skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not good enough to handle edge cases.

It's a little bit like ChatGPT: ChatGPT is a next-word prediction engine. It has ingested and analyzed "human data" which has given it a take on what might come after a prompt. With good training data, a large enough token window and a helping of RLHF this can do very cool things. But there's no actual reasoning going on.

An "edge case" is a prompt that throws this approach for a spin, because statistics over the training data corpus don't yield a good prediction on it. For example because it's novel or its structure is uncommon. In those cases ChatGPT will do its best and confidently return something very dumb.

With the driving problem, Tesla and others are trying to mitigate this with two approaches:

- superstructures of rule-based planning to keep the predictions within safe lanes (no pun intended), i.e. bake in some reasoning after all

- trying to write simulations that auto-generate "edge cases" or just stuff that is underrepresented in the training data set and add those simulated 3d renders to editorialize the predictions

It's currently still unclear if this is enough to solve the problem or if we're still some innovations (e.g. ones that get us closer to AGI) away from being able to make it work.
Any advice for finding quality Discord servers (things like ideal member count / “red flags” etc)? I feel like I have a lot of trouble finding servers that strike a good balance of being active but not impenetrable.
I am always torn between the two: restic or Borg.. how would I decide?
Schedule Planners as a Resource
To me the most significant line is this:

>The rapid-fire dialing of numbers also indicates that the user had a list of targets at the ready, and a specific focus on schools, law enforcement agencies, fire departments and emergency dispatchers. Together, these accounted for 92% percent of the places that the VOIP number called.

Hundreds of calls all across the country in short bursts, focused on a few states at a time. Whatever it is, it was an intentional campaign. I would think a state actor or state-associated actor (if that's an important distinction) might do it as part of a campaign to exploit existing cultural stressors.

I know from my experience on the east coast that multiple additional calls have occurred since Oct 21.
Looks like it's a known issue: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl/issues/1237

Maybe try 2.2 when it comes out?
Yeah, I actually did really well after the Deepwater Horizon buying BP stock at the bottom, since the amount of value it lost in market cap exceeded the largest fine in history plus the cost of all the damage and lost oil by something like an order of magnitude.

That said, while in theory I actually think LUV is a decent trade right now, broader market conditions will keep me from messing with it.
The fact that on Tesla's site the feature is called "Full Self-Driving Capability" while Ford's is called "BlueCruise" seems to be a rather relevant difference. "Full Self-Driving" sure feels like false advertising to me, even if it doesn't legally qualify as such.
> It appeared to many observers that Musk was mocking the Russian propaganda, he then made the mockery explicit later.

Saying "EPIC THREAD" is just his style of praising something, not mocking it. He had to add extra tweets to mock it five hours later because of the backslash.
I wish that on these discussion, we could also see a report from commentors about how much time they have spent behind the wheel of a Tesla on autopilot.

It is truly, truly depressing reading these threads.
Sorry - if this is your website, could you please not hide the scrollbar?

The CSS file has a comment This below keeps the regular scrollbar for scrolling the page, if present, because that one makes sense to be there. but it doesn't seem to be taking effect for me.

Regarding the AoC i'm very impressed with adding the extra time constraint on yourself.
This isn't malicious compliance. This is just what organically happens -- see Goodhart's law.
Yes i did this too
My grandmother got talked into mailing cash between the pages of a magazine. I don't really know what to say other than the format of the money doesn't matter too much, someone is going to try to scam people out of it, and the scams are going to work.
I've never heard of that before. Could you describe how it works?
People are looking at modern times as if they're worse, when they're almost strictly better than everything that came before us. Far less of the world lives in poverty. People in developed nations have more access to information, entertainment, lifestyle choices, etc.

Big media sells fear. Social media amplifies rage. They both create a miasma of doom that isn't reflective of the upward trajectory we've been on and continue to ride.

The Boomer era economics were not the norm and comparing ourselves to them is a great deception. Postwar America was growing and factory to the entire world. That was unsustainable and the differential between the US and the rest of the world (especially developing economies in Asia) has diminished. We can't compare Boomer McMansions and low cost of infrastructure and development to our modern state in any sort of fairness. Our wages grew too much, and that's a good thing! (Automation will bring us right back to this recipe anyway, and we're getting there.)

Compare America today against the broader world history and you'll see that we're wealthy, growing, and improving by almost all measures.
Big software projects inevitably become expensive boondoggles that get everyone fired so nobody wants to do them until they're absolutely necessary.
Related:

Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27939412 - July 2021 (71 comments)

BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642364 - Nov 2019 (103 comments)
Most people who want 40Gbps can diagnose the issues, the rest will assume "Oh, it takes 6 hours, better plan for it, that's how it is". But it will work every. single. time. at those very slow 2.0 speeds.

