skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tell me about other strongly-held positions you’ve changed as the result of a discussion like this one…

Fair point, but if somebody were actually to say that to me during a disagreement, I would assume that they were not acting in good faith.

Now instead of disagreeing about politics or whatever, you're asking a rhetorical question that insinuates "you are unreasonable."
I quite like this. The 'auto label' implementation seems to work well (better than others I've tried). The UI is dense too, fitting lots of emails on screen at once.

Email is a funny thing. The UI (a list of subjects, senders, and dates) has barely changed in decades. And even now when AI is being added, the inbox UI remains the same. I'm not sure what I'd change but I find it surprising how little innovation there has been in that area.

As nice as this product is, I still wish Google would bring back Inbox. They created something really great and scrapped it for no good reason.
The source is the Daily Nous - for professional philosophers.

Moreover, it explains who this person is - a student («a philosophy major at Columbia University who is due to graduate later this semester»).
Everybody with a phone has SMS baked in. SMS also has a recovery process if you drop your phone in the toilet. Ultimately, this improved user experience outweighs the security benefit to TOTP for many organizations.

TOTP also doesn't stop the biggest threat that SMS faces: phishing. Saving you from sim-swap attacks is just not a particular huge increase in security posture.

My bank at least offers TOTP as an option, but the huge majority of people are going to enroll with SMS.
churches don't get billions annually in government funding, they are treated like any other charity in terms of donations
> the dogmatic belief that the State of Israel (and only Israel, among all nations on earth) should be eradicated

Attributing this to people you disagree with on the issue is a telltale sign of bad faith.

But nevertheless, nice to still see him speaking out, and in general he does sometimes discuss opposing views in a bit better faith.
The world doesn't owe you a business model. It's not work if someone doesn't value it, just like a street performer isn't working just because they're putting on a show.

If people can't make money without the government enforcing artificial scarcity of their output, they can always chose another business model.
pgdog represents maybe just the VTGate portion of Vitess. There's a whole lot more to Vitess or any replication-on-top of a database type service than just the query router.
My prediction is on track to this and this was made only 4 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42368951
Yeah, I don't disagree. No idea what Musk's deal is, but he's pretty messed up. He evidently lacks the slightest regard for how his words and actions play out in history.
It is the bipartisan innovation in pro-Zionist legal tools, from the "war on terror" to last year's attacks on student protesters, that has eroded our constitutional safeguards to the point that a legitimate autocratic coup is being attempted.
Please accept my critique to Smithsonian Mag made in good faith: never use the word 'mysterious' [a nod to the magical thinking] in a science context. Really looks like CNN-ish dark pattern. The URL slug has a better word choice:

7000-year-old-skeletons-from-the-green-sahara-reveal-a-previously-unknown-human-lineage-
Just checked my bottle of Marmite and it says "fortified with B vitamins". Odd that it should be OK in Canada when Vegemite isn't?
Are you sure you mean "stealing"? As in deprive him of his own recordings?

I am curious if anyone read Harry Potter in bootleg form from a LLM. I mean, LLMs are the worst tools for infringing - they are approximate, expensive and slow, while copying is instant, perfect and free. You can apply the same logic for other modalities.

Moreover, who's got the time to see someone else's AI shit when they can generate their own, perfectly customized to their liking? I personally generated a song about my cat and kid. It had zero commercial value but was fun for 2-3 people to listen.
I visited California last summer and even the most basic 2-star motels — like on the outskirts of San Diego — were going for over $300 a night. Nothing fancy, just clean sheets and a door.

I think a big part of the drop in European tourism is simple: the U.S. has gotten insanely expensive.

Between hotels, food, transportation, and tipping culture, the cost adds up fast. For many travelers, it’s not about politics or safety. It’s just not worth the price.
The short answer is that for a company like Ubisoft or EA, big blockbusters are much more reliable and more profitable than indie games. Not that smaller games can’t do amazingly well, but most don’t make a profit, and the risk doesn’t justify the expenditure for that kind of company.

Also, like another poster mentioned, there already exists a host of creativity in these AAA companies, that’s not the problem. The problem is making something that will reliably keep the company in the black.
Is that the four letter domain PG recently tweeted about? Congrats!
Written in Pike, interesting.
Is this an example of "one strawman deserves another"? You know that when GP talked about "presenting a viewpoint", he didn't mean "as an example of a bad idea that nobody should believe". He meant he wants alt-right talking points parroted to everyone because he's upset that reality has a liberal bias. You know this. You also know that I'm not suggesting outlawing the discussion of slavery in its historical context, but simply saying that universities have no obligation to make a case for failed and abhorrent ideas in the name of "diverse viewpoints". Why are you pretending like you don't know this already?
Hey yeah so obviously the only other real alternative is Unix. MacOS is on the roadmap, but we decided to start with Windows since the vast majority of enterprise or commercial applications require windows (e.g. ERP, EHR, Claims Processing etc). MacOS meanwhile is often used for more creative tasks (e.g. design, engineering) rather than automation.

