skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even a few thousand dollars is too much for a lot of victims

Someone angling to go into coding should be able to do the research to draft an arbitration claim on their own. In most cases that isn’t a fair assumption to make, but given the cohort, they should be able to collaborate on a draft.

The gating part isn’t doing the work. It’s knowing you have the option to.
What an awesome thread with these three catching up. I love it!

90s gaming and hacking things together (or apart) was absolutely what got me into programming, too.
Thanks for checking it out!

I also can’t wait to have more tests done.

Also, I chose Apple Silicon because it was easier for me to develop
on. It is possible that the algorithm would also have good performance on other architectures.
Look at the water gun in question though: https://abcnews.go.com/US/traumatizing-family-calls-justice-...

Still sucks that the kid got shot for it, but I can see the confusion, compared to the usual colorful water guns.
> But I dont like that both passages emphasize working for someone else.

Yeah. I was reading GP's interesting thoughts and was thinking: "At least I already got the part about not working for human masters right"!
Introduction to Light Sheet Microscopy
Google does a better job of taking your exact search and returning fuzzy results that are pretty relevant (usually extremely relevant), whereas reddit search just pulls up results that have your terms in them as they are written. Google might also do some ranking based on other users searching for similar things, while afaik reddit is pretty "dumb" search.
I think it's maybe that he kind of rebranded modal realism into his own concept.
> The only control the piano gives you over note timbre is how hard you press the key.

This is just not true at all. The action of a piano is a very sophisticated mechanism that conveys both acceleration and velocity, along with the initial position of the key (e.g. fully released or half-pressed). This allows for a huge amount of tonal variation, though it's more subtle than a ribbon controller, and obviously a synth can do many things than a piano cannot.
Now they're upset when their very well-paying employer actually does deals that bring in $$$$!?

Per the article, that's very obviously not what they were protesting about.
Device that consumes carbon dioxide and generates electricity
hmmm I think it could be another project to specific learn chinese
Don't forget about PAL-M which was essentially NTSC with a PAL color carrier, but PAL-M decoding had no issues decoding a full NTSC signal. We used to ship NTSC tapes with PAL-M stickers.

So, what's the M stand for in your jokes?
You must remember that the trilemma exists in a context. Lewis set it up as a reply to people who "say that they're ready to accept Jesus as a good human teacher, but not ready to accept him as God". That is, they already accepted that he existed, and that the set of teachings recorded was more or less accurate.

That rules out "did not actually exist historically" and "others made up all the God stuff over the years". (I mean, those exists as possibilities in an absolute sense, but not as possibilities that he had to answer, because the people he was answering didn't hold those as options.)

And to me, "a nice guy trying to help people and he thought tactically the mystical claims would allow him to help more people" sounds a lot like "liar". Liar with good intentions, but still liar.
Three, I wanted an event loop library that could build to WebAssembly (both WASI and freestanding) and that didn't really fit well into the goals of API style of existing libraries without bringing in something super heavy like Emscripten.

This is a cool motivation!

Could you drop this into Node to make Nodeex ? A kind of experimental allocation-free Node that somehow carves out the allocations into another layer (admittedly still within the node c code)?
That Francis Crick was under the influence of LSD when he discovered the double helix structure of DNA is a widely circulated myth, but I've seen no evidence for it. In “Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code,” Matt Ridley clarifies that while Crick did experiment with LSD, it was not until several years after the discovery of the DNA structure. The discovery itself was a result of rigorous scientific research based on experimental results, including the X-ray crystallography of Rosalind Franklin.
Maybe different continents had different versions and they finally aligned when they had the chance to talk to each other.

I worked at the places that developed and built the equipment and tech used in TV stations, just across the ocean.
This is utterly false. Unless those developers are selling their units they are part of the problem. Ban renting and force the sale of units in those multi new builds and it eliminates the problem .

Doubly so once you've forced the sale of multi unit owners, now you have a gkut of available properties on the market and reduced demand which lowers the price.

The fact that this farce keeps getting perpetuated is why the problem will never go away.
There are alternatives to 2FA that don't require phones. But, yeah, at some point you become the weird person who refused to have a smartphone (or a cell phone at all) and, unless you're really special in some way, you probably have a target on your back.
The report that Amazon employed so many people for annotating training/validation data was surprising, but that story has seemed to morph into the idea that Just Walk Out was entirely "fake" - just people "staring at cameras all day in a room playing live video [...] clicking boxes whenever a customer picked a product" which I don't think is well-supported.
Your comment lead the poker player in me to watch a few videos of Bostrom speaking, such as his TED talk. He has clearly worked hard to become conversant in these ideas, but I don't detect any original provocative thought.
This is meta-commentary about HackerNews in general.

