skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe in objective morality. Porn is moral.
Few people are constantly unlucky, like, day after day after day. Most of our lives are stochastic enough that luck and bad luck, on average, balance out. A random walk in both directions.

"Oh, and being rich helps your agency quite a lot." - Yeah, if you can manage your wealth, but if a stupid person somehow gets a lot of money, my bet would be on them losing those in spectacular way within a few years.
Exactly. The US _does_ recognize the ROC as the legitimate government of Taiwan it just chooses not to _say_ so. Considering trade, tourism, and immigration policies, it's quite clear that the US treats the ROC as a more legitimate government of Taiwan than it does the PRC of China.
In these comments your agency is entirely aimed at negativity. In order to justify this you reframe it as realism.

It's kind of like walking outside with your attention constantly focused on the fact that you might step on dog shit.

If you do this, your agency is pulled away from appreciating a beautiful flower, or interchanging smiles with a pretty person, or seeing a hundred dollar bill off to the side.

The fact that it is true that you can step on dog shit doesn't make it more true than the fact that most of the time you don't step on dog shit, and that you have the agency to walk and go around as if you weren't going to step on dog shit today.
I’d go further and say they shouldn’t provide STR. The difference in syntactic (in)convenience between

"..." + foo + "..." + bar + "..."

and

STR."...\{foo}...\{bar}..."

is negligible. And then the syntax

FOO."..."

would at least imply that some special processing is going on.
I have one. The build quality is great. The tactility is second to none. And, it's so insanely loud that it's only really usable alone in one's own home.
Prime was worth it when it started. The enshittification was Amazon gutting their own golden goose, degrading (and eventually removing) all of the benefits that it originally conveyed.
And to be fair, it isn't that much wait in some places.

In Indiana, for example, drivers education lets you get it about 6 months earlier than if a relative teaches you. Without drivers ed, you can get a learner permit at 16 as long as you pass the "knowledge test".
This is a really poorly written article covering the basics of delegates.
You'll be better off reading C# documentation on delegates.
And I was referring to OP having no such deal.
Objective morality is how a child sees the world. Not moving on from that is embarrassing.
How to lose a longtime cloudflare user in 9 minutes or less. Pulling all my worker setups, I'll find something else.
“Warning: no user serviceable parts inside. Void if opened. Drop and run”
>> can't remember a single class where a professor actually walked us through the process of figuring something out

> This can't really be blamed on the tool of the chalkboard.

That is true, of course, but that was not the point. The point is that blackboards do not necessarily produce, or even encourage, good pedagogy. The two things are largely orthogonal.

> Writing code is a narrow and constrained tool with much less freedom than writing on paper

Yes, I think this is a feature, not a bug. It enforces a certain amount of rigor that blackboards don't.

Of course, the language in which the code is written matters a lot.
Success is always based on luck. With hard work you can increase your odds to win, but anyway it is about the luck.

Anyone who is successful by your standards was lucky enough to born free in a good wealthy society. They could born and live as slaves in Africa and work for food and shelter without any chances to be successful.
Be serious, twenty years ago 90 dpi was pretty common.

Apple sold their 27" 109 dpi monitor until 2016 and killed subpixel rendering in 2018.
I bet they will make the whole phone disposable too. Battery dead? That will be $10,000 inflation adjusted please, we haven’t sold a charger in 40 years.
>>> Should a university have a foreign policy? Was it given a mandate to tell a grateful nation what emotions to feel in response to a national event, or what the correct moral position is? At Harvard, many colleagues & I will urge the university administration to shut up and do their job of providing an impartial forum for profs & students to argue these issues

Harvard is not "a university."

Harvard profits from the disproportionate amount of attention that it receives, and the power that it confers to its graduates. Sure, it should be responsible for its foreign policy.

