skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's still pretty much how agriculture works today.

You borrow from the landlord, the rich or the bank, to pay for seeds, fertilizer, machinery, energy, labor etc and pray you don't get hit by weather, pests, disease, market price fluctuations. If all goes well you pay it back.

If it doesn't govt steps in, to the keep you(ie the banks and rich people) afloat. See the size Farming Subsidies and Protections world wide.

When they don't step in farms shutdown.
Population is growing, but the growth rate has been falling for a long time.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/popu...
This whole argument is meaningless because the term Simulation isn't well defined. In the narrowest sense, you could define simulation as "human-like creatures running computer-like machines that we're part of, just like the Matrix". In the broadest sense you can define simulation as "The universe follows a set of fixed physical laws, and we are part of that"

While the former is just ridiculous, the latter is pretty plausible. When people are answering this question they can imagine any definition of simulation they like.
How do you figure they are not supporting things long-term? RHEL 9 (with the current X server) is fully supported to 2027 with maintenance support (i.e. security updates) until 2032... That's an incredibly long time.
> They could do this because they controlled those from the registry side of things, and it was trivial to slam something that would make it resolve.

Was this legal?

If so what stopped them there, they could just hijack any domain?
I have Google COBRA in SF too and when I last looked a year or so ago it was about $100/year more on the marketplace for the KP platinum plan.

Age makes a huge difference to the marketplace premiums though.
How much do you think you'd make typo-squatting every .com and .net with parked domain ads? A billion dollars a year?
Your link doesn't appear to mention any columns that aren't sandstone? It also doesn't say whether those columns were monolithic or not.
strange to me how many of these eventually turn into steampunk.
The natural market price. Just like people / businesses decide what they are willing to pay for a good, they can decide what price they are willing to pay to lend / borrow money. Not sure where it goes no true Scotsman.
Currently our interest rates are set by the government.
Austrian theory says this leads to the business cycle in the following way :
Businesses want to borrow money and it's cheap to do so. This signals that it is a good time to invest, there is excess capital (otherwise people would be competing more for scarce capital, pushing interest rates higher). If there is indeed excess capital that's fine, it is a good time to invest. But if there was not excess capital (rates were set artificially low, sending a bad signal), these are bad investments. When the truth comes out (rates start raising, or demand for your goods drops), all the bad investments become apparent at the same time. Capital is now so expensive I am losing money on these investments.
For services subject to DMCA, it's often existentially risky to try to filter valid vs invalid notices, due to the potential loss of safe harbor, and much easier to just indiscriminately act on them all to the detriment of users. As an agent, you could offer filtering services, and work with an insurer to establish filtering standards and insure your clients against damages caused by loss of safe harbor due to incorrect filtering decisions.
Fyi everyone, this account promotes overtly racist[0] and anti-Semitic[1] content.

[0] https://systemstops.substack.com/p/the-smart-apocalypse

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=systemstops#38439602
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Thanks for the inspiration! DallE is really good at demonic imagery: https://imgur.com/a/ng2zWTo

There's probably a disproportionate amount of Satanic material in the dataset #tinfoilhat #deepstate
I refuse to engage with such an unrealistic scenario.

Except to say that's still enough people to count as public in my book.

If you want to talk about something more realistic, I'm game.
Unsolicited Advice is mostly useless for two reasons;

Firstly context matters. Since your context is different to mine, my advice may or may not be useful. For starters children are different, so what worked for me may not work for you.

Advice -before- the first birth is even less useful. They have a plan. Your experience is meaningless in the face of the plan. When you hear the plan you don't need to comment on it. Smile, nod and agree. Don't worry, the plan won't last very long...

Mostly parents don't need advice. They need support. An ear to listen. A voice to agree this is hard. A prediction that it gets easier (it does). A view that they're doing a good job (even when it doesn't feel like it.)
I agree that usually 'more is more' for training LLMs. However, for fine-tuning with limited data, it seems crucial to focus the task as much as possible. Since the model still encounters these masked sentences in the data, it effectively learns to respond based on the speaker's name. So, complicating the task might not be necessary. Also, I'm concerned about interpreting the loss value. If the model quickly reduces loss by picking up predictable phrases, it's hard to tell if it's genuinely learning or just echoing these predictable elements.
Assuming you mean they get all URL typos for free, probably a lot less than days past. How many people can only ever Google things? Directly typing in a URL has to be a tiny minority of users.
I thought it was the "our university/lab wanted to put out a press release that we just spent $xx on cutting edge equipment, to prove how advanced we are" problem.
What I am saying is that if the US dissolved, similar to the Soviet Union in your example, there isn't anything technically preventing Germany from being able to take over the nukes.

