skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of your rebuttals seem to hinge on "yeah, but that problem isn't unique to publishing." That is a kind of side-stepping that misses the point.

If there is a specific objection you'd like to revisit, I'd be happy to discuss it. But I wouldn't self-describe what I'm doing as "sidestepping"--I'd say its avoiding bike shedding and keeping the conversation focused.

I mean, it's a pretty facile objection to say some variation on "but if we pay them how do we know we'll get our money's worth?" when we pay for goods and services all the time with very high confidence that we'll get what we pay for.

Surely, there's plenty of considerations to discuss, and I've tried to squarely address all objections which are specific to this proposal. But how to hire and use consultants, or how to ensure you get what you contracted for, are largely solved problems, and off-topic.

> This would mean the advocated process would result in a lot less sharing of methods.

I don't think my proposal would even apply to internal R&D groups who wanted to keep things proprietary. I mean, I can certainly understand wanting to reserve some methods or data as being proprietary. But choosing to do that is, ipso facto, not sharing them. How would paying reviewers and replicators for their time cause any less sharing to happen?

I mean, if your paper doesn't describe the experiments you performed in enough detail to allow other groups to replicate it, its not a scientific paper to begin with. It's either a press release, or a whitepaper, or some other form of creative writing, and publishing it is either public relations, or advertisement--not science.

Which is not to say that it's immoral or useless, or to denigrate it in any way. Not everything we do has to be science. My proposal is just for scientists communicating scientific results with other scientists. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how it would inhibit the kinds of practices you are describing in any way.

It would make it harder for people to claim their "results" are scientific, but are not. It would be a big obstacle to publishing fraudulent papers in scientific journals. It would make it harder for somebody to claim the mantel of "science" to give credibility to their claims. But I really don't see how paying reviewers and replicators would stop anybody from sharing as much or as little as they wanted to.
Go check the annual opium poppy production in Afghanistan in the years leading up to and following the US invasion if you're interested in a more coherent justification.
I think pricing is really important for these X Elite laptops to be worth it. If the price is north of $800, you might as well get a laptop with dedicated Nvidia GPU that will give you much better performance.
Isn't that what road tax is for?
And in Windows it's `shutdown /r /fw`.
I'm glad someone is rectifying this situation :)

I wonder how LLM can be used to help less fortunate people while still allowing for a breaking-even or even profitable business.
I believe it's restricting based on http referrer. if i click the link, i get a 429. if i refresh, i get a 429. if i paste the url in the address bar and hit enter, it works fine.
They're made of meat?
For users who are already mandated to track what they are working on in 6-minute intervals, "productivity monitoring and "productivity judging" are not NEW issues that a tool like this would introduce. That is actually one of the advantages of targeting the population of lawyers, rather than a more general population.
> Now many of them won't

It’s $15 creditable against other tolls. If whatever you’re doing in downtown Manhattan during peak hours isn’t worth $15, its replacement by other activity happening faster is likely a net positive.
The curse of knowledge makes it hard to understand other people's perspectives
Doesn't science require replication? He wrote books based on un-replicated studies.

Further, the confidence he extolled about his now debunked ideas make him a charlatan. This person was a bad scientist. If we esteem people who don't check their data and influence millions of people with falsities, we are going to create a society with low trust.

Just look at this thread, the man lost respect among the people in the know. There are a few people clinging onto 'well just because its not true, doesnt mean I didn't find it interesting". I'm not sure what we get out of promoting anti-science scientists.
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Sorry to ask, but would you mind expanding a little more?
For example, when you state "our system iteratively rewrites the prompt to better fit the desired behavior", what is the use case for this?
Is it to make personal datasets? Thank you.
I'm a professor, and I wish more people would read your comment - and then take more advantage of tutoring, be it peer tutoring, office hours, or other resources. Tutoring is awesome and very time-efficient for the student. But also very resource-intensive for the same reason.
Apart from CYOA, I think a hypertext "book" would be the most effective way to dynamically scale detail preferences without resorting to skimming or skipping.

Some people want more or less evidence based on their level of skepticism or critical thinking, while others want more evidence to reinforce the soundness of their inferred position on a topic, especially if it's a topic unfamiliar to them. Other people are under time constraints and just want the key points and a brief presentation.
A case study of what happens when the PostgreSQL VACUUM never completes
To be clear, Bryan didn't name it: Cliff did.

But yes, the idea is to gently poke fun at "wait you're writing your own OS?", which is admittedly a bit hubristic. Humor is a good way to stay grounded.
> the "objective of destroying Al Qaeda," because it would just re-form afterwards. You'd have to change the society so it wouldn't reform, hence "ensuring that girls got a good education and had equal rights."

