skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want politically contrarian content you can just go to /pol/ or numerous internet forums discussing global events and politics. Hell, Wikipedia would be sufficient, and if you are serious you would be reading academic papers and studies, not social media.

The fact that these people don't want to do that, and would rather rely upon walled gardens and algorithms to feed them short-form content to inform their opinions already implies a desire for paternalism in of itself. You look at some these people talking about they were "lied" to about how China is third-world dump (where did they get that idea?) and in fact it's bustling cities with skyscrapers, when there are plenty of youtube videos showing the modern Chinese cities since it's inception.

When they didn't try to verify their assumptions with a trivial 2 minute search should tell you that these people want to be propagandized and will always be propagandized. Whether it's American Propaganda or Chinese Propaganda or whatever, they aren't ever going to take the responsiblity to actually to challenge their own preconceptions, they'll just sway from one extreme of propaganda to the next.

These people, by rejecting the old internet and choosing walled gardens, they want to be treated paternalistically. That's why they'll always reference other walled gardens like Facebook or Instagram, they'll never reference older forums or image boards. And so if we don't take that role, well the CCP would be quite content to fill in.
You don't feel impeded right now, but let enough stupid stuff like this through and you'll slowly drip feed your rights away. I explained in my post above why this is bad - if you make it a crime to do a simple thing, it becomes very easy to falsely accuse a person of a crime, and act in other authoritarian ways.

I already have personal experience facing strong arm measures under the pretext of "protecting the kids". Last time I returned to my home country of Australia, the policy forcibly did a digital search of my phone, on the pretext of looking for child porn. I have my banks details and pics of my girlfriend on that thing. In no first world country should I have to surrender it to authorities without a warrant. No one would tolerate this bullshit for any other reason then the moral panic around children.

I'm anti-pedophilia, but the legislation the article is talking about is incredibly stupid. We don't accept invasive police-state tactics to combat any other crime, we shouldn't accept them here.
Please, if you’re looking to denoise a signal for human input, use the 1-Euro filter instead:
https://gery.casiez.net/1euro/

Easier to code, easier to tune parameters without a noise model
>A Blender programmer calculating cloth physics would rather have 4x weaker cores than 1x P-core.

Nah, Blender programmer will prefer one core with AVX-512 instead of 4 without it.
This is solved by blocking everyone by default and invites via some temporary UUID that you can use to add someone.
Checked them. Found:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee
Apple are recording footage - there are immersive videos on the AVP for MLS and a few other things, and they're tremendous, but nobody is streaming them yet. It's a lot of data, which I assume hasn't been cracked yet.

In addition, the real end-goal would be complete 3D reconstruction that lets you view the stadium from any angle, but I imagine that's a few years away still - lots of technical problems to solve to create a scene and stream it in real-time.
i realize this may come across as whataboutism, but i think it really is an important question to ask: please keep in mind, i absolutely am not challenging your concerns, but if this concerns you, are you under the impression places like twitter and meta/facebook aren’t pushing gross tiers of propaganda and malicious information?

we know with absolute certainty they have been/are actively being used for the same purposes—from both internal and external manipulations. i mean in addition to the mess from the past couple of years, does anyone else remember facebook getting caught intentionally running experiments on unknowing users? [0][1][2][3]

they were caught intentionally trying to manipulate humans into being sad. again, without the users knowledge (or consent) they were running experiments on people.

their owners are definitely manipulating humans, their algorithms are being manipulated by highly paid groups of people, and on and on.

if foreign ownership concerns you, twitter is not owned by someone born in the US, and it’s second largest shareholder are saudis. and the vc money people behind so many of these sites have repeatedly shown they have some very antisocial tendencies, and maybe this is hyperbolic, i can’t tell anymore, but im confident in saying an awful lot of them have no loyalty to any country/civilization and many of them would be perfectly happy to watch the world burn as long as they’re making money.

if manipulation concerns you (i’m still debating myself on the issue, but i’m leaning towards worry) i find it strange not to mention twitter and meta/facebook with just as much weight/concern. for the average american/european the manipulations coming from their platforms have the potential to be significantly more material. and they are rabidly against any kind of interference that would protect citizens from the very manipulations that seem to concern people.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/furor-erupts-over-facebook-expe...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28051930.amp
For me it’s a great feature. If there’s a troll or an harasser, this remove their influence a lot because this kill all their work instantly. It makes the person posting in charge of their own replies.
From my admittedly subjective perspective, it's the lesser of two evils. The alternative of having centralized control of "truth" is a far more awful option.
Do you Lisp?
That’s why I use pigeons and carve my weekly schedule into a stone with a chisel.
Has any group of tech companies ever behaved so badly in so many ways so uniformly? There was 90s Microsoft, that was bad enough to get the DOJ involved, but that was one actor.

