skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that deception can happen without even a theory of mind. Deception is just an anthropisation of what we call being fooled by an output and thinking the agent or nodel is working. Kind of like how in real life we say animals are evolving but animals can't make themselves evolve. It's just an unconcious process
How much taxpayer money is wasted on the accounting, the enforcement, and the scary-sounding letters? Wouldn’t it be better if the government just gave taxpayer money to the BBC directly?
There's the dichotomy of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object - only one of these is possible.

Either there can be an undefeatable AI detector, or an undetectable AI writer, both can't exist in the same universe. And my assumption is that with sufficient advances there could be a fully human-equivalent AI that is not distinguishable from a human in any way, so in that sense being able to detect it will actually never work.
The Traveler's Dilemma (2007)
Kind of sad that this piece published by stanford, a supposed beacon of academic excellence and rigor, does not mention at all the issues with this now debunked study.
If unlocking is made mandatory, the phone subsidies will end. People will be forced to pay full price up front, or else effectively pay more as interest (even if that interest is effectively "hidden" in the overall increased price). So yes, this regulation is exactly about that.
https://archive.ph/ShyIi
Current (risk free) 5 year TIPS real yield is 1.65%... Not sure if there are many car loans offered at a lower rate. If you were thinking a different investment, you'd of course need to adjust it for risk, inflation, and liquidity before comparing to the car loan.
(Somewhat) Recent paper on model collapse
Sorry, this is kind of a repost, since my last post violated some guidelines.

This paper that i read a few days ago establishes the existance of a strong model collapse, and says that (feom their own words "as little as 1\% of the trainig data") can still lead to model collapse.

What i found interesting beyond their results, which boil down to: Model collapse can be steep, only diminishing as the ration of synthetic data/real dat gets smaller, and that larger models experience a more severe model collapse. Is that in tge end they talk about the importance of labeling and curating real data.

How would real datavbe labelled? Wouldn't it be easier to labell generated data? And isnt the internet already stuffed with Generated images, SEO llm articles and more? All of which are becoming harder and harder to detect.

I dont want to call this a pre war steel situation since humans are still making human made content, but with llm made SE optimised content flooding the web on mass, amd the first three image results on google being AI generated, its starting to seem more like finding a needle in a haystack.

What do you guys think?
In my world, >$100 is a large purchase. A car is a huge purchase that happens maybe only 2-3x in a lifetime, and purchasing a house is something I hear about in history books, when apparently there used to be a middle class.
Bringing EBeam Review to Compound Semiconductors
> highlight ... the ... ethics of doing psychological research with human subjects

this part is true regardless of the experiment's flaws
Whatabout fallacy.
> Contributing to the economy in a non-destructive non-evil way is still good, people need goods and services to live a good life and almost every part of the economy plays some positive role in that.

If you look at the impacts of consumption on the third world particularly, and the environment, this is demonstrably false, almost hilariously so. if this lets you sleep better at night, so be it, but I don't pretend I'm doing anything good for the world because I'm not.
Arkansas currently has a 100% total abortion ban. They do not even allow abortion at any week if you’re raped, if you’re a child who has been raped, or if you’re a victim of incest. No woman in her right mind would ever move there, and this CTO is female.
What are some other services like zoom?
Are they? Seems like a lot of bunk science from them has been revealed recently. Who knows how much more is still yet to be uncovered. Not to mention some famous parents.
I'm not sure, I think the well tempered clavier is known as "A jól hangolt zongora" in Hungarian (literally "the well-tuned piano"), so the choice of "harmóniák" was probably deliberate. Any native hungarian speakers please correct me if I'm wrong. Given the change in temperament is a metaphor in the film for human ideology deviating from the natural order (more specifically outside political ideology influencing Hungarian culture) and introducing disharmony, perhaps "harmonies" is more fitting.

I absolutely agree with you about the film - more people should experience his work.
But how else are they meant to make their trillions
There’s nothing at this link except the initial first post. This site is broken. Let’s stop linking to it.
UX and UI are quite different, and are different again to visual design.

UX is about understanding who your users are and what the problems they’re trying to solve are, then organising flows, content and layouts to help them achieve it.

I’d recommend reading Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf as it’s a good introduction to a flexible, user-centred approach to product design.

I’ve heard good things about the Google UX course on Coursera if you want to go into more detail. Interaction Design Foundation and Baymard Institute have a lot of great information.
Are people paying $6/GB on average in the US?
Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity
I think the OP's point was that you are part of the problem, and that the landscaping CEO should go to jail.

I'm an American who has lived and worked in Mexico. I found it quite funny that the Mexicans i worked with always complained about the Guatemalans coming over the border and how they needed better border security.

i'm of the opinion that freedom and abortion rights are more important to Americans than being at population replacement rates so our only hope of surviving as a nation is with a huge influx of legal immigrants.

