skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As researchers have found with the internet more broadly, racism (i.e., often reflecting perspectives of those building technology) is built into social media platforms. For example, algorithms (i.e., a set of mathematical instructions that direct users’ everyday experiences down to the posts that they see) can often have centuries of racist policy and discrimination encoded.9

There's something ridiculous about this statement.
I don't think this is showing LLMs performing decoding. They're just using the LLM to propose possible words. The decoding is done by using another model to score how well a proposed word matches brain activity, and using that score to select a most likely sequence given the proposals from the LLM.
It's interesting to see many people here post about their blog being 20 years old. Was that the golden age of RSS?

It turns out my blogs are also 20 years old (although my web site is older). My first posts[1][2] were not so interesting though. It took a while to figure out what I really wanted to do with the blogs. At first they were all over the place, but my work-related one ended up being a "making of" my work projects. My non-work blog ended up a mix of solutions to problems I ran across, and random ideas I wanted to share.

[1] https://simblob.blogspot.com/2003/02/simblob-2.html
[2] https://amitp.blogspot.com/2003/04/playing-games-vs-programm...
Hollywood is calling it ‘the Netflix strike.’
"...maybe we shouldn't compare terminology across countries."

That sounds like cromulent use of HN.
Neat! I wonder if it's possible to achieve a similar project for Deezer.
What's interesting is if you express 1 AU as "8 light minutes" it doesn't sound so far away, but of course it is.

(240 AU is 32 light hours)
If you look at the ultra runners finishing races by age you'll see a lot more in their 40s than their 20s.
> rich slave owning Greeks and Romans while not marching to another battle?

Yes.

> Do we know anything about the exercise habits of the poor (other than the dude in the bathtub) or the slaves?

This is a notorious blind spot in our knowledge of our antiquity. It’s partly why the ruins at Pompeii were so interesting.
I have the habit of donating around christmas including to TB. I suppose that I'm not the only one.
I bet if you read “how to have empathy for others” you wouldn’t have come to these conclusions.
Google search is better than reasoning than most humans - in that if you search for an explanation of something then Google's first result is often correct, or one of the following ones.

GPT-4 will often come up with a solution to a problem, but only if it has learnt something similar (it's better than Google in some respects: it can extract and combine abstractions).

However, both need handholding by a human (supplying the initiative and directing around mistakes).

If GPT-4 can't intuit an answer then it just goes in circles. It can't reason its way through a novel problem. If you start questioning it then it's clear that it doesn't understand what it's doing.

It might be a stepping stone towards AGI, but I'm a bit bemused by anyone claiming that it has anything like the reasoning skills of a human. That is far from the impression I get, even though I find it a useful tool.
Are you kidding? "easy to stop"? When LLMs are integrated into law enforcement, banking, research, education, logistics... All these areas have people building backend systems leveraging the current llm tech and pipelines to plug in the coming tech. If we reach a tipping point where these things become aware/act truly autonomously, what are the chances they do it before we notice? People are renowned for implementing things before understanding the consequences.

And what does charisma of AI alignment folks have to do with anything?
You still haven't explained how Java apps are going to know the difference here.
How to Install Nvidia CUDA Driver, Toolkit, CuDNN, and TensorRT on Arch Linux
i have seen blogs for ubuntu and even manjaro , but im quite confused regarding arch , how do i go about things
> The likelihood of a server just randomly disappearing is incredibly low. There are community standards and things like the Mastodon Server Covenant that make this essentially a non-issue.

This has actually happened. It's a real problem. For example, "Mastodon instance mstdn.plus with over 4K users suddenly broke" https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/mastodon.html

As far as I'm concerned, the Mastodon Server Covenant is a joke.
Those remedies are against the parties breaching the contract.

There are also remedies against those who interfere with a contract they are not party to. This is called tortious interference [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
> This recent article suggests other factors might be more important to adolescent mental health.

The algorithm you are implying is: find the most important factor and concentrate on it to the exclusion of others. Not a good way to go with serious problems.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into it. I just double-checked and it seems the ping I'm dealing with is just a little bit above their recommended limit
Oh he hit you with the, "do your own research." I also like that he posts that on this article about an 81 year old running 130kms. How many of his peers who did 30 minutes can barely walk but he's out there killing it.
I like it: just posts/categories/rss. It looks nice and loads fast. Does it use an existing CMS or did you roll your own blog engine for it?
I think that answers it. And looking back at the specification in the SUSv5 draft, it seems this and analogous behavior has been codified--an OFD lock conflicts with a process-private lock and vice-versa. So there's only one reasonable option for mapping OFD locks to NFS locks, which is that they both map to the same NFS server lock in the same manner (unlike BSD flock, both support record locking).
Just like twitter before it, and every other social network, they change in tone over time. Sure right now I guess you could argue that the fediverse is stuffy, though not in my little corner apparently. But that won't stay true. Every person that joins changes the network. Sure some servers will ban other servers for any number of reasons and it will probably fragment. Who cares it will all come out in the wash.
Yes, latencies of 10 ms are noticeable for musicians. I feel like I can feel everything over 5-ish.

