skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're really far off topic here, but I'll bite because I'm bored.

Firstly though, we need to agree on what "good" and "bad" mean, in a moral sense. To me "good" is anything that helps humanity thrive, and bad is when something does the opposite. If you have a different definition, this conversation will be a waste of both our time.

> He's right though.

He is not only wrong, he is dangerously wrong. Reason is mans only natural defense. We were born without tooth and claw or even fur thick enough to survive a winter. We must use our minds to survive in this world, or perish as a species. To reject that isn't just a rejection of our nature, it is a form of suicide for our species.

Are you aware that the vast majority of the humans on this planet would not exist today without science? For example, the Haber-Bosch process allows for something like 90% of the worlds food to be grown. Much of the remaining 10% couldn't exist without genetic manipulation, or at the very least selective breeding. To reject science would be to accept a world where at least 90% of us starved and the remaining 10% led short, violent lives filled mostly with unending misery and toil. I'm deeply opposed to that and consider it "bad."

> The scientific approach has blind spots

Yes, that's how science works. We form hypotheses and test them. If those theories turn out to match the evidence we keep them, if they don't we abandon them. That's the truly great thing about science, science can be wrong, but it can never STAY wrong when done properly.

> Religion, euthanasia, etc...

All of those questions depend on culturally defined norms and taboos that may change from person to person or region to region. As long as a persons cultural, spiritual, or philosophical thinking is still "good" (based on my earlier definition) it can coexist with reason, and it's irrelevant. Science does not demand that you put no other god before it, that's religion.

I object only when another system becomes "bad", and in this context that happens whenever someone decides that their ignorance should be valued more than the science that keeps us all alive. It should not, and there are very good reasons for that.

> bad uneducated unintelligent people

I never said, or implied this, or many of the other things you insinuate here. Stating it yourself, and then arguing against it is a form of logical fallacy called a "strawman argument", and it's not just irrational, it's more than a little rude.
Ha - my dad, a plumber, couldn't fathom that people would shower in the morning and not of a night. Which, when you spend your day covered in dirt and excrement, makes a ton of sense.

(Despite being solidly white collar, I still shower of a night)
I'll add that if gold wasn't so impractical to transfer, store and verify we would most likely still be using it as a currency way more frequently (even in our inflatuonist systems, it would likely be seen as a more sound money).

Bitcoin improves a lot on all of these properties while introducing other properties (open/public network, borderless, public ledger, etc.). Its supply/issuance has also been much more stable than Gold ever was (and ever will be if we're to believe the predictions of giant mines and even future asteroid mining).
Fungibility is one of the important properties of money. So a non-fungible token has less ability to accrue monetary value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Properties
There are many reasons to choose BTC over gold:

- easy to transmit

- easy to store (but both gold and BTC are dangerous to store at home from the security standpoint)

- easy to buy and sell

- BTC is actually limited (capped). There's no practical limit to the amount of gold. You're always one tech breakthrough away from gold becoming very common - read the history of aluminum, they used to make jewelry out of it.

- impossible to counterfeit. Even banks struggle to detect counterfeit gold

- gold for payments is completely impractical, BTC has Lightning network that seems to work.

- BTC is programmable
i had a hilarious argument with the significant other when my messages appeared a very lame response to messages i didn't receive.

i think the mental model should be what is most useful in court. if a netsplit occurs the state of the room doesn't exist anymore, conversation can continue but it should be a different room populated with working available clients. The main room can be restored and the missed convo can be a 3rd room
It's not just income. Corporate America has turned "prey upon the poor" into a science. Nobody really cares about protecting the poor from that sort of thing. So they'll have to deal with BS like, say, getting paid via a debit card, whose bank charges fees for nearly anything. Then there are the astronomical credit card rates/fees. There are no limits on credit card APRs.

Even government has been highly optimized for the ultra-weathly and tries to fuck over the poor. The poor get audited at a rate orders of magnitude higher than people who make $1M+/year, despite audits on the poor rarely recovering much in the way of unpaid taxes, but audits on the wealthy tend to make the IRS giant piles of cash, because rich people love to cheat on their taxes.

Then there's court fees. Get arrested, you're suddenly on the hook for a bunch of expenses. If you don't pay them - jail.

Further: look at the ease with which you can get hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax writeoffs for owning a bizjet.

Compare and contrast to the hoops a single mother has to go through every 6-12 months to keep "re-certifying" their children as qualifying for about ~$25 in monthly benefits for food for said kid. The appointments are only 9-5, M-F. Which means you have to take a day off from work; that means you lose at least $100 in income, which is a huge amount of money for a single mother working a minimum wage job.