We need to build a border & make it much easier to become a US citizen while making it a felony for hiring an undocumented immigrant.
I recall listening to a cassette that would go through the alphabet, like a song. I tried hard, but never really got the hang out of it. But this time, Morsle would build the bridge more easily.
Please stop trying to present information in this style of webpage, I am begging you. Besides being an abysmal way to present scientific information, every time someone posts one of these it happens to be a topic I am extraordinarily interested in, but due to disabilities I have, I cannot read it even if I wasn't tremendously annoyed by it.
I have to assume that you ultimately pay more in the UK then, because what prevents users from stopping paying after the first month, and switching to a cheaper plan with another provider, and keeping the phone?

Companies aren't going to repossess your phone the way it's worth it to repossess your car or house if you stop repaying your loan.

So it raises the overall price because the companies charge more in order to offset the losses of people who effectively steal the phones they never finished paying for.
Plan, Plant, Planet (1989) [pdf]
Plan, Plant, Planet is an article written by Terence McKenna, the ethnobotanist and psychonaut, for the Whole Earth Catalog in 1989 on the need for humans to look towards plants and their concepts for solutions to solve the crises of the 21st century.

Humans are just getting solar power to scale, yet plants pioneered generating energy from the sun billions of years ago. What other technologies and processes can we learn from plants to help set the planet back on the right track?
I spent 7 amazing years working for Walmart Labs (what they called it at the time) and it was a great place to work. I was being paid like I lived in the Bay Area, but I lived in a much lower cost of living area. I worked my tail off for them and got two promotions. On the second one they declined to increase my annual RSU target because I was making too much for my geo. I saw the writing on the wall regarding their plans for remote workers and left to a competitor that has been much more remote friendly.

I know so many amazing people that were doing the work of their lives that quit or were laid off because of the RTO mandate. I can’t believe that they are doubling down on this, despite the human and financial costs associated with it.

Ultimately it highlights an important fact about working at WM (and lots of other companies, I am sure): you aren’t as special or irreplaceable as you think you are. Look out for yourselves and do what makes sense for you, always!
It would be quite nice to have some of the S3 semantics on local files. Like no one else can the see the file until after you’ve finished writing the file and committed it. And being able to put almost any chara in the file name (key). That is quite nice in S3
This, there are APIs in Windows today, that were added temporarily in one of the early betas of Windows 95 as a stopgap measure. By the time MS got around to replacing them with proper versions, they found that big applications were already using them.
As an avid mountain biker and having been to bentonville twice, the trails are just ok. Immaculately maintained and there are some neat features, but the hills there are seriously lacking elevation.

The small downtown area of bentonville is neat, but the greater area is… meh.
They want you to buy the pro. Helps contribute to their trillions profits. Same with low iPhone models only getting 60hz now. Maybe they should have branded it with their usual marketing bullshit jargon
Microsoft Teams, Jitsi
Who will fund R&D into new innovations then?

Cheaper phones by definition have slimmer margins.
Can't speak for Bentonville, but Little Rock is awful.
It does mention that it is controversial and was criticized for its experimental design. I think that is sufficient for what is essentially a eulogy for a deceased colleague.

I’m not sure what other commenters on here expect, but it would be extremely inappropriate to use this announcement as a venue to systematically criticize his research… I’m pretty sure that has been done already in a more appropriate forum.
Reminder that psychology is in a reproducibility crisis; with ~30%-50% of studies being unable to be reproduced.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psycholo...

In which case, it's fairly safe to say... you're not that much worse off by following your gut and flipping a coin.
It is rather comical.

Everyone knows that panning for gold is a fools game so we have a gold pan/shovel bubble.

It is like having a massive lumber bubble and calling it a real estate bubble because someday we might actually build those houses.
> It’s divisive to demand WFH for a single class of worker

... which nobody does. Rather people simply imagine they do, because they're intellectually lazy.

We go through this same conversation again and again and again. "Oh Starbucks workers make 15 an hour now?? Who do they think they are! I work construction and only make 12!"

"Oh Bucees gives three weeks vacation? Well I work much harder and I don't get any!"

"Wait California gets salary disclosure?? They're such wusses, I don't need that!!1!"

Of course we can go even further back, hundreds of years, and just replay those advancements but I'm tired. The point is that if you want improvement you PULL UP, not PUSH DOWN.

Shitting on yourself with the intention of making other's already shitty situations look not-that-shitty isn't valiant. It's pathetic, across the board. We should PULL UP each other, not PUSH DOWN each other. Then we all end up higher. You want to be fair BUT better - not fair but worse.
The purpose seems clear to me from the explanation provided. Here's what I read between the lines.

