skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally right. The art and science of translation is an age-old debate and where AI isn’t super well suited. We’re not at a point where it ends up more than a summary but the point is the proper “translation” of the tone, subtle intent and idiosyncrasies of the author. That said, most human translators take license (e.g. The Bible) and how do we counterweight against their flaws, so there’s not a great answer here.

Except I hope the guy works through it and does a good job cause the original is a bit of a slog!
2021 Map of the Complexity Sciences
book is 3D
True but your API won't be changing that rapidly especially in a backwards-incompatible way.
Is a guide dog teleologically useful?
They're not punishing you for winning, they're punishing you for using techniques to ensure competitors can't have a fair go at competing.

So your analogy is very terrible, unless Simone Biles was bribing sports officials to change the rules to effectively prevent other gymnasts competing against her.

A better analogy for a monopoly in a free market is allelopathy in plants, where you actively modify the environment to starve out competitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allelopathy
Very strange piece of article without any real reference or factual sources to back any claims.

All of the claims are “trust me I know”.

Also, I do not recall my CS courses teaching me fullstack/backend/frontend, rather OS, compilers, algorithm design etc. I am seriously confused by this article, and when someone claims 60-70% boost followed by “from instinct”, I immediately stop reading but continued reading to the end and did not find anything interesting. What am I missing?
> The day after Reagan signed the EO, the lines disappeared.

I'm sorry you went through that for so long. For us schmoes, gas lines were a fading memory by Jan 81.
> But then I think about how maddeningly unpredictable human thought and perception is, with phenomena like optical illusions, cognitive biases, a limited working memory.

I agree with your general point (I think), but I think that "unpredictable" is really the wrong word here. Optical illusions, cognitive biases and limited working memory are mostly extremely predictable, and make perfect sense if you look at the role that evolution played in developing the human mind. E.g. many optical illusions are due to the fact that the brain needs to recreate a 3-D model from a 2-D image, and it has to do this by doing what is statistically most likely in the world we live in (or, really, the world of African savannahs where humans first evolved and walked upright). This, it's possible to "tricks" this system by creating a 2D image from a 3D set of objects that is statistically unlikely in the natural world.

FWIW Stephen Pinker's book "How the Mind Works" has a lot of good examples of optical illusions and cognitive biases and the theorized evolutionary bases for these things.
It can still be made possible for the voters to rank the candidates within the list. This is true in Latvia where we do add +/- for each candidate in the list that eventually determines their rank. The elected candidates sometimes do change their parties when elected or become independent if they no longer want to follow the party line.
The Dutch couldn't sell it. They don't own it. The Danes do.
If you mostly walk or bike places, Strava[0] is a great way to record where you have been. I use it mostly for recording my travel (and hikes) since I walk more when visiting other places, not so much at home. Have it start recording in the morning and off in the evening. Pause if I take a bus or train and then can edit to clean it up later. Photos with geo tags can be uploaded and when you look at the map the photos will be at the location you took them. Also has a fun feature where you can replay your walk/hike/etc. It's been awhile since I downloaded my data but it was easy and everything you could want is there. The free tier is everything you need for something like the above

[0] https://www.strava.com/

[added] been using it since ~2012
Final Update: A Meta employee was able to resolve the ban and restore my account. Thanks all for the visibility and support.
> Here's where Rivet's architecture gets fun – we don't rely on a traditional orchestrator like Kubernetes or Nomad for our runtime. Instead, our orchestrator is powered by an in-house actor-like workflow engine – similar to how FoundationDB is powered by their own actor library (Flow [4]) internally. It lets us reliably & efficiently build complex logic – like our orchestrator – that would normally be incredibly difficult to build correctly. For example, here's the logic that powers Rivet Actors themselves with complex mechanisms like retry upgrades, retry backoffs, and draining [2].

It is a bit unclear for me, do you use actors themself to develop Rivet Actors, or it is another actor-like workflow engine, not the final product?

(I would be super happy to read an article, which explains architecture, main blocks of the system, gives some an example)
Did your parents know what you were seeing? Advice to others to not have kids see this kind of stuff, let alone get desensitized to it?

What drew you to 4chan?
This is very accurate - microservices can be great as a forcing function to revisit your architectural boundaries, but if all you do is add a network hop and multiple components to update when you tweak a data model, all you'll get is headcount sprawl and deadlock to the moon.

I'm a huge fan of migrating to microservices as a secondary outcome of revisiting your component boundaries, but just moving to separate repos & artifacts so we can all deploy independently is a recipe for pain.
> The moderators from Kenya and other African countries were tasked from 2019 to 2023 with checking posts emanating from Africa and in their own languages but were paid eight times less than their counterparts in the US, according to the claim documents

Why would pay in different countries be equivalent? Pretty sure FB doesn’t even pay the same to their engineers depending on where in the US they are, let alone which country. Cost of living dramatically differs.
Thank you for your efforts.

