skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, resisting attack isn't allowed unless you're pure as the driven snow? This is nonsense.
you can't save yourself rich.
Regarding the comparison: it's just that there are infinitely many modes of transporting people different from cars, that's why I argued against it.

I would not argue against the point that cars in themselves are very useful.

If the point however is how we are using them and how many of them we build or how we arrange our living around the necessary public infrastructure to use cars for anythint, I'm not sure if I agree.

IMO, as of now, this is a case of "market failure", if you will. But I know that the majority of people don't agree with this.

As I see it, one of the main usages of cars seems to be to use them for not having to be around car traffic: e.g. living in suburbs, "escaping" into nature on the weekends.
Led and announced by Blockchain Capital

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/blockchain-info-ser...
So if those huge swaths of land end up poisoning rivers, streams etc which feed into lakes that supply drinking water for the cities, who exactly should have jurisdiction?

And no this isn't a rhetorical argument, the reasons why we have these regulations is because farms will gladly dump whatever into nearby streams and destroy water supplies because it's quite literally downstream of them and this doesn't directly affect them.
I'm truly surprised no one has leapfrogged the short-form war (especially with ads) and started inserting blipverts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert
Even without a 100% immunity granted, it still gives a herd immunity effect, the disease is far less effective spreading, either for not be able to infect as much people, or people not being severely impacted and being less contagious and for less time.

And lowering odds of getting severe adverse effects in the case of infection is a net plus for you.

Regarding the health system, you are not immune to everything. A saturated health system may not be available for you if you i.e. have an accident.

Even not caring about COVID that it spread more may affect you. You are part of a system.
Sounds like it won't work for them. Further I think you can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery with tattoos. It will work for lots of other people though.
oh ffs... i do hope tha we will soon see alter alternative stores. unfortunately android (with iOS) has virtual monopoly and they force dumb stores...
> If AI becomes harmful we will likely see it in motion and be able to respond and adapt to it.

What are you basing this on?

> AI won't likely move the needle much because it's going to be less powerful than humans.

Won't it just be used to augment the amount of harm that humans can do?
I really hate to be the one to inform you about the Winnie-the-Pooh horror movie.
Surely if the device automatically decrypts data as you read from it without having to supply a key or passcode of some sort then you're not protecting it against anything! It may automatically manage/store the actual keys used to encrypt the data, but there must be some mechanism to ensure decryption is not permitted until you supply some external form of credential (which ideally is cryptographically required to access the keys - if not then obviously there's a risk the device's controller code could be reverse engineered to bypass the credential check).
So then it’s people with screen readers don’t click or type at all? What’s left, they just use voice commands?
> - Xorg itself (2004)

Xorg is a 2004 fork of XFree86, which is a 1992 fork of X386, first released in 1991.
If the parent is to be believed, there are intermediaries who may be robbing Ukraine of 3 bullets for every one they get.

On the contrary, what benefit would accrue to you for stopping an investigation of these blood suckers?
I remember they didn’t port a lot of stuff to it - it was running mostly the BackOffice family of server apps.

I don’t think one could run Outlook on them.
> The debt ceiling is about issuing new debt to fund expenditures. It has nothing to do with paying existing debts, or the 14th amendment.

This is absolutely incorrect. The debt ceiling is also about existing debt because servicing that debt is one of the government's expenditures.

Specifically:

> By hitting the limit and failing to pay interest payments to bondholders, the United States would be in default, lowering its credit rating and increasing the cost of its debt.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/debt-ceiling.asp

And doing so would violate the 14th amendment which states that "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."

In short, in past years Congress authorized the government to spend, and in doing so drove the issuance of government bonds. By failing to increase the debt ceiling now, Congress is effectively stopping the government from paying interest on the debt previously issued to pay for those past expenditures they authorized. In effect, they ran up the credit card and now they're stopping the executive from paying the bill.
I don't think anyone (well maybe the Amish) are arguing that all technology is bad. Only that some technology might be bad, and it is worth trying to figure out the implications of releasing increasingly capable models to the public.
> I am against individual applications making their own DNS queries

But every other network request they will ever make is fine if they do it themselves? Like at some point we have to be like DNS being a service provided by the system to apps was mostly a historical accident or an idea for a network model that never really panned out.

I would have loved to see the alternate universe where your typical unprivileged app has no direct access to sockets and routes all requests through a system service that handles all the application-layer protocols and encryption.
> Biden continues to fuck it up to this day

what is there left to do on COVID? The healthcare system is not collapsing and lockdowns have ended. Remember, the lockdowns where there only to prevent the healthcare system from collapsing. We even have vaccines and a host of other treatments widely available. If you're expecting total eradication of an airborne respiratory virus I don't think you're being realistic.
Probably more appropriate to compare it to the type of mecha Power Rangers use, except unlikely to be piloted by a group of people that both A) want to work together and B) want to work towards the common good.
I have the data. What would be a good UI for it?