Your statement about this post was addressed by dang directly, and maybe that's why your comment is being downvoted into oblivion. This feels to me like throwing the baby out with the bath water.

That is sad, given the "meat" of your comment is inquisitive, thought-provoking, and politely delivered.

Has anyone else felt frustrated by the voting patterns of the HN community lately?
All of them from Mom and Pop to black rock.

A small leach is the same as a big leach.
Why do you jump to that conclusion? It certainly isn't implied by a literal and direct interpretation of the statement. Somewhat ironic because the quote is talking about the value of being direct.
I don't think I've ever noticed flicker on an LCD screen, even when I first started using LCD some time in the mid '00s.

And I definitely notice the flicker in a CRT, especially when I'm not looking straight at it (oddly). Heck, I see the flicker of LED Christmas lights.
indeed, I'm literally comparing the expected text, and the typed text. I'm just removing the accents and lowering the cases
Do facts not have any relevance to this debate? Is it all just vibes? I.e. Bostrom is racist because his vibe was off?
Before turning to AI, Tegmark's claim to public fame was his "mathematical universe" hypothesis, which is complete drivel
There is an interesting nuance. GOOG's search is a cash cow.

An ordinary ("having a single motivation") person wants information about something.

Similarly, a search-engine having a single motivation to provide quality search results will seek to provide quality search results.

The GOOG of 2024 is a Dorothy gone very far from Kansas. It has many lucrative goals and Quality Search is not at the top of the list.

"Training an LLM on Reddit" is about as far from quality as one can derail without venturing into the outright dysfunctional nastiness of the worst corners of the Deranged Web.
I have a friend who is adamant that he lives out of his truck by choice, but it's hard to call it a choice when there's only one option. I wouldn't hold his feet to the fire if he later admitted he was in a rough spot (our friend group is all very clear on this situation). I had put Allred entirely out of my mind for a while, but I seem to recall his "homelessness" was characterized more by image than by practicality. Since we're being technical, it seems worth making the distinction.
My Rule of Thumb: If it's from Hollywood, don't bother with it.

British movies are better on the whole. Especially the ones without the 'Token American' who is added so that American audiences can be included in the viewers by having somebody they know included in the credits.
Reddit search is good if you know what you're looking for -- specific words, preferably a time period.

It is terrible as a semantic search. If you go to r/travel and search for "France", it will not turn up posts about Paris unless the post specifically includes "france".
>Otherwise, Reddit is great for technical stuff and niche community communication.

I used to believe this but its becoming clear to me that for just about every subbreddit for my different niche interests, a common theme emerges of a dogma endorsed by the community. This might be a concept, an idea, a tool, something sold, something not sold, but whatever it is, the community latches on it hard and doesn't let go. If you offer different experiences to the contrary of the dogma of the day people either ignore you at best or downvote and get combative.
America's Young Farmers Are Burning Out. I Quit, Too
this is the open core model, it works well for things like GitLab (as far as I know)

and in effect GitLab is doing a BSL-like thing by after a few years they release features to the free tier

but it rarely works if you need to decline contribution from people who would eat into your profit margins. I think ElasticSearch had this problem (and the community basically ended up with a few forks, because people sent the patches for security features that were in the enterprise version, and to no one's surprise they did not get merged ...)

so, I guess it works if there's a huuuge scope with plenty of things to contribute, to shoot for the moon together, without hurting the business side too much.
I'm a Utopian
Can you point to anyone other than yourself who calls Indonesians black? Because I think otherwise it's not worthwhile discussing categorization and measurement in good faith with you.
That assumes that this is an attempt to exert influence, rather than a psychologically self-serving act, or worse... an attempt at gathering clout. So many of these protests seems entirely geared towards the latter.
Not to be confused with the novelist John Priestley, who also wrote about time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Priestley%27s_Time_Plays
Around 2000 I played a game named Crimson Skies. Set in an alternate reality where the US broke up into pieces and freelancers with their airships and planes ruled the skies.
This game could use a sequel.
Yes, I get the expected results too, from the US, both logged in and from a private browsing window.

But I wouldn't be surprised that different people see different results.
Do you think they should have listed “draft an arbitration claim,” on their enrollment prerequisites?
Yes it’s almost like we got some benefit from iterating on these aspects of hardware design, as opposed to the typical HN grump characterisation of unbridled evil whenever a laptop isn’t exactly like how they were in 2006.
I store them as blobs in SQLite. It works fine - depending on the model they take up 1-2KB each.
> Thought it was called "The God Particle" because it set out to explain "how particles got their mass"

"[...] Why God Particle? Two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn't let us call it the Goddamn Particle [...]"

> Isn't there a wave:particle duality not just of light but all subatomic particles

yes (and not just sub-atomic ones. You can also have this for molecules).

