skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and:

> The Comcast "Gigabit Pro" fiber connection that provides 10Gbps speeds costs $299.95 a month plus a $19.95 modem lease fee. It also requires a $500 installation charge and a $500 activation charge.

For reference, I’m paying €25/mo for 10Gbit symmetric. Modem “lease” and installation included. To be fair, I get ~8Gbit/s in practice, but that’s well worth it.
No, it isn't easier, it's done on ships for lack of choice.
The argument would be more that for the Chatbot arena there's an inherent sampling bias where users battling the chatbots are more likely to ask questions in line with what they would expect a chatbot to perform well at and less likely to prompt with things that would be rejected or outside the expected domains of expertise.

If we wanted the chatbot arena to be more representative of a comprehensive picture of holistic knowledge and wisdom, we'd need to determine some way to classify the prompts and then normalize the scores against those classifications so there wasn't a weighting bias towards more common and expected behaviors.

Alternatively, we might want a leaderboard that represents assessments of what users would expect a chatbot to perform well at relative to the frequency with which they expect it.

But in that case, we shouldn't kid ourselves that the leaderboard is representing broad and comprehensive measures of performance outside of the targets against which we are optimizing models and effectively training model users in what types of prompts to ask for in expecting successful results.
Well, increasing the share price 10x is not a good benchmark - it should be (and we all know it's not in this case) independent of the CEO - it should be dependent on the economic performance of the company. A CEO with such a huge package as discussed here, may be more inclined to, let's just say be 'overly optimistic'. One such overly optimistic CEO in the same industry recently went to jail.

But anyway, the trail is not really about that - it's about proper governance. If you're a public company you get to benefit from a lot of things, but you do have some obligations. And those were pretty clearly broken - keep in mind that this complaint was filled in 2018 - just after the package was awarded.

Just to be clear - I do think that what Elon Musk did, lifting Tesla from a startup to a top10 carmaker, is absolutely remarkable But this judgment has nothing to do with it.
I don’t know the answer to this question, but would removing the ability to be reelected cause a change in the equilibrium?
A video of someone implementing a project of a related topic, for identifying binary patterns based on visualization. Interesting stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUWxl0WdiNI
>> minimal control, i.e. checking DNA / RNA / protein sequences

> They were already doing this 15 years ago.

I work in this area. Some synthesis providers check, others don't. And the checking isn't great.

(Some of my coworkers work on https://securedna.org which is trying to make this screening more robust.)
I spent the majority of "the COVID years" within Australia and overall relatively few people were held anywhere with barbed wire fencing, most people understood why quarentine periods were required to stop the spread of infection despite which there were multiple instances of little pockets here and there of people that either didn't understand or were determined to break quarantine for whatever reason.

An isolation period is exactly that - a period of time in which checks are made to ensure there is no infection.

These particular teens that you linked to could have waited a few days and walked out or broken quareantine - they chose to break quarentine.

( At this point there's a massive essay to insert on the clumsy handling by NT authorities of most things indigenous and the perspective on jail held by local communities - this was never going to end well without the kind of support that anybody local to NT | outback Australia can be sure wasn't provided https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubxZsfyEwWY )

Your comments about Hilter and facism are more than a bit Over The Top .. you might recall that Buchenwald did not have a 14 day waiting period for release.

Maybe back off with the bat-shit insane fearmongering?
Update 2 : I got passed the email verification today. But it needs to verify with my phone number now and I am not receiving the code on my mobile (never had this problem previously)...I'm tired...
I stopped caring about consoles decades ago but I still want the games. Why won't they just sell this stuff. I've been feeling the itch to play Bug! for like 20 years.
then you have to define reason, and it gets all philosophical. suffice to say, it's able to take a implies b and b implies c to get a implies c, and make up things along the way so calling it glorified autocomplete is a dishonest representation of its abilities. it doesn't love or feel jealous but it's very good at writing essays about whatever I ask it to. it doesn't need to do more than that to be useful to me, today.

the human words we have for consciousness aren't good enough to describe what ChatGPT does. thinking, reasoning, understanding. it processes. it computes. it matrix multiplies. it takes the dot product and the determinant. there are eigenvectors and eigenvalues. it's tensoring and outputting the code and prose I asked it for.
I don't pretend to know much, if anything, about the intricacies of video and graphics programming. It would be nice if people who think that audio is "x channels that play 1D data (that remained unchanged for half a century almost)" could return the same courtesy towards audio.
Check their profile.
I'm interpreting it as they will be adding a layer of safety restrictions. Understandable given the furore of the recent Taylor Swift generated image incident.