On the Linux side, they do have 2/3rds of the market share server-side, but there are fewer agentic usecases there.
What's the big difference between `unsafe` and `as` regarding explicit labelling? Both are opt-in and explicit. As the user of a function, you don't see either from the outside. If you don't like `as`, it's fine to use a linter to disallow it.
Agree and disagree,

Deciding on how to store the credentials is still a hard task. Even storing the secret. Ideally it shouldn't stay as a plain text in your database. If you use cloud, something like KMS can be used for additional security. Also you should still consider replay attacks, rate limits etc.

I agree in the sense that TOTP is hard to implement, no it is not. I hope this article helped people understand how TOTP works.
The main thing that confuses me is that this seems to be PHP implemented in React...and talks about how to render the first page without a waterfall and all that makes sense, but the main issue with PHP was that reactivity was much harder. I didnt see / I dont understand how this deals with that.

When you have a post with a like button and the user presses the like button, how do the like button props update? I assume that it would be a REST request to update the like model. You could make the like button refetch the like view model when the button is clicked, but then how do you tie that back to all the other UI elements that need to update as a result? E.g. what if the UI designer wants to put a highlight around posts which have been liked?

On the server, you've already lost the state of the client after that first render, so doing some sort of reverse dependency trail seems fragile. So the only option would be to have the client do it, but then you're back to the waterfall (unless you somehow know the entire state of the client on the server for the server to be able to fully re-render the sub-tree, and what if multiple separate subtrees are involved in this?). I suppose that it is do-able if there exists NO client side state, but it still seems difficult. Am I missing something?
yeah I can't quite place if this is sinister souless or unfortunate souless - there's no AI or blockchain or obvious monetization - but the vibes are definitely off.
I imagine step 1 will be figuring out a way to reverse entropy?
to be fair this post is enormous. if i were to try and print it on 8.5x11 it comes out to 71 pages
The year of the true Linux phone is near!
He told Time (POTY interview) that because Congress didn't fund his wall idea and he had to take it from the military, he was going to do everything through executive action.
They're downvoting it because it feels bad. And well, it does! This sucks major ass.

Part of me is sympathetic to them because a lot of these people are people who live privileged lives and have never before been in any political pressure. These people have previously been able to just detach from politics because they knew, no matter what, they would end up on top. And now, that assumption is no longer true and they have the enter a world that a variety of minority groups have already been living in. They have to face the reality that politics isn't just something on the TV, but something that affects their lives.
Glad Harvard finally decided attacks against academia have gone too far. It wasn't too far when scientists were forced to make an ideological oath to diversity to get hired [1,2], when they were hired primarily based on adherence to that ideology [3,4,5], when they were told by major scientific publications to avoid or simply not publish studies that might question that ideology [6,7], when they disavowed studies based solely on them being used to criticize favored causes [8], when papers were rejected if their results went against the liberal worldview, but methodologically-identical papers with pro-liberal results were accepted [9], or when scientists were barred from accessing taxpayer-funded data if there was a risk their research might harm the dominant ideology [10].

It was too far - a crisis! - when Harvard disagreed with the attackers, when the attackers were outsiders.

[1] Required ‘diversity and inclusion’ statements amount to a political litmus test for hiring - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universitys-new-loyalty-oat...

[2] Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs - https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/11/11/study-diversity-...

[3] Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...

[4] A recent report from the Goldwater Institute found that 80% of job postings for Arizona’s public universities required applicants to submit a statement detailing their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. - https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-report/the-new-loy...

[5] Mathematicians divided over faculty hiring practices that require proof of efforts to promote diversity - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/mathematicians-divid...

[6] Science Must Not Be Used to Foster White Supremacy - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-must-not-...

[7] Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2

[8] I Cited Their Study, So They Disavowed It - https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-cited-their-study-so-they-dis...

[9] Human subjects review, personal values, and the regulation of social science research. - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1986-12806-001

[10] The National Institutes of Health now blocks access to an important database if it thinks a scientist’s research may enter “forbidden” territory. - https://www.city-journal.org/nih-blocks-access-to-genetics-d...
>LLM’s etc can’t do that under current methodology

I hate to give a smarmy result, but are you sure you know what RLHF is? Because this is one way to correct said data.
> brave students protested it, at a great personal risk while being slandered as "antisemites" by individuals like Scott Aaronson

Do you have an example?