Do you not see a difference in comparing post-USSR Ukraine with Germany while allied with the very much alive US? Hosting US military installations that house nuclear weapons is very different from hosting abandoned nuclear weapons of a state actor that no longer exists.
Definitely not. Especially if you're not yourself an expert in the subject.

This was clear before, but it's now even more evident with the advent of ChatGPT, which can generate very elaborate prose on any subject that will sound extremely convincing to most people, but turns out to be nonsensical or pure bullshit upon close inspection by actual experts in that subject.
> All to pull a lever.

A lot of people worked really hard to make that lever feel really, really attractive to pull.
It has yield some excellent results that we should celebrate and use. Yet the consensus of the field, when I was properly informed on such things, was that we developed back propagation while under a misunderstanding that linearly inseparable functions (e.g. XOR) could not be learned by Hebbian learning in Hopfield networks. This was a correct result in the context of his assumptions but too limited and/or over applied conclusion from Minsky's work.
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Mass-loaded vinyl and absorptive panels only correct frequency response in the room. It does very little to isolate you from outside noise. They will only make that noise more balanced across the frequency spectrum and do practically nothing to prevent noise from entering or leaving the room.

It's a common mistake to think that room treatment and room isolation are the same thing. But they're two different problems that require two different approaches to solve.
I used to use Evolution until MAPI was removed, then Thunderbird+Exquilla for a bit, but now Thunderbird+IMAP is the sensible way to go. I make all my email rules server-side using OWA, and Thunderbird has had most of the OAUTH2 growing pains sorted out for a while now.

We use Teams, which handles all the calendar stuff I used to need my mail client to do for me. The only risk seems to be Microsoft silently changing something and Thunderbird being left to figure out what to fix. I no longer need to access proprietary Public Folders, as that functionality has been swallowed up by Sharepoint Online.

I've used Linux at work for the past decade, in spite of it being a Microsoft shop -- some days I would wrestle with HyperV or whatever ricketysticks thing Microsoft bolted on top of HyperV, some other rare days I'd get to play in the terminal all day.

I could tolerate using Windows if I was forced to. But I absolutely love using Linux. Who even needs Outlook specifically these days?
A Foundation Model for Cell Segmentation [pdf]
There was an interesting discussion on Nature at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03722-y, discussing cell segmentation for spatial biology. really interesting to see how AI + biology are colliding!
"Russo wants a manufacturer to commercialize his team’s design, which he believes could be built and sold for $500,000"

A microscope for the masses ?
Hmm..
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> Just chart a different course.

Do we reroute highways to avoid anthills?
Great idea asking it to increase the intensity each run. This made my evening!
Even less than you think, because even when they type in the URL it’s into a search bar which is smart enough to correct the typos.

Edit: What’s really going to bake your noodle though, is that given all the issues with various kinds of URL squatting, they’re actually safer than those of us typing in the URL directly. Let’s hear it for my Dad, cybersecurity thought leader.
Completely agree with this. Problems are solved by people, not code. Code is a tool that can either improve, degrade or leave unchanged the state of a system/service. Plus, code is usually the easiest, quickest bit of the process (perhaps with the exception of some huge legacy monoliths).

LLMs can be useful for improving developer velocity, but the key skills that make good software developers good have yet to be emulated well by AI.

> Personally I'm looking forward to a long career fixing up all the code produced by below average developers relying on AIs

“Looking forward” is a bit of a stretch… :)
Yes! It can also get reflections and refractions mostly correct.
From another angle, presumably they had some excellent engineering on their site to be able to handle the enormous up tick in server load following the change. A note from Wikipedia[0]

>According to the web traffic measurement company Alexa, in the year prior to the change verisign.com was around the 2,500th most popular website. In the weeks following the change, the site came into the top 20 most popular sites, and reached the top 10 in the aftermath of the change and surrounding controversy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder
Ah, interesting - the folder has definitely been there for a number of years so that could explain part of it.
In other news, we will use AI to cover for shitty thing that are basically rich powerful people doing their thing. But now we have the AI scapegoat
> In the weeks following the change, the site came into the top 20 most popular sites, and reached the top 10 in the aftermath of the change and surrounding controversy.

1 Billion dollars a year is a good estimate.
> Hanging that opening curly-quote into the space off to the start of the text and aligning the actual words is a better look.

