skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a 100% sure, but I've got a feeling that having a well-regarded Quora profile became a Thing in India and other parts.

Then people started spamming "answers" to every question they could even tangentially produce some gibberish for.

10 years ago Quora was a place where you could get an actual expert answering questions (a thing they should've done on their own site tbh[0] with references and actual insight. Now it's just like what experts exchange turned into.

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Most of human history is before settlement and agriculture. How is it human nature to have robot lawn mowers and a picket fence? I'd argue that multiple family houses and cities are much more suitable for a social tribe species than suburbia. Not to mention that suburbia is completely unsustainable.
most libvirt stuff is just an attempt by google and redhat to take over qemu.
Anyone have points of comparison to https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie ?
How much LLM training data is there from all sources in Trillions of Tokens?
It doesn't have to be "the Lord". Replace that with running for example and it reflects a quote from the greatest marathon runner of all time Eliud Kipchoge - "Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions."
I wonder if it would really come down to AI if you did the user research, maybe focused on the “onboarding” process. I remember a time back when you would get a Quora result on a search query and you could click on it be find a few answers with comments on them to help you determine their merits.

This is completely anecdotal, but these days I honestly can’t even find the answer if I click on a Quora result on a search engine. Instead I’m created by “similar” questions and what not in an UI I don’t really understand too well. Now, I was never a Quora user, as in, I never signed up for an account. So I’m probably not in their target audience. With their modern entry point, however, I’ve simply banned their domain from my search results along with sites like Pinterest because they are essential just a wasted of time if I accidentally hit their sites.

Maybe that doesn’t matter. I would have probably never signed up to actually answer things, or even ask, but if anyone who would be potential user is like me. Then they won’t ever get to the “onboarding” process of joining the site, and I’d wager that was more damaging than AI. LLM’s are more akin to the final nail in the coffin for a lot of these sites who have made it so user hostile to join their “communities”. Again, it’s just anecdotal, I’ve done or read no research. But I do think that it’s interesting that we’re now at a point where many people will include “Reddit” in their search queries when looking for answers, and Reddit is the easiest side in the world to join or even read without signing in (at least old.reddit is).
The university's legal staff is mentally deficient. Found property is found property.
Went out into a meadow near town last night. Couldn't see a thing. Light pollution was probably too bad. But it was really funny to see a bunch of people milling about in the meadow at almost midnight. Many of them idiots walking around with phone torches destroying their and everyone else's night vision.

The shocking thing to me, though, is the number of satellites in the sky. This was a shit sky, way beyond what people would call "milky". Hardly any stars visible. But everywhere you looked there were satellites. I remember it being rare to see one only 15 years ago. Almost couldn't believe you could really see them back then. But now... Everywhere. I had no idea how congested it was getting up there. Wish I could leave Earth. But also glad we can't because we'd fuck that up too.
> Surprised at the small size of the dataset here.

Author here. For answering the research question that spawned the article (engage or stay away from a do-or-die encounter), the data set actually appears to be "too large" – see the significance values of the parameters. I got carried away when copy-pasting match result tables, but the effect is so clear that a much smaller data set would have sufficed for showing it.

I think the thing you're asking for is what the Leetify rating tries to encode, but people in this discussion have suggested alternative rating systems which I have yet to look into.
Haven't been to Chuck E Cheese's in a while, but I wonder if they've toned some of that down since moving from tokens to (optionally "all you can play" time-based) cards.

Back in my day, the slot machines and coin pusher games served as a lesson against gambling, since they ate all your tokens really quickly and you almost never won anything significant.
Ask HN: LLVM versus WASM?
If you could only dedicate your time to one of these technologies which would you choose and why?
It doesn't have to be "the Lord", that's just an example, albeit a poor one. Replace that with running and it reflects a quote from the greatest marathon runner of all time Eliud Kipchoge - "Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions."
If by FNAF you mean the game franchise Five Nights at Freddy's, that could only have boosted their popularity. You get the fans of that game who would at the very least go there to see the real deal (minus the killing) as an additional untapped set of customers. The core demographic (parents with young children) won't care about that game one way or another, and if they do have a child into that game's fandom it will only make them more willing to cajole their parents into going.

The causes for their demise are completely based on the economics of maintaining actual animatronic characters.
Great! thanks for letting me know, users will finally no longer be faced with sad info that its not supported :D
Well, presumably the whole concept of a Freeport is kind of a “hack” against the tax system. These items are treated as if they’re in transit, but they are stored indefinitely.
Huh, TIL that there are jurisdictions like this. Not in my part of the world.
I cannot remember a time when quora was not broken, so AI certainly didn't ruin it.

