skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it certainly exhibits some of the hallmarks of intelligence.

That is because we have specifically engineered them to simulate those hallmarks. Like, that was the whole purpose of the endeavour: build something that is not intelligent (because we cannot do that yet), but which "sounds" intelligent enough when you talk to it.
Maybe I was being a little dramatic and hyperbolic for effect.

I don’t mean I never leave the house. I go to concerts and the zoo with my kids and whatever. I went on vacation across the country the other day. None of those things are helping me discern what’s going on in the world, unless “Disneyworld is a fun place” and “the ocean is a nice place to laze around” count as my lived experience.
Hmm if only the founding document of America was written in such a way as to divide the country into smaller polities that could focus on their own issues, we could I don't know divide the country into 50 geographical areas and have them manage within their borders pretty much anything that isn't defense, foreign policy, or weights and measures. But that's nonsense of course, why shouldn't voters in SF decide the best way for the people of Bismark to live.
Looks cool! Since you mentioned all the magic happening in the backend, how does it run? How do you ensure I am not running malicious Python code, like infinite for loop or never-ending recursion? Also, disabling file or network IO?

Did you also explore running Python in the browser using wasm?
Yes. And chat outputs normally include footnoted links to sources, so clicking a link produced by Sydney/Bing would be normal and expected user behavior.
Honestly 7000 sounds high, but then you need to consider that they have to prove compliance in 188 different countries and 44 languages. And probably need a exactly not small team in each of these.
And the customers are enterprise, banks and so on. So everything needs to be negotiated and documented just right and those aren't known to be fast processes.
And then you might need separate infra for many of these. Or even many of the customers.

In the end it is not complexity of the product itself, but where and how and by whom it is used. And proving that it ticks all the boxes.
When one looks objectively at media reporting and takes that objective viewpoint on a sliding scale backwards through various reports, it becomes obvious that their mission is not to report news, but to shape public opinion.
And people called me crazy when I started to drive with sunglasses at night.
On what basis would you conclude that "now" is not "soonest", other than conjecture?
Maybe because is true?
I guess what I should have said was that they’d have a sense of the operative case law in the area they were speaking on. I don’t think that is too high of an expectation. That case wasn’t something I had to google and I’m not in school currently.
Despite the "trustless" credo that gets passed around in cryptography, it's actually often very important to know the people that work in this space and I invite you to read more about this particular person, his background and roots and make a determination as to his intentions in this space and the level of trust you are willing to put in his work (and/or the stuff he previously worked on) and not just make a base judgement on his name alone. FWIW, I've been familiar with his work since before I even used or cared about cryptography.
Where I am in Europe they will test and adjust them for you. My headlights can only be adjusted from behind, and I thought there was no way to do it without removing them. The inspector knew of a plastic gromit in the rain tray above the hood that can be removed to access the adjustment point.
all get categorized as "things smart people do"
They quantize because the underlying solution is a circular standing wave, which is stable if it consists of a whole number of periods. The wave itself is of course analog, quantization emerges through many hoops and provides stable states with certain potential well like any stable state, and can squiggle a little under perturbation or squiggle a lot under, say, Zeeman effect.
Box filtering should be pretty cheap; it is separable, and can be implemented with a moving average. Overall just a handful of operations per pixel.
I equally can't be arsed to read threads titled like this. the titling of articles is probably the thing that bothers me most on this website. if it isn't "why [high entropy word] and [high entropy word] are [high entropy word]"[1], then it's this. if Telegram is insecure, say that. if it's secure, say that. healthy titles don't make things less clear to make you want to clarify them.
And? If 95% of the medicine released didn't turn out to be a mistake or the company lied why wouldn't you trust the company.

All you're doing is saying that bad things happened instead of comparing it to the number of non bad things.
Taibbi is making a great living by being a reactionary on podcasts and fringe outlets. Journalists are suckers. He hasn't done "journalism" in forever. Editorialism is where it's at.
Sorry to break it to you, but you are not a big customer to Google either.

Let's assume that billions is actually 99B. So roughly 10B/yr. This is roughly 4% of their income in a year(~ 284B in 2022).

