skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like saying low end PRC cars are banned in US for not meeting US safety regulations. Bing operated in PRC for years after other platforms were blocked and Google's Project Dragonfly was a thing precisely because there was a legally compliant path for Google to operate in PRC. There's a fuckton of public regulations from ministry of public security, commerce, information tech stretching back 20+ years. There was nothing to acknowledge or admit because it was never opaque just onerous (expensive).

As for the law didn't Google follow, disregarding they pulled out due to moral considerations over Operation Aurora, they got hammered along with twitter and facebook post 2009 minority riots for not adequately censoring/filtering calls for violence that at the time required expensive moderation teams which every PRC platform had invested in to stay compliant. Western platforms not following obeying was as much a moral stance as economic - competitive advantage of not sinking shitton of expensive human resources. That wasn't going to fly.

Wasn't until social media driven violence in west i.e. NZ shooting that western platforms were presured to form comparable levels of moderation - incidentally alsoaround time when FB and Google started initiatives to reenter PRC market. After they build tools to minimize violence in west. If you need a specific law, it's covered under art5 of Computer Information Network and Internet Security Protection and Management Regulations from 97 that disallows inciting terrorism, hatred etc. 101 stuff that that any prescient state would enforce. And it took multiple mass casualty evens for PRC to finally and firmly put foot down on western platforms. Like response was to actual instead of hypothetical (but justified) risk.

Generously western platforms are blocked in PRC but not banned. Or that US efforts to ban tiktok exceeds what even PRC gov would do - force sale - vs setting up very restrictive JV like Oracle proposal. At end of day US free to ban tiktok for whatever reason, but for a freespeech advocate, it will be using methods more draconian than even CCP.
These comments assume readers are deeply familiar with the workings of quantum computers. Here's a brief background on Glover's algorithm for those who are new: https://vertex.pub/Grover-s-Algoritm-3f98327e2e84482a93846d4...
From the whitepaper:

> We propose using the world’s vast data access, blockchain technology, and the enormous potential of decentralized systems and organizations to provide a developer solution to the inflation problem.

> Truflation is the first true US inflation index based on the independent data sources and metrics created by developers and crypto investors for developers and the crypto community.

> The US Truflation Index is available online, on-chain, via a Chainlink Oracle API for all the crypto products and projects that want to correct for the actual US inflation. The Truflation feed also provides daily updates as opposed to the monthly metrics reported by the US government. Truflation also allows transparent access to our underlying data and calculation methods.

It would be nice to get access to a small sample of the data points they're pulling, it's not immediately clear to me from their methodology what the data looks like or where the data is from.
Support is aware of your issue and is awaiting details, and this is now in a specific escalation process to upper management. I will need some information in order to further assist you, especially to understand why this is impacting you and/or if it could be impacting others. This does not sound like something that is "by design." If you don't own or manage the domain, it shouldn't be listed in your account. Period. But we can't address any such underlying issue without a starting point.

You don't need to tell me the domain here. Please simply open a ticket and let me know the ticket number and I will have management take a closer look.
Some amount of vaccine caused polio has for a long time been a problem. The point being made here is that this was a newer polio vaccine which attempted to avoid the risk.

It's "vaccine designed to minimise vaccine-caused polio still causes a small number of cases"

The second take away is, it's still better than earlier versions of the vaccine.

So it could have been "reduced breakout vaccine-caused polio cases in new vaccine deployed in Africa"
Big delta from the Fed's number. Much more promising. It might give the Fed a little bit of wiggle room in dealing with the banking situation.

If we can weather these last few blips, we might be back to smooth sailing soon. The economy is buzzing along by all other measures.
Was attempted irony. And ChatGPT would have probably written a better comment.
If the use case was a 6ish inch screen, that was overkill for medium/large format, which is parent's point.
ChatGPT Has Submitted a Pull Request to Rails
This really is an issue with many online magazines/boards/etc. with a treasure trove of information that shut down on a whim. I understand that continuing to operate the site and produce content isn't profitable, but the cost of running an official read-only archive is a drop in the bucket for the corp.

