skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid, this pattern of over-purchasing video games was very rare. When you had to go to the store and buy a game, it was very uncommon for people to buy a ton of games and then never get around to playing most of them. Even when the stores had discount bins, people would usually buy just a handful at a time and then play them until boredom (or frustration) before going back to the store. The one exception I can think of is when buying those CDs that came packed with dozens of old games from years ago, e.g. shovelware, when you hardly even knew what you were getting when you got the CD.

Also today, with gaming consoles, Nintendo's platforms, and similar, I don't think the pattern of buying lots of games and then never playing most of them happens very often.

What I'm saying is this pattern has something to do with the way Steam is structured, it's not an intrinsic property of game consumers which occurs with any kind of games store.
But, Dadaism, for instance, was a far left movement. Its followers, were people that held radical or even far left views. [1]

Marxism is really a cancer that destroys everything it touches. Its final aim was always to destroy everything that is beautiful, elevated or pure about mankind, and we, as a society, have been sponsoring it with our taxpayer money that pays for the self anointed gatekeepers of intellectualism that populate a big part of our Academia - that is to say, all Academia that doesn't get judged by the outcomes of their ideas when applied in practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
The key and value vectors are cached, that's kind of the whole point of autoregressive transformer models, the "state" not only survives within the KV cache but, in some sense, grows continuously with each token added, and is reused for each subsequent token.
as much as i like a better 'C' language, it is hard to use them.
so many things have been done in C and you find everything in the net you would ever like to use. Using a better 'C' places you on that strange island where no one hears you cry. Using C3 in a company places you in a place where only you can understand the code.
I too maintain an older thinkpad! i want to say T430 so probably not as old, maybe got in 2012 or so? In any case, I have replaced: the screen, the battery, the power button (3D printed), the hard drive, the RAM, and the entire internal fan /cooling structure, and probably some more things I've forgotten. Why? Well it's all been over the years. But 1) because you can! like this post describes. Also: it's been nice to have a windows system around that I can remote into for certain tasks that are difficult or impossible on linux, like using the adobe suite. The last time something broke (the fan) I looked up how much a used T430 costs on ebay (~$40-$50) and buying a new fan was still cheaper. So I fixed it. It's been like that every time and it's still here.
Took long enough. This was a long time coming.
The user already has to explicitly "install" a PWA on iOS. See
dfabulich's comment in this same thread for how overly complicated and convoluted that process is currently. So there's a pretty good argument that installing a PWA actually require much, much MORE intent than a native app from the app store.

Similarly, the user needs to consent to notifications (among other things) just as they do for native apps.
<< Capital knows no borders

Those statements are offered as truism ( and they do sound true enough ),but are they anything more than a hopeful assertion? I won't go into too many details, but I think it is not exactly axiomatic. It may be have been 99% accurate in the post-world war new world order, but, needless to say, that has shifted.

We can argue over whether it is a temporary pit stop or a longer term change that is likely to remain its place, but 'capital knows no borders' has its place along other otherwise useful phrases such as 'bet you bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun'. As in, sure, but it is more of an expression of our wants, not an if/then scenario.
All that is correct, but I think you missed the point the other poster was making. What if, instead of blundering about stupidly, the goal is to cause as much chaos as possible in order to consolidate political power?
> In this world, asking "who did you vote for" isn't a matter of tribalism, but it is a (good) proxy for asking someone "what are your values".

I strongly disagree. In this duopoly of a political system, most people on both sides are just picking the lesser of two evils. Meanwhile, we are creating an alarmingly decisive political society by choosing not to associate with those who vote differently than us. Perhaps most importantly, we lose the opportunity to actually shift the political positions of others (and ourselves) by not engaging in healthy and non-judgmental political discussions with our friends and neighbors, ultimately increasing polarization even further.

Not everyone is voting based on their values—some are simply voting their wallets or the special interests they align with. Someone who is pro-choice, pro-LGBT, and pro-immigration may very well vote Republican because they work in the US Automotive industry, and so do their friends and families and people who they care most about. It doesn’t necessarily mean their core values are different than yours, but instead maybe simply just their priorities.
This is the kind of side debates you get by framing it as “low-skill” versus “high-skill”. Whether the “~20% of the ability” curve should help the poors from their apparent attraction to demagogues.
You say "backend" but I'm guessing you're not talking about modern cloud infrastructure work, the complexity at which I (as a frontend person) scream in similar abject horror.
1. Not all workers are fungible. Your average 30th percentile individual =/= the person progressing your biotech industry. Would they be more beneficial to the economy working in a customer service job, or in a factory?

