skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it low? That the issues of quality and rigor are being discussed is a good sign in my opinion. The expectation of continual progess at some constant, quantifiable rate is what has been most at fault with industrial science, but that expectation is now diminishing.

Also, I think that the wider public now has a greater appreciation that vigourous debate and disagreement is to be expected amongst the scientific community and that it's a good thing too.
Might need 7.1.2 for that.
> Lisp syntax is nice to work with irrespective of everything else

Disagree. Some people find it tolerable for the sake of lisp advantages (mainly macros). Very few find it outright preferable. The existence and popularity of reader macros is proof of this.

> Because syntax matters, M-expressions and Algol syntax for Lisp fell by the wayside.

Because they were bad syntax. And because syntax isn't the only thing that matters. A good syntax that didn't compromise the ease of writing macros would win out, if such a thing were possible.
Most of those architectures were run on company data centers. The swap to cloud and making small stateless services (the rise of SPA) meant that a complex staged event-driven system was less needed.

On AWS for example, you use SQS and a sprinkling of SNS, or perhaps Kinesis for a few things and you're good. There isn't a lot to talk about there, so the queues no longer become the center of the design.

Message-queue based architectures are great for data processing, but not great for interactive web sites, and if most people are building interactive web sites, then the choices seem a little obvious. I still design event systems for data processing (especially with immutable business data where you have new facts but still need to know that you were "wrong" or had a different picture at some earlier time). But for most apps... you just don't need it.
ADHD in particular is located to very specific areas in the brain. Primarily the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and areas in the cingulate cortex. We can see neuroanatomy differences on scans, which, while not specific or sensitive enough for diagnosis, are definitely real physical changes in the brain, and they're pretty consistent across diagnosed vs baseline.

There are lots of psychiatric disorders where that doesn't take place, but developmental neuropsychiatric disorders don't fall under that "are they even alike at all" kind of umbrella. In some kind of awful alternate universe we could pretty reliably induce them with gamma knife surgery, for example.

Depression is much easier to argue that it's a less specific symptom of a larger constellation, with lots of causes and lots of manifestations.
Just refuse to service Apple customers. They can lie in the bed they've made.
chair against keyboard ?
Entirely possible. Lots of things exhibit complex behavior that probably don't have subjective experience.

My point is just that the evidence for "humans are just token prediction machines and nothing more" is extremely lacking, but there's always someone in these discussions who asserts it like it's obvious.
Higher education in the US is heavily subsidized by the government, but the administration just grows to consume all of those subsidies.

Almost none of the US’s problems are the result of not throwing enough taxpayer money at the problem. We throw as much taxpayer money at problems as any other country in the world.
> Given the root comment's premise

This is my comment you're responding to at the root

> [Me:] Where’s our “100x FAFO laws”?

I wrote that comment. My point was that the fines should be larger to discourage bad behavior.

You're saying that you're wanting things I want (disincentives for companies to harm, restorative justice), but you're showing opposition to my attempt to deliver those things. Or at least you've not shown support.

If that's not the case maybe something like "I 100% agree we should raise the fines until they provide a disincentive. Yes, and [...]" or if you disagree "I like where you're headed, but I disagree on how to get there. I suggest we [...] which will [...]. This is in comparison to your suggestion which will [...]" would really help me clarify your position.

> The state is the entity taking from people's paychecks in the name of "justice."

This reads as someone who would want to get rid of the fines all together (a liberatrian anti-taxation anti-regulation take). Which is the same vibe I got from your first comment. Both seem at odds to your other stated goals (restorative justice). I feel either I'm being gaslit or there's more you're not saying.

I would like you to be more explicit. Could you take one of the templates I tried earlier and see which fits what you're trying to convey and respond with that? If neither template fits, state why.
Dude, my reference is to ever continuing improvement. As a society we don’t tent to forget what we had last year, which is why the curve does not go negative. At time T+1 the level of technology will be equal or better than at time T. That is all you need to know to realise that any fixed limits will be bypassed, because limits are horizontal lines compared to technical progress, which is a line with a positive slope.

I don’t want this to be true. I have a 6 year old. I want A.I. to help us build a world that is good for her and society. But stupidly stumbling forward as if nothing can go wrong is exactly how we fuck this up, if it’s even possible not to.
Chomsky's position has never been "America bad". This article is atrocious. His position has always been that it doesn't matter who did it, it only matters what was in fact done. For some reason this is very difficult for most people to accept. This sentence is telling:

"And yet when Chomsky discusses the Gulf War, he dismisses the notion that American foreign policy became more idealistic after the Soviet threat receded"

It's a better question why the author is considering that argument. It might be true, it might not, but is there any proof?

