skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally all the time, in functional administrative systems.

You have to think a little harder than "where the funding comes from" (yes that's important, everyone knows it's important to follow the money... but it's not the full picture). Sophisticated administrative structures can insulate you against certain risks by altering how power is normally or naturally distributed. When you design these systems, you create the accountability mechanisms that you want: almost anything is possible.

Similarly, when issues come up with existing structures, the answer doesn't have to be an ideological pole (in whichever direction). The most reasonable answer is usually just to tweak the administrative structures / accountability mechanisms. In other words, you don't have to try and reason about this in purely theoretical, vague terms: it's a very practical and concrete problem that can have as much context and nuance as you want.

That doesn't mean it's easy, but I hate that almost everyone seems to not even spend a minute being creative. Similarly, I hate how people confuse the issue of "is the media free to editorialize" with "do I agree with this piece of editorial content", which is >90% of the criticism I seem to see in general.
How's that true with Perl since the interpreter is still needed? In that case the same could be said about Ruby, Python, et al.
Because the free market is supposed to self regulate or something similar. See, no consumer would ever buy PFOAs… wait. I mean no consumer would ever put microplastics in their… hold on. I mean who would buy products made with slave lab… I mean surely any company with anti-consumer practices will not stay in business for long…

Perhaps we should get with the times and accept that Goodhart’s Law applies to the measures of capitalism. A consumer can absolutely be poisoned or cheated by a product satisfying all commonly accepted quality criteria. As soon as those criteria are agreed upon by the market, they become targets to manipulate.
> And what might be some unintended consequences of restricting the ability for your code to be used in that way (assuming that's legally possible - and I do appreciate that it's probably practically impossible)

It would poison other (human) users of your code with your license.
People at OpenAI came up with PPO, arguably the most used deep RL algorithm
Even better - compile Emacs as a kernel module, and run it in ring 0. ELisp would give it memory safety, so memory protection would not even be necessary. System calls have never been so cheap!
The page says Markdown, but I see MDX in the video
You probably have it if you have Git Bash installed. Perl is a dependency of Git IIRC.
What do you mean by "the processor" ?

Our website did not sell anything direct to consumer. Our "customers" were "advertisers" (affiliate programs that supplied us with content and either mailed us a physical commission check or pay out electronically). There was no payment processing of any sort. What we needed to do was clear physical checks and receive deposits from electronic / online banking services like PayPal and Paxum. We had a business credit card which we used to pay for things like web hosting, and we had 3 bank accounts: a chequing account, business savings and US currency. We did not have a merchant account.

It wasn't that the bank refused to process payments for us. They refused to hold our money and handle every day banking transactions like bill payments.
I do exactly that but with ruby
The judge barely has to argue; the law on this seems totally clear-cut[0]. 108(c)(2) says:

> ...any such copy or phonorecord that is reproduced in digital format is not otherwise distributed in that format and is not made available to the public in that format outside the premises of the library or archives.

My understanding is that controlled digital lending is its own thing, with its own procedures and licenses. What IA did here was come up with its own controlled digital lending scheme based on ownership of print copies.

This doesn't look like one of those tense cases where judges add to the law with rulings that involve reading in-between the lines. This looks like a case where the judge read the law, saw that the law discussed exactly what the defendent did, and so ruled according to the law.

0. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108
This can be addressed by simply raising the bar for delivering such a sentence however. “Reasonable doubt” is a moderately high precision bar. It’s intentionally not higher.
I read this title and my mind went to 1980's hair-rock bands (Metal-Rich-stars), thinking "well, yeah that makes sense."

I need to take a break.
If you like this, Dataview[1] is great for querying your markdown notes.

[1] https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/queries/str...
If this concerns you, look into hydrolyzed collagen (aka collagen peptides). I assume since they are broken down its a bit different, but can't back up my assumption.
No, but Perl at the very least is available on the latest versions of Mac OS. Python is not. So as far as "being bundled with the latest OSes" goes, Perl beats Python.