What they should do is give a popup saying "You have a slow cable, it could be faster, go rummage till this message goes away and mark the good one with a sharpie", and that wouldn't need any changes to the spec

They've chosen reliability over quality. Cheap reliability is a great thing. We did fine before fast hard drives, we can often live without them. But we'll want to scream if we can't get it working at all.
I think about this all the time. That should be part of the final peace settlement.
No I disagree with the premise. The point of government is to do what is best for society even if it is not what is necessarily popular. We outlaw the use of certain chemicals despite their practicality for this reason, as an example. People may have an irrational appetite for risk in crypto drawn by outlandish stories of unlimited wealth, but government should see it for what it is: a way to do finance without playing by the rules of finance, and step in proactively. By acting after everything is over and investors are hurt, they have failed everyone and their mandate accordingly.
Those environments have been mapped out to a very high level of detail. It's a similar "long-tail" problem — all very well and good to have self-driving cars running around downtown SF after spending tons of effort and time creating a virtual map of the city, but it's quite something else to get general self-driving that will work across the entire country.
Working with Large Datasets in Postgres
That's absolutely true but not desired in a world based on mindless consumption and convenience unfortunately.
I too was told in my youth that social security would be bankrupt long before I would ever retire, probably by the same people that told you that. Consider making a quantitative rather than an emotional argument, and let's see the assumptions on which that argument relies.
Database and VM snapshot and backup can be tricky.

My suggestion is using ZFS.
> No control freaks - especially in leads & managers

How do you test for that during the interview process?
Yeah, and also please take your shoe off when boarding. Because you know, a family guy from Sweden is a threat to Uncle Sam Associates.

Further, please prove you have survived certain medical procedures (Suddenly, border force can operate in violation of hipaa).

Seriously, anyone who wants to justify current western procedures needs vacation. :-D
Well, while yes, automatic dependency management is a really relevant reason why things got that bad, it can't be the only reason.

Programs in other languages with the same kind of tooling tend to stop at hundreds or at most low-thousands of dependencies. Javascript code often reach tens or low-hundreds of thousands of dependencies.

Dependency explosion is bad all around, but JS is exceptionally bad.
Yep, the other airlines are in the business of selling "class" and "status," and it's part of their product differentiation strategy to treat you according to how much you pay.
It's incredible that one person was able to handle all the work that took up 90% of the welders time. Lots of time must have been spent getting in and out of gear. I’d expect that one guy to end up the bottleneck and the welders to be waiting for him to bring them parts, but it says he even as time to peel the plastic!

I imagine the blue light applied to programming would be a crude tool. I want to hear keys clacking? See issues closed, pull requests? But we can ask what are the things developers are doing which interrupt them from coding and could there be a benefit to someone employed to handle those distractions?
Way more likely to happen in your sleep, ime
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> "A VPN will generally change by itself, whether you log in or out, about every 30 seconds," she said.

I'm no networking expert, but as a VPN user, I don't think this can be true outside of a disconnect/reconnect.
Captain Disillusion's content is amazing.

I particularly enjoy his talks, and the in-depth film SFX episodes, but his range and variety is part of his charm.
I really hate GoDaddy, I try to avoid them personally, but they do have a good DNS collaboration (sharing access to another account) that I wish others would mimic. Cloudflare requires you have Enterprise to have the exact same features.
That's a little less horrible than XLR, because the common use of speakon is already a designated "You're on your own" protocol, since you have to verify yourself that the amp isn't too much for the speaker and you're not feeding it 80hz square waves.
For this specific need, just once. Disk is 1TB but only about 350GB used.

'dd' would have been my thought as well, I've heard of Clonezilla also but never used it and not sure it's really doing anything appreciably different.

I like the idea of 'dd' because I have a very clear mental picture of what it does. Just wasn't sure there was something else I might want to look at.
I doubt very much the concern is that it may become a reactionary institution, although that would be a chief concern. There are other people on the board who are very qualified, and she gives her respects to them.

From the letter, and their podcasts, I think their chief concern is probably more that UATX is going to be structured along the lines of a traditional university system and merely continue some of the same flaws. I tend to agree with her, but it may be that too fundamental changes might not attract the same prestige and fundraising that such an institution needs.
"EPIC THREAD" is 269 characters short of the limit... so yeah, 280 might not be enough to make nuanced arguments, but he was not even trying (and he is not known for making nuanced arguments, just for being a tantrum-prone narcissist)
Yeah, we should 'trust' them after they lost the biometric data for all of the Afghanis they fingerprinted. I was going to have my visa application but I guess I'll defer it.
Angels and artillery: a cathedral to Russia's new national identity (2020)
It is actually netflix doing this, so that they get more content for jamtara season 3
It's not necessarily unrealistic. It only takes one terrible driver to drag down the mean and make everyone else better than average!
When given the choice, don’t do business with companies with a history of treating people like garbage—be those people their customers, employees, or innocent bystanders.

