skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many problems related to online shopping cart abandonment can be traced to checkout forms, which can be difficult and time-consuming to fill out...

People stop at the checkout forms because that's often the only place you actually know the price.

There are so many dark patterns adding fees, adding shipping cost, or signup to newsletters, that the only place you know what you will be charged is when you're making the payment.

It's not unlikely that people click through to checkout, just to find out what a thing will cost.

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On topic, there certainly are place online where I'd rather use a browser based payment flow that ideally doesn't involve me sharing credit card numbers with a merchant.
> this is one case where contextual advertising would actually work better than what we have now.

No. No. No.
That a) would involve tracking and b) what we have now are ads based on what you bought/ have looked at.
I already have an 'x', why would i want more ads for it...or ads for what some algorithm thinks i might be interested in, related to it.
Unless I choose to.
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” — Harold Abelson
The Lead times are a serious problem. I joined 2 months ago and can't believe it.
Ultimately we need to order in higher quantities instead of doing specific configurations per order. In an ideal world we get ahead of the curve and sell StarFighters that are physically in stock and shipped the same day. I've got some work to do the next two weeks with Book 7, Lite 5 round 2. After that, I can focus on Starfighter bringing its lead times back down to earth.

AMD has not been helpful with us and open-source, Intel helps us to make this possible. Although the chip issues may make everyone skeptical about the chips, I have been told that our chips are not affected. Potentially what every company would say but its what I've been told so I believe it.

I hope this has answered the AMD & Intel question. And hopefully we bring down lead times to make it a no brainer to choose StarFighter.
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This is so cool. I want to try to implement something with this right now.
If you remove aging and diseases, everything else will kill people with 50% chance in any given 1000-ish years.
The T-Head specific vector instruction set extension which exposes the bug.
Also they get to be all heroic if the equipment doesn't work properly. It makes an (already interesting) trip more interesting and memorable.
> wonder who is (or what applications are) today on that slow, steady path

I am afraid it is a "gold rush" situation. Also, maybe (maybe) if VC and Wall Street love slows down a bit , we might see more careful approaches.-

Under these circumstances I am afraid the slower, careful approach does not get much used.-

Maybe - maybe - Anthropic could be that company. But the environment is not conducive. And, the major players - it appears - lack leadership to approach the development in this incremental, wise, and secure way.-
That was later. NGlide for sure.
exactly! a little explanation please? i dont turn my camera on for just anything!!! who am i chatting with - the nsa?
UK microchip fab closing puts British defence projects at risk
It always annoys and amazes me that people in this field have no basic understanding that closed-world finite-information abstract games are a unique and trivial problem. So much of the so-called "world model" ideological mumbojumbo comes from these setups.

Sampling board state from an abstract board space isn't a statistical inference problem. There's no missing information.

The whole edifice of science is a set of experimental and inferential practices to overcome the massive information gap between the state of a measuring device and the state of what, we believe, it measures.

In the case of natural language the gap between a sequence of symbols, "the war in ukraine" and those aspects of the world these symbols refer to is enormous.

The idea that there is even a RL-style "reward" function to describe this gap is pseudoscience. As is the false equivocation between sampling of abstracta such as games, and measuring the world.
You mean to say there were more deportations in 12 years than in 4 years?
Great example of the RWNJ crowd where everything is a conspiracy against them all the time so that they never have to answer questions like why their family won’t talk to them anymore.
I wouldn't say it sucks. You just need to keep training it for as long as needed. You can do adversarial techniques to generate new paths. You can also use the winning human strategies to further improve. Hopefully we'll find better approaches, but this is extremely successful and far from sucking.

Sure, Go is not solved yet. But RL is just fine continuing to that asymptote for as long as we want.

The funny part is that this applies to people too. Masters don't like to play low ranked people because they're unpredictable and the ELO loss for them is not worth the risk. (Which does rise questions about how we really rank people)
I edited the title to make it easier to understand.

Original: Secret British defence projects at risk from closure of Apple supplier - One of UK’s last remaining microchip factories ceases taking orders after losing lucrative deal

https://archive.ph/x8vAM
1350 even: "Ein Theil der Finsterniß, die sich das Licht gebar,"

Mephistopheles is large (1e35 lₚ?) enough to appear classical; if he has been Hawking Radiated, does that predict anything about the timescale of the ultimate evaporation of (good and) evil? May we thereby derive a prelude to a philosophy of the future? (is FWN's "Jenseits" his century's equivalent of the "post-singularity"?)
> wait I go to Hacker News to waste time but this is quite exactly what I've been wanting in so many ways.

