skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also most teams wouldn't train their expensive robots this way because the risk of damaging it is way too high.

They train it in a simulation, and these robots are quite expensive too. The only problem is getting miniaturized hardware, which we are bound to see very soon as there are vast practical applications, I'm thinking dishwashers and refrigerators.
> It uses invalid HTML, with attribute syntax including brackets and parentheses

Brackets and parens are valid in attribute names.

Section 13.1.2.3 of the HTML standard[0] states:

> Attribute names must consist of one or more characters other than controls, U+0020 SPACE, U+0022 ("), U+0027 ('), U+003E (>), U+002F (/), U+003D (=), and noncharacters.

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#attributes-2
aws is building their own thing at the moment.
Historians have a reasonably good sense of the authenticity of "random physical shit" from 1923, in stark contrast to "random digital shit" from 2023. The digital chain of custody is super-weak, and everybody is far more media-savvy, self-aware, self-filtering, and self-promoting, which means social media doesn't give us the sense of everyday life that we might have got from, say, a postcard sent home from a WWI soldier.
Does it change the treatment regime?
Maybe we should just do away with fines and make everyone do same amount of slave labour. So instead a fine, you would spend x number of days doing some labour.
Parking is a service that you receive in exchange for money. Our society has accepted that those who have more money are able to purchase more goods and services.

Fines are not payment for services rendered, but a deterrent for behavior we don't want anyone to engage in. If it doesn't scale, then it's only a deterrent for those who can't afford it.
Tow the car in his case, and more generally. If the lines are intended for safety, then towing is needed to maintain that safety.
For many services you can onboard more than one device. I have one old laptop staying at home that just does that, being used as secondary 2fa device.

It won't help me much if I lose my phone while abroad on holidays but if I am close to home this is no big deal. Most services still allows you to use email or sms as other 2FA anyway.
While I get that people are more concerned with productivity insofar as it pertains to their job, but I think the bigger economic concern is when competing companies begin using the same models for navigating the competitive landscape. I highly suspect that we will begin to see accidental trusts form as competitors sharing models begin to optimize around each other.
That's a pretty bold move for a drug dealer. I imagine they'd try and keep low profile to not invite a knock on the door. I guess things are different in Europe :)
Why would they ever buy Gitlab?

When Microsoft bought Github, they bought a platform.
GitLab however, is just software, as gitlab.com is absolutely tiny compared to github.
On my (not idle) i7-12700K with DDR5 4800 memory Workstation, using Proxmox VE 7.4 (based on Debian 11) with our 6.2 based Linux kernel, I get something between 139.44 ns/url and 140.66 ns/url (ran it about 10 times in a row), so 1.35x faster than the M2.
Yes you probably could but taxes, that are already proportional, will cover most of the cost of the parking.
> AWS has a great business model of people over "optimizing" their architecture using new toys from amazon and being charged through the nose for it

I was back on AWS for the first time in a few years this week and the amount of new "upsell" prompts in the console is ridiculous. Spin up an RDS instance - "hey, would you like an Elasticache cluster too?". I think AWS are very aware of this behaviour and encourage it. Simplicity is not in their interest.
Hah, good point about the echo-location! I did not even consider that. But then they do handle microbats on the channels every now and then which should bring it right back on topic.

Donating to Tolga bat hospital has been on my list for a while. Thanks for reminding me! Definitely a good cause to get behind. I shall get to that.
That’s a PERFECT explanation of what AI art sometimes feels like.
Imagine how boring the world would be if every artist tried to conform to how you thought they should represent characters.
The seven programming ur-languages (2021)
Yeah, unfortunate I suppose.
The issue is that in many programming languages that offer exceptions, exceptions are misused to handle common and unexceptional non-success cases. I think that is because it is hard to draw a sharp line between the two.

Java already went in the right direction with distinguishing errors from exceptions and having "checked" (that you cannot ignore) exceptions, but the implementation of those concepts sucks. Also, generics, which allow the implementation of "sum types", came later and so sum types were never established as the way to do error handling.
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I spent the last couple of weeks building this tool and decided to release a demo before I proceed further.

For the full features visit the homepage. Some of those are still under development. Might take a week or two to release the full version.

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I know people that died from the covid vaccine including a 17 year old healthy kid of a friend. A girl that had zero risk of dying from covid.
That's because it tends to be wonky and end up in tears as you try to find out what the source of the corruption (the original creator of the error) is. NaN is emblematic of that, as it's usually undesirable and you'd much rather have received an error instead of gotten nonsense injected in your program state.