Everyone needs to do this and probably is already doing this. Search for "ChatGPT lobotomized" and you'll see plenty of complaints about the safety filters added by OpenAI.
Can it ? Yes

But I'm quoting a well known article that may not have aged gracefully when it comes to epithets
PDF readers are probably mostly pretty hardened against "naive" non-conforming content.
It's absolutely an argument that filters are unnecessary. It's not a good one. It combines survivor bias with the false implication that today's internet is the same one we had in the 90s; it is not.

I'm opposed to KOSA - I think vague appeals to "preventing harm" are going to be weaponized against queer kids in red states and cause real harm... but again, I think there are far better arguments against it than the "we came out fine" one anti-vaxers and corporal punishment advocates trot out.
it's not painless because it exacerbates income inequality. Remember, debt holders (especially those leveraged into assets with debt) benefit from monetary inflation.

If you factor in equities that hold debt, the upper class actually holds more debt than the lower class, especially per capita.
That's not a steelman. At the very best:

- All content was viewed and learned from, which is ethical (even a good) use of all content that has ever been released content to the public.

- Gave jobs to 3rd world laborers.

- Benefited us, made some of us everymen more productive and able to build and create in ways that we weren't able to before.

I suspect you don't agree with all the above, but that's more like what a steelman argument should be.
For me objects capture some notion of invariants in data that would otherwise just be a bunch of variables. This is usually indicated by functions that act on the data maintaining the invariants. Those functions are the methods.

I get that many people either don't see, or don't place much importance on the invariants of their data and so they are happy writing functions and even get annoyed by people and their over use of objects. Maybe these people are just way smarter than me; I definitely need objects/classes to help me organize my code.
It doesn't quite fit the bill of running on their own hardware
Try contract work. There's a lot of "downtime" where you're looking for contract work that you can work on side projects and as your project picks up you can adjust the amount of contracting to fill the gaps.
But she's failed. Zero success. And that failure is all over the wall street journal. The lesson is, no matter who your connections are your business will fail if it doesn't provide lots of value at a cost structure where it all adds up. Compare it to old Sergey - he was a know nobody 20 something nerd studying computer science. He co-created one of the most valuable businesses in the world.
The combined rankings on HF aren't just the arena scores, and certainly MMLU is an example of Goodhart's Law at this point.

The Chatbot arena is more an issue of sampling bias, and I think it would be pretty interesting to run an analysis of random samples on the prompts provided to see just how broad they are or aren't.
It’s a fat lighting cable, why would Apple do this?
My majors weren't in molecular biology, just Biotech and Biology. I actually learned viral titering and expansion in cell culture on the job, but nearly every bio undergrad will get a basic intro to cell culture techniques. The specific techniques for amplifying a virus are open to anyone with decent search skills, e.g. https://www.addgene.org/protocols/#virus
It is required according to the standard. But in practice most PDF viewers don't care. They may complain the PDF is "damaged" or "no valid xref was found", but they will render it perfectly fine.
Good point. Likely Llama trained on similar corpora to what Mistral medium uses
Here’s an unpopular opinion among the typical Hacker News crowd: Section 230 (inadvertently?) artificially created a market wherein a platform provider has the exclusive right to earn revenue on the content you post, and yet has zero culpability over that content. This allowed companies like Facebook to pop up and literally print billions and billions of dollars, scaling exponentially, with nearly zero overhead, wreaking havoc on society. Legal culpability for what you host is a very potent way of preventing enormous scale, as content moderation is costly to scale, and provided direct incentive to maintain clean platforms. Section 230 created a system in which Facebook et al. get all the upside, including the privilege of building a platform without having to charge their users, with zero downside.

Maybe this isn’t the internet we deserve?
This contains every story ever told and that will be told. Logos.
No, if anything it would likely make things worse as people try to maximize their out of office job the same way SEC officials end up at big banks.

The advantage of “professional” politicians is they can be held accountable. Unfortunately, the general public rarely actually does so.
On a long enough timeline, all empires return to smaller states
Why is this so hard to believe? This is proof that simple software can scale very well. Your takeaway, IMO, should be that a lot of solutions are over-engineered relative to the businesses they serve. Not every company handles Slack's scale.
I'm not sure they will be used in public; I'm just worried about the eventual "killer app" that has no one going out in public ever again. That's part of the problem, as I see it.
Wholesome ending
> the court should have a higher standard when determining legal standing for cases like this.

No, the court should have the same, identical standard for all cases. Equal access to the legal system and predictability are tenets of the rules of law.
It sounds like you used the wrong tool for the job, then blamed the tool.
That’s not how selection works unfortunately.
The value of total control and flexibility sometimes has no price
I'll just leave this link right here: https://boxbase.org/entries/2020/aug/3/case-against-oop and wait for the lively informed debate to ensue...

