skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answers seem to mainly fall into the following 2 categories. With the first being by far the most consequent, given that it's the gateway to category 2 which most people do not even enter.

1) Commercial inertia

Everything from dominant industry software, to decades-old OEM hardware deals that have seen Windows/Apple become synonymous with the public's computing experience across a long time, to actual commercial partnerships (e.g. Microsoft and Adobe aren't just happily distant buddies, they're actively working together), and more.

2) Individual inertia

For example, the standard tendency of a user to come from a Windows world into a new system, and expect all things to be as Windows. Also, as per that common refrain from some technical toe-dippers - "I try Linux once-in-a-while, and it once did a bad thing, so, ..." - an outsider's shortcomings tend to live on in peoples memories, even though they may have been fixed or improved many years ago now.
Why would you end up with shitty cards if you did them yourself? And how can you even tell whether ChatGPT made good ones? And how much of a difference do the "better" cards even make?

There is not necessarily a tradeoff here. Sure, you will make some errors, but if you find a card to be so bad that it's useless for SRS (unlikely, unless the answer is very vague or too long to quickly validate) you will just delete it and replace it with a better one.
> We use high level languages because they improve reading comprehension and save us time when writing.

Which completely contradicts your earlier point.

Why not just get copilot write assembly for you? Or, spit out raw machine code? Oh, that’s right, because you need to check that it hasn’t fucked something up. Which, when there’s a ton of boilerplate, is hard.

It’s arguable that programming language evolution stopped around the time Java was released (barring a few sprinkles here and there, like async/await, affine/linear types, etc.)

We haven’t had a major leap in language power for decades (not like the leap from assembly to procedural languages) - I believe it’s because Java popularised evolution through libraries - and for a long time that was fine, even if it did lead to language evolution stagnating.

But now we’ve hit a complexity threshold that demands an abstraction leap, but instead of looking for that abstraction leap we’re getting a computer to generate boilerplate for us, hoping it will dig us out of the complexity hole.

We’re still ways off having a computer maintain a complex code base over many years. So humans still have to do that. It’d be much easier if we remove the incidental complexity.

“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”

— Edsger W. Dijkstra
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> If you can't imagine that a state that is obsessively dreaming about the world revolution and has a wide spy network and large group of naive sympathisers doesn't try to infiltrate all the possible influential counter cultures then you are a little too naive.

Being able to imagine something isn't concrete proof that it exists. "There's a first time for everything" isn't literally true; plenty of totally plausible things don't end up happening.
>the possibility that a heritable reward-focus in the parents leads to the SES results

This would imply that the problem with poor people lies within themselves rather than the society, which is an unacceptable proposition.
> the time when the universe was at life supporting temperatures, was long before the formation of the first stars and fusion of heavier atoms than hydrogen

Stars with rocky planets during the habitable epoch "lie ∼8.5 standard deviations (σ) away on the exponential tail of the Gaussian probability distribution of initial density perturbations," though "their abundance could have been significantly enhanced by primordial non-Gaussianity."

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.0613.pdf
> I'm very surprised since GS is generally known (IIRC) as shrewd deal makers. The allure of allying with Apple (and seeming innovative?) was just too strong, I guess -- they did a deal that was bad for them.

Some of it may just be that GS doesn't really know wtf it's doing in the consumer side of finances. See e.g. their $billions of losses on their consumer banking product Macrus, for years and years.
Most of my driving is commuting (say 50 miles roundtrip would be sufficient), but I need/want a vehicle to handle the rest. I do not want to own two vehicles unless parking suddenly became free or the commuter only car model was significantly discounted vs anything available today.
Thanks, that's pretty interesting. I'd actually be really interested if you would care to explain how, I think others would find it interesting also. I'm not even sure how I would approach trying to do that.
I feel like if I ever try something less trivial than generating a wedding speech in the style of HP Lovecraft some AI evangelist tells me I've chosen the wrong use case for an LLM.
Mafia was a very secretive organization. This was one of their core principles and their survival depended on being good at this. So if you lived in the 70s I wonder how many people would say mafia was a 1930s Al Capone thing and didn't exist as much any more.

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Looks neat in concept, but with so much bad information (or garbage recipes), I can't imagine relying on a product like this.
We only have one petri dish planet close by. No control, and the experiment takes a very long time.
With Musk all you have to do to get suspended is share publicly available data about where his plane is. I don't think he'd handle this situation very well.
Internet is 5% useful important stuff and 95% spam. When a more intelligent organism finds our planet they will be so confused why we wasted so much digital space on senseless spam.
A concept applies here where you really don't want to spend unbound time studying. It's a great way to burn out. "A" students, when interviewed, frequently reference doing "enough" and then stopping.

