skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends which type of 'electronic music' you're talking about.

You're probably right that approximately noone was making rave and jungle on NeXT machines, but on the other hand it's true that approximately noone was doing academic electronic composition on Amiga or Atari, which is really the tradition that this is referring to. And these were mostly separate worlds for another decade.
Yes, the scientists who published it are a previous chairman of the NRC specialized in public policies, two geologists, a director of communications. I'd put more trust in the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Did you at least sue him for the damage?
You know who wrote this?
Stop waking up early. It doesn't matter.
Respectfully, equating the belief that abortion is murder with the belief that slaughtering Jews isn't murder is completely counterproductive.

Words have meanings, and this isn't it.
Yes, I agree not every bit of available code is perfect. A lot of it is crap. Choosing an existing library is worth taking dome time and research over.

Inevitably some libraries will need replacing. In some cases we've ended up rolling our own. But in these cases the time spent with the discarded library is not wasted. Rather it gives us a chance to understand the domain better, to understand our needs better, and ultimately to have better criteria for making our choices.

Things like documentation, support, bug fixing, source code, and so on have all become important parts of the evaluation process.

Interestingly our internal libraries are often less-well documented (if at all) the author is sometimes no longer around, and it usually has all kinds of quirks we work around. This after taking longer, and costing more, written from an unclear spec by people not terribly familiar with the domain.

And yes, we've hone the nuclear route of ripping out and rewriting, and that is expensive , but no more expensive than defaulting to "write ourselves ", and indeed usually cheaper because we have a better idea of what we want.
Nice to see fellow HN MTG Arena players. Started playing MTG in 1995 and re-ignited the passion with Arena recently.
Like no-fault insurance?
> From my understanding, California leadership at all levels of government has had only one lever the past couple decades, and that lever can only be pushed one direction.

Your understanding is wrong, and there’s probably no place that this is more obvious than housing.
I would argue Eugene’s market is heavily influenced by Nike and UOregon (and recently remote worker flight from downtown Portland) and as such, drawing a line directly from its lack of density to lack of affordability strains credulity for me.

This relationship between density and cost reverses for nearby towns like Springfield even though they share many of Eugene’s characteristics.
I also was underwhelmed by langchain, and started implementing my own "AIPL" (Array-Inspired Pipeline Language) which turns these "chains" into straightforward, linear scripts. It's very early days but already it feels like the right direction for experimenting with this stuff. (I'm looking for collaborators if anyone is interested!)

https://github.com/saulpw/aipl
This is so indicative of Google culture missing the point. The idea of spending $10M training a single model is treated as a casual reality. But “tHaNk GoOdNeSs those generous open source people published their HiGh QuAlItY datasets of ten thousand examples each. Otherwise we’d have no way of creating datasets like that…” :| the sustainable competitive advantage has been and will continue to be HUGE PROPRIETARY DATASETS. (Duh - this is as true for new AI as it was for old AI = ad targeting). It was the _query+click pairs_ that kept Google dominant all these years, not the brilliant engineers. They had all of humanity labeling the entire internet with “when I click on this page/ad for this query I do/don’t search again” a billion+ times a day for a decade. For good measure they’ve also been collecting your email, your calendar, and your browsing habits for nearly as long. The fact that they’ve managed to erase that historic advantage from their collective consciousness (presumably because AI researchers would rather not spend time debugging data labeling UI) is strange to me. It at least deserves a mention in a strategy memo like this. Not vague platitudes about “influence through innovation.” Spend that $10M you were going to spend on a training run as $9.9999M on a private dataset, then the remaining $100 on training. Better still, build products that gets user behavior to train your models for you. Obviously.

We’re going to watch the biggest face plant in recent economic history if they can’t get this one together. I can’t decide if that makes me happy about an overdue changing of the guard in the Valley or sad about the fall of a once great company.

It’s not about the models! Model training is a commodity! It’s about the data! Come on guys.
It's not that I think a Republic is an unbeatable form of government (I'm not a huge fan of representative democracy as The Only Answer for that matter), but I think it's a stage the UK needs to get to as a necessary precondition of further evolution. There's such a huge democratic deficit under the current system, and I also have a dim view of landlords/rentier capitalism for much the same reasons that Adam Smith did.

Britain has a very vibrant and creative culture which has led to lots of great technical innovation in the past, but there are too many perverse incentives in place under the existing system for it flourish, in my view.
Yes, that is indeed the point I was making. And yes, I’m a lisp programmer.
> (in apple's implementations, passkeys are synced through iCloud, so the answer there is yes - apple does have your passkeys and could sign in to services as you if they wanted. google is not doing that.)

