skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Pakistani, I know none of the things you hint at is true.

In sindh, there loads of Hindus. And there is no internal strife or persecution of them.

In fact, the only point of animosity with India starts and stops at Kashmir.
Noone familiar with the situation would seriously accuse khan of corruption. All the charges against him are bogus too (hence the response by the public, of which 60-70% supported him).
"OMG, counterfeits" is not overblown. I am careful with what I buy, and I got a dodgy charger that developed a burning smell without minutes of using it. If a UK retail shop sold such an item, Trading Standards would get involved asap.

I have received other substandard items, where I was given a full refund if I took down a negative review.
I've said so a number of times here[1].

There's 195 countries and more and more seem to have designs on creating specific narrow harsh regimes of supra-national regulation that they apply to the entire rest of the world, simply because those other entities exist on the internet these countries enjoy & connect to.

Brazil bullying the shit out of Google, not even allowing them to advocate their position in the lawmaking happeing, around Bill 2630, is just one of so many indicators. Brazil says there is no more safe harbor allowed, that big tech is responsible for all content is hosts, that it has to not just remove false content but has to ban any accounts that participate in fake content... well whose to say? Also fake accounts are not allowed. This feels like asking for a magical unicorn. How do these companies suss out what is true? What happens when India, which has similar incredibly-fascist leaning tendencies decides truth is one way and Brazil's board of oversight says truth goes another way?

Compliance is fucking impossible. These people are jackasses & fools & ridiculous. These idiots make mockery of themselves & the idea of law with their ridiculous & impossible demands. They far overstep. There's no sense that any of these nations understand that they are a mere part of the world: every one thinks they have complete power over everyone else, can do as they please. This is a sad dark pathetic future of literally everyone, nations and companies, walking across minefields forever. It's all impossible, there's no hope, there's no limitation on how stupid nations can be, and it's just getting worse and worse, and will be. There's no sense coming on the horizon. Everyone's Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) is controlling them.

This is such a huge & unfortunate clash, of so much immense & pompous & ignorant & stupid self-importance, overriding any sense of what is reasonable or practical or scalable across nations. Law & nations are the loser here, because they have no actual way to win; the article is right: it's impossible.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rektide%20%22declaration%20of%...
There is a paper called BlindMy that points out you can have Apple do the attestation using blind signatures over the tag broadcasts, then store the signed messages on the tag. Requires more RAM but the blind signing protocol actually can be run by a phone, so doesn’t really stress the system. Particularly when the identifier only changes once per day, so only 365 signatures per year. https://petsymposium.org/popets/2023/popets-2023-0006.php

PS Changing the identifier once per day is very bad for privacy.
I think it's just getting the HN hug of death. I'm in the US on fiber and seeing timeouts and 30+ second load times.
> How do you access said apps?

Sent to you via bluetooth file sharing (an OS feature) by someone else who already has it. Or tor, vpn, etc.
Latching to this comment -- would love feedback and guidance on how to run past the clinks and jerks in knees, ankles, and back etc when it comes to running, not to mention lungs.

Used to easily run half marathons as if it was nothing and on average 8-12km daily pre pandemic. Then COVID happened and my world closed down so did my running (and pretty much everything else) and now I struggle with everything. Yes, I am ~3 years older (early to mid 30s) but I don't think that should limit me. I also put on weight but I lost it then a bit of it keeps creeping back.

What's the way to get back - how should one approach it? Muscles? Gym? Strength? How?
Getting feelings hurt is not a crime. Harming people physically or financially is a crime. GAB isn't harming anyone. I don't like GAB but end of the day just because I don't like something banning them entirely is a form of evil. They have a right to exist. Most don't like them. They will never be a massive force of reason. Let it go because it's not going anywhere.
There are likely scenarios where some level of push-based comms will be necessary, as I understand it. Direct messaging, for example, seems like it'll require pinging a server to pull an asymmetrically encrypted message, or similar.
The app was on a 256mb instance. I have scaled it to 2gb. Let's hope its sufficient for now
Ya, but I think most good doctors operate with a balance of probabilities framework. Yah, there may not be conclusive evidence showing it’s widely effective, but based on this case, it’s obvious the person isn’t getting enough sunlight, and they communicated that to the doctor, and so why not do a trial of something like vitamin d? It’s widely studied, has very few serious downsides, and is cheap.
And even with all that, probably it's best to still exercise an abundance of caution, because you might have made a mistake somewhere.
But the vast majority of folks laid off were entry level or jr engineers.
You need to look a bit deeper. Dawn journalists are not bastions of journalistic integrity. They’re mostly on the pmln pay roll.
I'm so tired of articles taking legal arguments made by lawyers in the middle of court cases and turning them into clickbait headlines that pretty much only exist so people can have unrelated vents about their opinions of the person on social media.