NOTE: I am (probably mistakenly) assuming that Perl is still bundled in most Linux distros by default.
Had this been Python I would be all over it.
Found 78 items so far. Then it crashed and I lost all my progress.
So while the original problem was x^y=y^x he have rearranged this into ln x / x = ln y / y and so now are investigating the ln x / x function. Yes, the lettering could be clearer because y at some points means one variable and later on it means the value of the function.
So what you are saying is Tesla is building China’s future factories for armor.
Often, i learned, showing up makes a difference. Naturally you know best what the risks are but you'd be surprised. I'd give it an honest try.
Don't state an opinion as fact. There's many examples of the state letting people off, then the family taking matters into their own hands, with public approval. Retribution is important for those who hurt others.
since 12.04 we have had unity->gnome, xorg->mir->wayland, upstart->systemd, python2->python3, iptables->nftables, addition of zfs, snap, livepatch, lxd, and dropping 32bit support.

All of those were pretty major changes and definitely not just incremental. And that is just top of my head, I probably missed lot of things. On the other hand, most gnome2 era releases are pretty much a blur in my mind. What to you made those feel more significant?
Bingo. When I was a kid, I once flipped my bike because I was only braking with the front. I learned not to do that, but to an extreme — I then braked almost always with just the back.

It wasn't until I got older and faster that I realized that braking just in the back is not as effective, since the braking action makes your nose dive and puts more weight over your front tire. I now brake with both sides, but always first in the back.
That looks like it!

Thanks!
> What were the circumstances of this magic one-time murder?

There's many cases of say, a father going out and murdering their daughter's rapist. It's unlikely that they would kill people that aren't raping their daughters, but if you simply let them go free, it really kind of signals that murder is okay as long as you can justify it well enough. Generally the only time we really condone killing someone is when he's defending himself... and sometimes not even then.

I do think that putting said person in prison for a period of time is appropriate. No punishment whatsoever is condoning murder.

It's just that it's tough to condemn decent people like that to a prison system that is so focused on being terrible for everyone in there. I think prisons need to be a better place to live for all prisoners and the current system simply isn't adequate or reasonable.
I'm not suggesting doing a complex technical explanation, simply explaining to them at a high level how these products are advertising driven, how they can become addictive, what are the safety risks etc is better than not explaining anything to them.
So, please, play the scenario out. You take away all the legal guns... now what? Violence ends? Right? Right?

What's the plan for taking away all the illegal guns? What's the plan to protect citizens that are now disarmed?

Why don't we just focus on taking away all the illegal guns? Oh, right... we have been... for 89 years - yet there's more illegal guns on the streets today than in 1934. What a shock...

Kind of like how there's more drugs readily available to average citizens than before the "war on drugs" started. It's literally an impossible task... have you seen the homemade guns in countries with outright bans? Or worse, illegally imported automatic firearms. Regular Joe - no gun. Criminal Joe, full auto!

People like to point at Prohibition as evidence an outright ban of Drugs can never work. Yet, it's different with guns somehow?

You're looking at an infected wound and deciding the appropriate treatment is duct tape.

Why duct tape? Because you haven't bothered to even learn rudimentary medical knowledge but are a self-proclaimed expert. Duct tape holds things together, so why not? Banning guns means no gun violence, right? Why don't we just make it illegal to hurt or kill people? It's already illegal? Ok, make it double-illegal, that'll show them!
I don't think I have ruby on any system I administer, but perl is almost always there.
Oh come on! Nobody actually refers to the versions by the fun names anyway, the date version numbers are what people search for when they need info. They're just a bit of fun.
What’s the point of earning magic internet beans if not to spend them pointlessly policing bad grammar?
It’s actually MDSVEX (the svelte version of MDX), we are weighing out a move to markdoc.
I consider banks almost a branch of the government. More like cities than companies.
I doubt he is sophisticated enough to have manufactured the data himself, but someone must have manufactured the data.

