skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know about fights like that but gladiators often didn’t fight to the death. It’s shockingly like major sports today — they sold commemorative cups and other art at the stadium for popular gladiators. Contestants dying was bad business.
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Real estate price estimates would be the classic, and frankly still common, example
It's interesting that the paper mentions Andy Clark's work and hallucinations in separate threads but doesn't connect Anil Seth's introduction of controlled hallucinations and Andy Clark's work on that topic:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/25/1032121/brains-c...

I had always conceived of metacognition as genetic, given my own phenomenological experience dating to childhood. It wasn't until a colleague challenged this idea a few years ago at Carnegie Mellon that I'd even considered that metacognition may be taught and learned.
> The ascent is the distance from the baseline to the top of the tallest glyph, so typically 1em. The descent is the distance from the baseline to the lowest point in any glyph. The descent can be different because on web fonts, glyphs like g or p can have tails that extend below the baseline.

Huh? Different from what? It's described as exactly the same thing as the ascent, but down. And why does the author specify web fonts? This sounds like it applies to fonts in general.

Edit: I think the author is just trying to say the descent varies across fonts, even measured in em. I think "web fonts" and "glyphs can have tails" are just red herrings.
I saw it as a bit of a milestone when people started regularly talking about individual media files that were larger than the whole 80 MB hard drive that held my first Slackware Linux install with X Windows, emacs, and C development tools.

First it was audio, then video, and RAW camera images are almost there with the prosumer digital cameras. And those are compressed files. Software that decompresses the whole thing into arrays of regular samples will need much more RAM...
Using FontForge to regenerate an export is kinda drastic. What you want is ttx from the fontTools font manipulation toolset. ttx can generate an editable XML file with the font’s tables that are easy to make changes in. hhea is obvious to find; for “win”, you probably want to look inside OS/2. If you can afford it, the go to application for this sort of post-production alterations is DTL OTMaster.
We have a long history of 'dangerous' tech not destroying us - agriculture being one...

I grew up with the Doomsday Clock (atomic weapons) at 11:59... I think we'll muddle through.

It won't be 'irrational exuberance' again any time soon, nor the apocalypse (in my view).
I agree that's a bad example. The others are good, though.
I find it a bit interesting that posts and comments that praise GPT's abilities often rank high. But those that critique its current capacity do not perform well and have people quickly assert that 3.5 must be being used. The reason I find this interesting is because criticism (as opposed to complaints) is a requisite step in improving systems. Shouldn't we, HN, be the first to hack away at and find weaknesses in these systems? Should we wait to communicate our findings until we find solutions or should we be open in our discussions so that we can facilitate collaboration? How can I accurately critique a flaw in GPT without some OAI fanboy confusing a critique with the system from saying the system is a useless piece of garbage? I've struggled with this latter one despite being open about how impressive I think these systems are and how I use them frequently but that I recognize that they frequently hallucinate and often in subtle ways. There's so much to discuss about these systems but I find it difficult due to existing priors.
DX-7 was digital FM synthesis, so while it uses waveforms to modulate other waveforms (digitally at least), and waveforms come out the other end, it's not based on typical "analog synth" waveforms the way the SH-101 is.
I agree about the derivation bit, but “File a takedown notice for every NYT article ever published after proving GPT can reproduce each one” is not what I would call a clean solution. That’s basically a regulatory DDOS attack.

Current copyright law is simply not equipped to handle LLMs, I think.
FreeBSD Desktop Audio Improvements
Are the bird species that cat kills the same ones that "wind turbines + oil-and-gas plants" kill?
I've got several Bash aliases that are "wrappers" around functions like that and which help "fix" commands / find common mistakes.

The one thing to keep in mind while doing that is that you should not modify how a command behaves in the happy case and your wrapper should only be used when using the shell yourself. Do not wrap commands and then use the wrapper from shell scripts, for example. Otherwise you'll be sorry out of luck if you copy your script to another script.
It's always amusing to see how Mx Mac fanbois always forget to add "in my use case".
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WebMD’s parent company posted this (now deleted) video mocking their remote employees, threatening them to come back into the office.
It's always that and/or user data.
Just a word of warning about this. You need to reboot into a crippled slow sandbox to do this. You’ll need to boot back into retail mode to play games. Getting a developer account lets you test your app in retail mode
Is it right to blame Google/Yahoo for deprecating an email forwarding service?
My former university, Simon Fraser University, had a service for graduates where you could keep your old xxxxx@sfu.ca email address after graduation they would forward messages to an external email address.

I've been using this email address for 20 years now but they suddenly announced that they have to deprecate this service "to comply with industry-wide regulations" led by Google and Yahoo.

A FAQ was just posted (https://www.sfu.ca/information-systems/announcements-alerts/major-initiatives/Changes-to-SFU-email-forwarding-protocol.html) but it has very little information as to why this was necessary.

