skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Brands that get it on the earliest training in large volume will have benefits accrued over the long term.

That's the sales pitch - the truth is if a competitor pays more down the line - they can be fine-tuned in to replace earlier deals
If celery was all you ate, I doubt it would be possible to gain weight. It's so calorie-poor that it's hard to imagine being able to eat enough to surpass your basal metabolic needs.
When I was 18 (early 90s) and applying for university, the admissions office asked me what I wanted to do and I said "play god with DNA". Sure it sounds arrogant, but I knew that gene therapy would become a thing and if it worked, eventually people would apply it recreationally (by which I mean, to change your phenotype, or your future children's phenotype, for non-disease purposes).

I went into that field and spent a couple decades learning how to do it. My only conclusion at the end was that it would only be considered societally acceptable for diseases, not recreation, for the foreseeable future, and even things that seem "easy" (like fixing retinitis pigmentosa) are in fact fractally challenging. As much as I would like to have chromatophore tattoos, we're just not in a place where we can justify this (even self-experimentation) because it's really hard to know if your intervention had the effect you desired, and no other effects.
Didn't expect to see statistical consequences of fat tails! I bought that book and it was soooooo dense. I had trouble keeping up with it even after rereading it. Its basically a textbook
If the message never reaches the queue (network error, database is down, app is down, etc), then yes that is a 0 delivery scenario. Once the message reaches the queue though, it is guaranteed that only a single consumer can read the message for the duration of the visibility timeout. FOR UPDATE guarantees only a single consumer can read the record, and the visibility timeout means we don't have to hold a lock. After that visibility timeout expires, it is an at-least-once scenario. Any suggestion for how we could change the verbiage on the readme to make that more clear?
No, it isn't "completely useless".

If you have a function that will normally return a string, but can sometimes fail due to reasons, you may wish to yield an error message in the latter case. So you're going to be returning a string, or a string.

It's not what the content of the data is; it's how you're supposed to interpret it. You have two cases, success and failure, and control will flow differently depending on that, not based strictly on the type of data at hand. We just model those cases in a type.
Vangelis elevates the movie from a notably pretty noir to a metaphysical epic. For my money it is the most extraordinary and moving soundtrack of all time.
I already have too many tabs open, can you imagine how many would be open on a shared browser?
> ...unless your entire computer is locked down and "verified"...

This is exactly what the WEI (Web Environment Integrity)[0] specification sought to achieve, but at the browser level.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
They do not train newer models on output from older versions. In fact, they deliberately try to filter out LLM-generated text from their scraped internet datasets.
Brain research

I watched a lecture series on the brain and my take away was that we really don't know "how the brain works"

Surprised me how much is unknown compared to say fields like physics/chemistry
If a socket is closed properly there'll be a FIN and the other side can learn about it by polling the socket.

If the network connection is lost due to external circumstances (say your modem crashes) then how would that information propagate from the point of failure to the remote end on an idle connection? Either you actively probe (keepalives) and risk false positives or you wait until you hear again from the other side, risking false negatives.
"Are you repulsed by this ChatGPT answer? Try AntiRepulsorXL medication, shown to help with all your gag-inducing tech uses."
Question Mark, Ohio
Very natural also in money/investing applications. Passing to log scale asset prices follow random walks in several finance applications and behave much better in this scale. Options price formulas by rote memory are a bit of a mess because one does a log-calculate-exp kind of thing that distorts the streamlined rationale of the inner simpler calculations. Geometric means (used in CAGR, compound aggregate growth rates, for yearly returns) become just means (=arithmetic means) in log scale.
As you've demonstrated, you can always construct sum types in typescript with the use of explicit discriminants:

T = {tag: "L", payload: L} | {tag: "R", payload: R}

The real issue is typescript doesn't have pattern-matching, which make operating on these sum types inelegant
I'm with you. I go out of my way to avoid advertising whenever possible, I'm critical of marketing and advertising, and I pride myself on my rationality, thinking that I'm relatively immune to advertising. But yeah, people like you and me are just one speck in a constellation of human emotion and ration.

Disclaimer: I have an iphone, apple watch, ipad, airpods, and personal MacBook. I use a MacBook for work as well. Judge me as you will.
They literally charge a LOT for their services
Maybe I'm old school, but I didn't see anything questionable about the ad
Or you will pay a monthly subscription and get no ads.
Travel and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of the Saanich E-Bike Incentive Program [pdf]
Not if the pie grows bigger.
There is a socket option, SO_SNDLOWAT. It's not implement Linux according to the manual page. The description in UNIX Network Programming and TCP Illustrated conflict, too. So it's probably not useful.
I'd prefer to pay for no-ad version.
"Warfare in this century will continue to be transformed by software.
Many fear the application of artificial intelligence in the military context, including its potential to make possible more autonomous and indeed self-directed weapons systems.

