skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are almost no positive connotations of Disney I can think of outside the cohort of 5 - 10 yo girls. To call something "Disney" is to mock it. YMMV in the USA.

Disney stuff isn't my cup of tea either, but that doesn't mean it isn't very popular around the world.

When we look at the financials of Disney Theme Parks and Experiences, for example, they report strong booking worldwide with reported revenue for the fourth quarter at $8.2 billion, up 13% from last year. Operating Income at $1.8 billion, up 31% from the previous year. Source: https://skift.com/2023/11/08/disney-theme-parks-focused-on-t...
While I don't think our intelligence is "supernatural", and am not aware of that being a widely held position, I do believe we found out that our understanding of the universe is not as good as we thought. A recurring pattern.

For example, the Turing test may not actually be the gold standard we thought it was for intelligence, because Turing couldn't imagine a machine model that basically had all of human knowledge in a somewhat malleable form. I think the recent New York Times suit amply demonstrates the fact that the LLMs are largely databases of existing text.

So it can perform feats that, though they obviously seem intelligent to us, are actually not. They are a sophisticated form of autocomplete backed by an incredible database of sentences. Again, we cannot imagine this, because a creature with our somewhat more limited memory and recall must use intelligence to perform these sorts of tasks. At least I doubt that I could create even one of the texts that the NYT showed verbatim.

Of course, at some point we may discover that there really isn't anything left, that everything we perceive as intelligence can be fairly simple algorithms + database access (though that may not be our mechanism)

On the other hand, the part we can't really explain is not "intelligence" but conscious experience.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
What topics and conclusions do you often see echoed here? I don’t mean to agree or disagree with the statement, just curious about your observations.
He does answer some of these criticisms in another post:

https://ranprieur.com/essays/dropoutcrit.html
>>> (You're going to get a lot of old farts disagreeing with this advice, but don't listen to them.)

"I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was.
Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary.

It'll happen to you!"

seriously, it's not "being old farts", it's being reasonable with your eyes and your tools: while you may have 20/20 eyes, you will agree with me that viewing a diff of two columns of code at 10px fonts is not an happy thing to do, as the difference may be just a comma or a dot, and those on a 15" 4k monitor are about 0.3mm. And you cannot really view the whole columns without scrollbars or overflows if you set the font much bigger.
I predict that there will be a post at the end of the year asking for predictions of the next year!
I’ve found some help with perfectionism and procrastination by using procrastination to overcome perfectionism.

Get a project to a “good enough” point, then tell myself “I’ll fix it next year”, when I really just want to rip it out and start over.

Of course ‘next year’ never comes as later I come to see that the project is totally fine and doesn’t need a re-do.
IIRC the waves California has been getting were storm surge combined with cyclical higher tide.
It’s also important to remember that most of what is online is there to sell ads and does not represent reality in the same quantity. I think people are really trying too hard to find deep meaning everywhere, they might want to read more about social sciences instead.
21 Days of RTL
Do a web search for “Markov chain”.
What does it say about us as an industry when someone gets downvoted for saying our work lives can be better? I always picture lobsters pulling each other back into boiling water. It’s sick, honestly.
Victim blaming??? Why should I do that?

Look, the situation was not like don't go down this alley, it's dangerous, it was like you are surrounded by Russian crooks who want to kill you, only a miracle could save you.

It was clear in December 2021 that Russia WILL attack Ukraine - multiple countries started preparations based on this. Preparations that ended up being crucial for Ukrainian survival but US (or NATO) decisive action could have averted the war as it was also clear that Russia is not willing to fight with US or NATO - this could have been the saving miracle.

The Russian plan was a Blitzkrieg to overtake Ukraine in weeks and then threaten US and NATO with nuclear war when they plan to react.

This plan would have fallen apart when they should have attacked US or NATO forces to begin with.

Like I told, Russia had only one option left at the end of 2021 - attack Ukraine. There was no go home option on the table because they had talked themselves out of it. Now if option to attack Ukraine would have switched to attack US and NATO then most likely they would have reconsidered the go home option more seriously and chosen that instead.
I don't know that cars have SIM cards that are constantly exchanging information... most of what I have been exposed with what a data dump obtained during (official) service that is then sync'd with the vendor. SIM card would be a pretty flagrant breach of privacy, and they'd have that shit on file instead of having plate-reading cameras at every intersection
Same here, it felt authentic -- a really fun read.
I just hate infinite copyright.
What does the word Hit reference in the title? The terminal interface? Or that it's a "dose" of HN?

