skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would help if they first understood what tax is for.

Tax is there, not to raise money, but to move manpower from the private sector to the public sector - in other words to stop the private sector having the money available to issue job offers that bid people away from the public sector jobs we need doing.

If the robots are making people unemployed, then you don't need to tax any more in the first place. Just hire the people to work for the public good and pay them a living wage. They will then buy the output generated by the robots and the robot owners will save the money (because if they were spending the money then everybody would be employed sufficient to earn a living anyway). Increased turnover with existing tax percentages over a spending series then works its magic. Think a stone skipping across a pond.

Robots improve our standard of living. It's bad economics that insists everybody has to have a private sector job that is, perversely, incentivising the private sector to use labour rather than capital.

Ideally next to nobody should be working in the private sector. It should all be done by robots. We'd all then have a guaranteed job at a guaranteed living wage, yet we'd all have everything we want.

The Star Trek economy isn't as far out of reach as we think. It's 20th century economic thinking that is holding us back.
Time is precious. Users aren't owed a desired feature and developers aren't owed a bug report. 99.99% of users who aren't explicitly beta testing software when they encounter a deal breaker using software they aren't heavily invested in will move on without comment or complaint. Not having debugged or written up an issue doesn't invalidate the persons impression that the software just didn't work well for them.
You can't write good UI apps with cross platform code. The basic idioms of each platform are different.

You can write your core application logic once and share it, but you need to have the interaction with the actual UI/window manager be per-platform. The reason electron apps are so bad on Mac is not that the core application logic is bad, it's that a whole bunch of basic Mac platform behaviors are broken.

"modern" cross platform UI toolkits are no better than Java. To paraphrase Ford: "you can do any platform you like, as long as it's windows".

[edit: to be very clear, I include "catalyst" in the cross platform toolkits that make noticeably worse apps on Mac. Trying to share a single interface "language" for different platforms just leads to what is at best mediocre UI.]
If freedoms are maintained due to resources how comes China and Russia aren’t the freest countries around? They have more resources than anybody.
Robots to do that kind of work are fine.

Robots that are built in the imagine of the Human mind are not, and should be heavily taxed accordingly. Lest they all be destroyed in a great and glorious Jihad.
It goes deeper even than that. I don't know if my childhood was typical, but for me the concept of hatred itself is narrow. Isn't it supposed to be an emotion that's especially visceral? If a person feels hatred, if they hate someone or something, shouldn't we see their jaws clench, shouldn't their blood pressure go up? Won't it be difficult for them to form coherent sentences, and so on?

But today, "hate" is any time you say something someone dislikes or the politics of which they disagree with. It's nearly a meaningless word now.

The entire concept of "hate" might be worth discarding.
The revolution eats its children.
Until we have protocols over platforms, we need to compel lawmakers to treat platforms over some threshold (perhaps 250M MAUs?) as "common carriers".

While platforms should be able to deboost or delete hate speech and harassment, there need to be robust escape hatches for when content is falsely flagged or when users return to normal community behavior. Nobody should be able to be de-platformed (or de-personed) indefinitely.

I routinely see folks on Reddit that complain of being blocked in some subreddit they enjoy because they merely posted in another subreddit once. Perhaps even in disagreement with the content of that subreddit. There's no appeal process or restitution, and Reddit's ban evasion policies state that trying to get around these bans can get you completely perma banned.

Imagine permanently not being able to participate in the biggest community for your {hobby, city, career}. And being told you must comply. That's messed up.

Even if regulation-compliant moderation winds up costing an order of magnitude more than it does today, it will be well worth it to preserve our freedoms.

Those that are pro-censorship and pro-user removal should realize that they could just as easily find themselves on the other side of the debate. A decade ago the dynamics favored the other side, and those now in power would be the ones finding themselves erased. The pendulum swings. It's best to make rules that protect everyone, especially the minority.

Censorship and permabanning are 1984, regardless of what the opinions or who the users are.
OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time
I think it does a lot of harm along with the good. They don't seem to enforce much for policies that bias any article that's non-technical. Also they redonate a lot of donated money, some of which goes to some dubious places. I would think that's reason enough to not donate.
It feels to me like

1) the current probability of determinism / no free will is 'very highly probable.'

2) the probability of determinism being the case rises every time our knowledge about the universe increases

3) The statements above are gaining more and more consensus among scientists.

And I am definitely agnostic on the q, but weighted on the side of determinism.

