skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like the distinction between "liberal" and "liberalism." The former being a dirty slur word in American politics, and the latter being an entire field of economic and political philosophy dating back to the enlightenment. The latter definition is still in use among the educated. So too, with "conservative," at least outside of your American news bubble.
>Nobody needs to be rich enough to own a 747, in order to justify making one

My argument is not about the justification to making or owning a 747. It's the justification for how is it realistically possible for ONE person to own enough wealth to buy a 747 EVEN when his own intrinsic abilities are not great enough to build a 747. This is orthogonal to society pooling together wealth and building a 747 AND orthogonal to the actuality of a wealthy person purchasing a 747.

At best a human can probably output the utility equivalent of 3 other human beings if that human has super strength or genius level intelligence. But the ability to make a 747 which takes thousands of man years to make? What sort fair exchange did the person engage in, in capitalist economy to generate that level of wealth WHEN at best his own output can only be 3x the average human? Obviously the exchange he made is fundamentally unfair.

The thing with communism is that it's unfair. You distribute resources equally, then actors who don't perform get an undeserved portion of wealth. Capitalism on the other hand is fair in the sense that the amount of effective effort you put in the more wealth you gain? Or is it? Then how come in capitalism you get entities that own enough wealth to buy a 747 when clearly the amount of work that person can output is obviously not even close to the amount of work used to create the 747 itself? That's the issue, and it's a small issue.

The bigger issue is that the person who has enough wealth to build a 747 has assets that will grow in compound. He will get richer and this will eat the world as what's currently happening in the actual world right now.
Show HN: Generate a political compass of characters from a story prompt
Hey HN — I've been working on creating small games with LLMs for the past year or two and found that one thing they have been bad at generally is creating story worlds — they tend to generate clusters of similar characters that aren't intrinsically linked to each other.

I was thinking about this and remembered the semi-famous alien invasion political compass meme:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/ktyq...

I really liked how that format enforces the need to fill out all parts of the alignment chart, giving you a rich diversity of characters. So I created a generator that does just that! Additionally, you can open the story panel on the right and select a few characters and click "submit" to generate an ongoing story with the characters.

Check it out here:
https://www.loregrid.com/
I like the true scottsman requirement. About any definition man can come up with for 'true' reasoning easily falls prey to a 'true scottsman fallacy'.
Drone operator who damaged LA plane was Treyarch co-founder Peter Akemann
> I don't see what you could accomplish this way that a nuke couldn't

The nuke poisons the land, a metallic asteroid just makes a conventional mess you cleanup and rebuild under your own flag...
I get -3 points on the downvote, and yet.. thread below among others.
Here is implementation documentation from Mastercard about l3: https://na-gateway.mastercard.com/api/documentation/integrat...

The cost reduction is very small, it’s applied to interchange fees. I’ve been directly responsible for implementing this functionality on payment gateways for multiple processors because it helps reduce fraud holds as well.
I recommend the story Hell is the Absence of God in the book you mentioned; as someone non-religious, it was quite interesting to see how people generally feel about deities and their awesome power, from this short story [0].

[0] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50e08e65e4b0c2f497697...
No.

Realistically you'll need to keep updating this. This means a one time payment won't cut it.

So the question becomes, will I pay 10$ a month for it.

Now if you could ship a better VS Code, not just a lazy fork, but something truly amazing, maybe I'd pay 10$ a month for that. It would need to be magic. Something to detect how projects should work. Help me with the 9000 different ways to configure a node js project , etc.

I don't think you could hope to do this with a team of less than 10 or so....
I think that's the only option. We need the truth, we currently have a deranged President leading the blind who would rather believe in a sky daddy and the lies they tell themselves than reality. I could see an oligarch that actually might choose to do the right thing, along with a group of high end Universities to replace CDC and NIH at least for the next 2-4 years when we can reestablish some sanity. While I'm fine with rescending bad papers and false information, these blanket attempts to normalize thought crime from the new regime to destroy science and the truth and replace it with their own distorted world view needs to be met with resistance.
> Python is the most interesting language I know of regarding inheritance.

Someone doesn't know Common Lisp.
The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science
Because I don't want to rest of the house to smell?

A different argument that appeals to some is that you might not have something to hide, but what about the people who do? For the greater good of society, whistleblowers are needed to expose malfeasance by the corrupt and it's going to make it much harder for any of them to come forwards if their reward is literally exile to Russia. If you're in support of a slow slide into dystopia, go ahead and argue against all privacy. Whether a given situation rises to that level is an different but adjacent topic, but appealing to something some people can believe in, such as not letting the rich and powerful get away with being utterly corrupt in their dealings is a way to find common ground, with some. not everyone cares about that though, but it's an additional argument for privacy.
Does it matter that this election was won with a clear margin, also in the popular vote? I feel like it does.

