skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It does not.

There is a level of incompetence one can be at their job in which it is clear that they do not seek to do their job well.

> You really should engage in a genuine debate.

You should respond to the things I say, not the things you wish me to say. Disagreement with you does not mean I am not being genuine, just as a circle jerk is not a genuine debate.

> It's perfectly legal for a cop to say "I'm searching your car, ok?".

To again reference the level of incompetence...

> The Fourth Amendment requires that before stopping the suspect, the police must have a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed by the suspect.[0]
> The term “unreasonable” refers to any action or result that exceeds a reasonable expectation, or refers to anything beyond what would be considered “common sense.” In criminal cases, the prosecutor should explain the evidence so clearly that the average person would agree with it; if the logic of the prosecution or the certainty based on the given evidence could not be accepted by the common public, it would be unreasonable. [1]

Even if you disagree with the interpretation, I hope you are able to distinguish the difference between "what is right" and "what is legal". Because if your argument is "it is legal, therefor morally correct" we will never agree, just as I will not condone the actions of cheaters, and those that manufactured the housing crisis.

In the US, we do have the presumption of innocence. Questioning to search without probably cause is, legal or not, an abuse of power.

I do wish you think deeply about what the "power" is that is being abused. What "authority" mean. Because if your argument is "it's legal" then I do not believe you understand this and I ask you to think a little deeper. Perhaps you're familiar with "malicious compliance?" That's enough of a hint.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stop_and_frisk

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unreasonable
So the real reason they’re not profitable is because they’re doing some accounting magic that counts their income spread over the next 27 month, instead of all up front. They are cash flow positive, it’s just that their income numbers are lagging some 2 years behind.
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You can have multiple things saved on your clipboard at once.
> The simple answer in many cases to "how did anyone survive before X" is "well, often they didn't"

I would recommend rethinking the assertion that most kids in schools are going to die without a cellphone.
I think
most people (safely) assume that saying such a thing won’t cause this response and some might say it because they find it a funny thing to say. I can imagine some people in my close circle of friends/family that might say it, but if they’ll find that it caused such a disastrous situation they will feel very bad…
Webstorm kept crashing and grinding to a halt on my codebase. Vscode and neovim didn't have that issue so that's what I use now.
> I think it's also a misconception that Hong-Kong got destroyed, but I am not sure.

It depends on who you ask.

Foreign entities who used to operate politically in Hong Kong got obliterated due to the national security law. (Yes, it used to be "legal" for foreign entities to do funny things with the intention of subverting Chinese interests in PRC soil. Imagine that!)

Hong-Kongers who refused to believe the PRC (and CCP) were ultimately in power after 1997 had their dreams and illusions "destroyed". Many migrated elsewhere.

(And then there's aftershocks due to COVID policies having to align with mainland China's, and financial/property markets being tied to China which is currently kind of struggling, but the causation with post-2019 politics is not very clear.)

Personally, I think the doomer narrative w.r.t. Hong Kong is overblown, unless you fall into the two categories above.
I was surprised by the number of science grad students I knew who were into This Old House. The dream of applying your expertise in a short time frame with tangible results.
> What do you call a Markov chain that tells dad jokes? A Mark-ov Twain.

I honestly thought that one was pretty good.
Roblox is dilution-maxxing, stock based comp is up 10x since EOY 2020 whereas revenue is only up 3x. SBC is also ~ 1/3 of revenue.

It's pretty cool to get shareholders to pay your employees so you can be called "operating cash flow positive" as if their comp isn't an expense.
> the standard Window's file metadata for all your EXEs and DLLs when you're releasing products

It has just occured to me that I don't know what are the ELF's counterparts of those fields... does ELF even have their counterparts?
https://archive.is/et4uD
I agree with you. Such a stupid and shallow comment speaks only of the person who said it, and nothing of the intended subject.

As a father who tries to raise three healthy children, though, I also marvel that such a shallow comment could have such an adverse affect on someone. I do realize that the man is a savant, thus already four or five standard deviations away, but perhaps our society should reconsider the early childhood learning strategies that produce such insensitivities. Maybe we should return to letting children insult one another and not intervene - thus enabling the children to learn to deal with such comments. It won't completely solve the problem for people like the man here, but it would certainly help.
Sorta, except that everyone is racing for money.
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I could see this being the case, Queen Creek, AZ is about 15 minutes to the south by southeast from Chandler, AZ.
More realistically the phone would be good for calling for advice after you get molested by a teacher. a million times more likely than getting shot. If it's so bad, why not just homeschool?
For those prefering a direct audio link:

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I don’t think there’s anything inherent in Roblox that means the characters have to look and be animated like janky robots.
They're not for me. In other words, your mileage may vary
What do you mean? Give an example.
Works rather well in rust but in c++ its not as nice for one because of the lack of something like rusts question mark operator. (Tbf thats kinda workaroundable with compiler extensions but MSVC for example doesn‘t have most of them)
So if you have 1000 accounts, doesn't that mean you've submitted 1000 apps to the store or something?
Just great, now I'm getting so old I'm mixing up my Sun Executives :-).