One theory is that the "packet capture" was a disinformation campaign promoted by foreign actors (e.g. Russia) to capitalize on the stolen election narrative that was forming and foment chaos. Imagine a spy approaches Lindell posing as a credible but disgruntled "insider" within the US government, maybe even presenting forged credentials like a badge, government ID, etc. then "leaks" this manufactured data to him. Then Lindell believes he's on a crusade to save the country, and acts like their wind-up toy in the media.

It's more plausible to me that Lindell sincerely believes his narrative and was taken advantage of rather than he's an intentionally malicious character. Or perhaps that's how it started, and he's too embarrassed or hard-headed to admit being fooled. Seems like if that was the case, the NSA or CIA should step in and brief him, then give him a graceful exit in exchange for publicly admitting he was wrong. If Lindell is also compromised by blackmail or extortion, then things get more complicated.
> It is installed by default everywhere.

For some values of "everywhere". Pretty sure this is not true on Windows, for example.
Nice job! I think you've really made the easiest possible API surface for adding LLM into apps. I'm not sure LangChain is going to be the best way to integrate LLM into apps in the future, and ActionIt definitely demonstrates that it's at least not the simplest.

I'm a little unclear on one thing though. How are you handling the parsing of parameter names when passing prompts to the model? In your example you ask the LLM to "Find the sum of 1 and 8" and then that ends up being bound to x and y somehow. I know it doesn't matter in the case of adding two numbers because they're commutative, but that's hardly ever the case. I must be missing some magic somewhere.
I support posting the list.
Then it's not by default right? I must have git installed !
> Personally, I feel AlphaGo was the biggest deal ever.

Right, but the cashier at McDonalds is using ChatGPT for night school.
> if such a thing truly exists…

It exists.

Sounds like NIH got hijacked by a bunch of people who believed otherwise and required proof of pathobiology first.
People want the bar to be raised to a point where there is a 0% error rate. This effectively means abolishing the death penalty.
We love our quirky, slow 1993 Mitsubishi JB500 campervan (https://www.instagram.com/finnthejb500/), but the experience is not for everyone. We were able to register it in Washington without too much hassle. It definitely pays to do some research and try to find a local-ish mechanic willing to work on them before you make the purchase.
I'm trying to sort out an alternative: https://www.adama-platform.com/2023/04/15/going-hard.html
How about having at least an inventory to take/drop random objects. It will also be interesting to have more languages available
Amazon introduces new feature to make dialogue in its TV shows intelligible
A Maverick is just an open air hatchback.

It's the same length as my 2002 Xtracab Tacoma, which is nice, but my Tacoma has a bed that's literally twenty inches longer.
Oh my god, same. I'm not exactly a cybersecurity whiz, but going through the details, it was like "Is this a PCAP? Is this a PCAP?". Good lord, this was a silver platter.
On a side note, my dad observed that when he was getting his Master's degree in CS, they had to read Hoare's CSP paper. He said the class was divided into two groups: those who didn't understand it, and those who thought the problems with mutable-by-default multithreading could be solved with proper programmer discipline.
Raise that bar however high you want; you cannot completely eliminate the possibility of a mistake.
Even if it does remove a bit of leverage ... IIUC generally this kind of deal hinges on the state's discretion over whether to pursue a greater or lesser charge or ask for a greater or lesser sentence, and so we're talking about the state's ability to threaten and coerce someone who has not yet been convicted of anything through discretionary prosecution. Maybe that's leverage they shouldn't have?
perl script off-by-one mistake, presumably.
Launching from the equator starts you at 1100mph though

(Haven’t done the exact maths, I suspect the delta is even closer than 300moh)
Is perl? That's an honest question/honestly surprises me.