Rebellion and protest wil require those who supported Trump to change their mind. Democracy demands it.
Which shows that things get weird if a majority of people favor the dissolution of rule of law within a democracy. A point it seems the US has reached, but I would give it another few months to give people time to really see what they voted for.
I mean, they seemed kind of visibly crazy, often saying threatening things to others, talking about doing crazy experiments with their sleep, often insinuating violence. They were pretty solidly banned from the community after their crazy "CFAR Alumni Reunion" protest stunt, and before then were already very far into the fringes.
This article is kind of vague on that tbf:
To conclude, we observed no credible evidence for a beneficial effect of L-dopa (vs. Haloperidol) on reinforcement learning in a reward context, as well as the proposed mechanistic account of an enhanced striatal prediction error response mediating this effect.
But all it takes is one app with that permission to tie you to all the others. And there are always apps that need your location at some point to provide useful data. At this point I’m not sure there’s any single app I trust.
> Ancient is not the same as good.

Who said otherwise?

> Here's some other "ancient" stuff, that can be used to say the opposite of your point

Yes, native Americans had gay people too, and slightly varying ideas of division of labour. I'm not sure how you think this proves the notion that distinguishing gender and sex is or was some dominant mode of thought.

Just look up transgender history on Wikipedia, literally the opening paragraph says these concepts were invented in the 1950s.
> bzip2 -9 -k all.tar 981.78s user 9.77s system 95% cpu 8M memory 17:16.64 total
> bzip3 -e -b 256 -j 12 all.tar 2713.81s user 16.28s system 634% cpu 18301M memory 7:10.10 total

The difference in memory usage might be worth noting: 8M v 18301M
> Your sex is defined only by the gamete size you produce.

So you have no sex until puberty? After menopause women stop being women? Infertile people also have no sex? What about euneuchs and people who have their ovaries removed?

Your definition seems to create more problems than it solves. It creates billions of new sexless humans.
Are you aware that the US did this before (weighted mean tariffs >doubled in Trump’s first term) and it worked well enough that the Biden administration kept the tariffs and even increased some?

Also, comparing this to Brexit is absurd. Even putting aside the minor difference between Brexit and tariff changes, let’s compare a small island completely dependent on its neighbors to the US. They could not be more different! UK exports/imports as a percentage of GDP are double to triple the US.
Minor nitpick, but aren't ads sold to the highest bidder?
You can just create things
Seems very similar to this https://alieninsect.substack.com/p/on-the-dmt-laser-code-of-...
There are much more sophisticated methods than that now with AI, like speech to text to LLM. It's getting increasingly harder to detect interviewees cheating.
Discussed at the time:

Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32381206 - Aug 2022 (169 comments)
> The decision to keep Hollow closed source isn’t about restricting users, it’s about ensuring stability while maximizing customization through plugins and themes. you can extend it freely using the plugin system, much like how browsers allow extensions without requiring users to alter their source code.

This is the worst take about open source software I've seen in a while.

First impressions are everything, and as it stands, I 100% do not trust you as a sole developer. Like seriously, as a dude truing to get adoption of your project, WTF is wrong with you? why are you scared of the boogieman of releasing source code?

do you write code badly and will feel attacked by others reading it?
Maybe you are right in predicting (guessing?) as to which is more likely. Still, we don’t have the luxury of just rank ordering failure modes and only mitigating the first.

Not to mention that the race for AI technology is likely going to make geopolitics more volatile. If something happens, it doesn’t matter how we bucketed it conceptually. Reality doesn’t care about where we draw the lines.

The false dichotomies abound in many of these discussions.
> There's no "personal information" here, but honestly this amount of data shared with an arbitrary list of 3rd parties is scary.
Why do they need to know my screen brightness, memory amount, current volume and if I'm wearing headphones?

Screen brightness, boot time, memory, and network operator could probably fingerprint any device all by itself.
Surprisingly I find it does! The bulk of the time shouldn't be spent typing I agree, but often once I've mapped out what I want to do I need to type a lot. Improving my typing helped my "flow" as I made less mistakes and was generally faster once I got to the "make it happen" stage.
how does that make sense. My claim is that the government is collecting more taxes than ever. 1,000% more than in 1940 (controlling for inflation). I ask why we are getting so little for that.

Your response is that we aren't taxing enough.
There's an encoding, processing, and decoding element to this.