I’d no sooner recommend new business use GoDaddy than Wells Fargo.
You massively underestimate the effort required to hide malware from people doing a cursory review of a bash script.

Most of these bash scripts install open source software so I would simply recompile that software with my malware included.

Also people talk to each other. I would want to hide my malware very well so that nobody noticed and raised the alarm for as long as possible.
Idk why the fuck you Ruby people are acting so butthurt
In the mid 19th century, the British Empire was peaking as the largest empire in history. It was a long road to get to that point, and this secret society was created as the Empire was just beginning its decline.

The 20th century saw the rise of American military, economic, and cultural imperialism, which carried Anglo-American culture further as the British Empire declined relatively.

Sure, I'll concede that there are shady people in government trying to do things that are broadly objectionable and sometimes illegal, but to think this means certain individuals or secret societies have a "stranglehold" on global politics or economics goes much too far. There are far too many factors at play for a small group of people to wield the level of outsize power necessary to guide these processes. It's really a very large and ever-changing group of people who "control everything", and this happens in a highly uncoordinated manner.
“Is there a deeper truth in Nike's famous adage of "Just Do It"?

The term mindset has become common in everyday use. There is a certain romance to the idea that if we can somehow just change our mindset everything will fall into place.”

This is a complete misinterpretation. It is a shoe company, they mean to do it, not mindset about it.
Nothing wrong with relationships out of wedlock. That's how you find out who you like and what you like.

You have your freedom concept upside down. Like I say, you are free to lock yourself in a room if you can't control your own desires, and that way the rest of us can get on with our lives. This sounds like your problem and nobody elses.
USB is the worst connection standard, except for all the other ones.
probably helps since they don't have assigned seats (afaict)
One of the more tangible outcomes from my work on mobile sync is the United scheduling software. Seems like Southwest was too little too late on IT upgrades. https://www.couchbase.com/customers/united-airlines/
I read three paragraphs and felt like I was reading dry word salad... without croutons.
They name it "Full self driving" and lean heavily on that marketing for one: https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/support/autopilot
There’s a reason I linked the study. I agree they work.
It doesn't seem that farfetched for an airline to run a drill where a given airport is assumed inoperable to see how the system reacts. The expectation shouldn't be the same as the data center failure but you can learn what you aren't doing well enough.
Okay so let’s say I accept your statement is true and also I’m making good money these days with low expenses. Where should I put my money so I can be one of these people taking advantage of the fact that we’re exploiting workers? Because I’d sure like to become part of this bourgeoise class everyone keeps talking about. Do I just put money into lots of stocks?
Came here to say the same. The cities boomers grew up with are not the cities of 2022. Most of the interesting things that exist today in cities either didn’t exist for boomers when they were our age or was incredibly scarce and only within the reach of extremely wealthy.

If you want the boomer city experience, you need to go pick a city today that compares to a NYC, LA, Miami or SF in the 1960s and 1970s. Nothing like 2022 NYC, LA, Miami or SF existed in the 1960s and 1970s.
You are trying to take that away. I have cut every vestige of every one of these companies out of my life except google, which the only thing I have left is, when someone sends me a link to a website owned by them, I pipe through a proxy and rip the content. I want it to be all or nothing, and I've gone to great lengths to make it so, but a video is a video and a video host is a video host in my mind, for purposes of consumption.

FYI I have created a tool to break this dependency also, https://codeberg.org/mister_monster/YouTube2Peertube it enables the content on YouTube to be mirrored elsewhere, and a good number of people use it, but not near enough.

As far as search goes, the truth is I find myself using search less and less in general, because it is mostly broken, but when I do I default to independent indexes like marginilia, brave (which isn't 100% independent yet), even yandex sometimes, but find myself sometimes using a metasearch engine like ddg or metager and so in that way one step removed I do use google search every so often.
There's nothing that I'm aware of preventing one from putting the secret key material on a hardware wallet of your comfort level and having it type in the encoded value when signing onto a new device (the way the Yubikey pretends to be a keyboard when plugged in); obviously(?) 1Password is not incentivized to own such a complex workflow but there's nothing that I can see stopping you from doing it. FWIW they also support 2FA on login, which is different from the secret key to unlock the vault, so ... 3FA?

With regard to the "claim not not store" part, they've had multiple security audits including granting the auditor access to the underlying source code, so if there was something underhanded going on, I believe it would have gotten out by now: https://support.1password.com/security-assessments/

I'm with you that it's not as nice as open source clients, but given a choice between trusting 1Password with code I cannot see and trusting Bitwarden with code that I can see, I'm sticking with 1Password
Into a single layer cloth mask correct it does nothing.
It's not vaporware, it's just taken significantly longer than expected.

