skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fixed rules are the reason the AIs do well in games. You can’t train an algorithm to think outside the box like that, because the box is how it’s trained.

Since we cannot meaningfully codify, much less rapidly simulate, the potential actions and real consequences in this supposed global all-fronts war, we cannot train an algorithm on it.
> However, basically every mail platform creates tailored links to track click engagement.

Yep, even financial institutions do this and half of them don’t even use domains they own for the tracking links.

Years and years of “don’t click on suspicious links” out the window because bank.example.com/creditcard is turned into 4828fjfneo848.totallyfine.adtracker.thirdparty.example.org

I hate all of it but nobody seems to give a shit (nor do they care to implement proper 2FA to effectively guard against phishing) so whatever. If people have their accounts drained because marketers gotta get that sweet engagement metric, what does it matter any more?
Out of curiosity, was Kubeflow ever considered and was there a deliberate decision against Kubeflow?

Kubeflow Pipelines under the hood (and not very hidden) uses Argo Workflows.
> The net result was always the same: there was half oxygen and half carbon dioxide behind the mask.

Fascinating. Oxygen normally only makes up 21% of breathable air - it would seem that masks are increasing oxygen levels. In addition, where is your null hypothesis test?
This is giving me pause to think on when you want short and dense pattern spaces, and when you want sparse spaces.

Published articles meant to be accessed publicly seem like a case for the former. The idea is for those references to be found, and a search space which is both predictable and small is preferred. Here I tend to like schemes such as:

example.com/yyyy/mm/dd/nnnn.../<optional descriptive>

That is, for temporal data, explicitly code in the year, month, and day (and finer gradations of time if appropriate), then an item number (possibly sequenctial). The optional descriptive text might incluce author(s) and title(s).

Dates aren't always required. Some well-known cases (comparatively) are Amazon's reliance on SCU, iBiblio's reliance on ISBN, and Worldcat's reliance on OCLC. (You can omit all other index elements on the URL to obtain the desired result.)

Sparse spaces tend to be for non-published / non-public entities and docucments. Google+ in particular had a 20--21 digit numeric userid (apparently used within Google as the account UUID). Even with some 3--4 billion registered profiles (the vast majority auto-created through Android device registrations), the space was sparse to a ration of trillions (and higher when interest was focused on the only the 100--300 million or so active accounts). This had a huge impact on the ability to crawl the space efficiently, as a brute-force search would have taken some time. Fortunately, Google provided sitemaps....

A related concept is James C. Scott's notion of legibility (from Seeing Like a State), and where it is and is not advantageous, and for whom.
I guess the weird part is as he mentioned the enthusiastic following. That makes them actually in a higher price class of their own for what you get.

As a Toyota enthusiast, even I couldn't stomach the prices being asked, and I actually wanted one. But I wasn't going far enough from civilization to justify that premium for reliability.

I'd say a used 4Runner is by far the least cost effective choices to deal with inclimate weather, so it seems strange how someone paid top dollar for a vehicle they didn't want. It's like buying a Gucci shirt you don't want.
Probably need to normalize both to dog population and people population (perhaps normalize to dogs per capita?)
Thanks. Yes, a week later I was really out of breath walking at a slight incline, similar to being at high altitude, such as 5,000 meters.
A Russian fighter jet has intercepted a U.S. spy plane over the Pacific Ocean
I dislike ads too. I'd rather just pay to use the sites. But I also understand not everyone can afford that. The ads are there for them.

So examples of things that I've bought from Instagram ads: The most recent Pride lego set. I would have never known it existed, but I'm glad I know now, because I want to give my kids something fun to build that sparks a conversation about Pride and what it means and why it's important.

The comma2 (autopilot for my Honda van). I knew OpenPilot existed, but until I saw that ad, I didn't know there was a product I could buy with it already installed. I liked the idea but didn't have time to get it all set up on my own. The existence of a commercial product vastly improved my life. I've already used it for over 1000 miles of self driving in just a couple weeks. It's a night and day difference when driving. I suppose I would have eventually heard about the product, but I'm glad I heard about it when I did.
Your comment was about lawyers. I gave a random anecdote. We're not talking about different things at all, unless your comment was only about specific lawyers which you failed to mention.

Anyway, I don't care enough to comment anymore.
Guess since I never click on those annoying “subscribe to our newsletter” pop ups, I missed out on the whole “newsletter boom” - but really if the whole complaint is about how they will no longer be able to track my behaviour so closely, I’m not too concerned about the “boom” becoming a bust.
There is hiding information and not collecting it to begin with.

void handleEula()
{
auto eulaAccepted = readEulaAcceptedFile();
if (!eulaAccepted)
eulaAccepted = promptForEulaAcceptance();
writeEulaFile(eulaAccepted);
}

This function reads a file from disk and writes back to it every time. If filesystem write audits aren't enabled there is no way to determine if the most recent write of "true" was the only write.