This has happened so many times for me that I don't consider the time "wasted". I try to make sure I separate the a) "this is interesting personally", and b) "this is interesting professionally" threads and have a bunch of open tabs for a) that I can "read later".

But the items in (b) I read "now" and consider that to be work, not pleasure.
If they convinced me of their helpfulness, and their output is actually helpful in solving my problems.. well, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, and all that.
> Standups can be just two lines of text in a daily Slack thread, but usually it's handier to just gather around and go through what you did and what you'll be doing.

Why? So a middle manager can create a report and submit it to their superiors? What if we omit all these reporting steps (and the middle manager) and gather when there is need to gather only? The team knows what they are doing, they can see it in each other's commits and each other's tickets. Who are you trying to inform/report to here?

> What kind of project model do you like if Scrum is The Devil Incarnate?

Kanban

> Who takes care of customer requirements?

Developers. You can also implement a feedback form and read it as a team.

> Do you plan your time use

Roughly. If we knew exactly what each thing entails to plan it in detail, that'd be waterfall. Or scrum, which is mini waterfalls one after another, never ending. That time you spend on planning, better spend it doing, and without a ceremony master.

> How do you teach other people in the company not to bother the team during implementation?

We told them once. If you have a problem when business types are barging in all the time and bothering your devs, maybe the business types can get a course in patience and basic manners?
> what came to my surprise is that Poland, Turkey, Scandinavian countries, Africa have literally 1 to none nuclear stations.

Also, Austria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Austria

Short timeline:

- 1972: started building its first nuclear power plant

- 1978: parliament decides to ban nuclear power for 20 years

- 1997: ban is made permanent

Note that the initial decision for the ban was even before Chernobyl (the event that greatly boosted anti-nuclear sentiment in Europe).

What's important to keep in mind is that fuel from nuclear power plants can also be used for developing nuclear weapons, so historically only states "trustworthy" to the US or the former USSR were allowed access to the technology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation#Dual-Use...).
I'm in my 30's and I don't give a fuck on 'AI', Instagram and Tik Tok.
It’s been pretty common over the last decade for actual on-the-ground reality for each administrations policies to be the opposite of their perceived positions.

For instance, Obama’s admin was far more pro-gun (in actuality) than Trumps.
Another little tidbit about RLHF and InstructGPT is that the training scheme is by far dominated by supervised learning. There is a bit of RL sprinkled on top, but the term is scaled down by a lot and 8x more compute time is spent on the supervised loss terms.
sorry, should be fixed now, forgot to scale ram on fly.io :/
All predictions have a margin of error. Both "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns". Given they don't really understand the cause, we're nearer the "unknown unknowns" area.
This site wants to share your cookies to at least 662 “venders” and they are being dishonest with the “legitimate interest” scam. The creator clearly does not care about nor respect their users/visitors.
Open source GDPR compliant alternative for Recaptcha and CF Turnstile
Whatever your views on free market if you want goods cheaper someone needs to make them cheaper. Splitting up Apple won't result in that. You still need someone else to make phones.
Worst, advertising data miners if you look at the cookie consent form.
Both Bezos and Branson stepped on board their respective spaceships as well.
Which Chavez? Monroe Doctrine was in regards to saying that any European intervention in the Americas would be viewed as an act of aggression. That was 1823
Times really have changed. That, and Shakira, obviously ...
I think that the field of proofs, such as LEAN, which have states (the current
subgoal), actions (the applicable theorems, especially effective in LEAN due
to strong Typing of arguments), a progress measure (simplified subgoals),
a final goal state (the proof completes), and a hierarchy in the theorems
so there is a "path metric" from simple theorems to complex theorems.

If Karpathy were to focus on automating LEAN proofs it could change mathematics forever.
Yeah, I agree with you. I want all those things and would try to attain them if possible. But I also think it's selfish and "not how it works".
I think people are not really made for adapting such a long time. I also think the generations after you would want to own a part of your ecological niche to live in themselves. You might be looking over your shoulder the whole time.
Why worry? It only captures the eyes.
Commas are important. Please don’t eat out your server.
Indeed. I wonder what are the real reasons behind these bans in German nations. Can't believe it's just for political populism, there must be something more substantial.
If it was invented in isolation of all other tech, it would still be in the interests of the rich that everyone else got to use it.

More users, more awareness of limitations and side effects and how to treat them.

Longer working lives for the labour force, less need for expensive pensions and expensive old age care.