For example:
https://embarc.com/capital/leadership/chamath-palihapitiya
Absolutely true, and it's a good point; but I'm not sure if the source I listed for Germany includes or excludes transfer receipts.
For people that want to anonymously use Android...people using Graphene OS for example...it is endlessly useful. You get all the benefits of a mobile operating system without giving your private data to Google.
You've got it backwards. Congress has effectively delegated its power to issue debt to the Treasury. That would ordinarily be unconstitutional. But the Supreme Court has authorized such delegation so long as Congress provides an "intelligible principle" by which the executive must exercise the power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine. The point is that Congress ultimately remains in control.

The debt-ceiling is what makes that whole exercise constitutional to begin with. Congress said: "okay, Treasury can borrow money, but only up to this much." If the executive disregards the debt ceiling, that would break the fiction of delegation, and the executive will have fully wrested a fundamental Congressional power away from Congress. That's the same reason why the 14th amendment cannot override the debt ceiling. Yes, the debt ceiling is a statute. But without it, Treasury has no power to issue any debt.
Based on all the love people are expressing for "Shorts" here, I feel like the feature should be renamed "Pants".

This joke only makes sense if you understand UK-type English.
Does Amtrak still only tweet whenever their trains are delayed?
The ship has definitely sailed. See https://ai.engineering.columbia.edu/ai-vs-machine-learning/ which states:

> Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are often used interchangeably, but machine learning is a subset of the broader category of AI.

and

> Machine learning is a pathway to artificial intelligence. This subcategory of AI uses algorithms to automatically learn insights and recognize patterns from data, applying that learning to make increasingly better decisions.
Indeed "Leftists" mostly vote Democratic for lack of a more viable alternative, but many do not consider themselves Democrats.

Even really smart and educated people I know are surprised to discover most voters in the US do not have a party affiliation.
Assassins of the Mind (2009)
That (LLM -> SQL -> Pandas using PandaSQL) was my approach with Datasloth [1] some time ago. It then grew into Qluent [2] which I now work on full time, along the lines of what the sibling comment wrote about managers being able to analyze their data without coding.

[1] https://github.com/ibestvina/datasloth

[2] https://qluent.com/
> Google generates ~80% of its revenue from an ads product built on user data

And apple will chase that revenue if it sees the opportunity. With their control over iOS devices, when they do, you'll be powerless to stop them.
Toxins hidden in plastics – recycling is not the answer
This is a field I find fascinating. It's generally the research field of Machine Learning Interpretability. The BlackboxNLP workshop is one of the main places for investigating this and is a very popular academic workshop https://blackboxnlp.github.io/

One of the most interesting presentations in the last session of the workshop is this talk by David Bau titled "Direct Model Editing and Mechanistic Interpretability". David and his team locate exact information in the model, and edit it. So for example they edit the location of the Eiffel Tower to be in Rome. So whenever the model generates anything involving location (e.g., the view from the top of the tower), it actually describes Rome

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ELSZNFeHc

Paper: https://rome.baulab.info/

Follow-up work: https://memit.baulab.info/

There is also work on "Probing" the representation vectors inside the model and investigating what information is encoded at the various layers. One early Transformer Explainability paper (BERT Rediscovers the Classical NLP Pipeline
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05950) found that "the model represents the steps of the traditional NLP pipeline in an interpretable and localizable way: POS tagging, parsing, NER, semantic roles, then coreference". Meaning that the representations in the earlier layers encode things like whether a token is a verb or noun, and later layers encode other, higher-level information. I've made an intro to these probing methods here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJn-OTNLnoE

A lot of applied work doesn't require interpretability and explainability at the moment, but I suspect the interest will continue to increase.
> Not really. Nix is not a tool, it's a toolkit for making your own tools. Very much in the vein of Unix, shell, etc

even tools for tools should be ergonomic to use. the Nix language server should have autocomplete, searches and interacting with the language should be easy, etc. and nearly everyone needs to hunt for packages, even if they're not "installing" them - they might be needed for the toolchain.

Nix is like early Git. all the raw power is there, but little of the porcelain. it's so much better than anything before it that we accept the pain of dealing with exposed plumbing, but we shouldn't get used to it.
This kind of headline would normally be torn apart by HN for being somewhat uncharitable for its word choice. But in this case, I'm sure the crypto angle will inspire a knee-jerk negative reaction.

Instead, here are a few links for the curious, which explain how the techniques Worldcoin employs may be one of the only viable methods to generate a totally privacy-preserving form of internet native identification and Sybil resistance.

