skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's human nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias. Everyone does it, but we perceive other people as doing it more than we do, which is itself a variation of the bias.

You can even see it in the title of the OP, in the word "overwhelmingly". That's excessive: the negative bias is noticeable, but if you look closely, it's not overwhelming. (To make up some numbers, it's more like 60-40, not 90-10.)

However, it often feels as if it is overwhelming; in fact, one or two datapoints, plus negativity bias, are enough to create just such a feeling. The feeling gets expressed in ways that trigger similar feelings in other people, so we end up with a positive* feedback loop.

The interesting question is, what factors mitigate this? how do we dampen negativity bias? or, how do we get negative feedback into our positive feedback loop of negative affect? That must also be happening all the time, or we'd be in a "war of all against all", which isn't the case, though (again) it may feel like it.

* ['positive' in the sense of increasing; a positive loop of negative affect!]
You should see the brass bull on wall st
US rules financial firms now have to disclose data breaches within 30 days
Why would it be graft?
TL;DR

1. They travelled to the location (in Togo).

2. They found the guy who imported the jeans. He was about to try to resell them (along with huge bales of clothes), but most of the clothes are not sold. I dont think recycling was at the top of his mind.

3. The last signal was from a place where they use to make a fire of the clothes.

4. Most of the garments travel around the world as waste - not exactly good for the environment.

The person from H&M responded with whataboutisms. Which is not exactly legit since they use this in marketing.

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OK I was wrong in some respects. Philip was undoubtedly very smart. I guess my broader point is that planning to do it and actually doing it are different things. Like Alexander sieged Tyre which was pretty much thought to be impossible. Meanwhile there were much more familiar cities that Philip failed to siege and had to abandon.
I don't disagree, but there are other issues too. Namely the Node runtime is much harder to diagnose performance issues than with even async Java, and every time this comes up it's a huge resource sink for most teams I've seen.

I think Node is a great tool. Lots of FastComments is built with Node. I just don't advocate for building large systems or monoliths with it.
They didn't have the scientific method back then so it's unclear what phrases like "conclusive" in today's context would even mean to them. That said, wikipedia suggests they know of the dangers:

>In the 2nd century BC the Greek botanist Nicander described the colic and paralysis seen in lead-poisoned people.[32][5] Dioscorides, a Greek physician who lived in the 1st century AD, wrote that lead makes the mind "give way".[122][263]

>Julius Caesar's engineer, Vitruvius, reported, "water is much more wholesome from earthenware pipes than from lead pipes. For it seems to be made injurious by lead, because white lead is produced by it, and this is said to be harmful to the human body."[264] Gout, prevalent in affluent Rome, is thought to be the result of lead, or leaded eating and drinking vessels. Sugar of lead (lead(II) acetate) was used to sweeten wine, and the gout that resulted from this was known as "saturnine" gout.[265]
Do you mean there's banks that no longer offer a website interface to your accounts?
She sure did/does: https://www.mobygames.com/person/61954/quinn-dunki/
Thanks for pointing that out. It's too late for me to edit my comment.

I hate to admit this, but my knee-jerk reaction is to have less sympathy for the same reason. Stereotypes are really hard to break even when you're aware of them.

Ultimately the author's gender doesn't affect my opinion of the article.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. The value of "idea men" isn't their ideas, it's their ability to rally people around them. It's the exact same skill that con men use for nefarious purposes.
Zoom adds post-quantum end-to-end encryption
It's going to turn out exactly like virtual assistants like Cortana and Siri where there's a massive rush to integrate it into everything and scoop up that VC funding (and hey, get that bag!) Because dorks think it's cool and maybe 10% of people actually use it and then 5 years later they have to rip it out of everything and it's on to the next grift.

They want to integrate it into desktop PCs? Lel. I did some training courses grad school classes and a lot of kids do literally everything on phones and tablets and maybe a chrome book. They use chatgpt to cheat and write papers because it's easy but nobody is using it for the kind of things starry eyed dorks are imagining using it for.