The UI and their login popups have always been horrible enough that I try to avoid them. But in addition to that, most specific questions - the ones that would benefit the most from a nuanced human answer - get answered with generic copypasta. My impression is that Quota tried gamifying the process of answering... And they succeeded, to their detriment. Now people keep answering questions that they have no clue about just to make their presumed importance score go up. It's a bit like those grifters that order a ghost-written book in their name so that they can already claim authority before they learn a new skill.
Earliest Uses of Some Words of Mathematics
Same. I really dislike how you open one question and it sort of mixes in answers to different questions. New reddit UI does something similar.
If you can't rely on your customers always having an earthed outlet to hand (as you can't in countries that permit unearthed sockets, or often have dodgy electrics), you have to design it to work without the earth line in case a customer uses that socket.

Adding an earth conductor would require a thicker, less flexible 3-wire cable, a bigger plug (in the countries that have the option of a 2-pronger) and a three-pin power connector if it's not a captive cable, which is bigger and heavier. To ground that Y capacitor node means taking the earth conductor from the socket to near the SMPS transformer, and you have to maintain strict clearance and creepage distances between that conductor and the live/neutral regions at all points. Modern power supplies are very compact, so this is actually more of an ask than you might expect.

As the device is already designed to meet or exceed safety requirements without the earth wire, all it does is avoid the tingle and add weight, volume, design effort and component cost. As mass market devices produced by the hundreds of millions, this is not deemed a good tradeoff.

You can avoid this on your own, however, by grounding the case yourself, by connecting any exposed metal to a local earth point. Remember that Macs are anodised, so the surface isn't really conductive, (which actually amplifies the effect at the point of contact as a thin insulator is also a capacitor!).
That's already the case, although not for domestic travelers it seems. See for example https://reason.com/2020/07/30/homeland-security-seized-2-bil...
Digestive issues like IBS probably make anxiety worse but they don't cause the problem.
From my point of view the underlying problem here seems to be that someone in Quora product team feels that the best way to drive engagement is to predict what the user might want to know about and then spam them with it, rather than letting them discover on their own or use their feedback.

I stopped using Quora 8 or 9 years back, because despite how much time I spent curating the feed I was served, the questions always seemed to veer back into the questions on life experiences, `write a short story in 3 lines` or about relationships. This was most probably due to topics like these being a fad in India during the time and often received a lot of answers or upvotes.

Every time I marked an question as something I was not interested in, because of the topic, Quora assumed that I did not like the author's answer and then proceeded to show 5 other questions the author has responded to. I assumed it was because of some bug on their side ignoring my preferences of topics, until I spent a week in Dubai and saw most of the questions in my feed match the topics I marked as interested.
Not being aware of the existence of acquire/release is strictly better than knowing about it but not understanding the details. One can have an excellent career and never use anything other than condvars and mutexes. But one can also really shit the bed if they misunderstand the semantics of atomics. I use atomics with explicit memory ordering only as a measure of last resort.
at this point, why not use the creation date (with all that you describe on top) as the primary component of the primary key?
Very topical for me, I was just watching the movie The Insider.
Quora was in my uBlacklist filters many years before generative AI was a thing.
The telcos all stripped themselves in a race to the bottom. They outsourced everything that wasn't nailed down.
>the only way the world gets off plastic is we replace it with something else. Most humans are selfish and are not willing to make sacrifices for the greater good

so true... people forget that plastic saved elephants because it offered a compelling ivory alternative and fossil fuels saved the whales by offering a cheaper alternative to whale oil.
Construction paper quilts - have precut shapes and examples to give them inspiration. Teaches about geometry and symmetry in a very informal organic way.
Amazing, considering whole demo fits in URL. Modern website developers should learn a thing or two about optimization from this.
> I usually allocate and free in the same function unless the function is meant to allocate for the caller. (And then that call is considered allocation in the caller.)

Yeah. I do a similar thing in C, but think of it as 'differing level of scopes in the abstraction'[1].

It's pretty easy to visually spot when a scope acquires a resource in $SCOPE::foo() and never releases that resource in the $SCOPE::cleanup().

[1] Like the way code has block scope, function scope, file scope and global scope, a problem domain or an abstraction over the solution (the model) also has varying levels of scope. I've never found this to be a taught thing, however. Modeling the problem domain and any proposed solution is a useful skill before jumping into coding a solution.
How did you get around the Chrome tab max memory 4GB ("32 bit optimisation") limit?
Yes, some non-linearity is important - not for Turing completeness, but because without it the consecutive layers effectively implement a single linear transformation of the same size and you're just doing useless computation.

