skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel privileged to never having read Dickens before my thirtieth or so (I'm not a native English speaker, so avoiding Dickens as a teenager was trivial); it would have given me the wrong impression. His works are great, but require increasingly more cultural baggage to fully enjoy (excepting the Christmas Carol, which is kept in the public consciousness by various factors, including muppets). I can't imagine assigning his novels to minors unless accompanied by lessons providing a lot of context — from historical notes on Victorian society, class struggle, and the meaning of words used daily back then, but obsolete now ('phaeton' is a fun one).
Genius comment, haven’t laughed like that in a while
> Forth or Haskell

You're not wrong, but those don't crack the top-10 of in-demand languages. Enough functional paradigms have also crept into more popular languages that you wouldn't be completely lost.
Scratch the surface and people are pretty much the same.
Others have already pointed out that you’re just shrugging off billions of hours and money that went into the content that is used to (pre-)train a model, so I’ll leave that for what it is.

I’m just curious how you start off with:

> Morality and legality aside

Only to then follow it up immediately with an argument for why one is more moral.
Just because you didn’t end it with “and that’s why I think OpenAI is more moral,” doesn’t mean it’s not obvious and less of an irony.
My understanding is that stockfish retains and uses its classical evaluation model in addition to the NNUE model
Perhaps you missed that "charging only" is a setting for when you really only want to allow charging when the charger is sus? At any other time, sure, get wild.
Of course it is working with local files, maybe I phrased it awkwardly. I am just not sure whether it gives you full context if you do that. I have used Cody a few times in the past few months and it's good, but at least its chat feature kept saying it does not have access to the local code. Maybe that's Claude/GPT being honest but when and which local files it picked seemed unpredictable. There's a setting whether you want sourcegraph context or local context only, and from one of the previous announcements I understood it can work with public github repos. Hence my confusion whether it truly and fully can use your local folder by scanning it locally and extracting embeddings or you need it to go through sourcegraph to get the most out of it.
Right, but we still tend to sidestep the compiler and/or spend hours of human time tuning the input to get the right output for core kernels.
> But it’s misleading to suggest you earned 0 profit. That dev effort is going to apply its value to the company over time.

I would be with you except that Section 174 just says the following: [0[

.03 Activities that are treated as software development. Activities that are treated as
software development for purposes of § 174 generally include but are not limited to:
(1) Planning the development of the computer software (or the upgrades and
enhancements to such software), including identification and documentation of the
software requirements;
(2) Designing the computer software (or the upgrades and enhancements to such software);
(3) Building a model of the computer software (or the upgrades and enhancements to such software);
(4) Writing source code and converting it to machine-readable code;
(5) Testing the computer software (or the upgrades and enhancements to such
software) and making necessary modifications to address defects identified during
testing, but only up until the point in time that:
(a) In the case of computer software developed for use by the taxpayer in its
trade or business, the computer software is placed in service; and
(b) In the case of computer software developed for sale or licensing to others,
technological feasibility has been established, product masters(s) have been produced,
and the computer software is ready for sale or licensing to others; and
(6) In the case of computer software developed for sale or licensing to others (or
the upgrades and enhancements to such software), production of the product master(s).

It makes sense to think of some degree of capitalization for software development but this definition is not defensible for anyone who has the least understanding of how software businesses (including SaaS) actually work. It sounds like it was written in the 1970s.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-23-63.pdf
You’re forgetting grocery stores, which tend to price merchandise according to bulk prices, which aren’t often pretty, plus a store markup. Items priced by weight are even less likely to come out to a $*.99-style price.
Exactly! Why would anyone use gcc/clang when you can just hire someone to hand-write assembly instead?
You could go to prison for refusing to provide password. Here is the story from 2014:

A 22-year-old man has been jailed for six months after refusing to provide passwords to his encrypted hard-drives, the Daily Mail reported. He was imprisoned under a section of RIPA, a UK law that was originally pushed as a counter-terrorism measure, but which has now ballooned to cover many different aspects of crime—something that has got civil liberties groups worried.

Christopher Wilson is suspected of attempting to break into a law enforcement website and “trolling” the Newcastle Police by fooling them with a prank phone call. However, these are not what he is going to prison for: he's spending time behind bars for not giving up his passwords.
the 1913 penny is 30 cents today. bring back the dollar coin and drop everything but the quarter.
The e-golf is certainly the most modest EV i've seen around
But if you let callers use SQL for CRUD operations, you have to give them the ability to execute arbitrary SQL, and there’s no guarantee they’ll only do CRUD operations.