It has been less fashionable, however, to note that software, including the systems that currently enable target selection and mission planning, has become as vital to the elimination of an adversary as it is to protecting the innocent from harm.

The platforms in use by our defense and intelligence partners present a very real threat to the survival of our enemies.

But those same software systems may also make possible and indeed hasten the beginning of the end of an era of total and indiscriminate war."

- Alex Karp, Q1 Letter to Shareholders
One in Four Tech CISOs Unhappy with Compensation
Here is a framework for thinking about it: raising population-level concerns and using them to justify laws restricting what children parents can have (or not have) seems like the pro-eugenics side. The reproductive freedom side is to take a laissez-faire attitude on how the human population changes. Let parents choose the children they want to have and it will probably work out.

That doesn't make the issues easy. There are some forms of state coercion that people are sympathetic to. For example, in India, there is unfortunately a strong preference for male children, and there are laws to prevent sex selection. This is obviously reducing people's reproductive freedom because there's a state interest in a balanced sex ratio.

Another example of state coercion that people are unsympathetic to is China, where the state had an interest in reducing population growth and imposed a one-child policy. Seems like that's eugenics? It's imposing personal hardship for a population-level concern.

Along these lines, I'm wary of population-level concerns like "will deaf people die out." What could the state do about it? At the individual parent level, nobody should have to raise a deaf child if they don't want to, when it's unnecessary.

But a tough case for the reproductive freedom side is: can deaf parents use prenatal testing to select for deaf children, if that's what they want? That's not a population-level concern, it's personal: specific parents want a deaf child. A lot of people have trouble with that kind of reproductive freedom when they wouldn't have an issue with wanting a boy or girl, because deliberately causing deafness sure seems bad for that child.
World's first whole genome embryo sequencing
Again, you speak out of your ass.

https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2021/11/death-sentence-fo...
This is an interesting piece but seems to treat journalism as a natural process outside of human control. Like, they made a graph and learned/proved that newspapers only write about student divestment demands when they do physically visible protests and clash with police. Then, the stories that get written focus on those clashes with police rather than the substantive demands of the students. Sure, this is all true, but it's all passive voice, like journalism and policing are something akin to gravity that we can only interrogate experimentally. This is the same trick that journalists themselves pull with language like "officer-involved shootings" to talk about incidents where cops shoot citizens.

The honest way to say this is that mainstream outlets don't want to publish pieces that indicate what the students' demands are, and instead prefer to quote the Governor. Then one could ask why that is, and try to come to some answer.
Is there any reason to hope that it will turn out differently?
Ask HN: Legitimate Uses of Smart Contracts, DApps, DAOs, NFTs, etc.?
I used to hear that cryptocurrency derived technologies (Smart Contracts, dApps, DAOs, NFTs, etc) would be useful for so many things, but I feel like I have never really seen these claims materialize.

Is anyone aware of real-world, legitimate, and useful uses of any of these technologies?

If you do provide an example, I would also be curious about what value would be lost if the use-case were built using traditional technologies.
The majority of internet users still use Google and these days it’s just a page full of sponsored links and products that are (purposely) hard to discern from the actual results. The content in the carousels for the sponsored products is richer than the content in the actual results.

Given that, I don’t think people would change their ChatGPT usage habits much if ads were introduced.
There is no "particular group" or "everyone else". Everyone has rights over their own creative work, even if that's mildly inconvenient to others. It's part of the social contract of modern society.
Could This Toad's Psychedelic Venom Be the Next Big Thing in Antidepressants?
Isn't it how SMTP is working though?
> and an anti-Apple advocate of even longer

Do something more productive with your time…

Not all people enjoy the same thing. I love my iPhone and my MacBook Pro for tons of reason, but someone "anti-Apple" will never listen to me in good faith. You don’t like and don’t want to use Apple products, that’s more than fine. Just don’t be a dick about it, it doesn’t make you superior and doesn’t mean people who use Apple products are dumb because they don’t see how they’re inferior to XYZ. It just means we have different criteria and priorities, which is fine.
You can buffer in userspace. Don't do small writes to the socket and no bytes will be sent. Don't do two consecutive small writes and nagle won't kick in.
FBI urges employees to "look for ways" to collect Americans' messages
Like I said, don't go into advertising. The most problematic aspect of this for Apple is it shows they don't understand those who heretofore were considered a core part of their user base. This is a blunder of epic proportions.
I feel like this is happening quite a lot in the generative-AI space, a /lot/ of words/names that already have wide/common use in the tech-sphere are being reused for new developments in generative AI.