My guess is this guy did a bunch of illegal shit, but I just don't see what value this sort of "news" item has.
So... a filter to screen out parts of reality which offend?
Fantastic amount of detail and explanation in your comment.

Overall, I'm a huge fan of Google in many areas, but the amount of unforced errors they've made is undeniable.

I don't care that they "kill" lots of services, but it does sting when they screw up something good.

Rather than an exhaustive list of every minor app/service/feature they've eliminated, what are their biggest screw ups?

1) Chat
2) Google Reader
3) Google Buzz
4) Nest/Home
5) Pay/Wallet
6) ???
I think it was a couple of things:

1. GUIs were mostly pretty terrible back then. Yes, even on a Mac. You can't tell from screenshots, but GUIs were incredibly slow and clunky for daily use.

2. Clone PCs were much more affordable at a time when the cost of a computer was very high relative to now. When adjusting for inflation, a decent computer then would be $7,000-$8,000 in 2023 dollars.
> drifted apart

is a kind way of framing "were partitioned intentionally to foment division, by the departing colonizers"
The hug of death doesn't bode well for the approach.
The URL should be changed to https://www.engadget.com/whatsapp-bug-is-making-some-android...

> Dabiri is not the first to notice the issue. WhatsApp blog wabetainfo highlighted the bug a month ago, describing it at the time as “a false positive” affecting owners of some Pixel and Samsung devices. They added that restarting the phone may be a possible fix. Meanwhile, Google has said little about what could be causing the discrepancy, but confirmed it’s looking into the matter. "We are aware of the issue and are working closely with WhatsApp to investigate,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement.

I'm waiting to see further details from Google before rushing to conclusions. Ideally the bug will be in the open source part of Android so we can confirm what was going on.
And the mirroring issue with “computers are hard and some teachers can’t do it.”

I got a 60% one for an assignment that demonstrably implemented all required features including the “for extra credit” ones, and a few more besides. I can only think it was scored by grams of documentation.
I'm not sure if your claim here is correct. The patch is to change call sites like

priv->set->use++;

To look like:

nf_tables_activate_set(ctx, priv->set);

Where this function is defined as:

void nf_tables_activate_set(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, struct nft_set *set) {
if (nft_set_is_anonymous(set))
nft_clear(ctx->net, set);
set->use++;
}

So to me (someone who is not an expert in this code) it looks like the fix is checking if the set has the anonymous flag before changing the reference count. I'm not an expert in this code and I could be mistaken, but I think your claim that this would be fixed by Rust object lifetime checking requires better evidence.
Interesting stuff; is this intended to be an experiment or a longer-term project? I think a straight-forward comparison of Fir and things like HTMX (htmx.org) would be a good addition to the demo page or docs. I’m not one, but from what I gather many golang enthusiasts like using the std http features of the language and other libraries like HTMX seem more appealing as they live just in the html templates. It’d help get a quick idea of how it fits in with existing libraries. For instance, the pubsub feature would be a distinction.
The amusing thing, apart from the fact that we are still discussing the unexpected interactions of locks and NFS after 35 years, is that recommending not using flock() is the reverse of the manual pages and widespread existing practice.

The Linux manual calls the lockf()/fcntl(F_SETLK) mechanism "unfortunate". The BSD manual, across all flavours, is not so restrained and calls them "completely stupid semantics of System V". The BSD manual calls the flock() mechanism "much more rational" and "recommended". The Linux manual likewise recommends using its per-open-file-description mechanism of fcntl(F_OFD_SETLK) as "a Linux-specific alternative with better semantics".

Thus we are in the unenviable situation that the Linux NFS client/server implementation breaks flock(), by translating into POSIX locks under the covers some of the time; but the non-POSIX flock() is the "better", "rational", mechanism that is widely recommended, and that has been long used by the BSD lockf(1) utility and the Bernstein setlock(1) utility and the Pape chpst(8) utility.
This reminds me of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot:

"We were hunters and foragers. The frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the earth, and the ocean, and the sky. The open road still softly calls. Our little terraqueous globe as the madhouse of those hundred thousand millions of worlds. We, who cannot even put our own planetary home in order, riven with rivalries and hatreds; are we to venture out into space?

By the time we are ready to settle even the nearest other planetary systems, we will have changed. The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us; necessity will have changed us. We are… an adaptable species. It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths, and fewer of our weaknesses; more confident, farseeing, capable and prudent.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. What new wonders undreamt of in our time, will we have wrought in another generation, and another? How far will our nomadic species have wandered, by the end of the next century, and the next millennium?

Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds through the solar system, and beyond, will be unified, by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the universe, come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross, before we found our way."
This example has most of the scenarios you have called out: https://github.com/livefir/fir/tree/main/examples/fira. Fir aims to limit itself to rendering templates on the server and making it available for all subscribers as a browser CustomEvent which is consumed by alpine.js for more complex interactivity. The expectation is the that the developer handles it via either alpine.js plugins or standard JS code.

