skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right that it's a logical conclusion given what's actually happening, but your examples aren't the reasons why people are starting to realize this.

Eg, a mystery entity blew up the nord stream 2 pipeline and caused so much methane to be released, that years worth of past and future carbon progress have been erased.

When people see that no one important cares about that because Russia is naughty, and people are still going on about your neighborhood design, what else is there to conclude?
Which is why I asked about what qualifies as an "object". The brain itself is a composite, so why does a larger composite not qualify?
Meanwhile, Turkey's oldest and most popular social media "Ekşi Sözlük" was blocked again today.

Previously, the original domain eksisozluk.com was blocked and the reason given was "the site has unnaturally large number of critics". Once the appeals to the court failed, they switched to eksisozluk2023.com and it was fine for a while but tonight they blocked that domain too. Now the new domain is eksisozluk42.com

An interesting fact is, the website is run by a legal entity registered in Turkey, with physical offices in central Istanbul. They are known to run the website by the book and removing any content the court demands but the core principle is "anything legal goes". So it's quite a free speech platform, despite some controversies over they years.

It's ridiculous to have them blocked since they are %100 legal. The government literally just said "fuck it, just block it".
You know that it isn't just the FBI.

It's multiple countries that have had issues with them e.g. Australia, Canada, Ireland.

And I personally know of students here in Australia who have been targeted by the Chinese consulate for participating in pro-Taiwan and pro-HK protests. So the idea that they wouldn't apply this technique to people of all ages isn't far-fetched.
I'm a blogger, and I often want to get on the front page of HN, even for posts that are not shilling anything.

It helps get my name in front of people (since my username is my real, legal name).

This is a long-term strategy; I am building a business, and the more people that know my name when I start announcing things, the better.

Yeah, I have an ulterior motive too, but I'm okay with it if that motive drives me to do actually good things.
Sure if you have some links although Im assuming itll be some leftwing news outlets doing what you appear to be doing, which is dressing up supposition and hearsay as fact.

Generally for me I mostly ignore the media as I find its largely distortions and half-truths.
Not to mention Twitter is increasingly their competitor so unlikely to be objective anyway.

I just go on what I see with my own eyes and it seems pretty clean to me.
Because printers are sold at a loss.
Julia ranges are not composable, that's it

You cannot do easily [0...N) = [0...N/2) + [N/2...N)
As I read this I wondered based on Texas and Florida bussing immigrants out of state - will cities just start bussing their homeless out to the suburbs.
Yes, range(n+1) is bad. I hate python as well. You want something like Rust’s m..n and m..=n to have the choice. Anyway, if you have half open ranges, it's trivial to get a closed range (add one to the right endpoint), but going the other direction is not so simple.
This would lock out countries that use .co.uk and similar
The lanyard class is really hitting the yellow peril button really hard.

How about "Commercial Media Feeds Everyone a Diet of Darkness"?
A larger composite (which contains a brain) can not qualify by the very nature of the proposition put forth. At least in adult debate (where "infinity plus 1" is seen as fallacious). Larger composites that do not contain a brain are fine by me, though I'm not the person you originally responded to.
Without the will to jail arsonists first is a waste of money.
I’m a student – you have no idea how much we are using ChatGPT
We're all lectured to look side-eye at bitcoin while these machine learning processes consume more energy than Las Vegas on meth. LOL.
http is insecure and should not be used. Not always using https would defeat the entire purpose of the added security, not least because a MitM attacker could block only the https packets and then force a silent downgrade to insecure http. It needs to always be https, never anything else.
In common parlance, “known universe” refers to the extent of the universe that is observable by human beings on the planet earth.

Hope that helps!
Go Stacktrace GPT Handler
This is exactly what Russia did in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. The Trump campaign gave voter polling data to Konstatin Kilimnik. Russia then proceeded to exploit Facebook to target swing voters, and Trump won because of 80k voters across Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
This site is absolutely wonderful, and amazing to anyone that is learning Vim

I would recommend Drew Neil’s books on the subject. They are stellar

https://pragprog.com/titles/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-edit...
https://pragprog.com/titles/modvim/modern-vim/
> and then do any kron product you want, whether sparse matrices with other sparse matrices

Thanks! Will try it with the new release. Last time I tried, apparently it converted the sparse matrix to dense before calling kron, and (expectedly) it failed due to memory error. For example, try to compute the adjacency matrix of a grid graph of size 1000x1000. It is the kronecker product of two tridiagonal matrices of that size. It only has four million non-zero entries, which are instantaneous to compute, but if you want to store all the zeros you'll need a few terabites of RAM.
Courcelle's Theorem
But in America people are overpunished. I often read titles like "he faces up to 100 years in a prison" when in reality it is just a poor Russian guy who didn't murder or hurt anyone, just collected credit card numbers and sold it to other guys. 100 years just for stealing a bit of money? That's draconian laws.
One could interpret the meaning as driving with the left or right hand.
> I really think this cynical take on wealth needs to stop. This is far more likely explained by politics.

