skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK

I think that private companies shouldn't own the public square. So long as we allow corporations to encapsulate social interaction, we will continue to fail at moderation.

I don't think that law is a really meaningful avenue to fix this problem. I do think that aggressive anti-trust action could help a lot, though. If we do want to use law, then I think the focus should be on punishment for facilitation of harm. We should be able to prosecute Facebook for hosting fraudsters and failing to moderate harmful content.

As it is, a tiny number of companies hosting the social activity of billions of people, and those companies have utterly failed to accommodate that reality with proportional moderation. The failure of Facebook to adequately moderate has already lead to genocide.

My greater dream is to replace centralized social networks and content moderation with a decentralized network of curated attestations.
The issue, for anyone tempted by it, is not that our current chatbots are biased and some future iteration will not be. Creating an unbiased answer to all questions is impossible. People don’t agree on many important questions, and even if the answer tried to give equal weight to all perspectives, that would mean giving weight to fringe opinions.

It’s the same thing with image generators. How many eyes should the average generated person have? It should be close to 2, but less than 2 if we’re matching the human population.

The solution that these companies will inevitably reach for is an extension of filter bubbles. Everyone gets their own personalized chatbot with its own filter on reality. It makes the culture warriors happy but it will only make things worse.
Organized Pruning of File Sets (2003)
Is this a joke? Like that gif of that guy climbing that tower that is just a loop?
Layer 2: It turns out "blockchain technology" works a lot better if you do all the important stuff off-chain.

I predict that by 2030 the cryptocurrency nerds will have discovered SQL and transaction audits.
I wouldn't take advice from Peterson on agreeableness or emotional intelligence, he seems pretty unfriendly.
hopefully next time we at least ban public drug use.

"The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor from sleeping under bridges" - Anatole France
NPR, one of the most reliable bag carriers for progressive orthodoxy, is complaining that a news source is biased.
Better watch out with Arabic speakers, 7 is used for a sound in Arabic we don't have in English.
"Boss asks employees to demonstrate over hyped, risky, bad idea"
I would second not looking at fiction. So much of the cultural morés around relationships come from what we see in media and so much of it is just wrong and designed to create excitement through dramatisation and negative archetypes. We subconsciously imitate these archetypes and then we're surprised that conflict occurs in real life too. Find people in real life who you respect deeply and try and see what they're doing instead.

Also, exposure therapy, which is essentially what you recommended by saying go to Starbucks, Toastmaster etc, doesn't really work at a fundamental level either. I've done this deeply but didn't really get anywhere for many years. The real problem that creates lack of emotional understanding is our upbringing and how our parents raised us. One can force themselves into social situations for decades and still be anxious or lack empathy and this is simply because how we were raised in the first several years of our lives reverberates into the rest of our life unless awareness is brought into these dynamics.
That's nice, and I'm even prepared to accept it as a fact,[1] but it doesn't appear to have any relevance to what I said.

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[1] Given the irrelevance, I don't think it's even worth verifying.
This has been done so many times at this point, shouldn't MBAs have case studies covering the "how companies have rotted from shit decisions made by bean counters" 101 course?
But no less financially destructive
Why is this number everywhere? (37) - Veritasium [video]
Can someone tell me how giving government officials the right to control how AI models are trained would produce less political LLMs? What wouldn't they skew toward supporting the current regime whatever it may be? And why would it not be protected by 1a?
You're not the only one!

This is why I strongly prefer languages with a comprehensive standard library. I trust my Python/golang/dotnet/whatever install, so the number of third party packages I need to pull in is much smaller and more easily audited.
Hmm, for some reason HN stripped out the url on that edit

https://www.freeview.co.uk/corporate/platform-management/cha...
All research makes assumptions. You can’t test everything about the universe in each experiment.

The nice thing about science is that others can then challenge those assumptions, if they think it’s worthwhile.
design might be FOSS but not the actual, real, physical GPU
It makes me so angry reading this about managers criticizing employees for being 'too knowledgeable'.

There are so many narratives nowadays which claim that performance is at odds with talent. People are embracing mediocrity and patting each other on the back for it... The idiots who got lucky, since they cannot pretend to be knowledgeable, reframe the narrative to portray themselves as geniuses who understood the value of idiocy and revel in their mediocrity.
I grow less and less tolerant of “stuff just is, you can’t, like, judge it, man” the older I get.
We totally want to see Mojo go into all these places! It's just that Modular can't fund use of Mojo in (eg) gamedev or embedded development (at least not in the foreseeable future). Open sourcing the implementation is a big part of helping catalyze those developments in the community.