Yes, you could enforce that through code review, but it’s easier to do by using the access control mechanisms of the database. That also would catch any problems before code review.
this always happens on the cartoons so it must be real
I misspoke; Mossadeq dissolved the parliament and rigged a referendum allowing him to do so rather than suspending elections.

Also, the CIA was likely not actually responsible for the coup anyway: https://web.archive.org/web/20150603235034/https://www.forei...
Minds are constructed from parts in the environment. For example, the carbon in your bones is the same carbon in the ground but patterned into a human skeletal structure. The mind is meat and so it must be constructed from the amino acids available in the environment along with other chemicals and proteins. This article is a historical overview but it basically comes down to a single statement: more minds = better (because cultural evolution requires networked minds). The obvious issue is that minds are constructed from parts in the environment and increasing pollution reduces the quality of the ingredients that go into their construction. The minds that created the current conditions through industrial metabolism were operating in a less polluted environment. The water, soil, and food did not have microplastics and other synthetic chemicals. So whatever innovations are in store for the future must address the problem of worse materials that now go into mind construction.

No one knows how this is going to play out but I can say with 100% certainty that a mind constructed from synthetic industrial pollutants will be worse off than the one that was constructed from the unpolluted ecology. The alternative is that more pollution somehow makes people smarter and that is plainly false because microplastics make people less healthy. It is true that a larger network of minds can do more and seem smarter than its individual constituents but even networked minds have limits, e.g. social media.

In any case, it's a good historical overview but ultimately does not address the actual problem of large populations. Like yeast making alcohol which eventually drown in the byproducts and outputs of their own metabolic processes the human population is doing the same thing. We are drowning in the metabolic outputs of industrial processes and the outcome is going to be the same as for the yeast. At the end of the day civilization is just another metabolic machine and the outputs of that metabolism will eventually feed back into it because we are operating in a finite volume of space. The question isn't whether it's going to happen but how badly things will fall apart when it becomes obvious to everyone that they are now eating food and drinking water with plastic in it.

Your downvotes mean nothing to me, I've seen what you people upvote.
Dealt with something like this when I joined a previous job years ago, Kafka was the main data store, microservices had their state in memory they would build at startup by processing their whole history of events (that was ridiculously slow for some of them). Then GDPR came in place and the whole “keep everything in Kafka forever” had to face the reality of “not allowed to keep PII for longer than 30 days” :)

(Before someone suggests it, no messages weren’t encrypted, just throwing the key away wasn’t an option)
Indeed, and here[0] I apply Chesterton's Fence to the issue of widespread unlicensed operation of gasoline lines:

> Gasoline is a dangerous and volatile substance. There are numerous incidents of people being harmed by incorrect use - not just the operator but also bystanders - and millions of dollars in facility damage occurring due to insufficient training. There is a reason why Oregon requires Class C UST Operators and above have training regarding emergencies. We should require more training, not less.
Industrial substances need high standards. Within this calendar year we have been reminded of this repeatedly: train fires and derailment, the OceanGate submarine, the recent train bridge collapse carrying hazardous materials.

>Gasoline can be fatal if consumed, is a known carcinogen, and is harmful to aquatic life so it needs regulation. Here is a safety sheet to warn you of the dangers https://lasierra.edu/fileadmin/documents/risk/safety/safety-...

>It's important that we treat this substance with respect. Licensed operators should be the only ones handling it routinely. But of course, there's no surprise that Big Oil would like to socialize the risks and privatize the profits, speaking nothing of the job losses this will cause.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481984
just introduce new coins. if we were keeping up, the modern equivalent of a 1913 quarter would be an ~8 dollar piece.
> talented editing

that's what all these shows excel at
I wish you had a smaller starting size...
I basically encountered the term only once or twice, in my distant past and have used it maybe as many times. It is not popular.

A Google n-gram comparison of "nazi" and "brownshirt" shows the latter to be vastly rare compared to the former.

I just compared several terms associated with the Nazis: brownshirt,wehrmacht,luftwaffe,hakenkreuz. Their popularity is in the same ballpark.

Luftwaffe is showing a strange resurgence, having overtaken brownshirt.

Brownshirt was on a popularity rise since 1960, but has declined recently. It is now only about 3 times more popular than hakenkreuz, though, which I would think is pretty obscure.

I think people tend to be relatively reluctant to do a dictionary lookup on a rarely heard word that is made of two everyday English words like "brown" and "shirt" and which is easily explained as a fairly obvious metaphor.
What is the point of a public key fingerprint?
You just block their IP’s; Gain intel from internal employees; Have the expensive law firm start sending C&D’s and prepping that law suit.

If you tell someone that they can’t use your product in a certain manner, and then they go to extra lengths to circumvent your measures to gain a profit for themselves, then there is going to be big civil and criminal legal problems.