2. It's very hard to be a powerhouse of innovation if you don't vertically integrate. China has taught us this. You can't split out the gritty part (manufacturing) from the fun part (invention) of technological innovation and win in the long run.
Notice that I said both parties do it.
Did an LLM help write Trump's trade plan? Probably yes
> the parties policies are aiming to realize fundamentally different visions of the world, based on fundamentally different values

This is an incorrect and cynical statement. I understand why you feel this way (for one thing, it's the exact type of language coming out of many of each party's idealists) but it's simply false.

One party supports gun rights while the other supports gun control. Those aren't values. Democrats want to pursue safety from guns. Republicans want to pursue safety from tyranny. Both sides care about personal safety.

Abortion rights is about personal liberty. Gun rights are also about personal liberty. Both sides care about personal liberty.

The competing talking points aren't always conveniently about the same issue though. For Democrats their border policies are about compassion and human rights. For Republicans their border policies are about domestic prosperity.

Do Republicans care about human rights? Yes. Do Democrats care about domestic prosperity? Yes. To pretend otherwise is to willfully push apart the tribes in your own mind, and to trivialize the perspective of the opposition.

The real problem is the one you are contributing to: the unwillingness to empathize. Empathy is the only way to come to a compromise. With a little empathy you might even find that you have to compromise less because you might actually convince someone of your argument, for once.
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Ah yes, I should have phrased this differently. You’re 100% right.
From what I've understood from that chart, the "percentage" is just a difference between imports/exports with the USA. It's not actual tariffs in place by Tunisia ON USA goods. Am I right/wrong ?

Or is Tunisia tariffing the hell out of US Olive Oil in order to protect their local production base
I don't see that happening. As a matter of fact, I see staples such as flour going down in price.

That is a stated goal of the administration.

As of the time of this writing WTI is down nearly 7%. Expected, goal seeked and by design.
Your first sentence is a non-sequitur. The fact that we can't explain human behavior does not mean that our minds are more than mathematics.

While absence of proof is not proof of absence, as far as I know, we have not found a physics process in the brain that is not computable in principle.
If these tariffs continue for 30 years, it's hard to know if we'd still be the largest single market in the world.
yeah, it did
Effectively we'd need to feed back the instances of the context window where it makes a mistake and note that somehow. Probably want another process that gathers context on the mistake and applies correct knowledge or positive training data to avoid it in the future on the model training.

Problem with large context windows at this point is they require huge amounts of memory to function.
I agree. But massive changes in scale or leverage can undermine this type of principled stand.

One death is a murder; 100k deaths is a war or a pandemic. One piece of chewing gum on the ground will get you a caning in Singapore; when everyone does it, that's NYC.

Up until now, one had to have some level of graphical or artistic skills to do this, but not anymore. Again, I agree that it attaches to the human...but we now have many more humans to attach it to.
Sorry, who is saying that this will make things cheaper? I haven’t seen Trump or Vance argue this.
Class warfare is as old as time. It's your mistake to wave aside human nature.
I think to an extent they're already laying the rhetorical groundwork for all of this, for the day they need it. AI safety, distillation is "unfair". I expect they will try to avoid it being purely about copyright so as to not be seen as hypocrites, but frame it in a more convoluted manner.
http://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports/tunisia

and imports:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/tunisia
Just to make the claim clearer: it can't matter what the authentication mechanism is.

If a Privacy Pass token is needed for access to your email, then redeeming the token tells the service you (the client) can access your email. That's identified you.
Which is one of the reasons the countries with high tariffs have had worse economy overall and specifically much worse than the US economy. The higher your tariffs the worse the protected industry and the whole economy.
> I don't know enough about the Palestine/Israel conflict to be able to make an informed opinion on it, so I won't comment on that.

Wise, given the guilt & political climate. But, see also:

