skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes no sense. It seems you're confused about KYC. It's a screening process that blocks known bad actors (eg: in finance that is anyone convicted of certain crimes, on watchlists, denied by regions or sanctions, etc). Most advertisers would not be affected at all.

By the way, this is already done since Google does check advertiser accounts against various sanctions and watchlists as part of dosing business in every country they operate in.
I used Angular pretty heavily before switching to React.

At the end of the day, they approach the problem from two different directions, solve issues in two different ways, and end up with two different sets of challenges in terms of what's easy and what's hard in them.

I've definitely written React UIs that would be easier in Angular. But I've also crashed Angular performance through the floor trying to wire up a table display with Angular update hooks. Angular makes it easier to hide state-update dependencies in a way that causes really bad thrashing to reach steady state, which I've (anecdotally, generally) found harder to do in React because doing it in React involves writing a lot more code and a lot more cross-state dependencies.
The duty can remove your right to live in the house. Utilities serve the whole city, if you don't connect you are violating the unwritten agreement to help the city exist. Even if you don't use power you need to pay your share of the power lines.
Interesting... So I'm not sure I agree. While Hamilton does support this kind of thing (and we're likely going to build out more support), the assumption above is that the unit of work at the task-level is natural to map to individual items in your example.

In my experience, you want to decouple the task-level orchestration mechanism from the nature of the data itself. A queuing system with multiple consuming threads/processes or a distributed system like spark is kind of meant for this type of task, and can do it more efficiently. So, why rely on the orchestrator to handle it when you potentially have more sophisticated tooling at hand?

To make it more concrete, say your upstream files change to have 10x smaller chunks, and 10x more files -- does the same orchestration system make sense? Are you going to start polluting the set of tasks?

If you did want to rely on the orchestrator for parallelism, an alternative strategy could be to chunk and assign the files to each task -- E.G. 3 files per task, and use a stable assignment method to round-robin them (basically the same as the queuing system). Might not get everything done at quite the parallel pace, but the DAG would be stable.

Your case is particularly tricky as they take so long to process, but it seems to me that this might be better suited for a listening/streaming tool to react when new files are added, then they can add the semi-processed data to a single location, and your daily orchestration task could read from that and set a high-watermark (basically a streaming architecture).

Anyway, not 100% sure how I feel about this but wanted to present a counter-point...
Rather than look at it as "I don't care enough to vote" I tend to look at it as "unwilling or unable to vote" although hopefully the number of people "unable" would be small.
I bought a Brother HL-L5100DN last week, after seeing several people like you recommending Brother printers on HN.
The Surprising Effects of Remote Work
Thanks to ongoing consolidation of large manufacturing firms, this kind of attitude quickly leads to having nothing to buy. The only solution is collective bargaining in the form of regulation.
Yes and no.

The performance does scale up with parameters, though it’s not linear.

As discovered by Google in their work on their Chinchilla LLM, performance also scales up with the size of your training set. They were able to do work to define the optimal amount of training for a model of a given size to get the most out of your budget.

So even if we don’t find any better model architectures, which we probably will, if we increase the size of our models, training corpus and budget, we should continue to get more performant models.
>everything is a co-op

That sounds an awful lot like socialism
> "Giving old people money for free "

uh, didn't the old people finance their own social security? Didn't they give up money their whole lives to finance their homes? Don't they contribute to society in other less-measurable ways?

That said, there could be some ways to retire, but be able to work in such a way that retirement is not adversely affected. Some of my friends who retired had to carefully not work or social security was adversely affected.
We built model & data provenance into our open source ML library, though it's admittedly not the W3C PROV standard. There were a few gaps in it until we built an automated reproducibility system on top of it, but now it's pretty solid for all the algorithms we implement. Unfortunately some of the things we wrap (notably TensorFlow) aren't reproducible enough due to some unfixed bugs. There's an overview of the provenance system in this reprise of the JavaOne talk I gave here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXOMjq2OS_c. The library is on GitHub - https://github.com/oracle/tribuo.
I am not familiar with the legal specifics but per the article:

"Although Freenom is based in The Netherlands, some of its other sister companies named as defendants in the lawsuit are incorporated in the United States."
> The mode (most common) age of death was over 75 in France for men in 1930.

The most common age of death in France, for both men and women, in 1930 was 0.
Suddenly those jailbreaks of the LLM become a lot more serious. What happens when bad people can get a robot to help them commit various crimes?
> 6. i am not sure if this is correct. i am not basketball fan. i just google it.

why is AI talking like Kevin from the Office; why is AI "Googling" stuff?
The infrastructure can be privately owned too.

