly generated.
“Doing next-token prediction” isn’t a contradiction of “understanding” any more than it would be for a SO/friend who can complete your sentences.

But it’s useful to remember that autocompletion of sequences is at the bottom of LLMs, and a hefty dose of RLHF of whatever the RLHF raters thought was good output.
The postmodernists (so far as I understand them) say that we are post truth - that all claims of truth are actually assertions of power. I always thought that was bunk. Now it looks more like prophecy.

How does society function when nobody can know if anything they think they know is actually the truth? And not just in the "deep epistemological thoughts" way. Even in the way that we used to be able to know things, with less than total epistemic certainty, but still with sufficient certainty to usefully be able to use information... we can't do even that any more.
That's exactly how I feel about them.

"Yes, and" to its logical conclusion.
People explored them in the 2008-ish climate boomlet and it was hard to make the physics/costs work. If something has changed since then it might be worth looking at again, else that's probably why nobody is pursuing them today.
OpenAI's terms with Microsoft prevent licensing AGI
> Staying closer to web standards is always best for maintainability and portability.

That's what you get if you chose literally anything but web components. Because web components are really bad at using and playing nice with web standards: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1717580502280867847

They need dozens of new web standards to fix their self-inflicted wounds and to work with the browser in a way that everyone else is already working

> Additionally, web standards like Web Components/templates/custom elements will always be faster at browser level.

[citation needed]

The 2010-era design choices that web components enshrined hinder a lot of optimizations that modern frameworks are doing.

There are reasons why almost none of the modern frameworks use web components as the foundation. Including those who originally used their design or whose authors were bullish on them (Vue, Svelte, Solid).

IIRC even Angular beats Lit in benchmarks now.
I find that if you create a context that allows for you to be wrong:

> I am unfamilliar with foo, but my current belief is bar, although I must admit that baz is possible. I'm seeing evidence qux. Is my belief of bar about foo correct? Please explain in terms of qux.

...they will in fact contradict your position.

I weasled my way past many prerequisties and am taking a science class that's way above my level. Being uncertain/humble with chatGPT has lead me to many lightbulb moments which were in contradiction to my initial beliefs, and have filled in my lack of prerequisites nicely.

So you're not wrong, but it's a problem that's easy to avoid if you're careful about how you set up the context.
or they can choose not to work at all in a shitty job. That's what's happening here.
Dogs are obviously (I hope) a joke, actually they’re word calculators. They have some knowledge embedded because that’s needed to be able to be a word calculator but getting it facts in the context window works much better, hence they’re good at summarizing etc.
How big % of people sign out every time they are done for the day with a web page? I would suppose it is a certain percentage that go through the ritual of cold booting their computer, signing in to Windows, opening the web browser, signing in to websites they use by typing their username and password, and then signing out from each website before turning off the computer for the day.

These people will think the "Remember and sign out" option is a blessing, and won't bother LinkedIn staff about forgotten passwords and problems signing in.
The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
What if Humans focused most climate change efforts into reforesting the Sahara desert?

Build up a system of desalination, irrigation and slowly turn the desert into grassland as a giant carbon sink. Lots of hard work, and it will take a long time, but why try to reinvent the planets natural systems when it comes to climate change?
Half of a tree is below ground, and that breaks down slower.

And in fact there are situations with root fusion where some roots from one tree get adopted by neighboring trees. You can see this occasionally with stumps that heal over without any trunks at all. I have seen three examples around here and recall the location of two (on a hiking trail less than 200 ft apart).
https://github.com/LMP88959/PAL-CRT
Apple has released a pretty polished object capture app for ios. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10191/
30 years ago, my mom explained to me that my cousin was "retarded" and made all sorts of excuses for how she was mistreated and infantilized by her family. Today, she's on the high functioning end of autism. Which my mom doesn't "believe in." My cousin has a greater degree of self-confidence than she did in the past, enabled in some part by a more specific diagnosis and a more accepting culture surrounding mental health variation.
Wow it really works. Time to run process explorer and do a deep dive to hot keys and the windows registry. Z

Just wow.
Metaphors are one of the things that make language interesting, vibrant, and expressive. You can convey so much with them. Prohibiting their use (even in specific contexts like this) is/will be a huge loss.
They fired one person (CEO) and probably proceeded to hire someone else at a higher salary.

Of course it's rare, upper management will never decide to make less money personally in the short term. The only time I've heard of this happening is in some Japanese companies.
State management is only a problem if you have client-side state that isn't HTML state. Lots of web apps don't fit that mould.
Tesla could sue Cybertruck buyers for $50K if they flip it too soon
You cut off one head ...

How would the market change in the wake of such a move? I can imagine that other companies will try to rebuild what Google was in other form. And these companies might not be US entities.
Why do you think the disconnect is illogical and needs to be solved? Do you know that isn't how it actually works? The taxman tracks the real real appraised value too.

When you pay taxes, there is a disconnect between your total income and adjusted income. Is that similarly illogical?
you're right, looking closer I got my wires crossed.

non-LTS is 2 years, LTS is 3 years

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/d...

imo, short term RoR will beat the pants off asp.net core in terms of developer productivity. mid to long term asp.net core wins hands down in terms of developer productivity.

I don't think the RoR productivity story is fake, but I do think it's not worth the long term maintenance costs.
> AI is trained on the body of work of others.

