skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better title could maybe be:

"Smart and successful people don't express their true opinion because they fear a loss of status"

The author explains, that the more status people gained in their life, the more they try to stick to the common sense of opinions people of their status hold. This behavior really stabilizes the status quo.

For me this also explains why the consequent climate change protests are mainly supported by young people. They presumably have acquired less status yet and therefor don't feel the fear of status loss if they express a new opinion.
The most useful aspect is the curation. HN does a pretty good job at curating headlines so that I can save time and get the most important news items each day without visiting other social media sites, most of which push monetization and recommendations in annoying ways.

As for reading the comments, it's just entertainment and the same as any other social media site.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted (I have no idea why people are on HN if they think this is just Reddit. If you downvote, say why and start a discussion), but you're right. My intent wasn't to imply "just don't do it" or "leave it to libraries." I was trying to say why you can't really find a guide like the post is asking for (at least for free!) and it likely has a lot to do with liability and things like that.

I was trying to say exactly what you are saying, and that is just get in there and learn. It isn't that complex to implement this stuff yourself if you need to. I've implemented this stuff myself dozens of times over the years... but I try to use a library before implementing it myself. Interestingly, over the years, I've reviewed libraries and found bugs in them. So, do read the code of the library you're using. Once you've reviewed a few of them (and implemented it yourself a few times), you kinda get an idea of what to look for.
the tories used that as an excuse. There has always been badly run councils - so instead of fixing the problem they used it to reduce the power of local councils

this is a very common theme in the uk -

find an edge case and use it to justify anything you want. But while conveniently and hypocritically coming up with excuses to justfy the things you want (or just sweep crap under the carpet)
I noticed some group think posts lately.

Perhaps some feel uncomfortable with the official assessments of the current wars.

Fortunately, everyone is capable of learning. Today's dogma is tomorrow's stupidity.
I can’t wait for my watch to tattle on me to the authorities
Scientists aren't the ones who are having lots of kids lol. Same goes for the kids of scientists too.
Your comment, and this line in particular:

> A license is like a constitution for an ecosystem for how people will interact, a check-and-balance on the monopoly power of the license-holder, and a community contract.

finally gave me an answer to the question that bothered me for a while: how do we reconcile the goal of making FOSS available for everyone to run/tinker with/distribute freely with the issue of corporations leeching off community-created FOSS? Now the solution is clear to me: less focus on licenses, more focus on people interactions and actual contracts.

Instead of writing some code and throwing it to the MIT-license winds with little hope to gain anything in return it should be possible to create software cooperatives, i.e. real legal entities, with a simple premise: the code is free for non-commercial use; any person whose contribution was accepted is free to join the cooperative; any company that wants to use software stewarded by the cooperative has to pay for it, with said payment being shared among the members and/or saved for later.
That would be an overkill for a tiny personal weekend FOSS project, but for serious products the overhead of formalizing the community would likely be totally worth it.

I'm pretty sure I'm not the first to come up with such an idea, I wonder if anyone has already implemented it in practice.
I think that it’s not just about something being possible with a tool, but people actually using it.

Go, for whatever reasons, has gotten people using it.
...and yet here you are :) It's a stretch, I'll concede. It involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, or conceptual ideas however.

At the very least, setting the default header color to orange is an artistic decision.

I mostly include it for the sake of argument, the lines blur between the categories. Being a "document" is not a reason to avoid adding CSS.

Re: art, a counter to my argument would be Lubalin's, that we must sometimes reduce legibility to increase impact.
The majority of all argument, debates, polemics... it's all "hacks." We're all dirty tricks, if we're being honest.

Formalizing and naming templates of fallacies and dirty tricks... it's kind of a fallacious trick in itself.

Logically valid, convincing, and the way we actually think a completely different. There are places where these come together, often requiring a lot of effort.

The reality that we, all of us, way through the slush. None rise above it.

To take the least noxious example, stories work on us. Stories. Narratives. They're very central to communicating, central to how we make sense of things. Who is what in which story.

Telling the story, is unanimously agreed by all practitioners.. primary to convincing people, or even getting them to listen to you in the first place.

Is this logically sound? Is it conducive to keeping track of one's assumptions, presumptions and biases? Of course not. It is, how we work though.

The way formal logic works, and the way we think, talk and convince one another.. they are very far apart. That doesn't mean we can't grasp logic. We can. It does mean, that we don't employ it on its own very often.

The argument that would take, this post is the "central" path. The other half of this dichotomy. The assumed default state.

