skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI is the only domain where I have seen a large number of people rooting for the creation of an existential risk. Nearly everyone is horrified at the thought of nuclear war, climate disaster, or a genetically engineered super virus. Something like gain of function research is heavily restricted and still controversial. But so many people are YOLOing towards future AI developments. I guess the potential for robot butlers and immense corporate profits is worth the risk?

Maybe AI never lives up to the hype, but a future conditional on AI transforming the world is not far from one destroying it.
I like to know where my users are coming from and discussing what I wrote so I can engage them and have discussions with them too.

Not saying ignoring all that is bad, just my reasons for wanting analytics and not just ego stroking and vanity metrics.
Still need it dumbed down a bit /s
Two executives were executed in the followup to the Chinese scandal when baby formula was found to be intentionally adulterated with melamine. (A few hundred babies were hospitalized; six died.)

It seems safe to say that there is a deterrent effect.
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Looking around it seems that most houses here are sold with a 5% realtor fee.

This means that the seller immediately bumps up their price by 5%, because they have an idea in mind of with how much money they want to walk away with.

And then there is the issue of when a buyer choses not to use an agent, which makes the seller's agent pocket the WHOLE commission. It's not that the seller only pays 2.5%. It's not that the buyer get's the 50% of the commission.

The only person who is eligible for the other part of the commission is someone who is part of the same cult.
North Korea has a higher fertility rate (1.82) than Cuba (1.50) though for what it's worth. It's close to Vietnam (1.96).
Maybe, but necessary in certain situations. Abusive or misleading content (definition up for debate) can be censored to prevent harm. If I have a blueprint for a homemade explosive that a 12 year old can make in a day, should that be easily accessible?

Censorship only exists because people are more lazy than they are nefarious. The other aspect is protecting idiots from themselves.

Whether that’s right or wrong, I’m not the judge.
That's true if you build the station on the planet, but I think the station is designed to be constructed in orbit in the first place. Its self-gravity should be negligible. Problem solved!
> The end of the year has witnessed a surge in blockchain gaming development, signaling a major trend for the upcoming bull market. The unique proposition of integrating blockchain with gaming (GameFi) is set to revolutionize the sector.

This is a cool level-headed approach, is it? Because it looks indistinguishable from the usual blockchain hype we all got fed up with years ago.
I, i, L, l, 1, 7, j, o, O, 0, D, G, C

All have characteristics that set them apart from potential lookalikes - the bar through the 0 is one excellent example - but it’s up to the font designers to take readability into account, and most designers are looking at reading English prose, not code. They don’t think “my font might be used to render a URL in a context where a user will need to make an essential security decision based on whether the string they’re reading contains an l or an I.
Surely you must realize that your comments here and above are ... simply not convincing? You say "we don't need to think about it", then give your own simplified explanation (which is mostly likely not a sufficient one) and then refuse to explain further, just doubling down on "my idea is right".
I think the parent was saying that private/protected aren't used to protect secrets, they are there to make code more maintainable when you have a split between implementation details and stable/revisioned public api "contract".

You want to understand exactly what code may be depending upon implementation details and limit it (encapsulation) for reasoning and maintainability.

I'll give a counterexample of this being done wrongly - Java has a pretty common development pattern where up-front you make a member private, and then write pass-through getter and setter methods. This doesn't really provide much for maintainability, because you have started out needing to support arbitrary retrieval and modification from anywhere, and have likely externalized interpretation of the data the member represents.
I think the opposite. When text in a webpage takes up all my monitor's width, I go into Developer Tools and manually add a max-width rule so that I can read the text comfortably.

And AFAIK, all HCI literature seems to agree with me.
> They circumvent this by simply setting up a privately held front company in New Jersey to be the importer of record.

This is for Food, Supplements, Cosmetics, and other products that fall under the "Food Safety" Division

For drugs and biologics, the regulations are much stricter after the fallout from the Ranbaxy scandal in 2013.
It looks very good! I am surprised people recognize the authors of HN comments. I could maybe recognize a pg's comment. Very interesting - thanks!
damn right sir, and there is also the term "consistency levels" which vary from one db to another.
If I force desktop view on mobile the sidebar appears
I love gathering the concepts listed in these kinds of articles.

The structure or grand narrative to organize these concepts into a coherent whole is always missing though.

Not sure about it.

We build more sophisticated programming architectures than pop psychology presents to us in these articles.
> Ground turmeric has been found to be intentionally contaminated with lead chromate which is yellow in color.

In that case, the idea isn't that the lead chromate is yellow so that it can increase the weight of the spice while being safely camouflaged.