In my experience, a diverse community of people who want similar but /different/ things is what builds out a thriving community. This is why LLVM is pretty great for example: lots of people have a shared view on what technical excellence means, but they all want different things so you get a well balanced ecosystem, not just "Apple's compiler".

-Chris
Cloud host Vultr rips user data ownership clause from ToS after web outrage
Pournelle's Iron Law is just him saying "I am a Republican". You are not required to listen to him.

For balance, I stopped reading this article at the end of the first page because it called Boeing "neoliberal", which doesn't mean anything except that the writer is a snotty humanities grad.
How do you select those two thousand strings?
I’m away from home right now so I can’t verify this, but if I remember correctly from reading Dealers of Lightning, Xerox PARC researchers were paid the equivalent of six figures when adjusted for inflation. When considering the much lower housing prices in Silicon Valley in the 1970s, this enabled many PARC researchers to purchase homes in Palo Alto and vicinity, though I do recall a passage from The Dream Machine about people moving from other parts of the US to the Bay Area dealing with higher housing costs even in the 1960s and 1970s. My mom grew up in Oakland in the 1960s and she told me she’s always heard of people complaining about the Bay Area’s high cost of living, especially in San Francisco.
Isn't this the case for most programming languages' package indices? crates.io for Rust, the NPM registry for Javascript, etc. They are all public in the sense that anyone can just create an account and upload a package.
Actual snake oil has actual benefits. It's fake snake oil you want to avoid.

Effect of Erabu Sea Snake (Laticauda semifasciata) Lipids on the Swimming Endurance of Mice
https://karger.com/anm/article-abstract/51/3/281/41756/Effec...
Does it have the hardware? Per the article the CPU and available flash memory are super limited.
Bear in mind that just magically turning things back on also has non-obvious consequences as well.

Especially if you're relying on something to be in the state you (literally) configured it to be in, and it turns out the software makers "know better than you". :/
> What could be a near term use case?

Ransomware, evading currency controls, funding North Korea.
Wasn't Madoff's plan the whole time to pocket investor money for himself, whereas Sam's was to arrogantly (and illegally) gamble it with the thought being he could return the principal from Alameda back to FTX in future? Genuine question, I'm not super informed on these.
Just because you're unfamiliar with the technology doesn't mean it's nonsense. The failing is yours in actually looking into these things rather than trying to be funny.

If you explain to most people how a TLS handshake works it will sound to them as equally nonsensical. This technology is complicated, this article is targeted at an audience that understands the technology, not one that needs a "My first introduction to distributed computing"
>More generally, I would say that Etherium itself is mostly nonsense.

It's "Ethereum". You can't even write the name of the project correctly, so how can I trust you expertise on that?

>I will admit I don't understand very well what the purpose of the "blobs" are

But we're talking under a link to a post about blobs? Sounds like an important context.

>from my perspective the entire idea of blockchain technology is not useful

Instead of trying to discuss that (and I could) - on HN there are plenty links to thinks I don't consider useful, like retrocomputing, programming in AGDA or yet another rust rewrite of some tool. I don't go around and leave nonproductive comments there, i just don't click them. Why do you feel a need to do so?
It can often be the line between success and failure; commercial rents are such a major portion of a service business's expense.
>the point is not to just hodl, but to create a core technology that can enable different applications

This is has been said about every coin since the beginning of crypto.
I believe the justice system correlates with your feelings.

wrt outcome, it seems physical crimes are almost inconsequential in monetary damage compared to "white collar" crimes

I can't help but think of that clint eastwood line:

"It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have."

I think physical damage, and also the psychological damage of violence has a permanence compared to money and property "damage"...

Not to make light of anything, but you can always get more stuff. (and over my lifetime I've noticed stuff has been easier to get)
AI art at Christie's sells for $432K (2018)
Funny that you should mention that, because the first hit I get when I type "EVs PM2.5 pollution" into my search engine is a Science Direct article that contains the following quote: "Findings demonstrate that EV adoption can significantly alleviate PM2.5 pollution." Not that I am one to blindly believe whatever happens to show up at the top of my search results, but it shows the ridiculousness of your argument about how easy it is to just do a web search.

So I'd recommend for next time, keep your clairvoyance to yourself (because I "clearly" did want a source) and while your add it, perhaps also your offences ("malicious ignorance").
If you're interested in compiler nerdery, you should totally check out the source code, you'll see just how much we meant by "Syntactic sugar for MLIR" :-)

A relatively accessible example is the `Int` type: https://github.com/modularml/mojo/blob/main/stdlib/src/built...

implemented in terms of the index dialect (that Modular upstreamed to MLIR):
https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Dialects/IndexOps/

-Chris
Using ChatGPT is wrong but paying high fee to lawyers is right
There's Emedit as a commercial notepad like tool. It's even better than notepad++ for large files because it'll stream in the data as you scroll rather than trying to load all of it at once.
They tried that with Sam Bankman Fried and he broke the terms of his house arrest almost immediately.
“See the state of hospitals” meaning the situation with hospitals, many of which it seems are private. Our schools are a mixture of state and publicly owned (I’m including college) but even state funded schools suffer due to their reliance on stock market driven suppliers such as textbook companies and the housing the teachers live in.