Big customers are at least double digit % of their income.
I found the M25, M11, and North Circular to have very good road markings and cats' eyes.
Advertisers influence the ideological/political current by manipulating the minds of the people. So yes.
I once bricked a motherboard with a bad flash, probably around 2012. I ended up desoldering the SPI flash and reprogramming it from another computer. Worked. In hindsight, it was quicker to do that than to go through the "front door" with the manufacturer-provided utilities.
Having to process 100 source pixels per destination pixel to shrink 10x seems like an inefficient implementation. If you downsample each dimension individually you only need to process 20 pixels per pixel. This is the same optimization used for Gaussian blur.
Yes, WhatsApp and Signal. Both use the Signal Protocol.
TikTok to launch live ‘TikTok Trivia’ game with $500K in prize money
TechCrunch Article: https://tcrn.ch/3lEEpkb
That looks useful. Of course, one big difference is Neptyne is "in the cloud" versus an app you have to do download.
tl;skimmed only - but my view is that all lifeforms are computers. The main thesis here seems to be that math evolves naturally as a way to reduce computational load. Makes sense to me.
Why would you believe that a youtube video necessarily shows reality?
PyXLL is great but installing on users machines can be difficult. The problem that VBA actually solves in my opinion is that it allows technicalish users to build software without any controls. Most enterprise companies lock down the dev experience so much it is impossible to do anything but in VBA you can have direct access to the kernel.
Sorry, all the irreconcilable ambiguities are conflicts with other, not-yet-accepted proposals, with one exception, a conflict with JS tools that use JSON to spit out CSS. I'd argue that there are other syntax options for those other not-yet-accepted proposals, and this is likely to be a more-used feature than any I saw. And forcing some poorly-designed JS tools to come up with a minor workaround just isn't something I care about.

Is there any conflict with anything that exists in the standard right now?
> It is pro-employee policy, as it gives you time to peacefully search for other job and not be left without any wage to support yourself and your family.

Wouldn't that also be the case with a short (say two week) or even no notice period?

Simply start your job search before you tell your current employer that you want to leave.
My local newspaper is owned by USAToday and their site is some kind of white-labeled USAToday wordpress template that's shared by a bunch of other formerly-independent local newspapers which are apparently now part of the USAToday portfolio.

I don't have any interest in supporting USAToday, so I will never make it past my fifth article of the week.
I'm going to take your claim
at face value.

The sense of entitlement comes from the purchase of the device, which is then remotely controlled by a party who has no property interest in the device following purchase.

If you bought the phone, you should be able to run all the apps you want on it, not only the ones Apple and the various regional governments say you are allowed to. Surely you see the abuse potential (which is not theoretical - iPhones in China cannot type or display the flag of Taiwan or install VPN apps) there?

Why do people defend vendors remotely disabling functionality in devices end users have bought and paid for?
Massachusetts. The roads are terrible.
Drew DeVault took the time to write it up: https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html
A layoff should be a last resort, sever the arm to save the body type situation.

When projects don't pan out you first try to reallocate those people to more profitable areas. Also use this time to reflect on why these project didn't pan out, learn from those who worked on it and try to avoid making the same mistake in the future.

With bad performers, you put them on a performance improvement plan (pip).

General other cleanup is vague, but in most cases there's a more pragmatic approach.

Again, sometimes things are so bad you have to resort to worse options. We're in a recession, stocks are going to dip, just focus on the fundamentals and it'll be over before you know it. Instead execs are burning their culture and moral for a temporary boost.
The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow
> EDIT: Thinking about it, I'm actually not averse to phoning-home, just the automatic/hidden nature of it. If brew asked me, every 5 or so times that I ran it, if I would like to participate in sending anonymized analytics to the brew devs, and showed me what was being sent (instead of obfuscating it), I'd be a lot more inclined to click "[Yes] - this one time" almost every single time ..

I'd take a minute to rip the fckng line of code bugging me every 5 installs out of the code. Thing is, if you make telemetry opt-in, it's the same as just not adding it in the first place. Only a handful of users will opt in, rendering the data pretty much useless, especially as it's install and install-fail counts.

If they included any personal data, it'd be opt-in by law (at least here in EU). As they don't, they don't have to, and I'm fine with it.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not exactly the same thing, but you might find Metacademy.org[1] of interest.

[1]: https://www.metacademy.org
I have a car with a similar feature. It can be erratic (on/off a lot) in certain situations where there is a lot of lights/signs around. But typically I don't have brights on there. Haven't noticed any degradation with age, but certainly possible.