The only mention of wealth was describing the effect. Yes, politics is a key part of how that effect is acheived. (Of course, advocacy by those with wealth is a key part of how the politics happens, and... well, the politics/wealth interactions here are basically a near-infinite chain. They aren’t competing explanations.)
Can I follow the course if I haven’t worked with Ruby or RoR?
Julia ranges are not composable, period

In Python, C/C++ and its descendant

[0...N)=[0...N/2)+[N/2...N)
Just tried GPT4 + Klarna and got 4 suggestions that were all along the lines of "adidas Women's Adicolor Classics 3-Stripes T-shirt - Black" ... :-)

I'll open an issue...
That "just" hides something that is so insanely hard to make work reliably in practice, any implementation of it is likely worse than a simple motion sensor... or a light switch.
Not sure about the ads, but telemetry definitely increases reliability. It allows to debug very specific issues with a comprehensive information about user environment. Source: debugged proprietary app multiple times using telemetry information. Sometimes the issues discovered were not reproducible without recreating some very specific environments.

Surely there are downsides to telemetry and tracking, but they can be useful for development.
https://archive.is/piYe3
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perpetual futures, first used by Chinese gold miners in Hong Kong, took off at bitmex with 100x leverage.
Deleting my account did nothing to alleviate the destructive impact Facebook has on teenagers. Had I a TikTok account, deleting it would similarly accomplish nothing for anyone but myself.
You don't need a Pi to run pihole, it runs great on a low spec VM.
Someone help me understand why I should care more about the Chinese government having my data than my own. My own government actually has power over me.
They could just insert a banner saying they blocked certain accounts to appease Erdogan and people would still know. His voters don't mind meddling; they are not free speech absolutists.
Those should be broken up for different long-standing and obvious reasons, namely that they’re clearly prohibited by existing antitrust statute. That however is a different issue to foreign state controlled media.
Haha I appreciate the sleuthing, and thanks for the links! <3

Some of those might be the bugs I experienced, but then again, some of them claim to be fixed years ago, and I was running a fully up-to-date NixOS unstable (rolling release) system.

Reporting an issue in an OSS project is a great freedom that users have, but it involves so many steps, especially in these complex environments, that it's often not worth the effort. Even if you manage to figure out which component is misbehaving, to search if there's an already open bug report, and take the time to create one if not, there's a chance of running into hostility and WONTFIX responses.

> Impressive list to hit in only 5 minutes!

All it took was logging in, launching Firefox and playing a video. If these issues were so obvious in 5 minutes, I couldn't imagine how many there would be had I used the system for longer. Switching back to Xorg was the quickest fix to my workflow. Besides, I figured that since these issues were so obvious that they were already known. I was just befuddled as to why they remain so prominent given that Wayland is already 15 years old, and there are mainstream distros offering it as an alternative, or switching altogether to it.
Well, personally, I remember how good ActiveRecord is every time I dip my toes in something different from Rails :)
Matter is the protocol running on top of IP, so it runs over Ethernet in the example (since the Pi doesn't speak 802.15.4)
GPIB Capacitor Reforming with Web GUI
I'm looking forward to ways we can increase levels of C12orf29 or supplement it somehow in hopes of boosting RNA repair.
And this kind of type syntax is under consideration in TC39 https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
There is no specific info yet:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/h-k-s-purism-librem-16/20174/2

https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-6-look-ahead-wishlist/18694/...
Wiping your Watch History should fix it.

I always remove objectionable videos I accidentally watch from my Watch History to prevent the algorithm from using it as a basis for recommending me stuff.
This seems to be a similar idea to James Coglan's excellent book _Building Git_, which reimplemented Git in Ruby: https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/
I’m curious, what do you think the most scalable backend framework is (engineer wise)?
JSdoc syntax looks like this:

/*
* Function that adds
* @param {number} a One number to add
* @param {number} b Another number to add
* @return {number} The added numbers
*/
function add(a, b) {
return a + b;
}

Ts syntax looks like this:

function add(a: number, b: number) {
return a + b;
}

You can use JS doc in TS as well, to document all the values. You just don’t put the types in :)
Facebook Reels has been showing me videos of animals being killed, and I've been keeping a list because it's absurd.
ChatGPT streaming with Ruby-OpenAI, Rails 7, Hotwire, Turbostream, Sidekiq
We need a constitutional amendment banning infinite scroll.
You should never write loops that way, at least in code you're going to share (assuming that you’re going to have some arr[i] in the loop body—if not, you would just do "for e in arr").