But honestly installing anything like that (without WSL probably - haven't used it recently) on Windows is painful, it's not python's fault, it's just a different paradigm. Run with a different environment variable for example.
The SG-1
The expensive part is largely the (comparatively) exhaustive appeals process, which means counterintuitively the innocent may be even worse off now that they won't be on death row.
IMO the strongest argument against "just use willpower!" is that skinny people from other countries, with evidently-healthy eating habits, routinely move to the US and then pack on pounds.

How can someone already in this society be expected to fight it successfully, when the typical result for someone coming into it with a lifetime of healthy eating behind them and a good BMI is that they find themselves struggling with weight in short order?

Which isn't to say don't try, but also indicates to me that there's a 0% chance we're going to willpower our way out of the obesity epidemic, and it indicates to me that willpower is not the key factor in keeping other countries skinnier than us. If that's all we've got, we're just gonna keep getting fatter.

[EDIT] Though, full disclosure, I think our problems are deep, structural, and tied heavily to our kinda-awful and very messy "culture" and "society", such as they are, so am not optimistic we're capable of fixing this even if we knew exactly what to do.
ChatGPT’s Astonishing Potential – Greg Brockman – Ted
Years ago Larry Wall presented a graph of programming languages with the axes labeled "whipupitude" and "manipulexity". Perl excels at both. It's still my go-to for tasks requiring a lot of text manipulation, or with just a bit too much complexity to be a shell script. Perl code does look odd at first, but it gets an unfair rap on that point - there are plenty of popular languages that are hard to mentally parse without some background.
One does not need to justify Tor usage :-)
Yeah, that's completely right, but as you said in another comment, there's some real bullshit in the FMVSS that to me, a complete layperson, seems like it has the sole effect of blocking the certification of perfectly safe and clean modern vehicles from other advanced nations.

Of course we shouldn't be allowing people to import some pollution-spewing deathtrap that doesn't have seatbelts--the FMVSS regulations do exist for a reason--but I think we should be taking a more critical look at our regulations, especially as compared to other places at the same socioeconomic level.
Also, my 2c:

Using Apache 2.0 basically means you are indifferent about what others use your code for. I don't see why AI training should be an exception... there are much more nefarious uses.
Getting a readout of the immune system sounds like a huge advance. I'm a little surprised to first hear about it as a cancer diagnosis tool rather than as an autoimmune disease diagnosis tool
At least there was no explosion on the pad, which would have been much worse.
Saving Instagram images automatically every hour with Node.js or PHP
The recipe is terrible, it neither has the detailed enough ingredients list nor the cooking technique for carbonara.

Someone who hasn't cooked a carbonara just isn't going to be able to cook it with that recipe.
TOTP can also be safe against an impostor website if the TOTP implementation validates the domain name of the request before filling out the TOTP code. KeePassXC's browser extension does this, for example.

Of course, if the impostor has hijacked the user's DNS request for the real website's domain name, and the impostor has presented a TLS cert for the real website issued by a CA the user trusts, then what I described will still leak the TOTP code. But in that situation WebAuthn would also be broken.

The advantage WebAuthn has is that it's built into the browser, so the browser gets to enforce that the user isn't involved in ways that could weaken the security. With TOTP the browser has no way of knowing if it's a domain-name-checking implementation like KeePassXC or the user is copy-pasting codes from another program or another device without applying sufficient care.
Exactly, I also know a few victims very well and the internet was not involved, because it's pretty much spray and pray versus a trusted friend or such where the chance of success nears 100% - this is why the whole argument is really disingenuous and really contemptible.
All Americian launches have a Flight Termination System (FTS) which is a bomb attached to ensure the off-course vehicle explodes before returning to earth. There are personnel in the control room who can activate the FTS when something goes wrong and there is a danger to people on the ground.

That is what detonated the StarShip today.

You'll find it was notably absent in Soviet rocket tests, for instance with the N1 which veered off course, returned to the ground intact and exploded there instead.
We need a serious talk about that attitude.

It’s been systematic that each time someone says “I’d pay for a good linux”, they’re given the link as if to assume we’re not already paying. You forgot that I want a nice OS in exchange.

