skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>who actually do the labor under those people are being paid less

No, that's where you have it backwards they are being paid more. That's the exact reason why they are buying that house when you say "who the fuck can afford that".

Ironically, they are also the ones being exploited the most by the top 1%.

An amazon warehouse sorter will never create or do anything that makes amazon much more money than what they are paid. They get $18/hr for producing $21/hr of value, doing the same static task all day everyday. Amazons "profit margin" on these workers is almost nothing.

The lead cloud architect though gets paid $350k/yr, but can design a single change that will make amazon $30-40 million/yr. The profit margin on them is insane. And they are the ones outbidding everyday people on things, driving up costs.

Back 60 years ago, everyone was much more clumped around the same (lower) income, so the houses where smaller and the prices more amenable to more people.
What typo? The wording looks very intentional, and you chose to retweet it after writing it.
> A star "lasts" about 10 billion years, so you'd expect about 1 in 10 billion stars to 'die' each year, but only a tiny proportion (the very largest) go supernova.

This analysis really doesn't work. Star lifespan is inversely correlated to size. A star large enough to just barely go supernova is only going to live for ~100M years, and as they get bigger, the lifespans fall rapidly.

(Why? Because gravity is what provides the pressure for fusion to happen, and so more gravity means fusion happens faster. For large stars, the luminosity is something like the mass to the 3.5th power. Also, convection works less well for larger stars, so as stars grow bigger, ever smaller proportion of the star takes any part in the fusion reactions in the core.)
Non-citizen residents in the US are required to carry proof of immigration status with them at all times, precisely because of this scenario. Immigration officers/enforcement, in basically every country, have a substantial degree of independent discretion.
The Price of Independence (1989)
You are free to discuss any idea you want. I'm also free to call you an idiot and ask you to leave my house.

Please stop arguing that ideas should be free from criticism.
This is what happens when I don't write for a few years
I guess then I'm showing my age. I was already beginning 40 years of age when 4chan became a thing.
Do you have an example of student being called an antisemite by Aaronson?
Wow, thank you for the explanation. I was taking it literally and had no idea what the parent was talking about.
I loved that book and tried to apply as much as possible to my own kid when she was little, now she's 5 and just lost her first baby tooth, I should probably read that book once again. One good thing about kids is that even if you make mistakes, you get plenty of opportunities to try different approaches and fix things.
TAPNext: Tracking Any Point (Tap) as Next Token Prediction
> It's infuriating that there is a reliance on user reporting to find and report COMPLETELY OBVIOUS fake reviews on Amazon.

Have they removed reviews you report? I've only ever heard of them removing legitimate negative reviews.
I think the relevant question would be, Are the owners of the forum exploiting it effectively?
Most colorblind people are so-called "anamolous trichromats" who have 3 functioning color channels, but one or more has some kind of deficiency. Instead of being completely unable to distinguish UI elements, they might simply take longer at it, or more likely to spend 10 extra minutes hunting for the red key the boss dropped in the grass.

That's more subtle to test.
> Like the people who want to relocate Palestinians from Gaza are, to my knowledge, a minority.

Not sure what "minority" you are talking about, because this is actually unfolding right in front of our eyes over the past 18 months with the backing of the most powerful country on the planet. Talking about this as if its some fringe idea is disingenuous.
I think Scott's take here is fair because he acknowledges that most of the Ivy League did (and largely still does) have huge problems with adequately protecting Jewish students and perspectives, and more broadly, intellectual viewpoint diversity of any kind. And prior administrations did push regulatory and funding requirements and policies to support DEI and other hot point issues to an extent that was clearly agenda biased.

But, as Scott observes, unfortunately the current administration has gone far beyond trying to correct those excesses to a more neutral or balanced median and is, instead, doing the same things (and much worse) that "the other guys" did, just in the opposite direction. That makes the current administration just as wrong as the prior ones were. Only now we're hearing much more about it because the current agenda-driven biases are ones that >85% of academia doesn't hold themselves.
If the quality sucks (or at least doesn't match expectations), return it. Shipping is fast and returns are easy. The vendor takes the consequence of the return. Rarely do I buy product that has subpar quality that I need to return it. Just do your research.

This is why I still buy from Amazon.
Just talking about the reality we face
Manual labor in the US pays far less than any of the above mentioned jobs. That's the alarming part--if we're to transition to manual labor and the wages for these jobs stay the same, then workers will be forced to work harder jobs for less money. I'm not sure why you'd expect this proposition to be popular?
I think the key is to have a sort of risk framework. Things that handle data, are a fire risk or are direct knockoffs avoid.

Otherwise it’s often a good value, and sometimes the “brand” name is really the knockoff with a trademark on the box.

