skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "In a recent YouGov survey, 70% of US Millennials said they'd vote for socialism."

This isn't related to generational prognostication but it's really dumb that Nick Clegg, a former British politician, doesn't stop and give this claim a basic reality check. Is Zuckerberg getting his money's worth from Clegg?

It's sort of an open secret in the polling community that panel polls have serious balance problems when it comes to political questions like this. Even the best polling firms are affected by extreme levels of what is called "volunteering bias" which they have no way to remove. The underlying panels are made up of people who aren't representative of the actual population in some key respects and so pollsters compete on the skill of their models in weighting the responses. For their bread and butter surveys (brand recognition etc) it's assumed that the bias doesn't matter, but if it does the problem is fixed with models that are calibrated for a relatively small set of tasks, like predicting elections. When polling firms ask socio-political questions for which they don't have sufficient remodelling ability they frequently yield extreme results, and this is one of them.

People are just way too willing to repeat claims by polling firms even when they are mad as a box of frogs. I wrote an essay about this problem a few years ago, using data from Pew Research and some social science studies to show how this problem can lead to extremely implausible claims about what people think (it was about a YouGov poll) [1]. Pew is one of the better/more self-reflective pollsters and have done some great research into the volunteering bias problem.

A few years later the problem was demonstrated again when the BBC blithely reported that a quarter of the British population thought COVID was a hoax, that millions of people had participated in marches against 15 Minute Cities and obscure conspiracy theory magazine "The Light" was by far Britain's top selling news magazine with over 3.4 million people helping to distribute it (i.e. a distribution network six times larger than the Labour Party) [2]. The source was a poll by Savanta laundered through King's College London [3]. Despite three different orgs being involved nobody sanity checked these numbers, and only KCL apologised (and even then only in a half-hearted way). The BBC doubled down even (Marianna Spring needless to say).

tl;dr take polling results on social questions with a big dose of salt.

[1] https://dailysceptic.org/do-online-opinion-polls-overestimat...

[2] https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/bbc-verify-falls-i...

[3] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/conspiracy-bel...
It's still pretty deranged. "When Mark shares on Facebook, a part of the narrative is a generational narrative..." Like millennials are sitting around reading whatever Mark Zuckerberg posts on facebook and discussing it with each other.
>Thus, in this study, we take the state-of-the-art ChatGPT (the default version of GPT-3.5), the recent popular product, as the representative of LLMs for evaluation.

Are they really publishing a paper based on GPT3.5 in July 2024? I am not sure these results are relevant in any way today.

Edit: Just for reference. The best model for coding today (according to most benchmarks) is Claude-3.5-Sonnet which is freely accessible. Also GPT-4o is freely accessible and is still vastly better than GPT-3.5.

The lm sys arena coding leaderboard (https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard) lists sonnet-3.5 and gpt-4o jointly on #1 and GPT-3.5-Turbo on #35. You can freely download and run LLMs locally on your machine that are significantly better than GPT-3.5, for example Mistral Codestral.

There is really no reason to accept any results on GPT3.5 for relevant today. This is as if you were complaining that a computer from the 00ies is not running <recent operating system> well.
Being on Facebook does not mean you know who Mark Zuckerberg is.
There seem to be a few obvious tweaks to try:

1. (Apart from the first few meetings, for bootstrapping) presenters must have attended a few meetings before they get a chance to present.

2. No mentions of one's employer / product beyond the intro slide.

There's nothing special about these two suggestions; the general idea is that the organizers ought to be sensitive to what is happening, and responsive in trying to maintain a healthy atmosphere.

Someone trying to organize a meetup might find some helpful ideas in the following book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49766350-get-together
“ All things considered I think Mars colonization will probably be far easier than the guys who were engaging in civilization building in the past.”

Those explorers of eras past were going places that not only sustained ample plant and animal resources (in quantities that would surprise modern people) but entire human populations. There is almost nothing on Mars that will sustain us.
> One thing I find rather frustrating about YouTube’s redesign (on desktop) is that it devotes so much screen real estate to promoting videos other than the one you’re actually there to watch. I’d prefer fewer distractions.

Theater mode (shortcut 't') is a bit better. But yes, I too would like a mode where the video fills the whole browser window.
The us government agencies had direction from high to push the view that Iraq was importing yellowcake from Nigeria to make nuclear weapons.

Imagine how good ai will be at pushing this. Any dissent online can now be drowned out with bots. Those who chase social approval online will naturally shift their view the way the bots encourage them to with upvotes/downvotes. If Iraq happened again today we’d struggle to get a word of dissent past the online message boards.
Never said one shouldn't learn new things. Just that it's unreasonable to expect that "every educated person knows X" - because time is finite.
> I'd bet on some singer or actor / actress being the most well known globally.