But with all that said, I don't understand why this was flagged. I feel like people flag articles a lot more than they used to, just because they don't like it. Maybe people that flag should be forced to write a comment why they flagged it or at least that everyone sees they did.
> Instead of writing every single change to the SSD immediately, we can instead queue many such writes and persist the whole queue in one go. Instead of having one latency-sensitive round trip per commit, we now have one round trip per queue flush, let’s say every 100 commits. We just have to be careful not to tell the user that their data has been committed before the queue containing their data has been flushed.

I'm a little bit unclear, is the suggested method here issuing 100 `write` commands and then a `sync` (or something similar) and only informing the downstream of success when the `sync` is finish? Or is the DB actually maintaining a queue of commits to be written that get fsynced all at once?
It's absolutely true - that people who meditate love to inform everybody within ear-sight about such things, that is.
Austria is basically a money-thieving country. It's about money, not about safety.

What about dangerously changing lanes, jumping red lights, and tailgating? These actions can be more hazardous than orderly speeding, but there is no such punishment for them.

If speeding is such a danger, why even allow car makers to sell vehicles that can drive so fast? Because the money supply from fines will dry out fast; that's why.
I'm 60, and have never used any calculus on the job. I did need to relearn some linear algebra when doing game programming, but these days most of the heavy lifting is done in the game engine for us.

Nothing I've done on the job involves deep computer science. There are people who need to know that stuff, but they are specialists. Building CRUD servers or web frontends uses very little of what I studied in college, beyond basic understanding of data structures and algorithmic complexity.

I'm glad I learned CS, and wish I had learned more of it, but it should not be a requirement for getting a code-monkey job.
Still CPU only.

This is my current solution: https://gist.github.com/lovasoa/9bb6c50feed7bb264c15ae65c622...
Well "trust in science" isn't actually science. It's authoritarianism. And we all know how that goes.
> Ask yourself. Do 'hackers' talk like this or military/government employees?

He said thought his tools would be "stolen?" Then this is a lame manufactured pretext which makes it worse. It also makes his actions and broadcasting them _more_ of a crime.

I'm not sure what your point is here.
It is stupidly expensive, but the vestaboard is pretty dang cool for home or small business use, if 132 characters will suffice. No affiliation, I just like em
Yeah, it's an absolute explosion of complexity, and with it comes the risk that you miss something and are faced with a security issue or giant bill or both.

What I would kill for is something in between all of this and FTPing PHP around like it's 1999. I've hunted for years for middle-ground solutions and haven't found anything. Security, cost, performance etc are important, sure, but what I really yearn for is a simple, easy, bulletproof solution like the days of yore when a handful of simple scripts could chug on for decades. Two decades ago you could set up a simple site that needed no attention for twenty years. Today's technologies require constant attention and updates and if you blink then everything requires an update that's not compatible with your code. Meanwhile, PHP from 2004 can be trivially run in 2024. What's the PHP-and-FTP of today? Does it exist?
Canada lists Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group
> namely, they are defined by the symptoms.

This is what we see historically, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, in "body medicine". We're just at an earlier stage of understanding and treating psychiatric disorders. I assume in a couple hundred years we'll look back at the current state of the art as hopelessly outmoded.

> In the case of mental disorders, they're essentially defined by the symptoms. To have depression is to be depressed. To have anxiety is to be anxious. What would it even mean to have depression without being depressed?

What would it mean to have typhoid without an actual fever? The disease is something else, some causative factor that is not the actual symptom itself, but is no less real for that.

> I just don't think that treating them through a strict biological-pathological lens is as useful as people think it is.

Agreed, but that's with the current state of the art. I would be surprised indeed if by 2080 we didn't have a different lens to view these things through.
Not the prior commentator, but personally it distanced me somewhat from the bullshit of the rat race. For better or worse, I'm less of likely to chase targets that don't matter or that I don't actually give a shit about.

A caveat: my previous employer (a rent-seeking publishing company) used this sort of thing as a trap. Here, have Headspace for free. Here, take this training on how psychological safety and mental health are important in the workplace. Oh, your manager is psychologically abusing his team? That's against our core values - report that to HR right away. Surprise, HR cares but they are impotent; here's the shadow ER rep to hand you your walking papers.
The end is near!
Hugging Face CEO hears from 10 AI founders weekly wanting to sell their startups
Why are you assigning moral agency where there may be none? These so called "grifters" are just token predictors writing business plans (prompts) with the highest computed probability of triggering $ + [large number] token pair from venture capital token predictors.
I'm switching to Wayland on the New Year's Eve of the year of Linux desktop
The jump to AI capabilities from data illiterate leadership is of such a pattern...

It reminds me of every past generation of focusing on the technology, not the underlying hard work + literacy needed to make it real.