Nobody actually wants this except nerds and VCs trying to find the next gold rush. It's fancy spellcheck/suggestion/guessing and nobody gives a duck. I work with normies and half my team doesn't even have a modern enough smart phone to install recent apps. One guy just has a flip phone because he doesn't want to be bothered.

Remember how SV was pushing the Metaverse a couple years ago and now we all wear headsets and work in our Metaverse office using our NFT avatars with no legs? Exactly.

Silicon Valley isn't even worried about solving problems anymore except "the problem is I don't have enough money and I'd like to fix that". Nobody outside San Francisco and Austin is yearning for a fancy chatbot.
No, it's not, not really -- because the UX work going into Ondsel is going into mainstream FreeCAD (if it didn't originate there, and a lot of recent work did).

I am sure Ondsel will vary somewhat in UX over time (because they will be somewhat ahead of what they upstream) and because a few things may be unavailable for open-source licensing.

But most of what has changed in terms of UX is already in 0.22-dev. For example OpenTheme will work (don't know if it is included by default), the "glass" tree overlay from RealThunder is there, the overlay panels, the sketcher improvements, the new integrated Assembly workbench etc.

Ondsel is a commercial distribution of FreeCAD with a cloud-based engineering suite integrated -- file sharing, cloud compute (for parametric recalculations and STEP export) etc.

Here is how they describe themselves -- in some useful detail:

https://ondsel.com/handbook/About/about_ondsel/
I love how "mobile friendly" seems to just mean it will waste some space your phone screen can't afford.
the server to support the hard drives is quite a large part of the total cost, so replacing drives is probably an economical solution to increasing storage
People are in their own bubble and believe everything that people say to them on the internet. People lie all the time, plus they don't want to create friction by saying that a specific game is, well, shit. That game is built on already outdated foundations. You need to give something to users that will stimulate them.
of course they are all biased. The question is who's biases are represented.
I've seen a lot of React interfaces that don't scale well - and even worse don't allow you to scroll to the bit you can't see!

As I assume it's possible to have scalable interfaces in React - what's the common mistake people are doing?
Oh, I was a big fan of my APS camera. Took all sorts of shots with it. Got a whole bunch of these "now, what photo album, exactly, can we put these in" panoramic shots from it.

I enjoyed the film handling, the dating of the prints, the size of the camera, battery life, etc. I even took advantage of being able to stop in mid-roll, and toss in a different one, and swap back.

It definitely went the way of the dodo, not all labs properly supported it (like not printing the date on the back of the photo).

But as a casual photo consumer, it worked really well for me.

One of my most cherished photos, and it's, honestly, a terrible photo, which is part of its charm, was taken with my APS camera.

It's a picture of my now wife and myself on a beach in Catalina from the weekend I proposed to her. The composition is terrible, we're way too small, and, even better, somehow, someway, there's a single shadow of a light pole that crosses the beach and right. through. us.

A few inches either way, and it would have not been an issue. We couldn't have staged it worse. It's a perfectly bad picture of a great day, and I love it.

Nothing to do with APS, mind, just that I took it with that camera. It had a timer :).
Observing SVT-AV1 v2.1.0's improvements
Semi related, but far later is the work that Crash Bandicoot took in order to work well with CD based loading, they optimized the disk positions of content, etc in order to make it look seamless.
Medieval? Have you seen a prison elsewhere in the americas in comparison? America is like a glowing bastion in comparison.
The Bloomberg Terminal has evolved from an 80x25 hardware terminal where the application layout was done remotely in our data centers. (Note, users and insiders refer to these as "functions" instead of "apps", but I'll use "app" throughout as it's likely more familiar to the HN audience).

When we ported it to a Win32/GDI program, the client was kept intentionally "dumb" and so resizing the window led to distorted text rendering. This was necessary to keep the 80x25 cells aligned, as the layout was meaningful.