I'm willing to bet it's Mia Khalifa
You can also check out the discussion for Figma's earlier work on their plugin system, which is what inspired jitl (above) to create quickjs-emscripten. Previously:

How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20770105> 2019 August 22. 89 comments.
How Salesforce Is Pushing for Greener AI (Transcript)
Yeah. If they need all those certifications, I’d add another zero to the price.

Things are different today. The ISA helps reduce lock-in and a lot of otherwise proprietary costs get amortized across companies and industries. There’s more competition coming up in that market which creates pricing pressure. There’s also just a bigger market in general.

Auto companies (and other safety related fields) don’t care about rad certification necessarily, but are willing to buy chips like these for the redundancy features. Going from selling 200k chips over the product lifetime to selling 1M radically reduces per unit cost.

In the AI age, iterating every other decade isn’t an option and the only other solution is finding a way to split the costs more.
I think we should establish a precedent of flagging articles that refer to GPT-3.5 as just ChatGPT in the title.
> I’m pretty sure Messi is soccer, but I only know that because the latter came up in conversations about Apple

I don't know how you can say this with a straight face. Yours is an absurdly niche viewpoint! I swear, sometimes this forum is like Marie Antoinette.
I don't know what you read, but this is patently false and an utterly absurd characterization (not to mention the strange contempt dripping off the screen). Did you read Aquinas himself, or some characterization all too eager to caricature him? Or, if you did read him, did you read whatever you read in the correct manner and light to do justice to the work?

I don't know what "unjustified starting assumptions" you have in mind, but a stock caricature is the whole "Everything has a cause, so the universe has a cause" thing, which neither Aquinas nor any major proponent in the tradition has ever defended. I'll just link to a post by one such proponent instead of repeating or summarizing it here [0].

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2014/07/clarke-on-stock-car...
Sometimes complex topics are really like rubric's cubes - some changes here break things over there and then you need to make a bunch of turns to fix things elsewhere. Thinking through writing is necessary for these, because they look much simpler until they aren't and all the gory details start tripping over each other. The unfortunate part is that it feels very difficult to 're-enter' the topic as if reading for the first time, so the writing can easily become difficult to understand for a fresh-reader since it was edited by someone who's read it dozens of times in various incarnations and orders.

1) that sounds like a Montessori school? 2) I feel like Walter White is one of the more memorable character names (w/ the alliteration, no?)
> Problem with climate discussions is that 99.9% of people don’t have any impact whatsoever

Individually certainly nobody has any appreciable impact. But seen as a collective, everyone's individual decisions add up to pretty much all of the impact.

> People who could make an impact won’t because it’s not in their personal interest

And this is true for everyone as long as the incentives are aligned as they are: It is cheaper, more convenient and generally allows for a more interesting lifestyle to pollute.
In addition to that -- maybe it's just my tinfoil hat speaking -- I think it calls into question whether benchmark numbers are really that meaningful. "The machine has a 90% success rate when we tell the machine the answer" is a bit weaker than how those numbers were presented.
Political answer is probably much more relevant one. Someone in power had a friend who had AI company and revolving door is real. So, they hire AI company, push it through to show some results they can shout from rooftop, walk out of government into AI company as director of Government relations with good six figure salary.

Also, bonus of National Security is public can't really fact check. Likely all the data it's analyzing is classified.
The trick is to always put the Auth codes on two devices. One you use, one you safely put away.
An entire Sorkin movie was about Zuck and I've seen him on the front page of the BBC, NHK, as well as in major Chinese and Indian media many, many times. I've seen Messi a few times and I'm not sure if I've ever seen Lebron on them.

Zuck's name recognition isn't yet at the Bill Gates or Taylor Swift level, but he's already beyond what even top athletes of the current generation can hope for.
Weirdest UI ever. Kerbal Space Program is a lot more intuitive. I still can't figure out how to enter my rocket's parameters.
Oh I thought it would be about this rocketsim:

https://www.apogeerockets.com/RockSim/RockSim_Information

I use it to do better design on my rockets...
I found using arc search as my browser on iPhone helps with this
It’s likely someone just needs to update the maintenance page to point to their Mastodon instance.
This is a perennial discussion topic. My beef with the idea of putting application behavior into the database is purely CI/CD & Devops related -- developers seem to lose track of it.
That's what "community centers" are for!

A town next to mine has one of those, and any town resident can rent a room for a reasonable amount of money ($20 to $70/hour depending on room size). So as long as at least one group member is from the right town, the room is guaranteed.
>He is the greatest sportsperson of this generation.