Optimizing your study time by taking the "boring" work, e.g. building flashcards of material you organized yourself, cuts down on time spent not doing work that's maximally effective (memorizing flashcards).

If a person had infinite time, making flashcards would be just one more thing on an unbound list of things they could do to learn the material better. But people don't have infinite time, and considering you're already "familiar" with the material since you wrote and organized it, building flashcards is something you can't really afford to spend time on.

When I went back to school to get my undergrad, I focused on optimizing my time, because procrastination was a huge problem for me the first time around. Being efficient and not spending a single second longer than I have to in order to get an "A" is important to me, and using ChatGPT to help me with that has been wildly successful so far.
Completely unrelated to the post but greetings from Milwaukee :) it's awesome to see another hacker news user from Milwaukee
"Hitler's British Girl", a documentary about Unity Mitford is on YouTube.
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> Terence McKenna's theory was that human intelligence stems from psilocybin-containing mushroom spores

The Stoned ape theory "has largely been rejected by the scientific community, who cite numerous alleged discrepancies within his theory and claim that his conclusions were arrived at via a fundamental misunderstanding of Fischer's studies" on "psychedelic drugs, schizophrenia, the perception-hallucination continuum model of altered states of consciousness, and...gustation" [1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_L._Fischer
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I don't see the military as a challenge to be conquered, a privilege to participate in, or as a place to rise the ranks. I have little desire to prove how much of a man I am in the marines.

I do look up to people such as Admiral Rickover. Jocko is the type of person that makes the military appealing. There is a legacy of quality engineering and civic contribution in the past that has been decimated by the consequences of Nixon/Reagan era policies, chiefly, selling out America to billionaires.

So "convince themselves that they could do it" is a characterization that does not make sense because I don't (and most middle class people don't) see the military as an achievement. Doctor, Lawyer, or Engineer is what the middle class sees as achievement, not military. Military is strictly viewed as an act of service and a sacrifice.

> ONE thing

It's not one thing. It is the thing. The US military is famously civilian led, and the civilian leaders are an absolutely corrupt mess in complete disarray. Characterizing that as "this ONE thing" is bad faith. Saying you don't want to join an organization because the leadership sucks isn't "ONE thing." It's not a triviality. It is core to the organizations mission and execution of that mission.

> hot topic soup

If you think I'm providing hot topic soup and not a generational liberal middle class understanding of America and our place in the world, well I wish you would be a bit more open minded. The institutions that train the people that build your tools are full of people with an understanding not too dissimilar to mine. The people who work in cybersecurity and signals frequently come from the same background as me. The government has explicitly talked about how hard it is to train for cybersecurity and how hard it is to attract cybersecurity talent. That's because cybersecurity is not about domination and hierarchy. Cybersecurity is about curiosity. A rigid hierarchy with a mission of dominance is not conducive to curiosity. Curiosity is a fundamentally liberal principle so an illiberal military is going to have a hard time attracting the curious. The act of hacking is practically an act of questioning authority.
And, smart people can just be wrong

Isaac Newton comes up with his Laws of Motion which are very good, and figures out a bunch about Optics, but he was also working really hard on Alchemy (which is nonsense as it turns out) and trying to make the Bible's timeline work (forget Genesis, even much later stuff contradicts historical records, but if God wrote it how can it be wrong?).
The “just” there sounds polite to me. It apologetically implies that you realise the person probably knows about rsync already but maybe didn’t use it for some requirement not yet discussed, which you’re now asking about so you can give a better answer.
It's not the founders of the companies that are making these errors, it is the bank's data entry employees typing in the data from hand written forms.

Most of these accounts were opened before online form submissions. Not to mention the ambiguity between date formats causing all sorts of issues. ...apostrophes in names, etc...

Data quality issues have a variety of causes.
Two handy GDB breakpoint tricks
The US army desperately needs cheap mass drone capabilities. Unclear if he will be able to deliver that or if we will just see low volume expenses unit as those are the most profitable thus most desirable to produce.
It's Latent Consistency Model (LCM) and ControlNet added to PIXART Alpha.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05252
For example, docker is notable for breaking people's networking and leaving it broken even if you later uninstall docker. Sometimes it's a mere mess instead of breakage. This isn't a docker-specific issue, docker is just what a lot of people use.

Or literally anything to do with certificates/keys. GPG in particular is actively hostile toward stateless operation, far more than is necessary in an admittedly tricky field.
The part of NASA that is charged with this mission - https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection

From there, https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.33.2.379-384.1977 is "Microbiological profiles of the Viking spacecraft"

Note things like:

> Approximately 1,300 colonies were picked from culture plates, identified, lypholipized, and stored for future reference. About 75% of all isolates were microorganisms considered indigenous to humans; the remaining isolates were associated with soil and dust in the environment.