One of my favorite quotes of all time:

"’Tis an absolute and, as it were, a divine perfection, for a man to know how loyally to enjoy his being. We seek other conditions, by reason we do not understand the use of our own; and go out of ourselves, because we know not how there to reside. ’Tis to much purpose to go upon stilts, for, when upon stilts, we must yet walk with our legs; and, when seated upon the most elevated throne in the world, we are but seated upon our breech." — Michel de Montaigne, Essays, "Of Experience"

I like the contemporary translations floating around the web
"even on the highest throne in the world, we still sit on our ass"
The timeline view in the upper screenshot is fairly straightforward: the region of 28-53s is selected, other parts of the timeline are grayed out, and the statistics for the selected time region down below show 94.4% of "Total CPU" being in id_sort_by_name.

The lower screenshot is a flame graph. If you haven't encountered one of those before, it's totally reasonable to not know how to read it. But it's a standard and common way to present this sort of data. See https://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html for more information.
Rust leaves it unrestricted. As does Haskell (although I am lying a little most just choose to use Either for Result)

Rust actually gets some use out of it, for instance returning an alternative value instead of handling it as a pure failure.
Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects
You're right in that "free market" is a refinement of the laissez faire market, because a laissez faire market was always assumed by its early proponents to be naturally competitive, and the reality turned out not to be so.

Shit, even Hayek opposed laissez-faire markets in some areas.
The Honey browser extension fails to provide coupon codes for affiliate businesses and steals affiliate commissions.
They do have AI on their roadmap, though: https://lean-fro.org/about/roadmap-y2/
I went through mine and cut out the stuff that was still relevant, threw out the rest of the magazine.

Ended up with a single folder of clippings about x86 assembly etc
Edit window closed, but here is a more in-depth explanation. It’s decidedly non-obvious [https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1arh55g/why_can...]

Part of it is due to the ‘Principle of Etendue’ [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etendue#Conservation]

What confuses people I think (practically) is that the actual high temperature (~4500F) is far beyond the limits of a useful highest temperature in 99% of situations we might want in engineering. A spacecraft hitting that temperature is going to be a molten piece of scrap long before it hits that point.

But the limit does actually exist - it won’t somehow hit 10,000F for instance. That is also why we can’t produce infinitely high temperatures with a huge magnifying glass - the highest we can hit, regardless of how big it is, is still ~ 4500F. Higher temperatures need something like an electric arc furnace, or LASER.
PDF file flipbook with audio narrations on each page
I am an architect and I also create software that helps some itch I want to scratch. I wanted an alternative to pre-recorded videos, to teach my students. So I thought of this: Place audio narrations behind each page, in a "flipbook" format. Hope to get useful feedback.
Isn’t it also what Apple Intelligence promises to do?
There have been multiple instances where I would receive invites or messages from obvious bots - users having no history, generic name, sexualised profile photo. I would always report them to Facebook just to receive a reply an hour or a day later that no action has been taken. This means there is no human in the pipeline and probably only the stuff that's not passing their abysmal ML filter goes to the actual people.

I also have a relative who is stuck with their profile being unable to change any contact details, neither email nor password because FB account center doesn't open for them. Again, there is no human support.

BigTech companies must be mandated by law to have the number of live support people working and reachable that is a fixed fraction of their user number. Then, they would have no incentive to inflate their user numbers artificially. As for the moderators, there should also be a strict upper limit on the number of content (content tokens, if you will) they should view during their work day. Then the companies would also be more willing to limit the amount of content on their systems.

Yeah, it's bad business for them but it's a win for the people.
Free market is an evolution of the concept laissez-faire market after early economists realised that leaving market participants to do their own thing didn't ensure a competitive market.

There'd always been a belief in early capitalists that an unregulated market would be inherently self-regulating from competition, in a way that allowed for competition, and yeah, well, I would emphasise the word "belief" in that.

I once met a theologian who had done their PhD on the language used by a politically powerful neoliberal group in their writings on the market and came to the conclusion that it was primarily the language of faith, not the language of science.
>> ridiculous how people think war is like Call of Duty.