Moreover, I left Ubuntu. It’s software that I can’t be convinced to use even if it were free. Canonical’s choices (with Unity at the time, but also the mouse issue, and so on) are of the rare kind that they can convince someone to uninstall it and go buy 2x more expensive hardware to run macOS.

What’s missing is, I’d pay good money, but I don’t want to fiddle around with the OS. I’d pay for the betterment of the OS, but with distribs, if you pay, you’re still not the customer.

And I pay for Debian. But it’s not my desktop OS.
Because people who hate a thing are generally not the most knowledgeable about it and even if they know their judgement is clouded by hate. They only like the alternative to be contrarian.

I'm not gonna ask PETA for tips on raising beef steers, I'm not gonna ask Joe Biden what gun I should buy and I'm not gonna ask /r/fuckcars what car I should buy. And this is on top of the usual Reddit circle jerks and groupthink that make asking for advice there for anything of meaningful stakes questionable in general.
My philosophy has been to let the distro package manager handle system packages (kernel, OpenSSL, etc) but then use flatpak [1] to install user progs like Chromium and VSCode so I get bleeding edge releases and sandboxing.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.chromium.Chromium
Python is available by default in macOS. Not latest version python, but available. (Both 2 & 3 I think, or maybe they've dropped 2 now.)
My wife was really interested in doing this the last time we were talking about a new vehicle. We looked at a lot of trucks and micro vans. There are plenty of people who have done it. My biggest hang ups were related to the variability of laws about microtrucks across states. Some places I can drive it like any other vehicle. Others it’s limited to non-highway travel and locality.

Also not being able to see the vehicle firsthand before purchasing.

They’re inexpensive though. That’s nice.
I can’t take a tube of toothpaste on a plane. How am I going to pack a bomb large enough to cause that much damage. Why don’t people blow up planes with that method today?
It's not a 1-1 mapping but it can narrow things down to you and maybe a handful of others. If you're doing something like file sharing repeatedly over several days/weeks they can pull data for all of that time and when your IP is the only constant they'd know it was you. If they have only a handful of people it could potentially be, and they care enough they can seize and search the devices of everyone to find the person.

Also, you don't have to be logged into google for google to know who you are. If you're using windows, your OS is also phoning home constantly with identifying data. If you use steam, it's also phoning home. Run wireshark sometime and see how much your computer is sending to random servers without you doing anything or being "logged in".
I wish I'd known this. Oregon's bi-annual "emissions test" where they hook up the inspection machine to the ODB port and let the car lie to it is absurd. When I first heard about it I assumed they'd put some device on the exhaust. They do not.
yeah, I'm not so sure they have "solved" anything. I think that many of the authors may be creating thought and feedback silos. They certainly aren't reaching as many people who think differently, helping to influence their thinking. This feedback loop with people who like your content only reinforces writing that they want over what needs to be said.

A good editor can make a huge difference, the interview with Foreign Affairs Editor Daniel Kurtz-Phelan was quite good. Really appreciated his thoughts on how a good editor should work with content authors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCBg8-w5VU
ChatGPT comes to Second Life. Inside a giant, humanoid bunny
Someone observed to me once that the dominance of ARM has proven both the CISC and RISC sides wrong as ARM has fairly intermediate complexity instructions.
"Own the libs" is a mantra for some people.
He also said there was a 80% chance of reaching orbit this year. Which doesn't seem like a high number.
Though I'm not advocating for the death penalty, it's high cost was created by the opponents of death penalty. I don't think "unfair" is the right word, but it sure is dirty.
Sounds like some key people will be leaving "Google Deepmind" in the next few months.
You raise some valid points, but I don't think that Microsoft Authenticator implements FIDO/U2F/Webauthn. My point was that the number matching implemented by Microsoft Authenticator is no safer than TOTP.
Ubuntu release names are alphabetical, that makes them great.