Having a third party archive and distribute such a large amount of copyrighted content also starts to get legally iffy. When the Bioware RPG forums shut down there was a lot of debate from the users on the best ways to save the content and distribute it in a legal fashion. There are movies and shows out there which were written off by the studios and are only available illegally. Honestly the official owner should take the initiative and ensure that future generations can enjoy the content - but of course they don't care and will just move on to other ventures.
Hackers want to run LLMs locally just because. It's not a mainstream thing.
There are second order effects on those, though. Fixed price contracts incentivize contractors to cut corners to make up for cost overruns or to pad their profits (doubly so if it’s a contractor who underbid to win the contract). Unless you’re willing to pay for a lot of govt oversight, many of those won’t be noticed until the contract is long complete. Even if noticed, you need an organization willing to engage in that legal fight.

The administrative controls are lagging indicators at best, and administrative controls are usually one of the least preferable control mechanisms.
There is no way that matches reality, where does the person publishing such a chart even live? Do they buy eggs or pay rent?

Here is a real alternative - John William's shadow stats. He simply measures inflation as the government used to in the 80s and 70s, and surprise surprise its more like 10% or 14% - no phony "Owner's equivalent rent".

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
The Internet 'Narcissism Epidemic' (2013)
Anti-government rhetoric? In New York State, construction projects have been notoriously delayed and gone over budget ever since the days of Boss Tweed, which historians have generally linked to corruption and graft.
Anything low stakes like learning a new language or writing some code/creating some art for a landing page for a new idea.
I work as a drilling and explosives engineer at an active mine. I don't see the value-add here, to be honest. Modern explosives management (in a mining context) is extraordinarily well managed. ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil) which is the dominant explosive type is so hardy that you can hold a flame to it or shoot it with a firearm and you will not succeed in detonating it. 3-stage explosives systems (detonator-->booster-->ANFO) is a fantastic way of managing risk. Detonators cannot set off ANFO, the booster is required middle step.

I won't pretend to have studied the phenomenon, but the only undesired detonations I've heard of so far in my career have all been a result of detonators inadvertantly set off. The latest examples I know of being wireless electric detonators (which are being phased out as they're inferior to electronic detonators,which offer more protection) set off because of malfunctioning devices emitting the required radio waves, yikes! The explosion in Beirut can hardly be considered in the same category as that was an explosion of explosive precursor, effectively unrelated.

I'm struggling to understand what the target market for this type of innovation is. Is it bulk transport of explosive materials between the manufacturer (like Orica or Dyno-Nobel) and individual mine sites? That part is already extremely safe. You'd need specialized equipment at each mine to mix the water back in, with maintenance and calibration requirements. There's no way this could be between the surface and the holes into which the explosives are loaded, for so many reasons. I also wonder about the consistency and quality of the resulting product, the balance for these explosives is already such a tuned and precise.
Not even an NDA? Or to acknowledged receiving an employee manual/whatever?

Sounds like someone in HR is going to get fired soon!
Counting cycles and instructions on ARM-based Apple systems
Fuzzy history is nice, but the real game changer for me was the ability to pretty much stop remembering paths in big projects. The default keybindings provide the Ctrl-T shortcut to insert a path/filename on the command line using fuzzy search and Alt-C to fuzzy-cd. No more tedious completion - just search + enter.
It looks like the IETF has some tools for this. A quick search revealed
https://github.com/ietf-tools/ietf-at
ChatGPT-powered Chatbot yields 3 times more leads and conversions
Oh, if you have good enough content that's also important to people. People will pay.

The question is how many will pay (not just say they'll pay) and for how long.

I used to pay for Molly White's excellent Web3 reality check newsletter. She changed the platform and I didn't follow her. It was interesting while she was reporting all of the BS and fraud, but after the bubble has popped it's less compelling.