The idea is that it is visually distinct and consumers prefer the brighter yellow of turmeric-with-lead to the duller yellow of non-poisonous turmeric.
we need to flip the conversation on this.

journalists don't seem to grok the fact that breaches are totally the fault of the breached site. sure, the attackers are bad people, but that's a different crime.

we need something close to a death sentence for sites that allow themselves to be breached. mandatory $10k per exposed SSN, $10 per exposed email, that sort of thing.

what would be the result? only good: sites should not be storing this data themselves. the real conversation-flip is that we need to put people in charge of their own data, and make it radioactive for data-users (like Delta Dental) to store it. this kind of data should only live in facilities that are solely run for the purpose, and which provide the data-subject with full control. who pays? not really that hard - some combination of the data-subject, data-users (transaction fees), perhaps just a governmental single payer (since we're talking tiny cost).

imagine if you could look at your data (you can't today!) and could explicitly share out bits to particular data-users. all your records (dental, tax, CC, banking).
Personally I’m of the opinion that the lack of reasoning capacity in LLMs is _total_… meaning an LLM doesn’t reason at all, in any sense, which is precisely why comparing its capacity for reasoning to an autistic savant is so very flawed and, if you think on it, rather inhumane. The character of Raymond (and the real human who inspired him) was absolutely capable of rich and meaningful reasoning, but due to a physical injury to the brain had sacrificed wide reasoning breadth the rest of us take for granted in favor of narrow reasoning depth we can scarcely imagine. The LLM isn’t wide or narrow, shallow or deep… it’s just got such an expansive model of the frequency in which the tokens in its training corpus appear that it can, frequently enough to be compelling, give us back a simulacrum of sufficient apparent reasonableness that the fact it contains absolutely zero novel reasoning whatsoever goes unnoticed by us (usually because we’re asking it a question we don’t really know the answer to, while also having a pretty poor internal model of just how many people contributed statistically identical questions and actually reasoned answers to those questions in the training corpus).

BTW, if we do ever develop a viable standardized test for actual reasoning capacity I’ll lay my money right now that not a single LLM (ever) passes it.
The gambling patterns are related to taking additional action to getting the rewards - like spinning a wheel, choosing to take an additional step risking the current reward for the chance to win another one. That’s gambling, intentionally constructed to be addictive. It changes habits, normalizes addiction and is harmful.
https://archive.is/hKWZT
https://archive.vn/9AYys
That seems to be the way I see objects in my mind.
It starts as a basic formless "idea" of a lighthouse. Vague images come to mind:
Tall, pointy, seaside, seagulls, looming.
Then I sort of focus on one part of the lighthouse instantly to figure out the details. Like the walls:
Brick, painted over with white paint, moss and lichen growing on them.
Then the door:
Wooden, one handle, thick, dark wood, little peep hole.

Etc.

I never fully visualize it instantly. It's like my mind is creating the details over time. A minute later if you ask me to visualize it again, I still don't see it instantly, I need to remind myself "Oh yeah the door was wooden, the walls were white" etc.

I feel like a lot of differences in people's experience of this is less to do with their actual abilities of visualization and more to do with not being able to describe what is happening and observing yourself as a third party while you're thinking.
I don’t see anything that points to it being a general public cloud issue. And instead they talk about Azure software specifically as something that they couldn’t take advantage of, no?
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It's just screening the clearly not-good-enough designs so that Lego employees don't have to review everything.
This seems to be similar to https://github.com/cashapp/sqldelight, and I've always wanted a python equivalent!

In typescript, there are query builders (not talking about ORMs) that can basically do this within the type system, but that would be infeasible in python's type system. This approach (type/code generation is a good alternative, though I like using sqlalchemy / alembic to manage schemas/migrations.

One thing I'm curious about is how it knows the types of columns? I looked quickly at the Readme but didn't see it (probably a parameter somewhere I missed).
I don't think we should have one set of rules for people at start-ups, who typically work much more than 40 hours a week, and another set of rules for workers at established companies. The labor market is tight, and workers will leave companies where the hours are excessive relative to the pay.
which savings ? It’s never been obvious to me that cloud was cheaper if you’re a large company
The economic situation of NK is far different than those two countries, and in NK’s situation you would often expect to see fertility rates above replacement.
Maybe in this case "ELI5" stands for "Explain it like I have 5 yrs experience in software development but gave up in year two"?
Isn't that the norm nowadays? I know some early AWS products had logic just for the console, but I also know that that was seen as a huge mistake. I assumed that was industry wide.
That's what I have (RX 7900XT on Arch), and ROCm with pytorch has been reasonably stable so far. Certainly more than good enough for my experimentation. Pytorch itself has official support and things are pretty much plug & play.
> The problem is that we are not OK. When can't help ourselves, much less others. A lot of us are sick and don't have help. We are silently succumbing to the suffering of an increasingly dehumanizing environment

ok, maybe? i don't think that's unanimously true

> Machines should be beside us, to help. Not between us and stop us from fully interact with each other.

and who puts them there and uses them as such?

who comes up with things like DRM'd juice packets?

people anthropomorphize machines:

"the car rolled over and crushed..." or "the train doors closed in his face"

No.