The appointments are typically at state offices nowhere near major metropolitan cities or public transit, which means you need a car, or to take a taxi, or get a friend to drive you.

Apparently we need to be really concerned about single mothers just giving away their kids and still taking advantage of WIC at the tune of...$25/month?

Then there's all the administrative busywork generated by legislators who demand it so "taxpayers aren't ripped off."

Meanwhile, that bizjet sure does make a lot of weekend trips to Vail and the Bahamas in the winter...
No telling what the next big move will be caused by.

Feb 2024: +50%. Approval of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States

Nov 2024: +50%. US election results

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That makes the problem harder, but not impossible.
How far back should you be able to amend history? What if a malicious client adds messages to a conversation that happened in the past? Imagine for example I'm at work and notice a critical mistake that I missed, and so I retroactively add messages to the old conversation to make it look like I'm not liable, should that be permitted by the protocol?
My father (farmer) has been diagnosed with AD. In the 90’s he had direct accidental exposure to herbicide drift from a crop duster in a windy day. He suffered from a short term illness immediately after and peripheral neuropathy since; I wonder if his AD diagnosis can be added to the list?

Also: AD fucking sucks.
https://ok.ru/video/8247076653615
Thought this was going to be about computational RAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_RAM
I wouldn't do it, but I actually do understand and respect the argument, "neither political side is going to materially help me, so why not vote for a wrecking ball that will surely change something?"
Your rebuttal was going well until the personal attack. Maybe it's not too late to edit?
Also, should not memo [1] suffice?

[1]: https://react.dev/reference/react/memo
Brain work for me is like muscles for others - if I don’t squeeze out every ounce of energy from my brain with problems all day, I feel like I haven’t lived a full day. Many people prefer good workouts instead, if they don’t their body is punitive with restlessness and sleeplessness. Code is my infinite playground but others won’t touch it - despite me trying to convince them for years. They would rather work in the sun, or with other people, or in a busy environment.

People filter themselves into jobs they would rather do, when they have awareness of the possibilities. With social media that awareness is increasing.

I’ve had friends who had the definition of blue collar standing job and chose to transition to nursing, which is another standing job.

Immigration status and lack of language skills may tie you to standing jobs, but if people want to learn and grow out of them, in the US there are pathways. If someone curates a course on career pathways via youtube and spreads them through immigration centers and schools and social programs that will help even more people find their way.

I find healthcare workers to be an interesting mix in this discussion. Their work is extremely physical and mental, and emotionally draining. Demand for it will only go up. Compensation for it will likely go up. Who picks up the jobs will be enlightening. Yes you have the bottleneck for doctor and nurse training, but CNA and PA are not as limited. Doctor liability is an extreme source of stress, but that somehow doesn’t apply to nurses as much, so even doctors recommend their kids become nurses.
Kaufmann's are the best, but also still not good. Along with the translation he wrote detailed notes and commentary, and it is clear from that that he was often just completely missing Nietzsche's actual point.

The main thing Kaufmann had going for him was that he wasn't doing a motivated mis-translation of Nietzsche to support an agenda of white supremacy... which you'd think is a low bar, but it makes for the gold standard in Nietzsche translation apparently.
Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring
Healthcare in many other parts of the world isn't as big of a burden as it is in the US.
You might be in the wrong thread. This is merely a comment about whether LLMs hold a concept of uncertainty, they do.

Also, the next token might be 2 and the next token might be ², the next token could also have been x, these are all valid statements and the LLM might have been uncertain because of them.

2+2=4

2+2=x

2+2=2x

2+2=2x2

2+2=2²

Are all valid statements.
Loon balloons were more like floating cell towers. Starlink is a broadband first platform that will also do some cellular sort of eventually (just beginning to roll out now).
I lived in Connecticut for 6 months if you care.

And Canada is relevant because I visited the US multiple times per year for both work and pleasure and got to see what living in different cities would be like. And it was awful.
Wonga.com was (briefly) a huge success story with their "two slider" interface. Perhaps because it made it easy to see how the output changed with the input.
These hyperventilating videos are so cherry-picked that I've long given up hope that a not-fatal FSD will appear in my lifetime.
emulating DEC VT's generally meant the full featureset of DEC ANSI escape sequences for cursor positioning, saving, colors, bold, etc. It would not include emulating fonts.

i googled and found this picture of a Link MC5 screen, though it's monochrome, don't know if they would have changed that.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg...
Not too many years back I was doing well in tech, but not extraordinary. But I was constantly facing challenges related to finances, crime, healthcare, etc. Then one day I got a better job and moved to a high cost of living area, with extremely educated high achievers. All those problems magically went away. My neighbors were nice upstanding people, I had money, my employer had better healthcare, etc.

