skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks similar to priming in humans.

Also, it looks to me like a language model is capable of reasoning if you let it execute a few times.

First, have it generate multiple outputs using different primings. Then have it choose it's favorite output.

Map, Reduce
> Street art is beautiful! Don’t report graffiti and other street artists. If you see work that includes fascistic or hate speech, paint over it yourself or with friends.

This reads like a joke. So is it OK if I draw dicks on the neighbors walls by using the pretense of Street Art?
They did. With not locking down early, claiming that it was 'nothing', not providing them support during the lockdown, then reopening early. All for the sake of the stockmarket and 'the economy'.
The law we're talking about does not force them to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_la...
I don't want to be advertised to. I think ads are unethical and consider that business model to be unacceptable. I suggest you find a new one because it's become increasingly clear to me that I'm not alone.
I find out my victim uses "SharedPHPHosting-R-US" for their website which uses virtual hosting to have one php server serve many different customers.

I create my own SharedPHPHosting site, host the file, and point the stress testing site at it. Both my site and my victim's site are down. Success.

I believe "neocities" uses the same IP and servers for all neocities websites, so there's another example where this would work.
On a goofier note, Au Service de la France ("A Very Secret Service" on Netflix) is another fun French spy show. The first season is a bit like Parks and Rec, in that it's misfits having funny misadventures. The second is more serious but has a plot.
Unexplained leak from Soyuz spacecraft forces Russia to abort ISS spacewalk
Yes. Whether they wrote them or some previous tenants wrote them is moot. The point is where I live, few HOAs are responsible for any communal areas, because there aren't any. The city maintains the roads, sidewalks, etc. The HOA's existence in these neighborhoods has nothing to do with paying to maintain anything.
> HOAs are just a formulation of the pre-existing concepts of covenants and easements.

I live in a _very_ progressive part of the country. In my county, 9 HOAs were found to still have race-related clauses in their bylaws (no longer enforceable, to be sure, but still in the bylaws). Understandably concerned by this state of affairs, the County went to those HOAs to have them remove the language.

Two did not want to. One said it was onerous to have to update their bylaws to remove the clauses (which only permitted "colored" people to live in servants quarters, or "guesthouses". Again, progressive part of the country...). One dug in even deeper and said that they felt it would be "untrue" to the historical "significance" (which existed only in their own mind) of the neighborhood.

Thankfully, the County was unimpressed, and told both HOAs to remove them, or that the County would begin legal efforts such that both HOAs would be forcibly dissolved (or something similar) should they be "uninterested" in doing so.
how many people are actually killed by the police while being defenseless is massively under reported.
> why probably 90% of shell scripts fail to properly handle file names. Is this what we want?

If you want to fix shell scripts, you need to ban not just newlines but also spaces. Well-written shell scripts handle spaces properly, but many don't, and Makefiles cannot.
Big if. Chemical problems seem harder than nuclear ones. Less absolute science, more a matter of getting lucky.
Ask HN: Can the expansion of space be detected on earth itself?
> duopoly

Is there some meaningful console I'm missing besides Xbox and PlayStation?
> Sure, just be a socialistic/communist government and be able to finance the pension system while depending on US money (because there isn't any good alternative)

Why the hell would they depend on US money if they become a socialistic/communist government that channels its GDP to its people instead of channeling it to tax breaks for the rich.

> corruption

No problem - they can just legalize it under the name 'lobbying' like how US did it.
Knowing the location of your plane is theoretical harm.

If someone actually attacks you based upon that location, now it is tangible harm. It's too easy to conflate the two.
Many systems used this convention; c was merely one of them. So it was a “choice” more than an”decision”.

The Mesa guys at PARC did a study back in the late 70s and, statistically, length-marked strings are faster than delimited ones.

Delimited strings have some advantages: they save the space needed to store the length, at the cost of an extra byte (not worth the cost these days); and some substrings can be assembled simply by pointing into the string (of course counted strings can share storage). But at a terrible cost.

But remember that the PDP-7 was less powerful than some AVRs. We use more powerful chips to scan keyboards these days.
It's just me or are the Api signature a bit strange?

exit_code, previous_volume, error = api.run_command("Main Office", "volume")

Why a triplet as return value?
Why an error field at all?
I really feel this should have been designed differently - eg with exceptions
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Musk is well aware he is in a bubble. I'm not even going to pretend that he realistically thinks that everyone just loves and agrees with him.
You can already coax ChatGPT into interacting with external systems today; I set up a prompt where the model pretended to be a factory system on a communication bus. It could access its "inventory" by posting a prefixed message to the communication bus.