I'm trying to not take it as an intentional extension of the already problematic effect these same technologies are having on the effectiveness of web-search…

All the best,

-HG
There's no "world war" exactly, but the US is still overseas killing people and has been doing that every single year for decades. Basically my entire life. I doubt there's been very many years since WWII that the US hasn't been engaged in wars and armed conflicts somewhere on the Earth. We rarely hear about any of it, and if you asked a random person on the street they probably couldn't name any of the countries where people are/have been being killed.
The same people who say we should respect deaf culture or trans rights are the same people who got super offended at transracial people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal).

I can't take this too seriously. Either you accept transracial, transsexual, and amputee wannabees, or you don't. I do. Activists generally it seems don't, or at least the ones screaming the loudest.

We can also all admit that something is a disorder and still accept those people for who they are. You don't have to go all crazy and try to ban homosexuality. And you don't have to go crazy and try to destroy Rachel Dolezal. We can be respectful.
I see people overestimating their ability to notice bugs.
Remember, I also said stupid. Ima go live in the non-dummy society and you can do whatever.
> 2) America could stop all conflict around the world, from deforestation to war to civil rights abuses

That's nonsense. China and Russia are exploiting development countries as best they can (too). I wonder how you got the idea that it'd be only the US?

Websearch for "china cobalt mines congo" for example.

Interesting about McDonald's anyway
Also, profiteering is just piker stuff. Imagine what major intelligence agencies will do once they set up front companies to prioritize placing their own 'content' as a training set.
Average user will NOT CLICK on those links. Anyone who ever had a news site and did some research how people interact with the content knows this. You show the source, but only a tiny amount of users click on those links.
Wait, why would Roy know Deckard’s identity as a replicant?
> AI to give every child a superhuman intelligence as a tutor

How much would you pay for that?

> AI to cut through endless reams of SEO'd bullshit that is the old enshittified internet

How much would you pay for that?

Is it more or less than what a company would pay OpenAI to boost their brand?
Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps. (2021)
Thanks for the correction!

Still, what a great addition those few words were. They become the culminating chord of the entire film.
The controversy is due to cutting off perfectly good and functioning body parts. Correcting a body part that is not working correctly isn't all that controversial.
> towards what I think of as extraction.

It is called rent-seeking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

FTA:
Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth.[1] Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality,[2][3] risk of growing political bribery, and potential national decline.

Successful capture of regulatory agencies (if any) to gain a coercive monopoly can result in advantages for rent-seekers in a market while imposing disadvantages on their uncorrupt competitors. This is one of many possible forms of rent-seeking behavior.
I literally just applied for a role at Callaway that did this - It is more common than you think. I've also seen it done for NBC Universal, Stubhub, and large satellite companies - just off the top of my head and own experience.
> Yup. The big pretense we pull as an industry is to pretend all of the data for all these models are somehow legitimate. It's all illegal. But what are you gonna do about it?

I feel the tech industry took the proverb "better ask for forgiveness than permission," then dropped the "forgiveness" part.
“Bright as magnesium” really completes the visual, wish he’d left that.
Cylindrical Slide Rules
... Food delivery app employees get shitty rewards in proportion to their work as well?
You are talking about distributed systems, nobody expects to read "exactly once" delivery. If I read that on the docs, I consider that a huge red flag.

And the fact is that what you describe is a performance optimization, I still have to write my code so that it is idempotent, so that optimization does not affect me in any other way, because exactly once is not a thing.

All of this to say, I'm not even sure it's worth mentioning?
The failure of tail hedging, and why barbell strategies are misleading
Is this limited to the ChatGPT UI? Hopefully this preferential treatment doesn't make it into the API.
We traveled on Amtrak for vacation recently, partially as an experiment because neither of us had traveled by train before.

It was a very good experience and we will absolutely use it again. Probably will for our next vacation.

The cars obviously needed some love, and the routes / schedules are limited to the point that it wouldn't really make sense to use for business travel. It was clearly a situation of 'this is a good thing that could be great with some funding'.

Anyway, as a recreational Amtrak user I'm thrilled to see money go their way.
The most absurd thing to me about the 500 mile email situation is that sendmail just happily started up and soldiered on after being given a completely alien config file. Could be read as another example of "be liberal in what you accept" going awry, but sendmail's wretched config format is really a volume of war stories all its own...
Thanks, that sounds quite reasonable to the untrained ear.

Just wanted to say I didn't downvote the original comment, I was only trying to guess about how others were perceiving it.
1. That’s an American source
2. The deadline is implicit based on demographic/economic calculations, not set by China

On a personal note, I don’t see how China is even capable of invading Taiwan. If they do try, it’s probably gonna be a Ukraine style war of attrition with Taiwan backed by the US such that China loses a huge amount of power while the US only gets more powerful
Or you pay a monthly subscription and get ads regardless.
HN definitely has a negative valence.