How about the public university down the street from my house? Should it have a foreign policy? Yet our university will suffer from the political backlash against Harvard's shenanigans.
Yes - I'd like to think that we've learned better but that was in the late 1970s and we are suspiciously around the time where the people who had direct experience would have retired or been on the way out, similar to how a lot anti-vax recruits were too young to have lived memory of just how many kids things like polio harmed.

It sometimes seems like we need the engineering equivalent of what Germany does with Holocaust education to remind everyone of how past disasters were preventable, and usually caused by multiple people deciding not to act on early warning signs.
>BR2049 was made by the same director

In fact, most recent well-received sci-fi films were.
Imagine doing C++. It's like being the new guy who has to manually take Geiger readings of the warhead.
Of course it’s for their use case, what else would it be? Every use case?
You'll get far more value out of reading academic books in topics you're interested in.

Wikipedia is good for brief, quick summaries. But to actually understand a topic in depth it's the easy way out. You need to put the work in and read real books.
Every single Boeing story here is filled with comments from Seattle tech people thinking they know something special about Seattle aerospace, but they don’t, and they’re completely unaware of this.

Mostly it’s people repeating their parents stories and they’ve never bothered to fact check them, or it’s people who have never like Boeing doing military aircraft and simply shit on them for that.

It has zero impact though outside of extending the ignorance of HN readers and promoting fear, uncertainty, and doubt. No one doing aerospace cares what HN thinks or even knows about HN for that matter.
> And if you can’t agree to what those values are, there definitely is a problem

I don't see how that's the case. The only way we could agree entirely on those common values is to be entirely homogenous as a group, and that is not the case and in my view, deeply undesirable. (I suppose another way we could agree entirely is to be entirely conformist, but that doesn't seem very attractive either).

> Times have changed, there’s too much lazy tolerance now, and people do need to organize around some common values that isn’t just what is the progressive de jour.

Well that comes across as "I want more of my values in society, not yours because they are wrong". If you gave some reasons for why yours are correct and mine aren't, I'd be interested.
The CCP may choose to live in a dreamworld, but you and I shouldn't pretend it has any basis in reality.
I'm... not quite sure what's decoded here? Yeah, C# has delegates, and yeah, their syntax is pretty much as shown (and extensively documented elsewhere) here, but, then what?

Disposition: blogspam?
Grayscale Moves Nearly $1B Worth of Bitcoin in Past Month
That's shocking.. in Oslo? I'm out in the sticks in Norway and I've had 1Gb/1Gb for years. And it actually provides 1Gb too.
Ah, if you consider the situations comparable, then maybe you'd like to point out which Ukrainian group has been plotting and committing acts of terror against Russia for decades to the point that Russia needs an Iron Dome missile interceptor system to keep its cities safe?
Respectfully, I find your definition of luck more "woo woo" than everyone else's.

I might be misunderstanding your point, but other people are treating luck as mere chance or odds, while you seem to me to be treating it as something binary that sounds a bit like "destiny" or "predeterminism".
Unfortunately we don't live in the land of omniscient rational actors.

Being able to find customers and explain your products value to them, that being marketing, is an essential part of producing a product.
This reads like a response from 60 years ago to someone coming out of the closet as gay.
I have found that I can take a single look and identify the best engineer and all around smartest guy in a room, often also the funniest, with the caveat that I need a mirror to do it.
Those are the 767 tankers I mentioned -- the KC-46A is a modified 767.
Do you see this in all apps or just custom/particular ones? Can you control where the key light is at all?

It would be surprising for the key light to be so close to the screen (rather than nearer infinity), given that the design document linked elsewhere seems to expect consistency at particular elevations.
Yeah, people perceive and retain things much differently if its happening in the local area or if its somewhere else, regardless of how much they look into the story.
Morality clauses are common in positions of greater responsibility. They exist to keep the degenerates from destroying the reputation of the business or institution that employs them.
If you are working with technical people might as well just use ftp and be done with it
Bullshit for the insurance companies to charge more
UK altnets are spreading quite fast in areas that OpenReach (BT) hasn't upgraded yet, it is worth checking regularly what is happening in your area.