For context, this is demonstrating a more advanced "automatic brights" system albeit somewhat rudimentary compared to some of the newer LED projectors (e.g. Audi, Mercedes). Turning on your brights is still opt-in. Normal brights don't turn off automatically for pedestrians
What sources do you personally trust?
Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years
ExGOOG Employee: Once-great org has ceased to function due to 4 cultural probs
This concept was explored in a stephen spielberg movie. Minority report. Good movie. Watch it. Stars Tom Cruise and has mission impossible vibes.

In the end the government cancelled the program because of free will. A person always has the choice to change his actions because his actions aren't predetermined.
This is the first time I've heard the term "Europoor"... despite being ethnically "Europoor" (living abroad).

For those who haven't seen it before, it apparently mean "European, but from one of the poorer European nations, mainly from eastern Europe."
Homebrew can detect a lot of things during normal maintenance work: there are extensive tests and checks during compilation and bottle building, for example.

However, we can't catch everything: Homebrew has millions of users, and those users have all kinds of different setups. We can't predict every possible host and software interaction; basic failure analytics help bridge the gap there.
Sentry: Session Replay
https://archive.ph/bXwB8
Classically, fake news was more of a left issue. Trump gave it a catchy name and stole the issue.
So is this the reason why my lights inside my home are flashing every time I use slow motion mode on my phone camera?
There is a "resizing attack" that's been published that does what you're suggesting

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/husky-ai-image-res...
I dunno. I suspect that the news was just as partisan and biased back then, but the public was less able to independently verify news reports.
Given the number of people who are pasting their code into ChatGPT and asking it to help debug it, I'm not sure that developers are properly aware of that... that's even setting side the "sending internal code to an unapproved external service."
How does it interact with libraries that need the file system? e.g. Can I use requests-cache?
That profit is after expenses for flights, parties, conferences, consultants, etc.

I'm ready for $10 and $100 coins and avoid the fed notes.
Oil blockades stop the fuel for existing cars. Lithium or whatever blockades stop new car or repairs of EVs.

That means people could still drive EVs even if there is an embargo because we'll always have power.
Spy Balloons. U.F.O.s. What Else Is Up There?
You can use swap / virtual memory. The tricky part with that or any db is to make sure that your array accesses are as sequential as possible, because in the worst case, each memory reference could turn into a disk access. Make sure your swap is on a fast NVME/SSD device to minimize access time. See mkswap.
Seymour Hersh is the Journalist/Investigative Reporter and he does not mess around.

Not just some 'substack'. I suspect some of the larger outlets would not publish it without source information etc and as I mentioned Seymour Hersh is well known for sticking to his word of "Not revealing sources".
DHS warns iPhone users to change settings over zero-day vulnerability
There's also this BBC documentary from a little while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhwNTo_Yr3k
No, they are hard.

If you're going to feed kids candy that is colored with agent A you need to make identical candy colored with agent B so the kids can't tell them apart. You can test A vs B but not A vs no color. (Though maybe you can have the kids eat the candy while blindfolded)

If you're going to test the influence of sugar you could use sugar for candy A and some combination of Sucralose, Ace-K, aspartame and some strange carbohydrate like mannitol or xylitol in candy B and get pretty close in terms of taste and mouthfeel but in A/B tests people will notice the difference.

Then people will wonder if those other substances cause problems and none of these address the possibility that the sensory pleasure of junk food makes kids squee and lose self control.
Absolutely. Capitalism in fact does not incentivizes destroying companies. Actually, the new broken American capitalism does - squeeze a company for revenue to juice share prices and walk away from the ruins, but that is different.

Musk’s behavior has strong authoritarian tendencies. He is a caricature version of a spoiled king. Roll it back a few hundred years and a guy like that would be ordering to chop some heads if his chicken got overcooked.
Yeah this is good, but just imagine in 5-10 years how good these models will be. I think indistinguishable from human speech.
It's been quite a few years since I did this kind of stuff for a living, so this may be an antiquated notion...

"In my day," desktop computers saved their files to a server. That server would get backed up daily. The backup tapes/drives would be stored offline and rotated to an offsite location. (Back then you were more concerned about the building burning down than a ransomware attack.) The same would be true for any apps running on servers; their data/databases would be backed up daily and the tapes/drives used for backup would be stored elsewhere.