However, the "decision point" of the ReLU (and it's everywhere-differentiable friends like leaky ReLU or ELU) provides a sufficient non-linearity - in essence, just as a sigmoid effectively results in a yes/no chooser with some stuff in the middle for training purposes, so does the ReLU "elbow point".

Sigmoid has a problem of 'vanishing gradients' in deep networks, as the sigmoid gradients of 0 - 0.25 in standard backpropagation means that a 'far away' layer will have tiny, useless gradients if there's a hundred sigmoid layers in between.
Then what is DWIM for you? What did you want to disable in Interlisp? For me the concept does indeed have nothing intrinsic to do with Lisp.
FairLight – 1337 (C64 Demo) [video]
Author here. You're absolutely correct in that there are two levels of skill indicator.

Something like a rank or rating is the gold standard for determining how good a player is against the rest of the group rated by the same system. It's the gold standard because it's verifiable: it translates to a probability of winning and this can be calibrated over time to increase faith in the rating. But by design, it's a fairly slow-moving indicator.

Faster feedback is interesting for figuring out in-game decision rules or improving more effectively, and that's where these per-match ratings like the Leetify rating comes into play. They are naturally more difficult to verify because they are working on a very small, noisy sample, and since the outcome of the match (win/loss) is attributed to an entire team, it can be hard to detangle the individual contributions to that, without resorting to subjective judgment. Leetify have, from what I understand, tried to take a quantitative/verifiable approach to it, but they haven't shared any details around exactly how they verified it – if at all.

I'll take a look at tracker.gg and see what else I can learn about this. Thanks for sharing!
Applebaum checks the standard neocon boxes and been a member of standard nat sec talking points laundering cutouts - Carnegie, WaPo, The Atlantic, etc.
Some of us have not forgotten those who cheered on the Iraq war based on lies that led to a million people dead, displaced or maimed. Applebaum cheered on every single war in the name of democracy. So yes, her grandstanding about democracy and propaganda does not pass muster among well informed people.
When would that be?
Quora ruined Quora. And it started well before the advance of LLMs.
People who take antibiotics usually have to temporarily take probiotics afterwards to restore the bacteria they lost.
He didn't criticize art. He criticized the "art world".

They're very different things. They're perhaps opposing.
Yes I’m sad that still nobody did a rock solid implementation of the Postgres API… I will use it all the time if someone did. I would have the best of both worlds.
i imagine we'll never hear about this again for one reason or another like most of these good news breakthroughs. regardless of new fancy alternative plastics, a government could easily solve this virtually overnight in whichever given country by telling companies "single use plastics are banned as of x date, you will find an alternative and eat the cost or you will stop selling your product". never underestimate the ability of companies to adapt at short notice when money is on the line. it really is that simple, as are most of the issues we face in this sort of category.
I'm going to approach this from a third entirely different angle, maybe wrong.

My birth country has a 1A and a 2A (but no ERA); my adoptive country neither of those (but does guarantee equality*). By looking where my feet are you can tell which country I believe does a better job of providing liberty and justice for all.

* RS 101 art. 8

As to division and partisanship, a joke:

Our (former) far-right party leader went to some international convention, and at lunch Le Pen and Wilders beckoned him over and said "come have lunch with us!", but he just waggled his finger at them, pointed towards two shaggy-haired politicians at a nearby table in polarfleece and sensible shoes, and said "sorry, I'm a right wing nationalist, so I'm going to go over there and eat lunch with my colleagues: the socialist and the green from my country."
+1 less new york
It’s a web page.
I have written a similar server (per-device client cert required which gets you mTLS to a logon page which uses OIDC the authenticate the user and enable the tunnel) but the client is the tricky bit.

I have written one in Go for the Mac which uses the command line wg from Brew and handles key gen, but it is clunky and requires sudo.

A proper native app which uses the network entitlements would be great, but it is beyond my ken
You are never more free than your availability to offend other people. Everything else is anti-stoic posturing to retain tangible and social stature.
Before AI there were a lot of shills on the site who deliberately gave answers that had nothing to do with reality. AI just sped up the process.

And the answer the author of the article formulates has nothing to do with reality either.
The tastes of the majority of people in society are for things they have already seen. It does not follow that we should only produce things that are similar to what has gone before.
We have been using seaweedfs for about 3 months and so far it’s pretty solid, the integration with kubernetes is nice and the maintainer is very active on slack and when opening GitHub issues.
They could have doubled down and invested in some newer animatronics, with voice recognition and more realistic movements, reactions, mobility, etc., to differentiate themselves from other pizza/video games chains. But instead they chose easy, with "big displays." How unimaginative.
Good idea! I prefer Minetest as it is free, open source and requires no logins.
Just making things in Minetest is enough for 4-6 year olds, and the mods are extensible if suitable.
> I had passion as a kid, interest in weird things, but school and the social environment killed every little bit of it.