You are correct. I also believe Scott said something to the effect that IT was dead although we all know how good of a prediction that was.
Takes very little time to configure, new languages work with LSP in a few seconds, support for headless neovim, nice gui with good font rendering in macos, decent git integration, window management is good and can be customised to use vim bindings.

Pretty much does everything you would want whereas I have a bunch of problems with emacs and neovim that stop me using them full time. Ideally I'd use emacs but it has performance issues with my giant typescript codebase I work onfor my job.
Aha! https://www.aha.io
Not a fan of how "bro" is now a slur for, "non-obese male who holds opinions with which I disagree"
To make it more (de)motivational, as part of its employment retention policy, the Death Star added a state-of-the-art daycare center. https://www.daycaresdontcare.org/Humor/DeathStar.htm

I think of it as a lesson that just because your company treats you well, that doesn't make it a good company.

That Onion story came out in 1996, which means I read it in the newspaper version.
i would go further, and treat biometrics as a sort of "remember me" tick box, rather than a username. The first time you authenticate, you have to have an alternative method rather than biometrics, and only afterwards, do you record biometrics as a shortcut (like the "remember me" login tickbox).
I would love a modern Emacs with a better modern GUI similar to Zeds.
That's hard for humans too. Perhaps if one tries to interspers "internal monologue" with the temperature cranked up, with the main output, and prompting the LLM to consider and weave in aspects from the inner monologue when continuing while taking care to make it coherent... (I'm sure it'd be harder than that - but basically inject random internal "thoughts" without letting them control the output)
Good idea. If individual parents prohibit their kid from using a cellphone in school, it would be standing out in a weird way, thus creating a classical collective-action problem, tragedy of the commons etc.

The school taking the step to ban the devices fixes it.
What would you say about this? > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41281628
I wish I could favorite this, great process and summary!
What would you say about something like this? > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41281628
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How co-incidental that Google chose a model that somehow reduces one of their significant revenue risks, that of ad blockers.

Clearly there was no other way... /s
My extremely frugal friends bought one when their second came. It’s a night and day difference for them. They can actually live and enjoy a life instead of being constantly hounded by an infant that keeps them up all night.

It’s worth every penny to them.
I'm not surprised. Go's design is heavily informed by what does and does not cause cascading design problems in software engineering at scale. These practical concerns are very different from the kinds of issues that academia had been focused on. But practical solutions to practical problems is central to Go's popularity.
You can get them to solve unseen problems just fine. E.g. one example: Specify a grammar in BNF notation and tell it to generate or parse sentences for you. You can produce a more than random enough grammar that it it can't have derived the parsing of it from past text, but necessarily reasons about BNF notation sufficiently well to be able to use it to deduce the grammar, and use that to parse subsequent sentences. You can have it analyse them and tag them according to the grammar to. And generate sentences.

My impression, from seeing quite a few people trying to demonstrate they can't handle out of distribution problems it hat people are very predictable about how they go about this, and tend to pick well known problems that are likely to be overrepresented in the training set, and then tweak them a bit.

At least in one instance the other day, what I got from GPT when I tried to replicate it suggests to me it did the same that humans that have seen these problems before did, and carelessly failed to "pay attention" because it fit a well known template it's been exposed to a lot in training. After it answered wrong it was sufficient to ask it to "review the question and answer again" for it to spot the mistake and correct itself.

I'm sure that won't work for every problem of this sort, but the quality of tests people do on LLMs is really awful, at least because people tend to do very narrow tests like that and make broad pronouncements about what LLM's "can't" do based on it.
Roblox is a huge problem for me, as a parent of a 8y kid.
Let me explain: I try to block violent apps in his tablet using Google's Family app, however, Roblox internally keeps 'offering' my kid almost any game, whatever if there's violence, drugs, killing others, and so forth.

It's a headache and a source of fights, so, I thank the responsible (/sarcasm).
> One thing that is becoming more and more clear, is that memorization is absolutely a required part of becoming an expert.

