skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Merriam-Webster defines spam as: "unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as emails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places".

The emails were unsollicited and sent to a large number of recipients. It's fits the dictionary definition of spam, despite not containing a direct advertisement.

Cambridge merely defines spam as: "unwanted email, usually advertisements", which this also fits perfectly, as nobody who stars a Github repo sees that as confirmation of wanting join a mailing list.

Furthermore, if this were marketing (it's an invitation into the community more than anything else) this email may actually violate the CAN-SPAM act. IANAL but I don't think it applies here as the email doesn't even offer anything, it's just begging for feedback.
It doesn't matter what you agree with. Plenty of legal scholars said exactly that, so you're wrong.

Roe ruled that certain state laws criminalizing abortion could not be enforced. But Roe's ruling was found to be unconstitutional and invalid. It was invalid the day Roe was ruled, not the day it was overruled.

Those same states laws criminalizing abortion, which were on the books before Roe and are still on the books, were always legal and enforceable because Roe never was. That is what the court determined last year.
> The US is executing the same broad strategy against both China and Russia - surrounding them with US-friendly states who then get military support. It seems to be working extremely well against Russia since they can barely get Russian troops into the Donbass safely.

Following this then it would make sense for both China and Russia to feel threatened and react accordingly. I would expect the US to react even harder if any of their "enemies" would setup a missile base in Mexico or Canada.
Yes. If it was anything else they’d mention it.
I, OTOH, hope "infrastructuregeddon" happens before they render the GDPR useless due to the combination of a new framework + the CLOUD Act.

The privacy of individuals is more important than profit.
The Russia/China border isn't a very thin straw though.
It’s not about being obligated or private parties. It’s just simply pointing out that not everyone has equal opportunity. You can start with access to prenatal health care, which literally starts before birth. And then you can find inequality of opportunity all the way up through life — from differences in water quality, school quality, access to money through inequality in banking access, access to high quality foods, etc….

This isn’t about the causes of these issues. But it’s obvious that not everyone has the same opportunities in childhood. It seems odd that you’d even question this.
Hold on, that sample is a sample of the biggest ones! That’s a fair sample! Amazon having a DEI program and mom and pop hardware store not having one do not weigh equally on the scale!
> Slightly off topic but why did we end up with floats as the standard?

Because fixed point leads to catastrophic loss of precision way more often.

For example, if you compute the product of two 16:16 fixed point values that both are around 1000, you like want to store the result in a 20:12 or 21:13 fixed point value.

If, on the other hand, both are about 0,001, the result best fits a 12:20 or 13:21 fixed point value.

You find that kind of issue with every operation. Want to sum a hundred numbers? Depending on their values, you may want to have up to 7 or 8 more digits before the decimal point in the result.

Want to compute sin or cos? A 16:16 fixed point results wastes half the storage. You probably want to return a 1:31 fixed point value.

So, what to do if you want to write a general-purpose library? Provide multiple functions for multiplying fixed width numbers?

Returning a pair (int, place of radix point) probably is the best you can do, and that is what IEEE floating point is.
Full height turnstiles activated by a digital ID would reduce this problem to a manageable level
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UK’s battle cries on net zero have led to nothing – now time is running out
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In a round about way, that is not dissimilar to tarpits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)

But Honeypots can also also be viewed as forms of entrapment, and this can bring much of the internet when viewed as a honeypot into the context of entrapment and in some country's entrapment is illegal, ergo has the state prosecuted some people whilst ignoring the entrapment element?
In one instance anonymized IP's were rendered PII by one of the European countries. Mostly it all comes back to the CLOUD act and US state surveillance. JDSupra and searching the other simpleanalytics posts on HN provides great reading to get up to speed quickly.

France actually is forcing their governments to drop Microsoft 365 and instead only use on-prem Microsoft apps because even using a company with EU specific datacenters isn't enough. They put out a list of EU, specific data centers to use because using companies which are subject to only EU law and regulations is important to them.
How Digital Ocean got millions of monthly readers by understanding developers
Do masks work? It’s a question of physics, biology, and behavior
People can participate in the social life of campus at any college. The problem with using this supposed socializing metric at the expense of more academically qualified kids is that it just shuffles the more academically talented kids to a lesser University. Where they what? Supposedly socialize less. Why should the social kids go to the academically rigorous college and the academic talents go to a lesser University? In the end, this socializing metric is bs cover in order to juke admissions for the purposes of legacy and diversity criteria.

The notion also relies on an inaccurate stereotype of what smart looks like. In practice, you are as or more likely to see an Ivy-level academic talent that looks like a leader than not.

