skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope that all the publications that celebrated the original work, like the Economist https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/01/04/..., Nature's news service https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5, the FT https://www.ft.com/content/c8bfd3da-bf9d-4f9b-ab98-e9677f109..., and others spend as much time on correcting the record as they did on promoting the idea that science is broken.

And I hope the original authors tell Nature to retract their paper. It's already highly influential unfortunately.
> mandatory step towards global awareness

Sorry - awareness? As in people will become more aware of something? Rather than it making an impact in and of itself?
As a giver of one of these notes, I would imagine you have decided to stand against bribery no matter the outcome of the scenario where it is given. Hopefully reason wins out and the situation ends amicably. To address the bribery problem, though, there’s a sense where you have to be okay with things getting worse before they get better.

It seems to me the note is a socially well known form of protest, which may go down better than a direct interaction.
> Suppose 99.3% of answers to 'What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" are "I don't know that." and the remainder are "11 m/s". What would the model answer?

I don't know :)

Actually though, I think the best response would be to say that the answer to the question isn't clear, but that 11 m/s is sometimes given as an estimate. In the real world, if I asked 100 ornithologists to estimate the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, and 99 of them told me "I have no idea" then I'd be pretty skeptical of the one ornithologist who did give me an answer, even if they were very confident.
Do you not think it's rational to be anxious?

Not sure I accept the premise there was no anxiety then.

But different generations think differently. Previous generations thought slavery was OK and accusing people of being witches a totally valid criticism.

I can't really speak to the USA in that era as I'm neither old enough nor have I ever lived there.But I know the 60s and 70s was intensely car-focussed. Incredible amount of resources were thrown at forming a car-owning population. Maybe the marketing and widespread acceptance made people feel better about driving? Vehicular laws were more relaxed? Marketing telling people it was safe (governments hadn't caught up to counter the marketing)? Could be many reasons
Just as well given that no two clocks in a modern town centre ever agree with each other.
Let's say I have 1 million.

I can use it for example to buy beer brewing equipment and a warehouse, which allows me to start a beer business which generates income.

Or I can lend it to someone. But then I can't do my beer business and am losing that potential income source.

If I don't get anything back from my lending, then clearly I'm losing out.

You seem to be thinking that the fact there is a bank involved somehow changes things. It doesn't, a bank is just another private entity, albeit operating within a regulated framework. It doesn't make money out of thin air. Money it gives to you for your house is money that cannot be invested in other opportunities.
> There was no way for France to defend the westward lands so it was either take the deal, or have them grab it.

There was nothing to defend. France didn't control the land. It was inhabited by Native Americans; the "sale" was actually a treaty stipulating that France would not oppose the US attempting to expand westward by seizing that land from Native Americans, and also that France would nominally oppose any other colonial power attempting to seize that land (which never happened).
How high do hot air balloons go? And I'm wondering what dropoff a air rifle has.

Hot air balloon + the Milwaukee leaf blower is USAF new budget request
They checked their result multiple ways. The missed a bug. Its not like computer bugs never happen or anything
When I have to say SQLite out loud, my brain decides in the moment between "ess-cue-lite" and "see-cue-lite." I have no idea what criteria/heuristics I use in that moment to decide which way to pronounce it, but for whatever reason that's how it works for me.

In my head I feel like I say "ess-cue-lite" pretty much every time.
For the uninitiated: https://xkcd.com/936/
Oh, I don’t think it would work very well now. My point is when capital is so powerful that workers aren’t really needed anymore. Then something drastic has to happen, because at that point capitalism can’t push society forward anymore (given the incentives it works with).
Talking to Whales with AI – Project CETI
No, you're just ignoring most of what I wrote above.
We can't pump out lawyers and laws like we do and expect regulatory related delays/costs to actually decrease.
Comparing religion to LLM mistakes is a case of the very prevalent anthropomorphism in society currently. I fear this misunderstanding and conflation will prevent us actually improving the tech.

Coming to an incorrect explanation such as, “Helios pulls the Sun across the sky every day,” is categorically different than a math program incorrectly returning the most likely next token in a sequence. LLMs don’t have beliefs at all.

Helios answers a question “Why does the Sun rise?” Holding such a belief shows a logical understanding that some force must be doing this, but due to a lack of knowledge of the world, the person comes up with an incorrect explanation.