> such that it can't be proven they are particles ("mass") at all but just motion propagation ("energy")?

no.

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The mass of a system can be said to be [the energy of the system in the reference frame in which it has the least energy]/c^2.

So, an individual photon has 0 mass, because if you change reference frames, the amount of energy can be arbitrarily close to zero. But, if you have a collection of photons with a total momentum of zero, then you can assign that collection of photons a non-zero mass.

(See the thought experiment about a nearly-massless box whose interior is all perfect mirrors, and where the total energy of the photons bouncing around inside it, is high.)

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> With the molasses analogy it did that?

Not via that analogy, no. By the actual math.
Strong disagree. Unlike you, they stuck their necks out for something they believe in, in defense of people who are utterly powerless.

As to doubts about whether such tactics are effective or not - as a basic point of history, this is exactly how the divestment movement against South African apartheid got its legs in the early 1980s. Of course the exact same complaints were made at the time ("They're just whining, it's all about self-promotion", etc). Invariably by people who were, themselves, doing nothing at all.
> Google doesn't owe any site any traffic regardless of how much traffic it might have received in the past.

If they're going to hold a near-monopoly on search, then I don't think that's true. Or, rather, they don't specifically owe anyone traffic, but drastic changes in search results -- especially when it relates to a competitor of Google's other properties -- should be subject to scrutiny.

Agree, though, that it's unreasonable to expect to come up in searches for "tutanota" when that term isn't even on the page, regardless of what the company used to be called. Before rushing to accuse Google of violating the DMA, they should have at least done a basic SEO checkup.
>They’re applying a bandaid to their rapidly deteriorating search, but championing it as giving the people what they want.

You can't expect them to come out and say what you expect them to say here. Of course they are going to sell it like this.
ah, my mistake. I saw the word and didn't realize the context.
> Ban renting

Yikes! You are really out of touch and clearly are not thinking in good faith. I hope you feel better soon
You can also buy Biscoff cookie butter. Which is absurdly delicious if you like the cookies.
Since they extracted the data shown in a chart and found it didn't match the equations, I'm wondering if this might just mean the chart is messed up.
I briefly modded a subreddit (before deleted my account in the blackout).

It was neat at fist, but then it basically became people getting uptight about everything. “Your rules don’t say we can’t posted obvious spam”, “you need a transparent process for appealing things”, “mod suck here”.

Like, I don’t care enough to provide a service for a multi-billion dollar company. If you don’t like it, start your own sub.
Maybe they think that you aren’t meaningfully contributing to the conversation, which seems very, very likely.
Managing to-do lists on the command line with Taskwarrior
Who will pay for/bear the costs of the damages? Who would pay for the limiting? Are they the same people?

If not, there's your answer.

A billion poor Africans being harmed doesn't hit the bottom line of the people who would be on the hook for preventing those damaged.
Exactly. There's only so much you can learn via shower thoughts.
I'm guessing it has something to do with the allegations in this article? https://expo.se/nyhet/elon-musk-funded-nonprofit-run-mit-pro...

But I have no idea whether those allegations are true or accurate–I just did a search trying to work out what people here were talking about, and this is the first thing that came up, and this is the first I've heard of this controversy
This was likely due to flickering because of low refresh rate. On CRTs, 60 Hz feels terrible, 85 Hz is much more comfortable.
You can run similarity scores with a custom SQLite function.

I use a Python one usually, but it's also possible to build a much faster one in C: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/23/building-c-extensions-...
I wonder to what degree an LLM could now produce frames/slots/values in the knowledge graph. With so much structure already existing in the Cyc knowledge graph, could those frames act as the crystal seed upon which an LLM could crystallize its latent knowledge about the world from the trillions of tokens it was trained upon?
Oh, a bit, the parent comment is a bit malformed at that point (why is the new boss talking about my old coworkers? how?), and yeah, I think your interpretation is probably correct.

… that's not really a situation that occurs, for one reason or another. Good people tend to be able to line up "next job" somewhat quickly and even if not, "my job" being a match isn't going to happen on a timescale after a layoff. I.e., we're laid off, time passes, I recover with a job, more time must pass before I'm going to be in the "we need more [good] people" and by that point there's basically no way they've not found work. Even then, getting a recruiting team to articulate a pitch in this industry is rending blood from a stone.
You think fentanyl is magic killing dust? What are you, one of those moronic cops who thinks they'll die from seeing fentanyl?

They only way you're injuring someone with fentanyl is getting them to ingest an unsafe amount of it one way or another. That's not really different from a lot of prescription drugs. Or some OTC ones, like Tylenol. Or lye and many other cleaning agents.
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BloomTech about to get a name change.

Honestly wonder what the true placement rate was. There seem to be some success stories I’m seeing on Twitter but this could have all been avoided had they just been up front.