Its rare to find lesser academic talents who will have better extra-curriculars than the best academically inclined candidates. The latter's prep schools will generally offer far more opportunity in that regard, and moreover any excellence in EC's is in a competitive environment that is often more intense.
I was in Berlin once as a tourist and I was surprised how bad is the planning of buses.

They stop and wait in the station until their time arrives (in the middle of the route), with 20 people on them, wasting everyone's time. That's just incredibly dumb planning. I get that the point is to be more "reliable" and "on time" but what's the point of being accurate if you're so slow?! At some points Google maps suggested we walk half an hour instead of taking the bus because the bus was slower.

It takes some really funny priorities to reach this point. I haven't seen anything similar anywhere else, a bus stopping and waiting with people inside. And it wasn't something rare, it seemed to happen pretty frequently.

It seemed like they are artificially padding the accuracy metric by actively slowing the buses. Their schedule is far slower than their average pace, and then they slow down everything. You get that the worst case timing is now your average timing but "accuracy" increased. That's Goodhart law in full effect.
Well, then it’s too bad that younger Chinese have no power at all in a dictatorship. The problem with your argument is that you’re assuming that whoever is leading China right now is rational. You would be right before Xi, but Xi is neither patient or rational.

The end of the one China, two systems was totally unnecessary and reckless. I’m sure others can come up with more examples
This is one of the reasons Quakespasm is my favourite Quake source port.

I can run on a modern system at modern resolutions but it still looks like it did back in the day.

Sometimes adding effects and filtering gives a strange broken feeling where the art on the screen no longer matches what is in my head or something.

I can’t handle upscaling old console games either. Something is always weird.
That's a great idea! Is there a specific JSON format you'd need?
I agree. My goal, which seems very achievable from my current research, is to write formal specifications in English and generate functioning code.

One of my favorite recent projects is called Parsel:

Parsel : A (De-)compositional Framework for Algorithmic Reasoning with Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10561

Here's a notebook with an introduction:

https://github.com/ezelikman/parsel/blob/main/parsel.ipynb

And here's a GUI interface the author has been developing:

http://zelikman.me/parsel/interface.html
Campaigners for a four-day week can’t afford to slack off just yet
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I used to disable turbo boost for the longest time, but if someone finally fixed CPU scaling and thermal controls, I might give thermald a try.
They do mention it.

They simply don’t let people in who don’t already have an account with them: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/22/16920784/amazon-go-cashie...
> they would only be legal to use as long as no personal information is ever stored on any of their servers, which in practice renders them useless

Or if their servers are physically located under the country's jurisdiction.
Like that one Chinese student buying a $31M house in Vancouver!
The price reduction is very welcome, but they better work up that pontuality, specially in regards to missing connections.
Most no-EU sites should have been blocking EU users one day 1 of GDPR. Instead we had Google and adtech firms lying to their customers about legality and loopholes while GDPR supporters told smaller webmasters they didn't have to strictly comply with it.

DSA will be a bigger test. The thing that seems most probable is platform bifurcation whether or not Section 230 survives in the US.
Amazon Go seems incredibly overengineered. Why is this superior than a portable scanning plus toggleable RFIDs that disable items on scan and alarm gates? Cameras everywhere and computer vision seems overkill.
I think this was meant to be a dry and cynical observation that we probably all actually agree with.

I don't think they approve.

Think of it this way, if they actually approved, would this be how they would say it?

Maybe. Anyone who thought it was a great idea and generally liked marketing would necessarily be so different from me that it only makes sense that I would not be good at thinking like them enough to accurately interpret what they wrote. So I suppose it's possible that this is perfectly direct and sincere, but it just does not seem reasonable.

EDIT: From further comments below, I guess I got my answer. They actually don't see this as a problem. Oh well so much for giving people the benefit of the doubt.

I mean, I guess they're allowed to have that opinion or subscribe to that reasoning that the targeted nature makes it somehow different or more acceptable. If someone wants to say "it's not bad behavior because of X train of reasonong" then all that matters is does X hold water? I didn't add either an up or down vote. But it's not an argument I think holds much water.
I mean, https://www.libcinder.org and https://openframeworks.cc have been mainstays of the creative coding industry for a long time now. A Rust take on the problem shouldn't be too surprising.
More like 4K gaming today. PII 450MHz + Riva 128ZX or TNT easily ran Half-Life at 1152x864. (FPS expectations were also lower, however - nobody expected 100fps+ like we do today)
Can I ask you what kind of economic data do you use? I use ECFC forecasts but for others data, labor market for example, I would go in the site that publish it, so BLS for US, ONS for UK, Eurostat for EU, or FRED that is a good aggregator of US data
Yes. And I’m going to be coy and not tell you much about it. So you’re right to be skeptical. In a few years I’ll speak more freely on it.
That is _definitely_ also not true
Regardless of how you cherrypick facts, history as a whole is clear.