How exactly does providing the latter do anything but piss off surviving conservatives and hardliners and reactionaries even more?

If you want lasting change, the new regime either needs widespread support from its subjects (Why wasn't it in charge to begin with, then, why did it need to be installed by an occupier..?), or you need to scorched-earth, mass-graves liquidate every single participant in the old regime, and all of their supporters (And not just fire them from their jobs, as we did in Iraq. All the ex-Baathists went on to gainful employment in the various insurgent groups, instead.)

Not doing it is exactly why Reconstruction failed. The slavers lost the war, but won the peace, and their politics reasserted as soon as they were allowed to govern themselves.
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He says he did not ask for $7T - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39747415
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Thank you for this! Our site copy can definitely use a refresh
I think you are missing the only point of the article: performance and compatibility are important; everything else is just aesthetics.

As long as Intel can produce fast CPUs, with new features and while maintaining support for the existing binaries, everything is OK. Fixed or variable length, that's a matter for Intel engineers: users could, and should, care less.
Interesting data but the write up is poor. Graphs would be very helpful. There are two important variations here: how much does attractiveness scores for _the same person_ vary by different raters, and how does that compare to the variation for _different people_ by the same rater.

Saying what proportion finds the median person in the top percentile requires some more complicated math than simply looking up the width of a bell curve.

Also this blog post is from 2015.
> they feel entitled to

They are entitled to. Just as you're entitled to use different software if you don't like it.
Most of the world shouldn't be writing services that saturate their network links (actually, no one should: if you don't have slack in the system, it becomes incredibly error-prone. But even running at 80% saturation, most people shouldn't be writing those services.)

There are a small number of very large companies where their architecture is based on that sort of thing. But in most cases in most places the right approach in that situation is to ask, "why is this a thing you think you need?" And then to either inline the service or employ horizontal scaling strategies instead of trying to stuff more cycles onto one network card.

I do agree that these language choices are very likely a symptom of the misuse of service architectures. People are treating services like objects (or worse, Singletons) that live on a different machine, relying on the network stack as their interpreter. It makes "modern" software buggy and fragile. Neither of these languages solve that problem, but they do capitalize on it.
Feel like this has been a popular startup idea for at least 15 years
"...many [EV owners] were supposedly never told this would happen."

Caveat emptor. You buy a heavy, high-torque, fast accelerating EV the tires will wear out fast but there's no need to be 'warned' about that because if you accelerate and brake gently that won't happen. Just because something is lest than ideally perfect doesn't mean you get to point fingers and demand someone make you feel better about it.
> Believe that a large portion of their user-base is minors, and a ban would hurt their bottom line

How many people who are of age would hand over their personal information to a porn site unless they are already paying customers? Many people would not feel safe just handing over all of that information. They would lose both minors and adults who do not want to share that information.

I am curious, how would you suggest they roll out this digital check without hurting the users privacy? I have not seen a proposal that can scale across countries without becoming a privacy nightmare.

From my limited experience, most people are pretty onboard with blocking minors from accessing porn. The conflict always arises around the question of how you will achieve that.
My wife had menorrhagia (extremely heavy periods that lasted a week) and extreme lethargy. And restless legs. Not only did her doctor not get her bloods checked, he didn't care about the heavy periods and said (about heavy periods), "go on the pill, and see a shrink" (because presumably he thought she was a hypochondriac or depressed, because she came back several times to see if he could do anything about it). He finally got her iron and B12 checked, and since they were both on the lowest end of the "Ok" range, he didn't do anything further.

It took 2 doctor changes and a lot of goggling to realise that her menorrhagia had a cause, but that she's need scans to prove she might have uterine fibroids. It took 2 procedures to correct them. Once all that was done and she got iron + B12 injections, and got her life back.

On a forum she talked to other women who were left to deal with fibroids for up to a decade because their doctors would just sigh and say, "Yes, women's problems. This is normal. Go on the pill". Unfortunately the fibroids grow so large that there is sometimes no option but a full hysterectomy. This is a common story.

I completely agree, you need to do your own due diligence these days.
As a former NYC resident, and as someone whose family still lives and works in the city, I'm curious to see how this'll distribute traffic patterns throughout Manhattan. If you live in the outer boroughs like my family does, getting into certain areas in Manhattan via public transit can be difficult, and time consuming — significantly more so than getting in by car.