What is this old guy missing? If a process like this were in place, nearly all of their data would be intact. Yes, it will take some time to do a full restore and you will be missing some amount of data that was created since the last backup. But it's survivable in many cases. And you're not negotiating with criminals.
Wow, one has to wonder how the other half can be in such a daze.
If china ever gets democratic, a new mighty privacy player will appear. Chinas citizens have the same nasty experience as east germans had with the stasi and the poles, chechs with the cheka. They have been spied upon, reported upon by there fellow citizen and have been victims of "zersetzung". Aka social engineering to destroy a citizen.

https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/mfs-lexikon/detail/ze...

Link is german: Shows how denunciation aka controlled leaking of private life like affairs was used, to destroy the lifes of resisting citizens.

PS: FB and Google could in theory use similar instruments against citizens that put pressure on them. Nobody could ever catch them at it.

If the ccp ever gets swept away and replaced by a new better china, the resulting parties will outdo one another to promise freedom and privacy.
I had friends who became Trump supporters, and I unfriended them. I believe in morals. I believe in God. There's no way I can be friends with people who, at best, only pay lip service to those concepts while using them to further patent evil.

To be clear, I'm not really on the "blue team" either. But that's a team that hasn't been taken over by the worst of its fans, nor is it motivated by things such as xenophobia, willful and prideful ignorance, and malice.

I think the view that you are advocating for basically bends morality to accommodate the fact that so many people have to do and believe x. I'm a religious person. I don't believe in changing the criteria just to avoid an unsavory conclusion about people.

(To be clear, I mention the God thing not so much as a "holier than thou" thing, but in allusion to the fact that these differences cannot be bridged--I find it incredibly idiotic when people say things like "we need to talk to each other more to stop the division". Such a thing would only fuel the division, in my opinion.)
I realized that after I clicked save.
"I work on a software product in a niche, within a niche, within a niche, to help a subset of large corporations process data a little bit more effectively during meetings."

Even a small increase in efficiency in a large company can be worth a lot of money, and that money will be spread across employees, customers, and shareholders. So your work benefits people, even if it does so indirectly. In a simple economy where everyone is a farmer or produces goods for farmers, it's easy to understand what people are contributing. In an advanced economy this is more difficult to understand, but the specialization of an advanced economy creates much higher living standards.
The Fox horizontal integration is brilliant. They pull in people with sports and other complimentary content and cross-sell the profitable propaganda.

The New York Post is a great example. It was the sports and bookie newspaper - they’d publish Vegas odds and have tabloid news. They slowly transformed into a giant editorial paper and funnel into the broader Fox ecosystem.

They have an effective, free product. I need to pay to read The NY Times, but Fox is free and the sponsors are all low quality high margin stuff. Radio is prostate pills, TV is old people drugs and gold, etc.
I was hit by layoffs but just got several offers. One thing I've noticed is that startups and smaller companies are moving more junior work offshore but are still keeping the higher roles in house (I'm a Principal). Most of the companies I interviewed with talked about working with teams off shore. I will say that a couple of the companies did this for prototyping but were in the process of reversing it and bringing roles back to the US.

Long term I think this is going to result in some interesting changes- senior people don't just come from no where, they're junior people who gained experience and continued learning.
I think I'm kinda in the same place I was with computers, years ago: I've bought very-cheap, I've bought a notch or two above very-cheap, and I've seen both suck about equally, so it's damn hard to convince myself that the solution to my problem is spending more money. But it's probably true.

And I know it's not exactly fair but I can't stop comparing bikes to cars. The amount and preciousness of the materials, the level of stress, the complexity of construction, how long it can go before service, and so on, and damnit, I can't shake the feeling that 1% of the cost of a car should get a really reliable and near-zero-maintenance bike. But no, $200 won't do it. $300 probably won't, even. Not for a new bike, anyway.
Are not "intend to mislead" and lying synonyms? Misleading without intent may not be, but if you mislead with intent you are lying.
> I want to make queries on this matrix like (what are the rows most similar to row #2)

There are libraries for efficient vector similarity search like https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
For this to work properly, the journalists would have to be experts in the respective field, or would at the very least have to possess enough of an understanding to make these judgements. But reality has become far too complex for that, plus these articles are being written under severe time constraints. Ultimately, what will happen is the journalist using their personal or the editorial biases of the publication to create a narrative consistent with their world view. Whether or not that narrative has any basis in reality is not really their concern.

The question when becomes whether there is any value in publishing these most likely faulty narratives compared to simply reporting the facts. I would argue that there is actually negative value in the former, because the audience ends up less informed than if they had never consumed that piece of media.
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS!

Unfortunately, I am not in your zone. What you are doing however is noble and I wish you much success!