skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly. My two annoying experiences from college where buying the used text book for Biology which was a 2nd edition and about 5 years old for probably $80. Then a couple of years later I was in Calculus I and the syllabus listed Thomas' Calculus (12th Edition) as the book. It was brand new just released so no used copies. Bookstore had it for $220 and the 11th edition for much cheaper. I took the risk and bought the 11th edition. I mean after 11 editions how different could the 12th edition be?? On the first day of class noticed the person next to me has the 12th edition, I asked to see it to compare and to my horror it was completely different. Not wanting to get behind in class, I quickly found it on amazon for $140 and I had just got the student version of Prime for like $25 per year so got free 2 day shipping. Ultimately, never used the book for the calculus class. Teacher either gave us a printout of homework problems or wrote the problems on the board for us to copy. Auctioned it on Ebay after the class. The seller then filed a claim against me:

"Hello, I received this book today and it is definitely not in "like new" condition; the eBay condition definition for "like new" states that the "cover has no visible wear", but this textbook's cover is very worn on both front and back. The cover corners are bent inward, there are scuffs on the upper edges like it had been dragged upside down, and there's even a tear on the bottom of the back cover! It's incomprehensible how you could list this book as "like new," according to eBay's definitions, this book is closer to "Very Good", or even "Good" condition."

Note the "damage" they speak of came from amazon shipping it to me and it sliding around in the box. I responded:

"Sorry for the misrepresentation of the book. $71 is a very good price for the book. I was hoping to get above $110 for it. Because of the great deal you have gotten, I hesitate to offer a partial refund for the book. Will a partial refund be necessary? Otherwise, I will be more careful next time."

Lame.

The point about the biology book though, I just find it ironic that biology is always changing, but the Biology book was old and never updated while a math book seems to get re-written in a different permutation every two years.
Open a grocery store and give it a try.
What makes you say the poor are not getting poorer?

I think you need to take this from the perspective of what part of the world you are living in.

I'm not sure how we can measure this in quality of life rather than just dollars, but let's consider it this way.

In Australia, Canada, the US, the cost of buying a home has become out of reach for most people. Not even talking about the poorest people, just the average.

Healthcare cost has far outstripped inflation over the last 30 years, and is a greater proportion of the average persons salary. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-...

Poverty comes with it's own health issues.
https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/poverty-health.html#....

Salaries have also been stagnant, apparently since the 70s according to this article.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/heres-how-labor-dynamism-aff...

So, I don't know how you can claim the poor are not getting poorer.
Moving the datacenter to the EU makes it a crime; we can at least impose diplomatic sanctions as and when we catch foreign spies doing crimes in the EU. If the datacenter is in the US then there's no recourse.
I would have thought that would have made some noise. I'm not saying I think it's correct. I'm saying it's shocking and I'd have thought would have at least stirred up some publicity.
Always Starting Again
That "temperature" is not your usual daily temperature. It is about global yearly average temperature. The way it manifest in the day after day lives is that the global weather system have more energy for i.e. powering extreme weather events. So what you will get extremer cold, heatwaves, cyclones, droughts, rains and so on.

And our civilization is built upon more or less mild and predictable weather. That kinds of events will compromise agricultural productions, make from cities to smaller settlements risky to live on, disrupt supply chains, air/sea travel, and so on. We are having right now a small hint on how destructive this kind of change, and it only will get worse from now on.

Another thing that will do that in a slower way is to raise enough average temperatures to trigger tipping points and activate or make stronger positive feedback loops that will make global average temperature to rise even more, so it won't be the end of the change. The 1.5ºC mark by the end of the century was to avoid reaching those thresholds or slow down the process as much as possible, but if we reach that mark this decade I don't think things will hold below 2ºC by 2050, much less 2100.
I appreciate the feedback, and no offense taken! I mostly look at projects through the "developer lens", so it didn't occur to me that my target group could want additional information. I was under the impression that most people who would want to use badgers.space would already be familiar with shields.io or badgen.net, making this service easy to understand. Your comment makes it clear that there are people interested in the projects without former knowledge of similar projects, so that's definitely an important piece of information for me to consider! I'll work on improving these things over the next few days/weeks :)
In terms of abstract algebra, there are no distinctions. What you call gradients are actually data flows. "From multiple sources" - means that a function can take multiple parameters (= inbound gradients, inflows).
Neither is possible right now.
Two thoughts:

1) It's not an accident that Monopoly looks like this. Monopoly was an intentional demonstration by a Georgist that if everyone starts in the same space with the same capital, eventually one player will own all of the other players. It originally had a second phase (Prosperity) showing that you could change the rules and have things turn out differently.