After a bit of prompt engineering the model could query inventory, "manufacture" various recipes, and store the end products in inventory.

It might be possible to look at the weight activations as it reasons through contacting the external system over the emulated communication bus? For a suitably varied set of commands you might be able to find a subset of weights that are most correlated to the task and prune the others. Then you'd be left with a model that can retrieve and store information, as well as perform reasoning tasks.

Still has problems with working memory (the input token limit, since the model is auto-regressive) given all the external information is coming back in via the prompt, but ChatGPT seems to handle that gracefully right now.
Mind you, it's not just about the user explicitly inactivating the tab/window; the page visibility API also considers the page to be invisible if you completely cover the viewport by moving another window in front of said page's viewport. Or, for that matter, if the viewport is owned by an iframe, and that iframe is scrolled out of the bounds of its parent viewport.

The intention behind the Page Visibility API is supposed to be to allow the page to stop bothering to run JS intended solely to calculate DOM updates, if said DOM isn't currently being rendered where the user can see it. Like how "damage region"-based redraw event-pumping worked in native apps before window managers started doing compositing; or how culling works in 3D rendering. The browser asks the OS to notify it whenever the tab's viewport is entirely occluded; and when the browser receives said notification, it translates that to a Page Visibility API event for the tab.

And the annoying thing about that, is that an opt-in in this case would do away with all the subtle improvements to battery life that are the "correct" use-case of this API. It'd be like having to explicitly prompt the user to opt-in to allowing the use of WEBMs for displaying animations on pages, while allowing actual .GIF-file animations all the time. Websites that are just websites, not long-use apps, would know that users don't care enough to take the time to understand what's being asked and opt in to using extra APIs with them, so 80% of the time they'd get refused; so, for a "clean experience", they just wouldn't bother to ask, and would instead just consider the API verboten, and stick with doing the worse, more-CPU-intensive thing.

Meanwhile, the malicious use-cases would just ask; because for the malicious use-case, even just those 20% of users who naively default to "yes" to prompts instead of "no" would be enough to ensure they siphon off enough data to sell for sweet, sweet ad-tech dollars. (At least, that's how things seem to be for the similar Background Notification API.)

Effectively, you'd punish honest use-cases of the API (because the devs were only doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, and so a little thing like "80% of users won't benefit" is enough to make those devs not bother), while not really thwarting malicious use-cases (because they're highly incentivized.)
Not likely, since the ASCAP reporting period is only one week, twice each year.

ASCAP = American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Composers%...

I used to game the system by playing little known/independent artists I had a personal connection with during each reporting window.
The evidence is how many cuts have been made to your country's healthcare spending in the past 40 years. And how much. And the accompanying increase of laws that encourage private hospitals and insurance, and the channeling of the healthcare to those.
Definitely another feature that should be put behind a whitelist.
The standard reply to this complaint is "use chrome.css", which sure, you and I can... but Mozilla has repeatedly threatened to remove support for it altogether.

I don't even have to write the css, I can just use https://github.com/ranmaru22/firefox-vertical-tabs, but in Edge, I can just select the option... not install an extension, click things in a hidden page, make a directory deep in $APPDATA, put a CSS file in that directory, and then also paste more CSS into said extension's custom CSS field, then restart browser.
>Trust and Safety is an extraordinarily difficult problem to handle at scale. Ideally guidelines should be public and applied consistently. That's a high standard.

Agreed.

>Elon came in saying he was pro free speech, even saying ElonJet wouldn't be banned. But he fired moderation teams and replaced them by personally making individual decisions. Twitter can't get consistent application of public guidelines from that.

I agree, but the previous admin was not even trying to meet the "public and applied consistently" standard (see Twitter Files). So I'm hopeful that there will still be improvement in the long run. Hopefully this is a teachable moment for Elon.
It's not storing any text? The weights are floating point numbers - the "text" is in some extremely high dimensional embedding space.
Reminds me of the famous quote by the footballer George Best “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
The type erasure. You get this nicely expressive type system that can encode all sorts of useful metadata, and then you have to recreate it all again by hand in 'Javascript' to access it at runtime.

Say I have `type Foo = 'bar' | 'baz'` and want to validate that an input string is within the set of Foo. Why can't I just enumerate the type to determine the valid values at runtime?
So he made a rule so he could ban someone that was (supposedly) affecting him.
The answer is obviously 62 because that's how old Tim Apple is.
My anecdote is the one time in my life I've experienced people try anarchy and it immediately degenerated into chaos, violence, and murder. I suspect that's the rule for anarchies.

