skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This explains exactly why physical restaurant menus are so much better vs mobile site menus. If I'm viewing the menu of a restaurant on my phone, I always look in Google Maps for someone who took a picture of the menu, because it's a dense UI. Every "mobile friendly" menu site is able to show maybe 5 items on the page at once, so it takes many pages of scrolling to see everything.
Just out of curiosity, what do people mean when they say "publish the algorithm"? A poster-sized UML diagram? A million lines of spaghetti code saying "if foo > 11.78 then bar += 2.6"? An exhaustive design document exactly specifying the entire ranking system (which absolutely does not exist at any company)? The ranking signals the algorithm operates on?
Buy this legislation or we'll kill the internet
Yeah. I've had like three conversations with people who said LLMs don't "think", implied this was too obvious to need to say why, and when pressed on it brought up the pausing as their first justification.

It's an interesting window on people's intuitions -- this pattern felt surprising and alien now to someone who imbibed Hofstadter and Dennett, etc., as a teen in the 80s.

(TBC, the surprise was not that people weren't sure they "think" or are "conscious", it's that they were sure they aren't, on this basis that the program is not running continually.)
Exactly. You can't reason with that you do not currently posses.
> and that would be a wrong thing to do, and so would be "isolated heaps" - you do want to share memory through concurrent data structures (which e.g. channels are despite what go apologists say), and easily await them when you want to.

It depends on the context. In some contexts absolutely not. If we share memory, and these tasks start modifying global data or taking locks and then crash, can those tasks be safely restarted, can we reason about the state of the whole node any longer?

> CSP, while is nice on paper

Not sure if Erlang's module is CSP or Actor's (it started as neither actually) but it's not just nice on paper. We have nodes with millions of concurrent processes running comfortably, I know they can crash or I can restart various subsets of them safely. That's no small thing and it's not just paper-theoretical.
I don’t use those tools and am not in a state of constant frustration.

I use the Amethyst tiling window manager and multiple desktops.
This is not accurate.

Compare the average Soviet family to the average US family in the 60s-80s.

The standard of living is not even close.

Also, when did Europeans have a higher quality of life vs US postwar? Socialism creates general malaise and considerably lower growth.

Socialism has been proven to be an academic pipe dream that only somewhat works with small, culturally homogenous, high-trust populations. Scale it up and the inefficiencies/corruption grow exponentially. When resources are allocated inefficiently, everyone suffers.
but if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it?
University/college administrators are deeply terrified about AI. They are fully aware of the exclusive role that respected institutions play as gatekeepers of accreditation. They know that the entire value of a diploma or degree from their school is completely founded upon the public perception of its legitimacy. AI threatens to totally erase that legitimacy by making it trivial for anyone to cheat on their assignments, thus preventing the school from properly assessing student learning.

Some of this danger can be mitigated by switching assessment exclusively over to in-person, proctored, closed book exams. However, this does not work for many courses in the humanities that are intended to teach critical academic writing. A 3 hour closed book exam is totally inadequate for assessing the student's ability to conduct research and write a long, critical essay. Similar issues exist for many other fields, particularly as you go deeper into specialization in a field where an examination covering basic facts and skills cannot suffice.
Doing almost anything else with a “feed” should expose a company to liability for anything they elect to promote, I’d say.
Counter-counterpoint: effective moderation doesn't require shadowbanning, and the ever increasing amount of chan-level garbage that gets moderated here demonstrates that shadowbanning doesn't make HN good, it just sweeps the bad under the rug.
> But there is version of this where weapons at the hospital are removed by force, without bombing it.

Version A (what happens now): Israel calls everybody in the vicinity of the hospital, gives them time to evacuate. Then Israel strikes the hospital with a missile without a warhead. Then Israel actually bombs it.

Version B (what you suggest): IDF storms in with guns blazing.

What version, in your opinion, will result in more civilian deaths?
Synology introduces AI for customer service
Few more improvements:

// comma is optional, used for disambiguation
search result := users, find all by name. // omitted parameters match words

if search result is present, // empty brackets can be omitted
return ok(search result value); // API change for better readability
else
return: not found. // colon is another optional delimiter

I actually like it so much, I would try to write a transpiler to Java…
The Chinese government could order TikTok to downrank / not show content that criticizes the CCP. The US government could not order FB to downrank content that criticizes the Democrats.
Agreed. I'm not advocating for use of asbestos given its tendency to end up in places humans breathe.
https://www.koalastothemax.com
I'll bet you $10 that this ends up being used a full 30 years before it's well-understood what problems it causes.
> because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users.

So what? Why are Elon Musk and Sundar Piachi allowed direct control of what they show me but Shou Zi Chew isn’t? Is it due to governmental involvement? Imagine if the BBC broadcast direct to Americans!