More descriptive title would have been handy:

Terminal client for the Orange Site

or something
It keeps giving me the same episode vs a different episode every time. Feels like I'm manually doing bubble sort :)

Maybe randomising the selection would keep me going longer.
I’ve heard about the paradox of announcing plans before. It is intriguing.

In light of the need for community, talking about plans might be seen as a way to search for ideas that could have group buy-in and become something to undertake together. Failure to move forward on those plans would reflect that the group interest just wasn’t there. The mistake would have been in assuming you would have ever pursued the goal independently, the social impulse to share could have been the hint.

Shared interests between friends can help individual interests and goals become collective ones.

Ecclesiastes: one may be overcome (by the exhaustion of going to the gym), two can defend themselves (against lapsing on their New Year’s resolution). A three-ply cord is not easily broken.
Yes, the knowledge in a book does not automatically bring value. A book in itself is worth as much as the warmth it can give when you throw it in a fire.

But IMO that's a stupid way to view books in general. You would have to contend that ALL books are worth nothing, because you have to expend effort to read it or try to actually make use of the knowledge in it.

So how I define value of a book? From the economics, this would be the opportunity cost which is the next best thing you could do. If you have better use of your time than reading any book then yes, books are worthless to you as long as you can do better things with your time.

For me, I found that reading books brings immense value to me by either directly bringing actionable knowledge or by causing me to think in new ways. Yes, these are my thoughts, but I argue I would not have them if I kept my brain just doing the same thing every day.

I attribute many hundreds of thousands of dollars of my income to ideas in books that I red and some of these books more than others. I am not listing these books here because I also believe that it is not about these books. It is about me getting value from the ideas that I would not know otherwise.
Hiroshima car dealers seek ways to attract mechanics
You can see gloves in Steamboat Willie’s outro too, on both Mickey and Minnie.
This reminded me of adaptive comparative judgement. I'd be interested in your algorithm on how you decide how to pair up items.
The language switch issue could be solved in a whole host of different ways without disposing of the transformer architecture. The deeper issue, can transformers "understand" truth and reason, is more nuanced. A transformer architecture built around (token, accuracy) tuples instead of raw tokens and provided "fact checked" training data could be instructed to make statements that are likely to be true when possible and provide a disclaimer when making statements that may not be true. The reasoning is a little harder to address, but I suspect that if the language transference issue was solved, training a model on a wide variety of synthetic algebra problems (automated proof software could spit out an endless stream) and other deductive chain-of-thought examples would do a lot to help transformers emulate logical processes.
There's already a somewhat common standard for DC wiring in homes and offices, though it's probably not exactly what you had in mind: it's Power over Ethernet (PoE), which provides around 48V over standard twisted pair Ethernet wiring, while still allowing it to be used for data.
"It's there for when you're in the terminal you just need your hit of the orange site."
Subject-First Commit Messages
I think we need to talk about the definition of "low voltage". In my understanding it's everything below 1000V. Solar power systems often provide a voltage up to 1000V, by serially chaining modules. Running them in parallel with ~50V would require quite massive cables.

Edit: About the danger of DC wires: There are technical solutions to mitigate risks. They may be too expensive though. I think we can reuse some of the strategies electric cars use. It's the only end-user application I know that uses DC powered cables with up to 900V (Lucid Air).
Stealing full ideas and written sections to take credit for them is the accusation against Gay. This article has examples with visualizations.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/this-is-definitely-plagiarism-...

In her 1997 thesis, for example, she borrowed a full paragraph from a paper by the scholars Bradley Palmquist, then a political science professor at Harvard, and Stephen Voss, one of Gay’s classmates in her Ph.D. program at Harvard, while making only a couple alterations, including changing their "decrease" to "increase" because she was studying a different set of data.

Gay’s 1993 essay, "Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations," lifts sentences and historical details from two scholars, David Covin and George Reid Andrews, with just a few words dropped or modified. Covin is not cited anywhere in the essay.

And here are more examples

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1733977126020481266

And if you'd read the article you'd know it starts by saying, "What is striking about the allegations of plagiarism against President Gay is that the improprieties are routine and pervasive."
> are expected to keep running up to 200,000 miles, while cars with electric engines are expected to last

English might not be my native language but, as far as i know, "last" is not equal with "expected to last".
Seems like quality is lacking in this case also, considering the plagiarism.
I'm glad I was able to finally make my point. But if you're not willing or able to read and understand what we're discussing, and respond to what I'm actually writing, then please don't bother trying to participate in the discussion, so I don't have to repeat myself to somebody who won't listen. Just sit this one out. Thanks!

