skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm simply not fond of unelected authoritarians

You should be very concerned about our House of Lords, our Monarchy and the cronyism and corruption that is currently plaguing our elected officials, and lovely "unelected" advisors to the prime minister such as Dominic Cummings, who's policies used to be followed almost as religious dogma.

You can worry about the "big bad EU" when you understand the EU more.

I'm aware that it is a bold and inflamatory claim to say you don't understand it enough; but I feel confident making such a statement as anybody who has spent more than 20 minutes researching how the EU works would know that it's folly to say that they're "unelected authoritarians".

Lets start with the unelected bit:

EU Commission is elected by Parliment. (IE; indirectly elected)

EU Parliament is directly elected by you, the individual, they are your MEPs, and they're elected in one of the most democratic ways we know of.

EU Council is heads of state (IE; Elected)

Council of the European Union is non-heads of governments of European countries. (IE; Elected).

> neither am I fond of fascists

Might want to look up what that word means, the very idea of a united EU is the opposite of fascism. Fascism is characterised by nationalism.

> governing my community from far away.

The distance between Luxembourg and London is less than the distance between London and Glasgow..

(489km vs 556km as the crow flies)

I'm British, I was a little bit nationalistic before I left the UK and realised that I was foolish.

I'm not accusing you of being a fool but you're certainly misinformed.

I find it's better to not throw stones if you live in a glass house.
That’s unfortunate… variations in American accents can differ as much or more than that, so it’s a little surprising she struggled. I hope you don’t judge all Americans by that experience :)
> I would argue that he's just trying to make money

I don't think he's doing it for the money. If he just wanted money, staying in Hollywood would be much more lucrative.
You must have loved that cat very much.
I an a little confused because other aggregators are also showing this. Wasn't this image released months ago, like last April or something?

So, what is new here?
This is the third time you've replied to someone with this exact comment. Please don't do that. You are not being as effective at promoting your POV as you might be if you were a little more tactful.

I read the document. Sam Gross seems to have a clear grasp on the risks associated with this kind of project (I would quote the relevant part, but google docs is a clown shoe.)

One the one hand I wish him luck. If he pulls it off he'll be a hero. On the other hand this seems like a huge "turd polishing" for a problem that one only encounters if one is doing something ill-advised. The GIL just isn't that big of a problem in practice. I've been writing Python for going on twenty years without ever encountering a single problem due to the GIL.
Its ridiculous that people charge money for this...
You could read O'Brian as non-human and Emanuel Goldstein as GAN.
My lay person assumption is it's more complicated than that, just knowing how the body is always conserving resources and adapting to changing conditions. I'd expect the body's natural mechanisms responsible for this to wind down operations the more you intervened on its behalf.

It's obviously the right choice in the elderly/ill, but for a healthy young person maybe it's better to exercise/strengthen the body's natural abilities in these departments. I think one of the arguments for intermittent fasting is to clean up the detritus being kept around for energy sake, via natural mechanisms...
If you don’t find it enjoyable you’re welcome to not move there. Why try to ban it for everyone else?
given that the same model can both:

1. tell me about a cat (given a prompt such as "describe a cat to me")

2. recognize a cat in a photo, and describe the cat in the photo

does the model understand that a cat that it sees in an image is related to a cat that it can describe in natural language?

As in, are these two tasks (captioning an image and replying to a natural language prompt) so distinct that a "cat" in an image excites different neurons than a "cat" that I ask it about? Or is there overlap? Or we don't know :)

I wonder if you could mix the type of request. Like, provide a prompt that is both text and image. Such as "Here is a picture of a cat. Explain what breed of cat it is and why you think so." Possibly this is too advanced for the model but the idea makes me excited.
"paying down technical debt"
Much of the recent book "There's Nothing For You Here" by Fiona Hill talks about some of this effect in her northern England upbringing.
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They've claimed to be doing those heavy changes for the last ten years and this is what they have to show for it.

Being cut off from nearly all advanced technology and with a terrible economy doesn't sound like a recipe for improving much in that sense either.
Pub/Sub, Workers, KV, Durable Objects, R2... yes, these all sounds promising. Awesome tool for developers. But there is one huge obstacle in the middle that prevents most to actually try this stack.

Logs and Account Access control.

Cloudflare is a very powerful platform, you can't let everyone be Admin.
If you run anything, you need to be able to see logs it to ship it somewhere.

