skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question was 'What rules do you consider ugly?'.

I think that rule is ugly. I explained why.

If you don't like the thread, move on.
The promotion was not activism!

Jim Beam did an an actual ad campaign with Ru Paul's Drag Race at the same time. Travis Tritt (who supported the Bud Light boycott) tried to get people to go after them, too. It went nowhere, as had most attempts to protest LGBT marketing. Even Bud Light had done much more overt pro-LGBT campaigns before. The difference was that Ben Shapiro had Mulvaney in the crosshairs and A-B fumbled the response.

Again, the question isn't whether the ad campaign was good, but what it says about Graham's definition of "woke".
We decided that our analytic tech was good enough to figure out that smoking and pollution were bad for us despite infinite confounders.

Most people dismiss dietary research because it simply condemns their favorite foods. They accept causal inferences made from epidemiology everywhere else.
Although that is true, it'll presumably be hard to use them all since some of them will trample each other's symlinks.

It doesn't really make that much sense, but I've always wanted a sort-of hybrid lazy Nix store. Rebuilding my NixOS machines take a long time since I like to have my preferred software configured and installed at the system level mostly, but there's some stuff that isn't so essential that it needs to block the upgrade. So I've thought about a hybrid solution where the packages would get built in the background and you could have some kind of magic FUSE system to block while the derivations are built or pulled from Hydra.

If you wanted to, you could combine this with the idea of installing every Nixpkgs package. It might even sort of make sense, as long as you ditch the "also work on them in the background" part... although it makes the surface area of your system absurd.
just basics enough to understand typical bash commands, scripts, how env variables work, etc
Free speech as a set of material conditions worth fighting for (2021)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor%27s_prime

"666" with 13 0's on either side and 1's on the ends.
Yes, you can escape the US oligarchical censorship, and have the European form of it instead. The funny part is that DNS "great firewall" types of censorship and blocks are much more common in Europe, but European nationalists will always say that it's somehow different when they do it.
I thought the 40% number seemed lower than my experiences suggest. But this is a solid point that suggests that even 84% is too low. I guess it could be as high as 90%.
oh right, archive.ph, I dont know how I forgot about that, thanks!
As someone who was raised extremely religious, strayed to the polar opposite, and is now trying to find my way in between the two, I do find this interesting. While the understanding of LLMs and when/how to apply them makes sense, I would argue that they fit right alongside human interpretation of scripture. Consider that many pastors "teaching" scriptures aren't even formally educated.

Arguing that you can't use an LLM for Christian apologetics because it "might not be true" overemphasizes the definition of "truth" when it comes to scripture and those teaching Christian apologetics, which is entirely influenced by what doctrine you subscribe to.
To further add to the parent, think about how stupid it is to turn off an money printing machine. China did exactly when it mismanaged Hong Kong. Hong Kong USED to be financial titan.

First, Taiwan sees HK and knows what's up. You don't sleep next to an elephant all your life and not know when they will roll over.

Second, even if Taiwan didn't rig for sabotage AND (big AND) just straight up surrendered (it won't); People will slowly leave, turn over will happen, machines will age out, the right investments will not be made, etc. Taiwan may not shatter (immediately), but it will rust and dull. Look at HK and I believe that is the BEST case scenario for the China.

For Taiwan, semi-conductors represent a poison pill/porcupine defense. But that is all that is, defense/poison. It won't stop China if the leaders decide that it would just eat the consequences. I hope Taiwan can find a creative solution to their woes.

For China, they have to realize they are on a timer. They can't keep "turning off money machines", or "crushing jewels". At some point they are going to run out of "resources" to extract and I hope they figure out how to work with countries in their region instead of antagonizing them. Why? because 1+ billion people will suffer if they don't figure it out.
We effectively use this approach in most of our go services. Other than logging purposes, we sometimes use it to pass stuff that is not critical but highly useful to have, like some request and response bodies from HTTP calls, tenant information and similar info.
Where in Europe? I haven't toured the _whole_ continent but I've been to restaurants in Germany, the UK, and Ireland and did not find their portions to be any different than what you'd get at the average corner restaurant in the US.

Now, there are plenty of food vendors and restaurants in the US where big portions are considered part of the experience. Especially hamburgers, subs, and other sandwiches. I once ate at a place that served a plate-sized burrito completely covered in french fries. 12 inches wide and 6 inches tall. SOME people can eat that amount of food but most people cannot, and nobody is expected to.