Or are we, somehow, collectively, of the opinion China is an enemy of some variety? If so, what variety? And what weird peacetime rivalry are we having?
Based on these two video demos, the font seems to be distorted (normally)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ee-x6IXWK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqgqwO11abk&list=PLmUXemGpYY...
Decidability is whether one can statically determine if an algorithm halts for a given input. NFAs halt for all inputs, by construction.
>But I’ve survived multi-day power outages with nothing more than some flashlights, a camping stove and a camping heater. The cost of replacing my frozen foods is negligible compared to the cost of generators.

How are you venting the exhaust gases? It's not an issue to run them briefly, but when you're talking during a multi day outage and extended run times in a confined spacer with limited air flow, that's a problem.

>What am I missing? Obviously some edge cases like CPAP, O2 concentrators, and other health things. But I have to imagine that is a small portion of the population compared to who’s buying these things.

Obvious case I can think of is air conditioning in extremely hot climates. An extended power outage in Phoenix, AZ during the summer would probably kill a decent number of people.
> Your standard users never become high power users on your platform

This is considered good, because if they become power users and get their stuff done faster they'll "engage" less and we can't have that.

Remember that today's career incentives in tech companies means tech is primarily there to drive "engagement" and is not there to solve the user's problem.
This would be a horrible experience. Do you only view hackernews through the "new" feed? Or do you prefer to view the front page that has had an "algorithm" applied.

How would new content discovery happen in your proposed world?
> The fact this is considered absurd by some replies here is a fascinating insight, TBH.

I always thought there were relatively few people with this mentality, that a simple and trivial precaution is totally unacceptable and infringes on their entire life. Then COVID hit and we all saw just how many people would not even lift a pinky finger to help mitigate risk for themselves and others. I don't understand it, either. Do y'all just go out and jump off cliffs every day because you're free to do it?
I think that as long as a clear "mark of parody" is maintained such that a reasonable person could distinguish between the two, AI parodies are probably fine. The murkiness in my mind is expressly in the situation in the first episode of Black Mirror, where nobody could distinguish between the AI-generated video and the prime minister actually performing the act. Clearly that is not a parody, even if some people might find the situation humorous. But if we're not careful we give people making fake videos cover to hide behind fair use for parody.

I think you and I have the same concerns about balancing damage to the societal fabric against protecting honest speech.
Sounds good in theory but how many people are actually qualified to interpret those algorithms? Average Joe on facebook is going to believe it does what ever Bob tells him it does.
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Somewhat off topic, but the most interesting part of the article for me is this:

'the first two stages being “Paradigm Invocation,” where the student ‘knows’ something they’ve been told, but not why it is or why it is significant (“Alexander was a military genius!”), and then “Paradigm Rejection, where the student, having learned that some paradigms are incomplete or even wrong, turns on them rather too completely'

It seems to me that many discussion, even the comments on this page, have to do with paradigms. We all have such intense opinions and reactions and the discussions are often not productive. I suspect that it is because the paradigms of the participants are completely different.

And as a corollary, perhaps we use paradigms because doing detailed analysis is overwhelming. I had friends who had been in Nepal for a couple of years and could not cope with the overwhelming number of choices they faced in a US grocery store. Seventeen kinds of laundry detergent?

I had a paradigm, aka a brand of laundry detergent.

And to make things worse, perhaps paradigms are dependent on your own circumstances? Biden vs Trump? Two paradigms caused by two very different set of circumstances?

[edit: add 'for me' in the first sentence]
Farcaster Raises $150M at $1B valuation
You can get a tutor to check your homework and highlight your errors. Sometimes they just tell you answers in the process of teaching. AI can be a tutor if that is what you ask for.

Homework is for using every tool at your disposal to learn. Tests are for proving you actually learned. Grading homework for credit and not giving feedback until after the test is a pattern I have seen too many times in higher ed, and it is a sorry excuse for education.
This is what struck me as well. This is in the vein of, "Who watches the watchmen?" I can understand a world, albeit it sounds chaotic, where nothing is monitored. I'm worried about a world where the only unmonitored people are people with definitive authority.
Space-Based Solar Power Is Dead [video]
Don’t be silly, I never said anything about rolling back any laws. Please don’t try to put words into my mouth.