Is there a legitimate technical reason why the Google/Yahoo changes would make it impossible or difficult to continue offering mail forwarding?
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ChatGPT has read most of the internet. That hasn't solved its diversity issues
> you should really consider how and why you came to this conclusion.

Why? Is it false?

I get that reaction a lot. People have directly called me unhinged. I don't really mind.

Many of my ideas I developed by discussing this stuff with people on this site. I guess not every idea is socially acceptable. That's fine. I still want to express them.

> is that unethical non-consensual experimentation?

Yes. It's really not any different than some published psychology experiment. In fact it's much larger in scale, has much uglier interests behind it, has proprietary and unpublished results. Social sciences wish they could get away with shit like this!

Only reason it's "legitimate" is everyone depends on it to make their millions. Because money excuses everything. Just like unending amounts of first party malware corporations ship to users on a daily basis. We used to recognize that stuff as the malware it is: adware, spyware. But then corporations started doing the same thing and suddenly it's "legitimate" because they put some clause in some terms nobody reads.
This is purely from my experience with friends/family/coworkers so it may not be the real reason. I've experienced that most people in America focus on one news source (this is primarily the older market), or they are fully agnostic in their sources and get their news from social media and Twitter/X (the younger market).

Services like Artifact, which show news articles from a variety of sources do not mesh well with either of these larger markets. An older market who prefers their singular news source does not want to read news from anyone they don't trust. And the younger market aren't fans of specifically just reading news. It's usually peppered in with posts from friends, or it's trending and has a large discussion on Twitter/X.

So the market becomes limited to people who get their news from various sources and prefer absorbing their news at specific times and in specific ways. In the American market, I believe it's just too small of a market to become profitable.
Oops, yes. I was able to edit the post to correct this. Thanks for the catch!
Are there upstream providers in the US or EU that are known to deal with this kind of attacks in a more thoughtful way?
Right, that’s just bonkers logic though. When the stakes are higher, controls should be stronger.
Don't you think it's bit disingenuous to compare only things where your favourite piece has the advantage?
I think one of the most uplifting things for decent CLIs has been python's argparse.

I enjoy using it, and it helps you create arguments that are readable, expressive, and have decent capabilities. All with great help.

it makes it easy to do something well.

(in comparison, the shell/c and getopt is rudimentary)
> You are encouraged to read deeper about the end of WWII.

I have. Beyond the propaganda and all the nonsense. But you don't need to read deeper to understand evil is evil. Nothing justifies acts of genocide like nuking civilians.

> If anyone sacrificed the people of Hiroshima, it was the Japanese Imperialist Government that refused to surrender despite the obvious obliteration of their conventional forces.

The japanese government had been suing for peace for more than a year prior to hiroshima. But even if they didn't, it still doesn't justify nuking civilians. Just because a government doesn't act in a manner you want doesn't justify murdering civilians. That's the logic of terrorists. Killing civilians to hurt the government. If your morality aligns with terrorists, you really should reassess your moral foundations.

> To make it brief...

You just spouted off propaganda that we all are spoonfed via media and school system. I'm surprised you didn't include the nonsense about purple hearts.

> It also should be noted both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were central to the Japanese war economy/machine and were not simply civilian population centers

More terrorist logic. Just because Manhattan is the center of the US economy doesn't justify 9/11.

That you are trying to justify hiroshima and the nuking of civilians just proves my point. Evil and barbaric. There is no justification for genocide. Period.
But this is a bit silly surely? If they are different ways of talking about the same thing then one might as well label oneself a 'mentalist' and say "physical processes don't 'have mental effects', they just flat out are mental processes."

I think what you're going for is a species of monism maybe? The idea that Thought and Extension are attributes of one Substance?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-attributes/
I love how Amazon has gone from customer obsession to the lowest of the lowest common denominator. Easiest boycott of my life to stop buying tripe from them.

They’ve successfully pivoted from customer obsession to obsessed customers.
I remember looking at the Go implementation, it did not look like Go code but it looked like someone was doing Java/C#.
They look creepy to me, quite tacky too.
Sure, and that can happen whether there is a government or not. In fact, in the US, courts up to and including the Supreme Court have ruled that the government has no affirmative duty to protect individuals from crime.

I don't think laws against crime were the sort of regulation of markets that the post I responded to was talking about. But in any case, if the existence of crime is sufficient to make markets not free, then free markets don't exist with government any more than they would without it.
Sounds like the metric is, in isolation unreliable and you're going to have a lot of false positives. Better to treat it as an indicator and rely on more nuanced evaluation.
In my favorite distro, the KDE spin of Fedora, tested on a fresh install.
Click the Discover button on the toolbar, or click the "Start" menu -> System -> Discover (Software Center).
Type codec in the search bar. Browse the results, the GStreamer codec packs are in the top 10 results and have descriptions about what formats they add.