It’s like the friggin tobacco companies or something. Is anyone being the “good guys” on this?
Thanks Matthew for reassuring that FOSS Synapse isn't getting left behind. I really do want Matrix to succeed and get the funding it really needs. I'm aware it's been a long-standing issue.

My voice is mostly coming from the perspective of someone who has tried repeatedly to bring friends and family to Matrix but every time the experience is subpar. It's frustrating because most of the problems they experienced (including performance) have been known about and complained about for a long time.

Maybe the messaging in the article was a little off. The "attack" it makes on FOSS Synapse reads to me like it will never get the fixes it needs to make using Matrix more approachable to new users.
Most commonly I use ffmpeg to extract a slice of an audio or video file without re-encoding.

In case it interests folks, I made a tool called ffslice to do this: https://github.com/jchook/ffslice/
Romanticizing anti-war movements is reasonable, in my opinion.

But TikTok was used heavily for the past year and half to glorify terrorist violence and spread misinformation. Well... it's been used to spread misinformation for longer. But all my TikTok addicted friends are happily justifying murder of Jews, applauding the assassination of an insurance CEO, and spreading other crazy bullshit. It really is disruptive to these people - they aren't smart enough to distill truth from the barrage of bullshit, and they are easily manipulated.
That's about as much as United States Presidents spend on their campaigns, so it's actually quite a lot. Especially if it gets noticed and shut down.
I’ve used Shapecatcher since laat time it was mentioned on HN, and found it pretty dang useful and surprisingly accurate.
Pi’s worked fine for me, among others… did you draw it with multiple strokes, or maybe make the sides too straight?
Sounds better than everyone outsourcing the same to Musk, Zuck, spez, or similar.
You still somewhat own your identity on the fediverse as you can decide to migrate to another server and all your followers will be migrated.

Sure you lose the content you posted. And it’s an important point. But your identity, is migrated.
> Being able to share block lists sounds like a perfect formula for an even more extreme version of the social media echo chamber effect we've seen on other platforms.

I like my echo chamber. I like talking to my friends online. I don't want things I don't want to see.
Wasp bites are a lot more painful than mosquito bites.
wut? most websites nowadays have “show password” icon, all JS :)
Interesting how the online left now is beginning to care about decentralizing social media again after years of deriding the topic and espousing (obviously politicized) "content moderation" efforts.

Unfortunately, this is also strike in favor of the blockchain people (like Farcaster) — the best of which have been working to find ways to keep systems permanently decentralized (and not just temporarily decentralized, like Bluesky/Nostr/Mastodon/SMTP/etc.).
Maximum likelihood training tinges, nay, corrupts, everything it touches. That’s before you pull apart the variously-typed maximum likelihood training processes that the artifice underwent..

Your model attempts to give you a reasonably maximum likelihood output (in terms of kl-ball constrained preference distributions not too far from language), and expects you to be the maximum likelihood user (since its equilibriation is intended for the world in which you the user are just like the people who ended up in the training corpus) for which the prompt that you gave would be a maximum likelihood query (implying that there are times it’s better to ignore you-specific contingencies in your prompt to instead rather re-envision your question instead as being a noisily worded version of a more normal question).

I think there are probably some ways to still use maximum likelihood but you switch out over the ‘what’ that is being assumed as likely - eg models that attenuate dominant response strategies as needed by the user, and easy ux affordances for the user to better and more fluidly align the model with their own dispositional needs.
You can use embeddings to build classification models using various methods. Not sure what qualifies as "get help" level of cost/throughput, but certainly most providers offer large embedding APIs at much lower cost/higher throughput than their completion APIs.
Show HN: The Neovim syntax tree traversal plugin you've been waiting for
Treewalker.nvim

For a while I'd been wanting a good syntax tree traversal and manipulation plugin for neovim. I tried stuff like treesitter-textobjects and syntax-tree-surfer but neither could meet my needs.

So I built the one I'd been wanting.

Introducing Treewalker.nvim (https://github.com/aaronik/treewalker.nvim). It offers movement and swapping. Design goals include stability and ergonomics.

Movement

* Up/down go to neighbor nodes up/down in the document.

* Left goes to the parent node

* Right goes to next found indent in the document

Each has their own spin on a literal tree movement. The ultimate goel is to make the movement feel ergonomic, not to strictly adhere to the AST.

Swapping

* Up/down swaps take the highest node on the line _and its comments, decorators, and annotations_. This makes it easy to swap things like route handlers. These swaps operate on whole lines.

* Left/right swaps operate on the node under the cursor. This is good for swapping arguments and list items.

The plugin aims to be stable - it's well tested and leverages types with luacheck in the CI.
There are few options. It's meant to "just work".