But this isn't in isolation, the changes to AI and robotics, even without AGI/ASI or von Neumann replication, will make us unfathomably better off by 2050 (and with, no more labour). What does "rich" even mean when anti-aging stops being a choice between "snake oil" and "in mice"?
this could happen, but hiv isn't contagious like the flu so even if there'll be an individual with such a strain - how likely it'll pass to others?
Also, this drug limits replication, meaning there'll be less and less mutations over time compared to a fully spread virus
Cats, big as well as small, are feline :)
Of course governments don't comprehend the utility of it - they are an immortal social structure made of coercion consisting entirely of replaceable and self-replenishing parts. It benefits from immortality no more than eusocial insects would from a longer lifespan. Ironically any governments that would pursue lifespan extension is thus inherently "corrupt" in that it is technically self-serving on the part of its administrators. Except for those with a clear voter mandate setting that goal of course.

Secession is already baked in just about every government system excepting deliberately unstable ones (favored by autocratic using the threat of chaos when they die as a shield). To governments that functionally makes it a "solved problem".
Weird argument, in my opinion. It may be that eyesight is only one of several factors that determine performance in shooting events, and these devices help the athletes that use them but provide less benefit to others. Stating it's placebo just because other athletes don't use them is, to me, akin to saying that tape or compression sleeves don't work since some athletes don't use those.
When commenting about how this affects economic policy, immigration reform, military involvement, the causes of why we’re here, laws, title 42, migrants, justifications, and everything in between..

Remember that these are people just like you and I. They, like all humans, are seeking safety and stability for theirselves and families. The difference is that they were born, or ended up in, situations so dire they felt they had better odds trekking through the dangerous jungle(!) on foot for hundreds of miles (followed by thousands of more miles) rather than stay in their current situation.

It’s easy to get lost in the thousand foot view and giving opinions while sipping coffee & working on a laptop commenting on hacker news. Not to say any of our opinions aren’t valid - but rather just think about the people before jumping to any conclusions

Edit: This is not an argument for or against anything or any policy. Rather just a reminder that whichever side you are on, or whatever you are advocating for, just to remember we are talking about humans. That’s the only point I’m making.
"We're sorry."

This is not surprising. Google has a history violating the privacy of and targetting ads to not only teenagers, but children:

- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/business/youtube-ads-kids...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/business/media/youtube-ki...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/business/media/google-you...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/technology/youtube-google...

When will governments wake up and put a stop to this? Their inaction is simply a sign of complicity. Absolutely disgraceful and criminal behavior.

Everyone working at these companies: you're partly to blame, whether you're directly involved or not. Reconsider the behavior you're supporting, and quit.
> I think we should reconsider the "hands off" attitude that (with a few exceptions) has prevailed since the end of the Cold War. Political deference, while culturally sensitive and insisted upon by some US-weary groups, has not turned out so great.

The USA has a terrible track record when in comes to direct participation in the affairs of other countries.
I agree that it's a very difficult problem. I'd like to mention AlphaDev [0], an RL algorithm that builds other algorithms, there they combined the measure of correctness and a measure of algorithm speed (latency) to get the reward. But the algorithms they built were super small (e.g., sorting just three numbers), therefore they could measure correctness using all input combinations. It is still unclear how to scale this to larger problems.

[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphadev-discovers-fas...
Minor nitpick: having a big TV in the child bedroom feels wrong. Put some toys or something more indicative of a child instead.
It would be interesting to see RL on a chatbot that's the last stage of a sales funnel for some high-volume item--it'd have fast, real-world feedback on how convincing it is, in the form of a purchase decision.
Alternative ( with individual Nuclear Power Plants ):

"Open Infrastructure Map is a view of the world's infrastructure mapped in the OpenStreetMap database."

like: https://openinframap.org/#12.37/49.08812/16.15412
Hi, I applied for this role and I know I'd be a great fit. How can I contact you to move forward? Thanks!
200 years ago were close to the industrial revolution. Not so far fetched to stories from "The Anachronopete" and Jules Verne's novels.

Look at this, from the 1700's:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passarola
That works in the same way as actor-critic pair, right? Just all wrapped in the same network/output?
Ah sorry, my French bias is shining through. I meant "canine tooth" (also known as a fang), not the Canis genus.
C# has default interface implementations now, that can be used to create mixins...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/advanced-top...
Good find :) It is the perfect foundation to make the site look good without a lot of effort
Hubble expansion makes everything a closed system in the long term.
I'm confused. Are you saying that removing low quality inputs from training data doesn't improve a model? (Or conversely, adding high quality inputs.) Or are you saying that we don't yet have the technology to reliably do this at scale?
That doesn't contradict my point: universal mortality means the potential losses of an oppressor are bounded, and the bound is acceptably low to many people. Immortality removes that bound.
Don't invest in building your own AI – use what exists
What would it look like when it is being used for good? Not being a smartass implying its existence, legitimately wondering.
The final conclusion though stands without any justification - that LLM + RL will somehow out-perform people at open-domain problem solving seems quite a jump to me.
> Can't believe it's just for political populism, there must be something more substantial.