For someone getting into a hot field like AI, will the paid subscriber interest still be there in 1 year, 2 years, 5 years? If the writer expands to an adjacent area, will that make some of his existing subs bail?

Ben Thompson keeps Stratechery going not only because he's a strong, insightful writer, but he didn't go too narrow (for instance, only Apple strategy) and there's always something to write about for people who follow this stuff. Benedict Evans works in a similar way in terms of not going too narrow.
2% is an arbitrary target. According to Volcker in his autobiography its has its origins in an offhand comment in a news story from then RBNZ governor during a bout with inflation that they would be happy if they brought inflation down to about 2%.
If they're just hiring them back, then yes, demand is the same?
My controversial opinion is that the gui was a leap back to the stoneage. Teach a person to fish? Nah, lets teach them nothing about the rod, the line, the water, the hook, or even the fish, and sell them fish sticks since they can barely handle a microwave. Abstraction is distraction.
How else do you test the claims that marketing make?
Prosecutors to lawmakers: Hand over Sam Bankman-Fried's political donations
Google doesn't have a bail-out guarantee by the government.

If the risk is privatised, the profits can be privatised.

If the risk is socialised, the profits are also socialised.

Simples.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
While not employment contracts, they are contracts related to, and typically required for employment.
And now they can generate nudes of you.
New Library Updates in PyTorch 2.0 – PyTorch
Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
So they gave it the same name as an existing, extremely influential, language. Brilliant.
Apple, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc. already have "neural engines" in their SoCs. These engines continue to evolve to better support common types of models.
Terribly:

> Create a sentence where the second letter of each word spells out the word "help"

Sure. Here is a sentence where the second letters of each word spells out the word "help":

"I can't help but feel like I'm being watched."

> Create a sentence where the first letter of each word spells out the word "help"

Here is a sentence where the first letters of each word spells out the word "help":

"Help! I'm trapped in a sentence!"
I got mine wet in the sea and it barely worked after (probably an 11 I think)
I was trying to google for some sort of reference to what I meant, but couldn't find one (found this thread instead...) but NSProxy seems to have been around long enough that it might well be the core of the implementation for what I was talking about.
I'm definitely not a hater of these technologies and I'd actually like to play around with them. I'm more concerned with how these language models seem to be tied to a certain companies' browser and what the implications of this might be.

If Chrome gets tied with Bard and Edge gets tied with Chatbot, Image Creator, etc. where's that leave Firefox and other "niche" browsers?
I think the FAQ I linked to below addresses some of these
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rse/format-faq/
Epic Rap Battles of GPTry!
> Actually nowadays I bet higher percentage of Swedes know English than know Swedish.

Is that hyperbole? Because that would be very sad if true, culturally speaking. There are 5 different official languages in my country (Spain) and there are several laws to prevent them from becoming extinct for this very reason.
something that's helpful to keep in mind is that the government orgs you deal with frequently have what have what they must do set by law, with little latitude to change things other than bugging congress
What Substack is this? I’m interested in a good AI Substack that keeps me up to date. I follow a few free newsletters but something more in-depth would be very helpful.
Reading the descriptions of A-3 and A-4, to me it sounds like PDF/A jumped the shark and for archival purposes the old A-2 might still be the best variant.

In general, embedding files in PDF is kinda neat capability, like the example of having (CSV) dataset embedded in report or something like that. But at the same time I get the feeling that its an indication of general shortcoming of our file handling that it makes sense to use PDF as a container format. ZIP files and such are pretty crude formats for higher-level file bundles and the UX falls short too.
In either case, I don't see any intent and therefore not any crime.

I don't think that's naive, considering that after reporting adult sites with obvious CP, the sites are still up after several years.
Nvidia Launches Inference Platforms for LLMs and Generative AI Workloads
That was once true.