The carburetor on my leaf blower failed and needed a rebuild. The “name brand” kits were $40-60 at Home Depot and Lowe’s. I got some random kit on Amazon that was the same main part, with a different (and better) kit of tubes, etc than the retail one.

Same thing with clothes. I’ve had great luck with workout clothes, my girlfriend did well with dresses and other stuff. Just be smart about it — $10 jeans are gonna be garbage.
The devs involved apparently tried...then MeshCore became a thing.

You can read between the lines here.
That isn’t being validated though. That would involve actually
listening and understanding your problem.
You say that they are "demands". As if the taxpayers should automatically give billions to Harvard, no matter what Harvard does. That's insanity (to me at least).

"Harvard has in recent years failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment."

"The United States has invested in Harvard University’s operations because of the value to the
country of scholarly discovery and academic excellence. But an investment is not an entitlement. "

So basically, they are claiming that the Federal government will not invest money until Harvard gets rid of the communist/socialist rhetoric. As far as I can see, they are free to burn their money to fund communist ideals. Who says that they deserve taxpayers money by default?

It's amazing how communist problems always end with: "you eventually run out of other people's money"
> attacks against academia

None of which Harvard opposed, and Harvard itself scored abysmally in support of (or rather tolerance of) free speech [1]. Harvard is merely engaging in self-defense, not defense of any higher principles.

[1] https://unherd.com/newsroom/harvard-ranked-as-americas-worst...
I literally got a Firewire to USB converter yesterday to try and pull video off a DV Camcorder. A video capture card in the same price range had worked great for letting me stream VHS tapes through OBS Studio.

There are various YouTube videos showing a daisy chain of Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 1/2 adapters connected to various Firewire cables and adapters. I was hoping to avoid all of that but the camera doesn't show at all. Fortunately, nothing seems damaged on either side.

I've only got 6 tapes so I'm sending them off to a service and sending the adapter back to Amazon.
EJamar: A Novel Exergame Controller for Upper Limb Motor Rehabilitation
You can easily put phpMyAdmin behind basic auth as an additional security layer, completely bypassing any PHP execution and letting the web server completely handle the authentication. It's exactly what I have done multiple times in the past. Arguably phpMyAdmin's direct integration is a less secure way of doing it, but do we even know if it's the basic auth itself that was bypassed, or was it just the case of a weak password?
This is just part of the ongoing feud between Sama and Musk.
Nonprofit newsroom Houston Landing to cease operations
Reading books is an instance of doing instead of thinking in many cases :)
> None of which Harvard opposed. Harvard is merely engaging in self-defense, not defense of any higher principles

Weird line, but sure. Whatever. Point is the hypocrisy you imply does not exist.
Why you think so? Keep in mind that revoked certs are not included in CRLs once expired (because they are not valid any more).
'Enough Is Enuf' Review: A Dream of Simpler Spelling
get as many as required, my health is worth more than my opinion on doctors or system as a whole.
I've almost never changed my mind in an online argument but I do regularly offline. Why is that?

I think it's because online nobody acts in good faith. There is no connection and trust.
This is a desired outcome. The WebPKI ecosystem would really like it if everyone stopped depending on them for internal things because it's actually a pretty different set of requirements. Long-lived certs with an internal CA makes a lot of sense and is often more secure than using a public CA.
Infinite Shuffle – exploring the chaos of 52 card combinations
Recently, I read about the number 52! — the mind-blowing fact that a standard deck of 52 cards can be arranged in more ways than there are seconds since the beginning of the universe. It’s a simple concept, but it truly stunned me. If shuffled properly, there’s an incredibly high chance that a specific sequence of cards has never existed before… and may never exist again.

I’d been wanting to build a small side project, so I took on the challenge of creating an ode to randomness and built Infinite Shuffle.

How does it work?
Each time you shuffle, the new sequence is compared to all those that came before, checking how far it matches from the start. How far can we go?

A touch of gamification
To make it a bit more fun (at least for the first few shuffles), I added some gamification — you can see your longest matches and how they compare to others.

I plan to leave this online for as long as I can. Maybe one day there’ll be too many shuffles to support. Maybe it’ll fade quietly into the void, never finding a perfect match. Either way, it was a silly, fun project to build.

Shuffle away!

https://www.infiniteshuffle.net/
Yup, but it's significantly less common than most other forms of cancer.
> It does not work well for SSH. We just don't care about how badly it works.

How "should" it work? Is there a known-better way?
There are a lot of weird comments in this thread but to me this looks like a cool, genuine project which has an obvious need; I don't think the vibes are off at all.