That $164,000 victim fund sounds pitiful but I do wonder how it is calculated.
I've never understood why job creation would be considered something desirable in and of itself. Doesn't it make much more sense for a society as a whole to optimize for efficiency and then reallocate the now-redundant employees to tasks that actually need them?

And even disregarding that, practically, the kind of people working in HFT usually have a skill sets that make them highly employable anywhere. If anything, HFT is draining some of the best mathematicians and software engineers from other projects that can't afford to pay as well.
I’ve deep-dived into regenerative farming practices over the past six months, and commercial herbicides scare the hell out of me. These things are basically developed to very effectively kill non-grass, broadleaf plants. Unfortunately, that covers much of what we like to grow to eat, like tomatoes, potatoes, and legumes. Hence why the article mentions that GMO soybeans and cotton were developed to be resistant to this particular herbicide, and why it’s so devastating to crops.

And it’s scary how effective these things are. Aminopyralids (glyphosates, like grazon or roundup) can affect plants at concentrations of 1 part per billion (ppb), and apparently soil tests generally only test down to 5 ppb. So you could have contaminated soil or materials and have no idea, even if you ran a test. So the only real way to know is to test plant some peas or something to see whether they show signs of contamination. And hope that you have tested a representative sample.

These chemicals apparently mess with the stacking behavior of plant cells. So as the plant grows larger, the stems and leaves become more and more twisted and curled due to the cells not stacking properly. At least, that’s my understanding of how aminopyralids work, but it sounds like the chemical in this article may work similarly.

What’s worse is that some classes of herbicides (like aminopyralids) are persistant. They’re like the PFAs of herbicides. So if a farmer sprays their hay field with grazon to kill weeds, and then another person feeds that hay to some cows, horses, goats, rabbits, or whatever, the manure is basically poison; concentrated herbicides. If it’s applied to soil where crops are meant to grow, that soil will be contaminated for years. So one of nature’s greatest soil ammendments turns into a plague. The stories I’ve heard of persistent herbicide contamination are heartbreaking. Basically the only way to fix it is to grow vigorous grasses for several years to leech the poisons, and throw that grass into the landfill (because it’s contaminated too).

Be careful when you purchase manure, hay, and straw for your gardens, folks.
I'm not predicting the fall of China, I'm predicting its technological stagnation.
FWIW, I am downvoting this comment because you’re whinging, not because I have an issue with which companies you do or do not like.
> But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly.

Worth calling out that Hyundai is a major investor in Boston Dynamics.

FTA: This journey will start with Hyundai—in addition to investing in us, the Hyundai team is building the next generation of automotive manufacturing capabilities, and it will serve as a perfect testing ground for new Atlas applications.
You might want to have another look. I don't visit there often, but when I look right now it's all in Dutch.
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What if the orders were sealed and the auction happened much more frequently, like every minute? It doesn't seem like late traders would get much of an advantage.
I remember playing it. It was a Microsoft property that they still own.
Fintech Revolut bets on Mexico growth, expects remittances as driver
> in defense of people who are utterly powerless.

You are talking about the hostages?
I played Control on a 2080 Ti and for me the difference with RTX on was worth the compromise of lower frame rate. Mind you, it’s a relatively slow-paced game, not a competitive shooter.
is there a stronger version of AGPL where if you run it as a SaaS you need to publish the source for the infra/management/self-service/payments machinery too?
We've normalized the prices to per year based on the feedback - thanks everybody
They've been learning for a long time. Lest we forget reddit was sold to a mass media company in 2006. They didn't buy it to host a charity forum for the good of the internet community. Smart people work in ads and media and they understand the value of propaganda.
I don't really understand the consternation about this. AI was still providing initial labeling and confidence intervals on every interaction, tagging a feed of questionable/unsure situations for humans to verify. The goal would have been to drive down how many of these edge cases needed human verification over time.

During this time range they substantially expanded, including massive Amazon Fresh grocery stores that also offered the just walk out tech. These each would have required model improvements and additional training, meaning they need to keep some amount of human staff on hand. Sure, you can argue this is misleading marketing, but its still a pretty impressive achievement.
There are a few, here's one: https://github.com/imrayya/stable-diffusion-webui-Prompt_Gen...
> ...with inflated promises of job-placement rates as high as 86 percent, when the company’s internal metrics showed placement rates closer to 50 percent and in some cases as low as 30 percent.

> BloomTech advertised on its website that 71 to 86 percent of students were placed in jobs within six months of graduation, when its non-public reporting to investors consistently showed placement rates closer to 50 percent. Allred tweeted that the school achieved a 100 percent job-placement rate in one of its cohorts, and later acknowledged in a private message that the sample size was just one student.
Unfortunately there's very little in the way of aquifers in Dubai and the Northern Emirates.