Assuming that arrays start at 1 is a source of occasional bugs in public packages. The existence of OffsetArrays means that arrays can start at any index (so for people who get nauseated by 1-based arrays, you can change it).

Instead, write "for i in eachindex(arr)".

In fact, Julia’s array syntax means you can loop over and manipulate arrays without using indexes much of the time, so don’t even need to know how they’re based.
what kind of codebases were you working on? I've had the pleasure of working on 2 big companies using rails, each with well over 50 engineers and the code base was so relatively easy to jump into. The beauty of rails is that if you follow its guidelines, anybody can jump right in.

what alternatives do you
find are better when scaling up with more engineers?
Not sure you can eliminate it, but you can certainly reduce the impact and scale by fighting anti-competitive behavior . A major reason this sort of mass manipulation is so lucrative and effective is because you only have operate on a couple of platforms to reach a majority of eyeballs.
> For example, he was writing about the Bob Lee stabbing as if it was a random violent attack. I wasn't 100% certain but at the time I was extremely suspicious of this claim, based on knowing the block where it happened, it was basically guaranteed that Lee and the assailant were the only two people on the block and it was dubious a homeless person could have camped there. He started trolling the district attorney, who is more conservative about these topics than the last guy, but even she told him to STFU.

I think you can still be a pretty good engineer and believe that a stabbing in SF is probably perpetrated by a random homeless person absent other information. It may have been wrong for him to jump to this conclusion, but I don't think it has any bearing on his technical skills.

> There was another example where he questioned the ethics of a place I've worked at. He didn't have a leg to stand on but he made public pronouncements.

Again you may be perfectly right, but this has nothing to do with engineering talent. Lots of great engineers are famously assholes (in various ways): see, Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, etc.

> Somebody who does that is not likely to be a good engineer. A good engineer waits for the facts to come in before reaching conclusions. He's clearly not level headed. I've seen loads of bad engineers who act like Musk in these circumstances. Sometimes they have good reputations in their orgs because overconfident narcissists sometimes get rewarded.

This is just not the case as any kind of rule. Like, sure, a perfectly rational Bayesian optimizer may not do these things. But real engineering at the highest level isn't about that - it's about intuition from experience about which system design choices will be good and which won't, and acting quickly and efficiently on that information.

The very small intersection of incredible engineers who are also very good people have the humility to quickly pivot when they've been proven wrong, admit it, and move on. Elon is obviously not in this category.

But I think you have to admit that it's telling that when pressed for examples of his technical failures in public, all you could come up with were completely non-technical examples.
Two more Python implementations are mentioned in build-your-own-x [0].

- https://wyag.thb.lt

- https://benhoyt.com/writings/pygit/

[0]: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x#build-yo...
It's not quite so trivial to implement this solution. SL instruction tuning actually needs a lot of examples, and only recently there have been approaches to automate this, like WizardLM: https://github.com/nlpxucan/WizardLM

To try my solution, this would have to be adapted to more complex training examples involving quoted text with prompt injection attempts.

Similar points holds for RL. I actually think it is much more clean to solve it during instruction tuning, but perhaps we also need some RL. This normally requires training a reward model with large amounts of human feedback. Alternative approaches like Constitutional AI would first have to be adapted to cover quotes with prompt injection attacks.

Probably doable, but takes some time and effort, all the while prompt injection doesn't seem to be a big practical issue currently.
I was reminded of the characterization of cryptocurrencies as "Perpetual Zero Coupon Bonds": https://martincwwalker.medium.com/impossible-finance-the-per...
The office is a great place to drink... ar least, there was a period...

I'm actually planning on a return to the office, and I'll have an old timey-mad-men-esq bar in my office.
Hard agree on the computing system schema - it's always there, whether in a bag of brains or as a XSD file.

The usefulness of these concepts lie on a spectrum, with user behavior located in one part of that spectrum. Numbers occupies a broad spectrum that overlies most human experience, although not all. Type systems have overhead that occlude some aspects of computing, and by itself the phrase "type system" has fuzzy edges. Somewhat - although less so - same thing with functions - is a function a callable unit or is it an explicit method? Platonists - I think - would definitely agree that these things have the inherent quality of existence as a consequence of their nature; Anselm's Ontological Argument is sort of the Final Evolution of dire Platonism.