My dad is an on-call doctor; getting to his hospital by car takes ~15 minutes, but ~60–90 via public transit. His patients don't have the luxury of waiting for him to take the bus. His hospital is outside of this zone, but I imagine that paying $15 every time he got called in would be extraordinarily frustrating.

My mom does work within this zone, also in places not easily reachable by public transit. I suspect that she, like many others, will still commute into Manhattan, park in areas outside of the zone, then take public transit into it — which will increase congestion in those areas. It'll be interesting to watch for the lead-on effects.

I sympathize entirely with the desire to reduce traffic in the city, but man, for people who live far from work and can't easily commute any other way, what a pain.
Thanks for the feedback cjk2! I'm curious which industry you work on?
Come ON guys, help me out here: Be more clear about your terminology!!!

Gee, I'm plenty good with the math and applications of Fourier theory. Sure, some physics course solved the differential equation of vibrating strings. Early on my career did well with Fourier theory, the FFT (fast Fourier transform), and Navy ocean data. And with violin, I got a start in the music school of Indiana University and eventually made it through several pages of the Bach E-major preludio, the Bach Chaconne, and a transcription, as I recall, up an octave and a fifth, of that famous Bach solo cello piece. Been known to take the positive whole number powers of 2^(1/12). Dissonance? Sure, I really like the S. Barber Adagio for strings!!! R. Wagner's chords. The Franz Schmidt Intermezzo to his Notre Dame. The Sibelius violin concerto.

But, stilllll, a lot of your terminology I can't follow.

For an opinion: Mostly music is art, that is communication, interpretation of human experience, emotion. Given the roles of, say, vibrato, Fourier theory and 2^(1/12) do not directly explain all of the art.

For a perfect fifth, sure, as is standard, when take the violin out of its case, first tune the four strings G, D, A, E in perfect fifths and do this by listening for beats in the overtones. Then with the strings so tuned, often when the music calls for one of those 4 notes, just go ahead and play it on the open (look, Ma, no use of fingers on the left hand) string.

In particular, for

> perfectly in mathematical ratios

in real music from before Bach to after Barber, I doubt that "perfectly" happens very often or is even attempted. E.g., with violin, can't play much music if play only on the open strings, and as soon as put a finger of the left hand on a string, with vibrato or even without, there won't be much "perfectly mathematical".
How are they going to register without a title?
NSX-T and what hyperscalers do is essentially orchestration of things that already exist anyway. The load balancing in NSX is mostly just some openresty and Lua which as been around for quite a while. Classic Q-in-Q and bridging also does practically all of the classic L2 & L3 networking that tends to be touted as 'new', while you could even do that fully orchestrated when Puppet was the hot new thing back in the day.

Some things (that were created before NSX) may have come from internet exchanges and hyperscalers, like openflow, P4, and FRR, but were really not missing parts that were required to do software defined networking. If anything, the only thing you really needed for SDN was Linux, and the only real distinction between SDN and non-SDN was hardwired ASICs in the network fabric (well, not hard-hardwired, but with limited programmability or 'secret' APIs).
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Oh really.
This is the whole point - there is no special knowledge there.

All who succeeded did that by being persistent and trying 100s of different “common sense” things until it worked.
I believe they have some very large companies running on it like McDonalds. Statsig also runs on Workplace if I'm not mistaken
Sorry if that wasn't clear: NJ doesn't have a sales tax on clothing. NY does. Paramus and Elizabeth are where the 4-ish (the ones in Paramus blend together) giant malls outside of NYC are.
HAHAHA. :@D Challenge accepted.

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The latter will happen already by more and more people doing ways to summarize books
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This isn't true. Up until the fall of the Soviet Union, there was an Afghan state that was able to motivate enough of the population to believe in it and fight for it in order to largely defeat the Mujahideen.

Were it not for external support for the Mujahideen, it is almost certain that an Afghan state would have succeeded in achieving some form of monopoly on violence.

The idea that nation-states were something alien to Afghanistan that we had to force on them just isn't true.
I really like this site for info on various tunings, including Just Intonation, where the intervals ARE perfect mathematical ratios: https://www.kylegann.com/microtonality.html

One tidbit I always think about:

> I've had interesting experiences playing just-intonation music for non-music-major students. Sometimes they will identify an equal-tempered chord as "happy, upbeat," and the same chord in just intonation as "sad, gloomy." Of course, this is the first time they've ever heard anything but equal temperament, and they're far more familiar with the first sound than the second. But I think they correctly hit on the point that equal temperament chords do have a kind of active buzz to them, a level of harmonic excitement and intensity. By contrast, just-intonation chords are much calmer, more passive; you literally have to slow down to listen to them. (As Terry Riley says, Western music is fast because it's not in tune.) It makes sense that American teenagers would identify tranquil, purely consonant harmony as moody and depressing. Listening from the other side, I've learned to hear equal temperament music as a kind of aural caffeine, overly busy and nervous-making. If you're used to getting that kind of buzz from music, you feel the lack of it as a deprivation when it's not there. But do we need it? Most cultures use music for meditation, and ours may be the only culture that doesn't. With our tuning, we can't.