"the reckless driver rolled his car..."
"the uncaring conductor closed the doors in his face"
"the bureaucratic corporation and engineers designed the train leaving no way to override the doors by the operator"

not as romantic, but closer to the truth.

machines, computers included, are simply powerful levers. they amplify forces applied - good or evil or dehumanizing - by their users. nothing more.

not all people are good, and when those people use powerful machines to amplify their intentions, it can have enormous negative effects.
For what it's worth, I spoke to my friend who professes to be able to visualise things very vividly. I think there is something to it because she was able to confirm that she can literally see the thing she is visualising as if it's there, I asked her many questions about it so I don't think there is much room for miscommunication. She confirmed that it is as if that thing is there and that she can hold that imaginary thing in her field of vision for long periods of time. She can do this with her eyes open.

There must be some sort of spectrum of ability with this stuff. But I agree that it's difficult to prove and measure. I do think that great artists must be on the more "gifted" side of this spectrum.
If you can use spyware against the common man then you can absolutely use it against a journalist. They aren't a special caste of people. Live like everyone else has to for a while.
For me, it was! But honestly, it could have been weird before and I just didn't notice. I was in the shower and realized that I couldn't see my armpit to shave it. It did get better, though: I went to a specialist eye doctor when I started my medicine (gilenya) and he said it healed really well - he really couldn't tell there was ever an issue.

If it makes you feel better, a lot of folks that do get optic neuritis find that the regain at least some of the vision. And realistically, once I got used to everything being blurry in one eye, it was probably something I could live with if I absolutely have to. Definitely bring it up to your neuro, though, just to let them know. If it is a new symptom for you, you might call sooner rather than later.

And they were right about the meds, and I appreciate the approach. Fewer flares and less severe flares mean a better quality of life for us.
MOVEit has been a vector for several high profile bank and government breaches in the last few months.
I really have to wonder why anyone is still using their services after yet another security incident.
What culture treats men as idiots?

Yes, there are memes about clueless men, but there are also memes about clueless women - in fact, we have an entire genre of "blonde jokes" about them - which, note, are 99% about blonde women, not blonde men. The fact that these memes exist doesn't mean that society treats men(or women) as clueless generally.
When I was first reading about Word2vec I thought it was absolutely wonderful that the vector delta (king - queen) was similar to the vector delta (man - woman). That captures relationships in such a fascinating way!
>>> “Your emotions result entirely from the way you look at things.”
>> I wholly disagree with this foundational principle of CBT. Feelings of, say, anxiety or depression can completely bypass rational thought.

Why? It's a circular thing, the reason anxiety or depression can bypass rational thought is that they're drawing your focus to a particular train of thought. There are many thoughts going on in our heads at one time, and emotions can shift our focus to ones of greater emotional impact. IMHO the really strong emotions are often due to unresolved issues or unprocessed past trauma. Once you get those taken care of (no easy task), it's easier to choose a way to look at something that causes you the least distress. Sure, it may not be the ground truth but when it comes to interactions with humans there often isn't an underlying "correct" interpretation of things, so you may as well adopt a view that doesn't bother you and get on with your day.
my buffer runneth over :(
Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days
> Abusive or misleading content (definition up for debate) can be censored to prevent harm.

Sure.

> If I have a blueprint for a homemade explosive that a 12 year old can make in a day, should that be easily accessible?

Yes.
“Sorry, but I can’t do that Dave”
This article claims otherwise [1]

"BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have notably been making substantial investments in single-family homes across America. Their housing acquisitions are primarily conducted through real estate investment trusts (REITs), including home-rental companies. BlackRock, for example, is heavily invested in Invitation Homes. A company that owns and operates over 80,000 rental homes in the U.S. "

[1] https://businessandfinances.com/2023/09/investment-giants-bu...
Given that monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors, I'm perfectly fine with it.
The atomicity in the bash version can be "simply" achieved by copying the file to a temporary, modyfing it, then using `sync; mv; sync`, right?
What was their oath? It was to the Constitution, not to avoid rocking the boat.

Would an autocoup be against the Constitution? Absolutely.

So yes, I would expect the Joint Chiefs to support the actual election winner, by force if necessary.
Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero's Ability to Shut Down iPhones
The entire program is corporate welfare and the complaint is about it going to a particular person's company. Not about corporate welfare.
If accuracy refers solely to human-vs-bot detection, there might be a point, but for comprehensive traffic analysis, access logs are unparalleled in accuracy.