National-socialists were socialists. They celebrated the 1st of March worker's day together with other socialists, signed war pacts together with other socialist countries to "free non-socialist societies" and in general did about the same as any other socialist dictatorship, including mass murder/deportation of million humans as something normal.

Then comes the obvious: the founder of socialist ideology called fascism was for several years a die-hard socialist. In fact, was the chief-editor for socialist "news" during several years in a row. Similar to Stalin's career path with Pravda.

A few years down the road in power, socialists understand that socialism doesn't work and change. Same for the soviets, same for the cubans, same for the chinese, same for just about any socialist regime. They were all socialist, they opressed people just like all other socialist ideologies. Neosocialists today still try to disguise previous socialists regimes as "it wasn't real socialism".

It was socialism kind sir. We had enough of it here in Europe.

Thank you, but no thanks.
Probably the best method is to just train it on int4 in the first place. Fine tuning after quantization would definitely help though.
>because if their money is in China, they don't really own it

The same can be said about money moved to the West, just with a different risk profile. As the Russian situation has shown, your property can be creatively taken away if your country of origin pisses off the US too much.
Nation-state controls over capital inflows and outflows are not necessarily a bad idea, and were an alternative system proposed in the 1970s. Of course, the USA instead championed neoliberal trade policies that largely eliminated such controls, relying instead on petrodollar recycling to manage the balance-of-payments issues. It's worth taking a look at conditions in 1978 for context:

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/30/archives/the-nation-the-i...

> "It is not just the capital outflow from the United States that has so hurt the dollar. Once, American capital outflow abroad was largely offSet by a surplus in trade. But the United States, has now slipped into a deficit in trade as well as payments, both because of its huge oil bills ($48 billion last year alone) and a weakening of exports, as other countries have grown more slowly and so have been importing less..."

> "Furthermore, capital flows are now even more important than trade flows. The meeting of OPEC in Saudi Arabia that starts Saturday, aimed at revaluing the oil‐producing countries’ dollar holdings, could have an even bigger impact on the dollar than the oil trade itself. Government holdings of the oil exporting countries total over $60 billion in monetary rerserves. Private holdings are unknown. Despite all the dollars that have flowed out, the United States is still trying to play the role of banker to the world, still providing the key currency for the world monetary system..."

The complexities of petrodollar recycling - weapons deals, aid programs, secretive Wall Street foreign investment funds, etc. - are generally not a subject of discussion in the western corporate media, but here's a good overview from 1985:

"Petro-Dollar Recycling: Imports, Arms, Investment and Aid" (1985), Gerner
https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/41857746

It's worth noting also that current USA-Russia tensions really began in 2003 when Putin largely rejected membership in the petrodollar recycling system, and similar issues arose with Venezuela and later, Libya.

Chinese oil imports are on the order of $175 billion per year, so they're apparently facing the same problem the US did in the 1970s. However, they're also building out renewable capacity faster than any other nation, which is the best way to escape fossil fuel dependency.
Embarrassed to ask, so what’s the use case for this?
It's got it all for a lesswrong post: (1) is a crosspost, (2) obligatory trigger warnings at the top ("more technical than average"), (3) obligatory praise for the cult leader (now EY is a "literary critic", someday he will be a war hero, world traveler, and will be seen taking measurements of a plant like L. Ron Hubbard), and (4) misappropriating signifiers to further separate cult members from the rest of society. (e.g. 50 years from now there will be three kinds of people: those who remember old Nintendo games, Cthulhu cultists, and the perplexed)

I like the reference to structuralism which I've been saying that LLMs will revive (the fact that they perform so well in certain respects revives the "language is all you need" approach that was killed when Noam Chomsky caught the car they were chasing and found just how meaningless linguistics is.)

Overall though it is pretty obvious that a sequence generator (you, a markov model, a mad-lib machine, an LLM) has to flip flop between different states at various levels of organization whether it is "a slot to be filled in with the name of an NFL team", "a quote of another document, real or imagined", "a statement by a different character", "various movements of of a music piece", etc.

Insofar as such a model is doing that it is flip-flopping between attending to different parts of the prompt, at least so far as the prompt is still in the attention window. People are generally finding that LLM chatbots get into trouble after you talk to them for a long time and part of that is that the original prompt plus anything they zero-shotted into it at the beginning (it's a huge lost opportunity if they don't, why start at "tabula rasa" when you don't have to... one of the reasons we had such a hard time generating text with RNNs was that they started out with an impoverished internal state)

At some point it can't be following the prompts anymore and it is instead following what it did and of course it is like having to cut 100 wood blocks and cutting each block to be the same size as the last block and the internal state will deteriorate and get uncontrolled.
Around my area, what takes about 30 - 45m by car, can take up to 2h in public transports, and one needs to travel both ways.