1. Send out thousands of letters expecting some to be returned. They may be returned due to deliverability issues, or they may be returned with a reply attached or (probably less commonly) scrawled on the pages of the letter itself. Replies to letters are of course common whether they're expressly requested or not.

2. Give each letter a unique number in your database so you can cross reference the letter to the recipient information (including but not limited to the address) you have stored in your system. The letter may be returned with something else (e.g. another letter) attached so it's important to keep that information correlated.

3. Scanning the original letter is a low cost way to maintain this correlation. When the letters are returned you scan them then send them through a program you have set up to update the system accordingly. The program uses some primitive OCR and probably a checksum to automatically recognize the codes in the original letters. I can imagine this being used to automatically mark bad addresses if a letter is returned without additional context, but its main purpose is probably to route the letter - and any attachments, like other letters - to the appropriate agent.

To support a workflow not unlike the one described above, it is requested that the unique number that identifies the letter be left unobscured. This way OCR can do its job, deliverability issues can be flagged with minimal human involvement, and replies to letters can be put in front of the right person without creating too much organizational overhead.
Yet "creatives" have been using PS etc this whole time as a way to magnify their skills anyway, the hypocrites. Using a PS brush the machine is doing 50-90% of the work for them, and therefore what they're producing isn't art, according to their recent dichotomy.
Is this model as restricted in content generation like openai, claude etc.

Or more open like eg Hercules?
Red Hat Engineer Nikita Popov Now the Lead Maintainer for LLVM
This is a bigger part of the answer than most realize.

The border is some of the most rugged and remote terrain on Earth. A lot (most?) of it is in country not well served by paved roads, cell service, electricity, etc. Even if you could have some sort of magic sensor network that alerted you with perfect accuracy every time someone crossed the border, the logistics of responding to every single crossing are incredibly hard. There are plenty of sections where there isn't even a road on the border.

How are you going to respond to a border crossing alert 10+ miles from the nearest agent, in terrain where it will take hours to get there by land?
AVX-512
Some people said: "look microsoft changed, it is not the same as before", and "but vscode is open source, what are you complaining"...
EU internal migration is relatively non-controversial, at least after the UK left the bloc and people realized how much of a trainwreck leaving the EU would be. Brexit happened mainly because English speakers are painfully stubborn monolingualists.

On the other hand, EU external immigration is extremely controversial. Huge parts of the EU have an extreme far-right that's polling extremely well, and the liberal/centrist parties are all bowing to them by basically copypasting their entire external immigration playbook. The two major fronts in the EU immigration debate boil down to "do we just turn away all asylum seekers or do we start deporting citizens we don't like too?"

The reason why this happened is that the EU suuuuucks at integrating external migrants, especially from poorer countries. I think I saw a statistic which was that, like, Turks that move to the US hate the shit out of Erdogan as much as native-born Americans do, but those that move to Germany wind up loving him more than those that didn't emigrate[0]. Or something like that. The US at least has family migration, which means we've spent the last 50 years learning how to integrate basically everyone, which is the kind of institutional experience the EU's member states lack.

[0] Like to the point of joining hilariously (and illegally) far-right biker gangs
I've used DB2, Sybase, Postgres, mysql, Oracle, and a little SQL Server. Long ago I worked in a Sybase shop and management said we must move to Oracle. Sybase had a nice programming language that made things easier and clearer than Oracle, all i remember is that it involved creating temp tables and then querying against them. I think Sybase is no longer very popular but SQL Server was based on it and may have similar stuff.
Postgres is pretty ubiquitous and it is pretty good IMHO. The DBAs at a recent job all said SQL Server is better but there is the $/windows server stuff you have to do to use it.
That isn't really an answer to the statement about moving their life.

If they have been well compensated, they likely have other prospects and don't really care about money, so their friends and other relationships could be a priority.
I'm not saying all phones should be cheap. The market for premium phones has and will continue to exist. And who's to say finding ways to reduce the cost to produce phones isn't innovation?

I find that markets that are financialized where the price of the good is obfuscated are less efficient. This is because efficient markets rely on price discovery. Healthcare is an excellent example of this.
This is mere presumption, then, that the current experience will turn into something that is as bad as a mass extinction. It's also defeatism of the rankest kind. That outcome cannot both be inherent in the present and also avoidable.
Or they buy the phone with a credit contract, as happens in the rest of the world.

If the major telcos only offer exorbitant interest rates, some other player will step in and offer the credit at better rates that fairly price the risk.
That's assuming they stop collecting on that loan once it's paid off. When I worked at TMobile we'd have accounts with phones that were eligible to be unlocked, and which were eligible to be moved to a cheaper plan, and the policy was just to leave them as-is unless they said something.
I picked an outfit where the CEO, CTO and everyone else is remote. There is no office to return to. I'm not a second class citizen as remote staff. Recommended.
Article title: Strong Model Collapse
Yikes. This is not good vs supporting parents and reducing student ratios.