Sure, there's the 20% of comments that are outright rude, or tie everything back to their pet grievance (job satisfaction, government surveillance, the existence of JS).

But beyond that, the technical conversation has a negative, critical edge. A lot of comments come from the angle "You did something wrong by...", or only reply to correct.

There are still golden comments, and most personal anecdotes are treated respectfully, but it makes for an intimidating environment.
Quite possibly a quick of yours can cause your daughter's quirk, and a parent of yours had it too.
> you wouldn't want to get left behind.

I realise more and more lately that actually, yes, I do want to be
left behind. Please, please, leave me behind.
And the reality: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
It amazes me and makes me feel slightly more stupid to discover how much more easily I grok all this Rust stuff when it's expressed (elegantly) in what is basically C++.
Which is arguably even more insidious.
Not if you use a modern language that enables TCP_NODELAY by default, like Go. :-)
To add more to this, not essentially 4K is the only thing behind L1, even HD streams can be with L1.

It's entirely the services' choice to use what they want, like they can even put SD stream behind L1 and leave 4K for L3 (this happens widely in lesser known services & L2 is hardly used). Also Amazon's 4K is different from Netflix's 4K considering the key revocation TAT. So everything changes from service to service.
I guess the person would have no associations with the pure color red. Non-colorblind people have a life full of memories where red is associated with blood, lipstick, flushed cheeks, race cars, etc. plus the associated feelings.

I'm guessing they only really get the full effect of the therapy after they've lived without colorblindness for a while and made those associations.

Do you think there's a fundamental difference between getting a new color receptor and training yourself to recognize/differentiate more of the colors you already have the receptors to distinguish?
It might be. Is it reasonable to assume the material was cleared by leagal department if your manager came and told you to download books from this long list and clean them up for training purposes?
I don't put a lot of faith in a company literally named after the espionage tools of an evil wizard.
They are also salting the ground behind themselves so no competitors can grow or thrive. Their "brand partners" won't let LLM upstarts use or scrape the same data OpenAI has licensed, OpenAI is leveraging its first-mover advantage to cordon off data sources.
Yes, but most people are using POSIX time (intentionally or not). You don't need a database in POSIX time.
At the cost of running those models, they are probably loosing money on you.
Seems an unusual choice that this does not have an HTTP interface.

HTTP is really the perfect client agnostic super simple way to interface with a message queue.
Maybe we could eventually get -fsafe, I guess dreaming is allowed.
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Or SELinux
https://archive.is/d9Jho
https://www.rvo.nl/onderwerpen/octrooien-ofwel-patenten/vorm...
The current Rundfunkbeitrag which forces everyone to pay for something regardless wether they own a TV or radio, was introduced on January 1st 2013 and AFD was founded on February 6th the same year. Are 35 days a significant difference?

I didn't mind the old system to finance ARD/ZDF/... as I don't care about TV or radio and choose not to have either, but the new system is just not fair.

The French were smart enough to change their funding to be drawn from the general state budget: Less effort and no more grumpy people like me.
I'm glad this little girl can hear. But I don't understand how this can possibly work.

We can read:

> “So basically, we find the inner ear and we open the inner ear and infuse the treatment, in this particular case using a catheter, over 16 minutes,” he said.

Genes are in cells, right? It seems like what is being said is that this therapy goes in and alters all the cells. The altered cells then keep the alteration. Whatever it is that creates these cells, also knows to create this new type of cell - cos this is not an ongoing treatment.

Anyway explaining whatever technical thing is going on here with the word 'infuse' is a bit simplistic. Can we not have some more detailed information?
But is training a model "selling derivatives"? And is so, of what?
I agree. Zimmer is a competent composer and even an old school analogue synthesizer guy, but he doesn’t have the sentimentality of Vangelis (RIP).
$20 ARPU averages out to about $1 in profit in typical SaaS. Gotta generate more than that to make investors whole, unfortunately
> I also hate that there are 3 special keys and command and ctrl are separated.

Having cmd and ctrl distinct keys is great in a terminal though, no more conflict between "copy" and "kill".

Also you should not "hate" stuff like this, just accept that there are differences between all OSes, they’re tools. There’s tons of things that annoy me in tools I use (including macOS which I still use voluntarily) but it’s just easier to embrace it and use it as intended that trying to mold it in something it’s not.
1. Because they physically fought;

2. Because by that point, Roy was on of the world's experts on replicants and their biology;

3. Because that provides a good explanation for why he told his story to Deckard, rather than, well, doing anything else