EDIT: nevermind, parent clarified. Leaving original comment so follow-ups make sense.

"Taking longer...": what we call it when it doesn't work, despite all of the marketing. So, IOW, "vaporware".

When Tesla ships a working product, where "working" something remotely close to what has been promised, we can call it something else.
Print password and detailed access instructions. Put instructions in safe deposit box. Allocate access to safe deposit box in your will.

Emergency access is a human problem. Seeking a technical solution to a human problem is just asking for trouble. This is why lawyers and customer service will always be necessary.
Related:

Faster Python calculations with Numba - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30392367 - Feb 2022 (66 comments)

Numba: a JIT compiler for Python that works best on code that uses NumPy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614533 - Nov 2019 (9 comments)

How Numba and Cython speed up Python code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17678758 - Aug 2018 (45 comments)

Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15301766 - Sept 2017 (62 comments)

Numba - JIT specializing compiler for annotated Python and NumPy code to LLVM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5927787 - June 2013 (8 comments)

Accelerating Python Libraries with Numba (Part 2) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5757231 - May 2013 (23 comments)

Accelerating Python Libraries with Numba - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680722 - May 2013 (30 comments)

Numba: NumPy-aware optimizing compiler for Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4430780 - Aug 2012 (23 comments)

NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3864659 - April 2012 (9 comments)

Numba - A NumPy aware (LLVM-based) optimizing compiler for Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3692055 - March 2012 (6 comments)
> They don’t spy on their own citizens

Correct, that would be illegal.

When NSA need to spy on an american, they ask GCHQ to do it for them and buy the data. Or buy it off a private company.
Uses SDL for rendering the UI. While it makes it work cross-platform it unfortunately means it won't look like a native application. Then again, I don't think there's a C library which provides cross-platform native UI, only the Lazarus toolkit for Free Pascal and WxWidgets for C++.
> I got about three sentences in when I realized this guy is really, really smart. The way he spoke about …

As a non-expert, how would you be able to judge?

ChatGPT also sounds really smart while giving brutally false answers.
What Should Be on the Roadmap?
I love the process of thinking behind this article. Even though it didn't tell us much, it gives strong clues.

It's how I'd like to analyze marketing data when a strict control vs live is not possible.
Unfortunately the flexible implementation has a better chance at becoming dominant as it will work in more cases hence user are more likely to adopt it­. Users don't care about standards compliance in the short term (if ever), they just want a solution to their use case, which is understandable. Same reason Microsoft worked so hard to keep deviant apps running on newer versions of Windows, there's a quality to "it just keeps working no matter what I do".
I've experienced this too, and it's a reason I'm building a reactive programming language. One way to think about it is a headless spreadsheet. https://www.adama-platform.com/
I loved this. There are multiple incarnations of the concept.

Then in my city came the startups, the tech bros and sisters without tech background but marketing-fu and now you have to pay a monthly fee to lend and rent screwdrivers.

Back to getting on a first-name basis with my neighbours then.
Lol... So if you claim that 2 + 2 = 5, I can't ask for a proof? That's new...
The USA is rapidly losing that status, though. Its European bases were a holdover from the Second World War, extended by the Cold War - their presence should not be seen as any indication of its current political status.

In the last 20 years the USA has involved its allies into multiple pointless unwinnable wars. Human rights in the USA have been significantly eroded, and many values essential to modern society are currently being undermined. Additionally, Trump's presidency has done significant damage to a large number of diplomatic relations and resulted not only in widespread doubt about its democratic process, but a genuine coup attempt.

Meanwhile, during the same 20 years the European Union and China have risen in power significantly - and both are making significant effort to curtail the power the USA has over them. Those military bases exist because the USA is still somewhat of an ally and the EU has real threats right on its border - as long as the USA is not actively hostile towards the EU, having direct access to the firepower of a gun-drunk nation is quite convenient.
I would hedge with a refundable ticket to a different airline. If Southwest is still having issues you might be able to get the other ticket comped to some degree and still have a flight, if they aren't having issues you can refund the other fare
I'm using Velero to do this in my toy kubernetes clusters. It uses Restic under the hood and can store things into S3. By default it will take a filesystem-level copy of whatever is on a pv. It looks like it supports hooks, e.g. to run pg_backup like you mentioned, but I haven't used them.

https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero
Well, HR as any other power structure is to protect status quo.

They will sack anyone if they see it necessary to protect the status quo.

But more importantly, HR will create mindless policies to show you how powerful they are. As border force forcing your sneakers of.