skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about Iraq, but residential buildings are routinely bombed on Ukraine, big cities, not sure one can draw parallels here. Spending nights and even being schooled in bomb shelters will take its toll, but from meeting many Ukrainian refugees, many will make light of it, very often wary of complaining while their friends, family, countrypeople, still in-country are still waking up to sirens and explosions.

The Ukranian utilities people are relentless, resourceful heroes, keeping power on, under the conditions they're facing.
Smart Contracts Glossary (1995)
Pretty sure you could figure out how to launch a nuke if you possessed them and were a decently sized nation state with decent universities...
15 years ago regular site used to have a nice banner ad that was related to the topic of the site, maybe some small logo here and there on the right side and that was about it

I did not think about blocking it, did not mind, did not care. That's how ads should have stayed instead of this giant annoying/spyware/loud/popup/... mess.
Nowadays I would not use anything without ublock and i am considering storing everything locally so I dont have to visit most websites and only scrape the news.

It's especially sad since back in the day making a website, having a webserver etc. was vastly more expensive and difficult while these days it costs literally less than 10$ / month for something that can handle millions of views.

How is it possible that something was sustainable 20 years ago is not sustainable now?
> But with zero ads the internet would be a smaller, darker place.

But with zero ads the internet would be a smaller, exceedingly beautiful place.
You mentioned a great point that LLMs are hitting the edge of a marginal gain decreasing point, at least I think so. Many applications are struggling to provide real benefits instead of just entertaining people.

Another funny thing is that we are using LLM to replace creative professionals, but the real creativity is from human experience, perception and our connections, which are exactly missing from LLM.
While so far I consider NNs to be mostly useless / harmful myself, don't you think that you might be overestimating what human beings themselves are doing ?
Yeah, by all accounts I have read, it was blocked rather recently. I have read to coverup the failures and huge losses in Ukraine.
My problem with this is handling malformed logs (which is exactly the logs you are the most interested in).

If you process logs in a smart way you have to have assumptions about them. When the assumptions are broken the data might get missing (or you can lose the correlation between logs that are close together).

That's why I prefer raw unprocessed logs.

For example let's imagine you have a bug with stale transaction id in the first example. You probably won't notice when it's grouped by transactionId. If it's raw logs you might notice the order of the logs is wrong.

Or maybe the grouping key is missing and your throw NPE and crash the app or skip that line of logs. I've seen both happen when I got too fancy with logging (we had async logger that logged by inserting into a db).
Kind of BS. Even with Chimps and Monkeys, where in nature would they be able to amass a pile of tokens without being attacked and killed for them?

In nature if any single Chimp somehow did get a pile of 'tokens' and was 'rich', he would be attacked and overrun.

They did this in a laboratory where they couldn't literally eat the rich, in nature they would be eaten.
Really?

The part saying "experiment: while we are not sure" doesn't strike you as this being "we don't know if this is dangerous or not, so we're playing it safe while we figure this out"?

To me this is them figuring out what "general purpose AI testing" even looks like in the first place.

And there's quite a lot of people who look at public LLMs today and think their ability to "generate deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale" means they should not have been released, i.e. that those saying it was too dangerous (even if it was the press rather than the researchers looking at how their models were used in practice) were correct, it's not all one-sided arguments from people who want uncensored models and think that the risks are overblown.
You can build them slowly, one search at a time.
I'm sort of with you here, but not…

> I use Firefox and avoid situations where I might get exposed to annoying ads.

> I don't pay any websites/blogs for subscriptions for articles either.

While some content creators do it for love, art, whatever, others do need an income stream to keep going. I'm fine with blocking annoying ads (pop-ups, forced interstitials, autoplaying audio, …) but basic image-and-some-text-on-the-page adverts are fine, as are sponsored sections (if correctly identified as such) in content (if I've heard it before I can just skip manually). There must be a middle ground somewhere that doesn't irritate most viewers but nets the content makers some income.

I'm not against advertising as such, where it is relevant to what I am looking at (or even when it is arbitrary/random), what I object to is the stalking that is inherent in the current adtech world. I wouldn't want Amazon following me into the pub to say “I saw you looking at poo bags the other day, take a look at these beauties” in real life and I don't want it online. Over the top advertising is annoying too, but not nearly as disquieting as the feeling of being followed by hundreds of little corporate drones everywhere I go.