I'm very interested in this idea, but it doesn't immediately ring true to me, is there some research or other stories you know of that can escalate this from "interesting" to "must do"?
> Art changed drastically during the 19th century, and photography played a role for sure, but IMO the decline of religion is probably a greater contributor.

And we have new tools affecting art today, artificial intelligence chief among them. Interestingly, that coincides with a rise in religion in many Western nations fueled by the influx of Islam to Europe. I wonder how people will view the effects on art and sciences in 200 years. Today, many people view both AI's effect on art and the rise of Islam in Europe very negatively.
Depends if you live in one of these areas, in that case could be worse.
Compared to KDE, I have a feeling that both Windows and macOS have
pretty primitive usability options. Windows got some improvements in
this area only recently, but I think macOS is still behind.

When I'm using macOS, I can't stand the GUI without these tools:

Rectangle: https://rectangleapp.com/

Easy Move+Resize: https://github.com/dmarcotte/easy-move-resize

They move the macOS desktop usability near the place where KDE was in
the late 2000's.
when I see things like this and people that are not just on another level but are at superhuman ability it really makes me wonder. I am pretty scientific minded and like to think of rational explanations but when I see things like this I wonder if this person is somehow distinctly different from myself. Do we have aliens among us? Is this Neo in the Matrix? I am not normally like that but how is it that some people have such a super ability like this, it is hard to comprehend.
That was the easy part, coming up with algorithms, data structures (what is that?), and the actual hardware and OS mappings, was already beyond that book.

Until I got hold of Input magazines collection, I was pretty much stuck with my Timex 2068 manual, and its set of demos.

It is like learning a foreign language from a dictionary without anything else, until someone else shows the structure of the sentences.
I want to re-educate myself and combat climate change. Non-profit or maybe politics. Need a big pile of cash first so I can disregard the looming threat of ever lacking money.
> Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump.

Is the opening sentence supposed to imply that Thiel (and Elon) are no longer outliers?

I thought 99% of the SV elite were still donating vast sums of money to the other party. Since, all of a sudden, everyone is concerned with billionaires why the obsession with Elon? It’s OK when big money donates to one side but not the other?
Yeah that analogy is fairly poor. You have to think about it in terms of some probability distribution that each step of the model is sampling from. Out of the distribution of all text, find the top n values for the next token that maximize `P(next | prefix)`, which is done efficiently through making a vector embedding to encode the tokens inside the statistical model.

Things that look like Q-and-A transcripts do exist in the training set, think interviews, books, stage plays, etc, and at a different layer of abstraction the rules of English text in general are very well represented. What RLHF is doing is slightly shifting the shape of the probability distribution to make it look more like the Q-and-A formats that are desired. They build a large dataset with human tagging to collect samples of good and bad outputs and using reinforcement learning techniques to generate outputs that look more like the good examples and less like the bad ones.

This probably involves creating a (much smaller, not-LLM) model that is trained to discriminate good outputs and bad outputs, learning to mimic the human tagging. There's some papers that have been published.

Here's one article from Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf
Do they have the right? I was stopped by German police many times and they asked me to search my car every time, which I complied.
However one time I was stopped, one policeman was speaking to me while I was in my car, and his colleague started opening the passenger door and searched without asking. That's when I told them to stop and questioned their authority to do so.
German citizen did not seem to question the authority, because when I asked around, they didn't know if it was legal or not.
It is a windowing system built for one monitor and one desktop. Its metaphors broke completely once they added multi monitor multi desktop per monitor support.

Even the menu bar does not make any sense when you have two monitors. Let alone the useless command tab that picks up whichever window (or not even a window) it wants
I believe tailscale is remote only. Personally remote doesn’t work for me, I feel my motivation and mental health go into a tailspin after a while, but there is no denying some companies have made it work.
If you liked that growing up, then this one about the same historical figure (Pasteur) might be of interest (later in life), since it seems to tell, according to the comments, "the rest of the story":

"Bechamp or Pasteur? A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology"

(4.8/5 stars, 406 total ratings, 68 with reviews) at https://www.amazon.com/Bechamp-Pasteur-Chapter-history-biolo...
urgh - from google's pov the scam app was making 30-40M in rev and they get a nice 15-30% cut

they kill off smaller apps because they make little money for them

scam apps need to be proven they're a scam for them to be remvoed.
This is extremely interesting as I’ve read that having bumpers is also a significant increase in the risk of SIDS.