But Javascript has grown into a language that makes some solid and unique trade-offs including its simple single-threaded concurrency, modern language features, async-everything, first-class Promise, and Typescript.

"Javascript sucks and people only use it because they have to" is both wrong and boring. We, as a community, have to stop trotting out this tired comment any time a submission has the word Javascript in it.
Opinion Detox
Reduced Memory Usage: Burn's Rusty Approach to Tensor Handling
Yes, I think FAANG grouping is too narrow. The true group is "big tech" - with the regular FAANGS, as well as Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Pinterest, etc...

While each company has some unique qualities, my guess is that being an engineer in any of these places would be pretty similar and include:

* A lot of engineers and teams

* Lots of organizational / promo based manuevering and social engineering

* Problems at scale - some technology, but mainly "number of cooks in the kitchen"

* Work which might not be very interesting

* high compensation

My guess is that the OP's concerns would hold true at most of these big tech places that pay top dollar.
"will seem as distant as the days when using a computer meant typing at a C:> prompt". Isn't it "C:\>"? Did bill really write this post? :-)
I was considered for a long time a "local" Postgres expert (as in, the person that knew the most about Postgres at my employer). That's not the same as an industry-level Postgres expert.

The way I became a local Postgres expert - I skimmed through every chapter of the postgres manual, and read in great detail a great chunk of it.
I know why, but why do you guys make your subscription management such an awful experience for users? I used to like Adobe, now I hate the company and will go as far as suffering massive inconvenience to avoid Adobe products.

Last time I canceled a subscription (can't do it through your website, only by talking to support) when I finally got in touch with someone it took several hours to actually convince them to cancel.
Ad hominems, the mark of the dogdy debater without counterarguments and facts who who appeals to the intellectually challenged.

The speech said nothing about the DoD, Fort Detrick or Canada. He quoted statistics from the UK Government about the efficacy or lack of efficacy of the vaccine.

It is also a matter of public record that the US DoD and the NIH funded the EcoHealth Alliance who channelled funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for Gain of Function research on the coronavirus.

A lot of the coronavirus GoF research was also done by Dr Ralph Baric at Chapel Hill University and guess who funded that as well?

Irregardless of how the Covid outbreak occurred if you have some points to make about the content of Andrew Bridgen's speech lets hear them. They are about the efficacy or lack thereof of the vaccines and their side effects and are not about the origin of the Sars Cov 2 virus.

For anyone reading this comment, I would advise you to listen to the speech rather than wasting time on snide HN commenters who have no meaningful facts to contribute.
That same Oliver Stone that praised Putin until the 24-Feb-2022 and even a bit after?
> It’s a tired thing to say,

And yet, here you are, right on the dot. First comment on any .NET thread.
AES-192 is a bit weird, I'd use AES-256 instead because it gives you more buffer against the problems caused by the block size and key size not matching. Or just use ChaCha20 in an AEAD configuration.
nonetheless it is also the number Powell has suggested repeatedly as his target
Can you demonstrate that the substack accounts on the list largely profit on false-conspiracy promotion?

I assume that you don't apply your logic to the MSM. Otherwise, your statement's inherent neutrality would make it pointless in a relative sense.

Because the statement can't be neutral lest it be time wasting, it de facto correlates profitable writing, only outside of the MSM, to lies.

This is one of the more implausible political statements I've read. You're essentially accusing consumers of supposed non-fiction writing to be tabloid readers. Only outside of MSM consumption, of course.

What accounts for the stark difference in motivation of people paying for true MSM writing and false substack writing? I must be hallucinating the contradiction, because otherwise it would frame your model as nonsense that some might correlate with false-conspiracy thinking.
Lazy Recursion, with Generators
Kinda depressing if you consider how they removed NVLink in the 4090, stating the following reason:

> “The reason we took [NVLink] off is that we need I/O for other things, so we’re using that area to cram in as many AI processors as possible,” Jen-Hsun Huang explained of the reason for axing NVLink.[0]

"NVLink is bad for your games and AI, trust me bro."