2) This model has invisible, magical "allocators," but there are material ways by which wealth attracts more wealth. If you're wealthy, you can buy heavily when prices are low and not buy at all (or even sell) when prices are high. You can also buy wholesale at all times, because large purchases/purchasers bring down costs for the seller.

There's no doubt for me that most of the benefit of early success in a industry is that you can wait until new entrants are in a fragile, time-constrained situation, and just buy them. You can also buy from suppliers at a high enough volume that they don't even bother to sell to your smaller scale competitors. You can sell at a loss longer than they can.

None of that is investors making decisions, it's just a natural consequence of wealth.
I assume he meant covered up, right? Anyway there is a lot of gross stuff happening, but he hasn't substantiated that point.
> > That's not a fact. [..] and even the post-Maidan government expressly declared it a non-goal.

> You’re wrong: [wikipedia link to 2006 anti-NATO protests]

You realize that 2006 is both before the 2008 denial of the MAP and before the 2014 Maidan Revolution, right? So, your link has no value at all in discussing the post-Maidan government’s actions based in large part on the 2008 MAP denial.

> I'm not sure what you argumnt is

My argument is that Putin acheived his goal of stopping NATO expansion to Ukraine (and Georgia) in 2008, by getting NATO to deny Ukraine and Georgia Membership Action Plans, that this denial led to even the next Western-oriented government after the one that was in power at the time of the 2008 attempt fell, was replaced with a pro-Russian one (which, arguably, then executed an autocoup, and, undisputedly, was itself replaced in the Maidan Revolution) being quite clear about not seeking NATO membership until AFTER Russia, who had invaded Georgia in 2008, invaded Ukraine in 2014.

This demonstrates a couple things: first, neither the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008 nor the Russo-Ukrainian War was based on the threat of those countries joining NATO, which Russia had successfully averted, leaving aside any questions of whether that threat was a legitimate casus belli in any case, and, second, in the case of Ukraine, its actually the cause of the intent to join NATO, which the government, having previously disclaimed it, adopted as a priority after the invasion.
I did work focused on optimizing the latency impacts of mem allocation for a recent client of mine. Loved doing that kind of low-level systems tuning. (Linux, C, mmap and friends.)
Operation Avalanche too.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-operat...
AI tool killed the VJ-stars' gig
(with a nod to "The Buggles")
Would be neat to see the distribution of time that people stare at this... I imagine some will stare for hours
Just because I keep refuting your grasps at straw-men doesn’t mean I’m moving the goal posts nor does it mean I want to fuck kids. I believe other commenters in this thread have covered why it’s important for kids to learn about sexuality before they actually have sex.
If a company is making 1 million per employee, why shouldn't the employee get a substantial part of that? I was personally responsible for easily 2 million / year in income at my previous job (and possibly just as much or more at my current job).
The OP edited their comment to make it less… unusual in its perspective.
Discord kind of does this, at least on mobile. It'll ping you the first few messages to a channel/convo, and if you ignore those it stops sending them until you open them.
Are the universities fine after the decades long algae bloom of administrators? Has admission become more merit based, tuition more affordable, inquiry freer, and the pace of scientific breakthroughs faster?
James Lindsay's shtick is doing enough research on academic leftism (for lack of a better term) to identify some of its primary sources, and then harvesting jargon from it to confuse and intimidate people who (like him) haven't taken the time to follow any of the underlying scholarship. It's a grift.

In particular, DEI (we're almost always referring to what I'd call "institutional DEI", a particular organizational orthodoxy about proactive inclusion and avoidance of bigotry") is not, in fact, an offshoot of Critical Theory, or Critical Postmodern Theory, or Critical Social Justice, or Critical Race Theory, and the point where you're pretending you can distinguish these things in a tweet (some of them are actually at odds with each other!), you've already given away the game.
this might help: https://sourcedigger.io
"I don’t do anything special for motivation, and I’m not an exceptionally high achiever; I keep on waking every day, and for whatever reason, I want to create things. So I work, and whatever I get done is excellent, and what I don’t get done is just another item in an infinite list of things I can beat myself up for later."
> I am pretty sure China and Russia have similar laws.

Transferring the private data of EU citizens to China or Russia would also be a major crime.

> The big difference is in the institutions and norms.

In theory yes; however the US has a strong norm of following the letter of the law, so what the letter of the US law says is important.
Yes, complexity! What I meant by OT-style operations is a command queue with optimistic updates on the client, and authoritative updates made by the server. This is an easy way to structure your application. "Full OT" means you need to be able to transform any operation type against any other operation of any type. It's quite complicated to implement your application's semantics in terms of operations while maintaining the M*M transform conditions.

Again, Replicache/Reflect.net is a very practical server-reconciliation based system that uses user-defined commands for application semantics, and delegates tricky merge situations to CRDTs; see https://reflect.net/#benefits:~:text=First%2DClass%20Text,st....