Naturally I have better ways to spend 4h per day than jumping between connections.
US/China trade is a surprisingly small. Canada, Mexico, China, the EU are all roughly equivalent plus a long tail of every other country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

Where China has an oversized impact is our trade deficit and consumer goods which makes them seem vastly more important than they are. However, that’s also the most flexible with south east asia replacing Chinese manufacturing as Chinese workers become more expensive.

Our trade deficit with China isn’t as bad as it seems because we export goods to countries China then imports from. Hong Kong for example is a 25.8B trade surplus and really should be included in Chinese trade numbers.
So it’ll be Slovakian chocolate now.
Parent comment doesn't actually include any name-calling.
Not from disability, but I have been putting the keyboard in my lap for almost a decade now. This lets me sit in any chair I want. It lets me shift positions, adjust posture, change arm angles, etc.

Now that I use laptops exclusively, I don't have the mouse problem and can pick a place to sit without regard to outlets.

Good luck.
You buy a large number of ASIC crypto miners in China.
I've seen this idea expressed on HN a few times recently. I don't get it. The mechanics are really not that different from any other country. If you print billions to bail out entities you get rapid inflation. The big things at risk are real estate prices and local governments. You can't easily wave this away regardless of your level of control.
Rust supports copy-on-write, so the amount of copies can probably be kept quite low with no real impact on surface syntax. Anyway, the case for Rust is that it combines memory safety and performance. JavaScript is memory safe enough, but creative coding can be quite demanding from a performance POV.
I didn't claim it was 'cheap'. I wrote that people can afford it in the same way people can afford a car and that other concerns are often more important.
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If mere IP addresses are PII, I do not see how me looking at my GCP logs is any different (i.e. not allowed), and by extension how any US cloud provider can operate in Europe within these rules?
But only largely and not always and not always through the same app or site.

How nice or bad it is differs MASSIVELY depending on where you are in Germany (sorry for the caps).

E.g. in Berlin it works rather simple and straight forward. But then recently someone I know went to another city and Germany and was completely inable to figure out if a ticket they had bought to get from A to B also worked for A to C (close by B). That wasn't a stupid person but someone rather clever.

Similar in some areas the local public transport companies bounded together creating some kind of "common organization" (e.g. VBB for Berlin & Brandenburg) and in some areas you have a splinter network of many smaller local transportation companies.
This works a lot better if you have parents that live in Palo Alto or SF compared to Tulsa, OK.

To the original post, I generally agree. There are some fundamental lessons about business you can learn, and if you follow them, have a better chance of success. But the magnitude of that success largely comes down to luck. There's plenty of thought leaders out there that just happened to join the right company at the right time. Much of their success is "beta" rather than "alpha", but they are treated like they have unique insight to drive amazing outcomes.
Maybe in theory. The message I get from almost everyone at a regulated institution is Bloomberg, e-mail, or voice. When the SEC is on a warpath, compliance and legal departments don’t play with anything but the clearest black and white lines to optimize for the convenience of staff. It is frustrating because it imposes a monopoly tax on financial market participants to get a Bloomberg or be shut out of information flow which is death in markets. I’ve yet to find anyone I deal with who says hey find me on Symphony.
Slightly misleading title. They're closing 8 of their stores across NYC, SF, etc, and this is after they just opened a few more across the US.
But territorial integrity /s
It wasn't just graphics, it was audio as well. People have it nice now but back then you were still fighting audio driver issues. AC'97 support made that situation livable but it took forever for everyone to support it.
Rust is one of the more frustrating languages to dabble in. Usability is explicitly not a top priority. I can't imagine suggesting a rust based project to someone who wasn't already a fairly proficient coder.
Why run a website at all? Don't. Simple, and actually free.
That's not enough if employees under US jurisdiction have access to the servers. Or indeed, if employees under US jurisdiction can order that they be given access. So it boils down to the organization structure, who has final say, and which jurisdiction that person is under - which renders even European daughter companies moot.
By “awesome” you mean awesomely bad?

The old ring circuit wiring in the UK did not adequately protect the wires in the walls against thermal overload. If you drew too much current from a single outlet, you could overheat the wires without blowing a fuse or tripping a breaker. So fuses were added to the plugs, since rewiring was impractical and reducing the house’s fuse or breaker rating would be annoying.

In the US and elsewhere, equivalent protection comes from correctly sized breakers in the panel.
That Ukraine wasn't the aggressor?
Quad9 already blocks content they don't like... they just call them threat feeds.

Edit: not that that's a bad thing, but it's disingenuous to say you're for free speech, and then block some websites and cry when you have to block others.

Never half ass two things, whole ass one thing.