Regarding watching the children of the domestically abused - no. If I know someone well enough to watch their kids then I'm not going to just sit idly by while they are abused. I will contact the police, because I don't care if the abuser gets hurt, imprisoned, or killed - shouldn't have been abusing. If the police were magically off limits I would settle the problem directly - which, incidentally, is why rational people prefer legal systems with enforcement agents, so that they don't have to handle things by themselves and deal with the ensuing chaos and violence.
Yes... when companies promise lifetime subscriptions for software and then change the terms to remove those promises, it also produces outrage.
Yeah, I thought about this, but by your logic you are never sharing live location of a person, it's always just hardware, whether it's airtag or smartphone and you could always argue you are sharing location of device, but privacy policies usually don't distinguish between these two.
Hey Bloomberg, Here’s the Short of It
An annotated example of using LPeg to parse a string to generate LPeg to parse
Did I miss the dirt road part? That looks like it starts on a rural but paved road, and ends in a town.
You could, but it's basically an echo chamber of music. I know services offer discovery, but I often switch songs instantly, whereas if its on the radio, I'm forced to listen to it, and songs often grow on me.
And given the massive negative PR some of his decisions have garnered lately, and his thin skin about them (just today he claimed that the booing at the Dave Chappelle show is because "people weren't letting him speak"), I take this vague claim which has only tangential relevance to the stalking with a grain of salt.

"Pursuing legal action against Sweeney"? Not criminal action against the stalker?

No video, not with all the cameras?

Proof that alleged stalker got the information from that Twitter account, and not FlightRadar24, or even the FAA?

Yeah, I would be unsurprised if it turned out that this was all just horse manure to try to provide cover for his decision.
> If you can’t survive as a business without causing punishing suffering to your workers, you don’t have a right to exist as a business.

Why have these workers stayed at a company that caused them "punishing suffering" instead of somewhere else?
>Sure, one might say these new self driving systems will "just" have to follow that same rule as well,

Next round of CAPTCHA: click the squares with blind pedestrians

think about it, this is how these things are being trained--by people frantically trying to click stupid images just to get to the webpage they wanted.
You can't personally buy a railroad but you can vote for people who will apply your tax dollars towards it instead of oil subsidies and auto bailouts :)
Worst case you can ride Dragon without a suit. It's less safe but it's probably still safer than the shuttle.
I tested this one and a lot of others, including the Teslas and polestar 2. The Ionic 5 was the one i was most satisfied with, it’s really spacious, has excellent range, vehicle to grid and even camping mode. With the on-screen rear mirror cameras addon, it’s really hard to beat.

Unfortunately, i had to cancel my booking after the energy crisis became too severe..
The Tragic Rise of Fentanyl, Mapped
case study is a sheer presentation about 5+ years of industry experience, collaboration, expertise, and quality deliverables.
Yay, KFJC FM where I started my radio career in 1979.
It's still a great station to hear "new" music.

https://kfjc.org
Cops are 3x to 4x more likely to be a domestic abuser than a the civilian population.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/comments/b9fkny/is...
Does this include paparazzi or celeb sighting photos?
Except they are not even in the same ballpark. Nobody is denying fusion can be done, but if you told me moon landing tickets were available to the general public I would say you were lying.

It is not an engineering problem, they haven't solved half the physics still. You can't just tell the fuel pellets to burn hotter please, would you mind transferring your energy to this battery on the way out, they have none of the required steps to do this yet.

Once it's actually possible to get net positive energy, then yes by all means engineer away the inefficiencies, before that it's still as much a pipe dream.
I agree, except to add that I unfortunately don't think Musk's principles are very different from most people's, in that it seems that most people only care about their own free speech and are completely fine with the speech of their ideological opponents being repressed.
> Banning a silly Twitter account that copy/pastes data from the FAA won't change a thing.

Of course it does.

When you make something easier to do, the effect is it increases the chance of people doing it.