As a parent of an autistic kid: How would you cultivate that? Our son is autistic, he is 8 years old. He started to hate school. All he cares for is Minecraft and Magic: The Gathering. It's a bit sad to see that he seemingly drowns his curiosity by immersing himself mentally only in these two topics. I wonder if there's a way to guide him to develop interest in other topics. Any recommendations?
Most people are capable of logical inference just fine if they have all the relevant facts readily available. LLMs are useful because they can potentially recall a much larger set of relevant facts much faster than you could look them up on the internet, albeit at some reduction in accuracy.
Once upon a time I used to live in libraries to make any kind of progress on certain problems. Then Google arrived and my library visits reduced drastically. Yet libraries still stand. And I still head there whenever I need some peace and quite. Something like that will happen with StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Quora,Reddit and even HN.
well ... I didnt :D some of the stuff you just need to live with ..
Is it obvious that such a distribution even exists?
I second that, what one can do at home with ones own (hacker) kids is different from a syllabus that all kids in class can access.
I actually blacklist the entire domain from kagi search results.
the old animatronics were already expensive as is. That's the quirk of being a market targeing children. Children don't necessarily scale as quality increases.
typically i try to learn one thing at a time before starting a project with 10 things I don't know well.
I was only responding in kind. And I'm autistic myself, so.

Honestly, the only hostility toward austitic people I see around here is the person invalidating and ignoring the opinions of others within the autistic community.
My recommendation is simply know what you want. If you don’t give a shit about people then just follow the money. If you care about people then be very choosy about extremely solid leadership. If you care about quality of product then only choose jobs where you actually build things and learn.
I can't imagine what the arguments looked like. No, you don't understand, it's impossible to wake up 10m early to fry an egg or make a sandwich? I don't get it.
> (Note: Emery is a granular rock composed mainly of corun­dum—a crystalline compound of silicon and carbon—magnetite and spinel. Here, `emery’ and `corundum’ are used for the abrasive powders derived from these rocks.)

Corundum is Aluminium Oxide (not clear if this is part of the original article?)
Bravo - impressive work
I always think people calling AI just ‘fancy autocomplete‘ haven’t really tried it yet.
I don't know when it was most recently changed, but...

"and you grant Stack Overflow the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, export, display and to commercially exploit such Subscriber Content, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by you"

https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public

This content isn't licensed under CC-BY-SA to stackoverflow, it carries additional riders which grant SO the legal right to sell it however they please.
Some related articles with hardware implementations:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.04053
https://hal.science/hal-01327460/document
https://archive.ll.mit.edu/HPEC/agendas/proc05/Day_1/Abstrac...

I would love to see how it compares to regular software and hardware trigonometric implementations on various kinds of hardware through the ages.
I also built ScreenRun, a video editor with zooms and fake clicks running 100% client side with web codecs.
You can try for free https://screenrun.app/
Same pollution as depicted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)
Elucidate, and enlighten us
I’m not a McDonalds customer generally. I visited one at the weekend as was with some other people and it was a convenient stop on a road trip.

Last time I went to a McDonald’s a long time ago it was a fast smooth experience. Walk up to counter, give my order, transaction completed in less than a minute.

The McDonalds yesterday, no obvious point of sales counter. They were a bunch of large touch screens. The first one I tried took me to the first UX screen with best sellers, then it froze, it would no longer register touch. It could have been wet fingers from the rain or it could just be broke.

I move to the screen next to it to try, that didn’t work at all. I looked around and see a third screen on the other side, I walk over, that worked. I then had to navigate a bunch of menus searching for what I wanted, then I get asked if want to make it a meal or some other upsell searching for the no button before confirming adding to cart. Then I needed to navigate to the checkout only to be presented another upsell again trying to find the no I just want to pay option.

After finally paying it briefly showed a number on the screen I wasn’t paying attention for expecting the paper copy from the printer on the machine. I got no paper copy as the machine was out of paper.

For a fast food company it felt like a hassle / hard work ordering.

They’ve cut all their front of house staff for some touch screens to save paying a few minimum wage workers.

With less staff operating it also felt dirty and run down. Last time I went to McDonalds you could depend on it being cheap, fast, clean and reliable. It didn’t feel like any of them anymore
physical NFTs
Grit and blood and spite.

You find that when you've reach the bottom of the barrel, you haven't because it actually goes a lot deeper than you thought it would. You are capable of magnitudes more than you think you are. It's only when you're in a situation where failure is not an option that you discover this.

In the first world, we have it so incredibly easy that most of us never discover our true potential.