No terminal needed.
Of course, on my own installation of Fedora, I've actually uninstalled the GUI package manager and use dnf in the terminal. :)

EDIT - And if the new user doesn't find the Discover app by browsing around, it will be the first result if you use the search bar in the start menu and search for "install". This aspect is truly easier than Windows. EDIT 2 - Oh, actually the Welcome/onboarding thing that pops up on a new install explains what Discover is for...
Sure, if you ran an Ethereum client locally -- which is of course infeasible for statistically everyone. Otherwise, you're still delegating trust to a third party.
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no, if one group of polar bears are gluttons, and that causes one polar bear to not have any food and thus starves to death, it does not mean the fat greedy polar bears are murderers. Hopefully you can see that your interpretation of what I said is grossly wrong to the point where it almost seems like intentionally attempting to misrepresent it
isn't velocity sensitivity simply two electrical connections ("buttons pushed") that get made at slightly different points in the arc of a keypress, and the time difference between them is measured to use speed as a proxy for how hard/loud the key is pressed? (that was both a question and to explain the mechanism to people not familiar ;)

I wonder if it would be simple ot add a sensor to measure that across the keyboard, and then have it do double duty as aftertouch (aftertouch is an effect that measures if you "wiggle" a key after you've pressed it down) Then his DX9 could be better than the DX7 :)
Most of the people buying an $800 MacBook Air or lower memory variant of an Apple device are not worried about RAM and don’t use it in such a way that it matters. Yes, if you’re a professional using a macOS device you can pay the $400 premium for the highest memory variant. You either have the money to pay it, or the product justifies the amount. They are charging what their customers are willing to pay, it’s also somewhat inflated because the cost of maintaining those less popular SKUs.

Last point I’ll make on this topic, you are going to see more CPUs move to have RAM on die because of the physical limitations on latency. Modern storage speeds are also making this a moot point as RAM may become just another caching layer for ultra fast solid state storage.
how is this different from remotestorage.io ?
Your comment is basically akin to complaining how rough and slow it would take a person with a machete to trailblaze a path through a dense forest as opposed to how long it takes a person to travel the beautiful paved road that was built on top of that trailblazed path. Somebody had to thrash through all the shit for that superhighway you are traveling on my friend.

I was around back then. We didn’t have a magical browser box that you could type a couple of key terms into to get a thousand articles, code samples, philosophical discussions from hundreds of smarter people than you who have already solved your problem a dozen different ways and got to chose, and improve one. You didn’t have hundreds of languages, libraries, and frameworks where you could selectively pick the right tool. Back then you had your problem and you experimented and invented until you solved it generally with the one or two tools that were available at the time.

And with the benefit of nearly 40 years in tech…I can attest to the OP’s opinion that the quality of the average tech worker has nosedived since then.
Yeah maybe, but people give the CCP way more credit than is due. They are a much more hands on and brutalist group than technocratic overlords. Many of their initiatives sound powerful and wizardly but most are implemented poorly if at all. At the end of the day they are almost entirely reliant on a monopolistic hierarchy of physical violence and in person observations.
I think he reads every single comment
those aren't written in rust!
Just for my own reference, is transferring power from Eastern Oregon to Western Oregon a reasonably efficient thing to do? How much power is lost when we move it across an area the size of Oregon?
I believe you are correct.

Historically, someone like me would have probably died prior to, say, marriage age. Now, if I wanted to reproduce, I have to ask the big question: do I want to risk saddling my child with what I have? Grandkids?

Assuming we don't edit the genes out of embryos and we're not doing something like issuing reproductive injunctions, people with genetic illnesses who aren't particularly conscientious would be adding propensities for whatever to the gene pool.

Nobody wants to discuss this because some German people were making noise about the idea eighty years ago and we can't have anything associated with that, to a point of senseless contrarity.
I'm sorry man. Routine cancer screening that is available to the general population is still super primitive. Right now, our lung cancer blood test is the only of its kind, and you need 20 pack-years of smoking history to get it while in trials. We're expanding to other cancers. Once these tests hit market they'll be cheap and effective, but trials in general take a very long time. I really think something needs to change with the regulatory process to get lifesaving tech to people more quickly, because although it needs to be a regulated marketplace, there is a staggering human cost to how inefficient the current system is.
Vector search algorithms from Pinecone set new records
If you can get throat cancer from regular oral sex, imagine what you can get from anal oral sex.
> so now I'm asking a third party consultant if they have any thoughts on how I can improve my communication.

Hope this isn't too blunt, but I find your writing style to be a bit "chatty". I think you must have got the same advice I did, which is "write like you speak".