> My teacher, Ben Johnston, was convinced that our tuning is responsible for much of our cultural psychology, the fact that we are so geared toward progress and action and violence and so little attuned to introspection, contentment, and acquiesence. Equal temperament could be described as the musical equivalent to eating a lot of red meat and processed sugars and watching violent action films. The music doesn't turn your attention inward, it makes you want to go out and work off your nervous energy on something.
It's estimated that green ammonia costs between $800 and $1500 per ton today to produce [1]. While this is higher than conventional ammonia, it is less than how much ammonia cost in the 2022 energy crisis [2] and likely to decrease further in the future.

Massive amounts of nitrogen fertilizer are wasted because it's so cheap [3]. There's headroom for bringing back crop rotation of nitrogen-fixing crops. Nitrogen-fixing microbes are an emerging technology [4].

I am not convinced that we're all going to die.

[1] https://itif.org/publications/2023/04/17/climate-tech-to-wat...
[2] https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2022/09/fertilizer-prices-...
[3] https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2016/06/07/nutrient-challeng...
[4] pivotbio.com
There are a couple coffe places around where I live that managed to become solid businesses. Andytown coffee roasters https://www.andytownsf.com/about
and Trouble Coffee which the owner eventually sold. https://sf.eater.com/2022/7/15/23220492/trouble-coffee-how-t....

Trouble’s story is especially compelling and inspiring. As I recall,the owner Guilietta started out as a barista then eventually decided to open her own space. She went around the neighborhood getting people to donate and was sleeping in the shop until it was solvent enough that she could get an apartment. She is definitely a character to say the least and very determined despite all the challenges she’s had. I loved just going down there to hang out because of the regulars there.
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It's a difficult balance tbh. You have to struggle to learn so teachers can't just work through the homework problems for you. So they want to give you hints to get you unstuck but not give the answer away. What would be better is to work through a non-homework problem. If this is happening to you, try to find a similar problem in the textbook and work through that one together. They'll still want you to struggle but be more relaxed with giving you hints because they aren't just handing over the solution.
I did not talk about power - i talked about perf. No modern x86 chip can decode 6 or 7 of these long instrs per cycle. there are aarch64 chips that can
Yeah, but if you blame porn for the fertility crisis you don't have to figure out how to make housing and childcare affordable, which probably requires policy that makes assets go down. Can't have that! It is infinitely easier to blame the gays, or the trans, or tiktok, or porn.
option three is that they see this legislation as the first step of an aggressive anti-porn campaign by the christian right.

right now it's age-verification under the guise of protecting kids. but the next demand will be to remove all non-hetero content. and then they'll ban porn completely.
> Again, parents should be (1) explaining porn to their kids when they get to the age where that might matter, and (2) be involved in parenting their kids.

Speaking strictly on behalf of my friends and I from junior high, it's pretty self explanatory.
As someone who currently lives in NYC, I can think of ten brands I love to shop at here and not a single one could be found in a mall in New Jersey.

My ex's family lived in NJ and we'd always commute in for a fun day in the city. There's way better food, better shopping, better energy. I'm not surprised people come to the city.
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Are these kinds of 'pledges' ever actually binding in any meaningful way or are they just a way to placate those who are unhappy with the takeover? I feel like I've seen similar promises reneged on a hundred times
Most Americans do not drive solely on city/town roads, we rather frequently take highways and interstates which are federally subsidized - not mostly paid for by city taxes.

You or your city may be exceptions, you might drive only on city roads, but the parent comment's point about subsidies is broadly correct.
I haven’t read the study but the article gives the impression that researchers can get published for things as simple as discovering gamelan orchestras?

I don’t want to sound cynical but ethnomusicology is a field unto itself and the idea that western tonal harmonies are a very small piece of the pie is something we’ve talked about for at least a hundred years

Even the concept of just intonation for a western scale is well established
It's really the court of public opinion that has the greatest risk of harm at the day to day level. A non-poc going to the gun range and then posting on social media could cause a "White Nationalist Militia" label to get attached by a jilted coworker and then go viral. That can cause serious harm.