Ok that's all, I hope this can be of some use to folks!
I love how the description ends "to boost productivity."
If you use nginx to front it, consider something like this in the `http` block of your config:

map $http_user_agent $bottype {
default "";
"~.*Amazonbot.*" "amazon";
"~.*ImagesiftBot.*" "imagesift";
"~.*Googlebot.*" "google";
"~.*ClaudeBot.*" "claude";
"~.*gptbot.*" "gpt";
"~.*semrush.*" "semrush";
"~.*mj12.*" "mj12";
"~.*Bytespider.*" "bytedance";
"~.*facebook.*" "facebook";
}
limit_req_zone $bottype zone=bots:10m rate=6r/m;
limit_req zone=bots burst=10 nodelay;
limit_req_status 429;

You can still have other limits by IPs. 429s tends to slow the scrapers, and it means you are spending a lot less on bandwidth and compute when they get too aggressive. Monitor and adjust the regex list over time as needed.

Note that if SEO is a goal, this does make you vulnerable to blackhat SEO by someone faking a UA of a search engine you care about and eating their 6 req/minute quota with fake bots. You could treat Google differently.

This approach won't solve for the case where the UA is dishonest and pretends to be a browser - that's an especially hard problem if they have a large pool of residential IPs and emulate / are headless browsers, but that's a whole different problem that needs different solutions.
It isn't quite snappy or trendy but "vicious cycle" describes it well, but not completely.
I wonder if the relative acceptance of this has anything to do with the popularity of "vtubers".
It's common for 24 hour clocks to use 24 instead of 0. It's also pretty common for people to refer to times after midnight as 24:nn or 25:nn to emphasise it's the same evening. Timetables often do this.
A point that bears repeating is that once your unemployment benefits run out, you no longer factor into the count of the unemployed.
Well, the issue with coordination is you need everyone already there to coordinate. If people are only using the network for illegitimate uses, then it will get shut down (think 4chan, Silk Road). Really, it's in the authoritarian government's best interest (not the people's) to make multiple platforms. Most people will choose the free one, so it's 10–100x cheaper to either bot the pay-for-anonymity platform or shut it down when they notice it formenting unrest.
IMO most of the price discrimination that I abhor is when it is secret or involves secret criteria.
What about if the human brain were so complex that we could be complex enough to understand it?
So the GR guy would have been wrong, but how would he be failing to take intellectual responsibility?
This is 100 percent the truth. Watching tennis in the US has become increasingly frustrating. I almost long for the old days where one could count on one of two channels to always have coverage. I wish Amazon, Netflix, YouTube or similar would step up and secure all the rights from college to Grand Slam tennis.
robots.txt isn't a standard. It is a suggestion, and not legally binding AFAIK. In US law at least a bot scraping a site doesn't involve a human being and therefore the TOS do not constitute a contract. According to the Robotstxt organization itself: “There is no law stating that /robots.txt must be obeyed, nor does it constitute a binding contract between site owner and user, but having a /robots.txt can be relevant in legal cases.”

The last part basically means the robots.txt file can be circumstantial evidence of intent, but there needs to be other factors at the heart of the case.
This is a very educational and intuitive way of putting it, but to nitpick the Kalman filter is a very special case of this (it assumes a linear ruleset and Gaussian uncertainties in the sensor readings).

What you're describing is in general the Bayesian filter (or Bayesian smoothing if you don't have to give the result immediately).
They not selling till trump do something or nothing
Tit for Tat. Mercantalism is quite effective in a world of Free Trade, but if everyone turns Mercantalistic it becomes unsustainable and burns out. Once the most Mercantalistic actors are wiped out and EVERYONE understands why such policies were bad, we can return to the principles of Free Trade.
Looking at the headline, I thought “well duh.” But getting into the post I realized this is a good outlook. I’ve come to realize many factors go into internal and external success for people, including time, place, personality, innate skills and attitude.

I’ve found after trying and failing at many processes to 1) be willing and deliberate about trying new stuff and 2) drop stuff that isn’t working as quickly as possible.

Additionally, I’m trying to get better at saying something didn’t work _for me_ when it fails to stick, versus discouraging others to try it.
Untrue, have a little more confidence in career statisticians.

> Some people think that to get these figures on unemployment, the government uses the number of people collecting unemployment insurance (UI) benefits under state or federal government programs.

> But some people are still jobless when their benefits run out, and many more are not eligible at all or delay or never apply for benefits. So, quite clearly, UI information cannot be used as a source for complete information on the number of unemployed.

-- https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#where

The continued explanation for how they account for it is in the link.
I doubt GW would go into that direction.

Though I do believe they will continue to raise their prices to the point where you have sell a kidney for a combat patrol box.
More distraction are welcome
At this level? You can use your favourite HDL and a FPGA, and then look into things like TinyTapeout and such. It's not as inaccessible as it seems!
Cool. Now move forward.
OpenAI already offers a limited RAG solution, and it's only a matter of time before they're a product.