I have 500/500, could have 900/900 for £5 more per month.
Citation needed; the top X on IMDB has a mix of recent (2014's Interstellar) and older (1972's The Godfather) films in their top ranked films: https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/

Of course, rankings on any platform should be taken with a grain of salt; if you like the film you like it, can't argue with taste or personal preference. Ranking tries to apply an objective fact (a number, an expert's say-so) to an inherently subjective question (did you enjoy it).
A couple years in: "We really have no explanation for the rapid increase in cervical and testicular cancers."
Something else I find encouraging, and the reason, basically, that "everything is learnable" is that all knowledge, no matter how complex, is composed of fundamentally simple parts. Just as complex tasks or complex movements are composed of many simple steps or movements.

This is what makes the maxim that "you don't understand something unless you can explain it in simple terms" true.
And in that delay they'll see a loading screen
How much of that 58% abstains from porn?
I genuinely recommend the Pro C# book from Andrew Troelsen for this - they taught a young impressionable me software development without the OOP evangelism of similar Java / C# books. Most important book in my career to this point, by far.
If luck is a stable quantity for a given individual and it's range is ]-1,1[ you are right.

But if luck is a quantity that fluctuate and is positively biased, (a reasonable a priori seeing that most people succeed at something) or that it's range is ]0,1[ , you are wrong and willful exposure to opportunities increase your total amount of wins.
I had to throw away my first Unicomp because several springs "deformed" — this led to constant phantom typing and volume changes.

Interestingly, the keyboard arrived new with a "soft" F5 key — never using this key, I didn't think to return it (but should have, immediately... it was predictor of what would happen to other keys over the next year). As phantom keystrikes became more common, I slowly had to rip out keys/springs until the alphabet became inaccessible. The 2018 Unicomp (for Mac) is the ONLY keyboard I've ever thrown away before a decade of daily use =(

I have now settled on cherry-brown DasKeyboards, which don't have the ideal "feel" of Unicomp buckling springs... but also don't fail as quickly.
Sex is not immoral. Fuck everyone who thinks it is and imposes that belief on others. People who impose those beliefs on others as a tool to ruin lives and careers should be in prison.
I'd pay ... even if just for a year so I can have more time to migrate everything.
Ask HN: 40yo adult learning to drive what is different vs. learning young?
40 year old adult male living in NYC. Never got around to learning how to drive (living in nyc!) but getting to the point where I feel I have to. Wanted to see others in the HN community that may have done this... given brain plasticity and general age, what's the best way to go about it?
Local Wikipedia Vector Embeddings Index
90% of the people I know keep their near their head, near the genitals or near their heart when not actively using it. I read the part about them asserting that it's safe, but if they want this to actually sell without a major stigma, especially in the era of social media, they will need to go out of their way to prove it.
The good artists are already using AI, just like they photobashed, traced templates and used camera obscuras to produce better art faster down through the ages. A true artist transcends medium to focus on message.
> if Gow really thinks his porn appearances don't impair him in his job as university Chancellor in small Wisconsin city, he's probably also too social judgement impaired for the job anyway.

YES, this - but 's/probably also too/obviously far too/'.

Plus - recent legal settlements in university sex scandal cases are getting into the 1/2 billion dollar league. Nobody responsible for university finances, however libertine they might privately be, would want a flaming-red-flag idiot like this to be allowed anywhere near their students, staff, or campus.
They said to only believe what's on the official Twitter account
Let's say you collect stamps. I think it's a stupid and morally irresponsible way of using your free time (you should be socializing or doing sports or learning something new). Just being honest with my opinion.

This is all ok. The problem is when we start firing people or shunning them for stuff we don't like.
Sounds like you're a conservative moralist discriminating against sexual lifestyles.
If you are using no-code solutions, increasing an "idea" in a dataset will make that idea more likely to appear.

