skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you volunteer to be among the first on the firing line? Most people would want to avoid that risk.
How about from the horse's mouth instead?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1656084243905384449

This is very interesting news!
Being able to look back at things you wrote about 2, 5, 10 years ago is personally fascinating, but it's also a really good way of demonstrating how your skills and experience have grown over time.

I recently noticed I've been writing about SQLite since 2003! https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlite/
there's also a trend of most servers not even being compliant with the 'covenant'
Bluesky has both: a following feed in chronological order and an algorithmic feed that shows you stuff new to you. they're also releasing custom algorithms soon so that you can plug in whatever algorithm you want instead of being limited to just theirs.
Also, I would like to believe there is a future where blocking access to money is unilaterally impossible. Major powers being able to pull the rug on what has become a foundation of modern society like money is too scary of a thing to allow. What could the answer be? Satellite-powered bitcoin relays and DIY-able user devices to talk to them?
Yet here you are, discussing it online.

If you didn't care, why would you even be in this thread?
This shit is why I use Google products on my iphone: gmail, calendar (with reminders), contacts, etc. (Paid version at that: I pay for google workspace, even for personal use)

I'm not locked in to the Apple ecosystem: I can use it on my Linux desktop, or switch to an Android phone at any time.
Segmentation in Mandarin is easier due to tendency of the language to use 2+ characters for words. With a high quality wordlist you will go a long way.

The problem with proper nouns is that they don't end up in dictionaries, same with slang and other terms that for reasons don't end up in dictionaries.

The additional problem with Cantonese is that there's a larger class of words where the constituent characters can move around as if they were words themselves. Even for a native speaker with some experience in lexicography, it can be difficult to determine word boundaries as there are many cases where a word with characters X+Y can be interpreted as just word X and word Y with some idiomatic meaning. This issue is more pronounced in Cantonese because there are more single character words in active use.

I've actually done this before. My experience is that naive segmentation on Mandarin text with wordlist is probably 80+% accurate, while using the same algorithm in Cantonese text (with cantonese wordlist) will definitely end up "wtf".
A significant portion of Mainland Chinese Internet users have access to a VPN. They can read the whole Internet. It's been that way for about 10 years. Why isn't it "game over" yet for the Chinese Communist Party? How about Myanmar or Cambodia, which have much less sophisticated national Internet firewalls? Still going dictator-strong.
> "Monopoly power" is not a monopoly

Fortunately, "monopoly" isn't the thing that the law cares about.

Everything to do with anti-trust law, and competition laws, is not about monopolies, and is instead about monopoly power.

> so maybe we shouldn't compare terminology across countries

Feel free to look at the the FTC says about this topic then. It to applies to companies with monopoly power, and not literal monopolies.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

"Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power"
You can get effectively the same behavior as an mkdir based lockfile when using BEGIN IMMEDIATE instead of just BEGIN with a WAL based SQLite db. (other modes should use BEGIN EXCLUSIVE). Using this feature statements will immediately fail if another process is writing to the db and you can use the sqlite3_busy_timeout to manage automatic retries for you (if desired).

The benefits over the lockfile approach include:

- transactional semantics & rollbacks

- optional concurrent read only queries in WAL mode if you initiate them with BEGIN DEFERRED that operate on a snapshot of data and don't impede the writing process

- simple online backups via VACUUM INTO.

Cons are it is heavier weight than a mkdir call and if all you want to do is elect a master process from a group and don't have structured data to operate on transactionaly then it's not worth it.
So you can either ask a lot of questions or make a lot of observations/assertions, just be insightful rather than boring. Got it.
> Have to disagree. You take your pocket tape measure, carefully hook the end of the tape on the Sun and slowly walk to Pluto. You read what it says. That is a distance.

By that measure then, you carefully hook your tape measure to Fomalhaut and slowly walk out to the outer ring, whereupon your ancient eyes perceive the distance to be 120 AU, not 240 AU (since 240 AU is the diameter). A given rock in the outer ring is therefore less distant from Fomalhaut than Voyager is from the Sun.