> My first guess as to where to lay blame would be on those regulations

Considering medical and educational costs (total system costs including government expense) are much higher here than they are for example in Germany which has State run institutions for both, I would see this as a poor assumption.

However I’m not actually advocating for State-run institutions, as I would rather see locally owned cooperatives for housing and schools, and larger federations of cooperatives for medical research. My point is that short term market-based winner-take-all approaches are hurting us.

I should add that the broad topic of discussion here is Boeing, which degraded in critical safety metrics after moving to a relaxed regulation environment and focusing on market based short term optimization.
It is incredible they are so openly saying that promotions are not based on work performance.
That certainly gives me no motivation to perform better.
Citation needed (from a non-crypto-booster source)
So... it was a legalese
So let’s say 1000 scientific papers were published, and we want to see how two proteins relate to one another based on those papers. When I say underlying data or “where the data came from,” I’m referring to the papers.

Those 1000 papers would be run through the data analysis pipeline to generate a “dataset” representing the relationships. For instance, a CSV file of the relationship information.

That dataset is what is hashed, and that hash is the “string” that is published on-chain.

It would be like if you had a bunch of papers about how many ears animals have, whether they have fur, where they’re from, etc, and you want to find out how those things relate to one-another. The info about ears and fur is the “data that changed” and the “dataset” is essentially vectors for how the information relates to each other. Then that dataset is hashed, etc, and that hash is what’s stored on chain. Then when another paper is added, the relationships csv changes, and that is re-hashed and published.

It’s hard to describe this without some jargon, just because of what we are discussing. I left another comment before with a diagram that might or might not help.
>The heyday of the upper middle class Maoist was probably forty years ago.

Going by social media/academia/big tech I'd say they're making a comeback.
It's a country where everything is very well organized. There are rules for everything and corruption is low.

One of the consequences is that it takes a long time and serious investments to get new construction projects going.

Another big reason is the CO2 crisis, which is partially caused by... Well, you know.
Can you speak more about the framing? I think diversity should be encouraged, but I also believe to some extent that people of color have been left out of STEM education and jobs due to poor education and opportunities. Maybe a middle ground is to hire for both. Bring in women, people of color, and others who may not be as educated or experienced, but make a serious effort to pair them with more experienced employees and train them up to where they should be. Rather than hire and replace, as some have suggested, hire and partner to diversify and holistically improve the entire organization.
The cited paper shows the results of LLM opinions plotted on a political compass. The other dimension to this is time as these models are getting updated and having their system prompts updated.

My friend has been tracking them since September 2023 here: https://trackingai.org/ . GPT4 seems pretty stable over time, but Llama-2 for example got more conservative in November 2023, and stayed there with only a brief reversion in February 2024.
I used to stop by a used book store or two just to browse around and see what was out there.

I don't do that anymore, and it's not only because there aren't any used book stores nearby.
it will be unsurprising to you to hear that shortly afterwards, Boeing began abusing its most senior employees into leaving.

Sounds a bit like what happened in newsrooms and at newspapers in the past decade and a half. (Except in that case, it was bottom-up, not top-down.)
Would anyone work with these people after they did this? They pivoted because they got caught, not because they are trust worthy. They clearly thought a lot, in concert with counsel, about how they could try to steal people's IP. Geniuses thought no one would read the TOS.
Dremio is awesome. We've followed the Dremio journey from one of Jacques' original talks a couple of years back. Dremio's idea of caching tiers and reflections is powerful for performance.

Spice takes it further and provides flexibility for materialization, giving you full control over where that materialization exists (same machine, same pod, same network, same cluster, same region, etc.), what engine/processing (OLTP - SQLite/PostgreSQL, OLAP - DuckDB/Arrow) it uses and what tier (in-memory, attached NVMe, etc.) to store it down to the dataset level.
Fun fact: Unix used to work in slightly this way. You’d see something neat on comp.sources.unix, download it, and if it was useful, deploy it on your site for your local users. A bit later, huge FTP sites with everything ever written for Unix were routinely used as package repositories are used today. Modern Linux (and other Unices) distributions, with maintainers, strict inspection, limits on what programs can do, etc. came as a reaction to the obvious problems with that. It always seems to me that language-specific ecosystems like PyPI (RIP Cheese Shop), NPM, crates.io, etc. have not yet learned this lesson.
I believe both the FCC and ISED have exceptions for unlicensed individuals to use any amateur frequency in the event of a genuine emergency. For the price it could be worthwhile to program one of these with local comms frequencies. As long as you don't transmit outside of an emergency it's perfectly legal to both have and listen with. Plus it has a flashlight!
That billions of stuff were other coins that dropped in value which they were using to run their scheme and investments that are still illiquid, like their 500 million dollar investment in Anthropic. I can only imagine what that Anthropic investment is worth today.

https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/7ab64a3b-6c...