For some reason, Cloudflare thinks that these are enterprise feature. I got news for you, these are basic features for anyone who wants to build more than just a simple script for individual use.

You work so hard to build these features but let only a small subset of users really do anything meaningful with it
By the same logic, Rolls Royce is popularizing cars. Nice trolling.
You can't just string along two unrelated concepts with the phrase "meaning that." Not going to keep replying.
> Did you not know this?

I did not. I don't know exactly what to look for, but all I found was a single paragraph on the Sound Dues article on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Dues#Copenhagen_Conventi...
This seems huge, am I overestimating the significance?
How can Germany be defended against UK and USA? France can, a bit, with a Russian partner. Because there are no friends between countries, just competing interests.

Actually USA oppress Germany as UK oppress Italy right after WWII the war they have helped creating to steal our richness, with a large contribution from our citizens, of course.

Our sole hope as western Europeans is a French Europe with Russia in the EAEU alliance, with that we can rule back the world, without we can just choose who subjugate us first.
Or how about another different (maybe controversial take) -

Archetypal TOS

If you run a bank, unless you're doing something incredibly sketchy, your TOS will very closely resemble Bank B.

If you run a social media company, unless you're doing something incredibly sketchy, your TOS will very closely resemble social media company B.

ETC

How about we all agree that the archetypal TOS for any given archetype should be readable by someone with a 9th grade education or below and if you deviate from those terms, you must clearly explain why you are so different and special.

Idk, I just think we should start coming up with more clever solutions.

This doesn't even visit the idea of completely inverting the social media / banking / blah blah whatever industry onto its head by allowing any general user complete control over data / finances, but obviously that would have huge benefits if we can tackle the usability problem for average Joe.
Imagine what the alternative would imply. AI would be solved, and thus, intelligence itself. Predicting tokens is not actually true intelligence, and that’s not really the point of these models. This is a step on the letter, not the rooftop. It looks a lot like we’ll get there though, if you compare the state of the art to ANYTHING labeled AI five years ago. Thats the exciting part.

[edit] to emphasize: predicting tokens is a very interesting mechanic, but in a design of intelligent software, it would be no more than that: the mechanic of one or more of its components/modules/subsystems. The real deal is to figure out what those components are. Once you have that part done, you can implement it in a language of your choice, be it token prediction, asm or powerpoint :-)
This is the key issue. By artificially lowering rates, the central banks have funneled money into assets like stocks and real estate, which results in artificially high prices for these assets. Meanwhile, bonds, cash, and other savings instruments are hammered. Now there is nowhere to place money except in commodities like real estate, oil, metals, etc which further exacerbates the problem of inflation.

The idea that a few supposedly “smart” economists can effectively run the economy is absurd and needs to be reversed. There are fundamental checks and balances in economies that have been hampered by these central banks, resulting in the build up of asset prices beyond anything in recent history. Buckle up.
Whenever I see someone say this... I wonder if your project(s) are just really different than mine, or if instead what you notice about a dev experience is just really different than what I do.

Because for me Elastic Beanstalk (plus presumably other AWS services like RDS? SQS and something else for background processes?) isn't close to the experience of Heroku of not having to think about ops at all for my whole infrastructure, including my rdbms etc.
Fascinating observation. Thanks for sharing. Given that this problem space still exists I wonder what the best approach might be other than taking the mean
And you get to learn new words like dunny and dobber.
> states its member-politicians have 'declared inferior'?

Wut? Which politicians?
Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
I think your racism meter is mis-calibrated. Sure, the Dutch are a bit funny about all the Turks in the country, but I find their racism against the Turks to be way lower than say a lot of Americans' racism against Hispanics.
If I remember correctly, quantum computers went from theory to prototype in a decade. What are the barriers to modelling a core that uses these in software and then effectively printing them, and adding a conventional computer interface at the edge?
If speed was held back by gate time, then sure, but i'd have thought that propagation delays between gates will be kind of relevant.

Making the clock 1,000,000 times faster would mean the silicon would be 1,000,000 times shorter (in each dimension) so I guess such designs would support some super high clock rates for some specialist applications for small gate arrays, but for general purpose computing, hmm, i'm not so sure.
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I can't find the lion...
> I can't say 'nothing bad ever happened'. Obviously it did. But the pendulum has swung far too much the other way now.