If you want better kids in public school, support parents who have or want kids, and help people who don’t want kids not have them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40053774
You're probably right in terms of the NN research world, but I've been staring at a wall reminiscing for a 1/2 hour and concluded... Neural networks weren’t widely used in the late 90s and early 00s in the field of computer vision.

Face detection was dominated by Viola-Jones and Haar features, facial feature detection relied on active shape and active appearance models (AAMs), with those iconic Delaunay triangles becoming the emblem of facial recognition. SVMs were used to highlight tumors, while kNNs and hand-tuned feature detectors handled tumors and lesions. Dynamic programming was used to outline CTs and MRIs of hearts, airways, and other structures, Hough transforms were used for pupil tracking, HOG features were popular for face, car, and body detectors, and Gaussian models & Hidden Markov Models were standard in speech recognition. I remember seeing a few papers attempting to stick a 3-layer NN on the outputs of AAMs with limited success.

The Yann LeCun paper felt like a breakthrough to me. It seemed biologically plausible, given what I knew of the Neocognitron and the visual cortex, and the shared weights of the kernels provided a way to build deep models beyond one or two hidden layers.

At the time, I felt like Cassandra, going from past colleagues and computer vision-based companies in the region, trying to convey to them just how much of a game changer that paper was.
I thought they had multiple copies of their archive stored in seperate locations?

Even a full deletion in one datacentre shouldn't erase an entire chunk like that.
Since when is the surface of the universe that of a hypersphere?
How could it be made more accessible to you?
If you take a step back, cameras merely recording when and where people cross the border can still be very useful.

That way you can move your enforcement crews to where most people enter. That won't catch all, of course, but should be more performant than guessing.
This is an extremely pro-business perspective. Just because they can do it doesn't mean they're correct, and we should just bend over and spread our cheeks for them. Certainly, we shouldn't beg for them to fuck us, but apparently some of us are really craving it.
That might be a comment on the quality of modern TV, perhaps?
WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 have entered the chat.
That's like telling someone to pay cash for a car, or not to finance their home. So many people can afford a monthly fee, but not the large one time payment.

It's not your finances, and it's not your place to tell someone else how to spend their money.
Being able to use a second carrier without cancelling a contract with the first is useful for international travel; the 'roaming' rate is often much higher than the normal rate of other countries' local telcos. Plus, mixing-and-matching plans can be advantageous to the user in certain situations even within one country. For example, data-only plans are typically cheaper than data+calls, but one might still want a very modest calls plan for infrequent use - sometimes, better value can be attained by combining two separate contracts. Of course, whether or not telcos ought to allow such use of their contract handsets is another question entirely!
Ok so first of all: I am truly sorry that the world is hard for you. I think its really critical for your well-being to understand that even if you are very assured at how smart you are, you are never too smart to talk to a (lesser IQ) professional of any sort; namely one who can help you navigate your thoughts and problems. Even if I can't convince you of anything else, just try to see how a third-party alone can be helpful in matters of the squishy mind. I see lots of people like you who don't get the help they could get because they feel for whatever reason above it, and it seems like your world view is really ripe for some nasty repression. You must understand your high-IQ as a symptom, not a cause.

Now a little bit cheekier advice. Let me help you make an argument for your position against someone like me, because I really didn't see how I was to be convinced that this thing we are talking about is "substantial" enough to reduce any which way. The only way you can really argue with my position here is to take the point of view that "intelligence" is something like a metaphysical category. It doesn't have to be exactly that, but the important thing is that intelligence is more something "justice" than it is like "phenotype" or "language" or "neuron". You simply cannot be a materialist and also hold the fundamental nature of something like "intelligence," I wont insult you by filling in the dots there, but just know you are committed to a bit of woo-woo when you want to go all the way like you are (which is fine, I like woo-woo, just not in this case). You want, at the end of the day, for the brain to be more than an organ, but a truly teleological entity, which by chance has now touched upon something "substantial". Its a rough argument to make these days, you would of done great in the Enlightenment though :).

Also, what I believe you were trying to get at with the Tesla/Edison thing is this idea that Edison manifests my point of view because he was more successful in like the capitalist sense than Tesla. But that is just surface level here, and not at all what I am saying. I would come back and say "no, those are simply too people we are now calling intelligent, for different reasons." Intelligence isnt about results, its about certain things that we value (at a given time). And I am not quite sure even how you want to make your point here, we all generally consider Tesla as a very intelligent man these days, people even did back then!
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