[edit] This is still a work-in-progress so I will certainly add better guides and documentation moving forward. Although its good to get feedback that this approach might be interesting for at least some people.
Life is good, but I need a sense of impending doom to keep constantly progressing, improving and growing. Not doing that would drive me crazy.
You're right, from an economic standpoint, at least on the surface. But what of the social and ecological benefits of keeping alive small communities and small fields with diverse crops? The problems with large-scale monoculture farming are well known. A counter-argument is that food is too cheap. That obviously doesn't feel correct for someone struggling to pay the bills each month, but still... Workers are being squeezed on one end and small farmers are being squeezed on the other, and the gains go somewhere else entirely while small communities fall into despair and die out.
> Mike said: What!?? You mean Pegasus is a $10K AI machine? That’s something I can sell!
Before I knew what happened the Pegasus SPU was rechristened as AIM (AI Machines) and we were trying to figure out how we were going to support Common Lisp and Prolog in addition to Smalltalk.
The Pegasus was announced as the Tektronix 4404 in August 1984 at that year’s AAAI conference. The first production units shipped in January 1985 at a list price of $14,950. Even at that price it was considered a bargain.

This passage makes me sad. It shows an example of how people in the 80s produced an awesome language, but then caused it to lose mindshare by becoming too greedy too early. Instead of growing the community, they shooed people away with disproportionate fees.
"To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal."
Henry Kissinger
Background:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDbgYClWZWU

It seems that the people of Pakistan are pushing back hard against the former PM's arrest.
I ran my first half marathon earlier this year; I am 48. I'm slow but before two years ago I'd never run so much as a 5k.

I would like to run a full marathon someday but I have no desire to run "quickly" for such a distance; I honestly think the training for that would leave me in worse shape than I am now.
> I read Power of Habit, so I can easily quit things. If that was taught as a class in high school, it might eliminate long-term drug addiction

What the hell does that have that is so extraordinary that you gain magical powers to break any and all habits? x) Genuinely curious.
War to the death is a bit extreme. Perhaps a six month pause.
I'd love to make use of the power of the M2 chip in my ipad and run VM's on it. Shame apple won't let us.
This.

And if you're really lucky, a large corporate enterprise will let you have hosting space for _free_ at _very specific times_. Otherwise, you must find local community resources who usually:
1. Charge a fee
2. Request you do something for them in exchange (run some publicity, sweeping floors, etc.)
This is why the steam deck is a good example? The console doesn't have to be sold at a loss in order to sell games.

It would be better overall for competition for the games to be decoupled from the console. Same as with phone apps
Dramatic reduction in cost strongly implies dramatic reduction in labor force. Not sure I'd bank that as desirable.
Whatsapp tweeted suggesting this is a bug. I am normally skeptical of claims by Facebook, but find their response very convincing. https://twitter.com/WhatsApp/status/1655989766431862785

Also notable that the screenshot is not from an official Android system screen, but from a third party app listed on the playstore as "privacy dashboard"
It depends! For example with Django, if I want something, which I already kind of know, but haven't done in a while, I will always go to 3.5 first, because its much faster, and I can get the answer within 5 seconds. But if there is any sort of complexity, I won't bother with 3.5, because its going to suggest me doing things very sub-optimal. Like rebuilding an entire Model's save method and creating a Mixin, while all I would need to do is override an existing admin function with a single line of code. I mean ... the suggestion is often valid, but switching from 3.5 to 4 on complex issues is like going from a side-kick who is a very experienced junior to a senior sidekick.
> The open source community's spent how many years designing a non-proprietary protocol and putting out reference implementations (and extending it to Facebook-like and Youtube-like and Wordpress-like offerings)...

And it's awkward to write code for and the people who inhabit it range from right-wing reactionaries to, as was so effectively put, the homeowners' association. Turns out that people don't care about "open source" unless it's easy to work with and people especially don't care about "open source" when they want to talk and shitpost with their extended friend group. (Which no, Mastodon doesn't do a good job of! Even setting aside that quote-toots are Good, Actually, Mastodon doesn't let me see replies to a toot unless I go digging so I don't know if I'm just being one of another set of replies that might already have said what I was going to say, so why post at all?)

I tend to think that the Bluesky crowd seems like they have their shit together as well as having a small beta explode can allow it (the web app is literally at `staging.bsky.app`, come on) and I think the AT Protocol docs identify real and probably intractable shortcomings in ActivityPub. But it doesn't somehow render ActivityPub moot if you want to use it. Go for it. It's still there.
Family grown, wholesome produce is a great product, and definitely just better than mass produced. However, as furniture, building, etc has all shown...people just want cheaper and easier. Is the family farm just a victim of our move to mass production?
You are aware that lunchroom canteen at the Hindu had strict vegetarian policy until recently and you’re telling me they’re biased against Hindus?