Fast forward to the 2010s and we started offering our app developers a way to implement "more content" when resizing rather than just stretching it. Note also that there are plenty of "form"-style or "calculator"-style apps where there is no more content to show; in those cases resizing just adds more negative space around the UI. Now we are in the 2020s, and most of the apps have adapted to either "more content" or "more negative space" as needed.

There are ~1000 apps on the terminal and they all have their own roadmaps and business deliverables, so UI upkeep cannot always be a priority.

Opinions my own, etc.

EDIT: the above information is still correct, even if the <img> tag in the OP article is distorted.
Quantum computing, carbon chips, biological chips, optical chips. I have heard about these supposed alternatives to classic silicon chips since at least 20 years ago. They always were 10 years from the point where they can show their super-powers.

I am not saying it can't be done, but I think we are either limited by the level of science we know or by money. We are probably still far from a major breakthrough in computing that will yield exponential growth.

And even when we will have the wonder chip, someone will port Javascript on it, so things can be slow again. :)
WorldCoin is how I first heard of him, and it's what made me think he was a bad actor. I think of it as a red flag, not yellow.
NY State politics 101: Donate to politicians, get funded, repeat.
How to Grow Your Infrastructure
I had a similar realization when I was at Google. Someone made the observation that if Google had a one-in-a-million error, that meant it was happening 50-60 times per second.
I don't think that's the case. Just look at the 90s, early 2000s.
I remember it on Atari 2600 more than Sega myself. All the same it was definitely a very fun game at the time.
Dialog: An Introductory Tutorial (1994)
there is also a forum there forum.w10.host
Title is a bit inflammatory.

It will be interesting to see what happens when big tech starts battling big content again. The two titans of American industry occasionally spar, but it's a bit of a crapshoot who ends up winning -- Google beat the publishers, AI will probably beat them as well, the music industry lost to an overwhelming assault from all sides, but the movie industry has stayed fairly strong.

I think that OpenAI might have made a bit of mistake trying to pull a fast one with someone in the motion picture industry. If there's a lot of truth to the story that SJ put out there, it'll cost OpenAI a bit.

Long-term this will probably just be a blip and I'd give this story another month before it gets forgotten. Not a huge fan of Sam's antics, but this feels like everyone is a bit hyperfocused on a minor civil/ethics issue (of which there are more, I'm sure).
This was a suprisingly approachable and enjoyable read for a layman.

Thanks for posting!
I don't think you need to worry about this being "the" application, it's being shoved down our throats everywhere.
One standard is an easy goal in a cathedral of dictatorship.

It's more difficult in the bazaar of freedom.
Give Flux a try. https://justgetflux.com/

It did it before night mode and does it far better. ;)
Stop Resizing Your Browser: Improve testing for responsiveness
Show HN: Fine-Tuning Index of Open-Source LLMs vs. OpenAI
The research team at Predibase analyzed 700+ fine-tuning experiments using 13 of the most popular open-source models, GPT-3.5/4/4o, and 31 distinct datasets and tasks. We chose open-source models with a max of 7B parameters to ensure that any organization can train the models on low-end GPUs. For evaluation, we utilized task-specific metrics including accuracy, rouge, and HumanEval to assess performance.

Key Takeaways

- LoRA Fine-tuned models outperform GPT-4 on specialized tasks

- LoRA Fine-tuned models are fast and cheap to train and serve, averaging less than $8 each

- Specialized tasks are ideal for LoRA fine-tuning
There was an incredibly insightful series of articles at the acoup blog about pre-industrial armies (https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-...)

What I got from that is that moving an army of more than 10000 men was a monumental effort in and off itself. The real genius commanders were the ones who had more than 5% of their attentions and talent to actually do any sort of tactics on the battlefield.

Just showing up in proper order would more often than not lead to winning, since it was so damn hard.