The encoding puts the information into latent vector representations. Then the information is actually processed in this latent space. You are working on highly compressed data. Then there's decoding which brings it back to a representation we understand. This is the same reason you can highly train on one language and be good at translation.

This is over simplified as everything is coupled. But it can be difficult to censor because the fun nature of high dimensional spaces in addition to coupling effects (superposition)
All 3 of those countries have separate organizations employing the air traffic controllers. DFS is 100% owned by the government, NATS is formerly a public service and now half privately owned, and Nav Canada was established by the ANS act.

The FAA has a $5.20 tax per flight segment per passenger and a 7.5% ticket tax. The budget set by congress limits how much the FAA can spend on air traffic control, and the surplus (there is a surplus) goes into the AATF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_and_Airway_Trust_Fund

This is a direct cost of American austerity.
I'll try to put together a PoC a little later. I won't have time till at least this evening though, maybe later.
I did think of sour grapes (only thing that came to my mind) and was hoping for something better. Sour grapes doesn't seem too interesting. I think most people can tell you, if you actually ask them, what the differences between their actual successes and their wildest dreams are. But any improvement is still a success and I think that's valid.
Once you have all the expensive fragile gear in orbit…
>and wonder how an intelligent person can still think this,

Read up on the ELIZA effect
> There is a known bug via touch scroll ability on Android, external keyboard's spacebar or mouse works correctly though, currently. If you know about a solution, let me know.

While I always appreciate the effort, bugs like these show how most Hackernews readers are antithetical to its design — when all you're serving is paginated HTML documents with form submissions, few things can possibly break in the first place.
This statement "any assignment through such a pointer can be assumed to modify any and all data in a program." is incorrect. You are not allowed to use a pointer to one object to modify another. At least this is what the C standard (somewhat imprecisely) implies and compilers generally exploit for optimization.

Most people agree that the right solution is that the integer-round trips can not simply be assumed to be a no-op and has the effect that the recreated pointer can be used to point to the other object (as proposed by us in TS 6010). (So in this sense you are right). The LLVM maintainer stated recently that they are going to fix this.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907007.
could you please contact me on Discord or email (in my profile)? I have also investigated the connections between hEDS, being trans and a specific kind of autism, along with TNXB.
> So if all your distrust is about how Microsoft made you install big updates I don’t know...

What you don't seem to know is what I actually wrote, that you replied to: That was not about "distrust of Microsoft", but a question to you: If the OS is so horribly "antiquated", then WTF were all those humongo-updates for? Or, conversely: After all these updates over the years, how the F can the OS be so horribly "antiquated"?
The problem is, I could not formulate anything in this way in a professional setting. I want my co workers to understand because I feel a bit uneasy working with people who do not but I also don't want to scare them.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907079.
The opening paragraph literally says, "The modern terms and meanings of transgender, gender, gender identity, and gender role only emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. As a result, opinions vary on how to categorize historical accounts of gender-variant people and identities."

Applying these labels to historical peoples is projection at best. The whole problem with "gender" is that it is either undefined or it has no universal definition, therefore it's meaningless to apply it historically.

To say someone was "gender-varying" at the time is to say they didn't conform to the typical roles associated with their sex in that culture, because there was no notion of gender as we know it, nor is there even a universal definition of gender that we can apply retroactively.
Can a computational biotech company still succeed in the age of AI?
It's a huge improvement for sticky sidebars that are only scroll within their parent element. For example, it's what I use on this page: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/public-transit
> Needs strong justification.

if animals didn't show problem-solving skills, and thus reasoning, complex ones wouldn't exist anymore by now. Planning is a fundamental skill for survival in a resource-constrained environment and that's how intelligence evolved to begin with.

Assuming that intelligence and by extension reasoning are discrete steps is so backwards to me. They are quite obviously continuously connected all the way back to the first nervous systems.
I think this is interesting, but I think the way Python is described is slightly wrong? In Python, you don't need to define a protocol to support duck typing, you can just implement the same behavior. Protocols don't have a function outside of static typing (they don't influence any program behavior at run-time.)

I guess it depends on whether you consider duck typing to be "passes the static type checker" or "it works the same".
Already seeing: 404 Not Found: Requested route ('ed-public-download.app.cloud.gov') does not exist.
Unfortunately the GDPR is largely toothless if a company without an EU presence chooses to ignore it.

I live in Ireland and my data is in the databases of several US data brokers. Thise conpanies can't be forced to to comply with the GDPR because they simply do not have an EU presence. You don't have to search far to find stories from people people who made complaints to their local Data Protection office about such issues only to be told there's nothing that can be done.
I tried to reimplement Linux’s algorithm in [1], but I cannot be sure about correctness. They adjust the fixed sizes at construction based on device’s total memory, so it varies if a phone or server. This fast trace simulation in the CI [2] may be informative (see DClock). Segmentation is very common, where algorithms differ by how they promote and how/if they adapt the sizes.