I don't mind paying a small amount for things either, like a couple of the podcasts I regularly listen to (though some of those are somewhat unrealistic, I'm not going to pay to a TV subscription or two worth for an ad-free slightly-longer version of a weekly podcast!), but like the point of the article I disagree with paying and still getting adverts probably with the tracking that this implies.
Build large nuclear power plants and protect them with good layered Air Defense Systems
I'm not surprised, building a new high-speed line between the largest cities in the Netherlands must be a nightmare, that's connecting and going through some of the most densely populated areas in Europe.

The German railway network (including the high-speed part of it) has loads of
issues, and it's hardly working like a dream. That said, the interconnect between large cities is pretty great when it works. For these intermediate distances (around 500 km) it's about as fast as flying would be once you factor in getting to/from the airport (vs the more central train station), being there early etc; and much faster than driving by car.
On Windows em dash is ALT+0151; the paragraph mark (§) is ALT+0167. Once you know them (and a couple of others, for instance accented capitals) they become second nature, and work on all keyboards, everywhere.
Your reading more into this than can ever be read into it.

Even if animals did show inequity aversion, it in no way implies that they ought to. Animals do many things which we as humans consider as abhorrent, the only reason why you think inequity aversion is desirable is because of your prior moral convictions.

Morality cannot be derived from facts of nature because "what is" and "what ought to be" are two different categories, and without some "moral axiom" there is no way to connect these two categories. Stated differently, you need some initial moral framework to inform you how to react on facts of nature.

Categorical imperatives are not hypothetical imperatives, and there is no way to get to categorical imperatives starting from hypothetical imperatives alone.

In the wise words of Chesterton:

"Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but it cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a healthy love of animals. On the evolutionary basis you may be inhumane, or you may be absurdly humane; but you cannot be human. That you and a tiger are one may be a reason for being tender to a tiger. Or it may be a reason for being as cruel as the tiger. It is one way to train the tiger to imitate you, it is a shorter way to imitate the tiger. But in neither case does evolution tell you how to treat a tiger reasonably, that is, to admire his stripes while avoiding his claws."
That sounds really good, but is actually surprisingly ineffective, because you can't effectively protect the decentralized parts. You can put some Gepards or a missile battery around a nuclear plant. Good luck protecting 1000s of wind turbines or solar panel installations.

And this isn't just theory: the nuclear power plants are the pretty much the only thing still running in Ukraine.

Also, if you are thinking of renewables, those tend to have more centralized points of failure than you think, see:

The Gigantic Unregulated Power Plants in the Cloud

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-p...

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292018
They are not only targeting high value infrastructure. People in regular apartment buildings die every day from the cruise missiles and Shahed drones.
A lifetime ago, I delved into the ternary rabbit hole[1], developing a bunch of tools and math[2][3] for the adjacent problem ad-hoc (balanced) trinary bit twiddling in numbers encoded as binary, while retaining the ability to do fast arithmetic on the binary representation.

It's a fun rabbit hole. I'm glad it's (seemingly) finding some practical use cases.

[1] https://tunguska.sf.net

[2] http://nedopc.org/ternary/tunguska/math.tools.for.balanced.b...

[3] http://www.nedopc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=143

Also low key missing the days of special interest forums where you'd paste cool source code at people.
Well yes but how often do you have to write a JS extension for PocketBase that needs to be super performant and use modern JS features?
> I just know how much work is involved to get them going again, and that amount of work is daunting

This is usually not true. Whenever I get back to something, I realise it was just 1h of work to implement that feature I've been procrastinating 2 years on. We (humans) are very bad at estiamting how long something will take. It's not that finishing the project will be easy, but doing that specific task you've delayed so much, you know what? That's really easy to do, and can even be fun.

Regarding reaching 90% completion. A project is likely never done. What helped me procrastinate less is realising that the goal is not to finish the project, I will never be happy with it. The goal is to make some progress, regardless how small it is. This also fixes the common fear of "finishing a project". If there is no finish line, you are never at 90%.

And, as a last thing: building is the easy part. Once you make the project, having people actually see it and use it will be harder, especially if you are an engineer at heart. So, don't be afraid of making something good enough to be released. Release it. No one will care about it anyway.
Thats a great idea until China and NK launch a coordinated attack on both Taiwan and South Korea
Most of these sound like team/people problems, not technology problems.