Given that lately I can't even be bothered to write Markdown for my static site I'm looking forward to giving this a try this weekend.
Went to the cinema with my kids for the 2nd time to watch this one, was pleasantly surprised to read this movie was done using Blender, highly recommended.
Private universities, yes. Public colleges can receive the funding that would've otherwise gone to private colleges.
The Future of Human Cinema
FCC head Brendan Carr tells Europe to get on board with Starlink
Well, I guess I'd roll it back to say there have been high profile, widly circulated perceived-to-be-far-left policies pushed or adopted by traditionally not-that-liberal organizations. Like "DEI" in military. It's all over conservative zeitgeist and looks like a massive power creep to them.
If anyone is curious, there are definitely a few stores left with the RadioShack brand, though most if not all of them are independent of any centralized organization: https://www.radioshack.com/locations
I'm 31 this year and it works on me, so...
What do churches have to do with this article or my comment? Do churches receive billions of funding from the government?
Exactly. And most people think, "well, I'm super technical, so I'll know," but that only works for your own field. I can tell if a USB-C charger is genuine or not, but I know that I don't know enough about clothing irons or magazine sleeves or a hundred other items to tell if it's crap or not within the return period. Sometimes, I may never know if I don't try a different one for an extended period of time.
> the reason being to avoid a division by zero exception/crawsh in a mathematical formula

Why don't they just special-case it?
It was obvious enough to the founders of the USA to bake it into our constitution.

US Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8:

> [the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
I am aware of RLHF, and no it doesn’t solve this problem.

There’s a great deal of lesions to be learned from X PB of training data that wouldn’t be covered.
it happens because people really want to participate in the conversation, and that participation is more important to them than making a meaningful point.
>find small perturbations that are undetectable to humans but produce a large change in model behavior.

What artists don't realize by this they are just improving the models relative to human capabilities. The adversarial techniques like, for example making a stop sign look like something else, well likely be weeded out of the model by a convergence of model performance to average or above average human performance.
Why would the people paying for the research not control what it can be spent on? Letting the people who spend the money decide is typically not a good system.
> they are claiming that the Federal government will not invest money until Harvard gets rid of the communist/socialist rhetoric

They're changing the terms of the trade after a contract was signed. At the very least, this is the U.S. defaulting on commitments.

That said, I broadly agree with you--the U.S. shouldn't be funding Harvard. And the public shouldn't have a say--or continuing economic stake, the way we do with publicly-funded research--in what Harvard does and produces.
This is the method I use at work, feels right, puts the team first.
Caddy works just fine in ChromeOS' OOTB Linux VM. Crostini has chipped away at most dev mode use-cases.
> The main advantages of having a boundary is that you can have the best representation of data for each side's logic, converting only when needs.

RSC doesn't impede this. In fact it improves it. Instead of having your ORM's objects, to be converted to JSON, sent, parsed, and finally manipulated to your UIs needs, you skip the whole "convert to JSON" part. You can go straight from your ORM objects (best for data operations) to UI (best for rendering) and skip having to think about how the heck you'll serialize this to be serialized over the wire.

> With JSX on the server side, it's abstraction when there's no need to be. And in the wrong place to boot.

JSX is syntactic sugar for a specific format of JavaScript object. It's a pretty simple format really. From ReactJSXElement.js, L242 [1]:

element = {
// This tag allows us to uniquely identify this as a React Element
$$typeof: REACT_ELEMENT_TYPE,

// Built-in properties that belong on the element
type,
key,
ref,

props,
};

As far as I'm aware, TC39 hasn't yet specified which shape of literal is "ok" and which one is "wrong" to run on a computer, depending on wether that computer has a screen or not. I imagine this is why V8, JSC and SpiderMonkey, etc let you create objects of any shape you want on any environment. I don't understand what's wrong about using this shape on the server.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/e71d4205aed6c41b88e36...
Believe me, I'm not a fan of dystopian prison islands. However, my consistent position has been the risks of the legal machinery itself and its potential for abuse. Now I'm being vindicated and it sucks, and everyone still seems to be upset that the expansive laws they like are now being used in ways they don't like and didn't expect (cue world's tiniest violin).

What's interesting is how much of a grey area that the due process question is. Non-citizens may or may not actually legally merit due process, and to whatever degree they might, they only merit it while "within" the "jurisdiction" of the US. And as far as I can tell, that 'grey area' of how the 14th amendment is read, plus the alien enemies act, is probably legally enough to justify this - and we also have all kinds of exceptions for dealing with "terrorists" (thanks, Obama).

Lets also not forget how much legal precedent Guantanamo provides when dealing with non-citizen (or even US Citizen!) "terrorists".

I don't think you've been specific about any other laws - just a couple of guesses about 'probably violating' things.
>So would you say changing one's mind is a case where one seeks a different religion

I have no idea what you mean by this. I explained in detail what changing one's mind entails. It has nothing to do with "irrefutable" or deeply held convictions.