The world, though, as it exists in nature? Functions, types, even numbers are not primary observables. Our experience of reality is probably more akin to the observed experience of a rainbow, where the observer stands 138 degrees to the sun precisely . . or the rainbow doesn't exist. We're in a 138 degree arc to reality, living on a rainbow, counting the bands. But honestly? Who knows? Probably some learned cosmologist. I am but a MilStdJunkie on the internet.
Each vehicle had a driver onboard.[0] That being said, these are obviously not production family sedans. The winner traveled 25mph. But these are college students. It is fun to see what they can do. Maybe they will find their way onto a team at Mazda that pushes the CX-90 from 25mpg to 31mpg. That would be a big win. Maybe they land at Toyota and push the 4Runner from 17mpg to 20mpg. Or maybe they can work with other amazing engineers at Hyundai to take the Sonata from 52mpg up to 60mpg.

They are college students who just did a fun and exciting thing. Let them enjoy it and hopefully they will continue to dream big.

0. https://www.shellecomarathon.com/about/global-rules/_jcr_con...

Edit: typo acronyms
> Finally, co-ops are fundamentally unfair to the founders. Starting a business costs a lot more than money, and businesses are how we try to fairly repay that.

Here’s a fantastic article about this point: https://www.startups.com/library/expert-advice/emotional-cos...

Also a quote from https://michaelafreemanmd.com/Research_files/Are%20Entrepren... about startup founders:

Who in their right mind would choose to be an entrepreneur? The barriers to success are virtually unlimited and most startups fail as a result. Entrepreneurs have lower initial earnings, lower earnings growth, lower long-term earnings [32], greater work stress, and more psychosomatic health problems than employees [33]. Why would anyone voluntarily accept the longer work hours, fewer weekends and holidays, more responsibility, chronic uncertainty, greater personal risk and struggle, and greater investment of emotional and physical resources required to be an entrepreneur instead of the security and long-term rewards of having a career[34]?

Although some of it is selection bias versus cause: the paper seems to suggest many founders are literally mad before they start a business.
Sorry I should have been more specific, I meant block deduplication, or any form of deduplication at a level lower than the entire file. File deduplication can only get you so far, depending on the use case. XetHub does block deduplication, whereas I am implementing data-level deduplication, which is slower in recreating dataset snapshots (can be parallelized and delegated), but allows savings on disk space with small but frequent changes and can be tied to collaborative features to show diffs, comment on them, and revert or edit changes where needed, all while pointing clearly to specific commits. And also potentially fork data or cumulative changes.

Yes I meant either checking out other branches locally, or in the general case pointing to another branch to indicate to any services to make data from that branch available to wherever it's consumed. I am assuming that each incoming new file is then added to data pipelines, possibly just a few. Sounds like you are in the sweet spot where you have the speed you want and, given unfrequent changes, you are fine with the versions taking up terabytes on Azure, since they are mostly new data.
The problem with calling it hype is the broad stroke that's painted about all discussions of its abilities, simply by using that word when it's not all hype. A key part of the definition of hype is the exaggeration of importance and benefits. There are absolutely some out there out there that are exaggerating ChatGPT's abilities, but what are those exaggerations and what are actual abilities that anybody with an OpenAI account can go a verify (true or not) for themselves?

It's an exaggeration to say that GPT-4 can solve all programming problems, but it's easily verifiable that, for example, it's able to solve easy level leetcode problems, and what's impressive on top of that it's able to give an answer to those problems practically before I've finished even reading the problem. That's not hype or a claim by me that you have to take on faith, anybody can copy and paste a problem description and get an answer. It's fair to point out that it's so-so at medium problems, and downright unable to do hard problems, but, well, most humans can't solve hard level problems.

So what's hype, and what's not? It seems to think/reason/understand better than a human child. It's better than some humans with its command of the English language. It has broad knowledge of many subjects beyond what most individual humans know about. It sometimes has poor recall of that knowledge, and some of it is wrong, but it accepts corrections (even if it's unable to commit those corrections back to long-term memory) with far more grace than most humans.
Jailbreaking and hardware-hacking printers is starting to sound like it could be a whole lot of fun, actually
tl;dr: Letter points out how easy it is to put together a well thought out essay by leaning heavily on ChatGPT, and points out possible solutions for testing student's ability to think.