Edit: you just did make my point that you weren't listening, and that you have nothing to contribute to the discussion, but I'll let you have the last word since that seems to be all you want. Unless you want to pointlessly announce you're going to leave again.
great article I read a few posts but you say you coined the term "prompt injection" but I'm fairly certain that was a thing discovered by anyone who thinks about using LLMs in production. sql injection/prompt injection
> Ok, so when is the US going to become part of the west?

I'm from Africa. Here "the west" is an expression refering to europe and the US and/or advanced democratic countries. I thought it was a common expression, I apologize if I was unclear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world

> The previous elected president of the United States believes that because he's privileged - by virtue of being a nepobaby...

Trump doesn't act the way he does "because he is priveledged by virtue of being a nepobaby". He acts that way, because he is old and grew up in times where acting that way was socially accepted. In modern times it is not accepted and people are growing up knowing it is wrong.

The point of my post was basically that preaching to a tech focussed website full of mostly middle aged men is the wrong strategy. If you want to make a difference, go to the youth and don't expect change to happen overnight.
If the title is going to be edited from the original. The "enter" here should become "enters"
This doesn't seem quite right to me. The browser is analogous to an operating system, and tabs to applications. Embedding a whole OS into a single page could have niche uses, like software ports or "fun", but I doubt it will ever become a dominant way of using software. All that seamless session stuff is quite achievable by syncing browser state. It's already popular to sync tabs and tab groups and such, so why not JS/WASM engine state and other stateful elements of tabs?
bookmarked the thread.
So that’s where my uncles got the idea from..
Should perhaps start with universal SBAS support first, which seems to be not a given still.

OTOH at least in Europe there’s the EUPOS project that, if opened to the public, could very well provide good-enough corrections to give everybody high quality results.
Mickey used as a trademark to identify a brand is still protected.
Well yes, but in seven eves, the moon fragments collided, creating more and more fragments exponentially.
Ah damn k thx
A Small Town in Japan Fiercely Defends Its Dark Skies
I believe I just did.
There are better options anyway like the Lenovo Legion Go
Some kind of voltage conversion would be needed anyway. Most electronic devices run at 5V, 3.3V or 1.8V. And that's limiting cable lengths to a few meters (probably less than 5m).
Synthetic benchmarks for some algorithms have little to do with actual performance of real life applications
If you spend time with officers in the U.S. military, fewer than you might expect have been assigned Clausewitz in their professional military education or read it on their own (even just the first chapter). Many just know the soundbite, "war is an extension of politics with other means."

> if there is no political goal, there will be no war

In Clausewitz, this is more of a normative statement than a rule about war in reality. One of the things he's trying to caution against is the escalatory dynamic that he views as inherent to purely military logic – that war (in a vacuum, so to speak) will always increase in intensity. But in reality, certain factors can and should ameliorate this inexorable escalation – political goals, "friction," and the "fog of war" are examples. War without the control of a political goal will be ceaselessly increasing destruction to the point of purposelessness. This is one reason why we insist on civilian control of the military, because we do not wish for an independent general staff to be prosecuting a war according solely to war's inner logic.
The website isn't really my thing (maybe I'm weird, but I already know my favorite 3-4 episodes of every show I've watched) -- but the writeup is stellar and has just the right level of detail. Using LLMs to generate episode summaries and having a fallback plan is really going above and beyond to get a great UX. Great stuff.
Cool! But I would’ve preferred sliders over dials. Or a combination of the two. Sliders are particularly useful when controlling multiple parameters in real time performance, where dials basically make that impossible. It’s quite normal for example to have two fingers on two sliders while performing with orchestral virtual instruments, while the other hand is on a keyboard.
What happens when rest of the team does not rise to the occasion? You now have a happy but very mediocre team for the task on hand. Decision making is very democratic but seldom happens in time.

I feel you need pace setters but not excessively reward individual heroics.
Kind of but also not. Tauri uses the default on the platform it runs on, this zig-webui project seems to be able to use every major browser and every major platform. For example, Firefox, Chrome and Edge all seem to be available for Windows, Linux and macOS in zig-webui, while Tauri would use a specific engine for a specific platform (by default at least).
Tesla Unintended Accelerations
Make it slightly fancier and assign a “similarity” between users.

Start with uniform similarity, and as preferences are made, adjust them.

Then you have personalization.
> Internal written material can still come up during discovery, potentially even in unrelated cases.

Yup, and I think we've seen how careless and thoughtless Google is, as an organization, with internal comms in the Epic case. It would be shocking if it hadn't been discovered in that, or a prior, lawsuit.
I was never into Mickey as a child. I saw him as out of date even back in the 80s and 90s.

I think Disney stopped developing a lot of new content using Mickey because they knew he was going into the public domain and the ROI would not be as good as using new characters.
Ummm... do you really need a model for this? It has been long known as a fact.