So that if we do encounter that particular strain on Mars, we'll know its from Earth.

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One that's on the interesting side and has more than just an available abstract: Europa Clipper planetary protection probabilistic risk assessment summary https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00320...
On those simple ideas to fix it: I don't think it's simple. Once you do simple heuristics, the other side will start doing it just a little bit more sophisticated, to get around the simple heuristics. So, then you improve the heuristics to catch the spammer. And again, the spammers get around that improved tests as well. And so on.

In the end, you end up with similar spam filter methods as we also have for mails and probably as other social networks have as well. But this is far from simple. I don't think having a huge number of hand-crafted heuristics is really a good solution. I think it should be machine learning model which you train and it does it all automatically without too much false positives (and also not too much false negatives).
So some fake celebrity porn is fine, but there's a line where we have too much?
I concur - I saw the React Native repo getting spammed with hundreds of similar issues/prs. So many unique usernames and such a cumbersome process to report a painfully obvious spam account. I hit the limit of open abuse reports you could have. My attempt to help was ended - I was only 4 accounts in.

Thought I would get creative and add comments to one of my existing reports of the other 10 or so spam accounts. The tickets were closed and only the main account was deleted - not the others mentioned in the ticket.

So I gave up.
Some laptops fold so the mouse/trackpad is inaccessible and/or disabled.

I have a Lenovo yoga, and its a constant nightmare of websites and apps that cannot figure out if I am a laptop or a tablet, even with tablet-mode fully off. I am usually offered whichever UI is least useful for my current configuration
> Almost all evidence we have is that relevant aspects of human intelligence are environmental, ie., acquired. There is little evidence of the alternative because the experiments needed to establish it are large impossible or unethical.

The experiment raising an infant chimpanzee alongside a human infant has been done. To presuppose that human intelligent is categorically distinct from chimpanzee intelligence such that this experiment does not lend evidence to a genetic basis of variations in human intelligence is further than I would go.

I presume that some amounts of variation in intelligence, as well as IQ scores, is due to factors that are neither directly genetic nor environmental, but are more random (such as cell division and post-fertilization DNA replication and rearrangements).
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God, these crypto "airdrop" scams annoy me... it's just as bad on Twitter. I'm active in Community Notes and the inbox is like 1/3rd far-right conspiracies, 1/3rd other politics, and 1/3rd of zkSync scam alerts - never figured out what zkSync is or if that itself is some scam, it wouldn't surprise me.

Some of these are even able to fake the target URL - the Tweet Card shows them going to "starknet [.] io", but hover over the link and it will actually point to "reward - zksync [.] club". I wonder what the fuck is going on at Twitter that they're unable to spot and hammer down on this.
Where can I read more about the Vice Lords / Gangster Disciples war?
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I dont understand how this article is presenting this new model as a competitor of SD. SD already has LCM support, there is StreamDiffusion which you can run on your computer to see near live img2img. There is Control Net, Turbo and lots of other things community has been doing on SD to improve performance.

This article is very thin on details of PixArt and it only made me think this is just a fork/variation of SD instead of a new thing like SD.
Doesn't putting "-type" kind of defeat that point? If you meant the mafia, just say the mafia
Ridiculous fragmentation. Saying this as a user of 2 years who gave up on Linux after bricking it via graphics card driver installation and went back to Windows and as a developer who was looking recently on supporting Linux and it is just not worth it.
Can you not store the data in a proper format with error correction? Then you can reconstruct the original data completely as long as a certain percentage of data is still undamaged.
I'd say it's both.

The old stuff Human created fakes have always drawn criticism but the amount and distribution was so limited that it was easy for people not directly affected to ignore or not know about it.

Now the new Generated stuff is to prevalent and easy to produce it's too hard to ignore.
Yes, all of the best artists are known for making safe choices.
A per download fee... that is pretty scummy. It would force free apps to need to monetize to ensure they can cover the cost of downloads. Not good for all users.
For a sense of scale, the last time my JS knowledge was close to familiar with the best practices of the day, was 1-1.5 years prior to the release of jQuery.

I way trying to say how ChatGPT is good in relative terms, not absolute.
Yeah maybe its the anonymous creation of it, I could see that being part of the difference at least. It is much easier to get angry about some random, anonymous person rather than a known entity. Maybe it also helps that you can't, and therefore don't have to, make the decision of whether to sue the creator for using your likeness.
I'm not using Copilot to write code, I use it for autocomplete. For that it's great.
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I think on its own the sentence is fine. However, in the cultural context of tech discussions on the Internet, "why don't you just [X]" is usually passive-aggressive or an indication the person asking this hasn't taken the time to consider the use-case or constraints, and might even insultingly belittle the person for not having considered such a "straightforward" "easy" solution.