That's all the parent is saying, and I agree with them - I, too, know the difference between radius and diameter but a quick read of your comment left me thinking that Fomalhaut's outer ring is orbiting further away from Fomalhaut than Voyager is from the Sun.

It's clearer to compare a radius to a radius, is all.
images released to the press sometimes get another, um, aesthetic pass. I bet if you could get ahold of the actual image file it would have the proper sentinel sentinel value (if they're still using fits files it'd be something ridiculous like -9999.)
Well, badminton and table tennis are two other sports that come to mind where an older player does not by any means imply a lower performance.
The very massive titans have done a pretty great job. The smaller companies have really slowed down.

Once everything went to the cloud, P2P became mostly cryptocoinful, and privacy became the main topic, innovation seemed to really get impeded, and everything is just "Thing you need,but stripped down, and it involves a Blockchain".

Engineers hate tech at the moment, and will only work to further it if you bribe them extensively, like Amazon can afford to. Engineers choosing freely are gravitating towards "Just Enough" solutions and ways to try to keep analog processes, simple languages, and stuff without new features relevant.

Maybe Solid and co and the fall of cryptocurrency will free up some talent and create some interest in innovation. Pine64 is still doing good work.
Who is the $279mn whistleblower
> Civil torts are not contained within any legal code, and as such cannot be illegal.

Doesn’t that depend on the country? Would it also be true in civil law countries? Or only in common law countries?
Yes indeed. I am talking about what TypeScript will allow at compile time.
solar adoption in the country is very low

More than anything, this is due to financing, not will. The reason why most developing nations don't have enough power, is they don't have enough financing (money) to build the power plants / windmills / solar panels.

North India has so many power outages that it is normal to have very large batteries in your house to ride them out.
Yes. I can parse them just fine after reading a single book called Introduction to Legal Reasoning [1]. I can also autonomously take notes and keep track of a large context using a combination of short and long term memory despite not having any kind of degree let alone experience or a license to practice law.

How do you think people become lawyers and how smart do you think the average lawyer actually is? The problem is that there's hundreds of thousands if not millions of pages, not that it requires superhuman intelligence to understand.

Even if it were capable of intelligence in the bottom quartile of humanity it would be SO MUCH more useful than it is now because I'd be able run and get something useful out of thousands of models in parallel. As it stands now GPT4 fails miserably at scaling up the kind of reasoning and understanding that even relatively stupid humans are capable of.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Legal-Reasoning-Edward-L...
https://archive.is/9tiXl
Long post. What you're saying may have some good to know particulars that I didn't get right. But the net is: the only performant way to run JS or any other non-pre-compiled (jit) language is banned. And there's separate bans altogether on browser engines even if running like dogs it were tempting. Because Apple sucks & is mean & a shit.

These are both horseshit fuckery excuses. Cast these wads into the pit. It's all fuckery, & there's so many other security defense layers. These prohibitions are bad spirited jerks being bad and jerks.
I don't know what you are trying to say here, but it didn't have to be violent and persist after too, that's exactly what I was saying by "drifting apart". If they felt safer as a separate nation to have their interests protected that shouldn't be the cause of bitterness.
Jinnah and Nehru had both been adamant on their stances, former was proponent of federal governance while later a central.
India had several bifurcation of states, it helped in better representation.
Recent AP, Telangana state bifurcation was done after much violence, did they drift apart? Does an avg person of the 2 states have anything against each other now?
That was exactly my point, for avg people they're just other people, we are constantly washed by propaganda to believe they're enemies.
> In fact, prior to the pandemic the environment in which I saw the most remote teams was in startups.