Digressions aside, what value is there in allowing an uninformed person to make impactful decisions on complex matters?
> We haven't looked into exactly how this will be handled yet

That's how we know you're the real deal! Move fast and break things, laws and such are mere details. Capture the market first, work around problems later.
Just another example of "artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity"
I'm not listing criteria for thought

I'm listing things that current LLMs cannot do (or things they do that thinking entities would not) to argue they are so simple they are far from anything that resembles thinking

> it’s fine though, this was as productive as i expected

A product of your replies becoming lowering in quality, and becoming more argumentative, so I will discontinue now
I agree. Most people just want the quick and easy fix regardless of efficacy. Make them show the algorithm, some other entity will review it for you and tell you if you should be outraged or not, you continue using the site while complaining about the changes that need to happen. The most effective method is to severely limit or elimate your own (or kids) usage. But creating your own standards and standing by them seem to be out of favor these days (integrity and self control). It's all about FOMO and consumption.
My reply to you is not to do with the sentiment about opinions / polarization.

At one time I moderated two large and growing forums - wordpress.org/.com - and there was an ability to shadowban.

You post to a forum, as a mod I see your post and I ban you (for whatever reason)
You understandably get angry
You make a new account, post again and react angrily to the ban in your post
I have no option but to ban you again
We end up in a circle
This is not good for you or me.

If though I shadowban your anger does not rise, you do not make lots of new accounts and I do not create more work for us both.

For me the key here is that shadowbanning is okay for an established user who one day went off the rails. Let them rant, check their later posts, and remove that shadowban when the calm has returned. But you must check.
For new users, just ban, block and use tools to autoblock going forward.

I was a mod on a growing subreddit for almost 10 years. Sometimes a shadow-banned user would post. As a mod we could see the post. We would let the post be published but would also reply along the lines of "You are shadowbanned by the reddit admins. This is how you check [give info] and this is how you appeal [give info]."

Blanket shadowbanning is a bad thing.
Such bans must be reviewed.
Then it seems that "survivorship bias" is some kind of unfalsifiable and self-fulfilling belief.

Secondly, these sorts of discussions usually don't define any concrete amount of success that a game is supposed to achieve. What is "no traction" supposed to mean? Aegis Defenders has 1,656 reviews at the moment. There's the assumption floating about that you can roughly multiply this by 50 to get the number of owners, which would turn out to about 80,000. The price point is fluctuating between $19.99 and $4.99. Will it net the developer/publisher less money over its lifetime than its development cost?

In any case, I think that one of the biggest factors is not merely the game's quality, but whether there are a lot of players hungry for a game's specific concept and genre. Making an "excellent game" in an oversaturated genre, or in a genre where games require some network effect to take off (any multiplayer game), is much more risky. Don't just make something good; make something that a lot of people want even when the product is less than perfect.

EDIT: VG Insights estimates $770k gross revenue. That's just for the Steam version. The game was also published on PlayStation 4 and Switch. The developer team seems to have been small.

Based on your reply to the sibling comment, you're just pointing out the "contrast" to the success of Balatro? I honestly don't get the point. I don't think the particular amount of success that break-out hits achieve matters to the discussion. If Balatro had a million reviews, would you expect Aegis Defenders to also have a lot more reviews and sales? I think this isn't relevant to the question whether excellent games will succeed (for me this means: enable the developers to make a good living) with some predictability or whether it's due to luck, and whether there exist a lot of excellent but unknown games.
Yes, but 6000 people don't choke eating olives at an airplane bar.
It's not just media outlets. Chinese Communist Party officials are directly embedded in all of their large corporations and can override regular management decisions. We have no visibility into exactly what they're doing but from a security perspective we have to assume the worst.
Related:

Scientists Confirm Microplastics Now Detected in Human Testicles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421787
Which years? In just a few months in 2016 he expressed support for Wright and then expressed regret for doing so.
Go to Leetcode, look up a bunch of LC hards, and you'll start to get an idea. Even with practicing those well and doing well overall, I am finding employers are looking for something exceptional. You can pass all of those questions optimally but if you don't add something "extra" on top - it seems like they're really ready to move onto other candidates.

This isn't even for top compensation either. I'm finding that the offers overall are meager as well.
At some point we'll run out of atoms in the solar system for the physical memory ;)

(a large virtual address space is of course useful on its own, for instance never reusing a memory address, but we're not even close at scratching the 64-bit barrier - e.g. AFAIK x86-64 CPUs have are limited to 48 bits virtual and 52 bits physical address range).
When exactly? Do you have any sources on this? An URL? Something?
Knowing the algorithm doesn't help much... you wouldn't know the data that is going into the algorithm, and you would have no way of proving they were actually using said algorithm.
Microsoft's AI will be inside Minecraft, and other Xbox, PC games
And even if we limit to this one individual, these quotes are not random, but clear, purposeful, and repeated: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ben-gvir-says-he-would-be...