For most people, the vast majority of our verbal communications are highly informal, filled with lots of slang. Verbal phrases and euphemisms don't translate very well to writing sometimes.

If I were to offer advice, I'd say write shorter sentences and use simpler words. It should feel a bit uncomfortable to write like this. I feel slightly uncomfortable writing this even.
640K was enough for anybody when that quote was made.
BPMN - Business Process Model and Notation, maintained by the OMG (Object Management Group), which is famous for other projects under its umbrella like UML, CORBA, XMI, et al.
> A party that overtly supports capitalism is not a leftist party.

I'm not sure how the US Democratic party "overtly supports capitalism", since it is the party of government micromanagement of every aspect of business.

I'm also not sure how leftism is inconsistent with support of capitalism, unless the latter is taken to imply a complete rejection of socialism. Which is certainly not a good description of the US Democratic party. To the extent it does "support" capitalism, it is only as one aspect of a society which the party wants to organize along mostly socialist lines.
This is one of those few situations where the boo-hoo about the case is as simple and straightforward as it sounds.

TST applied for a permit to hold regular meetings for the affiliated middle school club on the grounds of the school district facilities (which they already let some other religious clubs to use). The school district initially approved that application, and then later walked back and rejected it “based on the controversial views of the club and the negative reaction of the community.”

I am quite baffled by the sheer lack of foresight coming from the school district people that made the decision to reverse the initial approval. They pretty much created a textbook example of a 1st amendment violation that had as much foreshadowing as the ending of the Titanic movie with DiCaprio.
> As the existence of the massive fire was not well-publicized, and the smoke was mostly in the upper atmosphere and could not be smelled, there was much speculation about the atmospheric haze and its provenance.

Just 73 years ago the continent’s biggest ever fire could still be a mystery in the developed West
I can never quite figure out what the use case is - as I sit here with 2 brave tabs open, my 10.13 mac is using up 13.58gb of ram.

These conversations usually usually end up at "my 8gb ram machine actually swaps constantly, but it's fine because otherwise I'd have to face the cognitive dissonance of justifying this purchase, so I'd rather repeat the apple marketing line they came up with to BS around their poor silicon yields"
You'd have a point if someone were proposing to demolish the Grand Coulee Dam, which generates 6.8 terawatts, or Hoover Dam, which generates a little over 2 terawatts, but that just isn't what's happening here. Removing the Elwha River dams reduced Washington State's hydroelectric capacity by a whopping 0.09%, and removing the four Klamath River dams will reduce California's hydro capacity by 0.76%. These are minor rural dams built a century ago, when the long-distance grid was not what it is today, and they simply do not matter anymore.
>16GB RAM to read and write text and see images... I think it just says it all.

More could be said about the bloatware, telemetry, surveillance, and adtech built into Windows.

Hard to imagine that 1GB was "a big deal" in my lifetime.
Because ChatGPT users are the only people that are worth considering.
The Steam Deck uses a Wine-derived library to run Windows games almost perfectly. It’s honestly the best use of Wine I’ve seen, and it’s arguably finally taken the concept of Windows on Linux mainstream.
This sort of exists in NYC, and I mostly hear about abuses. For example, people inherit a rent controlled apartment and sublet it to someone else at market rate.
I read in a comment that Marimo is an alternate to Jupyter. Does it not depend on Jupyter Server or ipykernel ? Is it a replacement for Jupyter lab ?

I am thinking of Jupyter as all the components in this diagram - https://docs.jupyter.org/en/latest/projects/architecture/con...

Sorry did not get to look into the codebase yet
I'm not sure which metric would be the best to use - we did reach it in population growth during the 1900s. However I mostly think the calculation is an interesting exercise to calibrate our expectations for what sensible growth rates can be.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-population-growth
Yes but they'll get other things technically because of it.

For example, you're more likely to get dementia if you had the HPV vaccine vs if you never had HPV in the first place. Of course, it's not trivial to avoid getting HPV in the first place... You'd have to basically only have one partner and you'd have to have been their only partner as well.. but for all the health conscious talk you see, you rarely see that recommended these days.
Canadian universities moral police work instead of doing anything actually useful. The state of innovation in Canada is next to non existent. I live in Waterloo and 95% of the best comp sci and comp eng grads to the US. It's really not surprising when you compare the importance of the creation of ChatGPT with think piece blog posts about DEI.
I think energy created through a massive, man-made ecological disaster is not really "clean." Maybe low in carbon, but there's more to the environment than the atmosphere.
Yeah, I believe there was an update for 2009 models that improved the UI. We had a 2008 and it was comically bad.
Cool, you created an extension for browsing a hate speech-promoting platform, good for you.
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Interestingly, according to Googlegeist in 2020, it was Asian folks that scored the highest in terms of "enjoying" working at Google. Caucasian satisfaction scores were much lower.
GattAIca here we come, baby!