Eh... no it's not?
That's a common misconception: https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/reusable-semic...
You refuse to engage with how nearly all media is released today?
As someone who reads quickly a lot on planes (and sees a lot of others doing the same) the ability to have multiple books on a Kindle is much more important than lack of access to electricity for a few days.

(I also have a large physical book library.)
“My kids keep dying, but I can just adopt more.”

Same sentiment, closer to the actual concept of a nation state.

Or maybe, “my kids can’t have grandkids, so I’ll just adopt myself some.” The reasonable question you have to ask isn’t “how do I adopt more grandkids?” It’s “Why can’t MY kids have their own kids?”
The device is now worth more than the combined incomes and organs of [SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE]
We'll hope that it fares better than the battle against those darned algorithms!
“Because it is there”
I wish they would make a Model Y, with the Cybertruck design. I have no use for a Ute\truck, but I love the pointy metal body. Closest thing you can get to a Delorean.
Fun to play with, but the pricing generated by the AI doesn't match the app itself. For example, I got the AI to say "we'll meet in the middle at $30", but the system never dropped below $46 even with additional messages.
It gets easier. Because you get better at it. It doesn't feel like it now, but you're OK. Every month, every year, just gets a bit easier, and frankly, more fun.

To your point about 3 or 4 - again it gets easier because you get better. Going-out-bags get smaller. You discover kids are resilient. You learn to let go of some expectations.
That is made from three dissimilar metals.

https://www.mof.go.jp/policy/currency/bill/20210816.html
And what about the endgame?
As far as I can tell from reading the discussion section of the original paper, they unfortunately didn't address either a compounding effect or the fact that a small difference could accumulate over time. With the caveat that I may be misinterpreting the table, they did show that students with higher initial knowledge had faster learning rates [0]. That seems to be consistent with some students gradually accumulating an edge that grows over time, even if prior knowledge due to having more opportunities is also a factor, which is the authors' hypothesis. However, those rates were in log odds, meaning they decreased over time in percentage terms. That's only within the same task, so I don't think that rules out other types of compounding.

I will say that a student who consistently learns slightly faster and over the course of their entire education ends up drastically more skilled as a result would definitely be a faster learner, but that seems more muted than most people's intuitions of a "fast learner" or someone with a "knack" for a subject.

[0]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221311120#t02
Interesting - any source on the CSIRO helping with the bimetallic inserts and colour?
> I always liked the french <<this is a quote>> model. Somehow it felt more like an embedded thing.

Those « » characters are called "guillemets" [0]. Fun fact, they're named after an early French typecutter, Guillaume Le Bé!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet
Not even Israel claims it is legally part of Israel.

Not the government. Not the courts.

The Israeli government has, until the "disengagement", insisted in court regularly that Gaza was under belligerent occupation.

This was an important stance for them as claiming it as Israeli territory would give petitioners reasons to ask courts to apply Israeli civilian law. Israeli courts have accepted this stance many times over the years.

By claiming this, any annexation would be a war crime (but to be clear, Israel has never claimed to annex Gaza, on the contrary, Israel has claimed it has ended the occupation and given up control - a claim that is not uncontroversial given the level of control it still exerts)

[EDIT: And, unironically expect this deal and Karhi's statements to feature in future lawsuits as evidence that Gaza is still under belligerent occupation; this will matter greatly, especially now, as an occupying power has humanitarian legal responsibilities that can be challenged in Israeli courts if Israeli courts were to agree there is evidence Israel is still an occupying power]

So under which authority is Gaza legally part of Israel?
This is only vaguely threatening. Would you like my home address, too?
Again, it is pedantically incorrect. Please at least try to understand my comment before popping off. If you want to show off your wikipedia skills, look up the word pedant.
> Is... optimistic.

RHES is looking at their (potential) paying customers, not Linux in general.

And a lot of that are in a context where there are many further restrictions to what can be run and how thinks can be setup. For example software whitelists and/or multi device administration where you are not admin on you desktop system. This for example means that for them most windows managers which are not GNOME/KDE did never matter for them at all (and just to be clear most means most, there are some exceptions). And XWayland is also still around in RHEL10 which mean the only problem are applications which 1. for their customers matter, 2. do not work correctly with XWayland, 3. can not be ported to a newer version of their GUI framework which supports Wayland. Which let's be honest aren't that many to begin with and mainly was stuff like e.g. missing HDR support for certain VFX use cases and similar, whist has been fixed by now.

