skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US 2020 elections, there are plenty of convincing explanations of the mishaps[1], yet Trump's base couldn't be bothered to take time to read the explanations. I say that based on my conversations with friends who still belive the election was stolen, but when I ask them if they'd read any of the detailed legislative investigations or court proceedings (rather than simply listening to their media echo chambers), they always end the conversation saying no, they haven't.

[1] https://misenategopcdn.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/99/doccume...

Republican Trump-supporting committee chair McBroom summarized the above report, saying,

“Our clear finding is that citizens should be confident the results represent the true results of the ballots cast by the people of Michigan.... There is no evidence presented at this time to prove either significant acts of fraud or that an organized, wide-scale effort to commit fraudulent activity was perpetrated in order to subvert the will of Michigan voters.”

McBroom added: “The Committee strongly recommends citizens use a critical eye and ear toward those who have pushed demonstrably false theories for their own personal gain.”
It may be the case that they have foreseen the backlash, and they plan to publicly compromise with this as a solution.
I agree. I was really impressed that even with regard to the Autocorrect update, they used technical terms like "transformer model" without using hype words. They very clearly labeled it as a predictive text engine rather than some magical pseudo-sentient enigma or something.
Worth remembering that if in 2010 you claimed that the US government was spying on everyone via everything, you'd be called a conspiracy-nut, we now know that it was true, what so many people were claiming before that.

For one thing your assumption here just isn't true. You might have been called that in major media outlets -- but within the tech community it had been widely acknowledged (since the late 90s or so) that such surveillance was most likely happening. And precursors of such technology were referenced in congressional hearings back in the 70s. This was all discussed openly and there was nothing conspiratorial about the topic at all.

For another -- just because certain things in the past that have been derided as conpiracy-fodder and then turned out to be true (MKULTRA, say) doesn't mean that some other thing X (that you happen to find nifty to believe in at the moment) just might be true, or will also be validated as such some day.

In short -- the presence "conspiracy-nut" stigma about something has no bearing on its scientific validity whatsoever. Either for or against.

But, I wouldn't believe it's false just based on "it couldn't have been hidden for this long".

No - one wisely judges them to be most likely false based on (1) lack of physical evidence, (2) Occam's Razor. Not because of what you're saying (which doesn't have any bearing on the topic at all).
Whether that is what GP was saying or not, I don't know. But everyone receiving a basic income guarantee, with no other economic changes, would mean that the amount that landlords and other rent-seekers could expect to charge would dramatically increase, and almost all of the benefits would go to those who hold all the bargaining power by controlling the essentials of life.

Money isn't wealth. Bargaining power is wealth. Adding more magic numbers in a broad-based way doesn't change the bargaining power. The main change is that funds would be diverted from productive enterprises to rent-seeking ones.
You aren't answering my question. I asked about the relationship between 'is it dangerous?' and 'is it AI?' Some relationship between these questions was suggested by you in the comment I responded to above:

> "The current generation of work is not AI. [THEREFORE?] The risks it poses are minimal. You cannot hurt me with an LLM."

and again suggested by this remark:

> "we are no where close to artificial intelligence (current generation is content generation, no logic, no truth) and [THEREFORE?] it poses no risk."

You seems to be claiming that LLMs aren't dangerous because they aren't AI. Does the set of dangerous things belong to the set of AI? Pipe bombs and pit vipers aren't AI, so does that mean they aren't dangerous? They are, therefore the set of all dangerous things does not belong to the set of AI. Why then is "The current generation of work is not AI" thought to support the assertion that LLMs cannot be dangerous?

I think it could be reasonable for you to assert that LLMs have not yet been demonstrated to be dangerous enough to warrant regulation. But that's not what was asserted above; you asserted that LLMs cannot hurt people, and the supporting argument seems to be 'because they aren't real AI'. That is simply illogical. Whether or not LLMs are sci-fi tier AI is irrelevant; it has absolutely no bearing on whether or not LLMs are dangerous.

tl;dr: Rattlesnakes aren't AI, therefore rattlesnakes can't hurt me.
> Being a hitman should be illegal

You don't see any reason why hiring a hitman should also be illegal?
We need more labor unions in general - hell yea!
They also mentioned transformers a few times, without saying AI.
The 'U' in "UBI" has a meaning.

Unless you are implying that everyone is politically connected, I'll guess that you are just throwing any argument against a wall to see if anything sticks.
Ethereum will have a harder time because they launched it with an ICO, sought out investors, and the Ethereum foundation explicitly allocated themselves a share of the initial coins. AND now after the migration to proof of stake, ownership of Ether effectively gives you voting rights and administrative control of the network, not unlike a security.

Bitcoin was open and permissionless day one for anyone to mine, and Satoshi gave themselves no artificial privileges. The genesis block reward was unspendable. In practice, Satoshi ended up with a huge pile of the coins, but there was nothing that could have prevented the unavoidable obscurity and lack of awareness of such a novel and unproven project. Ownership of coins also doesn't convey any direct administrative privileges in the network. And of course, initially the coins weren't worth anything.

There aren't any reasonable arguments that bitcoin is a security, while there are reasonable arguments that ethereum is.
It's all pre-recorded now, so what would the worry be?
first mention of trash can nostalgia I've ever seen online. Everyone hated that computer
Just because the current system sucks doesn't mean a replacement will be better. Its the responsibility of people advocating for a replacement system to explain and demonstrate why it will be better.