Mind sharing some examples? Among the startups I know (big and small), they were all in-office. Some famous examples - Robinhood, Stripe, Figma, Coinbase, Confluent...
https://pine64.com/product/star64-model-a-8gb-single-board-c...
I never actually seen the tiny two layered kind. I just buy the cheap ones at walmart for like 80c a can, and it seems like it's the midsection of a fish about 4 per can. I definitely don't cook them, assumed they were cooked. Do you have a link to the small ones?

I like canned salmon as well, much less smell for sure but I figured it wasn't as healthy because of pollutants. Never tried mackerel. Found a chart and looks like, mackerel, salmon, herring, and sardines are all about the same. I've had the herring and it was good and similar price to sardines.
Doesn't seem to make all that much sense though. The value of their OS is how perfect it works with their hardware. Sure some people want to run MacOS on a standard desktop, but that doesn't seem to be a significant group of people.
Perhaps you should read this book. The first chapter is about Ai Weiwei's dad, Ai Quing, being deported to a work camp in Xinjiang during the Cultural Revolution, along with his two sons.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/30/books/review/1000-years-o...

The solution is not technical. My dad had a TV sat dish during the communist regime. He was scheduled to be arrested in '90, but the regime fell during the winter of the previous year.
Yes, I think the competition and combat of The Expanse is more likely than this utopian vision.
love this space, looks like an alternative to meshtastic.
Their AOT solution was clearly too complex for some potential clients, that seems like the real reason they rewrote it all, support for higher Java version is mostly a neat benefit (though Java 9 did still support Applet from my understanding, just deprecated).
If you're technically talented, you don't need Autotune. Sounds like you're an argumentative asshole who just can't stand the idea of someone not liking your preferred music. When I find out someone doesn't like my preferred music, the last thing I do is try to change their mind.
It's true - the Universe is 13.7 or 27.4 billion years old, whatever.
How does it help humanity as a whole if nobody is able to capture any value for their work?
I was perhaps too zoomed in on the details of how interspecies evolutionary pressure would work. Sorry for the wall of text.

My theory is that some ecosystems have a niche for pathogens that remain at low concentrations in healthy circumstances, but that become amplified in cases where the ecosystem is taking damage.

The article you linked describes such an amplification:

> “The Lyme disease bacterium has long been endemic,” she said. “But the deforestation and subsequent suburbanization of much of New England and the Midwest created conditions for deer ticks—and the Lyme disease bacterium—to thrive.”...

> Ticks expanded into suburbanized landscapes—full of animals like white-footed mice and robins, excellent hosts for B. burgdorferi

It may not have been humans that posed the initial differential threat to everything-but-the-mice-and-robins. But something did, and that created the pressure to arm mice and robins with invader-discouraging pathogens, and that pressure made B Burgdorferi what it is today.

The increased pathogen concentration is an immune response. The stimulus is a reduction of predators (which are known to be more sensitive to habitat disruption) and the response is that the prey, left unchecked, amplify the pathogen and infect the invaders.
I just placed a preorder for one of the upcoming AMD laptops because the timing is good relative to my needs and I like their corporate ethos.

While I won't need to execute this rework, it doesn't deserve the "very difficult" rating. The biggest hurdle for most people will be the equipment. A microscope makes all the difference in the world for stuff like this, but few folks have them or know where to go to borrow time on one.

By contrast, I just replaced the screen and battery on a Surface Pro. That was definitely very difficult. Mostly because of glue.
Gravel roads are popular recently in much of the US, and part of the draw I guess is less cars.

I'm a roadie for life though and fortunately the roads are pretty safe here. But I have definitely seen some regions in the US where I would not want to ride my bike on the roads.
You're still alluding to the use of a threat, which isn't necessary. If somebody knows that another person "has some dirt on them", then any demands that person makes are going to be evaluated in that context, especially if those demands are plainly unreasonable.
Generative AI art definitely isn't done. I'm actually working on a feature-based UI, currently Dall-E 2 only, but I plan to add Stable Diffusion backends too. https://inventai.xyz
SSH quick and easy login setup
I like Thunderbird, but on Linux I finally switched to Evolution because Thunderbird was an absolute RAM and CPU hog, and also, Google Calendar integration was flakey as hell. Thunderbird would randomly decide to not notify me of an event or decide to notify me way too late.
I haven’t looked at this in detail in a while either, but I don’t think the claims here are correct.