So managing to move such an army across asia was an incredible achievement that warrants praise, regardless if he himself was responsible or just recognizing the talent and keeping it in the right position.
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> In Chinese apps, I can post photos, message my friends, order food, call an uber, pay transactions, all from the same app

That seems tangential to UI density. You could do all that in a single app and it could still have an extremely sparse UI.
It takes a long time to educate the general population and I think we're JUST getting to the point where people are distinguishing between AI and LLMs. Thankfully this process is sped up by the current crop of executives shoving it into every nook and cranny available.
He really is. Listen to the interviews he's given lately, completely content-free, it's like he's GPT-4 himself. Perhaps that's not a fair way to judge someone's character, but even the most buttoned-up corporate mouthpieces comes off as genuine compared to him. It's much much harder to earn back the benefit of the doubt once you've lost it and he's pretty close to losing it entirely.
I also wanted to post that link, but now that I’m rereading it I’m starting to doubt that it proves what we want it to prove here. The way it’s presented, the size of the 3-SAT formula corresponds to the size of the expression, not the size of the haystack; and that compiling a regex is exponential in its length is not exactly a surprise—the standard determinization procedure used to compile actually regular (no backreferences) regexes for linear matching is also exponential. So what we’d actually want to prove is along the lines of NP-completeness even if we allow for an exponential amount of preprocessing on the expression only.

(I’m willing to believe backreference matching is NP-complete, I just think the linked statement is weaker than that.)
Its not. Its basically the same, and that is why China has the great firewall and facebook is banned.
Google Search's New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads
Microsoft announces new PCs with AI chips from Qualcomm
Generally really appreciate how much information Backblaze publishes. I also liked when OKCupid did similar before they were bought out.
It hasn't sealed it yet. It's a start of the process, there's no arrest warrant yet.
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IGN Entertainment Acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and More
You can do the same by engine braking with a stick shift, tapping the break only to hold you still at the end if you really wanted to. And the car could be a 2000lb subcompact.
We're an open-core company building commercially around FreeCAD. We're leading the development of the new integrated assembly workbench and contributing to many parts of the application. We have our own build of FreeCAD which includes our latest contributions.

We're also building an optional web-based file sharing and collaboration layer.
The implications of requiring disclosure are significant. Do we really want to pass a law that says books, pamphlets, blogs, etc. cannot be published anonymously? Do we want to limit the amount of pamphlets you can print because some people can afford to print a lot?

For instance, your very comment is published under a throwaway. Couldn't we say that your comment, being an attempt to influence us, shouldn't be anonymous? After all, perhaps you could stand to personally benefit in some way?
ASN/IP block level based aggregation will provide the information needed without requiring traffic data on a ip/site level. Moreover, there's no reason to keep any of this information on a per-customer basis.
I'm not positive, but I think if you take film to be developed at my local drugstore, they will not return the negatives. Consume it whole, make some prints, and then give a CD or some other electronic copy.

Very annoyed when we asked about that to find out they became a black hole for negatives.
> In Chinese apps, I can post photos, message my friends, order food, call an uber, pay transactions, all from the same app

I don't see how this statement says anything about UI information density.

This is just a super app with monopoly over the market. Last I checked (and it's been a while if I'm being honest) WeChat just looked like a custom launcher for other views/apps that all happen to be hosted and controlled by the one company. That's like saying "Android is super dense. I can post photos, message my friends, order food, call an uber, pay transactions, all from the same device"

Pretty sure Facebook or Google would love to be that super app for US/Europe/rest of the world. However, you'd probably shout "monopoly, lock-in, anti-trust, market manipulation" if any single vendor actually tried and succeeded in that. For good reasons too.
basically rewind ai
I’m beginning to think the same. Can’t reproduce with Apple (including Beats) or Sony. Would be interesting to know which headphones do exhibit this behaviour. This seems to me to be a headphone manufacturer SNAFU.
Getting people upset is one thing, getting Disney upset is another. They don't mess around with people appropriating their IP.
If someone wants to use ChatGPT with their terminal it is not really much of a roadblock to use the LLM's web interface and copy/paste between that and the terminal.