Notion also uses a command queue, but we don't use a CRDT for text - although I've been thinking about that for a long time
Hi. I am the author of EKON. I realized YAML was doing too many things. EKON was meant to be an extension of JSON5. Although right now I realise its also doing too many stuffs under the hood.

I should rewrite the project again. But be as simple as possible.

That was my first C project ever during my University. :P
Yet the article focuses entirely on temp rise and is somehow considered relevant?

Let's be honest: Global warming/climate change will likely save human lives in the short term but could be quite bad in the long term if left unchecked. That however cannot be stated.
You can use the Xfinity mobile app to activate your own modem. No call required (anymore).
Would homomorphic encryption or any other privacy enhancing technologies allow for a middle ground here?

Would allow you to scan the encrypted messages for incriminating or illegal content when there is reason to believe a specific account is doing something illegal (could require court approval, then a further process for full decrypted messages as part of court proceedings)
I've had 4 respond i don't know to questions before.

and the base model was excellently calibrated. https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

"Interestingly, the base pre-trained model is highly calibrated (its predicted confidence in an answer generally matches the probability of being correct). However, through our current post-training process, the calibration is reduced."

Next ?
If “novel” comments were really what this site was about, it would have been dead years ago.
You could say the same about any professional. You do it because it's the right thing to do, and if you don't do it, people are more likely not to work for you in the future.
I've had the same issue (and same solution), but it's not shady.

Brother makes reliable printers for offices. A consumer might want to print until the ink gets faded and streaky (to maximize lifespan), but for an office setting reliability is more important. You'd rather replace toner more often and have the prints always look great, than have to QC every sheet to determine if it's time to change the cartridge. Given the variable amount of ink on each printed page, Brother knows that a toner cart should last X pages 95% of the time (or whatever it is).
Did the other anti privacy laws and customs backfire? Did big tech which is in bed with the goverment censoring you while the goverment pretends you have your 1st ammendment rights backfire? Did mass metadata collection backfire? Did KYC backfire? Did banning open wifi networks backfire? Did banning face coverings in public backfire? Did indefinite contempt for refusing encryption keys backfire? Did Patriot Act backfire? Did judges signing every warrant without reading backfire? Did that FBI raid on anonymous vault storage for people, where they admitted to laying on the warrant backfire? Did civil asset forfeiture backfire?
Will the soon introduced kybc (know your business customer) forcing hosting and cloud providers to identify their customers before allowing them a Vps backfire?
How about not glasses, but a 2cm face shield? Flips up and down...
I know WHO politics are fishy... I am no expert on this.

But strategically, it makes sense. Throwing Taiwan under the bus is worth keeping ~17% of the world's population under their health/monitoring umbrella. Sovereignty acknowledgment is not their thing.
Way back when, Ukraine implemented video recording of all politicians' offices in order to combat corruption. I read an article where a citizen was trying to get something done at a local government office, tried to offer a customary bribe, but was rejected as the officer pointed to the recording camera in the corner of the room.
You present no evidence and talk about eggs... I was genuinely trying to see if someone would point me in the right direction for actual data about consolidation of large companies being more prevalent now than in the past - which outside of blackrock isn't super clear to me.

I mean if you go just a few hundred years back I'm 100% sure consolidation was worse because lords and kings owned everything. It remains to be seen if it was better during the 1800s and 1900s but my searching skills aren't coming up with much.
Sure but at that point we're probably not on the first iteration of code anyway. Even at a big tech company, I find it most effective to make a POC first-iteration that you prove out in a development or staging environment that uses the map-of-heterogeneous-types style development. Once you get the PMs and Designers onboard, you'll iterate through it until the POC is in an okay state, and then you turn that into a final product that goes through a larger architecture review and gets carved up into deliverables that medium and large-scale teams work on. This latter work is done in a language with better type systems that can better handle the complexity of coordinating across 10s or 100s of developers and can generally handle the potential scale of Big Tech.

There's something to be said that the demand for type systems is being driven by organizational bloat but it's also true that large organizations delivering complex software has been a constant for decades now.
Taxes are literally not something individuals can do.
This eternal tension between

- being "hard" on companies to have them clean after themselves and make actual significant improvement to ecology

- being "soft" on people who are not pulling their weight but also have little to no impact on the big picture

It's kinda fun to see how to navigate the mixed messaging. We should basically be advocating for regular people to wholeheartedly put all the blame on corporations and pursue them to the bitter end for behaviors we as consumer should be allowed to pull off.