And it not just some individual, but a member of the Israeli government. Mind you, this government is under orders from the ICJ to do everything in its power to prevent genocide. A government which allows one of its members to speak like this, and doesn’t kick them out of the government (let alone after repeated offense) is at least sympathetic to this speech. But given that he is by no means the only member of the government which repeatedly incites genocide or ethnic cleansing, I think it is more likely that the whole government supports this speech, and is aiming for these prospects.
Please look into it. You are already breaking Disney's copyright just with this post, and if you ever hope this product Disney's lawyers would have a very easy case here.
Google Blog: Ads creativity and performance at scale with Google AI
[dupe]

Some more discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40429247

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421787
OpenAI promised 20% of computing power to combat AI dangers but never delivered
wouldn't $(sudo mv /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode.nope) do that, while leaving the actually important SDK bits intact? I hypothesize `sudo chmod a-x` may work, too, but I don't actually know how much the .app bundles care about unix perms
Depends of what you want to do!? Just for testing most of the 7B model are a good compromise between quality and performance (speak execution time)
I used WAVE browser addon on the Airbnb website and it showed 37 errors, 1 contrast error and 98 alerts. And they want to talk about accessibility?

Accessibility aside, their website is an unusable, resource-hogging mess which doesn't even use proper cursor pointers for <a> tags and tries to mess with my scroll.
> There are two outputs, two inputs, and three edges.

No, that's something you've inferred from your domain knowledge.

There is a set of dots labeled "xt" in blue, a set of dots labelled "ht" in purple, and a set of dots labelled "yt" in green. Additionally there's a scoreboard with "0 clicks" in blue, "3 edges remaining" in red, and "0 extra edges" in green.

With a bit of color matching I might assume "yt" maps to "extra edges," but that could be a red herring, because I don't see how "clicks" maps to "xt" or where red and purple come in.

It could also help if "RNN" had been defined, but it wasn't...
My initial reaction to those numbers are “you’d have to know the stuff in order to go through 40 new cards and a backlog in 10 minutes”, but the thing is, spaced repetition is for remembering, not for learning. We tend to treat anki as a tool for learning, but it isn’t.
Conflicts in bureaucracies like universities are often petty power struggles rather than anything financial. Especially between IT departments and anyone else.
Yes, but the problem is throughout all of history you could only talk to so many people IRL in a day... (same with newspapers, etc.)

Now you can consume nearly unlimited opinions in a day so whatever it is we think about the accuracy of information online, it's shaping impressionable minds faster than biology and society can cope.
Given I was using Google Translate, which isn't great at Chinese, I assume you are absolutely correct.

My written Chinese is limited 一二三 and that from Mahjong tiles, and I keep getting 四 and 五 mixed up.
Google Blog: New AI tools to help merchants market brands and products
Except that studies show that users expect both similar content and experiences regardless of device. Responsive web design, with progressive enhancement, is the foundational bridge to make this experience work well.

Just because someone experiences a less than ideal experience of RWD in one or more places doesn't mean to group all RWD UI experiences together as bad.

It's more practical spend less time developing and testing one global component than more than one.
I cannot pinpoint the source, but for the last two decades, it _feels_ like it is common knowledge that the airframe can tolerate a lot more abuse than the passengers, especially unbuckled ones, can.

Obviously anecdata on my part, but it is interesting to encounter differing situational understanding which remind of non-universal assumptions.
I independently came up with this idea. but not this way to name it.

also, why would the AIs give only praise? they could also be mean and evil; would that be "hellbanning"?
Hah, I actually was looking for a better word than 'obsession', I even used the dictionary (English isn't my native language), but couldn't find one. Then I reluctantly picked obsession. 'Emphasis on' is much better, thank you!

Edit: Can't edit my original post though, time's up. But I would if I could!
> I prefer to think that responsive design is still in its relative infancy and as an industry we simply have not completed the shift in mindset that is necessary.

Absolutely. We finally just got container queries! Responsive design using screen width was always a sham. A stop gap to all the work the browser devs and standards bodies had to do to figure out what worked.
This is an illustrative comment for meta reasons, I think. Karpathy's lecture almost certainly doesn't cover the superposition hypothesis (which hadn't been invented for ANNs 8 years ago), or sparse dictionary learning (whose application to ANNs is motivated by the superposition hypothesis). It certainly doesn't talk about actual specific features found in post-ChatGPT language models. What's happening here seems like a thing LLMs are often accused of dismissively - you're pattern-matching to certain associated words without really reasoning about what is or isn't new in this paper.

I worry this is going to come across as insulting, but that's not my intention. I do this too sometimes; I think everyone does. The point is we shouldn't define true reasoning so narrowly that we think no system capable of it would ever be caught doing what most of us are in fact doing most of the time.