A fun fact is that that's why a symphony needs a conductor: one corner of the symphony to the other is 17-ish meters, which is 50 ms of latency. They have to lock in to a visual queue because at those distances, you can't synchronize on sound. It's also interesting to note that a symphony very literally sounds different on one side than the other, and not just in relative prominence: at march tempo (120 BPM), if you're sitting on one side of the symphony, some instruments may be a 32nd note ahead of the ones on the other side by the time they reach your ears.
I would say there's two ways to do it:

1. Full service - you hire a relocation company to handle everything for your employees, from the moving vans to the house search to just everything. And then add some money as a bonus/travel on top.

2. No service - you give whatever #1 there would have cost or so direct to employees and let them work out what to do.

The second works better with "hungry" employees, the first works better with established ones, in my experience.

But you will lose some employees no matter what.
Humane’s Device Preview at Ted
It'll remind you of meetings, for example.
I think too many people want to run marathons.

At what point did running really far become the thing to aspire too when getting fit?

What about strength? Speed? Flexibility? Agility? Regardless of the evidence, most people are better served doing a good mix of activities and being generalists.

The only reason to run more than 10km is if you like running. Otherwise 5-10km at a decent pace is just a good cheap way to get effective cardio. You should probably stop there and lift something heavy.
!! So it is! You have my order.

Just FYI, somehow I'd been ending up on this page: https://othernet.is/products/dreamcatcher-circuit-board

And believing it when it said it was not available yet.
>Most studies I've seen suggest that the larger the farming operation, the more efficiently it's able to use resources.

Yes, this is true for modern agriculture, because it's an industrial process that benefits from economies of scale. Unfortunately that process is unsustainable and will ultimately deplete our fertilizer resources while damaging the environment.

>Someone working a median wage job will be able to buy more food in the time it takes you to maintain your garden.

Permaculture isn't about returning to peasantry. Permaculture is about integrating food production into society while expending minimal effort (less effort than even mowing a lawn).

>You won't be able to get free fertilizer from people that prune trees because everyone will want it

Fertilizer doesn't need to come from pruned trees. In fact, wood chips alone don't really make for good compost.

Properly designed permaculture systems coupled with local programs such as neighborhood composting and an understanding of the local ecosystem can produce a huge amount of food with very little effort or input.

>Many of them work very little and pay nothing in taxes, use medicare, and are still well off because a lot of their labor is untaxable.

OK, and? Maybe the answer is to reform how we structure society and taxes instead of claiming that low-impact sustainable lifestyles are somehow a form of "theft".

You could make the same argument about how people who refuse to buy a new iPhone every year are "stealing" resources because they don't contribute enough to an economy structured around overproduction and waste. It's absurd.
I would say my use case is the same as many other people who use it. Repl.it is fantastic for getting started, for sharing your code, and for creating small applications.
He was caught on tape, years ago, bragging about exactly this behavior. Nobody who cares is surprised at all. At least they certainly shouldn't be.
So it’s “normal” for essentially half of all people to do regular bloodwork for significant phases of their lives. And old people and sex workers and there are more examples than I think you realize where people have blood drawn on the regular. I’m not sure you really have the scale dialed in. Either way, my example is most certainly a non-sequitur, we agree, because it’s an example, not a conclusion (8

To be clear, I’m advocating for a solution that’s more like doing a full metabolic panel every year, so you can catch people with Vitamin D deficiency. And/or an improved approach/UX surrounding managing patient case flows. I mean tracking tasks through workflow states is a very solved problem. To my knowledge hospitals don’t employ any such methodology.
Daily Thunderbird user for about 17 years. Has always worked well. The recent UI improvements are nice (on the eyes), but, I’m so used to the UI/UX, it just blends into the background.
1/0 is undefined and 1/-0 is also undefined.

what we have is
lim(x->0+) 1/x = +inf and lim(x->0-) 1/x = -inf
SLS is expending surplus RS-25 shuttle engines. Once they're gone they'll be paying Aerojet Rocketdyne a hundred million each for new ones. The first stage uses four.

Eventually someone with a brain is going to notice, SLS will be canceled, and decades of federal jail time will ensue for the criminals who perpetuated this fraud upon the American people.
If you think it's better than you at reasoning then you cannot at all be confident in the truth of it's dialog.
Satellite TV is exceptionally common in Pakistan, I believe.
That depends on the country... speeding in the UK, for example, absolutely is a criminal offence.