Progressive except Palestine (also known as PEP) is a phrase that refers to organizations or individuals who describe themselves politically as progressive, liberal, or left-wing but who do not express pro-Palestinian sentiment or do not comment on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_except_Palestine
Don't worry, the lawsuit will name a corporation that made it, not the AI tool.
I feel like its missing a point for "In C3 but not in Jai": you can actually download and use C3...
I just wished Obsidian, Session (a Signal fork without metadata), and/or MEGA had a multiplatform bookmarks paid zero-knowledge sync service with the option of FOSS self-hosting.
What should instead happen is that Chrome should stop sending as much of a fingerprint, so that sites won't be able to fingerprint. That won't happen, since it's against Google's interests.
About everything can be modelled with large enough Markov Chain, but I'd say stateless autoregressive models like LLMs are a lot easier analyzed as Markov Chains than recurrent systems with very complex internal states like humans.
The person receiving the pointy end of a spear doesn't much care whether you explicitly chose to stab him or whether you stabbed him because you are following your tribe.
How do you control for changes in the host os environment that would affect performance of the system being observed?
And honestly, you should have been downvoted for calling them "low-information" voters. Not only is it condescending, you simply discounted them for being part of the "other" party. Perhaps they are very informed - maybe much more than you regarding the deficit, the economy, their frustrations, etc.

It is great to have a spirited debate, but to call people derogatory names simply because they don't share your viewpoint is the wrong path to take.
Agreed, I still think your lying. Thank you as well.
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They use Zero Trust security :-)
Anecdotally it’s the triple whammy of depression/anxiety, social isolation, and scarcity/precarity.

The precariousness I think is more of a factor as the long term poor have still managed to survive historically. The randomness and changing social safety nets and possibility of needing to migrate to survive is probably a big factor.

It feels like we’re all bracing for the end of the world all the time.

Procreation (or lack of it) is voting “no candidate”. It’s the only control anyone has over their life today.
I just hope they don't shut off APIs intentionally breaking stuff that works.
I have had full-color painted rooms in one home or another for >20 years and have yet to get tired of it. I like having the color saturation turned up high. You have your taste, but it's not objectively correct in any way.
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> It's just doing what many human artists would do, if they're not explicitly being paid to create new IP.

It isn’t an independent human. It is a service paid for by customers. The moment it provides the image to a paying user, the image has thus been used commercially.

In fact, the user may not even necessarily have to be paying in order to infringe copyright.

And besides, even amateur artists are ashamed to produce copies unless they are demonstrating mastery of technique or expressing adoration. And if it happens spontaneously, they are then frustrated and try to defend themselves by claiming to never have even experienced the original material. (As happens with simplistic, but popular musical riffs.) But AI explicitly is trained on every material it can get its hands on and so cannot make such a defense.
The US isn't going to lift a finger unless it's associated with China.
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Jake awakens in a silent, futuristic city with no memory of his past, meets a mysterious woman named Mandy who guides him to discover his identity and the existence of multiple worlds.
The US outsourced to China because of cheap labor, not because Chinese products are good--precisely because US companies were competing with each other and needed ways to reduce prices and improve margins.

That this ultimately had the effect of diminishing the manufacturing base in the US doesn't speak to the ability of US or Chinese companies to compete.

China is a centrally planned economy. To argue it's more competitive than the US is again not tenable.
> When they started integrating this tool on some trial candidates they found SO many inconsistencies between environments: server settings differences, extraneous or missing indexes, vestigial "temp" tables created during previous migrations, enum tables that should be static with extra or missing rows, etc, etc. All the environment differences meant that deployments had to be manual in the past. Once they got through the initial pain of syncing up the environments the whole department got way more efficient.

That was exactly our experience too.

Perhaps we didn't highlight enough in the blog post that schema diff was not meant to replace manual review. It simply provided a good starting point for us to iterate on the migration, which often boosts efficiency.
Yes, and sites are doing this and it absolutely sucks because it's not reliable and blocks everyone who isn't using the latest Chrome on the latest Windows. Please don't whitelist TLS fingerprints unless you're actually under attack right now.
So which language do you use then? I've never seen a language that doesn't have bad things to say about other languages. Zig bdfl himself accused vlang of committing fraud a while back.

Every language designer takes things they like about some languages and leaves things they don't like.
We'll see. I don't see any real path to the improvements you expect, but time will tell.
I think this, more than anything else, has been the real issue ( and I even think there was a recent Marketwatch article that basically said the same thing ): 'erratic decision making process'. There is an argument to be made about the direction of the policy, but the crazy back and forth, where it is not entirely clear 'who/how/why' and so on that people who do have to make decisions about future moves are left guessing. No one likes uncertainty.
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> very real national problems that this might address.

This is a dubious claim to begin with. If you believe that 'trade deficits are bad,' can you explain why? Post Covid, the US economy has emerged in significantly better shape than nearly every other country in the world, so I'm failing to see how these deficits are meaningful.

> Globalization has played a big role in creating the massive income inequality in our country

What is your source for this belief, especially when comparing globalization with other factors that cause inequality? From my understanding, the biggest recent contributors to a higher cost of living in the US are housing, health, and education. Health and education purely services-oriented, and housing is one-third a labor cost.