I myself balk at the sentence all the time, and I have nearly stopped using it in any communication because it doesn't communicate the right thing.
The fix isn't ever more heuristics - that is an uphill battle that can't ever be won. The fix is following the money and disconnecting the bad actors' ISPs from the Internet.

There was a time when abuse@<isp-domain.tld> emails were honored and administrators actually took notice of what came in, but these days are long since gone - ISPs simply don't want to spend the money, and so the cost of abuse is externalized to society at large.

ETA: Also, a fix would be to have a human with more than ten seconds time take a look at even 1% of spam reports. Spammers are lazy, they always use the same template, so if you have a human actually looking into the template and then routing every match to /dev/null, it's far more effective. Like... I can do this on Twitter for every new variation of some scam, why can't Twitter do it on its own?!
That's a fair argument. Maybe my problem is that I overestimate how much time it takes every day. It really should be only a few minutes a day, with that effort adding up over enough days/week/months. I guess the bigger time sink comes when authoring decks.
Amazing to see greedy companies call other greedy companies greedy as they all continue to argue over money.
I have never experienced this kind of spam, and authors GitHub does not seem especially notable.

But they are involved in cryptocurrency stuff. I guess that's why they were tagged in these threads.

I think this says more about crypto grift than anything else. It's not "GitHub spam" so much as "cryptocurrency spam".

Or: "cryptocurrency and associated grift and scams makes everything worse, part 151"
I haven't seen any wifi 7 gear. I have a Unifi tri band wifi 6 AP in the next room at home which is a bit excessive. However, I live on the side of a hill and I get coverage across the entire valley.

Unifi tends to be a bit divisive in forums such as HN and r/networking and even their own forums! The wailing and gnashing of teeth at every version update is quite something to behold.

For me as an old school sysadmin, running a Linux VM as a Unifi gateway is fine and has been for years. I treat it with respect and read change logs and I have decent backups and so on.

The vast majority of my customers and my already installed gear is wifi5 and any new APs are 6 by default. I'll wait for 7 devices to actually be available but it doesn't bring much to the table. Wifi 6 with the addition of 6GHz was a major upgrade, 7 not so much.

My phone now has way more bandwidth to my home LAN via wifi than the LAN itself! It can use 2.4/5/6 GHz and each band has more than one MIMO. Its not quite that simple but I will be grabbing some 2.5 or 10Gb LAN switches soon. At work 10Gb with 40Gb uplinks is generally indicated ...
Hugely age dependent.

But in general: puzzles, strategy games, building blocks, and asking my kiddo questions that force them to think.
While a long antenna offers superior performance, a shorter one can still function, but with reduced efficiency. This trade-off becomes less critical in environments with minimal RF interference, like in the desert or in a power outage zone, where even a short antenna can provide adequate reception. Also okay if you're close to the station (like in a city).

Edit to add: The root of the issue here is increased interference from EVs, so the RF environment is messier.
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I've always been too lazy to compose flashcards. I ended up using Clozemaster for Spanish studying.
Speaking of Apple taking a cut, does anyone know what kind of cut Spotify takes from artists?

> Spotify pays artists between $0.003 - $0.005 per stream on average. That works out as an approx revenue split of 70/30 - so that's 70% to the artist/rights holders and 30% to Spotify.

So Spotify takes ~30% cut?
Space, CPU cycles, attention. So much waste
This is a very silly thread but: offsetting that argument is the obviousness of the objection. There is nobody in Chicago who isn't aware of modern Chicago crime, organized and otherwise.
It sounds to me like you were getting it to do too much at once.
Well, I can't think of a theoretical way to do it and I've never met or heard of anyone where a good argument doesn't eventually reveal some incompatible value judgements that are not based on objective truth. So I'm going out on a limb and saying it is probably not possible to have opinions or make choices without having arbitrary values and beliefs.

If nothing else, we clearly don't physically exist for most of eternity and any action taken to delay inevitable death is so logically futile doesn't make any sense to do so without some sort of faith-based leap. You'll notice in most religions the conversation is some variant of: "don't commit suicide" "why not?" "God said so. Live.".
Citing China or Russia as the end of civilization as we know it has to be equivalent to Godwin's law in some way
There was a nice blog post a year ago from someone that used this framework and a rack of iPhones to OCR images in order to build a searchable meme database: https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip...
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