(The article was a popular link when it was posted to HN back in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293622)
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_impe...
Let’s answer this man with his own damn quote:

> History is useful for the thrill of knowing the past, and for the narrative (indeed), provided it remains a harmless narrative. One should learn under severe caution. History is certainly not a place to theorize or derive general knowledge, nor is it meant to help in the future, without some caution. We can get negative confirmation from history, which is invaluable, but we get plenty of illusions of knowledge along with it.

Lets also then consider that this gentleman has made a career from a book about the unpredictability of events, and should no more be venerated for his prediction capabilities than someone working under the neon lights of a flickering roadside Psychic sign.

Looking at the highest US national debt levels in history while declaring that we are in for a debt crisis is on the same level of prediction. Of course the most likely scenario is debt spiral. That is the lesson of history, and the pattern of civilization, as leaders aren’t wise and austerity isn’t popular.
Why would YouTube or Netflix be a net negative?
> Otherwise, we need to start scaling back programs and staff starting January 2025.

They've already done so. 2023 saw a (rather extensive) wave of layoffs, and a reduction in scale.

Part of the issue is that Matthew is not the best communicator, which isn't great for fundraising. That being said, Josh isn't off to a strong start, either.

Somehow, neither of them managed to spin the Apache -> AGPL move for Synapse as a good thing, despite it pretty transparently being better not only for the ecosystem, but for users. No freedom is lost from the perspective of a user of the software with the switch, as Apache isn't copyleft.

The CLA is unfortunate, and a less controversial strategy would have been to emulate Trolltech's "If we become a bad actor, we're legally compelled to release the source under a permissive license" approach to CLAs.

Further, the wording of docs around the CLA is really scummy, even if unintentional.

> Everyone is welcome to contribute code to Synapse, provided that they are willing to license their contributions to Element under a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). This ensures that their contribution will be made available under an OSI-approved open-source license, currently Affero General Public License v3 (AGPLv3).

It's hard to see this as short of deliberately misleading. For developer trust, they should have just said transparently in the paragraph that they needed it to sell AGPL exceptions. The wording of the CLA itself is pretty bad, though I'm sure the lawyer responsible thought it was clever.

> Element shall be entitled to make Your Contribution available under Element’s proprietary software licence, provided that Element shall also make Your Contribution available under the terms of an OSI-approved open-source license.

This offers no protection against Element dropping open source entirely the next time they hit a "budget crisis." Your Contribution will be safe in the archived version, but there's not even a guarantee that your attribution will be kept with the OSI license they choose to relicense your commit to upon subsequent releases, and this will still be within the legal rights of Element. The only thing you need to do to fulfill availability requirements for the Simplified BSD License is to put the copyright notice in the binary.

Regardless of the technical merits of the platform, or lack thereof, the consistent failures in communication constantly make it feel like things are going to implode, and it seems like every time an adjustment for sustainability needs to happen, the Foundation drives itself directly into a ditch in terms of communication and outcomes. Even assuming good faith, which is fair, given the middle-upper class salaries of the Foundation members, they consistently choose to take the options that look like they're acting in the worst faith, both from a comms standpoint and an outcomes standpoint.

I don't get it.
I, for one, tried to read the comment. I got the impression it was trying to talk about the drawbacks of active record, echoing many of the common criticisms of active record, but which has little to do with OOP. Perhaps you could clarify what you were trying to say with respect to OOP?
I am guessing the context here is:

MAME 0.262 was just released

New systems marked not working
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Sega AI [Chris Covell, Fabio Priuli, Wilbert Pol, smspower, The Game Preservation Society]

https://www.mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0262.txt
I would take a bet that the U.S. remains a super power longer than Nassim Taleb remains alive.

He will go into a literal ‘death spiral’ before the US goes into a figurative ‘death spiral’
And a purely empirical approach: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/179909/how-birds-determines-...
>That is what we all want, after all: a Holodeck

Speak for yourself.

>Real life without the danger or expense. It would be amazing

No thank you.
I've made some money making apps for others using Matrix and contributed a portion of my profits back to them

Hope they can keep going, it is really useful technology.
Another competitor to YouTube with its own editorializing is missing the point. Especially if the only competition is around the feed. (Same as when some reader here was missing the point when asking for an editorialized feed for PeerTube videos.)

Focus should rather be on banning platforms. (They are digging their own graves with that editorializing anyway, since once they do that they become legally responsible for publishing what their users upload.) Only then you can start talking about only allowing open algorithms (so, no neural networks) on generalist search engines.
It's fairly easy to prove the harm from polio.

It's not so easy to prove harm from internet access.