> If the car refuses to work without the EULA being accepted or rejected, proof of its movement would be sufficient to show repeated rejection.

If the car refuses to work without the EULA being accepted then it wouldn't move. If some functionality was enabled or disabled by accepting the EULA then you would have to show that the functionality was never enabled based on secondhand sources... which would be difficult. Proving something didn't happen is infinitely more difficult than proving something did. Many systems are not designed to handle that level of introspection.

All I'm saying is that the cute legal theory of "I rejected this N times therefore that one time I accepted it is invalid" falls apart for me when I consider that the user would have to prove they never did something, except that one time. Good luck.
Since when is power steering a "smart" feature? Power locks and windows are mechanical devices, solenoids powered by the car battery. The only computerized feature you listed is cruise control and we've had that for years and years. I don't think that this is an "either / or" proposition where we have either a car running off bloated software or a car limited to 1950's features. As far as I'm concerned, cars from the mid 1990's to mid 2000's are peak.
Why don’t they just basically lead climb their way up? Seems like it’d be a decent compromise.
It has been a long time since you could get a truly bespoke car from a major manufacturer in a reasonable price segment.

But, you used to be able to order all sorts of stuff - or not order it. For example, you could save a few hundred bucks by not having a rear bumper, not having a radio, opting for manual windows and transmission, opting for no cruise control, etc...

There were a multitude of options and you could add/delete most anything you wanted.

These days, it's down to packages and colors. Often, you can't even mix packages and trying to get manually controlled windows will usually get you laughed at.
I would at least also host it on gitlab...
I seriously doubt that. Mobile platforms and web would be moving towards "decade old desktop frameworks" if those were superior.
They came over with the Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e. Deutsch -> German) immigrants.

Most popular brands of pretzels in the US? Rold Gold (founded in Philly), Snyder's of Hanover (PA), Utz (Hanover, PA again).

edit: of course all of those have nothing on soft pretzels.
Agree with many things, big disagree with not using 'else' with 'with' and actually for the same reason you stated not to use it. I use 'with' when I have a pipeline, but the error conditions in the pipeline matter. In fact the example you gave in the article is exactly one of the cases where I think 'with' and 'else' are useful because you can clearly show the dependency of each action in the pipeline and clear failure cases to address them.

I think there is a limit to how many things you should handle in a with statement, but the same goes for regular pipes as well.
Back in university (1974), I took a course in AI. The prof wanted us to write a brute-force solution to solve the 8-queens problem -- any language!

I wrote the solution in APL in about an hour and it only had 3 lines of code. The rest of the class spent days on their terminals and keypunches trying to solve it. Most solutions took hundreds of lines of code.

I got a D from my professor. I questioned why and was told that it was unreadable, and that the solution was inefficient. This annoyed me because he didn't know APL, and I figured that since I solved the problem in one hour, while the rest took days, it was very efficient.

I protested the result with the department head (who liked APL) and ended up getting an A+. As you can imagine, all the rest of my assignments, written in a variety of languages, were graded by that AI prof with significant prejudice.

I passed nonetheless. I loved APL and ended up working for one of the major APL providers as my first job out of school.
Interesting! An old colleague of mine, Ben Johnson, also does the same thing for litestream, his latest SQLite replication project. I thought it was just him.

Now that I know two folks do it, I'll have to give it serious thought. Thanks for the blog post ref

https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
Out of interest, are we talking German style pretzels? Or is there an American variety?
Probably these companies ignore any existing legislation to have more disruption powers. Lawsuits from fatal accidents are just the cost of doing business.
My aim is the truth, and decent human morals. If China is doing evil, morally repugnant, inhumane things in Xinjiang, then I'm going to say, as clearly as I can, that China is doing evil, morally repugnant, inhumane things in Xinjiang. And I'm not going to sugar-coat it because people have said similar things in the past as part of a push for war.
There is a big implementation in progress for Ethiopia: https://decrypt.co/69205/cardano-developer-iohk-strikes-part...

I have read about other implementations being worked in the https://identity.foundation community, also, I think Microsoft is already using those in Azure, I was able to find this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/veri...
Thanks for the additional context here.

I think some of the administrative pain can come from having a 'sandbox' or 'qa' tier beyond dev (which in this case would be customer facing) before production.

If data separation isn't required/essential, seems as though a a separate environment is actually unnecessary and feature gating could be used. But if data separation from other customers is required, then new infrastructure should be introduced via separate CICD if I follow correctly?
The assertion that inflation hurts the poor is often stated, but I haven't seen data supporting it.