You have a nonstandard definition of belief.

First of all, "I don't know" is absolutely a state of acceptance. It is acceptance that the information is not fully reliable. Most things are unknowable; the vast majority of held beliefs are not arrived at through irrefutable logic but by simple trust in consensus. I believe that certain food is nutritious, even though I have not run tests on it myself. Data might arise later showing my beliefs to be false; that is why I assign probabilities to my beliefs, rather than certainties.

Second of all, your fallback to a dictionary definition is flawed in two ways. The first is that various definitions of "belief" exist; one of which (from https://www.wordnik.com/words/belief) is "Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence." (emphasis added) Another definition given is "A conviction of the truth of a given proposition or an alleged fact, resting upon grounds insufficient to constitute positive knowledge."

The second way this argument is flawed is that dictionaries are descriptive tools, not prescriptive. That is to say, dictionaries are not arbiters of truth in language but merely reference documents for possible meaning, and where they differ from common usage, it is the dictionary that is incorrect.
> only state-operated universities should get government funding

Yes.

> Furthermore, none of this has to do with an ideological take on "private universities and public funds". This is about Trump controlling the speech and behavior of every institution he can, through defunding and through blackmail.

That is bad too, yes.
You should check Eugene Volokh's space ( https://reason.com/volokh/ ).

I would reply with the point made by the Supreme Court of the USA, that the "courts cannot interfere with prerogatives of the executive branch". Which of course leaves big questions about power and apparent abuse of the same, and about what cynics call "collaterals".

One detail in clearer terms: if «federal courts [had] no authority to direct the Executive Branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way», where lies the responsibility of the State towards its victims?
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Comcast and Spirit both run their business on NOT solving problems.
> I wouldn't mind that so much, except they're minimally-active in the comment section and instead use flagging. At least defend your beliefs.

From what I see, even good comments with facts and sources that go against the prevalent narrative are either downvoted or flagged a good chunk of the time, which discourages people from commenting(as it's meant to be) because of lack of visibility. It can also make the commenters unable to post comments for hours because HN's rate limiter kicks in, so they are effectively silenced.

Also, many times they're attacked personally and those comments violating HN's etiquette are not downvoted or flagged. Not to mention very low quality Redditesque are also not downvoted or flagged, but are upvoted, which lowers the quality of HN as a whole.
> By training a model on a copyrighted work, you can launder that work into your own new work, and make money from it without sharing that money with the original artists.

Not sure if "you" refers to model developers, hosting company or end users. But let's see each one of them in turn

- model development is a cost center, there is no profit yet

- model deployment brings little profit, they make cents per million tokens

- applying the model to your own needs - that is where the benefit goes.

So my theory is that benefits follow the problem, it is in the application layer. Have a need, you can benefit from AI, don't need it, no benefit. Like Linux. You got to use it for something. And that usage, that problem - is personal. You can't sell your problems, they remain yours. It is hard to quantify how people benefit from AI, it could be for fun, for learning, professional use, or for therapy.

Most gen-AI usage is seen by one person exactly once. Think about that. It's not commercial, it's more like augmented imagination. Who's gonna pay for AI generated stuff when it is so easy to make your own.
you get as many as required. it's your health, not your car where you can simply replace it. It's very difficult to recover from medical error.
A few people have implemented file transfers over Meshtastic. I believe there's a repo out there with Zmodem over Meshtastic.
I believe there is a project (not sure if it’s active) called JSX2 that treated this as exact problem as a first class concern. It was pretty fast too. Emulated the React API for the time quite well. This was 4-5 years ago at least
Not the OP, but I believe very strongly that once an idea has been expressed it should be free for others to build upon and share. That's how ideas work, naturally.

All of human culture is derivative. The current legal regime stifles human expression and makes it impossible for creations to ever be shared in a reasonable human timescale.

To state it in an arguably hyperbolic manner: The "moneyed interests" you're railing against exist because of the current scheme of "intellectual property". They reap virtually all the benefits of human intellectual toil in the system already. Wiping away their stranglehold on the market would be a good thing for creators. Taking away the legal framework their existence is predicated upon would do that.

The copyright industry's influence on social norms, including the massive shift of the social contract in favor of their interests ( functionally infinite copyright terms, attacks of fair use, plundering the public domain to sell it back, works being lost forever because they are "orphaned", etc), all seems natural to you because they want it to be that way. The concept of someone "owning" an idea, which seems perfectly normal to you, was taught to you by people who want the world to be that way, not because it's some natural law. You've been conditioned to believe it your entire life.

I would prefer a fairer system to burning it all down, but the needle has moved so far away from fair that burning it all down seems pretty satisfying.