LLMs can’t pose and reason about such questions. It is just not the same class of “hallucinations.” Assuming we’ve figured out cognition via word prediction is going to get us nowhere fast in the long term.
Why not simply bash the person over the head when they give you one of these notes?
Listen or Speak
Yup, another thing these first world countries don't seem to get: they have dropping birthrates, while other places with lower standards of living don't seem to be slowing down. When these regions get too hot or unpredictable to live, where would the refugees want to go?
Birth control, endocrine disruptive chemicals, engineered strife about "oppression" of women, FUD about global warming and overpopulation, STDs, villification of normal sexual dynamics like men approaching women, poor media depictions of healthy dating and family norms, a concerted effort to make childbirth seem like a tremendously painful and risky thing to be avoided at all costs. It's a wonder anyone is having sex, much less having kids. If this doesn't turn around, we're in for a bunch of trouble.
30%? You think they pay 30 percent US wages?

You might be thinking of two very different things - in the US wages are higher but social benefits that employers pay for are lower. In the EU you might pay a lot more per worker than his wage since you pay much higher taxes.
> Taiwan has stronger social and cultural ties to America than Japan since there are probably more Taiwanese Americans than Taiwanese Japanese

That's really not how it feels when you visit or live there. Geographical proximity and the inheritance of a couple decades of Japanese colonisation are likely much stronger factors than the economical and military ties to the US.
What is this weird socialist take about companies being some boogeyman out there to get you I keep seeing on here?

Companies are just collective endeavours of multiple humans trying to produce value to other humans.
I guess China, Japan, India, Russia, the UAE, and Israel are all just trying to distract from real problems too?
No, that’s just what shareholders want you to think so you keep working hard at making their lives better.
CIA Operations in Ukraine
I thought _emacs_ had the standard shortcuts and vim was weird. After all, I can ctrl-a (beginning of line), ctrl-e (end of line), modifier-b (back one word), etc. all in my terminal, as well as most non-Windows desktops (including MacOS).
Early humans had ADHD, scientists say after making people play game online
Why so many climate activists seem convinced that only moral shame will solve the climate problem is beyond me. It’s an engineering problem. We know how to do it. Balance the heat absorbed and emitted. That’s the thing. Not just carbon. Heat balance.
But we do use plots to help identify problems in datasets, like all the time. Statistics 101
I don't have a phone, and it's always an interesting exercise to either try to find a clock, or ask someone for the time.

Thankfully there is no cell reception at our local ski mountain, so nobody carries a phone, and clocks are prominent.
Windows in a Docker Container
That isn't a lot, all things considered, right? Could you not fit every phone accessory ever made on a single cargo ship? That ship's carbon footprint is only so big.
I really, really hope that the energy cross platform Swift has been seeing lately continues and accelerates. It’s not perfect, but I find it productive and enjoyable to write. It strikes a nice balance between being strict and getting out of your way and doesn’t come off as pedantic as some languages with similar syntax.
> were they practically available at the time reader was killed.

That's exactly what I was referring to. There were options, I was using one (for years at that point in time).
Not a scientist but I know they made a laser accelerator that was similar to a Wakefield accelerator.

This drastically reduces the physical footprint. A university has plenty of space as they are about the size of the ASML machine roughly
Cool video! Too bad it doesn't go in the details of copy protection. What they were doing those days was truly devious and hellish :-) (and hacking them was even more :-) )
Where do you see clocks?
They put people in an MRI and then asked them to decide between various discounts and buy-one-get-one-free offers like they would face in a supermarket.
Explain how committing an offense and having to pay the legally established fine is similar to the corruption mentioned in the article.

Slow down and you won’t get fined.
The real question is, what will they do now?

Will they own up to it and retract their broken paper that's eroding people's confidence in funding science at the highest levels? This has been an incredibly widely read and influential paper already.

I have my doubts that the authors will accept that their paper is bogus.

Particularly because the lead author landed a faculty position at a good institution based exclusively on this junk paper.
Romhacking by refactoring disassembly is something that most experienced (decade+) developers do for a grand project lasting years.

You'd rather start here https://www.romhacking.net/games/884/ and read a romhacking guide. The asset editors and utilities might be enough. More advanced stuff by some asm hacking which may come in form of preexisting patches. Usually it requires understanding only a portion of game's architecture and memory layout.

If you're really keen to start such a project, as I would be keen on playing it, you're likely to spend entire first phase development in level editor getting the sprites and maps right.
will that be enough? what is the carbon footprint of an army in conflict? this seems much bigger even than the carbon and pollution produced by an economy at peace.

it might sound defeatist but humanity will not be able to change its programming for the purpose of reducing our carbon footprint.
There is space in the world for a difficult complex language that produces low level operating system and library code, we just don't need to be writing every application using it, since ordinary people should also be able to program computers.
This is a fiction. Just like the fact that you cannot end war by voting for antiwar candidates or end mass surveillance by voting for anti-surveillance candidates (viable ones do not exist, by design), you cannot meaningfully affect this trajectory by any individual choice.
Efficient recovery and recycling of cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries
Have you considered not speeding
That's not true.