The point is there is a massive class divide socially, also physically segregation. You can be completely unaware of what it's like to be on the wrong side of it.

The cracks in our society are growing, and the level of sophistication required to navigate our system is increasing.

My circle of friends and family is middle class and college educated. I don't know anyone under the age of 35 who owns more than a town house in a low cost area. What does your peer group look like?
Matrix allow to edit weeks old messages, already.
yeah, having eventual consistency for messages across homeservers makes the work on the client harder. I guess they just have to accept that messages will "appear in the past" as you said.

But at least for messages sent within the same homeserver, I would think that those two apis should return the same data
There is an upper limit on the aggregate value of money - somehow related to the amount of stored value in the economy. On the other hand, there is no lower limit on the value of a dollar.

If bitcoin reaches $1B it will be through some combination of dollar depreciation and bitcoin appreciation.

https://www.fiatmarketcap.com
https://assetmarketcap.com
What if Cloudflare is working on next version? D2
It would be great if we could self-host it with pre-defined credentials (perhaps using an .env file). This would be useful for demo projects with Docker Compose.

For production use, we'll need some form of OAuth support, or users will have to implement their own authentication gateway in front of the Studio server.
And if the EV is heavier than their previous car (generally very likely anywhere other than maybe the US), will increase the biggest single source of microplastics (which also is proving to have significant climate effects) in tire dust.
"Trusted third parties are security holes"

Indeed
That is an answer in form of dialogue.

There is no point in engaging with LLM-generated comments, as person posting them is not an original author, you cannot ask them for clarification, discuss minor point, or point to inaccuracy. That's why LLMs are best left to personal, interactive context, and attempts to paste LLM replies into comments should be downvoted.
Moxie Marlinspike had a talk on exactly this issue many years ago now (maybe 2010-2012). Not much has changed since then
But there's a flag which indicates they've been edited and you can see the edit history, right? So that's not useful for this scenario.
Unlike a lithium ion battery, it will NEVER need to be recharged. Not on civilizational timescales at least.
This isn’t a pissing contest.

The point is that Canadians understand the US far better than USians understand Canada.
It has nothing to do with the monopoly. They built rockets that cost about 20 million to launch and everyone else's rockets cost about 60 million to launch. This is internal costs for the launch providers. On pricing, what customers pay, the difference is hardly so stark because SpaceX doesn't leave money on the table without good reason given their superior reliability and human capability.

That cost win was because of reuse and reuse gave them a fleet. The launch market was inelastic and they had all this launch capability and not enough customers so they became their own customer with their excess capacity and now Starlink is successful enough that commercial launch will soon take a back seat to Starlink internal launches.
Perhaps you're right. I suppose my annoyance is that by choosing sitting/standing as their variable, they gave the impression that they were telling a new and/or interesting narrative, when really they were presenting something well established and entirely common-sense (physical laborers get paid less and have poorer working conditions than office workers).
> the reader, are viewing my code exactly as I, the author, wrote it.

That's not a good reason, there are way too many writers with poor design sensibilities, so flexibility is better.

And in your example you'd use elastic tabstops so that a single extra tab would visually expand to align arguments for you if you like it, but not for me if I don't
I really want to like Org mode, but I just can't. The syntax feels too out of place. With markdown it's just a few extra symbols, but using Org mode feels like writing LaTeX in a way.

Same thing with MediaWiki - I love the wiki system but WikiText is just so bad.
That doesn't mean Rails won't run on TruffleRuby. TruffleRuby may not implement 100% of MRI 3.2, but that doesn't mean it doesn't implement all the parts that Rails needs.
I'm arguing the general point is shallow and not useful.

IMO BitCoin is designed to fail as a currency with it's mining costs, and a bad idea as an investment since exchanging it is such a house of cards. Never mind that holding any significant quantity invites dangerous people with wrenches.
Obv it depends, but one way to "solve" this it is to show an edit history, or at least the latest edit timestamp along with some visual indicator that the message was edited recently
I'm not talking about edits, I'm talking about sending new messages which are backdated to appear as part of an older conversation
That's a trivial problem, lower speed limits. Tire wear scales super linearly.

In fact, there are few modern problems that can't be helped (if not solved) by drastically lowering speed limits.
Dang's guidance: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989>

(9 years old and standing.)

If you find that a previously-available workaround is no longer effective, do feel free to notify mods.