[1] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/blob/master/simulator/...

[2] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/actions/runs/130865965...
This is a hostile takeover of US government - by an unelected oligarch.
NetGuard with DROP OUTBOUND policy once again proves helpful. The only app that shows ads that I have on my phone is a PDF scanner, and I don't allow it internet access.
Changed enormously. Both resumes and interviews are effectively useless now. If our AI agents can't find a portfolio of original work nearly exactly what we want to hire you for then you aren't ever going to hear from us. If you are one of the 1 in 4000 applications who gets an interview then you're already 70% likely to get an offer and the interview is mostly a formality.
A lot of people have "autobrightness" on. I'd think brightness doesn't help much here
Somewhat, though various privacy enhancements have made / are making this harder and harder as time has gone on (which is generally good, because it also prevents your ISP / hotel from doing the same thing). Browsers are in a somewhat unique position, where they have detailed knowledge about every request they perform.

E.g. historically you could figure out IP <-> domain name pretty easily by simply watching DNS: cache the IP addresses for each domain as it's looked up, and do a reverse lookup when a request for that IP occurs. DNSSEC / DNS over HTTPS / etc hide that data, so it has to come from other sources (e.g. a remote lookup, bulk cached data, etc) or simply not be known at all.

You could also pull the data from the HTTPS handshake, which has Server Name Indication to support multiple domains behind a single IP address (e.g. hosted in a cloud), if that data exists (single-site static IPs may not have this). But Encrypted Client Hello hides this, so you're back to just IP addresses. (ECH is not very widespread yet AFAIK, but it's growing)

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You can work around much of this if you have your router MITM your traffic, but that's kinda a pain to set up (as it should, it'd be very bad if someone else did it and you didn't notice), and essentially only works with "common" requests (e.g. https) which aren't using certificate pinning (a small number of mobile apps do this, outside that it's more rare AFAICT). You can just block all those of course, but it'll break some things.
Remember when "Battlestar Galactica" spent four seasons telling us that the Cylons had a plan, but it turned out that the writers never had any idea what it actually was?
Java's Synchronized Explained
Head of LessWrong and generally active rationality community leader here. Happy to answer any questions people have. These people haven't been around the community for a long time, but I am happy to answer questions with my best guesses on why they are doing what they are doing.

They've been banned on LW and practically all in-person things for like 5+ years now. My guess is the reason why they hung around the rationality community this much years ago is just that it's a community with much higher openness to people and ideas than normal, especially in the Bay Area. IMO in this instance that was quite bad and they should have been kicked out earlier than they did end up getting kicked out (which was like 4 years ago or so).
I don't understand how that aren't weight classes in football. I was a 185lb center going up against 300lb nose guards in high school and everyone thought that was ok.
I think the "LLM is intelligence" crowd has a very simplistic view of people. If you feel that natural language and the systems responsible it are pretty much the only things that human intelligence produces, then I can see the argument.

But I don't believe that. That a machine that can produce convincing human-language chains of thought says nothing about its "intelligence". Back when basic RNNs/LSTMs were at the forefront of ML research, no one had any delusions about this fact. And just because you can train a token prediction model on all of human knowledge (which the internet is not) doesn't mean the model understands anything.

It's surprising to me that the people most knowledgeable about the models often appear to be the biggest believers - perhaps they're self-interestedly pumping a valuation or are simply obsessed with the idea of building something straight from the science fiction stories they grew up with.

In the end though, the burden of proof is on the believers, not the deniers.
> For an idea to be considered creative, it has to match a very complex... wait for it... pattern.

If we could predefine what would count as creativity as some specific pattern, then I'm not sure that would be what I would call creative, and certainly wouldn't be an all-inclusive definition of creativity. Nor is creativity merely creating something new by perturbing data randomly as you mentioned above.

While LLMs might be capable of some forms of creativity depending on how you define it, I think it remains to be seen how LLMs' current architecture could on its own accomplish the kinds of creativity implicit in scientific progress in the Kuhnian sense of a paradigm shift or in what some describe as a leap of artistic inspiration. Both of these examples highlight the degree to which creativity could be considered both progress in an objective sense but also be something that is not entirely foreshadowed by its precursors or patterns of existing data.

I think there are many senses in which LLMs are not demonstrating creativity in a way that humans can. I'm not sure how an LLM itself could create something new and valuable if it requires predefining an existing pattern which seems to presuppose that we already have the creation in a sense.