But - Surely the quantum world utterly undermines the above until we know more about it.
Perhaps we could be harnessing free will somehow, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...
I'd be wary of changing things too quickly based on an incident. How often do these sort of incidents happen? And how severe are they? This is another difference with the coffee case: there burns there were very severe and required extensive hospital treatment, but here it's not really clear what the damage was here – it just mentions second degree burns on the upper leg, which can range from "ouch" for a few weeks to "requires skin grafts". Since there is no mention of hospitalisation, I'd wager it's "ouch".

There are many things that can be hazardous to children because children are stupid. We should probably focus on "does" rather than "can" here. It's not my impression that McDonalds currently does cause a great number of serious burn victims among children with their chicken nuggets. Sporadic small incidents are of course unfortunate, but you can't avoid all risk everywhere, and there is a trade-off as well as lower temperatures at serving would increase the chance of food poisoning.

The parents argue that the nugget was served far too hot; McDonalds denied it. I have no way to verify if that's true, but the more I think about this case the more I suspect seems there is very little going on. "I stubbed my toe and sued for $$$" rather than "someone was seriously injured", based on what's reported in the media about this as well as the jury's verdict which merely found McDonalds failed to provide instructions for safe handling of the food and did not find the product to be defective (i.e. too hot).
Depends on what you want it for. How is "best" defined?
This demonstrates a real issue: even information you "own" and feel like you can pull the plug on, really becomes part of a global discussion that can only be lessened by removing it.

A tweet you posted 10 years ago might be irrelevant noise to you, but someone else may have quoted it, assuming it's archived on a "too big to fail" platform, effectively eternal, and then from there it spreads into other conversations.

Who's responsible for deciding how and when to archive that?

Aside from that, there's huge historic value in the mundane in the aggregate. We have fine-grained knowledge of the rise and fall of cultural trends and figured-- the sort of stuff that will never make a "formal" historical record but will richly flesh out future understanding of early 21st century life. Much as many of today's historians will get more value out of a Tudor era garbage dump than a perfect statue of Henry VIII, social media will be an unimaginable treasure trove for 2500's historians.
Hate (like love) is not an emotion, but an act of will.
Nope. You don't have to go very far to look for a legitimate example of hate speech. Facebook itself. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59558090

The concept is abused more than half the time, but if it were dropped another one would pop up. So getting rid of the term would only have a negative impact.
Tell us more about this “EU police”.
looks good. but whats the reason for it to exist? Would love to read an about article for this tool.
The Ruby world is part of an island labeled Art of node, west of Fronterra. Strange choice.
The title is clickbaity in a very clever way, and I mean this as a compliment! I thought about what it says for almost a minute before clicking. Stars being made into Github projects? Would I find Orion and Alpha Centauri? I thought hard on about how to pull this off.

Then I clicked and I realized that it is the opposite way, in reverse. And then this realization brought a smile on my face.
Namespace collisions are inevitable, especially w/ how fast-moving the LLM space is right now, just wanted to point out that besides this "Open-Llama" project (which looks really interesting, and well documented in the Github repo), there is also another group training "OpenLLaMA" https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama (which looks like an effort by two Berkeley PhD students, https://www.haoliu.site/ and http://young-geng.xyz/ to reproduce LLaMA using the 1.2T token Together RedPajama dataset. They've released up to a 300B checkpoint so far.)

Feedback for /u/bayes-song - it'd be great to have a more info on the model card on HF - right now it's unclear the parameter count, # of total tokens you're planning on training on/how many you've trained on so far. An Evaluation section (maybe using lm-evaluation-harness) might be good as well?
I think it would be tricky to ensure that your dots were in valid places that the tracking dots could be.

If you want to print a bomb threat or whatever it would be easier to use a black and white printer, or just fill the whole page with yellow.
Donkey Car has a nice simulator and a virtual racing league (though priority seems to have shifted back to real-world races).

Sim:
http://docs.donkeycar.com/guide/deep_learning/simulator/

Virtual arena:
http://docs.donkeycar.com/guide/deep_learning/virtual_race_l...

Recent race:
https://youtu.be/2vZBCjuhW8U
Nah, you're wrong. Japan's stock market dropped 90%. For 15 years straight, and never recovered above 80% of it's peak. US is only "special" until it isn't.

This didn't mean society collapsed and they started living in a Mad Max universe as people defending "stocks can't go to zero" argue.

Stocks industry is just a massive gambling machine. It can and will wipe out all your capital in completely unpredictable ways.

Buy real estate, own land, even keep money in the bank, with all inflation and shit they're much safer than in the cesspool scam that the stock market is.
Damn, I had hope for Thread. I was hoping for something that works as well as Zigbee, but I can actually use.

The documentation of OpenThread is amazing, so I was excited.