Finally, large portions in NY street food are often customary because for lots of people with demanding jobs and 12-16 hour shifts, lunch is often their only meal. Or, half of it is lunch, the other half is dinner later on.
Thanks for you quick answer. I want to clarify that I would have liked to try the app for a few days before activating subscription.

Now with the current flow I would need to activate the subscription and then immediately go to Play Store settings to deactivate the subscription so that I would not forget it.
> Everyone agrees this is an uphill battle

No, most people don't care about having this battle - that's the point. If there's no demonstrable reason to leave (e.g. "former president got banned from major platform, so go to new platform") then the - valid, if personally boring to you - point is: how will you persuade people to leave it?
Peter -- many thanks for your continued presence and accessible approach. My wife and I reached out to you several years ago and your response was immensely helpful and comforting. Thanks for what you do.
How many Rs are in the word strawberry?

None of these words (plausible, hallucination, convincing) seem appropriate.

An LLM seems more about "probable". There's no truth/moral judgment in that term.

When weighting connections among bags of associated terms (kind of like concepts) based on all the bags the model was repeatedly browbeaten with, LLMs end up able to unspool probable walks through these bags of associated terms.

It's easy to see how this turns out to work "well" for bags of terms (again, sort of concepts) often discussed in writing, such as, say, Christian apologetics.

Instead of the complaint and examples he blogged, he should have dumped a position article he agrees with, and a position article he disagrees with, into it, and asked it to compare, contrast, contextualize, opine, and then (for kicks) reconcile (using SOTA Claude or OpenAI). He's using it as a concordance, he could have used it as, well, apologetics: a systematic (not token based) defense of a position.

Because breaking down the bags into our alphabet and our words isn't really how LLMs shine. Smash together concepts like atoms and you can actually emit novel insights.

This article describes something LLMs are bad at — a fancy "how many Rs in strawberry".
> Just asking the question to your parents or a faith leader could raise suspicions and be dangerous.

So... they send it to the cloud, where it's stored forever, sold to whoever wants to pay and waiting for the moment the database will leak publicly.
As others have suggested I just avoid pronouns. This seems to be a common approach.
Yes, precedent is actually important. Using "whataboutism" because it's a trendy buzzword doesn't make precedent any less important.
>The passport, as Yugoslavia was a non-aligned country, allowed its holders to travel very widely, not just to the West.

Why does “A Guide to the Serbian Mentality by Momo Kapor” say that they were not permitted to travel internationally?
Sure, but if nobody is on the platform or other end of the line, who cares?
I see what you mean, difference in floating time expectations between remote vs in-person appointments. A case of choosing your default poison, I guess. Thanks for pointing it out.
That actually sounds like an ideal system for providing opportunities to low-wage workers without locking them into low wages indefinitely
> you would be surprised how quickly this adds up

Yes, but if social engineering is involved and tracing back through user conversations across a platform, it's hardly a vulnerability, let alone one deserving of a bounty. The way this is currently functioning is intended functionality, and can be further locked down depending on the user's threat model.

This can essentially be classified as opsec failure for the Signal user. If they're trying to hide from a hit in a 300 mile radius, they've got bigger problems to worry about, and should already be using a VPN setup.

Every time you click on a link your external IP addresses is exposed, is this a vulnerability? Being online without a VPN / proxy is inherent consent to have your external IP & other required items to be shared with services / middlemen.

When it comes to Discord, if you have this strict of a threat model and you're still using it, idk what to tell you.
>>Amodei said he was relatively confident the technology would surpass human intelligence in the next two or three years.

How can LLM technology "surpass human intelligence" when the algorithm is such that a LLM has zero understanding of the meaning of its 'conversations'?

It's a transformative technology but, to me, it is nothing more than a fantastic Encyclopedia Britannica. It's a book. It's a thing. It doesn't understand words anymore than a hardbound copy of the Encyclopedia understands the words on its paper.
Yes of course they probably know about his big ego, but that's quite a bit different from being openly fascist. Today (or yesterday) he might have crossed a red line for many people.
From the third link, do you believe there are subtle differences between the two gestures that we're missing, or are you saying that Adolf himself failed and delivered a Roman salute instead of a Nazi one?
this sounds like my personal nirvana no human contact but able to exist maybe the buddhists were right nirvana exists...
Eh, that's improvement, but the world didn't change because of a small forest.
The developers who freely, voluntarily, and willingly work on these projects, min-maxing human suffering to add 0.01% to a cell in a spreadsheet somewhere, deserve everything that's coming for them.
The first amendment isn't simply broken into atomic bullet pointed freedoms that can individually be negotiated. The amendment specifically says "peaceably assemble", which is tied to speech, press, religious expression, and petitioning government in the text. It is part of a long historic stream of law and judicial decisions in the common law dating back to the Magna Carta. Free speech is not truly free if the government tells you where you can and can't do it. There is a long legal tradition saying as much.
Not necessarily on that last point as it's something other than a linear relationship.