It is called Roche limit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit).

A lot of asteroids are so loosely bound together that you could disperse them by blowing on it. Gently. Honestly, just staring angrily could probably do the job.

They have barely enough gravity to keep themselves together (to counteract their rotation) and getting close to any heavier bodies can exceed that limit and they can spin themselves apart before they even get into Roche limit.
Thank you for that! Adaptive comparative judgment gives a name to something I've always believed, but never really quite put my finger on; that comparing things one to another is more reliable than random 1-10 ratings.

As for the algorithm, it's a basic Quicksort, building on the work of Leonid Shevtsov[0].

[0]: https://leonid.shevtsov.me/post/a-human-driven-sort-algorith...
So we are not in fact what we have made ourselves? What are we then? What are we supposed to be?
I wanted to be part of the “Decentralized Web” movement that TimBL spoke at but it died down.

I signed up to go to “offline camp” in Oregon (anyone else?) but it was canceled due to a large forest fire (probably related to Camp Fire) so I wound up camping near a river instead.

I’ve spent $1 million and over a decade to build open source community software that can run on any commodity servers — on a plane, on a cruise ship like Norwegian Cruise Lines, in rural villages, etc.

We want to help local education (including Afghan girls, but we are also in touch w the RohingyaProject.com and others to help stateless refugees).

Anyway, these mesh networks exist and our cellphone hardware is great, what’s missing is great backend software to wean people off Big Tech (Twitter, Facebook) the way the Web did for AOL, MSN, and the way Wordpress did for Web 1.0

If anyone wants to get involved, or knows a good “decentralized web” or “indieweb” movement that actually thrives, comment below and let me know how to get in touch.

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/

Recent article covering the platform:

https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/
I'ma perfectionist!
> If that would be the case there wouldn't be the flurry of JS frameworks which try to "fix" the DOM

jQuery was a part of the generation that tried to "fix DOM manipulation" which browsers now have caught up to (hence you don't see jQuery as wildly used anymore).

The problem the frontend ecosystem is trying to address right now is the scale of architectures of code, and managing complicated state.

People don't chose JS framework depending on how they mutate/read the DOM, they chose JS framework depending on how it handles complexity around mutating state and that it gives them Good Enough patterns for managing bigger code bases.

Well, except when it's chosen by cargocult, which is probably most of the cases.
https://archive.is/jW2kV
I like the way Sony's wh1000xm4 deal with this issue. The LED is inactive when you're wearing the headphones and wouldn't see the LED anyway.
Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023
The reason we fear shipping is that we know there is an absolute truth out there that nobody made any effort to find. ONLY if you ship that eternal fundamental solution have you made anything interesting.

Everything is shit, think before you act! It's better to do nothing, than to deliver more shit.
Well, I’ll tell you what. I did sit through a Taligent presentation at COMDEX for 20-30 minutes and have no real memory of it other than it happened.

But I distinctly recall the first time I saw a NeXT machine.
Your tests make you feel like your code is correct. The fact is you have no clue if your tests cover 99, 9 or 0.9% of all potential cases.

If your code is critical you need proof of correctness, not feelings.
> There was a war against terrorists in kosovo. But because USA had interests there, they removed KLA from the terrorist list in 1998 and had nato, a supposedly defensive organization, attack another country. If nato cared about genocide and went on offense again, it'd be bombing israel right now, but noone cares about brown people.

Right because Israel has the same capacity Kosovo had... In case you forgot the last time before that event when there was an ongoing genocide in Europe, it led to WW2 - which didn't seem much of an interesting theme for Russia and China, two countries known for using genocide as a tool.

> Yep, all grassroots movements, no external financing and help to opposition group, nope, Victoria Nuland was there just randomly giving out cookies to protesters.

Ah yes, the ultimate russian propaganda piece - millions of Ukrainians revolted not because of a corrupt rug pull by their president who took money from the Kremlin, but from Victoria Nuland cookies.

I can't make this up. This level of child like narrative is embarrassing.

> Maybe not nukes yet, but weapons systems targeting russia are already placed all along the nato border towards russia. If nato built a base in ukraine, who know what they'd put there. If a bunch of nato countries didn't gang up and attack a random country every few years, there would maybe be a bit less of nato hate around the world.

Then maybe Russia should stop invading sovereign countries? If the only way for Putin to remain in power is to keep neighboring countries controlled by puppets and lower living standards than Russia, all to disguise his own incompetence and corruption, then maybe - just maybe - sovereign countries wanting to join NATO isn't that bad of a thing.

> Also Israel is a lot more efficient at killing minorities in their country

Oh boy, look at Russia numbers, they do it by the millions.

We're done here.