This is even from the article you reference:
"FTX has benefited from a recent rise in crypto prices, Dietderich said. Its total recovery would be valued at $6.2 billion based on crypto prices from November 2022, when it filed for bankruptcy after traders pulled $6 billion from the platform in three days and rival exchange Binance abandoned a rescue deal."
Sounds like angina. You’re gonna want to get that more thoroughly evaluated. Stress test, blood work, echocardiogram, chest xray, etc…
The UK has "faster payments" which is usually instant (sometimes held up for fraud checks). I'm not aware of any bank that charges for this.
I think it would be nice to allow for options with regard to stops. It wouldn't be any fun for a particular itinerary to become so popular that the businesses listed on it couldn't keep up or had their ambiance ruined. Defaulting to "template" itineraries where some stops had a choice of venues might alleviate some of that pressure. I see that some itineraries have alternatives in a given stop's description, but there's no place to list contact info for them without it becoming crowded.
Cool! Notepad++ was one of the apps that I missed the most when I switched to Linux. Besides games, it was the number one reason that I kept rebooting into another OS. After a while, I learned emacs, then vim, and the rest is history. Today, I would probably have switched to Codium. As long as we agree not to use Sublime Text anymore.
> being able to close the window without being asked whether I'd like to save the document

Notepad on Windows now has this behavior. Finally.

After having used it for more than three decades, it now has the one feature that prevented me from using it to take scratch notes. It will autosave without prompting on close.

And it has a dark mode, so now I use it daily.
I'm not a specialist, but having used both I can say Nqq presents a lot of bugs Npp doesn't.
Somehow I like the amount of syllabes were used to spell the word often referred to as aluminum. Its a more colourful word altogether.
Senior people also cost more because their health care costs more. Of course discriminating against older people is illegal, so they cut down on senior staff which just happens to have the same cost reduction. Funny that.
I don't have any personal knowledge, but you might want to ask Oleg Kutkov - he has been reverse-engineering and repairing Starlink antennas for some time.

https://olegkutkov.me/
https://twitter.com/olegkutkov
The biggest advantage of independent op-ed writers
Why are so many being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?
Fahren-Height
> Everyone gets their own personalized chatbot with its own filter on reality.

Compare map services.
The Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College
Website of My Crazy Professor
> But is it used for anything?

What people like you usually miss.. hodling bitcoin IS one of its uses, store of value.

> It looks like not a single HN reader is using blockchain technology for anything.

You haven't missed anything, that's why we say bitcoin, not blockchain.
AFAICT, the poster is claiming that "left leaning orthodoxy" says "there's no disadvantages to children to being raised in a single family household."

I don't really know that that's true anyway. It doesn't seem to be a frequently discussed topic IME. There are related topics like "should divorce be available" and "should people be encouraged or discouraged from pre-marital sex" where I think they are extrapolating "if you support extra-marital sex then you also support single-family households and must therefore believe that they have no disadvantages" but I think that's a larger logical leap than I would personally make. It also doesn't seem to account for support for access to abortion which arguably counter-acts the support for experimentation with pre-marital sex...

The general "left leaning" mood is also to provide services that help single-family households to mitigate issues for children anyway, so I think it's much more of a nuanced "lesser of two evils" position to support things like divorce being available.
Since the type of financial situation and financier Lewis writes about typically is amoral but also is sure that they are correct and proper, Lewis' continued access to future SBFs requires that he offload judgement to the reader.

It's almost like a realtime version of "Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises" or "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly".
I never noticed this. I just hit Ctrl-S obsessively in every application. I heard that once upon a time, vanilla Notepad ignored Ctrl-S. Horror!
I don’t think “don’t be born there” applies to NYC anyway. Less than half of the residents were born in NY state. (So some percent less than that born in NYC itself.)

We need ‘some’ method to allocate residences, and price seems to be the best one we have.

Maybe give people $10k in loans to move out of NYC… they’ll more than save that money by committing from another state.
Plenty of things: control, gain more authority at the expense of others, decrease someone’s value out of pure jealousy, have a scapegoat ready for when you make a mistake, create an opening where you can hire your buddies, satisfy your ego, etc.