There are people aged 90 who've needed 0 years of care, and others who've needed 30.

That was kind of what I meant by greater proportion.. we're all mortal, but for me personally, the idea of being utterly dependent for a long period of my later years is, to put it mildly, not something I want. As in I would literally rather be dead. I'm not saying other people should feel the same, but that's how I feel about it.

Two, three, perhaps five years at the end? Sure, that's rather to be expected. Even then, there are huge differences in quality of life enjoyed by different eldercare residents. I had one older relative in a home for his last four years, who basically had good quality of life up until the final couple of weeks. Another who was in a home for a decade+, and had almost zero quality of life from the day she went in. Not because it was a bad home, she was just too far gone.
There were alternatives, but the network effect is real. Facebook wants people to stay on their platform, sure, but people also like staying in one app if they can. They know how to use it, and it's not yet another app.
> Every US tech company going dark overnight means practically everything goes into a digital dark age.

This is a foolishly dangerous assumption. America's premier digital exports are things that many other nations consider entirely unnecessary. The App Store? Illegal in parts of Europe. ChatGPT? Questionably valuable from the start. Facebook, X/Twitter, WhatsApp and iMessage are all NSA informants. We have examples of countries kicking FAANG out of their market, and these countries are perfectly successful in the long run.

You are very focused on the American lifestyle. I suspect you would be very surprised by how little Europe cares about American software businesses.
yeah, i've had a garmin and i've had an apple watch. both have their strong points, but the battery life of the apple watch was really just never an issue for me. it seems like it should be an obvious downsite, but it's pretty easy to get in the habit of charging it, and once it is habit its just really not an issue.

if anything, the garmin's battery life was a downside, because i wouldn't charge it daily, and then i'd go to start a bike ride and find it was at 10% battery.
Lovely, it’s really a useful tool.

Unfortunately it’s management is opaque and manipulative, in the hands of a one self-interested actor.

If anything, this sort of market would be well served by a publicly funded (not necessarily by a Government, let’s throw blockchains into the mix) neutral and transparent platform
One is orthogonal to the other.
What FAQ and pricing pages? Your website makes no mention of pricing at all.

Edit: The "dark" pattern is in the registration flow. It doesn't mention that the app requires a subscription anywhere until after you've created an account. Surely you could add a disclaimer before creating your account? This has nothing to do with the App Store.

Edit 2: I'm not saying you intended to implement a dark pattern. Just perhaps a UX oversight.

Edit 3: The download page would be another great place to put this info, since that's the primary CTA on the home page (there's 4 prominent download buttons).
TikTok app unavailable on Apple, Google stores in US
As a Christian the only way I use LLMs is to ask for specific verses, which I then pull up on my Bibles to confirm. I don't expect an LLM to ever understand my theological views (Christian theology is like... programming languages, nobody likes anyone else's...), but if I ask it questions like "how many verses have x phrase" I have some semblance of trust that it might figure out enough to feed me such verses.

I prefer to ask LLMs for starting points in research goals essentially.
Wow $20 more, that's a lot.

At our place they were the same price (though the steam gauge one was a newer type). They still had to have it because some exams require it.
Or that hackerone account has been traded.
"In my orbit" there 100% of the people play racquetball which means there are roughly 350 million players in the USA - hence it is the most popular sport on the planet and owner of my local team is richer than all NFL owners combined /s :)

Also see https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-face... just for kicks :)
I recommend to try earthfiles: https://earthly.dev/earthfile

This basically brings docker layer caching to CI. Only Things that changed are rebuilt and tested.
Once you actually read the article .. you see a similar kind of thing to complaints about Youtube or bank demonetization. People are accused of fraud, and have their access withdrawn - but nobody will explain what they allegedly did, because that would leak information about the fraud detection.

It's a kind of automated low trust economy. The drivers don't trust the apps, and the app doesn't trust the drivers, so the thing has to be held together by surveillance and micromanagement.
I’ll second Partiful.

Their use of good old fashioned www links and SMS messages makes it easy for everyone to share and join events. No app and no Partiful account necessary.

They also have simple and good event privacy model, group scheduling, reminders, Venmo based ticket system, and group chat.