State sponsored or not; Bytedance has a bank account and business license here in the U.S.
Do people in the UK use cash? I was in London for a week before I finally needed to get some cash to pay for a contractor for illegal services (a forbidden historical tour), later I needed coins to do laundry and the convenience store didn't have enough for a load of wash and a dry, he changed enough for a wash and the pub across the street had enough for a dry.
Poisons relentlessly sprayed on the fields, destroying the life that extracts these nutrients from the soil and allows the plants to use them...and we're surprised to find the plants have less of these nutrients.

We're a complex system of interactions, and our approach of killing life we don't like hurts us more than we'll ever know.
> Maybe you have zero interest (in which case, of course you won't learn).

Quoted sentence does a lot of heavy lifting in your reasoning. Being intrinsically interested in something is integral part of learning. And, yes, obviously for people who have zero interest in subject it will act as "specific learning disability". I know this because I tend to be interested in programming-related subjects and, consecutively, capable of learning them, but I could never muster any interest trigonometry or calculus homework. I've also known multiple people who felt the same way about debugging their software development homework - they weren't interested and hated every second of it.
No court anywhere is going to get all the way to discovery in a case without representation, that's silly. If you're really in a situation where you're sued by Real Lawyers and refuse to respond like that, what will end up happening is some kind of default judgement. Discovery only happens once people start arguing about stuff.

Though there is a corrolary: occasionally you'll see suits filed against John/Jane Doe defendants. The plaintiff knows they've been wronged and wants justice, but they don't know who the entities are they need to sue for some reason. In those circumstances you can get subpoenas issued to produce e.g. phone logs or security footage, etc... in order to move the case along.
2 phd students
Canada has some good charging infrastructure. If you are driving a Tesla, even better, super chargers are the gold standard for EV charging, everything else is kind of unreliable.
Other answers correctly talk about entropy. Here’s an analogy that might help with intuition.

A kilogram bar of solid gold is worth about $70K.

Take every atom of that gold and sprinkle them separately into the ocean. You haven’t used any gold: it’s all still there. The difference in value of the bar and the seawater containing the exact same gold is in the arrangement and availability of the gold, not its mere existence.

Same with energy stored
in a battery vs stored in slightly warmer atmosphere.
> You can't access NSFW content on Reddit without logging in

Sorry, what? You think reddit is trying to prevent openai from scraping the porn subreddits???
I don't have a device lock because I keep the thing on my body and anyone violating that will also get the password anyhow and I don't want to have to authenticate a million times a day. That logic worked until now I guess :/
Or buy lightly used car and then drive 20 years... The savings for getting one or two years old car is already substantial.

I did this and now I'm stuck with manual Kia... But I don't really drive enough to care, so I'm fine...
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*using air breathing engine, I think. Earth escape velocity is Mach 22, 7.9km/s, 5 mi/sec., 67k mph, etc. Clearly there are faster guided man-made objects.
Have you met Yegge before? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge
I was listening to a podcast with someone who went from BS/Mechanical Engineering => MD. He had to give up his "first principles" style of engineering-thinking and just accept that rote memorization was the way to go, at least for the majority of his courses.

I disagree that rote memorization limits innovation in the medical field. Biology has complex problems, and "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong". There's a reason why so many clinical trials fail, and it's not for a lack of technical innovation.

I feel like the medical _system_ as a whole needs systematic/organizational disruption, not technological disruption. For example, CGMs are a technology that have been around for decades and only now are we seeing usage in non-diabetic populations. The system (they require a prescription) is preventing the innovation.
Is it better at longer, dense pdfs?

I want to extract citations from a pdf and evaluate the most quality ones or relevant ones for my search.
A single US destroyer has successfully shot down dozens of Houthi missiles in the Red Sea already. A carrier strike group has many destroyers. You have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about.
Absolurely agreed. If it wasn’t for religion, it would’ve been for something else. Religion was just a background theme/cause for it, but not the reason.

A good analogy that comes to mind is what triggered WW1. Sure, we all know that it kicked off due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. One thing I remember vividly from that time period being covered in my history classes is the teacher going very in-depth on all the tensions and confilcts between the sides piling up for quite some time before the assassination, and how those countries were all already at their throats itching to get into a fight. The teacher spent multiple lessons going into all of this, which made it rather plain obvious that if it wasn’t for the Archduke’s assassination, it would’ve been for something else.

That’s one thing from that teacher that stuck with me forever, the teacher’s explanation of how major the difference is between a cause and a reason, despite people using them synonymously often. Archduke’s assassination was the cause/trigger for the start of WW1, but it was not the reason for it. Causes/triggers are direct, quick, simple, interchangeable, standalone, and specific. Reasons are fundamental, complex, and often come in multiples, all interacting and feeding off each other in complex ways.