> our society as such is biased heavily toward importing goods rather than exporting goods

I think that's great. America exports services. We innovate to create new technology, are a leader in designing the things and systems that people want (think of our tech industry), and we delegate the work of manufacturing to others. That seems fine to me, and a function of having (relatively) open, free trade.
>AlphaGo Zero mastered Go from scratch, beating professional players with moves it was never trained on

Thats all well and good, but it was tuned with enough parameters to learn via reinforcement learning[0]. I think The Register went further and got better clarification about how it worked[1]

>During training, it sits on each side of the table: two instances of the same software face off against each other. A match starts with the game's black and white stones scattered on the board, placed following a random set of moves from their starting positions. The two computer players are given the list of moves that led to the positions of the stones on the grid, and then are each told to come up with multiple chains of next moves along with estimates of the probability they will win by following through each chain.

While I also find it interesting that in both of these instances, its all referenced to as machine learning, not AI, its also important to see that even though what AlphaGo Zero did was quite awesome and a step forward in using compute for more complex tasks, it was still seeded the basics of information - the rules of Go - and simply patterned matched against itself until built up enough of a statistical model to determine the best moves to make in any given situation during a game.

Which isn't the same thing as showing generalized reasoning. It could not, then, take this information and apply it to another situation.

They did show the self reinforcement techniques worked well though, and used them for Chess and Shogi to great success as I recall, but thats a validation of the technique, not that it could generalize knowledge.

>That's an engineering decision, not a fundamental limitation

So you're saying that they can't reason about independently?

[0]: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphago-zero-starting-...

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2017/10/18/deepminds_latest_alph...
What would “think” mean? Processed the prompt? Or just accessed the part of the model where the weights are? This is a bit persudo science
Check out The hardware lottery [1], which drove a lot of discussion a few years ago.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489
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I don't understand. What do you mean?
The problem with boot security is that the computer has no way to know its owner from someone who isn't its owner. All it can go on is who was there first. Which, you guessed it, was Lenovo.

I have no problem with secure boot as a concept but I don't know how to implement it so it can't be used to lock you out of your own computer. And an implementation which allows that is worse than no implementation.
And Osram [0] means "I shit all over it"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osram
People have been predicting the singularity to occur sometimes around 2030 and 2045 waaaay further back then 2015. And not just by enthusiasts, I dimly remember an interview with Richard Darkins from back in the day...

Though that doesn't mean that the current version of language models will ever achieve AGI, and I sincerely doubt they will.
They'll likely be a component in the AI, but likely not the thing that "drives"
1. Why would you make trade with allies harder?

2. Have you seen what the current US administrations is doing to allies at the moment? (the million threats to Greenland/Denmark, Canada, etc).
> It's not getting "better." It always just copied. That's all it /can/ do

That's true of all the best artists ever.

> They're just there to whitewash away liability from blatantly stealing someone else's content.

That's because that's not a thing. Ownership of "content" is a legal fiction invented to give states more control over creativity. Nobody who copies bytes which represent my music is a "thief". To be a thief, they'd need to, you know, come to my house and steal something.

When someone copies or remixes my music, I'm often not even aware that it has occurred. It's hard to imagine how that can be cast as genuine theft.
This is how things often goes. "Oh those aren't actually rights."

You can think this, I suppose. But let me tell you that a very large number of LGBT people do consider these things to be questions of their basic rights.
> It's when the output is used commercially -- by a human -- that the liability should rightfully attach.

I am paying OpenAI. So they are producing these copyrighted works and giving them to me for their own commercial benefit. Normally that's illegal. But somehow not when you're just doing it en masse.
Missing so many languages.

I mean, it's fun, but it's missing at least these:

Z80, 6502, M68K, sh, csh, fexl, snafl, algol, PL/1, Z, C99, ForTran99, ...

It recognises bash but not sh or csh.

Still, a bit of fun.
I appreciate your frustration, dumbledoren. Your comment speaks to perspectives I could expect to face in another country - thank you.

I can only say my personal intent isn't that. I live a simple life. My family has a small, old home. We garden, grow our own food, and are respectful to our environment.

I prioritize supporting small, local businesses.

I wouldn't want to parachute into another country acting as though I Know Better™ and bringing my "American sensibilities" to another country.

If I were to leave the US, I see myself entering another country, hat in hand, knowing fully I'm not better or special, and it's my job to adapt and to respect the culture and country.