Passkeys are stored in the iCloud Keychain which is end-to-end encrypted with 256-bit AES. Passkeys cannot be read by Apple anywhere but on your own device.
It should work. After the initial prompt processing, token generation is typically limited by memory bandwidth more than by compute.
Feels like the edit distance algorithm would be the natural fit here for scoring.
Until things fail or don’t go as expected and it’s imposible to know what the hell is going wrong. That’s the biggest problem with complexity, not just understanding it from the user point of view.
All it's doing is causing validator nodes to possible rack bandwidth fees. At best categorized as a minor exploit.
They are not even equivalent.

Every police department has internal affairs. Most have a citizen's oversight counsel. Plus, they are overseen by state and federal agencies which frequently attempt to maintain good policing (not saying they always succeed). Then we have the media to keep cops in check, the ACLU and SPLC who agitate for police reform and leniency for actual criminals, and hundreds of other anti-police organizations whose bread and butter is rooting out police corruption.

Thus far, there is no organization dedicated to tracking falsified and/or exaggerated claims of racial injustice or animus, claims which have directly led to dozens of deaths, billions in property damage, lawless cities where DAs dismiss charges against the same people dozens of times and a fractured society.

Why did Smollett lie about the race and political affiliation of his attackers? He was clearly trying to drum up violent reprisal against whites and conservatives. Smollett is but one prominent example; a Google search will lead to hundreds more. Are such incidents unworthy of being tracked? Why?
I disagree. Production systems don't need to be full of AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBeans which is basically what LangChain is. For example, Linux certainly isn't.
Man, I'm an admitted unabashed elitist when it comes to technology but this guy sounds warped.

> Many of the new ideas are from ordinary people.

ORLY?

> a third faction ... open source.

Open source is not a faction? It's people literally giving you the software they wrote, for free, for free! If you see them as the enemy because they hurt your profits... If the "ordinary people" are doing your job better than you can...

This piece make more sense as a false-flag character assassination of the clueless Google tech-bro? It reads like some radical leftist's caricature of the corporate/colonial mindset.
None of the successful stuff is coordinating a pump and dump. You may get the odd post where someone does try but it doesn't go anywhere.

> But, actually, some of the WSB stuff is openly coordinated strategy, not intelligence, overtly seeking to manipulate enough action to cause an outcome, not providing intelligence/analysis on what os likely to occur without active intervention

That would not be correct, no. If you're talking about trying to trigger a short squeeze then that is mechanically different from a pump and dump.

A short squeeze does not require the participants to raise the price, it requires a restriction of the publicly available float in order to trap "shorts" and then, when their options expire and they must purchase the shares to satisfy the contract, it creates a massive demand for shares on what is now an illiquid stock and this results in the price rising.

There have been many occasions when they have tried to squeeze a stock but I have not seen one where they have tried to attempt a pump and dump.
To be That Buddhist Guy - as the old saying goes: "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional".

To me this is the critical distinction. Pain (loss of loved ones, physical pain, health issues, losing a job etc) is a part of life. If you love, you ultimately lose. This is what life is, this is what love is. It's gunna hurt at times. This cannot be changed and cannot be controlled. This is the Buddhist "first arrow".

But. What you ~do~ with that pain - how you respond to a crisis, how you think of yourself as victim or otherwise, how much you ruminate on the self: "damn, this shit always happens to me / why am I always ill / I'm poorer than that guy over there and it's eating me up" - all of this ~can~ be changed. This is suffering. We're all so bound up in the self that the ego very often controls our response to pain. Suffering blooms. This is the "second arrow".

Like anything else, it takes practice to get better at this. But you can get better at it. I know I have. I'm still - like most humans - often bound by instinctual reactions. I'm still triggered by anger and fear and uncertainty at regular periods. But with mindfulness and attention training it becomes easier to be content, easier to "put a gap between stimulus and response", easier to just notice the ego flaring up, see those moments of regret or jealousy or greed.

Attention truly is at the centre of this. Noticing from as dispassionate a position as possible that you are reacting in a particular way will only come when you pay attention to your inner dialogue. That's another reason why attention being eaten by gadgets / notifications / etc is so nasty.
HOAs in CA are frequently above $500, so the $900 HOA won’t skew the payment that much, plus you also have to account for amenities included in the HOA. CA HOA amenities tend to be fairly light and building/lot maintenance focused.
This would be a good chance to outline and fix some of the worst design decisions of the various sqlite hacks and security issues.

No stack, so no proper subfunction model, such as triggers or functions calling other functions.
Simple remote queries can be made destructive, due to the extremely hackish design.
The horrible, insecure by default text search engine.

Unfortunately this guy treats sqlite as a role model of a good design. Maybe he will find out when it's too late.
https://github.com/rurban/hardsqlite
Can you provide some examples of websites that do not "work". I really want to know.