I'd expect then that if the security department is worried about people obeying a "don't use unauthorized LLMs" policy to be blocking access at the network level.
I agree there's no intelligence, and that there's hype, but on the other hand there's some useful stuff being solved by Machine Learning.
The origin and global spread of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica
That doesn’t help me as I use Apple Music to listen to music that isn’t on Spotify.

The play button defaulting to Apple Music even when another sound source has been used more recently is one of the few things I dislike about iPhones.
even if prices don't drop to be competitive, service quality could be raised to stay competitive, but that's hard to measure aside from actual increase in bandwidth.

Even if neither of those are true, there's still value in a municipality not relying on potentially a single company for something as important as internet. But that's admittedly a harder sell.
Having now been around the NYC startup scene a bit, it's a very different scene than SF and others. NYC's scene really focuses on product companies and companies that fit into finance and big company workflows. Aside from Google, Facebook, and the finance industry, there's very little R&D in many of these companies. NYC's history with IBM and Bell Labs means that it's also not a terrible place for some technical infrastructure companies.

It's not surprising to have a bunch of AI there, because most of the AI scene is sort of perfunctory technical infrastructure around hosting Nvidia GPUs (Lambda, Coreweave, etc.) and end products.

New York was also a great place to host GPUs and ASICs for cryptocurrency mining 5 years ago, incidentally, and there is a lot of infrastructure both in terms of datacenters and old industrial plants that can be converted into datacenters.
You assume recommendation systems are mostly code. AI models depend mostly on data, not code, and AFAIK we can see activation functions for neurons but nobody actually can explain in->out for the global thing.
Was going to say the same... A relatively modest server in the past 5 years can handle a few dozen SATA drives without issue. Going from 8tb drives to 16tb doubles capacity. IIRC they tend to cycle out drives around the 5 year mark.
I know we had a 486 at some point when I was a kid, but this code would have predated that machine by a few years so I'm not entirely sure. There were also machines at the school (where he worked) but not 100% sure what they had when.

I got fortunate with the disks - I just bought a USB 3.5mm reader and hooked it up to my Ubuntu machine, and there the files were, no corruption that I can tell. I'm glad other people are also enjoying the find!
Open question how much they care, I’d say. Willingness and ability to optimize ladder-climbing game-playing might be just fine by them.
If you make a claim, link a source (but not what part of the source that actually backs your claim) then when asked which part of the source you just link another source that does not explicitly say what you initially said it makes your argument look weak.

Link and quote to the parts that back your claim and if it is not clear how it backs your claim say what your interpretation is.
The people who reverse engineered Colonel’s Bequest had me floored. Super impressed.
That is disturbing. Were you running an exit node from your home? Or maybe they were watching Tor users and some sort of traffic analysis heuristics they were using gave them a false positive?
didn't read because xitter.

still, why has AFX not blasted the stock market with Windowlicker?

Gotta buy some AFX...
Don't get me wrong. I have Windows 11 and I like most of what they did there, especially with powertoys and similar initiatives.

BUT. And that is a big "but": the first thing that greeted me on the joy of my new computer was a screen trying to gaslight me into creating a microsoft account. There was no visible option to just use a local account and I had to google a bit in order to invoke a terminal in order to get a local account.

I like windows for many things, including it's crazy good backward compatibility, especially when it comes to hardware. But shit like this makes it unreasonable to put a lot of trust into them for the long term.

And before we have to discuss the specifics here: this is just one example out of many where they don't treat users at eye-level, but like marks that you need to trick into liking you.

How about setting some positive incentives by showing me three really cool things that I couldn't do before if I use one of those microsoft accounts? Who knows, I might even make one.

But Microsoft seems to have forgotten how to use anything but bullying, monopolism and gaslighting to convince people to use their product.
>Yet the accusations of them manipulating public opinion for their own benefit could just as easily be leveled at Musk.

I think that the parent point cedes this point, and argues that Musk's benefits, incentives, and morality are more favorable to that of the Chinese government.