Real wage growth and inflation are linked, of course, but almost certainly not anti-correlated (high inflation => low or negative real wage growth) as you are suggesting. What data I could find that directly compared these actually suggests the opposite, that lower inflation tends to result in lower wage growth.[1]

It's not clear what you mean by the "poor" here, but it's well understood the majority of Americans do not have significant savings (cash or other liquid assets). This federal reserve study[2] puts the percentage of American households that have <$400 at ~24%. 60% of households have <3 months of savings.

When looking at just the bottom half of Americans, however, 40% have less than $400 saved and 76% have less than 3 months of savings.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2015/november/rela...
[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/asse...
I think articles like this one are being a little dishonest. They can still put all the ads they want in newsletters. What they can't do (at least not like they used to do) is spy on their readers without consent.
This seems to be a strangely common issue with Stripe. Several others over the years have had their offers rescinded with little explanation.
These events have an enormous human cost, especially when the person accepting the offer has turned in their resignation. There should be some sort of compensation for this.

Also how is their roadmap so unstable that they would write an offer, have it accepted, and then decide to "go in another direction" or whatever?
They don’t anonimize it, they just request it from the backend. They still request the exact same URL, so you can carefully track email opens on a person-by-person basis, you just cannot track IP addresses and/or set tracking cookies or whatnot.
I'm defining good as "informing of things I didn't know existed". I consider advertising just another news channel.

Copying from my comment above, here are some examples of things I've bought. I like trying out new things because I can afford it, but I don't always have time to go out and look for them.

So examples of things that I've bought from Instagram ads:

The comma2 (autopilot for my Honda van). I knew OpenPilot existed, but until I saw that ad, I didn't know there was a product I could buy with it already installed. I liked the idea but didn't have time to get it all set up on my own. The existence of a commercial product vastly improved my life. I've already used it for over 1000 miles of self driving in just a couple weeks. It's a night and day difference when driving. I suppose I would have eventually heard about the product, but I'm glad I heard about it when I did.

The most recent Pride lego set. I would have never known it existed, but I'm glad I know now, because I want to give my kids something fun to build that sparks a conversation about Pride and what it means and why it's important.
There are plenty of reports that conflict with those coming out of the US media, and plenty of conflicts of interest (at the very least) in the sources of those reports.

What do you make of these two pieces of CCP propaganda?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AaitXSdjFP8
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4N385vKhXYQ
I remember a co-worker talking about this happening to her in the 90's - she went to the ER for a sudden, large rash that turned out to be a non-emergency (shingles), but she had no way to know that. AFAIK, she had to pay the whole ER bill herself because she didn't know ahead of time how serious what she had was.
It is odd that Java was conceived for set-top boxes. Even before generics were added, it was clearly a language aimed at establishing and enforcing contracts in a largish team over long development cycles. You can see it in the Hello, World program, which has a lot of weight you wouldn't need for space and time constrained programs on a set-top box.

Gosling was obviously inspired by C++ ("without the guns, clubs and knives", as he said), which itself adds a lot of the complexity to support large-scale projects, features that C was lacking. I'm not entirely sure he thought about it much past that.
Currently we only support these ecosystems because most of our early customers are on these platforms. We do have a tracing-like API that you can use to send custom events, but that would require more integration work of course.
> It's also worth it to note as well that this isn't a homogenous organization

Please don't consider my critique of this paper as an indictment of DeepMind as a whole!

> Many of DeepMind's opinion style papers are like this.

That's good to know. I have not read many of their opinion papers, and I'll admit I didn't have the context of it being an "opinion" paper.

That said, I don't agree with the opinion. The paper didn't really engage with the concept of AGI in a way that I found satisfying. The conclusion may very well be correct, but this paper wasn't enough to convince me.

Slightly OT: My views were reinforced when I saw the paper was praised by Patricia Churchland. I don't find her take on consciousness a satisfying one, though I find the general direction of her work interesting. See here for another example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/nvtgwr/grand_th...
Years ago I was blown away when I saw a presentation by a Google Java library developer. He was able to make changes to his library, then automatically build every Java application throughout the enterprise which used that library to check for automated test failures. This allowed the library team to move fast with confidence.
Global banking regulators call for toughest rules for cryptocurrencies
I’ll pile on with my own anecdote. Last winter I flew home to Maine to visit family. Rented a ‘21 Nissan Altima. It drove well until there was typical New England snow/slush mix.

While driving on a flat straight stretch of road the car suddenly... yanked itself sideways. Thank god no oncoming traffic was present and I was able to course correct safely. I immediately drove home and paid careful attention to the wheel response. It kept feeling like it wanted to yank me off the road.

Once home i broke open the manual and found 4 different “driver assist” and “driver comfort” functions. After disabling them all the terrifying behavior ceased.

I’ve lived my whole life in Maine, Rochester NY and Colorado. I’ve never felt as unsafe in a car as I did with those software features enabled in about an inch of snow.