My counterintuitive mildly-offensive party conversation starter is that I think that the ideal number for childhood deaths by misadventure or accident is a balance between protecting children from stupid accidents and making children stupid and timid by restricting them from doing anything that could result in an accident. If kids are getting into too few fatal accidents, protections for children should be reduced until we get the numbers back up.
The paper is linked to at the top of this article, in the header.
Hungary gets 60% of its oil and 85% of its gas from Russia.
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Photonic computing, to accelerate both logic gates and data transfer, is an incredibly broad and exciting field. While a lot of the promise is still in the lab, real advances are currently being commercialized.

https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/marapr-2022/harnessing...

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/17/luminous-shines-a-li...
The '-ize' prefix is official International English - OED English. No partisanship (for example) necessary (in fact, '-ize' in OED is a Graecism, not, say, an Americanism).

Trying anyway to link the idea to the context: there is no need to translate a Local Language work into an International Language transposition - no need already per se. But especially, it is most normal for works of arts to written using specific localisms, well in a deliberate concept from the author - it is normally the duty of a translator to try and convey those choices, which makes it below absurd to suppose to instead nullify those features in a standardized relative of the same language.
All the more reason to donate blood.
Beautiful Racket (2016)
I'd love a history of Python tooling
I was reading PEP 517, and what came to mind is that I would love to read a history of Python tooling -- what has been attempted, what worked, what didn't. There must be patterns there, and understanding them would make me a better engineer.

Of course, it doesn't have to be Python. But Python would be a good case-study. Remember easy install? And before pip was a thing? distutils2? "nose tests"? So many things have been tried, so many tools come and gone, that there must be lessons there.

Does anything like that exist?
There is room for many versions of the American dream, America being a big place and all. America has a rich history of both hard-working middle class aspiration and con-artistry and get rich quick schemes. They are both pretty resounding cultural themes here.
I agree, but I no longer have confidence that salesforce will keep heroku working. Or ever add another feature again. At some point, as the world changes, a feature-freeze is actually going backwards.

But so far there's still nothing as mature and reliable as heroku, i agree. fly and render (and maybe some others) are getting closer; I just hope they get there before heroku becomes untenable, which I now expect it to.

I got the impression the OP was calling it a "sinking ship" based on the inside view of what's going on. From the customer perspective, it all still works, although the fact that it hasn't changed in 5 years, as the world has continued to, is not encouraging. But what I hear from the inside (not just from OP) is what nails it down.
On the other hand, it also prevents ISPs from subnetting /64. There are probably some who would give you a /120 if it worked, just to be dicks.
I don't know the situation, but if Solomon Islands are doing this of their own accord, and that's what their population wants then I'm not against that. But then again I'm not American. I understand that there are cases, like with the Cuba Crisis, where the fear was warranted. The Soviet's had a history of invading and occupying other nations. China is mainly a threat to Taiwan, and perhaps historically to Vietnam, but unlikely to seek territorial expansion outside of Taiwan. Yes, the US also has blood on its hands, but nobody can argue that the US has tried to invade in order to occupy and integrate foreign territory in modern times.
For anything down and dirty, what's wrong with -F'"'? For anything fancy there are plenty of things like the below.

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Yeah it definitely can make sense if you have the gear anyway. Rocked a laptop server for years.

Just saying its a decidedly suboptimal form factor for 24/7
While the skepticism of the comment you are replying to is understandable, yours is not.

"Visible light" is not a better or truer electromagnetic spectrum than x-ray or radio. It's a human construct only defined by what our human eyes have evolved to capture, based on what is most useful for us here on earth, nothing more.

There is nothing wrong with getting measurement of an object in any random frequency that happens to be the most interesting/practical. Rendering those results as an image in visible light is also simply the best way to visualize the results for us humans. It is certainly more understandable than hundreds of plots.

> It's a bit like an alien scientist showing an X-ray picture of a skeleton

If that alien organism has evolved to see x-rays, as it might be the most useful spectrum for their particular environment, they would find your comment quite puzzling as that would be exactly what they would see should they meet us.
Former employee, and you're wrong: pricing had nothing to do with it.

In 2017 we went under a feature freeze and no new features were allowed to be worked on. Anyone can look at the Heroku Changelog to verify this yourself (of course features that were in progress still rolled out over some of 2018). We had tons of attrition (without backfill) and even a layoff afterwards. Heroku is probably 1/3 of what it was at its peak around 2014.