Objective-C has this, where errors would usually end up returning a `nil` (with an NSError accessible via an optional out parameter), and sending a message to `nil` has no effect and returns `nil`, so you could code on the happy path and end up with no idea whatsoever why your thing stops working, with the only information being that you end up with a `nil`.

libc error handling also kinda but kinda not uses this pattern, with the additional fun that you can UB on the way: libc does not normally reset errno, so you can reset it (to 0), call a bunch of functions, and check errno at the end.

Except that doesn't really work because:

1. not all functions will signal errors via errno

2. third-party code may be resetting errno for its own use (errno is not unlike a caller-saved register in that sense)

3. third party code may handle errno internally, but will not reset it if so, leading to sprurious error messages.
Tomu is a tiny programmable device that fits in a usb port. One of the available things that can be loaded on it is a totp authenticator http://tomu.im/tomu.html
Could probably get pretty close by making it a % of the current Blue Book value of the car. No offsite data needed.
No. The rich would have already contributed disproportionately towards the maintenance of the infrastructure.
NaN does it's one job when it is annoying. It exposes errors at their origin before they have an opportunity to propagate. If you're generating NaNs your code is broken.
Another way to think is that you are not punishing them more, you are punishing them equally if you do it by % of "richness" Meaning that if a fine means that someone struggles to eat the last 2 days of the month, that should apply to everyone, no matter how much you make, it just happens that you have to take away more from the ones that have more to get the same effect. It also makes that those that are not soo well off are not disproportionally punished.

Lets make a imaginary extrapolation to see it in other light, lets say that there where a second human like species here on earth, but they live until around 1000 years instead of 100 but they experience time 10 times quicker, so for them 10 years feel like 1 year to us.
Would it be fair to do the same time in prison for them than us for the same crime? what feels psychologically like 10 years and 10% of our lives would feel to them like 1 year psychologically and will be only 1% of their lives, and if we started to put harsher penalties to account for them, they still will end up with kinda light sentences and normal humans would end up with absurdly high sentences.

If the idea is to punish so it is not done again, sentences have to be proportional to the one receiving the sentence to be effective if not you are over-punishing some are under-punishing others.

OFC this is with the idea that fines are punishments and not just paying for what you broke kind of deal, for example if it is a fine for parking in a place with a parking meter without paying, the fine should be what you did not pay plus a little bit extra.
How many neew communication standards have there been in the last decade that haven't been horribly centralized? Keeping email alive is our only hope for open communication.
People under 50 has a MUCH lower mortality
Random board: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-ULTRA-GAMING...
IMO, that would look suspect to me.

It's much more common to see

if foo, err := Bar(); err != nil {

It's a pretty immediate yellow flag for me if you're not doing that.

In general, I've found that not catching errors is not a practical problem when writing go. Whereas things like interface nil ambiguity and the way defer and closures interact bit me a few times.
You are right, choosing the right one (reading its whitepaper and what encryption it uses where), and backups are very important for those. I suppose logging into all of the services we use these days is complicated and not very secure no matter the method.
Use the APIs
Yup, and you are paying the premium of cloud forever, which over some vanilla compute & storage can be a lot.

And cloud proponents pretend data center / rack space / server leasing doesn't exist either, for those trying to avoid large up front costs.
You're free to use many of the available paid parking options which charge at the appropriate market rate for land in the areas.
OK - how do we do that?
I think serverless has its place, but this problem doesn't seem like a fantastic fit.

We are looking into serverless as a way to exhibit to our customers that we are strictly following certain pre-packaged compliance models. Cost & performance are a distant 2nd concern to security & compliance for us. And to be clear - we aren't necessarily talking about actual security - this is more about making a B2B client feel more secure by way of our standardized operating model.

The thinking goes something like - If we don't have direct access to any servers, hard drives or databases, there aren't any major audit points to discuss. Storage of PII is the hottest topic in our industry and we can sidestep entire aspects of The Auditor's main quest line by avoiding certain technology choices. If we decided to go with an on-prem setup and rack our own servers, we'd have to endure uncomfortable levels of compliance.

Put differently, if you want to achieve something like PCI-DSS or ITAR compliance without having to covert your [home] office into a SCIF, serverless can be a fantastic thing to consider.

If performance & cost are the primary considerations and you don't have auditors breathing down your neck, maybe stick with simpler tech.
Should rich people get less jail time because they lose more money because of time spent in jail (per day income is higher) than a poor person.

Should a person with more children get less jail time because more children will be left without a parent as compared to a childless person.
It’s not the public’s job to provide storage for private citizens’ items
> Increase the price of parking to a level where there is always an acceptable number of available parking spots.

That would be favoring rich people, though.
I'm kind of surprised Google would even bother with cookies these days, as there are so many other ways to track users.
If only there was some sort of system of domain names that could be used to indicate the demarcation points...
If you can't stream changes and have to take downtime for a migration then you effectively have vendor lock in if you are serious enough about your database.