If your contact information is listed in a telephone book, it is publicly accessible information. Anyone can look that up. But who's going to do that? (to prank call you for example). But if some posts your info to a twitter account that reaches millions, chances are someone's going to call you. Why? Because popped up in millions of peoples' twitter feeds. And since it's so low effort, one or more people with nothing better to do will call.
Note that the Samsung Internet privacy policy is awful. They collect:

“The information we obtain in this manner may include, identifiers associated with your devices, types of devices, web browser characteristics, device and operating system type and characteristics, language preferences, clickstream data, your interactions with Samsung Internet (such as the web pages you visit, links you click and features you use), dates and times of your use of Samsung Internet, and other information about your use of Samsung Internet.”

https://developer.samsung.com/internet/privacy-policy-us.htm...
If you run a ZFS file system where this is a huge deal to you, then don't set utf8only. If it's set on a parent dataset, then explicitly do utf8only=off.
Would a transparent pile of compost the size of the Sun have the same effect?
I followed a thread here that included the surprising fact that Hydrogen fusion is so unlikely the power output per volume of the core of the sun is only about the same as a compost heap.

The reason the sun is so bright and hot is its size.
I’m realizing I didn’t give flux the credit I should have. I actually interviewed to work on it because as far as I can tell, this stuff is the future. So that aside, it doesn’t fit my workflow well today but I don’t doubt that it will, and for many people it already does.

I’m glad to hear good things are coming! I’ll definitely keep checking in. Apologies for being dismissive of the hard work your team does, especially after seeing the kinds of technical challenges you take on and working with similar technologies myself these days.

High performance, user-friendly collaborative tools in the browser are not a free lunch, and what flux does today is already impressive.
I don't connect to Twitter, but I thought that LibsOfTikTok posted evidence in the form of screenshots and recordings of what hospital representatives had said over the phone. Someone even found a paper where authors affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital reported 65 gender affirming surgeries performed when the patient was a minor at the time of surgery: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11071943 (Table 1).

From the paper: "The Center for
Gender Surgery (CfGS) at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) was the first pediatric
center in the United States to offer gender-affirming chest surgeries for individuals
over 15 years old and genital surgeries for those over 17 years of age. "
Apple's Satellite Emergency Services Lead to Another Rescue
In this particular case, there was an attempt at terrorizing Elon IRL. So why shouldn't attacks on him therefore count as "stochastic terrorism", insofar as "stochastic terrorism" is a meaningful concept?
"Free Speech Absolutism" is just another liberal boondoggle that they can endlessly smear their opponents with to attract voters.
The idea of using nuclear fusion as a source of energy dates back to the 1920s and 1930s, when Rutherford first began exploring the possibility. By the 1950s and 1960s significant progress was made in understanding the complex scientific processes involved in nuclear fusion and in developing the technology needed to harness this form of energy. So based on your criteria you could have said the "rest is engineering" back in the 60s!

In reality though we are still far away from engineers being able to take over, even now. Because we need way more than 1.5x coming out of fusion in order to compensate for the inefficiencies in generating laser from electricity, and also the inefficiencies in converting heat output into electricity.
why does headline use only half the screen width on mobile, which is already very narrow in usual portrait orientation
At warp factor 5 it's only 27 days away!
Yes. At least we know how to build the infrastructure. It can be done very quickly if we so choose & fund. And again, yes, fusion could conceivably help us reverse some of the damage caused in the meantime.

Re fusion power, the causality is the reverse of how it's normally expressed. We don't need fusion to fix the climate crisis (it comes too late). But we do need to fix the climate crisis to be able to create usable fusion power. The scale of research & implementation it relies on depends on a well-functioning global network of nations. If we collapse into multiple wars over who will take the hundreds of millions of mid-century refugees, who will and won't quit fossil fuels, not to mention the trivialities of Great Power politicking, then fusion power just won't happen.
An era is too long. It is controversial as a proposed epoch/series which is two levels down from an Era/Erathem in the geological time scale hierarchy.
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It's doxxing if the info was not meant to be public, but was leaked via some source unintentionally. It's not really doxxing if you take info that's broadcast to the public by law and use that. I put out my resume that has my name, address, and phone number on my public website and I wouldn't consider it doxxing if someone uses that info.

If Musk doesn't want to get tracked, he can take a regular airplane like other people, or maybe borrow a plane from someone he knows, and not use one that's registered to his business.
It's not that they suck. Most users probably can't even tell the difference on modern hardware.

It's that you can't spy on your user nearly as effectively with a web app compared to what you get with native. You're limited to web APIs, instead of native APIs. Which is why, I believe, there is a full court press on so many sites to get mobile users away from websites and into their apps.

I'm not alone in preferring to just use a website and not clutter my phone with apps for every online site I may interact with. Yet many sites actively press me to switch to the app including crippling the mobile version of the site. Removing features that work fine on desktop as soon as they detect a mobile client.