People say things for a lot of reasons, and then argue their way back.
In-Context Vectors: Making in Context Learning More Effective and Controllable
I think it is a fair criticism. The title appears does not appear to match the content, which is not as opinion-based. It still reads like a rant, but I just happen to agree with some of the conclusions like self-censorship:

"They found that highly educated people are the most concerned about losing their jobs or missing out on job opportunities because of their political views".

If I was being charitable, I would say that title is trying to capture attention while sacrificing the expectation one may have of its content.
Yes, good point, the velocity was too low. Yet it looked like all the engines just shut down nominally.
Afaik china is already pretty developed in this area, they already have a bunch of opensource llms that beat ours or at least are at the same lvl.
We can also argue that it'll have the same effect as banning chips but again, China succeeded to build dense nm chips even with sanctions, just a bit slower.
AI systems are the consequence of the pandora box that we've opened long time ago, about the time when humans got the curiosity to improve things. At this moment you can't stop the progress, the world is myltipolar, there'll always be players willing to go extra so the only solution is getting to the top faster or as fast as others
I like that you show L systems for many of the fractals in Benoit Mandelbrot’s 1982 book The Fractal Nature of Geometry. It’s a beautiful book and worth checking out.
> If the neutron star or black hole at the centre of the LFBOT had powerful jets of energy firing from its poles, it could explain the flaring.

Sounds like a pulsar. But if that's the explanation of the flaring, you'd expect the flares to occur on a very accurate timescale. TFA doesn't say what the interval between flaring events is, or how regular it is.
And decentralized functions tend to be wildly inconsistent across teams, with info sec being a particular disaster where I've seen that tried. Neither model is perfect.
Can't comment on USB-C yet and obviously case point 1, but on my desktop tower (Fractal Design 6, so should be quality) I have for cca 5 years, the frontal USB-A connectors which are used most often, 2 out of 4 are already dead (I'd say maybe 500 insertions altogether, definitely not more). 1 is sort of in between, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

I generally know very well how to take care of electronics and those ports never experienced that dreaded 'vertical tug' you describe, at least to my knowledge.
There's a Student version of YT Premium for ~$8/month.
Revenge bedtime procrastination
Related:

The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge (2018) — https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9QxnfMYccz9QRgZ5z/the-costly...

The Elephant, the Emperor, and the Matzo Ball (2016) [video] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eay1-m7RpoU
That's bullshit. I see drunk students every day. And they are supposed to be the future elites- may God help us all.
Conclusion is obvious, but the paper is still probably necessary.

Of course LLM's can't reason. They pattern match answers to previously asked questions, and humans will read the text as a reasonable answer because we assign meaning to it, but there is simply no way an LLM could use a "mental model" to "reason" about a problem other than constructing sentences out of probable matches it's been trained on.
I think it's educational/cultural; the peripheral route seems particularly prevalent among Americans as opposed to say, continental Europeans, which are much more independent thinkers.

Now Americans apparently also have a weird relationship with education (highly status correlated and rejected by certain bands of society) and often appear to interpret the world through the lens of their binary political divide.

Coincidence?
How was it clearly a typo when he repeated it with exactly the same spelling and capitalization, two times in a row?

And neither of those things are even toolkits like GTK: "GIMP Tolkit" is an image editor, and "GNOME Tolkit" is a desktop environment.

And even if you ignore the two typos and the two mis-namings, his whole point is factually incorrect, and jdub was correct
and not a revisionist when he said "That is ahistorical, and the misnaming doesn't help make your point".

I'm simply giving him the benefit of the doubt, and asking him to explain what he means, or why not only his main point was wrong, but also why he got both of the names wrong two times in a row, and thinks an image editor and a desktop environment are incorrectly spelled toolkits.

And he still hasn't explained, or admitted he made two typos and misnamed two projects in a row while trying to make an incorrect point, while claiming to be an expert tech writer, and accusing someone who was correct of being a revisionist, so the jury is still out. But your theory it's clearly a typo just doesn't wash. Maybe they're the names of his own forks, or maybe he's just a charlatan, who knows? ;) Why don't you ask him yourself.
Yeah, you and others raise a good point. It could be that the food people consume isn't enough satiating relative to the calories it contains, it could be that people are hungrier than they should be relative to their caloric needs, or a combination of the two.
https://thebase.ai
Anything new here?

Not for you. But for others, yes.

How about you post something new for a change, instead of asking this question repeatedly and not getting the idea that other people might have had a different experience from you.
LOL as if Google isn’t doing the same? I sure see a lot of Google shit on an Android phone. Some you have to pay for! Some that work better on Android than Apple! Google as forced search engine! Preposterous! Insulting! You’ve inspired me to contact my attorney general and the FTC to look into these illegal and anticompetitive practices.
The claim that Apple equipment is not good on a price performance ratio does not hold water. I recently needed to upgrade both my phone and my laptop. I use Apple products, but not exclusively. Making cross platform apps, I like to use all the major platforms.