And speaking of WB please tell me who was killing all the Hindus at Marichjhapi?
Open source doesn't mean you can explain the black box any better.
and humans are black boxes that don't understand their mental processes either. We're currently better than LLMs at it i suppose but we're still very poor at it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196841/
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/25987577/Split_Brain.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204522

We can't recreate previous mental states, we just do a pretty good job (usually) of rationalizing decisions after the fact.
"Runs Linux" is superficial thinking, though. ("Runs Linux" doesn't equate to "uses the Internet Protocol".) There is no more Internet Protocol connectivity to Mars in 2023 than there was in 1991. There is no realistic prospect of this being a possible source of confusion now, in the near future, or possibly ever at the current rate.
I’m not a stats expert, but it seems blatantly obvious that subgroup selection could be inherently problematic because how do you choose the groups in an effective and responsible way?

I mean, just the statement

> no subgroup is inappropriate unless you know all the values of all the parameters

seems implausible and unlikely.

In the one stats class I took, we talked a lot about how selection bias was a huge concern. Why wouldn’t Subgroup selection bias also be a concern?

I dunno, maybe I’m wrong, but I’m dubious.
If you spent even more time with GPT-4 it would be evident that it is definitely not. Especially if you try to use it as some kind of autonomous agent.
Not illegal, but a breach of contract.
There are two tubes.
I would be extremely surprised if Valve attempted to block Epic from doing that.
Anthropic scores fine-tuning in the categories helpful, harmless, and honest (HHH). The latter includes accuracy. Helpfulness only covers following instructions. If the model "over-censors", it declines too many requests and becomes less helpful. They say Constitutional AI is a good way to maximize both harmlessness (which is usually maximized via RLHF) and helpfulness, but not honesty. It's in the paper.
Beans and potatoes are fairly easy and fun to grow? They are very "set it and forget it" and produce a lot in one season. Although if they get infected with some kind of fungus or virus, that could put you at risk of starvation if you haven't planned ahead.

As a plus, the beans should help introduce nitrogen into the soil via the bacteria that grow on their roots.
Breach of contract is illegal, even though its not (in and of itself) criminal.
The speaker's book on related themes:

https://burglarsguide.com/
While imperial Britain has much to take blame for in South Asia, the partition is not really one of them.

Great Britain (or rather Mountbatten on its behalf) really just acted as a third party arbiter in the partition. It was Jinnah's insistence on a separate carveout for Muslims in South Asia, together with Nehru's refusal to meet any demands for federalism, that resulted in partition. Imperial Britain had nothing to do with Direct Action Day.
> It might have been an interesting argument 20 years ago. It’s just silly now.

Is it?

These networks are capable of copying something, yes. Do we have a good understanding of what that is?

Not really, no. At least I don’t. I’m sure lots of people have a much better understanding than I do, but I think its hard to know exactly whats going on.

People dismiss the stochastic parrot argument because of how impressive big neural nets are, but it doesn’t really invalidate that argument. Is a very, very, very good parrot that learns from everyone at once doing basically the same as what we do? I’d argue no, at least not fully. It’s absorbed aspects of us extremely well/is a very weird, sophisticated mirror, yes, and is copying something somehow, probably in a way reminiscent of how we copy. Is it basically the same as what we’re doing when we think? Partially? Fully? Not at all?

A typical engineer would say “good enough”. That type of response is valuable in a lot of contexts, but I think the willingness to apply it to these models is pretty reckless, even if it’s impossible to easily “prove” why.

To be clear on the exact statement you made, I think you’re right/it’s pretty clear neurons play some very important role/potentially capture a ton of what we consider intelligence, but I don’t think anyone really knows what exactly is being captured/what amount of thought and experience they’re responsible for.
Id love to see that!
But does that mean while those businesses existed that Linux would have had a positive affect on their businesses' bottom line?

edit: Because the way I interpreted your comment was that not supporting Linux is directly responsible for a lot of gaming companies' downfall.
There is no way in any shape or form that the same country the invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, steals OIL left, right and center, and supported more coups than anyone can be though of as caring for human rights.

They don't care at all, it never mattered.
It is intended as a longer-term project originating from the previous experiment: https://github.com/adnaan/gomodest. You are right, a better selection criteria for the target audience should be enlisted. I have been working on this for a while so I just got greedy for some early feedback.
I wouldn't mind if the mail client stored local embeddings of my email contents to enable a good search function.
I agree completely and I think this is where a lot of people get tripped up. There's no reason to think an AGI needs to be an LLM alone, it might just be a key building block.