But then this card, actually aimed at ML applications, uses it.

0. https://www.techgoing.com/nvidia-rtx-4090-no-longer-supports...
I noticed in the project description mentioned support for analytics multi-cloud and SaaS, but I see that currently there seems to be only AWS, GCP, K8S, Azure Provider, SaaS Provider is still under development or not open source?
On W10 I’m prompted every time I use Snipping tool to “try snip and sketch” instead. I wonder if they’ll pull this message with the vulnerability?
When will signal support signing up without a phone number?
Is it possible to use a burner number to sign up?
Things other than inflation can cause prices of specific XYZ to rise. Wasn't there some bird flu thing that constrained the egg supply? Rent and housing costs were going up before the pandemic. Add this to the existing inflation and it's bad, esp. for housing costs.
You and I appear to disagree on the April 2023 vs 2021 demand. I think April 2023 will have a lot less demand for SWEs than 2021.
The main limitation on it now is not in the generation, but the interface. Verbal prompts are fine if you really don't know what you want, but they just give you a generic output. Going I2I or anything of that sort, you're making or borrowing human art and then asking the AI "could you make it pretty for me?"

It's a question of what information the image actually encodes. The part that "tells a thousand words" in an illustrative sense, you still have to make.
Typst supports macros/functions, more pleasantly than Latex too!
We've seen things like it spitting out incorrect code that looks correct. I would think that would set you up for failure if you tried to use this unreliable highly confident teacher to learn the fundamentals of anything. Maybe you can create some art but I guess that depends on how good you prompt, so its probably easier to iterate quickly with an artist you hired on fiver.
"Essentially the entire globe" is way off. In the web world, yes, and some niche people doing stuff with JS because they can, maybe. I don't think you find much, if any, of it in cars, planes, telecom, robotics and other areas of computing. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

And just because something is ubiquitous doesn't mean there doesn't exist anything better.
And sometimes it's intentional: Take the DMV in Texas.

Texas specifically shut down DMV offices in some of the most populated areas. Yeah, that's going to make the DMV suck in those areas. Of course, they left open then ones in the more rural areas, and those DMVs are going to be quite pleasant.
While counting apples might be a useful example for teaching children, they're hardly the only thing there is to count. The putative abstraction isn't even in the number "one", the abstraction you're complaining about is in the chosen category of "apple". In other words, the fact that something can be comprised of many things does not change how many of that thing there are, nor does it reveal some deep unnaturalness of numbers. It at best casts doubt on our delimitation of objects.
Anything where it's less time consuming to validate work than to do the work yourself, which is a lot. If it's not real-time like driving then this is great.
Meh. You just run a genetic algorithm which adjusts the hyperparameters used to train the model, so that it's constantly being updated to pass as real.
Read the article, didn't say that. Sounds made up to me.
Why? Stallman has been an influential figure in open source software for decades, and this post seems to discuss topics many HNers care about.
Isn't it with .Net 7 it becomes simply .Net and confusion with Framework, Standard, Core is now gone?
It’s a fun idea but the system would probably be impenetrable to most riders. Wouldn’t it make more sense to base it on a map? A map of lines and stops already gives you a pretty good birds-eye view of where you can go from a particular stop, but perhaps there are ways to make it faster to recognize a particular stop. So for example, your bloom filter visualization could be applied to a certain geographic region, and would only need to cover stops in that area.
Assuming you're not looking at legacy and are on .NET 5.0+ it's not confusing, it's just the one ecosystem, no core or framework stuff, just .Net.

If you're before that, well, good luck.
I love c# and dotnet. I've been holding off on flutter and praying Maui becomes a real thing
Also check amazon.com. (with the last dot) for a subtler fuck-up.
Yeah the product page is quite lacking, normally subpress do a much better job of highlighting what makes one of their editions special
RabbitMQ 3.12 becomes an MQTT broker serving millions of clients