As someone who is slightly invested just because I hope to see governments make logical decisions, I would like that to be the case but no the US is still making pennies
This text was authored by an individual who travels globally, educating people on interface design. Previously, he was a weightlifter and worked as a producer for PBS.

I mention this because I find myself in complete disagreement with the article in question. It left me questioning the author's expertise in software, as it overlooks what I consider to be the cornerstone of software development: the iterative process. Contrary to the author's views, I advocate for minimal design upfront and urge rapid engagement with users. This is because requirements frequently evolve, often resulting in a project that differs significantly from its initial conception.
Growth in CO2 emissions leaves China likely to miss climate targets
To be honest I've seen more than one man fall down the onlyfans rabbit hole. There's a lot of lonely men out there that are being taken advantage of and if AI can help them stop getting emotionally swindled then all the more power to AI. Of course, ideally, these men should improve themselves by making more money, growing taller at the gym and getting a new jawline but for some its not an option especially since dating nowadays is more of a competition than a means to understand one another.
Thank you for explaining, I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic, or actually doing the whole toxic "remember when men were men" nonsense.
umm. probably.
Wow... Looking at the links on one of these, I see that the tooling has evolved a lot from the days of just text editing + assembly https://tbl.nu/2019/08/20/Tooling/
Well, you had your chance. Quoting WP is a cheap excuse. I assume you just like the idea of RISC-V without actually knowing it or its competitors. In any case the referenced board does well with the RK3399 (even if it's not the most recent model) and there would be no real advantage in replacing it by a RISC-V-compatible model.
Okay, time to gene modify the sloths so they could digest hamburgers, french fries. Influencers can stuff them with treats, record it on video, everyone profits.
I don't really understand your hostility here. When I was a sysadmin, I was working on Windows NT and Digital UNIX systems, and we were taking the radical step of moving some of those systems to Debian. There was no hosted website, it was on-prem IT. In subsequent jobs I developed software that ran on various versions of UNIX/Linux, but they were on-prem installs too. By the time I worked in a company that had a SaaS offering, there was a whole team of people dedicated to setting up the operations side. I wrote back end application code, why would I ever need to set up a LAMP stack? At another company I did admittedly set up Apache and do a bit of PHP programming as glue to a Java back end, but once again... on-prem installs for enterprise clients.

I think you are seeing the world through your own lens of being an expert in web hosting. Sure, every software developer who used Linux before knows how to navigate a shell, and most software developers working in SaaS 15 years ago knew how to spin up a local web server. That doesn't mean they knew the names of every company offering web hosting services on the public internet, especially in America (assuming these Bitcoin devs were European), or that they knew about cPanel or Wordpress or whatever other PHP content management system. It's a completely different area of expertise.
No, the question is: how did peer review not catch it? I have the impression that reviewers don't have the time or incentive to give papers more that a cursory review. Independent of this case, a great many papers are published where the only "proof" is a user study or survey with an extremely low number of participants, but it still gets published. Many papers don't publish their datasets and don't contain enough detail to try and replicate their results.

There should be a real incentive/compensation for reviewing properly and real consequences if a paper gets retracted for reasons that should have been caught in review.

In this case it's fortunate that it did get found out in the end.
I don't agree, I really liked airwatch and we managed tens of thousands of mobiles with it. It had its issues but every product does. The problem was that when we had to move to Intune some features we used in airwatch weren't even supported yet!

It really made me laugh when Gartner put Intune in their magical Quadrant but not airwatch as Intune wasn't even feature complete at that point for basic mobile uses. I'm sure those Gartner guys just talk to the sales suits but don't actually try the products.

But now we're stuck with Intune due to decisions made at top level.
Didn't it take thirty years to get back there?
> Your lifestyle, right now, is not sustainable.

That's quite a statement, mind to expand? Should I start walking around naked and sleep in a cave, or is it enough that I'll be eating raw vegan food?

I live a pretty regular life and I do not see why it'd not be sustainable.
I would imagine that to propagate any confidence value through the system you'd need to have priors for the confidence of correctness for all data in your training set. (and those priors change over time)
Not to start a “does anyone else feel like this??” thread, but I wonder how common these traits are in tech workers. It’s kind of a cliché that CS attracts antisocial nerds. If a serious study were made, how many of those would actually meet the criteria for antisocial personality disorder?