So for RHEL this isn't "optimistic" but very realistic and based on facts derived from studies done with their customers, not some "busy people".
By the way, what’s the difference between self-replicating automation and live? “Artificialness”?
I don't think Google needs any help with that.
You have any sources or references to chase the rabbit down the hole here?
> The only problem? Outside of Sports Illustrated, Drew Ortiz doesn't seem to exist. He has no social media presence and no publishing history.

Looks like they're still working out the kinks. I look forward to the internet three years from now, where AI-generated authors have matching LinkedIn profiles and active social media accounts.
Yeah, except outside is where you want them to get all the screaming and horseplay out of their systems.
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What don't you like about the e-book UX? I used to think this but after using them for a few years I now prefer all aspects except two:

* Can't flick between two points in non-fiction books easily

* Can't show them off on a bookshelf
You're talking about copyright as that agreement? Not a personal promise not to share things?

In that case, then I don't comprehend your "nope" at all. Mass market sales are public distribution.
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Indeed, I am against tenets of capitalism. It is a vehicle through which people commit exploitative acts and pass it off as merit. Money does not come from thin air, and profits to one entity means loss of value to another. Profit only comes when you charge more for something than it cost to produce or service, therefore the way to succeed in capitalism is to mislead, connive, haggle down where possible, and overcharge where possible. That's quite a list of moral hazards that, when cast out into an aggregate, results in social decay.

Ownership is also an illusion; government can confiscate anything it wants and there's no recourse. They can even take your home if the right boxes are checked. So how exactly is that tenet being respected?

On some level, yes, I see that there should be respect between an object someone works for and them. The issue is the value of each person's labor is completely subjective and up to the opinions of owners. There is no benefit to being working class, for example. There is only benefit for owners under capitalism, and even that gain comes at the cost of screwing over your neighbors.

It is not a system that can take the entirety of a human group and raise them up. It picks a handful, plays "Some of you May Die", shrugs, and leaves the citizens to themselves to fight over resources.

Freely enterable contracts mean one-sided contracts will be allowed. That's not a freedom worth protecting, because it invites exploitation. Just the same, allowing endless exclusive ownership means the owners control everything, and will create ways to block entry to their class or other efforts at equality. Capitalism does nothing to address its weaknesses, and were it not for extreme sacrifice from the working class and token placating acts of regulation from government, it could not function as a legitimate economy or way of life. It rewards the worst in humanity, and then has somehow convinced most of society that it's okay to fuck each other over.
My advice to any non parent is do not judge parents until they’re been convicted by a jury of their peers. Parenting is the hardest task any human ever does, bar none.
I'm not sure that's true. Even if the cops show up and give someone a DUI, I'd imagine civil courts would still do a proximate cause analysis in a negligence case.

>If a "self-driving" car plows into someone who is responsible?

If the car was driving itself, then I'd think the manufacturer of the self-driving feature would be. I still think there would be a proximate cause analysis in this situation too.
In France, that would be related to Down syndrome. Technically, in these parts it would be "mongol", with an l, like the people of Mongolia.

AFAICT it's not exactly used against people with actual Down syndrome, but rather as a synonym for "idiot" and the like.
The Village Effect of the Greater Web
Why do we confine ourselves to a handful of apps when the web is so gigantic?
Fascinating. A few years ago a friend and I finetuned GPT-2 on our WhatsApp chat. So it was just a long text file of:

Mark: wassup

Andy: just chilling

It simulated our conversational style and topics quite well, though GPT-2 reads like a glorified Markov chain. Sometimes the outputs were absolutely hilarious and inappropriate. GPT-2 was peak comedy.

My friend described GPT-2 as "like watching a toddler learning how to walk. When it stumbles it's cute and funny." GPT-3, not so much...

Also, it was oddly (painfully) accurate as far as personality goes... like looking into a mirror. For one thing, I talk way more, and this was reflected in the model's output. For another, I am constantly trying to turn my life around and failing, but ever optimistic... and talking about creative plans endlessly without much execution. (So GPT-2-andai ended up the same way...)
> Those spaces aided reading. They had a purpose.

Did they though? When I read old books vs new books, I don't notice the difference at all. Especially with justification, spaces are already quite variable per line.

I don't think it aided reading at all. It was just a kind of random convention -- maybe somebody thought there was a logic to it -- that got dropped because it wasn't doing anything. One less rule to worry about.
20 cups before 2 pm? How??