Decades ago I saw this - I worked at a hardware company that tried to suddenly be a software company. Not at all internalizing - at every level - what software actually takes to build well. That leading, managing, executing software can't just be done by applying your institutional hardware knowledge to a different craft. It will at best be a half effort as the software craftspeople find themselves attracted to the places that truly understand and respect their craft.

There's a similar thing happening with data literacy where the non data literate hire the data literate, but don't actually internalize those practices or learn from them. They want to continue operating like the always have, but just "plug in AI" (or whatever new thing) without changing fundamentally how they do anything

People want to have AI, but those company's leaders struggle with basic understanding of statistical significance, basic fundamentals of experimentation, and thus essentially destroy any culture needed to build the AI-thing.
Sure, that just makes the military incentives to develop such a thing even stronger. All I mean is that business incentives don't really come into it, as long as there is competition, someone's going to want to build weapons to gain advantage, whether it's a business or a government.
Ilya has never said transformers are the end all be all
> You are just moving the goal post yet again.

No, I'm not. I've been consistent from the start. Seriously, go look at my earlier replies.

All your examples are either laws that have treaties backing them, or don't apply to most people, or only apply in very specific circumstances.

None of them, absolutely NONE, are as far-reaching as the EU law. The EU claims it applies to ANY entity in ANY country so long as ANY EU citizen visits, and that entity collected data and targeted EU citizens in a way the EU didn't like.

That's what makes it different. That isn't moving the goal posts, that's pointing out very clearly that this apple very clearly isn't like your orange.

> Again you are saying things that have been already shown to not be true.

Only if you remove all relevant details that show everything I've said is absolutely correct.

Enough with the tribalism. There is no shame in admitting the EU made a far-reaching law, a first of its kind, that it has no hope of enforcing.
> what should one do?

Examine how their own actions were a large part in creating this particular outcome? Then question if they're worth continuing under such circumstances?

> No response since.

Yea, maybe diplomats should lead the charge, and not self important hackers with a desire to "shut down the internet" in a fit of nerdy rage?
Wow, thoroughly entertaining (though slightly deranged) read. Did not expect to see a RA Salvatore reference in this, that brought me back.
Air Breathing Ion Thrusters and Low Orbit Satellites [video]
ISOs make little sense over a regular disk or filesystem image for just about every use case except burning to optical media, a use case I understand to be quite rare (but not completely gone) nowadays.

I know nothing about Ventoy, though.
It’s very common to say that a car has acceleration but since the introduction of powerful electric cars like Tesla, that quickness you feel is the third derivative called jerk, or the acceleration of acceleration. Jerk is a little strange to think of because it feels a lot like acceleration but for you electric car owners who know about that quick 0-60, it’s jerk which makes you gasp and smile.
Try alpine to slim it down?
> Imagine I told you to go to the gym 3x a week

I'd say "screw that, I'm not cutting back!"
Dude he’s probably worth > 1 Billion.
I've lived (not just visited, but spent at least a year) in places as small as Nome, Alaska and as large as Atlanta, SF, Dallas, and Las Vegas. I just moved from rural MA to rural NY (from one small college town to another).

Growing up I yearned with a passion to live in a big city, but having lived a quite a few, I'm much less enamored with city life, at least in the US. Traffic sucks and often where you want to go is spread out geographically, so you're forced to deal with traffic. I also hate that there is so little greenery, except in a handful of places that are super expensive to afford to live near.

That said, cities do offer quite a few positives. Way more things to do and more people to meet.

I think many European cities seem better designed for foot traffic and bikes, with more nature interspersed, than US cities. Having only visited Europe, I feel like I'd much prefer to live in a European style city than many of the major US cities. Then again, since I didn't live in Europe it could be that many of the places I want to go to on a regular basis (like a climbing gym) are in out of the way places. Obviously not all European cities are the ideal (really hated the hustle and bustle in Rome for example), but many more cities I've visited there seem like nice places to live (I even fantasized about moving to Copenhagen for a while).
Piano, also used to play violin
I was totally unaware that HN mods would treat certain accounts better than others, and give special anonymous edits, totally news to me.

I have seen a lot of selective application of HN rules over the (many) years. My 2 cents.
When I did a lot of web development I experienced something similar with the word "referer".

edit: fixed typo
Great, now how do I use that to replace a tool like Ventoy?
It has a bad rep? Then Why do i see sqlite so often in different products?
Multiple alternative to systemd are actively maintained.
Thanks Jeff!

I had read and promptly forgotten about StereoPi, I'll give it another look now that CM4s are no longer impossible to get.

Regarding CM5... who knows (Probably you? :-) ) but given the loss of hardware encoding I'm keeping my expectations low for video at any decent resolution and framerate (unfortunately a 2x2064x2208x60fps video is close to 1.5 GB per second, and at 72fps (which should really be a minimum) it's 2GB/sec, hardly the realm of software encoding, unless I want to bring an Epyc/Threadripper underwater and somehow power it from a battery.)
A free market for me, but not for thee
Your opinion doesn't seem fair to Nvidia.