There are studies that suggest social media can harm adolescent mental health[1] but there are also studies that suggest the magnitude is small enough that we don't really know.[2]

It needs more study (and it sounds like what we really need is more transparency from big tech so that it can be better studied).

For an actual argument against KOSA I would say it doesn't at first glance look like it will target issues that are likely more important: peer pressure, bullying, suicide promotion/romanticization, etc on social media.

Edit: Having spent more time reading the KOSA bill (thankfully linked by another commenter) it does actually appear to try to target the biggest known issues to help minors. Some of the bill seems reasonable.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10476631/

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231207791#:...
Ah, didn't see that for Sketch, thanks.

> If you don't have anything to add to the software why should you charge for it?

That's fair, but then ~$150 is too cheap for a lifetime license for a major version of software if you're using that professionally for 5 years to generate $10,000s. Asking someone to pay a higher amount upfront is difficult though.

> Also if anything software/hardware compatibility is always going to be reason for upgrading.

This is also one of the reasons that developers don't want to offer lifetime licenses as you need to keep software updated for security and compatibility as APIs, OSs, drivers, browsers etc. evolve over the years and to provide ongoing support to existing users.

By the way, I'm not saying I like subscriptions or paying a lot upfront, but the alternatives have downsides to the software makers as well. I really don't know what a good compromise is.
Does this correctly factor in that currently the US is the western worlds de facto military, more or less?

Because as long as we hold that position I don’t imagine the US government will be shut out of the debt markets at all. This is part of the problem I wager is there is still enormous incentive to keep the scheme afloat by other nations too
We owe a bit more than 1 year's GDP.

Most families that own a house owe substantially more than 1 year's income.

Last time we reduced the annual deficit to zero, the usual debt hawks all reversed their position and said "this is terrible". We've demonstrated in my lifetime that we can do this. The fact that "we" don't want to right now has more to do with Republican attitudes towards taxation than anything else.

MMT says we don't need to think about this the way we think about personal and corporate debt.

It's not that there's nothing to see here, but the sky is not falling.

Now, the stock market overvaluation ... that could be a real problem, but not the same problem.
The Far Side was part of my growing up too, my friends and I shared much laughter and silliness. Those comics influenced our sense of humor and worldview.
yeah, i've had that experience too, which is why i guessed you meant to say 'countless copies'
This makes me think of similar questions 30 or so years ago: Are you seeing the internet used in places where it shouldn't be?

If AI is being used in places it shouldn't be, then presumably after a little (or lot) of money has been wasted, firms will figure out that it's a bad fit for the job. I don't see any good reason to rule anything out before there's been time to evaluate it's efficacy.
This very confident sentiment comes up in every comment section about IPV4/6

- "Updating the standard" is making a new protocol

- "forced suppliers to patch updates" - how?

- "USB backwards compatability that shiz. The fact I can take a modern usb device and plug it in a 1.1 gen port and it still just works. Why the hell isn't ipv4 like that for upgrades?" - because you're changing the address space of the protocol. If the new standard can address more than 2^32 things, then it won't be backwards compatible with v4.

- "Seriously is there any real technical hurdle why we didn't do it this way?" - Assuming you're talking about having a variable-length address from the start in IPV4, because I assume having a non-fixed packet header size would be much more computationally expensive and violate a lot of assumptions that you can make when the header is fixed (having a fixed region of the buffer that is known to always be the full header). You'd be much better having a fixed-length address that is enough to cover all possible nodes in the network - exactly what IPV6 has done.

- "Astounding they baked it in just xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" - IPV4 was first deployed in 1982. Wikipedia tells me that the year before, there were just over 200 nodes on the ARPANET. I think you're doing a bit of a disservice to the people who designed this stuff by castigating them for not factoring a 20'000'000x increase in network size into their protocol.
sooner or later he will get one right!
“Why are we doing this refactor in this PR along with the feature? Let’s do the feature first and then do the refactor later (read: never)”
This led to many ISPs blocking IRC connections :(
He’s a smart guy and his books are insightful but he says this basically every year.

His track record making actual monetary bets on all this has been mixed at best.
Is the U.S. primary deficit really all that much more than GDP growth? Seems like if we could make it a decade or so without deficit-financed tax cuts (TCJA), new entitlements (Medicare Part D) or some catastrophe requiring massive fiscal stimulus (GFC, Covid), the debt situation should look quite a bit more manageable just on the basis of economic growth.

Admittedly “if” is doing a lot of work in that sentence, though.
Caveat: The other comments mention the file's contents being the only dependency on the hash, but the algo used to hash would also need to be the same. If the hash algo changes in two cases, the same content would have a different hash in those two cases.