And as tptacek notes, if a workaround does work (and reliably, some are only very occasionally effective), you can also alert mods.

Mods can and should be reached by email at <hn@ycombinator.com>.
It makes an incrementing message ID impossible.
Well, as I’m sure you know HK is in a different country (and hemisphere!) than Tokyo.

This is like saying you almost got murdered in El Salvador and that’s why you don’t go out alone in Nashville.
I think you got hung up on that specific. The bigger issue is that the US has a higher cost of living, and more workers struggle compared to other developed countries.

This is why I find the article confusing. At first, it paints a picture of the US as incredibly productive, which should mean that the average citizen's quality of life, and maybe even up to the 99th percentile, would be better than in other developed countries. But then it claims that the average quality of life in the US is actually worse (as in struggling workers and high cost of living).

So, I’m left wondering... Why do we care so much about the country’s productivity if it doesn’t improve the average person’s life? In fact, if it’s making things worse for the majority, what’s the point?

The only way I can make sense of this is by looking at the distribution of gains. The graph that would explain this would have extreme outliers at the very top, where all the productivity gains are concentrated. This isn’t just inequality in the typical sense of some people having more than others. It’s an extreme form of inequality where almost all the benefits go to the tail end, leaving the majority worse off despite the country’s overall productivity.

At least, that’s the only explanation that makes sense to me. But at the same time, I don't just believe this, that's why I'm failing to reconcile the contradiction in the article. What's the conclusion you take from the article?

P.S.: I don’t mind other people being richer than me as long as it’s mutually beneficial, or if their wealth has no impact on me, good or bad. Most people likely feel the same. The problem arises when someone’s wealth comes at the expense of others. For example, Kings and Emperors in the past were resented because their wealth and power actively held others back and were built off the labor of the masses. On the other hand, I don’t mind someone like Bill Gates being wealthy because his success indirectly benefited me, I have a comfortable job in part because of the industry he helped create.
It was probably poisoned & couldn't give a damn about anything else.
"I don't think that definition works: it's attempting to categorize statements according to criteria completely external to them rather than according to any inherent property of the statement."

Correct. The basic concept of truth in logic relies on an objective reality, an expression a priori holds truth even in the absence or indistinct of such a reality. But the truthfulness or correctness of a posteriori statements can depend on the reality. Examples of the former would be "If A is B, then B is C. A is B, then B is C" Example of the latter would be "It is raining outside."

"A better definition is that a hallucination is an expression that is generated within a closed system without direct input from the reality it is meant to represent. The point is that an expression about reality that doesn't come from observing reality can only be true coincidentally."

Absolutely incorrect, you are talking about a concept of the state of the art of science and tech but you are failing basic philosophy and epistemology concepts. The LLM has inputs from the reality (is it possible not to?), it is trained on a huge corpus of text written by humans that themselves perceive reality. The perception of reality can be indirect. We can measure something by observing it, or by observing an instrument that in turn observes it.

"but the dream an the LLM alike are effectively just "remixing" prior input, and not generating any new observations of reality."

Again incorrect for three reasons:

1- Novel observations can occur purely from remixing. Einstein locked himself during a pandemic and developed the theory of relativity without additional experimental output.

2- LLMs combine their existing data with human input, which is an external source.

3- LLMs can interact with other sources of data whether by injection of data into the prompt, by function calling, RAG, etc..

So yeah. Try to go back to basics and study simpler systems, ideally with source code. This might be out of your league.
It's astonishing to see how Toyota completely threw away their big knowledge lead in EVs and now Hyundai has become the global leader in mainstream non-Chinese consumer EVs. Even if their solid-state plans turn out to be true it could be too late, other techs could have caught up, and even if neither, it might be easy to copy by others.

If Hyundai's partnership with Waymo ends up successful they'll have a killer combination, though that remains to be seen.
I’m sorry to hear you had that experience, and I appreciate your feedback. We put a lot of care into evaluating every candidate’s take-home solution, and it’s never an auto-reject. Every decision is made by a person, an engineer at Bitnomial. I know take-homes are a big ask, and we try to make them meaningful and fair while respecting candidates' time. We're balancing trying to get as much signal as we can while not being brutal. Hiring is tough, and rejection is never easy, but we always strive to be thoughtful and respectful throughout the process.

By the way, we’ve hired several great engineers who didn’t make it through the process on their first try.
icic, yeah that definitely shouldn't be allowed
https://stallman.org/chatgpt.html

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
I would say this is a pretty good example of an ad hominem attack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

If the standard is that someone has to be unimpeachable before they can suggest a well-being metric than no one can.