Had Messi not joined the US league and Apple bought the right I would not be surprised if half of the Americans dont know him. There also plenty of people around the world who simply dont watch Football, at least actively.
The paradox of capitalism is that its biggest cheerleaders talk about the virtues of investment and bottom-up organization, while also acting like the top-down bureaucrats they (rightfully) accuse authoritarian communists of being.
Scientific studies take a while from inception to publishing.
Instead of making up most of their reports by hand, they'll have ChatGPT make up most of their reports? :)
Mirror-transcending aerial imaging system for multiple users
The name coming from Arabic is a big hint. And then the species called C. arabica.
Not mentioned in the article, but one major provider for this is AskSage.ai, which has built up a lot of features around creating government documents, proposals, RFPs, etc.
Ever not rinsed a glass enough after washing it?
The page is broken on ios/safari with text size not set to 100%

I don't usually care, but when you hand out advice to other sites and call your little text blog "Frontend-Masters", it better work.
yes until next crashes.
are you trying to claim that all extroverts are bullies and all introverts are being bullied?

i think not!

first of all, bullying is usually a chain. people who are bullies are themselves being bullied elsewhere (by their parents for example, or their bosses)

that alone makes this distinction difficult.

second (and i admit that i don't research this, it's just a guess), i believe most bullies are introverts because they don't know how to properly interact with others, and bullying is their way to get attention. extroverts can get attention more easily, so i suspect that extroverts are less likely to be bullies. but again, that's just a guess. i could be completely wrong here.
God help us...
> Perhaps we should consider Millennials as a diversity criterion for our Board of Directors. [...] Should we aim to have two or three Millennials on our board? If we did, how would it change the nature of the discussion at the Board level?

What could a person who is in a position to be on the board of directors of one of these companies... and who happens to be a Millennial... be able to tell the board anything substantial they don't already know?

If a major company board wants to be informed by the thinking that they don't already have, of Millennials or Zoomers, maybe start with with a question more like:

Who has a representative experience of Millennials or Zoomers (and who we normally wouldn't even consider for a board position, if we ever became aware of them at all)?

(A bit cynically, I'm imagining a scenario of, somehow, a board makes a bold decision to bring in a true outsider, who they think will be disruptive in an overall good way, despite the board being a bit scared of the move... but the anointed person actually plays it like their entree to higher circles of power, and acclimates almost immediately to the same-ol' thinking and behavior. :)
I don't know where you get that expectation from. These are arbitrary engineering constraints informed by business decisions. If they decided that people could deal with up to 30 minutes of service interruption and set that as a goal, they would engineer with that in mind, regardless of how many people. If they used total combined user hours of interrupted service, then they would engineer around reducing possibly outage times for a system as it handled more people (or scale differently, with more systems).

I don't think there's any sort of expectation that it would definitely go one way though, as you say. It's all business and legal constraints providing engineering constraints to build against.
Presuming that those languages exist within OpenAI's training dataset. Try to have a conversation in Rinconada with ChatGPT; my last attempt led to its admission that it had no proficiency in this language. You will have to find a native speaker, and their numbers are dwindling as Tagalog and English are being favored in education - the latter thanks to American linguistic imperialism.

The AI does not circumscribe all of reality; not all of reality is captured on the internet.
That is why the ML/AI community is usually shortcutting this process by publishing preprints on Arxiv.

A publication based on an LLM that was state-of-the art only until March of 2023 cannot be justified by long review times.

Edit: To be fair, it seems their preprint was first submitted in August 2023 and the IEEE article that is based on the paper was a bit slow...
Kagi, you can thank me later
I would love to attend a systems-oriented meetup in Portland, and would be willing to organize/operate it though I’m quite bad at that kind of thing.
How am I supposed to bite it now?
To interpret it more charitably, perhaps each of these things is it's own language and the activities therein akin to writing.
1946 is absolutely the beginning of the Boomers. The Boomers are the babies born after soldiers came home from WWII in 1945. If anything, Biden (1942) is technically the Silent Generation.

Gen X are the children of the Boomers. So starting ~1965 or so. Trump may have a connection with Gen Xers, just like Reagan had a connection with Boomers, but he's not a Gen X president. Not in any way.
I bet on Bjarne Stroustrup being too busy setting other programmers computers on fire before coming to mine.

More seriously, the typical response to undefined behavior is for the compiler to optimize out whatever code may trigger it. It is great for performance and one of the reasons C and C++ often top the charts, but it may lead to weird bugs that depend on the optimization level.

For the union case, the compiler could completely remove the code that reads the float: because it is UB, it is something you shouldn't do, so it considers that you will never do it, so it can just remove the code. In the end your conversion function may do nothing at all (very optimized!). In practice, because it is so common, even though it is UB, it will usually do what you want it to do.
If it's something longer term as a project, some other stuff:

D&D: The Hypertext SRD has 3.5, 5, and Pathfinder material for ideas. https://www.d20srd.org/ Most Nix variants have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing) in them ... it's dangerous in the darkness. Plus, there's lots of word jokes like "Bash the door down" style of play

Myst/7th Guest/Visual Novel: People in-thread are talking pictures. While command line seems to be the goal, still-frame imagery puzzles using bash commands would be cool.