I compared the quality phone brands and PC brands. For a 13" laptop, both Samsung and Dell XPS are $4-500 more expensive on the same spec (i7/M2 pro, 32GB, 1TB), and I personally think that the MacBook Pro has a better screen, better touch pad and better build quality than the two others

iOS devices are comparably priced with Samsung models.

It was this way last time I upgraded my computer, and the time before.

Yeah, you will find cheaper phones and computers, and maybe you like them, but I appreciate build quality as well as MIPS. They are tools I use from early morning to late night every day.
Kovid is super responsive and helpful on GitHub issues. His tone is not always friendly, but I guess you have to grow some teeth in todays open source world
Not to mention how people blame the board going "woke" whatever that term means and that the board is a diversity hire LOL

Also now that execs are being fired then people (including employees at other companies whom this doesn't affect even a single iota) are mad!!

Idk who formed the board of openai but if MSFT & G can layoff thousands despite esrning billions in revenue every quarter then the openai board also can fire the CEO if they think he is going against the charter.

What's more depressing is that people don't know that the non profit firm controls the for profit entity and they make things up to defend the fires CEO

It's all a weird thing. We can't have an opinion because we just don't know. We can just guess.
> But using their private lookup method as scaffolding, the authors constructed a new scheme which runs computations that are more like the programs we use every day, pulling information covertly without sweeping the whole internet.

Doesn’t Google already accomplish this? Or is the key here that Google doesn’t do the sweeping in a covert way? So search boils down to two problems: building the index and using the index.

Or am I confused?
The only reason BigCo doesn't disband their legal team is because of laws.
Would you have clicked on that title? Everyone says they hate clickbait (defined here as "titles people actually click"), but it's about the only way to get anyone to look at anything unless they're already familiar with your work, regardless of the merits.
I look at what's trending on GitHub: https://github.com/trending
Could a human and a LLM submit a summary of the paper so we can compare?
You're weirdly all over this topic with your racist views. We get it. You don't like Muslims.
The point is clear. He even summarized it neatly in the least three sentences or so. The rest is projection (and a rather transparent attempt to undermine the author’s message, dare I say reputation, by association fallacy).
Do someone has a list of hackerspaces in Berlin worthy to frequent for programming / electronic projects ?

I frequented CCCB in Berlin for some time, but I didn't find the experience unpleasant for a number of reasons:

1. is more like an office space where people go to work and are not so inclined to speak with you;

2. apartheid exists there: if you aren't a member you have no access to the "hackerspace", that in truth is very small. If you are lucky, you become friend of a member and you gain access to that place, but often , because it's near to the "relax area" you have to ask the permission to literally everyone to use a drill or other instruments producing noise, plus the place is considered some kind of "secret cave" for members so they have little tolerance for your presence even if you went there for months;

3. They don't like new members, they do they can to discourage you to became one. The process is based on the endorsement of senior members that you can't meet , in matter of fact, because they rarely frequent the area open to not members plus , this is my impression they are a little bit snob ...

So at the and I was tired of that place , chasing to avoid going there further and I'm actively searching for a new place. I'm interesting in system programming ( I use C++ but I know other languages ) , security, open source, electronic, telecommunication. I'm looking for an inclusive ambient ( I'm not German ) where I can talk with people with same interest and developing hardware is viewed favorably. I have necessity to specific tools, normally I have available all I need. Every suggestion is welcome, thank you in advance.
Even if you are not mixing them up, your comment is confusing since you are intertwining commentary on both.

Splitting them into separate paragraphs with your assessment and experience on each would help the legibility.
Maybe, but I think the point is that it's probably very easy to get into this situation, and not many people talk about it or point out how to avoid it.
That's correct. You have it nailed down. Any regulations that can be conceptualized are exactly what you say they are. We decided to make child labor illegal so now there are no children working on family farms, no children working in their family stores, and everyone under 18 is not allowed to work at all. We mandated safety in workplaces so now every person has to wear a respirator and a hard hat even in office jobs. Your obviously completely honest arguments are completely right and there is no room at all for anything but the most extreme possible position.
One doesn't simply 'fork' a business unless it has no/trivial IP, which OpenAI does not.
I think you’re misreading the situation. Nobody thinks Sam’s a god. A lot of people now rely on OpenAI for parts of their livelihoods and would like a steady hand. The board’s actions don’t seem fit to govern an HOA, much less an important company.
> "I want the file smaller, while retaiming [sic] FullHD, HD, SD quality"

The problem is that "retaining X quality" is extremely vague and subjective. Also, a lot of people conflate resolution with quality (see YIFY Torrents). While yes, you need enough pixels to have reasonable quality, if the encoder set CRF to 50, 8K video won't save you.
He was president of YC, I think it's fair to say people will think he's got a better set of credentials on a YC forum than some omg-ai-is-dangerous-please-fund-me think tank thinker.
People do what they are incentivized to do.