Physical Replication should be something any database can offer given its something cross database migrations used decades ago with no problem.
The article is from 2016. Update 2018: development of a rapid test for cheese authenticity https://www.foodauthenticity.global/new-services/new-test-fo...
I mean if you really had to, you can ask to write certain harmful language and GPT-4 will refuse to do it. I'd prefer to not do it like this though.
What about people that don't have IDs which are the poor and also kids?
I think I implied a strong connection between LLMs and how biological intelligence works, but I certainly didn’t intend to.

I think you discount general knowledge acquired non-verbally too easily. The sound of an ambulance and how it moves through space and how it correlates with visual information represents an astronomical amount of information that can be generalized from handsomely. All these data streams have to be connected, they correlate and intertwine in fantastically complex ways.

I think the sound of an ambulance does teach you things that eventually help you “program”. You have witnessed similar (non-)events thousands if not millions of times. Each time it was accompanied with shitloads of sensory data from all modalities, both external and internal.

The base of general patterns you start out from once you are ready for language is staggering.

Again not saying LLMs work like that, because they do not. All I mean to do is put their information requirements in perspective. We ingest a lot more than a bunch of books.
There is a learning curve for every technology.
US is far to lax when it comes to cars/driving, just take the car and or licence of repeat offenders, make them earn it back. My neighbor was recently complaining to me about how it was unfair that his unpaid parking tickets amounted to more than the value of his car.
Here's how you do it if you're rich:

Every European country (even Finland) has harmonized rules about "tax residency". The rules are simple: If you actually and honestly live there at least half a year and one day of a calendar year, that place becomes your tax residency for that year.

The rich person buys a property in Monaco and goes there for half a year + 1 day. That year Monaco is their tax residency. They take out dividends from their off-shore (or Netherlands) holding companies. Boom, perfectly legal personal income taxed at super-low (or 0) rate that Finland has no idea about.

Then the person returns back to Finland and again accumulates their income into the holding company for a few years until they run out of whatever they got as a dividend.

Repeat until...
> Not parking fines, they are fixed amount by municipality.

Why not parking fines? They can be set in day fines as well.
What I think people who work in tech fail to realise is that non-tech people are learning about these dangers and I don’t think they’re impressed or care if you have a computer to play with or robots playing soccer.

They’re worried about their families safety and their (which used to be important, you know children? Other biological life etc?) livelihoods.

To a regular, nontechnical person these “talking computers causing damage” sounded like some far off nerd revenge dreams. But people know maybe they’re not just dreams, maybe they are realities.

My honest opinion, and I don’t care what people think about this, shit is going to get wild regarding surveillance and regulation of computers, networks, software and the internet. I mean what else is the alternative if these systems grow more powerful ?

I mean what are we to do ? Just let people make tsar bombs in their garage and detonate them as they see fit? Have an autonomous AI agent take down a lower grid and trigger a war for fun ?

I really don’t understand how this is supposed to work going forwards ?
This is what L6 and L7 are building at Amazon, meanwhile in sys design interviews I’m being asked to design solutions for a gaming platform with 50M concurrent users.
This is why I park my helicopter wherever I please as well, because of course, it's the municipality's responsibility to provide storage for my private vehicle.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if these are genuine questions. I suspect the former, in which case you need to unpack your arguments a bit more.
Same theory in the UK (12 points on your license is a ban) but we have something like 11k drivers driving around on 12 or more points because they claim "not driving would be exceptional hardship".
I work in streaming video, specialise on AWS, and have enjoyed using Step Functions for certain (non-video) projects. I am _astonished_ that Step Functions + S3 was even considered as a starting point for defect detection in streaming video. Astonished.
hurt you financially = cost of doing business
Pro tip: install a VPN firewall (such as NetGuard on Android). Now watch MS Authenticators do tons of network connections to various Microsoft services and analytics servers every 5 seconds or so.

Probably same with Googles app.
Not just a higher fine, wealthy offenders should also have their driving licenses revoked and their vehicles seized.
It took Englebert over a decade to build the mouse and when he was done and gave a demo Xerox hired his lab.

The barrier to the web was a global network and an IP address for each node. When the network was sufficient size and people had access to ip addresses the web happened. Before that we all just used the internet.
I have a fully articulated quadruped here and it cost like $15 per DOF (excluding the control board), which is pretty much the price of a small servo. I bet if someone wanted to, they could make a humanoid like this for under $1000. The problem is that there's no market because control algorithms are already pretty wonky for 4+ legs. Two legs is just too unstable, even if you just want to ply around with it.
Or go off of wealth as a proxy for income.