Although diagnosis seems to rely a lot on someone’s behavior: if you don’t cause trouble, then it’s not a disease, just a personality trait. That seems a bit unfair to the people who would identify with this, could use psychiatric help to make human connection easier, but aren’t unreasonable enough to warrant medical attention.
It was still wide then but even wider now.
Cool, thanks for porting! Looks great
I just looked up "transformers intuition" and the results blew my mind. In comparison, Google's results led me to SEO'd websites (mostly Medium) and fancy-looking sites with inferior content. Awesome work Marginalia!
If you want easy access to wild pigs just move to Texas lol, they have a real problem with them
It's a subsidy to prop up critical defense manufacturing. It will be of little benefit for consumer goods. It makes no sense to give Micron a new fab in the midst of layoffs with no prospect for future growth. It makes a lot more sense considering that Boise is an easier target for China than Syracuse.
I'm only talking about my personal machine here, we have Palo Alto at work (a forced downgrade from Sophos), but at home AV only gets in the way for me, so I opt to disable real time protection and just run scans regularly on my own.
You almost always see an abandoned mall in an American suburb.
> why is it that the LLM gives an answer when we can prove that it cannot answer this problem correctly?

Brcause LLMs are not “problem solving machines” they are text completion models, so (when trained for q-and-a response) their function is to produce text output which forms a plausible seeming response to the question posed, not to execute an algorithm which solves the logical problem it communicatss. Asking “why do LLMs do exactly what they are designed to do, even when they cannot do the thing that that behavior implies to a human would have been done to produce it” just reveals a poor understanding of what an LLM is. (Also, the fact that they structurally can't solve a class of problems does not mean that they can't produce correct answers, it means they can't infallibly produce correct answers; the absence of a polynomial time solution does not rule out an arbitrarily good polynomial time approximation algorithm, though its unlikely than an LLM is doing that, either.)
Am I missing something, or did the woman claim sociopaths are only kept in check by the threat of violence? How are we supposed to trust sociopaths to do the right thing when times get tough?

Though, it does make a lot of sense given the behavior we commonly see from CEOs and politicians.
> For real what's so bad about minecraft, it even runs on a relatively old laptop of mine with 8 gigs of RAM without any lag.

When Minecraft came out, 8G of RAM would be pretty much the highest-end system you can buy. It's really not the flex you think it is.

In terms of the opposite direction from Minecraft in stability is Factorio, which can easily run on a multiplayer server for a gaming group on a potato of a computer and whose high-end multiplayer record is well over 500.
The US dollar was devalued so far so rapidly at the time, they just ran out of "runway".
osquery is a cool project, with a lot of outstanding issues. It has a great deal of technical debt, including performance and security debts that don't receive adequate attention. It also has a huge user community around it, but only a handful of active recurring contributors and companies actually funding development on it (and, even then, the bulk of the development is feature work rather than debt burndown).

(Source: I worked on osquery's core and tables for 2-3 years for various clients, and my company employs several of the current maintainers.)
If I may ask, did these traits make the relationship unviable, or did it end for other reasons? Do you think treatment (CBT, etc.) would have helped?
> It’s completely unsurprising that American mid-skill workers are worse at cooperating on delicate large scale manufacturing than Japanese ones.

Watch the 1986 movie "Gung Ho" starring Michael Keaton, about a Japanese car company opening a fab in the US. It's amazingly witty and funny.

The gist is that Japanese workers (and Asians in general) are expected to sacrifice their personal life for the good of the company with all the downsides that incurs for them, while American workers want to do the bare minimum at work and also expect to be paid significantly more than workers in Asia (duh!).

In the globalized world of today (let alone the 1980's), manufacturing is a race to the bottom in terms of cost where you need to squeeze your labor as much as you can to keep costs down, and high income countries like the US, can't compete, nor do they want to because they have better options to pump up their GDP, like printing USD.

So why do we keep discussing this over and over again? Working in factories competing with Asia kinda sucks for the 21 century wealthy westerner so they don't want to do it like in Asia, which is what it takes to keep prices low and consumers happy. So opening factories under these conditions seems like you're setting yourself for failure form the start.
That makes sense, and I'm not trying to say AV is useless, only that I personally am not willing to make the "performance hit for security" that comes with AV products. My machine is likely powerful enough to allow real time protection, but my history of low power machines has made it more of a force of habit to just shut it off completely.
Ahh, right, thanks for the reminder! I thought that sounded familiar from somewhere.
During high school, I have switched from cursive to technical lettering, and I have used that ever after, including for taking notes during university.

With modern writing instruments, i.e. rollers or fineliners, the difference in speed between cursive and technical lettering is negligible and the latter is much more legible.
"Time is passing, are you?"

You almost always see a Simplex Clock in each American classroom. How about we remove them - what would be the effect?
Where does anyone actually see a clock nowadays? i haven't had a clock in my home since i threw out my digital alarm clock when moving in 2004.