>Nvidia as the most valuable company in the world?

This could just as easily be written as:

Apple as the most valuable company in the world?

Microsoft as the most valuable company in the world?

Tesla as the most valuable company in the world?

I won't be the one to defend Nvidia, but I don't find any solid arguments to consider its business model worse or better than those of the 'other' IT companies.
Can you point me to a study showing these brain scans being different from those with diagnosed ADHD and not? The evidence would furthermore have to show that this difference is apparent not just from adhd vs non adhd but adhd vs anxiety, depression etc. And lastly, are these changes perhaps an affect of taking stimulants?

And how significant are these results? Are we talking about a few percent difference? Are 10% of diagnoses ADHD shown to have statistically significant differences, 20, 50, 90? Depending on the figure, my criticism of the diagnostic criteria remains. Because if it is a low figure like 10%, that means 90% of the diagnoses aren't supported by any scientific evidence.

From what I've been told, including professionals this evidence does not exist.

I've also seen studies which indicate that psychiatric evaluations are entirely inconsistent across physicians.
Ilya couldn't even align his CEO, but somehow he's going to align an AGI?
Seems like a test of dedication to Freedom of Speech, if you ask me.
The word transformer nor LLM appear anywhere in their announcement

It’s like before the end of WWII the world sees the US as a military super power , and THEN we unleash the atomic bomb they didn’t even know about

That is Ilya. He has the tech. Sam had the corruption and the do anything power grab
Blender running on a Nokia N95 (from 2007)
Refreshing to see such a radically different take on a Linux distro. Probably too experimental for what I need, but I’m glad people are thinking outside the box!
To be clear, I am not dissing the work..there were just a lot of steps they used to identify key regions of interest in size networks and then constrict those further to ones associated with depression and anxiety, and that process seems murky to me. This can totally be understandable situation: there are lots of decision that can be made in preprocessing and analysis, and not all get expanded on in a paper, and not an indication of p-hacking or anything.

Importantly, they provide data and ROI masks so that others can examine this in their own datasets:
https://github.com/leotozzi88/cluster_study_2023
ayland :)
it was govt disinformation to undermine the conspiracy theories about Weather Mountain, which theories were too close to the truth.
About road safety: Yes. Seriously lol please put a bit of your own energy in searching this.

And it's not "to make the specialists happy", it's to increase safety according to the knowledge accumulated thanks to such specialists.

(ok I see "neo-luddite" in your profile, but usually that does not entail "not trusting scientists/specialists")

You have a flesh brain like everybody else, with biological limitations that lead to fatigue and decreased attention after a long drive without sufficient pause.
Think of it as a further endorsement for Github. As if they need any more at this point. They're a decent Git host but you know why Microsoft bought them.
Trust of academia is low and decreasing: https://news.gallup.com/poll/508352/americans-confidence-hig...

> Americans’ confidence in higher education has fallen to 36%, sharply lower than in two prior readings in 2015 (57%) and 2018 (48%).

Not surprising when all academic institutions are politically captured by one side which suppresses and promotes ideas to further its agenda.

Recently, student support for Hamas after October 7 was a spectacular flower that could only grow in an ideological hothouse like what academia's become, and I don't think that's helped.

They seem to be getting the idea a little with Ivies now doing away with their creepy diversity statement requirements.
No, which makes this an even harder problem. Can US companies bound by one set of rules compete against Chinese ones bound by another set of rules? No, probably not. Humanity will have to come together on this, or someone will develop killer AI that kills us all.
Thank you! I will take a look
A Christian nationalist is a person who believes that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and should maintain a strong Christian identity in its laws, government, and culture. [1][2] Christian nationalists typically seek to promote Christian values and influence in the political sphere, often with the goal of shaping the country's laws and policies to align with their interpretation of Christian doctrine.[1][2]

In contrast, a Christian Democrat is a political orientation common in Europe that emphasizes social justice, subsidiarity, and the role of the church in society, but does not necessarily seek to establish a Christian state or impose Christian doctrine through the government.[3] Christian Democrats generally believe in the separation of church and state and advocate for policies that support the common good and the dignity of the human person, rather than explicitly promoting a Christian nationalist agenda.[3]

The key difference is that Christian nationalism is a political ideology focused on establishing a Christian identity for the nation, while Christian Democracy is more focused on applying Christian social teachings to the political realm without necessarily seeking to create a Christian state.[3]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Reformed/comments/17u7r9r/what_are_...

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/february-web-only/...

https://christoverall.com/article/longform/what-is-the-spect...
Thank you for that lengthy diatribe, which I heartily agree with. It's really all about separation of concerns.