If being able to read the textual content of a website is the goal, as it is for me and in the case of a text-only browser, then generally, IME, all websites work. The ones that do not work in the text-only browser are usually ones where some JSON is fetched then parsed with Javascript. In those cases, I just fetch the JSON and tranform it into more human-readable text, if necessary. No need for an HTML reader, i.e., browser.

For example, I currently have a list of 96,339 websites that work, meaning I can read the textual content. This is composed mostly from sites submitted to HN over the past 18 months.

It does not make much sense to try to put a Javascript interpreter into a text-only browser. Some have tried and it did not prove worthwhile. There are command line utilities that are much more efficient than Javascript for requesting and parsing JSON to text.

The purpose of a text-only browser is to read text/html, not to run arbitrary code, e.g., "web apps". If a website has some particular graphical presentation, e.g., some "fucntionality" that relies on Javascript, then one does not choose a text-only browser to see it. The text-only browser makes all websites look more or less the same. It's "anti-graphical". It effectively removes most of the variations in appearance and layout across websites, which as one might guess, are usually due to graphics (e.g., fonts), graphical content (e.g., images) and Javascript.
Exactly. That's why tram+bike combo in Netherlands is so effective. People travel big distance by train and small distance to work, home and shops. Since trams are very efficient at moving a lot of people car congestion will be reduced. If number of people using trams increases more than their capacity, surprise, you can add another section without hiring one more driver. So big capacity transport that can be adapted to demand and that has priority on the road(it's own lane) and is frequent enough basically can satisfy most of the traffic human needs
yeah they were supposed to have the next big image thing, OMG it can do text, and stable diffusion beat them to releasing something that actually can render text on images, so yeah - there's a lot of young companies iterating way faster than an old guard can muster up the troops and honestly I don't think anyone at Google feels inspired much these days, hard to build some passionate endeavors when your soul is being sucked right out of you.
This is exactly the tactic unions always used. Probably one of the causes of unions' global demise are their overtly unreslistic campaigns.
credit argicole. 10% for 180 or 356 days at 10% rate. It was a special offer to limited number of customers in February

ING still has 7.5% offer.
Well, then it’s not JavaScript anymore? I love abstractions, but lately all the ones provided by next.js related to the server stuff are pretty leaky, and the compiler looks to me like it’s going to be the most leaky of them.

There’s also that thing about understanding your layer and the layer below to be able to debug. At this point “my layer” is complex enough that I can’t even think on debugging what’s going on with an error in a hook that was inserted by a compiler while SSRing a client side component which toggles a drop-down.
You're right, it's been debunked and misquoted for decades.
On the other hand, everything about Node is bad.
Whose ethics?
The best out there open source
Ronald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo Warlord
You left so close to the end of classes that you were still guaranteed to graduate? That’s a pretty hollow statement. If anything, it looks like a case of senioritis.
Equivalent-functionality doesn't work. What you consider functionality and what I consider functionality is not the same.

Clearly you don't feel that horsepower and 0-60 is important. Both of which are drastically different between that Ferrari and the Hyundai.

And even if we go beyond that. I paid extra for xDrive on my BMW. If it gets totaled, should I get a Toyota Yaris with FWD?
until a botnet makes mining unprofitable for huge swaths of the network - effectively turning the nodes offline
I wasn't impressed by this post but I don't think it's all that dangerous either. The epistemic hubris is extreme, it takes the attitude that you can discard millennia of human thought and come up with the real answers to life in 15 minutes.

That's obviously ridiculous. Correspondingly it's very easy to poke holes in the arguments here. Let's just take the first premise, that we should (a) prevent immediate suffering, and (b) prevent future suffering. What about the very important case where I accept some suffering in the short term to reduce suffering in the long term? No indication here of where that makes sense and where it doesn't. What about a prisoner's dilemma where I may be able to prevent a lot of suffering, but only if someone else (who I have limited information about) makes the same decision I do?

These questions (What do we do about time? What do we do about society?) are just two examples of the hard questions where all the work gets done. The post doesn't explore them. In fact it seems to assume as a premise that hard questions don't really exist. If this is hedonism, the stuffy philosophers maligned by the poster have produced better arguments for hedonism than this one.

(All that said I don't think we should go too hard on the poster - at least they are trying, which is more than most people do!)
As I replied above, all is neat and great until you have to debug something not working as expected.
The scaling curve of a tram or bus is very different than for cars. A bus takes up about as much room as 3 cars and holds up to 200 passengers. The typical car at rush hour has 1 passenger.

You can pack a lot of buses onto a bus lane. Trains and trams scale even better because you can expand the same vehicle by adding more sections.
Everyone says this but I've yet for it to ever actually be a problem.
Google open-souces a lot but keeps the search algorithm in secret.
What type of position was the assessment for?
I believe this is how Rosatom makes their VVER pressure vessels, their factory being called Atommash[1]. They are currently delivering a number of them.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atommash
But they’re not the only one using passkeys. If you could have multiple passkey logins to an account, it’s not earthshattering if one of them becomes unavailable.
Is it open source? Wasn’t clear from the website.
You can connect to basically any normal web server/service and waste their bandwidth/resources in the same way by downloading data they provide publicly.