> a proprietary 802.15.4 protocol

A licensed existing solution or something custom?

> Switching to a protocol that uses time slotting more than doubled our device's battery life.

Do you think this applies to most use cases?
Ask HN: Is This Legal?
Short version: I was let go from a startup after I made some requests to accommodate my pregnancy.

Long Version: I was recently let go from a startup, just 9 days before my stock options were set to vest. I will not name the company here. It's a US based company and I was employed as a Massachusetts-based employee. For the past few months, I had been working from overseas for the company, with the permission of my manager. My skip level was also made aware of this decision. I had actually gotten a verbal consent from my manager to do this even before signing the offer letter. The plan had been to get back to the US in mid-May. My skip level was also aware of this. However, during my stay overseas, I learnt that I was pregnant. I informed my manager about the pregnancy as soon as there was heartbeat detected and the doctor confirmed that it was a viable pregnancy. The flight back to the US is a long one, over 12+hrs, and hence I was medically advised to avoid air travel during the first trimester. I made requests to my manager to make some accommodations: either to allow me to work from overseas for a bit longer than mid-May, which was the previously agreed date for my return to the US, or to be put on unpaid leave until I was able to fly back. After consulting with my doctor, I informed my manager and the skip level that the earliest I can get back is July 10th and that I was okay with being on unpaid leave till then.

Throughout this process, I was never informed that my inability to get back to the US would lead to my immediate dismissal. But during the meeting in which I was let go, the skip level made it sound like having me overseas was not permissible. This was an absolute shock to me. As I stated earlier, I had been working from overseas, with their knowledge and permission. My employment is terminated now, just 9 days before my stock options were set to vest and I won't be receiving any stock options. I had also initiated a conversation with HR to plan for maternity leave, around my due date, which is in November. Since I am terminated now, I won't be getting any of the maternity leave benefits either. This is not a restructuring or downsizing because I was the only person from the company to be laid off, as far as I know.

About me: I am a Machine Learning Engineer, with over 8 years of experience. Both my manager and skip level have explicitly stated that they consider me to be an employee in good standing and my performance has been satisfactory. I am fairly certain that my team members can also vouch for my work performance.

Has anyone dealt with something like this in the past? Can someone help me with resources for legal guidance or advice?
No. How would that work?
Maybe. But that does not invalidate what he's saying here. Sure, scrutinize it, counter it. But I find what he said to make sense.
Move in Ready 3D Printed House in Germany
Apparently there are at least five animals orders that do grieve: elephants, monkeys, dolphins, giraffes, dogs. It is imaginable that one of them might infer: if they died, maybe I will also die someday.

[1] https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/harperkids/the-five-anim...
"They had orders that nobody in the square be spared, and children and young girls were slaughtered, anti-personnel carriers and tanks then ran backwards and forwards over the bodies of the slain until they were reduced to pulp, after which, bulldozers moved in to push the remains into piles which were then incinerated by troops with flamethrowers."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-03/bob-hawke-tiananman-c...

I love a lot about China, love Chinese people, but we have to be realistic about the differences in governance and its capacity for acts like this. We (non-Americans) are very lucky that the US became the world hegemon after WW2 and the sole superpower after the fall of the Soviet Union. For all its faults and mistakes, it usually recognizes them eventually and tries to improve over time. So, while it annoys me a bit that young Americans are so anti-US, it's a very healthy sign that there is so much criticism.
Where are you regularly interacting with people from Gen z?
Indirect Prompt Injection via YouTube transcripts

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/chatgpt-plugin-you...
Well, they got it wrong...
Depends how we define "system" maybe? If we include all human activity as part of one system then maybe the complexity does approach it. Conversely should we include all the sub-quantum in our assessment of the human body? Where to draw the lines?
Undercover Boss, the most reprehensible propaganda on TV
It's about working on a remote server. Use whatever GUI editor you wish for local use.

VScode can also work on remote files but not as flexibly as running vim on the server side.
Lean Logic: Introduction
They asked for personal identifiers of 11000+ people in three years. I guess they are legally required to disclose giving away personal information.
How do you TDD a graphics shader, or how an explosion progates across the screen?

Remmeber, don't write production code without a failing test first.
That bit friendly fraud must stay profitable. Otherwise the enemy would do it for half the price! And besides, they just protected their jobs. That reasonable and everybody would have done this!!
VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics
> How will grandma/pa be able to understand these instructions.

To be completely honest I expect this to be more of an issue for my grandchildren and I expect them to come pestering me about all this.
It doesn't sound legal, and it sure wouldn't fly where I'm from. You need a lawyer for this if you want to push back at all, so get your advice from them.