The result is that no images of irises ever need to be saved, unlike CLEAR or other surveillance state friendly techniques that create dangerous repositories of private information.

1. Humanness in the Age of AI: https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-...

This piece explains other techniques to identify personhood and why they've fallen short.

2. Proof of Personhood and Why It's Needed: https://worldcoin.org/blog/worldcoin/proof-of-personhood-wha...

And outline of the general motivation.

3. Privacy at Worldcoin: https://worldcoin.org/blog/developers/privacy-deep-dive

Some of the extreme lengths they've gone to make it impossible to reconstruct who is behind the unique identifier.
> Belarus

Why on earth would Russia invade its closest ally? It is alarming that we see such confident justifications of US foreign policy from people who don't know the basic facts of IR and world history.

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography"
I totally agree!

I for one welcome our AI overlords. Scan my text. I am of course in favor of the good things and good morality and let’s stay away from the bad things.
I'm a big fan of ctags. My old Emacs setup utilized Ctags when all else failed. So if I wanted to find a reference for something it would use LSP, then ctags if LSP returned nothing.
Software I use regularly:

Firefox is over 20 years old if you count Phoenix.

Scribus will reach 20 years in a month

Inkscape will be 20 years old later this year

GIMP is 25

Thunderbird is very close to 20...

VLC is 22

MATLAB is nearly 40 years old, though it's current GUI version is probably 22 years old?

gpredict is 22

ROOT is nearly 30 years old

GNOME is 24 years old
Most managers don't care for people like you. Companies sell their product. Another successful fiscal year. Irregardless of the absolute shit code base, wasteful architecture and gaping security vulnerabilities.
I think it’s fair to say American politics are violent, and it’s not really a partisan thing
Animal husbandry is so fascinating!
Does anyone know how tied OpenAI is to CUDA? I would imagine it is not locked in. Seems like that would be an easily avoidable mistake.
How exactly do you propose we adapt to swarms of AI agents that quickly outnumber humans in quantity and quality of content produced?
Obama doubled down on Afghanistan from the get-go -- I consider that fiasco as much his as his predecessors.

As an "anti-war leftist", I find myself cheering on the assistance to Ukraine, as that is the first war in my memory that seemed worth fighting.

Still no love for the Military Industrial Complex though...
A few years ago, I briefly worked at a train-wreck of a company whose glassdoor score was poor. The HR director told me that part of his job was to get good reviews posted so that bad reviews would be pushed to page 2 where people were less likely to discover them.

I thought about posting a negative (but accurate) review of the place after I left, but the owner is real petty and they've got a full-time lawyer on staff so I didn't dare to.
JPMorgan to cut 1,000 First Republic employees
How is this considered private? When you use OpenAI's embedding model then aren't you already sending data to OpenAI?

This reads like Langchain implementation of "chat with your documents". Just that in this case instead of a standalone hosted chatbot, you do this from ChatGPT and can combine it with everything else ChatGPT might know.
If Gorilla upsets you, wait till you hear about Cummingtonite!
Finding a specific version of a package is also really difficult. It requires you to find the commit hash in the Nixpkgs repo that last contained it, and there isn't a central search engine that lets you map version to commit.

We ended up building package version search into the Devbox CLI for this reason (https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/docs/guides/pinning_packages/#...). There's also a 3rd party site that lets you search for Nix package versions (https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/)
My favorite is still the "Fallacy fallacy" aka "Argument from fallacy".

From my understanding it's very difficult to make a good faith debate without one of the bajillion fallacy's being applicable somewhere.

Is there a name for the difficulty of making a debate without any single fallacy?
Adam Neuman, with support from a16z, has an excellent track record returning capital to Americans while leaving Chinese & Saudi investors to hold the bag. That is why they invested.
"Turn cute characters into a splatter thing" wasn't that surprising IMHO (see thousands of low-profile early-2000s flash animations), although how big of a thing it became was a bit unexpected.
Only registering new "serious business" accounts while near your second master key is easier than it sounds to us today.
Tunicate is more likely. the Anemone larva result tiny medusa and both larva and adults have nerve networks.

Tunicates and Echinoderms seem to have evolved from bilateral ancestors like the ancestors of chordates.
This a great news! I always suspected all was well with the world.
I understand the quote and 100% believe that some people within MS wanted it purely to prevent competition. But clearly someone with a cooler head looked at it and made the call not to enable it. That's the only thing that actually matters.

I get what you are saying about Dr DOS and the OEMs but it was a battle already lost - Windows 3.x was a massive blockbuster for MS. I suspect that was part of the internal argument for not shipping the AARD code: it was a liability for a battle already won. Windows 95 started development in 1992 and was intended from the start to be a single OS without requiring a separate DOS.