It is true that Apple employs some efforts to prevent/discourage you from using those services illegitimately, but using iMessage and FaceTime from a Hackintosh has been possible for years, largely without jumping through any hoops.
More likely an Android exploit WhatsApp is making use of instead of doing the right thing and reporting it to Google.
This has been predicted to happen every year for the last 30 years or so.
What matters if that if they aren't very good, or contain glaring mistakes, they will receive really bad ratings.
Tits on a bull would be incredible useful from an economic perspective i would guess...
Overall this seems to be a very odd study with - basically no recommendations.

It boils down to, you’ll need to judge for yourself and every child is different but the internet, while great, is terrifying and can be traumatic.

So I’m not sure what we learned here.
That only requires consent, not informed consent. AFAIK, if someone consents to being experimented on, that law does not require you to fully inform them of the experiment, and certainly not to the degree that a typical IRB in the US requires.
What kind of "value" are they capturing?

In my viewpoint, something one makes which can be built upon by another freely and without limit is what helps humanity. I don't want anyone necessarily trying to capture rent-seeking "value" out of their work that cannot be extended by others. That is one reason why I abhor copyright, patents, and intellectual property in general.
It dismantled the most sophisticated network that that know about.
He's not well known in the English speaking world because barely anyone publishes his books. The translation of his classic Hombres de maiz has been out of print for quite a while and I've never seen an English copy in any book store. Even in Mexico it's fairly difficult to find.
Nothing is preventing you from finding a new job. Life is not an axis, where doing one thing necessarily takes away from another. Rather it is a polygon, with a number of points equal to the factors important to your existence.
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Aren't all corporations basically following the same mantra, I mean some companies active here on HN, constantly bait and switch, have misleading labels or policies. What's new here?
I mean why exactly is this particular case so different?
> But how is any information that isn't testable trusted? I'm open to the idea ChatGPT is as credible as experts in the dismal sciences given that information cannot be proven or falsified and legitimacy is assigned by stringing together words that "makes sense".

I understand that around the 1980s-ish, the dream was that people could express knowledge in something like Prolog, including the test-case, which can then be deterministically evaluated. This does really work, but surprisingly many things cannot be represented in terms of “facts” which really limits its applicability.

I didn’t opt for Prolog electives in school (I did Haskell instead) so I honestly don’t know why so many “things” are unrepresentable as “facts”.
Yep, some services still do.
Thank you so much for helping me elaborate on this.
Use it out of habit on Windows but been annoyed for years at how slow the UI is. I frequently open an email and start typing a reply and have to wait 10 seconds because it locks up for some unknown reason. I’ve never been able to figure out what’s going on and this has plagued the app for a good decade at least.
Why would one side have to say something morally wrong if they don’t actually believe it? What’s the upside?
It is absolutely coming, sooner or later. Reference: https://ai4finance-foundation.github.io/FinNLP/
I don’t know how you can look at the expansion of democracy worldwide over the 20th century and say it’s just wishful thinking!
That's why I love free markets. Sam is free to experiment with in-office or hybrid model. If you think remote is best, go for it. Ultimately, market will speak loud and clear. Smart people will learn.

My personal belief is that hybrid is the best model.
> I’m not going to convince anyone by pulling a couple references from PubMed

You could at least make a good faith attempt and meet people at least halfway though, right?