In New Zealand we have a national fibre network covering about 90% of the population. That was built by four private entities to a set of minimum specifications and with some government subsidies. These companies are not allowed to sell retail services, must offer wholesale access to all ISPs, and have their wholesale pricing regulated.
Programming framework for writing and deploying cloud applications
if your security model assumes user code is able to break out of containers, then it also has to assume user code will be able to modify the VM

if user code can modify the VM, and VMs are stateful, then how do you ensure hermetic builds?
Highly recommend "Breakthrough on the New Skis" by Lito Tejada-Flores for an explanation that makes sense of what to do on skis. It's not an easy concept to communicate and comprehend, and much more important than any equipment at an intermediate level. More or less any set of all mountain 80-95mm width skis with correctly fitting boots will work until you're skiing off-piste.

https://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-New-Skis-Goodbye-Interme...
This is like QLab [0], right? If so, it's fantastic to see an open-source solution pop up in this space. That was very fun software to play around in when I was using it for an immersive tabletop roleplaying game I ran. Is the goal to focus exclusively on lighting control, or will other types of effects (sounds, video, HTTP) be included eventually as well?

[0] https://qlab.app/
The whole point is to not charge users twice for both the volume AND the rate of flow.

It's not hot button because there is no FCC chair. If the dems seat a chair, regardless of who it is, that would allow grassroots campaigns to reactivate.

Under Trump, I believe broadband ISPs were implementing data caps, and they backed off on that after Biden was elected. And some telecoms offer zero rated content. It's far more common overseas for telecoms and content providers to partner in providing access, so you get places like the Philippines where Facebook basically is the internet.
They technically pay it out of funds given to the university
Without dependent types you can't do your common constraints in an order independent way.

You end up with four choices:

1. Have a single function that does all the constraint checking at once

2. Have a single linear order where each constraint check feeds into the next but only in that order

3. Acquiesce to a combinatorial explosion of functions that check every possible combination of those constraints

4. Give up keeping track of the constraints at a type level.
Ideally, and by that I mean the average consumer is well-informed in every product they purchase, yes. But the average customer really doesn't know any better. You can't expect people to know an alternative exists when and unregulated market will always promote marketing over quality.

>I haven't bought one for about 20 years.

Just the fact that you are commenting on HN shows that you aren't the average consumer when it comes to electronics. People tend to overestimate the others' knowledge on topics they themselves are familiar with. A considerable chunk of printer "consumers" don't even know the difference between an inkjet and a laser printer. We can blame them all we want because they aren't "doing their research before spending money", but we don't even know what we are wasting our money on, especially with thing we aren't that knowledgeable about. Everyone values their time differently, so they may or may not research something before purchase depending on what they are buying.

In short, no regulation means leaving sheep alone with wolves.
I don't quite understand how it can produce rhyming poetry if it's building the output one word at a time.
Alex talked about this 6 years ago and most people listening dismissed it as a crazy rant, with no idea how close AI was to realization and how it might affect humanity. Fun listening to someone attempting to predict the pitfalls of the AI future.

https://youtu.be/UZPCp8SPfOM?t=6610
Now, what?

They make decent laptops, but with incredibly sharp, non-rounded edges, which have actually cut* some user's palms.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLaptops/comments/iioylp/just_...

edit:

* Yes I exaggerate here, but it is annoyingly sharp
Have you seen the debugging tools for goop?

I mean, they're absolutely necessary because the goop is full of insects. But so elegant!
Back in the early 2000s when I studied computer-science, one of our professors Rolf Pfeifer[^0] was famous for being the father of embodiment. The way I understood it, the idea was that the physical shape of a human is also part of our intelligence. For example, we don't have to think about walking that much, because the arrangement of muscles, bones and tendons makes some movements easier than others. We're biased towards certain things by our physical shape.

I'm curious in what relation this paper stands to his work.

[^0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Pfeifer
Google is too scared to give anyone a model that can do anything interesting. They won't even help the U.S government make autonomous weapons. It's like they are a priesthood of AI like Asimov's Second Foundation that is waiting for a glorious time in the future when it's ok for the foundation to release these great secrets and avoid a dark age or something.
No as fields get deeper and deeper there is a point at which it is no longer humanly possible to cover the prior material exhaustively in a vaguely reasonable timeframe. We can keep digging narrower and narrower niches at the expense of basic scientific literacy, or we can realize that at some point the system cannot keep scaling in a one dimensional way. Or I guess we can make people go to school until they're 60.

If you think what I'm proposing is three lectures on philosophy of science than either you have zero idea how a PhD program works or you're arguing in bad faith. The fact that someone can graduate from a top 5 biology PhD program without ever demonstrating the ability to come up with a decent research question nor to independently plan a decent study to address a given research question is appalling. The fact the programs actively discourage students from exploring anything intellectual outside of the narrow framework of their chosen lab, even projects that would clearly fit under the program's broader umbrella, is also appalling.