If you are fine-tuning your own LLM, there are other ways to get your idea to appear. In the literature this is sometimes called RLHF or preference optimization, and here are a few approaches:

Direct Preference Optimization

This uses Elo-scores to learn pairwise preferences. Elo is used in chess and basketball to rank individuals who compete in pairs.

@argilla_io on X.com has been doing some work in evaluating DPO.

Here is a decent thread on this: https://x.com/argilla_io/status/1745057571696693689?s=20

Identity Preference Optimization

IPO is research from Google DeepMind. It removes the reliance of Elo scores to address overfitting issues in DPO.

Paper: https://x.com/kylemarieb/status/1728281581306233036?s=20

Kahneman-Tversky Optimization

KTO is an approach that uses mono preference data. For example, it asks if a response is "good or not." This is helpful for a lot of real word situations (e.g. "Is the restaurant well liked?").

Here is a brief discussion on it:

https://x.com/ralphbrooks/status/1744840033872330938?s=20

Here is more on KTO:

* Paper: https://github.com/ContextualAI/HALOs/blob/main/assets/repor...

* Code: https://github.com/ContextualAI/HALOs
Are you causing harm through your actions? That’s really the only metric I use, and it’s pretty simple. If my actions were increasing mental issues, leading to people getting sick via inaccuracies, or causing pension funds to be misallocated then sure. You should call me out on it.

Money isn’t the end all be all. Id say if someone can make porn and publish it they can surely do something else with that “creative” energy.
To some extent, graphics are important because with extremely primitive graphics, like the graphics of the NES, it can get difficult to tell what things are represented by the image, and the limited color palette presents a challenge in making the game look aesthetically pleasing.

A game doesn't need the most advanced graphics to look aesthetically pleasing, though. It can be made up for by using an art style that doesn't need powerful hardware, e.g. modern pixel art, or the simplistic, cartoonish look that 3D Nintendo games use. Mirror's Edge still looks great due to its art direction and use of techniques like precomputed lighting.

However, different people have different standards. I've been really enjoying playing the game Crypt of the Necrodancer, and I think the pixel art is also pretty good and aesthetically pleasing, but when I showed the game to my friend to see if he might like it, he rejected it because "the art didn't speak to him." Evidently, compared to me, he has a higher minimum for graphics in order for a game to be fun for him.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/nz00W
Related: using mathematics and neural architecture to explain geometric hallucinations present under LSD:

https://plus.maths.org/content/uncoiling-spiral-maths-and-ha...
I think it's wonderful. Some design decisions are odd at first glance, but upon looking at their reasoning I find myself agreeing. I think it'll integrate nicely without causing disruption. I especially love having custom processors.
What is unclear is if the author meant to make a broad statement about activities outside work that don't really interfere with work.

>wouldn’t it be simpler to agree that, at least if no laws are broken, one is judged at work only for what one does at work?

Would the author still agree with this sentiment if the activity outside of work was not pornography, but something they themselves find disagreeable? Let's say for example, participating in a KKK gathering. (not public activism, which certainly can interfere with someone in an official position) Please note that the KKK is a stand-in example rather than an actual example. You can imagine but I'd refrain from mentioning more real examples, which people are actually fired or "canceled" for, activities which certainly is far from something like pornography.
I love guests too. But they have this one nice property - they will leave. I will not. I will be also not your new girlfriend. So how many of me you can take into your home? Only me? 2 of me? 10 of me? Will your quality of life improve or decline?
NASA analysis confirms 2023 as warmest year on record
The R&D is the same but Airbus has superior QA and manufacturing.
Because the problem doesn’t exist. Non tech folk use stuff like imessage to send things and rarely deal with large files at all beyond images or video. That works fine for them. Tech people use proven existing tooling like rsync or ftp. The only market that exist for this I’d guess is resumeware which explains why these projects are all built then abandoned.
I believe we're going to find that it wasn't a single loose bolt, but that all for bolts were missing, somehow.
By killing 23,700 Gazans so far, mostly women and children? And possibly this came about because the Israeli government allowed money to Hamas to split the Palestinian governance? And possibly the Palestinians don't like being treated in the same way that blacks were treated in South Africa (i.e., second-class citizens)? And wasn't there something about government supported attacks happening in West Bank?