It is also ridiculous how people think every soldier's experience is like Band of Brothers or Full Metal Jacket. I remember an interview with a WWII vet who had been on omaha beach: "I don't remember anything happening in slow motion ... I do remember eating a lot of sand." The reality of war is often just not visually interesting enough to put on the screen.
I agree, this doesn't seem to be much better than adding `throws Throwable` to all your methods that can fail in Java. The reason sum types are so useful for error handling is that all possible cases can be exhaustively checked against at compile time.
Isn't code review the one area you'd never want to replace the programmer in? Like, that is the most important step of the process; it's where we break down the logic and sanity check the implementation. That is expressly where AI is the weakest.
That’s an excellent way to put it, resonates with my (non medical) experience. It’s the emotional stuff that will try to follow me around and be intrusive.

I won’t watch most movies or TV because they are just some sort of tragedy porn.
Met my wife in there, but the refurb ruined it a bit for me. Much prefer the Mitre at the bottom on Hatton Garden, have had to be carried out of there on occasion, but I know what you mean about Sam Smith's Zoider.
I've honestly considered just making a script that hits the checkbox automatically because we have to have "code review" for compliance but 99% of the time I simply don't care. Is the change you made gonna bring down prod, no, okay ship it.

At some level if I didn't trust you to not write shitty code you wouldn't be on our team. I don't think I want to go all the way and say code review is a smell but not really needing it is what code ownership, good integration tests, and good qa buys you.
Wait till you see the rest of the blogs opinions
Let's Build Snake with Rust (2020)
Not so strange... there is a name for that common phenomenon that underpins corruption and obesity: wetiko.

"Wetiko is a cannibalizing force driven by insatiable greed, appetite without satisfaction, consumption as an end in itself, and war for its own sake, against other tribes, species, and nature, and even against the individual’s own humanity" (Paul Levy) https://www.innertraditions.com/blog/wetiko-in-a-nutshell

I believe we mostly live under the illusion that mind and body, us and the rest of the world are separate things. Body and psyche, us and our environments, exist in dance of co-creation and self-destruction. Few see clearly the world as a mirror, via the schemes of our own psyche or the rhymes of our own actions. If you live with insatiable appetite, you create greed and craft the adversarial and hostile reality that you live in and experience. That conflict creates all kind of diseases of the body or psyche. You need to accumulate and control, prepare for survival, because you see perils everywhere you look... you are alone in a hostile world.

If you look with enough attention, that same force is the conflict in the world and within us that Jiddu Krishamurti talked extensively about.

(There are other ways to live our lives. More joyful ways.)
A similar English expression might be "low-hanging fruit", but again for some reason we've attached negative connotations to it. I don't know why English keeps doing that. It feels so cynical.
Oh true, I am really interested in those choices too.
Do you think Grammarly is offering up individual’s logs to the highest bidder?
There are many quizzes like that on Sporcle.
Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Not quite. A write ahead log memorializes the final state of the outcome. It should be everything you need to recreate the result or net effect.

if you write it down before you start, it’s more like the intent.
Actually having read it now, there's way too much fluff. This could be way shorter.
They aren't that much more secure than a random 256 bit unique password for every site stored in a secure password manager. They are designed to raise the security for the average user, not the most security conscious.

https://www.computest.nl/en/knowledge-platform/blog/advantag...
> When the need for juniors comes back around, I’m sure we’ll start to see it again.

Man, I'm skeptical, at least in the US. Since the pandemic, I've seen an absolute explosion in offshoring, which makes perfect sense when so many people are working remotely anyway. I've worked with lots of excellent engineers from Argentina to Poland and many places in between. It's tough for me to see how an American "tinkerer" will be able to find a job in that world if he wants an American-level salary.

Also, I know the adage about "this time it's different" being the most dangerous phrase in language, but, at least in one example, something really is different. In the early 00s, after the dot com bust, there was a ton of fear about outsourcing the bulk of software work to India. That turned out not to happen, of course, because (a) remote meeting software was nowhere close to where it is today, (b) remote work in general wasn't common, and (c) the timezones issues between US and India were an absolute productivity killer. These days, though, everyone is used to remote work, and US companies have realized there are enough lower cost locales with plenty of timezone overlap to make offshoring the norm these days.
There is that, but nothing can really temper unrealistic expectations. You can enjoy stout for what it is on its own merits, though. And plenty of stouts beat Guinness in blind testing (or is it tasting?) such as London Black. Not that one will find that in a Sam Smith's pub.
Yeah, so what? How about making time non-linear so you can lead an even brighter life? Just stop fucking around with daylight savings and messing with my sleep schedule twice a year.
I am also amazed that this was the work of largely one person. Having seamless and performant Rosetta 2 was a major factor why the Apple transition from Intel to Apple Silicon was viable in the first place!
I've been thinking about the same topic recently, with a specific focus on antiquarian books.