As consumers let's be egoistic and hypocrites, with completely valid reasons this time.
Correct your terms bro, warming-out climate change-in
I’m not sure how you’d like people to evaluate this claim without some examples. Yes, some people will try to nitpick, but many readers here will engage in good faith. What’s an example of a heavily editorialized article?
https://archive.is/vxqX6
The problem is that until six months ago the name “Bloomberg Feed” and the blue check would’ve been sufficient to establish it as a reputable source, and (much to the shock of HNers) many people do not follow Twitter/Musk drama closely enough to realize that is no longer the case.
TikTok sues to stop Montana from enforcing its “unconstitutional” ban
> And it arrived just as 3G networks were rolling out, which gave carriers more of an incentive to charge customers for data instead of cellular minutes.

Rather sloppy rewriting of history or connecting of dots, as the original iPhone notoriously did not support 3G.
TLDR: With these vulnerabilities, we show the following is possible:

- Remote control of chat LLMs

- Persistent compromise across sessions

- Spread injections to other LLMs

- Compromising LLMs with tiny multi-stage payloads

- Leaking/exfiltrating user data

- Automated Social Engineering

- Targeting code completion engines

There is also a repo: https://github.com/greshake/llm-security
and another site demonstrating the vulnerability against Bing as a real-world example: https://greshake.github.io/

These issues are not fixed or patched, and apply to most apps or integrations using LLMs. And there is currently no good way to protect against it.
My mind was blown when Blackberry allowed WhatsApp on their devices. BBM was so sticky to so many people that if they hadn't had WhatsApp to transition to other devices to, I think Blackberry would still be alive and kicking today.
This sounds terrifying. Do you have any articles or accounts of this?
If you really believe that then you should be constantly giving your money to every idea. Just in case!
But revenue has even more issues. You’ll end up hurting low margin companies the most.

If my company transacted $1T in some boring business model that netted a few million to the company coffers and employee pay then fining me on the $1T would simply wipe the company out many times over
Now it seems like the goalposts are moving, because I don't recall anyone talking about Ukraine's outlook in terms of their likelihood of invading Russia.
Yes. My job has a competitive referral bonus, so I am aggressive about finding people to refer. Most don't get hired, but those that do are a win-win.
What if one visits EU? Will you get in trouble at the airport?

I’m thinking for startups, maybe default to servers in EU. Until you get big enough where you can handle complex geographical distributed infrastructure.
Does this apply to foreign companies? I’ve never heard of such a thing.

If it was a domestic company, of course, assets could just be seized to pay the fine plus whatever non payment penalty. Is there a criminal charge after asset seizure? Or does this just never happen because there is no incentive to do it domestically?
My college in Slovenia had the print shop.

It was next door to the main faculty building and they could pirate any textbook you needed. You didn't even need to know the name of the book, you could just say "I need the book for so and so professor's so and so class" and they'd print it out for you. All the source files were already on their copy machines' hard drives.

While technically illegal, this was fully endorsed by faculty and administration in the "If you need books, don't go next door and print them there. Under no circumstances are you to do that. Again, don't under any circumstances go next door and ask for these books at 5 cents per page. And whatever you do, do _not_ ask for 2 pages per page in tiny print to make it cheaper"
> What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Arguably, most everything anyone can encounter has happened to someone, and likely been written about.

Imagine a toddler learning from everything that has happened everywhere it happened all at once, as recorded in a journal.

Now, by contrast, a toddler learning from Discworld. Is that remotely enough? How much is enough?

Turns out you can look this up, as it has been graphed: it's rather more than Discworld to get these "emergent" properties. Just as it would be rather more than Discworld before a toddler without our everything journal could make sense of Discworld itself.

To your point, before reading Discworld, our toddler would need a great deal of huge chaotic training sets. Stands to reason, so might the LLM.
In one-key scheme you, the encryptor, would also have to encrypt the naughty word list, allowing you to cheat, so it will not be allowed.
What do you suggest as an alternative to our imperfect capitalism?
Check out this article:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/async-valuetask-poolin...
It works because supply and demand in the labor market has nothing whatsoever to do with the profitability of a firm.

It's like how the price of strawberries this week in the supermarket is determined by the supply of strawberries, demand from customers, and the price at neighboring supermarkets. It's not set by anything to do with the supermarket's profitability.
Is this sarcasm/jest? If so it's based on a gravely flawed understanding of thermodynamics and definitely doesn't make the point you think it makes.
> TIL 3-2-1 Contact lied to me.

Unthinkable! Why, next thing I suppose you’ll impugn Mathnet for fibbing.
The third option is the one that would've stopped millions of people starving in China and Russia: centralising decision-making in government does not make for better decisions.
Yes, I've recently come to realise that ketamine allows me to slip into a meditative state as a result of its consciousness-suppressing anaesthesia. For someone such as myself with ADHD and aphantasia this is a revelation as normally I find myself unable to quiet my restless mind enough to get there. And explains why both my most profound epiphanies and my greatest changes of mindset have all involved ketamine in one way or another.