Israel does have a right to defend itself. It also has an obligation to be humane, and if it wants to continue existing without internal conflict with its neighbours, perhaps this is not quite the best way to do it.

"“Colleagues who have managed to make it to the north in recent days describe scenes of utter horror: Corpses left lying in the road. People with evident signs of starvation stopping trucks in search of anything they can get to survive,” Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, told members of the UN Security Council on Friday. " - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/12/middleeast/gaza-corpses-o...

Does any of that matter to you?

Edit: @josephg

"The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Saturday that 135 Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours, bringing the overall toll of the war to 23,843. The count does not differentiate between combatants and civilians, but the ministry has said about two-thirds of the dead are women and children." - https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-israel...

"For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them... Allowing the payments — billions of dollars over roughly a decade — was a gamble by Mr. Netanyahu that a steady flow of money would maintain peace in Gaza, the eventual launching point of the Oct. 7 attacks, and keep Hamas focused on governing, not fighting." - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...

(edit 2: snotty comments removed)
We need to be teaching kids offensive driving tactics. Too many drivers are passive and have no idea about the physical capabilities of their vehicles. This leads to more accidents than needed.

For example, merging into the right traffic lane of a freeway from an on-ramp. Most drivers think the correct way to do this is to accelerate to 50mph and use their left turn signal. Wrong. The speed of traffic on the freeway is 85mph and inadequate acceleration produces a huge hazard when other drivers have to make a sudden lane change to avoid your stupid Honda CRV. The correct action would have been to accelerate to 98mph while merging to minimize the probability of a collision with existing drivers on the road, no turn signal necessary.

There are numerous other examples, such as four Honda CRVs pulling up to a 4-way stop simultaneously, but the general solution to all roadway problems is aggressive acceleration and disregard for other drivers, since they’re probably dumb anyway.

Source: I learned to drive in California.
Soul of the New Apps
Yet another article about how LLMs will shape the end user apps.
Yeah - the CCP is getting good at online Social PR.

Especially from what they have been learning about generating viral from tiktok (the ADHD Dopamine Addicts in the growing adolescent brain is a gold mine)....

But one interesting thing I noticed on tiktok and reddit r/artisanvideos and others for example - is these agrarian-crafty-chipster videos.

Like the soft music, the beautiful landscapes, the cute dog in the background and all the nice, clean village-esque looking surrounding as some master craftsman makes bamboo mats, or tofu, or paper etc...

They look highly polished PR videos that one might see at an amusement park showing the "simple but accomplished life in china - look how elegantly crafty these simple folk are"

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However - that doesn't mean they aren't making incredibly authoritarian tools disguised as benefits for society. and AI will engulf their tool set and accelerate. Just make sure to leave some bread, circuses and sex to distract the frogs from the temp in the cauldron.
The whole situation in Palestine is a mess. It’s way too simplistic to claim that the Palestinians have an ancestral claim on the land and the Jewish people are invaders. Jewish people have also lived in that area for thousands of years. What’s changed is the state of Israel has kicked out a lot of Palestinians who also lived in that area for thousands of years. And the Palestinians have (unsurprisingly) become radicalised and deeply antisemitic. They elected Hamas and Hamas redirected aid for their own people into making weapons of war.

The conflicts are not alike. In Gaza, there is no “good guys”. Everyone has civilian blood on their hands. Everyone is angry. And there are no easy answers that have any hope of achieving peace. Of course the foreign policy positions of our governments are different in each case.