FWIW I've read studies saying the same thing- my critique is just with your approach here. You wouldn't believe someone who just waltzed in with a statement and refused to post any references, would you?
The trouble there is that the first paper to be published about some research carries more credibility than any following. So, when scientists collaborate, who publishes first?
Why? My startup's CEO is pretty bullish on remote work.
They're killing the extension on all browsers because Chrome is planning to stop supporting it. I keep getting warnings in Firefox to upgrade
Worked with him at Twitter. Doing software at GM seems like the right place for him.
Note the author.

This is Tavis Ormandy, of Google Project Zero fame.
Please substantiate.
> Modi is corrupt

Source? Part of his allure and political inertia comes from being squeaky clean as far as bribes go.
Avatar was cool. Heavy CGI looked fantastic at first. But then it became an often overused commodity. Still there are movies I like. Mostly well made sci-fi for kids. Avatar2 is not in the list.
Try cancelling a subscription from the app store in your browser.. oh wait you can't do it on the web you have to install iTunes.
It runs on Lilygo ESP32 boards, so they have built-in wifi and bluetooth.

This is pretty awesome. Gonna get a lora module and try it out.
Good, it’s the time for YouTube to die for good, no more useless contents, no more “content creators” having silly faces as a thumbnail to trick the algo, maybe another service will arise soon that has the same contents as the old youtube and somehow like tiktok now, an interest based, for fun and entertainment videos, posted by average cameras and normal people unlike the atrocities we see now in YT..
(In case it was missed, I’ve added a relevant addendum to my previous comment.)

Not sure an example is needed because I agree it “explains” better than pretty much everyone. (From my mostly lay perspective) It essentially uses the prompt as an argument in a probabilistic analysis of its incredibly vast store of prior inputs to transform them into an output that at least superficially satisfies the prompter’s goals. This is cool and useful, to say the least. But this is only one kind of reasoning.

A machine without embodied perceptual experiences simply cannot reason to the full-extent of a human.

(It’s also worth remembering that the prompter (very likely) has far less knowledge of the domain of interest and far less skill with the language of communication, so the prompter is generally quite easily impressed regardless of the truth of the output. Nothing wrong with that necessarily, especially if it is usually accurate. But again, worth remembering.)
“Russia has unleashed senseless destruction and genocidal violence on Ukraine in an attempt to reoccupy the former colony”. It’s not senseless since they have explained the reasons at length, albeit their adversaries refused to listen. And it’s not genocidal either since the goal is not to exterminate Ukrainian people. The goal is to prevent a NATO giant air carrier on its borders. The war will continue until those that don’t want to listen will start listening. Perhaps war must come to their countries for them to do so.
I'm confused. (1) You read it regularly. (2) Then you say: "heavily partisan, spuriously sourced and have been on the wrong side of major stories for years".

It seems strange to read a newspaper regularly that is so bad.

What do you recommend instead?
The upside is maybe the judge will act upon it favourably.
I know of one person who "converted" into a brahmin and was an archaka (अर्चक) in a temple. However, there was a lot of resistance from the management committee against him, and he would get excluded from quite a few of the activities.
Self-Alignment of Language Models from Scratch with Minimal Human Supervision
Yep, one of the features of VB was you could call into Win32 fairly easily.

I once worked with a guy who was a VB savant. He had reverse-engineered the DOC and PST formats in Visual Basic and was comfortable bit-bashing stuff in that environment. His higher-level code was really not good, that wasn't important to him, so he pasted stuff everywhere. Lost track, but hope he found his niche.
> I mean, for reference this is the guy who thought Worldcoin was a good idea,

I am sure there is some neat name for this kind of fallacy. Person said X which was wrong, so what he says about Y must be wrong too.

> I’m not sure that people need pay _that_ much attention

Lol. Then why are you commenting on an article about what he is saying?
The walled garden is absolutely essential to Apple's business idea. If you want to use an Apple product, then they want you to commit to their ecosystem completely.

It makes perfect sense that they'd be against anything that circumvents their walled garden, and a VM does just that by allowing users/developers to use their OS without buying their hardware.

I personally hate it, and it's why I'll never touch any Apple product.