The primary point isn't whether students can learn those things on their own later. The primary point is that this is a huge indictment of the culture of graduate training. It is creating a legion of fucking drones as our next set of profs. Many of them are truly not aware that they lack this expertise.

Also, a PhD is explicitly designed as training to be in academia. There are a small set of industry jobs that require a PhD, and there are more industry jobs that appreciate a PhD, but really the only reason that PhDs have shifted so much towards industry is because the academic job market is completely fucked. It is only recently that biology professors will entertain the idea that someone should choose to leave academia after a PhD and that is not considered failure. Yet at the same time they do a bad job of preparing others for academic research.
I'm not brave enough to find out.
The Liberating Power of Default-Dead
Hi all, thank you for making this dream framework come true. I have been looking forward to this kind of tool in Go for a long time.

But sadly I noticed that, in the Serializable Types section of FAQ, chan t type is not supported.

I am wondering if there are any current plans or ongoing discussions around supporting it. As it is something that I need, I would be also interested in getting involved and contributing to its development.
> every time a local municipality tries this, they get sued by the ISP

It's a problem that needs to be dealt with at the state, or ideally federal level. It needs significant regulatory change and a large investment.
Sugar in its natural state (not refined, not artificial) is fine.
ERVs and HRVs are generally part of these designs. Also, nothing stops people from cracking open their windows. The windows are meant to insulate well when closed.
I think it would be more accurate to say that the debate was completely muddied by big tech corporations who obviously had a very specific agenda that had little to do with the grievances that the average joe had with their ISP.

Now, that agenda wasn't bad at all, but it was very hard to explain or to get people to care about it as-is. So what we got instead was a very... innacurate debate and a discussion that was centered around the (deserved) dislike for ISPs. Which obviously played in favor of big tech.

I'm not saying there was a big conspiracy by big tech against the poor ISPs, just that there was obviously a heavy PR push that took advantage of the mood around ISPs (comcast very bad!) once the debate started. What was more of a business dispute turned into yet another "very important and urgent current event/crisis." Net neutrality is still important, though, but I'm not sure the general population would've been very empathetic towards what could be seen as massive tech corporations not wanting to pay for their utilization.
There are only 2 hard problems in computer programming: naming, cash management, and off by one errors.
The only thing better than poisoning online discourse with automated disinformation is machine-gun dog-bots that hallucinate.
I enjoy my yard, and my house. I do not like "city living". To each their own
> power grid

Isn't the power grid a bunch of wires in the air or on the ground that can span thousands of miles?

Compare that to oil wells, supertankers, refineries, fuel trucks and gas stations, it seems to be relatively benign infrastructure.

also, I think with distributed pv solar and wind, the power grid will become more distributed. And I think fair time-of-use might solve problems too.
'insidious authoritarianism' is a curious way of describing two not-unreasonable proposals that are presumably aimed at making american democracy more representative and accessible...
Modern houses have gone back to 2x4 walls. Then the put 2 inches of foam under the siding so the thickness is equal to a 2x6. There is already on the market standard doors and windows that fit this. Though 4 inches of foam may make more sense yet, but there are no standard doors or windows for that thickness so costs go up.
Your thesis is the government consumption of the GDP has nothing to do with where the productivity improvements went?
> just want to understand why other people engage in behaviors which are explicitly designed to inconvenience, if not outright harm, other people

These questions should be posed to executives at shareholder meetings.

not cogs in the machine. When was an evil feature ever stopped by rank and file workers?
While a great improvement, 45 seconds to change my serverless code still feels like a lot?

At least I’m comparing it to Cloudflare Workers, which deploys fast enough (<1 sec) that I can actually use it as a development environment.
Haven’t been in the exact situation you describe, but I have worked at some b2b saas companies and when I didn’t like the pricing schemes and the way management was making us squeeze customers I left.

I’m not really in a a financial position to just say fuck it and leave at a moments notice, and it feels a bit different when you’re making Adobe for example pay extra money.

I think we can all imagine the actual reason people in charge do it though: money
If anything, what I miss from doing "backend" is the ability to just pull in whatever library I want to solve a problem.

I need a web server to work by slapping together fifteen Java libraries from thirteen different code houses and writing an absolute Shoggoth of shim code to convert between their types and classes? Sure, whatever, datacenter storage is damn near free.

I need to put code on a client machine on the internet? You'd best pick one of these date libraries, because there's no way in hell we're justifying shipping moment and Joda down the wire.
Parameters and training corpus size matter. Last year a new paper (Google "Chinchilla optimality") focused on compute-optimal LLMs found that we'd been under-training models -- i.e. you could wring more performance out of smaller models by training on more data. But (as far as I understand it - interested layman here) - for a given amount of data, model performance seems to scale more or less linearly with parameters.