SFDC gave up on us because we wanted to build a developer platform and they wanted us to build an enterprise platform. We sucked at enterprise features so they gave us the axe.
So, kick the can down the road and deal with even harsher ramifications later? Let our kids deal with it?
I'm also used to functional programming. The only thing I can not stand about Dart is that types are coupled to classes. If you want to use stateless functions and typed data shapes, you're out of luck. Compare this to TypeScript that truly allows both paradigms and has a very expressive type system.
The hashes are likely provided by some outside agency who is fine with transferring the hashes, but would have qualms about transferring multi-petabytes of the matching CSAM images.
How do we stop this?
> it still requires absolute trust in the entity who provides the list of hashes to not put anything but CSAM there

Yes but isn't that already the case? If a government, a three-letter-agency, or even a local detective want to fabricate a case against me for some reason, how difficult will that be to do in practice? Does this CSAM hash list really give them anything fundamentally new?
Understood, I also tried to submit it and the title was just way too long. Not intended as a criticism, just want to raise visibility of the actual title.
That human intelligence might just be token prediction evolving from successive small bit-width float matrix transformations is depressing to me.
The cow. Why?
To be fair, everybody in that world is a wizard, not a sorcerer.
What? You lose nothing but a perception of privacy in the theoretical case of a backdoor to encryption, we have rule of law ffs. Without cars the human race is limited to moving <20 mph and what you can carry on your back.

If we ban cars tomorrow society grinds to a halt, there will be mass starvation. If we ban e2e encryption in consumer products tomorrow nothing changes.
Worried about the twitter? ;p
> do you have a citation for the harvest claims?

https://extension.umn.edu/small-grains-harvest-and-storage/m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation
Fortunately the Good Guys are in charge now and we don't do that sort of thing anymore.
If you look at the history of litigation of nudism magazines in the 80s and 90s it is exactly that. Some magazines were allowed in, some were banned and the owners imprisoned because a judge said that some of the photos weren't candid or casual enough.
Back when Trump was making a big stink about TikTok I didn't understand it, because my feed was almost exclusively high quality short form educational content from physicists, doctors, linguists, etc. It's a great format for people who want to share their knowledge with the public in a way that is easy to digest, but do not have time to script and edit 15+ minute videos.
The actual article has the completely different title "What backs a currency? Terra Luna drops nearly 100%"

It's from a forum shilling yet another token experiment ("Intercoin"). Zero source material presented. Zero analysis. Zero value to those who don't care about Intercoin.

This article is of abysmal quality. I do appreciate the emotions the headline induces. But if it's information ye be after, this ain't the place.
I don't think saying people need to take responsibility for their actions removes blame from the supply side. I think the underlying point trying to be made here is that both are at fault. I mean, with crypto, you are the supply side the moment you buy in, and are just as complicit in the Ponzi scheme as the guy you bought from. Being more ignorant than the other players buys very little sympathy from me when you're both playing the same game with the same information available to you.
It's also smaller than GPT-2 (1.2B vs 1.6B) and trained with a lot less language data (6% of the training mix).
Honest question, not a snark attack. But would it be possible to build those things on top of Cloudflare itself, esp the logging? For access control, you would have to have a separate process controlling the CF api for configuration.
Well, it sort of is. The rules about not lying to investors, having accurate financial statements, and so on, are to help them avoid making bad investment decisions. The "accredited investor" limitations are supposed to make it harder for unsophisticated investors to lose their money.
I suggest a bit more research into his background. This is something he has been working on for the past ten years, at least: https://www.thorn.org/about-our-fight-against-sexual-exploit....

EDIT: Actually established in 2009 per Wikipedia - a good source to see that there's a lot more to him than just being an actor (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Always focus on your advantages. When they launch earlier, of course they can enjoy early users.

As a late comer in the market, you can observe what they miss and compensate their weaknesses. You save yourself time because you can study from them
Should have clarified. Does a black hole have fuzzy edges or sharp edges?
It's fascinating to see the number of Bluey fans. My kids love it too. Making it American would just ruin it.

I grew up reading Paddington books, and about 90% of what I know about British money came from those books. Re-interpreting it to American dollars would have ruined the immersion into the story, IMO. I was very glad when the Paddington movies were unapologetically British.