Israel-Palestine is a nuanced ground truth that has been ridiculously oversimplified in American discourse. "Pro Israel" covers folks who want to kill every Palestinian and annex their land to those who just don't want kids slaughtered at raves. "Pro Palestine" covers people who want the basic human dignity of an ancient people respected, through those who want to destroy Israel as a nation-state, all the way over to full-blown racists who hate Jews (or anyone with European heritage).
> only had traffic violations according to what I read in the Texas Tribune

I don't think that is true. Do you have any examples?
Thanks for the kind words, joelio182! Glad you see the value in making SSL more practical for real-world domain shift issues.

As liopeer mentioned, we have results for medical (DeepLesion) and agriculture (DeepWeeds) in the blog post. We haven't published specific benchmarks on satellite or industrial inspection data yet, but those are definitely the kinds of niche domains where pretraining on specific unlabeled data should yield significant benefits. We're keen to explore more areas like these.

Our goal is exactly what you pointed out - bridging the gap between SSL research and practical application where labels are scarce. Appreciate the encouragement!
> It's always going to be cheaper to make things in places where labor costs and environmental responsibility expectations are low.

Yeah, offshoring was mostly about driving down costs by laundering labor and environmental law.
Especially as even being baselessly accused of antisemitism carries very real chance for ruining careers and reputations.
In other words, (for instance) you believe in the right of massive corporations who control the lion's share of consumer distribution channels to, on an ongoing basis, scrape all authored content that is made publicly available in any form (paid or not) and sell it in a heavily discounted form, without the permission of authors and other rights holders and with no compensation to them, while freezing out the "official" published versions from their distribution channels entirely. More generally, you believe that creators should create for free, and that massive moneyed and powerful interests should reap the profits, even while those same creators toil in the mines to support their passions which do evidently have real value, though it is denied to them.

You think this will make the world better? For whom? Or worse, for whom? Or you place the highest importance on having a maximalist viewpoint that simply cannot be argued with, because being unassailably right in an abstract rhetorical framing is most important to you? Or you crave the elegance of such a position, reality and utility notwithstanding? Or you feel the need to rationalize your otherwise unfounded "belief" that piracy and/or training AI on protected IP should be allowed because you like it and are involved with it yourself? Or you think ASI is going to completely transform the world tomorrow, and whether we get Culture-style luxury gay space communism or something far darker, none of this will matter so we should eat, drink, and be merry today? Or some hybrid of that and a belief that we should actively strive toward and enable such a transition, and IP law stands in its way?

What is it? I've seen some version of all of these and frankly they are all childish nonsense (usually espoused by actual children). Are you a new species?
When would you reach for it?
There is dust between us and most stars in the Milky Way that blocks them from view in visible light. Therefore we can only see a fraction of the supernovae in the Milky Way.

It is substantially easier for us to see supernovae in other galaxies that we're not facing edge-on. And we have a large sample size of such galaxies. That's why our best estimates of supernovae frequency are based on observations of such galaxies, and not on our observations of the Milky Way.
What does Hilary Clinton have to do with this?
It's possible! What was the tweet?
Kind of reminds me of the system we used in my band in the 90s: The person who brought the initial idea to the band gets to be first. After that, it was based on importance of contributions as determined by myself as the benign dictator, but if I contributed, my name always came last (unless I was the one who brought the idea to the band).
The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing
> Attributing this to people you disagree with on the issue is a telltale sign of bad faith

I've been in rooms in New York with very smart people who argued exactly this. That the founding of Israel was a mistake and that we should poof it away. (Something about decolonization usually meanders its way in there.)

They're a minority. Like the people who want to relocate Palestinians from Gaza are, to my knowledge, a minority. But they both exist.
What the GP is talking about is that there are differing opinions on what counts as "military spending" or "defense spending". The CBO has its definition, but that is not universally accepted, particularly by people who think that the USA spends far too much on its military.

The question of whether or not e.g. veteran's health care should be considered part of military spending is not a stupid one, even if people may differ on their answers.
Hi Sonnigeszeug, great that you're looking into LightlyTrain!

We designed LightlyTrain specifically for production teams who need a robust, easy-to-use pretraining solution without getting lost in research papers. It builds on learnings from our MIT-licensed research framework, LightlySSL (github.com/lightly-ai/lightly), but is tailored for scalability and ease of integration.