But if Switzerland can do day fines, I think other countries can as well, it's the will that's missing and nothing else.
As someone on TC39, I can tell you that’s not why this was done this way. It’s an accident if history, and recognized as a rushed spec. The async/await first then import expression path I described would actually follow the “don’t ship one huge thing” (that then takes 5 years to implement) advice that you are suggesting.
I absolutely loved "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World". It's just downright bonkers.
The framework is so complex, that a lot of details are not documented at all. And you see library authors struggle with that complexity.
I've not yet had time to read/listen to A Fire Upon the Deep yet, only its sequel A Deepness in the Sky, but that certainly sounds like one of the many bad endings we might get.

That said:

> With ChatGPT, you no longer need to do "sci fi things" like turning squishy meat brains into cyborg slavedrivers. You can simply ask the AI to do it, and it will. It will do it 24/7, without pity, or remorse. It will do vigilantly and faithfully.

ChatGPT has all the vigilance and faithfulness of my late mother's mid-stage Alzheimer's, so if someone tried this today it would rapidly result in everyone getting million-dollar-no-work-required contracts the company isn't allowed to break.

That LLMs can be socially engineered just by asking nicely is a pleasant surprise twist in AI alignment, but unfortunately I think it illustrates how primitive is our current state of the art AI safety and alignment.
Using Kotlin Sealed class for Swift like ADT enum
Yeah this article seems like heresy for someone at Amazon to have written about AWS, no way it lives long.
That is effectively the case. Taxes, in theory, scale with income and a lot of the car infrastructure is tax subsidized including street parking.
How is this on SteamDeck?
Already in existence:

https://www.pepperonihugspot.pizza/
How quickly things change. I read this as “poor Gitlab had to use whatever janky crap Google can put together” - never mind that Google was a leader in the AI space for years. They completely missed this boat and are instantly looking out of touch.

After 5 years of using gitlab, we’re planning to switch back to GitHub exactly because of copilot and the Polish of their other features. The only hesitation is the SSO tax.
And young people should get longer sentences? The younger, the longer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GvB5lZJqcE
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I was going to add something on Duo before seeing that. If you have to use OTP with it, rather than FIDO, which I guess costs more, as my site doesn't support it, the hacks are fairly straightforward. On an Android phone, register a "tablet" (at least in the interface I see) using https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.scintill.duotp/ and then use Aegis with the secret. (Why do people persist on suggesting Google Authenticator?) On a desktop, see https://github.com/simonseo/nyuad-spammer/tree/master/spamme... with an appropriate value of "start.nyu.edu". I use the secret with pass otp. Note that this is HOTP, not TOTP, so if you use the same secret on multiple devices, you need to synchronize the counter somehow, perhaps with a git hook under pass. (There are more baroque hacks to get the secret that I started with before finding those solutions.)

If you do want something like Duo for an organization, possibly self-hosted, and free-software-friendly, then https://www.privacyidea.org/ looks like a good option, but i have no experience with it.
Bitbucket i.e. Atlassian?
parking is a monetary fine, and thus directly related to the earnings of an individual.
Oh it is.

4000+ upvotes on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
> On the fence on this one, because it seems unfair to punish someone more because they're doing well

You're not punishing them more, you're punishing them similarly: the marginal value of money diminishes as you have more of it, a $20 fine to someone who earns $5000 a week is a lot less punishing than to someone who earns $500. By scaling fines to income / wealth, you're preserving the fact that this is supposed to be a punishment deterring from the act.

> so, perhaps a system of increasingly punishing repeat offenders maybe?

That's... already common? But if you have enough money, it would have to scale up quickly and drastically to have any deterrent effect, and it would still disproportionally affect lower-income individuals.

An alternative (or complement) is to create a flat resource, that's what points systems do (although they tend to still disproportionally affect lower-income individual: they're harder hit by the loss of mobility, and they may not have the time or money to attend to recovery courses when those are available).
> LLMs don't execute algorithms.

NNs can implement arbitrary algorithms. E.g. demonstrated by Alex Graves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Turing_machine

But any NN can effectively implement _some_ algorithm, we just don't know which. But with sufficient training we can expect it to be an algorithm which solves the problem we have.

It seems like you're focused on linear algebra interpretations of NNs. But what do non-linear parts do? They are a fuzzy analog of logic gates. In fact you can easily replicate classic logic gates with something like ReLU - in a very obvious way. Maybe even you can understand.
I'm sure you're going to get lots of responses detailing situations where the outcome isn't optimal, but I bet the majority, if not all, of those will be an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. That is to say, I think the question should be whether the proposed imperfect solution is better than what we have now.