It’s taken over almost completely in my social circles and I’m all for it.
Has anyone tried putting all of it into archive.org?
Slightly offtopic but my girlfriend's smartwatch is falling apart and can't stand it anymore.
Her birthday is coming soon and was thinking about a Garmin smartwatch. She runs a lot, gym almost everyday. Loves tracking fitness data and workouts but she's petite.
Anyone with good recs on what to check?
Open Table Formats and the Open Data Lakehouse, in Perspective
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There is a “Do not disturb” feature on the Apple Watch.
Since divisibility by 2 and 5 is such a problem, why not look for memorable numbers in prime base, like base 7 or base 11?
I'd suggest a different approach. I'm not sure how feasible it is for your case but just my 2 cents.

Community building would probably be way more efficient if done in person. That would make getting to know each other way easier. It would allow 'water fountain' type of interactions; which you usually don't have online.

So, my 2 cents would be to find a park, or something else public (weather permitting) and gather there. It could also bring passerbys to get curious and gather more people.

Not everything has to have a technological solution. In-person interactions should be more important for community building.
Understanding Open Table Formats
> Imagine any closeted gay or trans kid wanting to know if the way they feel is “wrong.” Just asking the question to your parents or a faith leader could raise suspicions and be dangerous.

Depends on the religion and the place. A Catholic could ask in the confessional with the seal of secrecy. Anyone could ask online anonymously. In most churches I know it would not be dangerous to ask questions, and you can do in confidence one way or another.

I really do not think LLMs are anything like the answer for people grappling with personal issues. You need someone supportive with empathy.

Also, who trusts an LLM to give them the right answer? Can an LLM guide someone gently to think things through? Can it refuse to give someone a black and white answer when they want a simple answer to a complex question?

I think an LLM is the dangerous option.

Different for people in very conservative cultures, of course.
Russian Space Web: Nedelin's disaster (1960)
Funny, I passed the link to a whatsapp group with some friends and the preview loaded with the title "error: cookies turned off".

I'm sure my friends will RUSH to read the article now...
Parking Robot: Let robots handle your parking
Depends on the performance metrics you care about, and what the application actually does.

JavaScript can be faster in some tasks. Even if JS is 2x slower in another task, it uses 3x less memory than Java.

Which costs more, double CPU time or triple memory requirement?
Back button is nonfunctional (because of the redirect to /home)
My observation is that I learn more than ever using LLMs.

I tend to learn asking questions, I did this using Anki cards for years (What is this or that?) and find the answer on the back of the index card. Questions activate my thinking more than anything, and of course my attempt at answering the question in my own terms.

My motto is: Seek first to understand, then to be understood (Covey). And I do this in engaging with people or a topic—-by asking questions.

Now I do this with LLMs. I have been exploring ideas I would never have explored hadn’t there been LLMs, because I would not have had the to research material for learning, read it, create material in a Q&A session for me.

I even use LLMs to convert an article into Anki cards using Obsidian, Python, LLMs, and the Anki app.

Crazy times we are in.
Apologetics comes from the greek work "apologia" which means "speaking in defense".
> Back during the dot com days, everyone from the secretaries to the chefs to the founders were getting rich

As someone who is old enough to have been working in tech since the 1990s... not really. I mean, it happened on occasion but it wasn't actually a common occurrence even during the heyday of large dot com exits.

The idea of this was massively propped up by overhyping the vanishingly few cases in which it did happen.

I'm not at all refuting your basic point that the "we're all getting lambos" fiction got increasingly disconnected from reality over time, but it was always more apocryphal than real.
This reminds me of my teenage years, when I was considering going into aerospace engineering to work on military aircraft. But I was immensely conflicted between the feelings of "This is where all the coolest tech is" and "I would be building murdering machines".

The pacifist side won and decades later I feel good about the decision. I managed to find other work that stimulated my curiosity without having to be part of immense suffering.
A Man Who Dreamed in an Unknown Language
I couldn't find a reference to the specific case study but there's definitely human factors/ergonomics research about this - one example was about a factory introduced task rotations which should increase meaning of work and therefor productivity and operator retention, but it resulted in increased absenteeism because operators could no longer let their minds wander like they used to during routine repetitive tasks and burned out quicker. The point of all these case studies was to not randomly change a work situation using generic best practices before understanding it because there's no one size fits all solution.
This is why Facebook ended up being the tool of choice. Stay in one app instead of logging into 2 and checking your email and a website. I'm only surprised that 1-3 can't all be done via Meetup.
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