For commercial use where the AGPL terms might not fit your needs, we offer straightforward commercial licenses for LightlyTrain. Happy to chat more if that's relevant for you!
https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

Did you read the demands?

"By August 2025, the University must adopt and implement
merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation, and related practices among faculty, staff, and leadership. Such adoption and implementation must be durable and demonstrated through structural and personnel changes. All existing and prospective faculty
shall be reviewed for plagiarism and Harvard’s plagiarism policy consistently enforced. All hiring and related data shall be shared with the federal government and subjected to a comprehensive audit by the federal government during the period in which reforms are being implemented, which shall be at least until the end of 2028."

Trump administration is now the defacto HR department for Harvard, and eventually all universities.
Tabletop Industry Buckles Up for Tariffs, Increased Prices, 'Company Extinctions
A two-and-a-half pound package of sourcebooks could see $21 in tariffs. The PDF alone was a dollar less.
This is probably pointless to reply to, but for anyone else reading this:

For starters, the current right-wing hate campaign is targeting transgender people, not transvestites since the latter simply means people who wear clothing associated with the opposite gender, which is quite common in right-wing circles.

Aside from that silliness, let's highlight the "specific, thoughtful, data driven, evidence based rhetoric" that is "not hurting the feelings of a group of people", as if "hurt feelings" were all that has happened.

Also, hurt feelings matter. Humans are our feelings. They're who we are and what we are. People be hurt in a large variety of ways and they're all bad. It's trivial to demonstrate that non-fatal gash on your body is considerably less worse than being, say, ostracized and outcast from the community you grew up in.

On a related note, why is "the right" so obsessed with defining what a woman is? What are the data driven and evidence based rhetorical reasons for coming up with a rigorous and definitive definition of woman?

The idea that evidence or logic is involved in any of this is laughable.

Edit: Nobody can come up with a good definition for what a planet it is either, but somehow we manage to stagger onwards.
> Even today Harward is doing everything it can, to have a less Jews

Are they? If so, they, and the rest of the Ivies, are failing miserably at it: https://archive.org/details/ivy_league
No, RSA is asymetric, where it has a public/private key pair.

HMAC is symetric, it only has a secret and it can be used to hash values one-way.
Yeah, the math problem is the other direction -- a thousand things being named after one guy, or a thousand things being named after the simplest English word which could possibly apply.
The problem is that copyright is the law of the land, and it demands our participation.

Because of that reality, every artist who wants to make money must either participate in it, or completely isolate themselves from it.

These models have become an incredible opportunity for giant corporations to circumvent the law. 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. Obviously, this is an incredibly immoral end to copyright as we know it.

So what are we going to do about this situation? Are we really going to keep pretending that copyright can work? It wasn't even working before all the AI hype! Ever heard the words "starving artist"? Of course you have!

We need a better system than copyright. I'm convinced that no system at all (anarchy) would be a superior option at this point. If not now, then when?
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While painful I do think that’s a more productive mindset to enter the talk (not debate) with.

His reasons for doing so are presumably not all that rational so I’d steer clear off obvious bear traps like rationality.

I liken it more to how you engage with angry toddlers or teens. Acknowledge the issue first. Share their pain and then you can try alternatives.

Not saying I think “talking” will be helpful with guys like Hitler, but I’m not much of an assassin so if I personally where to be put on the spot I have very few other options than try this route of, at least attempted, understanding.
You're right, UncleEntity, thanks for highlighting that. My phrasing could have been clearer. AGPL does allow various uses, including commercial, provided its terms are met.

Our intention with LightlyTrain (AGPL/Commercial license option) is to offer a streamlined, production-ready pretraining engine. This contrasts with our other library, LightlySSL (github.com/lightly-ai/lightly), which is MIT-licensed and geared towards researchers needing flexible building blocks.

We found many companies wanted a simpler "it just works" solution for pretraining, which is why LightlyTrain exists with its specific licensing options tailored for commercial teams alongside the AGPL.

Thanks again for the clarification!
Moreover, technological progress shouldn't be stifled by attempts to create artificial scarcity by technical means (read: DRM, war on general purpose computing, "The Right to Read", etc).
The hypermedia constraint is crazy magic itself. It's not like HATEOAS is fewer steps on the application and server side.
>you’d insist AI companies freely share their source code

Myself I don't see those as being related at all. Keeping something secret is allowed. What is not allowed is something being 'not-secret' yet special. Once you share the source code to the world there would be no closing the barn door.
I suspect you either have FAANG in work history or you have racked up a lot of years in one specific tech stack.