Like most problems in IT in general :-)
Great point about the meaningful datasets, this makes perfect sense. Esp. in regards to SFT and RLHF. Although I suppose it would be somewhat easier to do pretraining on really long context (books, I assume?)
Roger Ebert will be turning in his grave.
Animals can show no aversion to inequity and I can still think that aristocracy is immoral because I'm not a base animal but a human with knowledge of right and wrong.
But isn't the cookie banner for asking permission to use third party cookies? I don't think I ever have seen a cookie banner asking if I agree to my data being sold.
Oh, yeah! I often click on a link if an ad interests me. The problem is that I'm poor. But there are rich people who buy from advertising, right? After all, it's not my business to count the advertisers' budget. They know what they're doing. Don't interfere with advertisers doing their job! I learn a lot from advertising.
> See also recent articles on "Apple TV+ is a failure despite making great content and $20b investment, Apple is about to make cuts".

Does it make great content? I've only watched 3 series and then cancelled because it was annoying (but all three were fairly popular), and the more they progressed, the more underwhelming they got. The premise was always good, but scenario was meh and getting meh-er by the episode, everything was kept superficial. Kind of like to tick a box "we talked about X", but without actually exploring the topic. And it was the exact same thing over and over again in 3 separate series - be it the gay footballer in Ted Lasso or the relationship with religion while in climate catastrophe in Extrapolations. No real depth, no real thought provoking discussions, no nothing. Just a quick mention, and jump on to the next topic to gloss over.

It seems to me that they spend a lot on big name actors, had some good initial ideas on what to do, but the actual execution was pretty meh.
The key term is "Early Modern English". The Oxford English Dictionary might be a good starting point: https://www.oed.com/discover/early-modern-english-spelling-g...

Actually, reading Shakespeare perhaps is the best approach. Not only will you pick up these forms along the way, but you'll also learn a lot about the English language from the language's most quintessential and influential writer.

Additionally, his poetry is beautiful - and often quite witty - and the stories are archetypical.
I have google accounts that I created a decade ago but I can't remember the last time I logged on one, except to log on gmail and clean the box in private browsing.

I basically only keep them because I used my real name and don't want anyone to steal an account/personnal info I might have created with that gmail address and impersonate me.

I don't really see what is difficult in operating without a google account.
seems to be working in San Francisco, Phoenix, LA, and Austin, so I'm guessing yes
Glean are already well established in that space.
> How is ChatGPT going to provide relevant answers to company specific prompts if they don't train on your data?

Isn't this explicitly what RAG is for?
The article itself sounds like written by chat gpt :D
I believe there is a LOT of infrastructure in range of Ukrainian weaponry now too though drones, storm shadow etc?
I live in France and invest in the stock market. Sounds like you just need to find a better paid job.
> The company doesn't sell your data, they just offer some other companies to put an ad in front of your screen

True, but the result is the same. I would have nothing against _some_ static ads (like in newspapers) even if I'm paying to read articles, but they should be served directly by the website, not by an external ad aggregator. Just check with how many companies data is shared on the cookie banner details: on the newspaper I'm paying for, it's "us and our 105 partners". So I feel totally justified to run an adblocker here. It's not ok that other companies should know which articles I'm reading, for how long, or things like that, so they can better target me with ads, especially that it's not limited to the website of the newspaper. In addition, you often get very annoying ads, with fast animations that are very distracting if you are reading text nearby.
That is indeed what I do when I see a subscription pop-up or some other annoyance my adblocker missed. Despite, by that time I've already clicked on it, and sometimes even read some of the content, before I'm rudely ejected from the experience. This is simply not pleasant and doesn't help anyone.
You just need to ask yourself: would/do advertisers lie if they could/can get away with it? And the answer is "faster than you can blink".
I was just there and thinking the exact same thing. Looks identical. I am curious to know if the designer is the same.
> The Death of Intel

I know they are not doing well number wise but is it correct to claim this? Or it exaggerated?

If it is somewhat true, what could Intel ideally do to not die? The article talks about Gelsinger's naivete and provides a quanitity for wafers but I don't know what that means.
all of insurance and all of healthcare is "other people's money" :) it just depends where other people's money is going.

this is amazing thing to me as European living in the United States, people want Gov to spend money for education or healthcare or ... COMMUNISM!! but corporate subsidies and 984 trillion dollars to the department of offense - oh RIGHT ON - let me get another gig job to pay more to that :)
> tho there's a lot more to the project that probably goes in the other direction

I mean, this is obviously why this is just a fun math exercise and not much else. Building an airport, even if you build part of it out of wood, is not net carbon-negative.
Exactly. It's a "too big to fail" with a touch of "what are you gonna do, let me go bankrupt?" situation.
why not use aider/similar and upload via API?
I got scammed for a small diamond ring when we got married, but on our 15th anniversary I went lab-grown. I paid 2K for a beautiful ring with a 2.1ct central diamond, fully certified and near flawless, which is a pittance compared to a mined diamond (expect 15K or more). This wasn't cheap in absolute terms, but at least I didn't feel completely ripped off.