I would have paid a good sum for it a year ago, but we figured it out. I think it's like setting up databases. There was a market for that kind of consulting 15 years ago, but in the long run it might not be there.
The name sounds like it means "this is how I want you to cause the service to stop" to me (and clearly to others as well). That would be symmetrical with ExecStart meaning "this is how I want you to cause the service to start". If it runs after the service stopped it should be called "ExecAfterStop" or something like that.
Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad
I mean thats a majority of the population and most executives.

Con artist is possibly the most inaccurate title for him thats all. Clearly he has built and delivered multifold.
because you didn't learn how react works and thought just knowing javascript was enough, it's very obvious and the devtools literally how you why and where you're getting extra re-renders from; but i guess whining is easier
I simplified in my comment. It was a much better story for tooling, since you could reuse large parts of existing backends/codegen, optimization passes, and debugging. The mental model of execution would remain too, rather than being a weird machine code for a weird codesize-optimized stack machine.

I would wager the performance implications of NaCl code, even for ARM which required many more workarounds than x86 (whose NaCl impl has a "one weird trick" aura), were much better than for modern WASM.

It's hard to say if it would've run into the same issues. For one, it would've been easier to port native GCs: they don't run afoul of W^X rules, they just read memory if that, which you can do performantly in NaCl on x86 due to the segments trick. I also suspect the culture could've more easily evolved towards shared objects where you would be able to download/parse/verify a stdlib once, and then keep using it.

I agree it was because the applications were games, but for another second-order reason: they were by and large C/C++ codebases where memory was refcounted manually. Java was probably the second choice, but those were the days when Java applets were still auto-loading, so there was likely no need for anybody to try.
Teams is technically WebView2 and not Electron… with a bunch of native platform code.
> For example, do we expect an AGI to be able to meditate, or to mentally introspect itself like a human, or to describe its inner qualia, in order to constitute an AGI?

Do you mind sharing the kinds of descriptive criteria for these behaviors that you are envisioning for which there is overlap with the general assumption of them occurring in a machine? I can foresee a sort of “featherless biped” scenario here without more details about the question.
UAE Launches First 24/7 Gigascale Renewable Energy Facility in Abu Dhabi
That's not a game though, and if the citizens all do permutations of the same n-things it's the exact problem that the poster you're replying to is talking about.

Games are interesting because designers have figured out what to present to the player, how to frame it in ways that are engaging/stimulating/challenging/intriguing/etc. That still needs to be authored in some way.
Downloading every video for a TikTok account
> How is that a failure to take intellectual responsibility?

The argument is metaphysical, it doesn't pose any concrete questions about the validity of QM, which would go like "does QM predicts reality correctly". All the physics is built upon a nice mathematical formalism of real numbers, and it doesn't make physics invalid, it can be used to build planes and computers, despite those pesky real numbers, that are unreal.

Intellectual responsibility means that you filled your metaphysics with some substance. I don't really know, how to do it for quantum mechanics, but if I wanted to, I might start with the inability of QM to explain gravity, I'd dig this topic to the point when I would be able to propose a specific way how research on quantum gravity could overturn QM and make it wrong. Or at least I'd try to make an argument that QM predictions about QC might become false.

But I cannot make such arguments, because I don't know QM, and I'm not going to dive into it, because I know better ways to spend my time, so I'll keep my mouth shut and will not voice vague statements about QM being not reality.

In any case from metaphysical standpoint, I'm sure that physics is not reality, physics is a mathematical description of reality. It doesn't matter if this description is incomplete or even wrong if it works for our case. Like Newton's gravity still works, while being proved wrong. We just need to bear in mind the limits of applicability. So I see the argument Scott Aaronson discusses as a very general truth "a map is not territory" which is used in an incorrect way. The correct (intellectually responsible) way is to point to the limits of applicability and to build an argument that they can bite.

> Asking because it's basically what I think[2]

I had followed your link after I wrote the first part, and I was delighted to see that you targeted the limits of applicability. Your argument is different from just saying "mathematical formalism is not reality".

I cannot verify your thoughts, because I don't know QM or how QC are supposed to work, but you are talking about the limits of applicability: "a theoretically-capable Quantum Computer will be testing the predictions of Quantum Mechanics to a degree of precision hundreds of orders of magnitude greater than any physics experiment to date". It doesn't seem to me as intellectual irresponsibility, it is not intellectual irresponsibility if you really know what you a talking about and can defend your statement when talking with PhD in QM.

> but I promise not to argue with any explanation given here.

Feel free to argue, I have nothing against it. :)

BTW, do you don't take QC seriously because of that? Do you expect QM (as a theory) to fail as a result or R&D work that is done on QC? I agree that there is a probability of QM failing, but my uneducated guess that the probability is low enough (maybe 0.1?) to take QC seriously.
Mark Zuckerberg blamed Sheryl Sandberg for Meta 'inclusivity' push: report