Not to say Microsoft didn't do bad things. The OEM licensing terms were abusive in my opinion... why not focus on that instead of some AARD code that was never enabled and wouldn't have mattered even if it was?
I think both those researchers and the researchers who did the same but with chip design are "value creators"
There are some already (one of the openllamas I think, and that discord group made one with the linear attention recently although trained on fewer params I think)

Maybe not easy to switch to a non-meta-llama ?
Thank you so much (and others for your kind messages). Glad you found them useful! Writing is the best way for me to learn, I find.
The modern stuff is only more complicated because it had to be built around and on top of dozens of dead civilisations under it.
Memory Spy – where you can spy on a program's memory
If you know you will receive your cut as LP you don't care while you are not the defraud one.
I tested the court jurisdiction a few times, but had mixed results. I tried to quash first anyhow.

The NSA and SS can get quite testy about it and make you wish you were dealing with the FBI.
Because I’m learning Italian and need it slow and in simple words & sentences.

There are a bunch of podcasts that are called along the lines of News in Slow Italian, Stories in Slow Italian, etc that are targeted to the language learners. So just taking a fun twist on that :)

Can be done for any language though. And I’m sure the prompt can be tuned for different levels of difficulty.
My point is that Google's business model is intrinsically privacy-eroding¹, and Apple's business model is (for the foreseeable future) privacy-supporting¹. This is not to claim that Apple is "good", but that privacy is good business to Apple and is odious to Google. This is why switching is not myopic, in my estimation.

¹ (because that behavior supports their primary sources of revenue)
> resorted to deference to authority by saying the founders they invest in went to the right schools and nobody else could understand because "they weren't in the room."

Marc Andreeson tried to defend Groupon's use of a non-standard accounting metric by saying all the critics didn't know what they were talking about because he was "in the room" when the decision was made, and the critics were not.

Given how things worked out for Groupon, I think it's fair to say that non-standard accounting metrics are non-standard for a reason.

That was one of many things that made me skeptical of pmarca and a16z.
The left in america votes blue no matter because idpol and maybe climate, the only nationally palitable Left ideas since Marxism any class are anathema to USA, particularly since fall of USSR.
I've only skimmed this essay, and plan to read it more carefully later, so please be charitable if I've overlooked an important passage.

Butler's argument appears to be conflating two questions:

1. Does anyone unfairly profit from war?

2. Is the unfair profit the result of a racket?

I think few people would argue that the answer to #1 is "yes", but I don't think he's made a convincing argument that the unfair spoils of war are either necessarily or overwhelmingly the result of a racket.

Here I would like to note that the Butler's definition of "racket" is rather loose. The strongest interpretation of his definition, I think, is that a racket is something that is orchestrated covertly by few, for their own benefit, and at the expense of the many.

There is another word for this: a conspiracy. The American Heritage Dictionary has what I consider to be a fair definition for conspiracy: "an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act."

So to show that war is indeed a racket, Butler would have to demonstrate that one of two things is true:

1. War can only emerge from conspiracy

2. The overwhelming majority of wars have historically emerged from conspiracy

Demonstrating a conspiracy in turn is a two-part enterprise: (1) showing the act was illegal, wrongful or subversive, and (2) showing that a group of people agreed to perform it together. As far as I can tell, we are only shown instances of profiteering, and perhaps individual corruption in the form of draft-dodging and whatnot. This is outrageous, to be sure, but falls short of demonstrating that a "racket" is at play. And while I can think of recent examples of wars that do qualify as a racket (at least, IMO), Butler's more general claim that "War is (effectively always) a racket" seems like hyperbole.
> 'wasting' is the wrong word there. It is converting power into work in order to validate blocks of transactions. We have tellers in banks who drive their cars into nice air conditioned offices every single day, that effectively do the same thing. Is that also wasting power in your eyes?

Tellers help human beings interact with the banking system. Being able to talk to a human to help resolve problems with your account, start the process of getting a loan, etc. is nice and not really comparable to what mining does. Lest we start adding every Coinbase employee, wallet developer, and so on to Bitcoin's list of costs.

To determine whether Bitcoin mining is "wasteful" or not we would have to know exactly how much mining is needed for Bitcoin to remain secure against double spend attacks. As far as I know that is not something that can be calculated. But it seems like most people are confident the current amount of mining expenditure is way more than necessary, since nobody is concerned about the drop in security that will immediately follow the next halving event.
Fallacy Fallacy Fallacy?
North Korea could simply abandon their nuclear weapons program, stop antagonising their neighbours and then the sanctions would be lifted.

Also having actually been to the country the issue isn't sanctions. It's the lack of foreign investment and restrictions on business. Many China businesses for example would love to have broader access to the North Korean market not just for exports but as a source of cheap labour. But this is not happening because North Korea is fearful of their population being 'indoctrinated'.