My wife LOVED it. Additionally, she got major bragging rights in the informal "bigger is better" competition with friends and family members. Nobody knows it's lab-grown (nobody asked) and you can't tell the difference without unusual procedures or special equipment anyway.
Exactly. First thought in my head. It’s beautiful and so calming.
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Well most hollywood movie productions are just 1h30 ads nowadays. You can usually see ton of product placement with closeup on logos and products that do not make any sense for the storytelling.
> What the article is discussing is most likely banner ads for what will usually be non related products.

This here is key.

If I'm reading the synopsis for an anime series on a website whose main topic is anime/manga/novels/etc, and I see an ad in an unobstrusive and non-annoying location talking about this one new anime figurine or plushie or some other merch, you bet I'm going to check it out.

These ads don't require cross-site tracking or third-party resources. They can even be shown with the strictest Content-Security-Policy. Even if they send you to a different website.

If I'm logged in, and you give me a way to tell you "I don't like this shit, stop showing me stuff related to this series/artist/etc" (i.e. a clearly tagged blocklist, not a vague "I don't like this" and you guessing what I mean by "this"), I'll even help you refine your ads for me.

But that's only because I care about this content.

And because it's done in a respectful way. For example, I don't mind those classic 88x31 "affiliate links" (ads) or blog rolls (also ads, at least in my eyes), or self-promotion sections (ads) in some communities, or when someone I follow on Bluesky posts about how they're selling a thing (also ad). If one of those gets through my adblocker, I won't go out of my way to add a rule for those.

But the moment a third-party script is involved, or data selling begins, or there's annoyances like putting random shit between paragraphs I'm reading, or popups, or "subscribe to the newsletter"-style popups, I'm out. I'm either blocking your whole site on uBlock Origin, or at DNS level if it was bad enough.

TL;DR: I don't care about ads. I care about things that piss me off.
And also, all of their ads are THE BEST something. Even if it's showing some greasy microwaved slop billed as food.
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> And so forth.

You're missing things like LISP and Forth, which allowed for lot of productivity early on. It usually had a performance cost, though.
> I’m pretty sure it’s a cool feature but, what a mouthful. Imagine you decided to start developing websites today, how do you even start?

You start where the docs say to start, https://react.dev/learn which wouldn't be mentioning this advanced feature, just like pretty much any tech. Reading postgres, python, etc release notes will have a bunch of scary sounding new features to a beginner, but those won't be making their way into the "Get started" section
There is no legal mandate to maximize shareholder value. That’s just an excuse used to justify sociopathic behavior.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shareholder-value.asp
> a nice banner ad

It's amusing to hear this phrase, but I totally agree with you! Probably the best ads I've ever come across are on Daring Fireball [0]. They're so unobtrusive and privacy-respecting, they're in the source of the page!

[0] https://daringfireball.net/
LiveView Got Braces
Windows NT 3.1 which shipped in July 1993 supported preemptive multitasking.
This is absolutely the most reasonable compromise. I don't really understand how advertising survives as it is, but static ads feel like a win-win.
Uhhh… most of the companies you listed compete with eachother?
All JS I write in 2024 is ES6+ (usually more like ES2022+)
There were absolutely obnoxious ads, including pop-ups and pop-unders 15 years ago, but at least they were generally contextual rather than targeted to your ad profile.
If I remember correctly GitHub CI is pretty much a straight port of Microsoft’s existing Azure DevOps CI, done pretty soon after the acquisition. The rest of Azure DevOps UX is kinda insane so it’s no surprise the CI is a bit of a pain too.
"* SAT solver * is a computer program which aims to solve the Boolean satisfiability problem", has nothing to do with the SAT aptitude tests.
> and somehow it became a partisan issue.

this wasn't a partisan issue in the beginning. it only became a partisan issue when 50% of the population started getting the "scientific information about efficacy of wearing masks" via Mary from Pennsylvania on "X"

same with the vaccines. the loudest pro-vaccine politicians (e.g. DeSantis) after seeing posts on "X" from our PA/MT/MO experts decided it would be super beneficial to their political career to make that a partisan issue as well :)
> Bury your cables.

This goes both ways. If the enemy can get a ground-penetrating missile to hit a buried cable, it's a huge issue to repair it, needing heavy machinery, and all the long while you're digging it out, presenting a juicy double-tap target.