I wonder if it’s a situation where bad air basically gets trapped by the baby. Not much different than, a CO2 canister leaking into a closed room.
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"The country is going to have to learn critical thinking. That may be an impossible challenge for the US." (ts 30:57)

"Impossible" is a bold qualifier. Maybe he was exaggerating - maybe not. Will critical thinking necessarily become more difficult - to learn, teach, exercise - with AI? It's possible it will help people become better thinkers, but I don't think that's a guarantee.
As opposed to all the other bullshit going on in schools? Wouldn’t even register.
A lot of people at a megacorp play to win, they've just realized that the company's value is so much higher than the value they could add to it, that for them, winning means capturing part of the company's value for themselves. In a sense the company becomes the market and their friends become the company.
Update-related throughput and index problems are only a problem if you update tables. You can use an append-only structure to mitigate some of that: insert new entries with the updated statuses instead. You gain the benefit of history also. You can even coax the index into holding non-key values for speed with INCLUDE to CREATE INDEX.

You can then delete the older rows when needed or as required.

Query planner issues are a general problem in postgres and is not unique to this problem. Not sure what O(1) means in this context. I am not sure pg has ever been able to promise constant-time access to anything; indeed, with an index, it'd never be asymptotically upper bounded as constant time at all?
If the crew publicly suggest they would rather not join their Columbia forebears on the list of incinerated spacefaring heroes their careers at NASA (and opportunities afterward at Boeing or another contractor) would be over. And until the engineering decision is made there is no need to take that risk now.
It's all connected, bro. Language models are connected to compression, to n-gram models, to Markov chains, to everything.
Choice quote from this:

"""While it may be “useful” to do that refactor or redesign, or work on an annoying bug"""

Shortest but not sweetest time-capsule to an already-dead moment in our collective past, IMHO
I'm a dev on the platform and agree that there is a lot of jank in Roblox games.

There's some indication of more polish coming, as recently many games have been rewarded (Pressure, Shovelware's Brain Game etc.) from having more polished animations. Devs respond quickly to seeing other games succeed and take notes. The tools are also getting better. It's gradually getting less nightmarish to try to import a working skeletal animation from Blender to Roblox Studio.

Could Roblox games benefit from more polish? Absolutely, but it's less important than having quick access to a high variety of games with consistency in how you play them.

Perhaps the most massive benefit of jank-tolerance is that it lets devs "gradient descent" towards a game players want. If you released a janky proto on Steam, you'd miss your shot, get an "overall negative" review and be done. On Roblox you can release a janky proto, see its metrics, improve over time until you have something people want.
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>why the obsession with Elon

Elon is notorious for chasing the limelight and keeping it on him personally more so than the product. Most billionaires are content with doing this type of stuff fairly quietly, hence they attract less attention.

If you do shit for attention all the time you're probably going to get more of it, but it won't necessarily be flattering or directed in the way you want.
Does increasing division of labor lead to greater credentialism?
I think that both viewpoints are correct. I would add that, importantly, the invention of photography changed the economics of picture ownership. No longer was it necessary to sit long hours and pay a ton of money to get a family portrait! Photographs were far cheaper, and to the untrained eye, "better" than the work of a mediocre portraitist. Of course, I would personally much rather have Ingres (for one) paint my portrait, but only the very wealthy could afford such a thing.
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IDK about the stock but I’ve interviewed there and their cash comp is legit FU money. Am I misunderstanding you?
Roblox really needs to create some better parental controls so that it includes the option for a parent to be required to "ok" what they call "new experiences". The various limits you can set on content are great in theory, but they are apparently impossible for Roblox to enforce and as such are meaningless.

I do like Roblox from a creator perspective (I'm not a creator) since it's rather easy to guide your children into building games rather than "just" consuming them. Something which is very hard with basically everything else they do digitally.
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I went to high school when cell phones were common and most students had them. But, at least at my school, if you had one out during class it was instantly confiscated and returned by the front office after school. I assumed this was the norm, so articles about "cell phone bans" as a new policy are surprising to me. I assumed it always was this way.

When did schools start allowing cell phone use during class? Do teachers no longer have the power to confiscate devices that are used at inappropriate times?
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What are you on about? Dude check yourself.
To be honest my impression is that any "loud" VC is firmly in the Musk camp. And maybe just disagrees with Musk on a tactical level but generally would like for a lot of discussions to stop happening. There's probably a bit of a "intellectual dark web" silliness going on where they all think they are being oppressed for their opinions, despite probably being the silent... plurality I guess in their cohort.

Of course when they talk about this in public fora, many people outside their cohort[0] will react negatively to them.

[0]: glibly, outside their bubble.