Now, we could see another model architecture than the current reigning transformer architecture upend this (much work is ongoing on breaking the quadratic term in the transformer that computationally bounds its performance - an example is the Hyena paper that was published just the other day).

Biggest computer and most data wins is still the paradigm here.
2008 situation was a weird one with crooked finance companies screwing a whole lot of people. sure, some blame can be placed on those taking the loans, but that's quite a bit of victim blaming to me.

the concept of people buying houses and moving every couple of years is something that I always thought strange. i don't care what kind of loan you took out, there's no way that can be sustainable. emergencies happen, and there are somethings that can be done to help, but using 2008 as a torch bearer seems off to me.
They say actions speak louder than words. Well, the corollary to that is that incentives speak louder than rationalizations. What exactly do you want to hear? Would you rather be lied to, have a window into how some poor schmuck lies to himself, or indulge that schmuck’s hand-wringing?
R.L. Stine accuses publisher of censoring Goosebumps books without permission
Windows computers use BitLocker and somehow the very same dock works fine in clamshell mode.
> Just once, I would like to see an AMA by someone who was directly involved in creating a user-hostile feature

We don't need an AMA, we already know the answer. Money.

The company exists to make money. The fact that it also creates printers is a side effect, not its primary purpose.

Once you look at it in this way, there's nothing confusing about user hostile features. They exist to further the primary purpose of the company, to make money. That's all there is to it, there's no mystery. It's sad and hard to accept, but it's not hard to understand.
Heat exchangers have been code for more than 20 years. Maybe not common, but only because there are a lot of old houses. Or maybe where you live didn't adopt the new code?
> Isn't Friends the most popular tv show worldwide?

No. There are many lists of "top TV shows" or "most watched TV shows", some of which focus on the now, some try to be of all time. Regardless, Friends doesn't really crack the top 5 on any list that I can find (and isn't on most top 20 lists either).

While Friends is a favorite rewatch show, the overwhelming majority of people want to see the latest, they want to be part of the zeitgeist.

Some lists:

- https://bgr.com/entertainment/netflix-top-10/

- https://flixpatrol.com
Tell HN: OpenAI removed all my ChatGPT history without telling me
Everything is gone. In the left pane, I see no history. I had maybe 30 different chat histories which are now disappeared completely.

Crazy thing is, I still have a link to one of my chats and that works:

https://imgur.com/a/PCnLG6J

So I'm sure they still keep the chat histories on their servers even if it doesn't show in the history panel.
How do the people you pay to do marketing learn marketing?
Well in sunny New Hampshire, USA, I think I'm paying about 22 cents per kilowatt hour, delivered, so that would be quite a foolish endeavor for me to understake. And I'm fairly sure for most people in other states.

But if you were paying 6 cents, then perhaps ...
It seems like new zealand has slower internet speeds than the US, though. It ranks 19th versus 8th for the US.

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index#fixed

Other rankings seem to more or less agree on that too.
Anytime a real protest occurs in the US, 100s of people wind up sitting in solitary confinement, uncharged, for months or years. We've only had one real protest in living memory (that I'm aware of) and that will probably be about it. No one really wants to go to the Gulag.
According to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131, Brother printers now locking out non-OEM paraphernalia ?

If so, that's unfortunate.
The collision between the words 'crash' and 'Crash' whilst developing Bandicoot must have been a conundrum.
The Falcon 9 Achieves the Shuttle’s Dreams
In 2022, with 61 flights, SpaceX Falcon 9 achieved NASA’s early 1970s projections that the Shuttle would fly every 6.4 days. The Shuttle flights-per-year record was 11 in 1985-1986.
So if it's already done, it's not sufficient to stop bad advertisers?
This is a common misconception.

Competition itself can't protect against net neutrality violations, because even small-marketshare ISPs can break your startup's product for some customers.

Almost none of these customers will ever even learn that the failure is the ISP's fault. And even if they do, who will switch ISPs just to use some not-yet-proven product by a new startup?

Meanwhile your competitor's product will work well, either because they were too big to mess with or because they paid whatever the ISP was demanding. Maybe you should too!

This is why Europe needed net neutrality rules, and actually passed stronger rules than the U.S., even though the system you describe was prevalent there. Amusingly, before the rules existed, the increased competition in Europe had actually led to more net neutrality violations there (specifically, blocking or throttling things like VOIP and BitTorrent) because ISPs in that competitive landscape were under more pressure to cut costs!

My source on this is Stanford's Barbara van Schewick, who is a leading expert on net neutrality policy and whose work informed both the U.S. and E.U. rules.