The Emoji Movie/Cell Phone: Adventures in the land of appscrapers and their cobble-touch avenues as your Nethack/Rogue icon delves the "open source" nix of the phone hardware.
Thanks!

> Dried meat is a pretty universal concept

Irrelevant in my opinion. Putting something on bread has probably existed since the day after someone invented bread. But we still give Italy credit for inventing pizza. Just like startups, the implementation is more important than the idea.
It's really regional. Where I live, baseball is the primary sport and basketball (primarily NBA) is a distant second. Many but considerably less than half of young people know who Messi is but only because he just won a world cup and even that memory is fading fast since most people didn't watch it. You'd struggle to find anyone under 60 who hadn't heard of Zuck.
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> First year sales were on the order of 100x that amount

To be fair, that kind of proves you did not really need to localize the game.
It's a fun style of writing OP probably grew up reading, Terry Pratchett is a good example. They're asides.
What happens if you shoot down a delivery drone?
The author abandoned the distributed lock service he/she is writing, and it might benefit to read the original Google paper on their distributed lock service Chubby to understand why it is so enduring at Google: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

> I abandoned the project after it very quickly become apparent that despite having written the service in this super fast, brand new language called golang, the service just wasn’t fast enough to handle the scale we threw at it.

This makes me think the author wishes to use the distributed lock service for some purpose that's not well served by distributed locks. It's not that distributed locks are bad, it's just that the author seems to have a particular use case already in mind that's poorly suited to a distributed lock service.
If the internet is being filled with AI generative content post-2021, then doesn't that just imply that the next generation of AI training on this "slurry" would be analogous to a "multi-round fixing" operation (as quoted above)?

While currently this is a relatively weak strength of genAI - assuming technological improvement of this technique over time, isn't it just as possible that the data quality will converge positively rather than negatively over time, in the future? That is to say, the web would be consistently "refined" as time goes on, by predominant VLLM?

Assuming that the internet is even "filled" as you say in the first place (personally I don't think organically-generated content is ever going to be pushed out of the internet, but that's my opinion, and I'll entertain the opposite case for the sake of the discussion). It also assumes that people are using models trained on the current state of internet "slurry" in the first place - that we are continually ingesting more internet YoY into these models. If we come up with a better model that needs less data to produce high-quality content, neither my nor your assertion is even relevant. Same case if the internet just decides to use small, low-quality models trained on only a portion of the internet.

But if the internet is continually recycling the entirety of itself through a model that has tens of millions of dollars of funding and research focused on directly improving the quality of it's answer metrics, it's not necessarily 100% locked into a downward quality convergence slide. Especially if we assert that humans /will/ continue to be consistently putting more organic data into the internet over time. It's a pessimistic take.
>if humans can hallucinate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq I guess we are no worse off

Generous way of saying "outright fucking lied about...".
I think Bill Gate and Steve Jobs are pretty well known, even in my circle of people who dont even know what a CPU is. Nearly everyone who uses an iPhone know or have at least heard of Steve Jobs.

Although arguably Mark Zuckerberg dont get as much press as them.
I wouldn't shy away from some exclusivity in order to keep the venue size reasonable.
There are a few "facade" solutions listed at https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/performance/thi...
But.. AFAIK nobody has made one for Soundcloud.
Please sir, can I have a bigger screen –?
It's fascinating how our perception of different food can change over time
Lint your crate API changes for semver violations
Is some clique moving forward on a new public influence or image campaign, in just the last few months? Or gotten a new PR team?

Some have been active before, but anecdotally I've noticed more clever outreaches in the last few months.
There’s a handmade meetup in Boston you might want to check out — https://handmadecities.com/meetups/
It uses ACLs and access groups. So a malicious app should not be able to access keychain items for other apps. Sure, it might be possible to get the key out of process memory, but that raises the bar significantly for an attacker. Most infostealer malware is pretty basic, and just looks for files A, B, C, etc.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/keychain_...
The Billionaire Keeping TikTok on US Phones
Groff no es difícil, pero (g)eqn/pic/tbl... sí ;)
GraphHopper supports time-dependent public transit routing by itself. You need the timetable information (GTFS) and maybe also a real-time data connection. From this data also other providers like Google and Mapbox offer their transit options, I think.

The OpenRailRouting project however is more for planning purposes (i.e. for the railway companies) to determine how long a train will take from A to B and which exact rails the route will take and which turns are allowed and more.