In fact, in the UK, apart from a tiny number of civil matters used in criminal law, breaking the law (ie doing something illegal) is always a criminal offence.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/sinister-th...
They might also start injecting ads into the audio stream soon

...just like how broadcast radio works?
It's amazing what we can build now on our garage. We used to build walkie talkies and now we can build our own cellular like network with data and voice capabilities. We can even build our own complicated project case because of 3D printing.
> [It's not true] that unsafe somehow "encapsulates" memory bugs.

I believe this real-life, 4-year, 1.5 million-line-of-code experiment disagrees with you directly [1]

> In general, use of unsafe in Android’s Rust appears to be working as intended. It’s used rarely, and when it is used, it’s encapsulating behavior that’s easier to reason about and review for safety.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-language...
Meta hasn't done anything to warrant the benefit of the doubt.
That's a good point. I am very, very, very risk averse, as I am both a lawyer and finance guy (risk management).
You have a few options for dealing with problems like this.

You can "apt update; apt upgrade" then reboot when a new kernel is available.

Oracle has also offered Ksplice for free on Ubuntu for many years, and I'm sure that patch will be available promptly.

https://ksplice.oracle.com/try/desktop

Otherwise, Kernelcare is available for a fee. I think Canonical also has paid kernel patches.
> The goal isn't for everyone to have a backyard plot.

That seems to be what it amounts to in practice though. Noble goals are a fine thing, but your steps towards the goal need to actually constitute progress towards the goal.
There’s a clear best series (if you can handle the off color comedy) — Dungeon Crawler Carl
Sometimes I must open some stupid mail on my phone because an app needs it for verification or some other nonsense. I'd like to have an accessible option to do it.

also an nvda user/donor
Hey! We had LoRa first!
Preserving the sign in case of arithmetic overflow/underflow.
Uh uh. They said what they said. What they said is aggressively incorrect. No amount of generosity is going to change that.
> I'm not going to go through the trouble of screenshotting a website

Because it's not there. When users enable this feature it says nothing about this.
What’s nova and md?

No need for a car != agreeable to live as a pedestrian. For example, I don’t need a car in SF but I wouldn’t compare it to a real and agreeable walkable city like we have in europe or asia. It’s mostly large streets designed for cars, residential areas, with shops only allowed to exist in limited commercial streets.
IMHO rings 0 + 3 with protections against bugs, and not deliberate malice, is probably the sweet spot.
There were a total of 117 lynchings in India in 2019, compared to 41 for the US in the same time period. This is the same number of lynchings on a per capita basis - while 117 lynchings is a 117 too many, the number is effectively negligible in a country of 1.2 billion people.

Execution style hit jobs on rivals? When did these happen? Are you simply making up executions in your mind?

Claiming India will collapse in 10 years is one of the weirdest statements I've heard in a long time. Which countries will not collapse according to your standards then? I'm honestly asking - no major country seems to be surviving the next 10 years as per your worldview.

I'm open to debate, but you seem to be inventing executions in thin air.

Sources:
https://ncrb.gov.in/en/crime-in-india-2019
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/117-lynching-inciden...
"ADL Report: At Least 50 White Supremacist Murders in 2018" by the Anti-Defamation League: https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-report-at-least-...
"What We Know: The Far-Right and Extremism in 2019" by the Anti-Defamation League: https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/what-we-know-the-far-r...
"Eclipse on WASM - when electron and vscode just aren't slow enough"
They usually are Michelin star presentation tools. But "Alex French Guy Cooking" on YouTube showed them being really useful for a lot of things, basically how some people use chopsticks. I really like them. They're like tongs but more dextrous.
Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on YouTube. Is this a new thing?
> half of my developer income for just a couple of weeks per year of work

That is a very high hourly wage. Wow.
Once they issue the patch...it's only a matter of time till a good chunk of reasonably decent coders can develop the exploit. Once the premise is released...yeah the top exploit coders will have this in a few hours.
One day an AI will write a brilliant book. It will write something as good as the most competent and insightful human writer out there. And it will write a thousand more. The problem is that for every good book there will be a thousand bad books. What good is a good book if no one has time to discover it and read it? No one has time to get through all the good books written by humans, why are we worried about books written by AI?

Since the Gutenberg days there has never been a shortage of written material to be digested. For hundreds of years there has been way more written material than any one person could read in a lifetime. So the problem has been to pick out what is most worth reading out of the millions of books you could be reading instead. The situation now is no different, except that we should have stricter standards on what information we allow into our heads. There will always be value in a well-curated library (will AIs curate the libraries too?)
Ah ok. Here you use the word “explain” which implies more of a descriptive, reducing action rather than extrapolative and constructive. As in, it can explain what it has “read” (and it has obviously “read” far more than any human), but it can’t necessarily extrapolate beyond that or use that to find new truths. To me reasoning is more about the extrapolative, truth-finding process, ie “wisdom” from knowledge rather than just knowledge. But maybe my definition of “reasoning” isn’t quite right.