Engineers are incentivized to increase profits for the company because impact is how they get promoted. They will often pursue this to the detriment of other people (see: prioritizing anger in algorithmic feeds).

Doing Bad Things with AI is an unbounded liability problem for a company, and it's not the sort of problem that Karen from HR can reason about. It is in the best interest of the company to have people who can 1) reason about the effects of AI and 2) are empowered to make changes that limit the company's liability.
TDD can be valuable but sometimes hindering. I find myself often with an incomplete idea of what I want and, thus, no clear API to start testing. Writing a quick prototype -- sometimes on godbolt or replit -- and then writing tests and production code will actually yield me a better productivity.

I usually test all of the public API of something and only it. Exported functions, classes, constants and whatever should be tested and properly documented. If writing tests for the public surface is not enough, most likely the underlying code is poorly written, probably lacking proper abstractions to expose the adequate state associated with a determined behaviour (e.g.: a class that does too much).
Letting in whatever scientists spew from their mouth in uncritically seems like a very bad idea. It's very naive because scientists have political, economic, social etc biases that might be counter to yours, and as we've seen clearly during the last couple of years, they have no issue with talking about their biased ideas as if they are scientific truth. To such an extent that scientific truth, trust the science, etc etc have become jokes.
Indefensible. They could’ve voted to add more board members.
Yeah, Berlin is a great city for many reasons, but its administration is not one if its strengths, to put it mildly.

The surrounding lakes are definitely nice, just not compatible with the climate for say 8 out of the 12 months, so a better/cheaper/more accessible selection of indoor pools would be nice. And a solution to the cesspool that is the open air pools, where a certain demographic is ruining it for everyone (and has done so for decades).
In an unregulated market, capital very naturally tends to accumulate more capital - while, if you have nothing, it's very hard to build up capital in the first place.

Which means that, if this continues indefinitely, more and more things belong to fewer and fewer people - which is exactly what we've been seeing over the last couple of decades.
"Swimming Pools Safer" is a nice goal. But from the abstract, it sounds like this was an extremely early, narrow bit of research, focused just on "can we dial down the quantities of various organic chlorine compounds, which are byproducts of traditional chlorine sanitation?". So a long, long way from real-world application.

Also note: The research was done in 2017-2018, and the article published in Feb. 2021.
Of course he didn't read it.
He just wanted to promote his libertarian ideology, that works so well in 0 countries around the whole world
If you hate YouTube this much, then stop using it.
Ousted to the tune of millions and millions of dollars tho. Yeah he didn't get an IPO pop, but he's still worth more than you or I could make in several lifetime.
I'm still waiting on the giant pneumatic tubes from Futurama.
This is an EXCELLENT reply. Thank you for your insights.
You are incredibly cocky and arrogant.
I'm pretty sure that most people that have a basic idea of materials science were simply intrigued (myself amongst them) because there wasn't anything that ruled it out and it seemed like a potentially promising path. And obviously: the truth would come out anyway given enough time. The HN threads of the time make for interesting reading: I think a lot of people approach technological progress from the point of something very close to wishful thinking, their enthusiasm isn't proportional to the likelihood of the thing being true but to the perceived good a particular invention would do if it were real. And that then overwhelms any kind of reasoning ability. Incidentally: that may well be as good an answer as I can provide to the original question posed by this article.
I've never had issues with integration tests running with real databases -- they never felt slow or incurred any significant amount of time for me.

I also don't think unit tests bring as much value as integration tests. In fact, a lot of times unit tests are IMO useless or just make your code harder to change. The more towards testing implementation the worse it gets IMO, unless I really really care that something is done in a very peculiar way, which is not very often.

My opinion will be of course biased by my past experiences, but this has worked well for me so far with both monoliths and microservices, from e-shops and real estate marketplaces to IoTs.
Interesting. This is completely the opposite for me. I have bend a ton of usb-a cables over the years. Has never happened to me with usb-c the connector for industrictable to me.
Did the USB C port ever work that way? Extra electronics are needed to support being able to flip the high speed connects like that. Maybe the laptop never had that?
Isn't German a Christian county?
Show me any major desirable city in EU where it's not the case. One contributes monthly to various social and public polls of money and is shifted at the end of the queue every time, as the queues are on the best effort basis but with too many privileged people and organizations. Real estate prices are the ultimate slap in the face.