Can you expand on what you mean by that? Also, generalizing "German" nations like this does seem a bit odd to me. Austria has a very clear and different history with nuclear power compared to Germany where it is only recently that they vowed to get rid of nuclear. For the latter case, it very much was due to events around the Fukushima nuclear accident what contributed greatly to the decision.
didn't know about this one, looks nice but complicated.

Note: if you want to see individual stations, you can disable clustering on the map I've made on the top right corner there's a control for disabling clustering.

maybe I should make clustering disabled by default?
It's weird, sometimes they are slow for me, too. But everything is done with native CSS transitions. Definitely have to look into that again, thanks for the heads up
Perhaps that's an idea for a next game: match people by "how much info are you willing to provide".

Present options to pick a username, email, social media, live text, live audio stream, live video, health data from a smart watch, teenage diary, ...

It already works in some way; e.g. even if one person has both a HN account and a Snapchat account, they would use these to talk to different people.
> I've got no responsibilities, no kids or SO at the moment, so now would be the perfect time in my career to do something wild.

Perfect opportunity to NOT work for a bit. If you can afford it, go backpacking. Solo or otherwise. You will gain direct insight into where you want to live/work. Of course, when travelling, everything is seen through rose-tinted glasses, so bear in mind that the reality of living somewhere new is always more complicated than what you see when "on holiday".
What's a "nuclear station" .. does a 20 megawatt reactor count?

https://www.ansto.gov.au/education/nuclear-facts

How about mobile reactors .. they're purposely hard to geolocate but their number is (up to a point) relatively well known (within circles).

Are you across the reactors under construction? China has a good number on the go and planned to break ground in the near future, both on their home soil and for global clients.

> and Africa specifically was sourcing lots of nuclear fuel for other countries other the years.

Not especially willingly as an active source. The Congo region was the source of much of the Cold War nuclear material for the vast proliferation of nuclear weapons, but various non African powers kept the area in conflict to prevent the rise of any representative government that would oppose that extraction.
They're already doing it (not with this tool, of course).

At least around here (Spain), when selling shitty (but expensive) apartments, they'll publish "artist renditions of possible remodels" instead of the actual current state of the home.
Storage Costs Are Plummeting
There are some that don't (such as many of the gaming benchmarks), but they also have Factorio in the CPU category where it, of course, blows the 9700x out of the water. I don't think anybody was expecting anything but the 9x00x3D to be able to compete with that though. We saw the same thing with the 5700x3D.
Does programming have a clear reward function? A vague description from a business person is not it. By the time someone (a programmer?) has written a reward function that is clear enough, how would that function look compared to a program?
Ah that clarifies things, I was confused for a moment.

Well, the goal of a bridged net adapter for VMs is to make the VM as if it were physically plugged in directly into the network, independently of the host, so it makes sense for it not to be affected by a firewall.

> running a VM in your evil app.

IIRC back then, creating a bridged net adapter required a special entitlement (special as in you can't get it without explicitly asking Apple for it and the dev cert for it has additional entries, like for kernel extensions). Dunno if that's still the case.
Also sugary sweets are aimed at children, for whom a dose of sugar probably hits much harder. As someone who managed to quit sugar, it was like a drug addiction.
Ironically, your example shows the main flaw of your position: Dollars are only worth what you can buy with them.
Will Apple's apps trigger the same weekly permission prompt?
related...

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/04/28/bypassing-little-snitch-w...
It was a conscious choice for me as well.

After the Bundeswehr Taurus leak[1] there was a lot of speculation of how the meeting was tapped. One possibility is that they mitm't the guy joining from Singapore with a Certificate from a Chinese CA.

Now Google saw auch a possibility and introduced Certificate Transparenty a few years ago which burns the whole CA if it signs sich a mitm Certificate.

However, Firefox does not check for CT timestamps to this date.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Taurus_leak
Perhaps not entirely open domain, but I have high hopes for “real RL” in coding, where you can get a reward signal from compile/runtime errors and tests.
Depth of field can be zero. The target is on a plane.