Edit: I probably should define reasoning as solely “deductive reasoning”, in which case, perhaps it is better than humans. But that seems like a premature claim. On the other hand, non-deductive reasoning, I have yet to see from it. I personally can’t imagine how it could do so reliably (from a human perspective) without real-world experiences and perceptions. I’m the sort that believes a true AGI would require a highly-perceptual, space-occupying organ. In other words it would have to be and “feel” embodied, in time and space, in order to perform other forms of reasoning.
Ask HN: Nginx Learning Resources
I have been using NGINX in various projects. But I still feel that I do not know enough about the subject. Long time ago I found (probably from here) a blog post about security and common mistakes related to locations, etc.

If you have found some nice sites/blogs, could you share your findings?
In certain states the law forbids the unwashed masses from having their own blood tested (a doctor must order the blood test). Land of the free!

See (7) and (8) of
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVI/Ch...
wan didn't give you a hint?
I do this with Route53. Create a hosted zone with your subdomain - R53 will populate NS records automatically. Then, go back to your top-level zone and add those NS records for the subdomain.
One of the most inspiring comments on here.

Good luck and wish you the best getting back to a happier place.

I’ve been in a similar situation before and I was never happier.
Systemd Userspace-Only Reboot
>"I would like to believe there is a future where blocking access to the internet is unilaterally impossible."

Sure thing. All you have to do is to come out in big numbers, beat your fucking rulers into submission and replace them with do good types. Easy peasy. If not they'll get you no matter what tech you use.
if you have a large portion of the population running these dishes, it's game over.

Sadly this is wishful and overly optimistic thinking. The Tiananmen Square protesters thought similarly. Dictators will massacre their own people
Interesting - do you believe average humans (not professional lawyers) would do better on this task?
Wow, great example. /s

So is Book that you linked written by the same Rahul Roushan who is the CEO of OpIndia, a right-wing news portal that has been found publishing fake & Islamophobic news on multiple occasions?[1]

The other editor of OpIndia is Nupur J Sharma, who was also the BJP national spokesperson in 2020 and her derogatory remarks against Prophet on TV sparked outrage in India as well as the Arab world. [2] [3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahul_Roushan [1]

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/who-is-nupur-sharm... [2]

https://scroll.in/latest/1025549/iran-kuwait-and-saudi-arabi... [3]
family farm becomes a different thing when you start milking 1100 cows, it's usually a few of the family working with several undocumented immigrants. I live in upstate NY also tho our family sold the farm a couple of decades ago.

The farm we used to own has gone towards organic milk to get a premium for their product, and the family that bought it now relies heavily on undocumented immigrants.
I’ve seen many, many people mistake Horizon worlds for the metaverse. I guess it’s Meta’s fault for not being more clear, but I doubt those deriding the tech have actually seen anything directly from them anyways.
> to always use smart pointers for reference counting

Agree - and the Linux kernel is extremely fragile because it is full of ad-hoc manual code like that.

Unfortunately, Rust won't be the rescue, because (in the foreseeable future) Rust will only be available in leaf code due to the many hard problems of transitioning from fragile C APIs to something better. Writing drivers in Rust is useful, but limits the scope of how Rust helps.

Many of Rust's advantages at a tiny fraction of the effort could be had easily with a smooth transition path by switching the compiler from C to C++ mode. The fruit hangs so low, it nearly touches the ground, but a silly Linus rejects C++ for the wrong reasons ("to keep the C++ programmers out", wtf).

Every time I work on the Linux kernel source, I'm horrified by how much pain the kernel developers inflict on themselves. Even with C, it would be possible to install a mandatory coding style that is less fragile.

For example, in the aftermath of the Dirty Pipe vulnerability last year, I submitted a patch to make the code less fragile, a coding style that would have prevented the vulnerability: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220225185431.2617232-4-max.ke... - but my patch went nowhere.
I didn't get credit for the first few assignments in my first CS class because the automated grading tool couldn't find my code. Finally I figured out that the tool only worked if the code was in the default Java package, which I wasn't using because Eclipse told me I shouldn't.
Well, according to that paper, development started in 2003-ish time frame. Not many choices back then for ssl libraries, especially when you're using C as your development language. Thanks for posting the link!
This is really cool, and actually I think LLMs would be a great fit: they can generate your constrained language from more freeform language input by the user. Might make it easier to get into, and you've done the hard work already by specifying a language for the card rules
The new(ish) translations from Schocken Editions are a big improvement over what was available in the 20th century. Re-reading The Trial last month was a revelation.