You could also argue that every human is trained off the work of others, both consciously and unconsciously
It wasn't the first CPU that was superscalar by far, but it was the first x86 CPU that was superscalar.
What happens when you do these days? Prime delivery has gotten so crappy the past few months I'm considering cancelling. The past six months, orders that are promised in one day or two days routinely take a week or more, and I'll get emails every single day telling me they'll be delivered that day. I figure maybe they'll ask me why and offer me a free year, something like that.
i doubt. the further down the wedge drives the harder it gets to make the components communicate, and i think when communication gets hard we’ve probably gone too far. that’s not even taking into consideration the mechanisms of managing engines/gems.
I've turned off every email notification from LI. Which is difficult as they add new ones and opt you in, plus they move the notifications around so when you click unsubscribe on an email you need to click on every option to find the one you need to turn off.

But... you can turn off notifications of new messages. However you cannot turn off notifications of replies, despite the email having an unsubscribe option at the bottom (which takes you to what is described in the paragraph above)

LI is a rats nest of dark patterns.
They occasionally give answers that sound right but are in fact wrong.

Their suitability for a particular task depends largely on your tolerance for that category of error. If you're generating fiction, it's irrelevant, if you're generating a newsletter that might be skimmed at a high level by disinterested people (or other LLMs) it's a low risk, if you're writing UI code it can be bad but will probably be corrected if it's bad enough, if you're writing critical code an insidious error can be disastrous.
Not taking the position personally, but the major critiques of capitalism are that capitalism is inherently exploitative, alienating, unstable, unsustainable, and creates massive economic inequality, commodifies people, and is anti-democratic and leads to an erosion of human rights and national sovereignty while it incentivizes imperialism (Wikipedia).

These are very old arguments. The difference in my mind is merely the label. Morozov said it well:

https://jacobin.com/2023/04/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techn...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253384
Robert Sapolsky Is Wrong
this is disingenuous at best.. the same sort of "they need our help" front to lots of other problematic behaviors.. guillable-confused-unskilled people are not the reason to break secure agreements, so don't say it is
You're not insane.

> build a cabin somewhere in a small rural area and throw my electronics in the trash

That's a reasonable response to what we're seeing today.

We are effectively in a phase of history where the folks that are good at making money have abstracted most of the rest of the economy beyond the point where it harms the fundamental purpose of human activity in the first place.

For example, car companies are actually finance companies that use cars as the substrate (I almost said "vehicle") for extracting more money from consumers.

We are being fought by large AIs (corporations are AIs that use humans for neurons.)

To a first approximation, "Tune in, turn on, and drop out." is a good response.

Take a breather, re-examine your relations with the economy and technology, design a better life, and go live that.
I haven't even heard of the divisions people were laid off from. Does anyone have any background information about what these groups were attempting to accomplish?
> I wonder how I'll ever be able to use the code I wrote over the years that controls uncounted lathes, mills, plasmacutters, lasers and a whole raft of other industrial tools.

You are knowledgeable enough to make them work. Many aren't. Some can't be. Hacking requires knowledge and skill, and most importantly, being contained. Cutting yourself with your self-programmed hackable laser in your garage is unfortunate, but cutting other people is a disaster you can't afford.

> Vehicles are hackable, but they're not documented which makes them more dangerous, not less dangerous. Witness comma.ai and others.

I see two points here.

1. Security through obscurity is bad. That's true, but we have "business" in the play, so that's how it goes. Maybe push for better regulation.

2. comma.ai, an "autopilot", based on reverse engineering, or as you put it, the base product "not documented", thus makes it "more dangerous". No, it's dangerous not because the base product is not documented, but because there's no real autopilot at the moment, and comma.ai is irresponsibly advertising as being able to "drive for hours without driver action". There are many "black box" products with a ToS that forbid reverse engineering. Does that make the product inherently more dangerous too?

Besides, you seem to suggest that, with open products, people can not make things unsafer. That's not true. Some don't know what they are doing when they "hack" things.
Giant AI Platform Introduces 'Bounties' for Deepfakes of Real People
is something like this possible for an outdoor setting like a beach?
Oh yeah, thankfully never had a SCIF job. I suppose it could be worse, there's always missile silos in the Midwest. Or a submarine. :)
The argument wouldn't be that LinkedIn has any sort of monopoly, it would be that MS is abusing its desktop OS monopoly to unfairly advantage its other products, such as LinkedIn.
I think they've found their sweet spot as a publisher rather than a development house.

It's hard to make successful games, and just throwing large sums of money and people at a problem doesn't guarantee success.
See also forest succession, where pioneer trees grow and die, intermediate trees grow on the stumps, and apex canopy trees grow on their stumps. That’s a process that’s anywhere from 80-400 years in the making, and each species holds more carbon than the previous. That’s a long time for us to get carbon neutral.

One that’s been replaced with clear cutting, which removed the nurse logs the next generation would typically indirectly consume.
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I'm in favor of everyone paying taxes fairly to get high quality city services, instead of having people with large increases in property value getting an unfair tax subsidy.
It’s a matter of the corpus at hand and the predictability of a human vs. a computer.

With more training and improved algorithms, the computer can reach a high rate of accurate “improvisation”, at which point it doesn’t matter if it’s improv or not.

My issue is with using improv to augment our mental models of LLMs, and I don’t agree that this is the end result. Taking this analogy too far misleads us about LLMs.