JavaScript analytics are increasingly prone to inaccuracies due to numerous methods available for manipulating data, leading to the generation of inaccurate events from JavaScript endpoints. Staying current in the field reveals a growing trend of blockers employing AI-driven detection, rendering JavaScript analytics less relevant in these cases.
Try

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=prompt+engineering&searchtyp...
If only more academic papers were written so clearly and engagingly:

> According to “male idiot theory” (MIT) many of the differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency department admissions, and mortality may be explained by the observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things.

> there can be little doubt that Darwin Award winners seem to make little or no real assessment of the risk or attempt at risk management. They just do it anyway. In some cases, the intelligence of the award winner may be questioned. For example, the office workers watching a construction worker demolishing a car park in the adjacent lot must have wondered about the man’s intelligence. After two days of office speculation—how does he plan to remove the final support to crash the car park down safely?—they discovered, on the third day, that he didn’t have a plan. The concrete platform collapsed, crushing him to death and flattening his mini-excavator.
Yak Shaving: https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/
Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads
It is up to you to build your own grand narrative. People can give you the pieces, but you have to build it yourself. You'll understand why once you're well underway.
Compare to our youth unemployment rates to see why this is criminal: https://www.statista.com/statistics/813014/youth-unemploymen...
It’s easier to scale cloud infrastructure.
Atom-1: A Foundation Model for RNA Structure and Function
> Write a bad headline for clicks. Fill the body with derivative writing of other news.

Eh, I thought it was interesting. There's value in compiling together similar stories to show a pattern.

> Point and laugh at the subject you want to see taken down a notch.

Should we be respectful and deferential to our lords?
Except that a lot of risky male behavior doesn't impress most women. Maybe it impresses other risky-behaving men though, and the respect those risky-behaving men show the risk taker translates into more desirability from women.
Presumably the presence of risk-taking males is advantageous to the species as a whole. If our species was asexual each individual would have to be fairly risk averse as any individual lost is lost breeding capacity. But in a sexual species a lost male is fine and happens all the time. Just losing males is, of course, pointless but presumably the advantages brought by the successful ones outweighs any disadvantages brought by the unsuccessful ones. This seems to be true when you look at unsuccessful males who just tend to sit out on the sidelines or whither away in silence rather than actively leech on society while successful males can be great leaders, innovators, visionaries etc.

It's perhaps easier to see why risk-taking behaviour is less common in females, though. In a sexual species each female is required to carry at least two children, on average, to merely replace the current population (it's also beneficial if she survives the final birth). The loss of a single female is therefore quite significant. A population with more risk-taking females would be less successful than one with less.
> they've also improved the printing of the instructions over the years, as well as better differentiation through outlines of what is new. that was very obvious when my father and I put together 7 holiday sets I had collected over 20 years last holiday season. each newer set was a good improvement.

They have, but they still have problems with sets that have large chunks of the same color, especially when it comes to stuff like tiling or greebling, like the UCS Batman Tumbler. And certain colors still seem problematic. The old UCS Sandcrawler set is the one that stands out in my mind, that reddish-brown color made a lot of the instructions very difficult to read; That was like 10 years ago now, but even the more recent Bonsai tree also had that problem.
I use delta dental. What does this mean? Why would they store my CC info when I’m paying directly to my dentist and delta dental is also paying the dentist?

How does my CC info get transferred to the insurer? There’s no such transaction afaik.
And it has a strong (but relatively poor) middle class.
Yeah this is me too apart from the writing a blog part because, uh, why would I want to expose the rest of humanity to my insanity?
Just want to say thank you for your enormous effort on this. I'm extremely picky about software but Firefox on Android is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used. And I use it every day - probably more than any other app. I still remember how happy I was when youn folks got those adblocker extensions working on mobile. Thank you.
Maybe I'm odd, but even having more experience with AWS, and even with the UI on AWS being superior, Azure's jargon and organization seems easier to learn than AWS.
Yes, a product can be bad and a commercial success.
When I close my eyes, I see my eye lids.
Right. Anyone can beat Apple if you’re willing to burn electricity. Intel still makes the absolute top chips the public can buy. There is no contest in GPUs, the discrete AMD/nVidia cards stomp on Apple for the same reason.

But for similar performance, like in the MacBook Air or the MacBook Pros, Intel was embarrassed. The M1s were so much faster and cooler than the Intel chips they replaced it was hilarious.

The Mac Pro is absolutely the weak spot. Apple doesn’t sell enough so it seems unlikely they will spend the money to try and keep up with Intel there. The first Apple Silicon Mac Pro is not what people wanted. And I don’t know if that machine will be coming.