If you think this is a real vulnerability I'd suggest you report it to any project like that, a proof of concept exploit would basically involve curl in a while loop with the output going to /dev/null.

Here's an incomplete list of applications that should also have this vulnerability that you can start going through:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_server_softw...
I think Michael Levin has the right idea with his "cognitive light cones" approach.
Partially agree with you, but don't stop at appreciating or accepting suffering. What makes us human is overcoming suffering. So yes, don't avoid it, but overcome it. Avoid complacency.
And once paying customers may find a workaround by using their personal Gmail, just make sure they really can't use it by telling them: "Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!"
Extraordinary claims like putting something in air quotes that I didn't say are just flat out ignorant.

If you look at the table the cost of homes quadrupled over a period where inventory rose substantially. There are incentive systems at play with residences and those incentive systems go far beyond just inventory counts and density is my point.
Living in the city sucked in 1910. Terrible pollution, sanitation issues, etc. It was where you went when you were desperate for work.
Have you considered Guardrails, https://shreyar.github.io/guardrails/, it’s like Pydantic but for LLMs?
> It seems like much of this comes from the shift to remote work.

A lot of it, as in 2020, came from the reduction in immigration to the United States (2020 and 2021 were about 300k below any time in the prior decade, due to pandemic-related restrictions.

California has had negative net domestic (within the US) migration offset by international immigration, for which it is a major destination for both employment- and family-based immigration, for quite a long time prior to 2020.

Another big chunk is retirements (which in 2020 and 2021 were accelerated by the pandemic); taking savings from working in California and retiring out of state to a lower CoL area has been common for a long time.
The post was interesting but the intro video is well worth the click. KNOWLEDGE
This is a cool list. I built my own chat client a little while back to get vim bindings in the last place it was missing that I spent a lot of time: https://github.com/pkulak/matui
There were at least some confounding factors beyond how good of an idea this was. The primary expected electricity customer was oil refineries off the New Jersey coast. The Atlantic Generating Station was to be the first of these power plants. But after the 1973 oil shocks, oil refinery energy demand fell more than expected. By the time things were looking up again, Three Mile Island happened in 1979 and the general sentiment was turning against nuclear.
The downside is public shame. Governmrnt code is no worse than private code and is usually of very low quality and hints at tought organisational problems and outright fraud.
Will companies use a service that lets workers submit anonymous feedbacks?
Anonymous feedback can be about another worker, team etc.
none?
Worst part is moving to smaller places is usually less culture but moving to bigger places is more expensive
Excellent! Impossible to keep up.
Trickle down is a completely different thing: the idea was to give wealthy people extra cash and hope some of it came to the rest of us.

Supply and demand is pretty basic, apolitical economics, but it is true that if there's a shortage, it's going to hit hardest those with less money.

Which means we should aim for an abundance of necessary goods like housing and food. We should do that by building both more market rate and subsidized housing in the places people want to live.
> And you can't even use Bard as a developer, there's no API!

There is an API for the underlying model, it's just in alpha/beta/whatever they call limited invite-only release and you have to ask your devrel team to get access. I'm guessing we'll see better models very soon.

Google is, as usual, playing catch-up, but I have no doubt once the machine gets cranking they'll be fully competitive, at least similar to how GCP is now a totally viable AWS alternative. They never lead the pack because they can't (lawyers, regulation, monopoly, etc), but they know how to commit and execute.
It also never delivered on the promise that a combination of cybersex and genetics should have.
That WSJ article is an opinion piece. From 2012. And literally nowhere does it claim that teachers are statistically more likely to abuse children than priests; the word priest does not appear in the article. You may need to provide evidence for your claim.

Examining further, that WSJ opinion piece claims that 97 teachers were charged with sexual misconduct over 5 years, including remarks made to students. The NYC Public School system had 75,000 teachers in 2019. [1]

In contrast, there are 37,000 catholic priests in the US [2], with 2700 individual catholic clergy members accused of gross sexual abuse of children [3].

Additionally, the NYC Department of Education charged their wrong-doers, while the Church continues to protect criminals and avoid restitution, going so far as to dissolve dioceses to avoid paying lawful judgements.

There appears to be a massive disparity between the 2 situations, natch. Pinch of salt, and all that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Ed...
[2] https://www.usccb.org/offices/public-affairs/clergy-and-reli...
[3] https://www.abuselawsuit.com/church-sex-abuse/
So these things don't run a BIOS like a 'normal' computer? Because I can just enroll a key in my BIOS that I trust.