Same with the religion-caused conflicts/atrocities mentioned in this thread of comments. Religion was not the reason for those imo, it was just the cause/trigger, but not the reason. Hell, I am halfway thinking that it could even be that some religions in those ancient days were partially formed in response as to justify certain behaviors, rather than religions causing/triggering those behaviors, but that’s just a baseless speculation on my part that I myself have zero certainty in.

Off-tangent sidenote: without trying to take a dig at any specific religion, as I have no issues with religions themselves or their followers at all in present times, it does seem rather convenient that one of the most mainstream religions these days was found on the premise of a married woman giving a “virgin birth” to a child that wasn’t her husband’s son. Sensibly, once couldn’t explain it any way other than getting pregnant by someone other than the husband or a miraculous divine intervention. And knowing the very real life-ending consequences those days for women for that and, on top of it, giving birth to that child, the choice would be rather obvious.
It's in the roadmap afaik, they talked about it during QtWS
"Worthless HN karma? Thats subjective...HN karma does have some first order effects you havent considered. I will leave it at that."

Are you talking about farming HN karma to foster bot accounts to manipulate the front page, or one's subjective feeling of accomplishment?
Parent's model is very much my own view of our political gridlock.
No, it's for brand safety and reputation. In 2016 Microsoft released Tay [1] without or lacking guards and it ended up being a failure and hurter the Microsoft brand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
We'll have to see. I could definitely see someone spending a lot of time training for a specific algorithmic kernel and microarchitecture and beating the best human results (by a few percent).

I'd be very surprised if that can be extended to a large complex algorithmic system that is amenable to mathematical reformulations (at least within the next 10 years).
So you're not charging back up to 100% until the overnight stop?

When I think about how I would do a long trip in an EV, I envision getting a full charge, because first, that's what I currently do with gasoline, and second, I want as much range as possible to account for unplanned detours and/or other unexpected issues.
Oscar Wilde
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
It's been studied intensely since its discovery in the 1990s, it's not in any way a "brand new" technology.
For sure, I agree with everything you're saying, but the parent commenter was saying all non-cooperation is allowed which isn't true. I don't think they considered the case of resisting arrest or other similar cases.
P.S. if I was in the position of OpenAI and Sam Altman, and Bytedance kept playing games after we had slapped their hand; I would just “shadow ban” them based off IP and user history, and serve them back garbage results to throw off their models :]

Garbage in = Garbage Out
It is a funny-ish piece of content marketing.
That's a complete death-trap. That said, I totally want one.
Q,W,E < No need for mouse. First card in Welcome to Munkle Deck.
I think we could do much better than this with a small amount of creativity.

But it really ought to be possible to securely configure locally-connected devices with a browser, and this is not really possible today.
Huh, so now I’m confused as to how you claim not to be invoking fairness
The New Politics of Consumption (1999)
Yeah, ehh I'm just going to stick to good old fashioned relational data.
I do not believe that spinning a bit before invoking the operating system is an efficient method.

Checking at least once if the lock is free is absolutely necessary before invoking the operating system.

Optionally, it is good to wait a short time (e.g. with an empty loop) and then check again if the lock is free, before invoking the operating system to wait.

On the other hand, to execute repeatedly in a loop atomic read-memory-write instructions on the address contended with other threads wastes energy and it wastes time for the other threads, due to the generated cache traffic. Even if spinning on the lock gives a higher chance for your thread to be the first that will get the lock, this makes the performance worse for the whole system. If you must be certain that no other thread gets the lock before, at least a ticket lock should be used, if not a better queued lock.
I've spent sufficiently long time in jails to watch new guards start the job and go from being fun, friendly guys, to being power-infesting evil jerks. There are few guards who manage to keep their nice ways intact.

And on another note, I have run forums with hundreds of thousands of users. Almost every time I have promoted a user to staff they became (literally) Hitler within six months and I had to ban them.

IMO, power definitely corrupts.
speculative question, how much weight do you think this carries in the EU zeal to get Ukraine in as a member
The author appears to be holding further details until a presentation at a conference.
There have been several attempts to make battery swapping for cars a thing. This includes Tesla's attempt and another company that went bankrupt. For some reason, it does not seem to work out and they all stop trying it.
I’ve wondered sometimes why it is that asteroids are made out of anything as solid as rock, rather than just being big dust bunnies. I would assume that you would need pressure and heat to make rock, and therefore small rocky asteroids are derived from collisions between much larger objects.