Bonus, it also has collision detection warnings on the side of the car. It was convinced every puddle I drove through that splashed slush beside the car was an object I was about to collide with.
lane keeping is making me dizzy, at least on the rav4 where I had it. It's a constant battle between me and the computer about where to keep the car in the lane, making it such that the car constantly sways: 1. corrected by me, 2. then corrected by the computer, goto 1.

If I don't correct at all, the system is getting mad at me for not keeping the hand on the steering wheel.

Auto follow is again somewhat risky, you can't really rely on it, sometimes it brakes too late.
Which means that the most likely outcome is that Google won't let Chrome users disable it, or they'll hide it behind some dark patterns, re-enable it after every update, etc.
I'd actually like manual windows and no cruise control, I've had both fail on me many times.
Assuming any of it is being actively monitored.
Substack's value prop is that subscribers receive richly-formatted emails of the posts; it's essentially a newsletter service with a web publishing feature.
You don't even have to buy the songs on iTunes to have Apple stream them to all your devices. With iTunes Match (included with Apple Music subscriptions or available stand-alone) you can build a "cloud library" from local files: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146
I've lost a lot of time scrolling Netflix and clicking past ads on listicles to find good movies to watch.

So I scraped and compiled a database of 10k+ top movies, and put it in Airtable for powerful sorting and filtering. I think using Airtable queries to find good movies (by director, genre, year, etc.) is super helpful.

I'd love feedback on how you find movies and what the biggest pain points are, so that I can make MovieTable more useful. :)
If you're faced with shortened URLs and want to see where they lead before you click on them, URL expanders can be useful.

DDG "url expander" returns a number of these. I've been relying on the first result, https://urlex.org/ , for some months now, particularly as my router/firewall blocks most actual shorteners as spam vectors.

Note that if the shortened URL contains any specific private information, or would identify you specifically, you're still facing a risk. For shortened URLs found "in the wild", they're a useful tool.
I suspect that the majority of businesses are small enough that their taxes are trivial and pretty harmless -- at least if you weight by count. If you weight by size -- sure, most business is big business and has complex taxes.
I love vim. =(

Its there everywhere you need it. If I have to use these other fancy pants editors I always enable vim emulation when possible but its never the same.
My Revised Edition for Sam Altman's Article “Moore's Law for Everything”
Sorry, I didn't follow. Why would housing crash because wages go up?
I live in a poor country and the parent's comment is on spot, in my opinion.
I agree with everything you have said there.

In that situation, the question being asked is "what would they have to do for you to accuse them of stealing?", and there's an implication/assertion that your definition of "stealing" is too narrow.

Replying with "this isn't stealing, it's borrowing" doesn't answer the question, and it's ignoring the implication/assertion.

And that's basically what martimarkov did. They didn't say a single word that addresses the implication that such a narrow anti-collusion rule is too weak.
Not necessarily. Tracking pixels are implemented using images (usually transparent ones), so all Apple Mail needs to do is send the image URLs to the proxies, not the entire contents of the email. What they're actually doing remains to be seen.
Autonomous driving is an extremely difficult problem, but it pales in comparison to the challenge of forcing a cultural shift away from driving and reimagining/rebuilding so many cities.

Most Americans won't even entertain the thought of giving up their car even if alternative modes of transport make more sense.
I literally use a tool for hiring that tells me exactly when mail was opened and which links were clicked. So no, That is not anonymization!
Most people don't seem to understand that the laws are interpreted by human beings that have spent their entire lives studying and applying the law.

Particularly us geeky folk often seem to think that you can find a buffer overflow exploit in the literal wording of the law and the judge will have to let you go. That usually isn't how it works (although the odd case where someone successfully exploits the actual verbiage in the law tends to make headlines and make it seem like that is how it works).
> Combining the information you get safely and securely from things like Twitter Analytics or Instagram Insights with your Google Analytics helps tell you even more about how your content is performing.

Google Analytics and similar are blocked by a large (and increasing) number of visitors. To my estimates, about 40-80% of a website's visitor will not be counted in Google Analytics (depending on website and audience). Some browsers now block those platforms without the need for any add-on too (like Edge in "Strict" privacy mode).

In short, GA is useless or soon will be.
Half of the US is an arid climate which can and has historically sustained hundreds of millions of Buffalo and other cattle. The reason farmers use corn and require irrigation to concentrate herds in one place is not because there is no water but because the beef tastes better and can be raised more cheaply than with less water intensive mechanisms.
Arxiv / preprints available:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27460258
Often the “pricing” page is the first page potential customers check prior to evaluating the product. Without one the customer journey generally gets disrupted.
Will Apple do it differently?
Is this truly a "Nature-worthy" breakthrough?

Last I heard, EDA tooling failed to innovate. No serious money for open source, little competition and market failure for closed tools.