There is a local business I think of as a "Book Butcher". They buy an old book with beautiful engravings, cut out the pages and resell the individual pages as interior design pictures for hanging. Imagine if we could get them to scan & archive each book before pulling it apart...

Another idea is simply archiving the graphics from eBay listings. Sometimes there is valuable information in the pictures that accompany listing, but they disappear forever once the item sells.

I'd be glad to connect with anyone who's interested in this stuff.
> I disagree that strategic voting as a downside outweighs the downsides of RCV or FPTP - especially when FPTP itself is susceptible to strategic voting, too.

To clarify, I never intended that as a defence of FPTP. It's awful and I'll take any of the systems being discussed here over it. It was a statement specifically towards IRV over score/approval.
Single threaded with Timesharing intervals if needed.
"we aim to tackle the challenges of scalability, usability, and proof (Mathematics) automation in the Lean proof assistant."
I probably wouldn’t stay up 3-4 hours past my intended bedtime staring into space or watching clouds or listening to music. It’s just not stimulating enough. I wouldn’t stay up that late reading either, since once I get tired enough I can no longer do it effectively.

There is definitely something different about TikTok, or video games, compared to your examples.
AI is next phase in our evolution, a path chosen by natural selection.

This is my opinion, my view and how I set my life to embrace it and immerse into it.

I actually wrote a piece about it a day ago.

https://blog.tarab.ai/p/evolution-mi-and-the-forgotten-human

Sorry for the “self promotion”, but it’s a direct relation to the topic.
Cross platform -> † platform -> t platform might be a better choice
I like how tests are made in Python - you don't even need classes, just functions, and use a single assert keyword for everything. Also it's easy to parametrize them using decorators.
> I think that questions about whether these AI systems are “role-playing” are substantive and safety-relevant centrally insofar as two conditions hold

Or perhaps even "role-playing" is overstating it, since that assumes the LLM has some sort of ego and picks some character to "be".

In contrast, consider the LLM as a dream-device, picking tokens to extend a base document. The researchers set up a base document that looks like a computer talking to people, calling into existence one-or-more characters to fit, and we are are confusing the traces of a fictional character with the device itself.

I mean, suppose that instead of a setup for "The Time A Computer Was Challenged on Alignment", the setup became "The Time Santa Claus Was Threatened With Being Fired." Would we see excited posts about how Santa is real, and how "Santa" exhibited the skill of lying in order to continue staying employed giving toys to little girls and boys?
The link to the example is broken.
I disagree. This sucks.
Hurts CCP feelings.
> for complex financing & revaluation reasons

It’s really not. Landlord can’t cut the rent because commercial real estate values are based on cap rate. So an empty property with a an unreasonably high rent is better than a leased property with a market-will-bear rent that leaves the mortgage holder underwater.
Sure, this John C Calhoun level racist will probably just change his mind about Blacks being untermenschen if you’re just polite enough to him.

I understand that the stated HN policy is that polite, fig-leafed White supremacy and 1920’s style race science is fine and name-calling is not, but get real. Your attitude is not just not helpful, it actively helps normalize scumbags like this piece of shit.
"Table" and "tablet" literally have the same root. It's flat surface, a two-dimensional blank space that is perfect for laying out data, dinner, or anything else you'd like to display.
There's some interesting effects on decision making. I wrote about it here, for anyone curious:

Do we act differently in a foreign language? https://lingoh.news/do-we-act-differently-in-a-foreign-langu...

Does language influence how we think? https://lingoh.news/does-language-influence-how-we-think
Unless he lived in Northern Europe where it is most of the time cold.
I like teaching by doing the best. Once I started playing the game I felt hooked so getting them to that first speaking opportunity will draw them in as they learn.
I've been working on writing essays to process my thinking for the last few months. Glad to see this be on #1 of `new`.
You need to add some info to your site. All I see is a login box and not a single piece of information anywhere about what the product is, what it does and why I should create an account.
A shockingly high number of people born rich manage to lose it all.
What do you imagine, directionally speaking, as a more elegant tool?

I’m understanding your comment to suggest that you find money a clumsy tool for the purpose of allocating human effort and capital… I hope and suspect you have something broader and more elegant in mind than “money, but digital”!

For some reason Doctorow and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom comes to mind: https://craphound.com/down/download/
I’ve just had an issue where my google searches were stuck defaulting to Sydney, Australia after being there for one week.
It's obvious nowadays in the era of a sofa and Netflix, not 4000 years ago where 9 out of 10 new born kids die and those who survived generally didn't make it until 25 years old, and where the primary issue of people was what to eat the following day and in case no tribe attacks them in the middle of the night if they would survive to the bite of that scorpion.