Look for a lawyer that gives free consultation (which is a good lot of them). That way you don't spend money to find out they can't do anything for you.
Easy. You don't ever pick MySQL because it's essentially garbage.
"some of which goes to some dubious places."

As Wikipedia would say... [citation neeeded].
Logical nitpick: you argued “A does not imply B”, by providing an example of (not A, B). You need (A, not B) to make that argument.
I see it from a different, but quite related, perspective (maybe unpopular in HN as this comes from a left-wing mindset that seems to be outside the Overton window in many places, and particularly in the US).

If things get automated so much that a company ends up being a few guys in suits collecting the profits while the robots do the work, the governments might as well expropiate it. At that point, whatever the company does has been trivialized so much that the usual advantages of the private sector (competitiveness, etc.) become moot. If it also creates no jobs, there isn't really much to lose for the state (and thus its citizens) from expropiating it and using the profits to give citizens a living wage (be it for working or just a guaranteed wage like an UBI).

And then there's no need to tax the robots, the money goes to the state anyway.
Tell HN: CS departments should make Programming Languages a compulsory course
In general CS departments make students take multiple programming fundamental courses once in imperative and popular (read Python) , then OOP (read Java), then again a systems low level one (read C).

Instead teach them programming fundamentals in a good way by teaching proper use of functions and state. e.g.: the How to Design Programs philosophy or SICP philosophy without the math overload.

Instead of multiple intro courses make them take a practical programming languages course (not type theory) like the Dan Grossman courses or PLAI course (of BrownU) so that they can understand the inter relationships between different paradigms and how to mix and match them.

Teach C when they really need it in some low level systems class in it's own right. Similarly for Java.

For Data Structures and Algo class make them implement the assignments in languages of different paradigms so that they really get the essence.
405 on the bench is no joke. I spent years getting to 315. I couldn't push past that point. It's amazing how far some people can push themselves.
Dogs can't use complex language at all, so it's also missing a kind of intelligence that the model has. It is not surprising that a pattern matching device tuned to just text (and some 2d images I believe?) doesn't have a great understanding of concepts that are obvious in the physical world. It's more surprising that it is often able to approximate pretty well without having any first hand data about it.
Repairing a Google Pixel 7 Pro Using Googles Self Repair Program
My favourite trap question for conferences is how to TDD GUI and game development, every single aspect of it.

Don't write any kind of code, none of it, without a failing test first is the motto.
Good you shouldn't be using them. You shouldn't be using foreign keys either. It just makes working with data harder and doesn't help with constraining it if your data modifications are inside transactions and properly written statements.
That seems pretty anti free speech. I agree that hate speech should end up in the trash, but people should be free to say what is on their mind (just as we’re free to put labels on it).
I’ve only used it on MI200 series cards but both direct API in C and through a cupy interface for matrix mul and triangular solves it’s worked well for me. There was a bit of bugginess for running on non-default streams a few months back, but seems fixed now.

Now AMDs platform for debugging and profiling GPGPUs apps on the other hand is a different story/mess and very very behind NVIDIAs solutions.

For sure the lack of consumer card support is annoying, all effort seems focused on satisfying their contracts and not expanding support into the much wider GPGPU market rn and I wish it wasn’t. It feels like an afterthought at times. I just wanna be able to compile and play around with HIP on my home computer, but :(
The Role of a Manager: Balancing Leadership and Delegation
Why getting your hands dirty might not always be the best strategy.
Agreed, especially in this age where biological facts are considered
'hate speech'.
Having your social role defined by tradition (that is, really, what other people thought it should be) is not much good either.
For all we know, they may well have had an upper endoscopy.
Right, I'm just saying we need a new framework (metaphysical, ethical, perhaps even socio-political if synthetic agents will be part of our society), beyond dichotomies such as natural/artificial, evolved/designed, organic/machine. Not sure how it should/would look like, best so far I could find is the concept of cognitive light cones [1] and the "Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds" [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnObwxJZpZc

[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2022.7682...
In other words, it has a 186-class ISA but isn't the actual 186 SoC.
Thank you for the thoughtful response and useful info. I don't have visibility into who actually flags posts, but you could very well be correct. It's concerning to me that people find value in this product, but I'm glad you're enjoying it.
There's not. The positional encodings are generated using sines and cosines such that any offset in position can be described as a linear function on the original position. Using the DFT here would not make sense as the positional encodings are fixed anyway and during inference this method generalizes nicely because of the geometric progression created by the arguments of the positional encoding functions.