Banks suck. But that doesn't mean crypto companies should have free reign to do whatever they want for the sake of "innovation."
What’s “benign” about trespassing in a government building causing lawmakers and the VP to go into hiding?
ML is subset of AI. AI that is inclusive of other concepts and it's not a buzzword. It's valid to call anything ML as AI. Sure there is a lot of AI hype but it's not some made up marketing jargon.
This is the political equivalent of paid Amazon reviews. The goal is to be the winning despot for a socialist regime. It's like the lottery, but for power. They're never going to stop these "trials" until anti-bribery laws are updated to include false philanthropy.
I believe the GP is arguing against change because they like the status quo. It is not "go there to get what you want", it's "go there so you don't bother me".
Everything seems slightly parallel-universe in Apple world, looking at it from over here in x86/linux land.

I can see why they’d decide to go in-package with their memory, it is really very fast. And 192GB of memory is not a huge amount of memory in server/HPC land, but it is still a decent chunk of space. You could load up a Mac Pro with a bunch of PCIe nvme drives or something, I wonder if it would really be that hard to adapt to that.

I certainly wouldn’t turn down the chance to try, haha.
I think Chapter 11 was just meant as an example of a "closed" company continuing to operate. No reason we can't dismantle Dupont in a similar fashion.
Whelp, there goes my personal site. DNS already stopped routing yesterday. Would've been great if the other registrars mentioned were actually allowing address transfers. Only one of them would allow a transfer and they wanted nearly $30/yr for it! For that much I'll just go get a .com for 1/3 the price...
He just uncommented the forced login to twitter when you wanted to search for something - he then left saying "mission accomplished" then it became worse - they bought the forced login back and and now give a crappy rightwing leaning meme timeline featuring Elon's wisdom
Thanks for the kind words! without the other tools i don't think fq would even exist, they inspired and show what was possible.
Because the concept itself is a lie and panderous ploy for voters. If UBI was universal, nobody would work and UBI would have no funding source since government can only ever be funded by tax revenue by people who work.
Thanks! The main difference is that Argilla is built as an open-source component to be integrated into the wider MLOps/LLMOps stack. The focus being on continous data collection, monitoring, and fine-tuning with open-source and commercial LLMs, as opposed to outsourcing training data collection, and one-off labeling projects. In the blog post we mention this with other words:

Domain Expertise vs Outsourcing. In Argilla, the process of data labeling and curation is not a single event but an iterative component of the ML lifecycle, setting it apart from traditional data labeling platforms. Argilla integrates into the MLOps stack, using feedback loops for continuous data and model refinement. Given the current complexity of LLM feedback, organizations are increasingly leveraging their own internal knowledge and expertise instead of outsourcing training sets to data labeling services. Argilla supports this shift effectively.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!
Nobody said that you can't have backyards. It's about cars, not lack of green space.
I'm pretty sure they reach out to the developers in advance if it's actually used directly (and not just in the background, like on the Dock or something). But I'll bet it's a real opportunity to gain new users, so it's probably more exciting than terrifying!
By someone with no scientific credentials whatsoever -- and who presents no evidence.

I mean sure -- he's a great guy, and has served his country and all. But still.
They’re wrong, I am using it now.

Yes WhatsApp.com is wrong about the status of their own messenger hehe
Individuals and small businesses generally don't get great protection from LLC/incorporation and they get along just fine (when the owners are directly involved in running the business, it becomes much easier to pierce the veil).

IMO, what really needs to be reigned in is this blanket extension of natural/individual rights to synthetic entities that receive limited liability protection. That government-granted charter with limited liability means that they're not merely groups of people exercising individual rights collectively, as the supreme council has decreed.
> but didn't secure themselves against a defector

Still a surprisingly amateur move. Once worked for the Federal Government where literally everything you write is potentially subject to a FOIA request. The message all new hires were told was, very clearly: "Never put anything into writing you wouldn't be happy to be see published on the front page of the Washington Post"

Anything that was even vaguely close to failing this test was handled exclusively by a private phone call or, preferably, in person conversation.

And this was for an org that was doing nothing sneaky or underhanded in the slightest. Still if something could be misunderstood in a negative way, don't put it in text.

I'm still surprised when I see coworkers say things in slack, which is clearly able to be monitors by admins, that don't pass this test. Far more surprised when people knowingly engage in criminal activity and keep any kind of unnecessary record.
If it's written in Python, it's probably ML

If it's written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI
That’s the Mac Pro design introduced with the last Intel model. It’s a similar design to the original Mac Pro (before the “trash can” tube thing), which was very close to the design of the PowerMac G5.
And how do you know what's going on?
> During lockdown I had the Intel Mac pro in my home office and my electric bill doubled with that thing on.

Total lifetime electricity use of a professional laptop is something like $30, FWIW.
You can get a free account here (text groups only, not binaries):

https://www.eternal-september.org/

You can access Usenet via Thunderbird (or Pan, mentioned in the article).
It is like AMD Chiplets but all on one actual Die. The actual chips are produced as one chip. Chips with a bad 'half' get cut in half to become a M2 Max and a lower binned M2 Max.
The Apple method here of using one die allows for much higher bandwidth than Chiplets.
> google has a "hold on while we censor this" page

a what now?
Infix.el: Infix Operators for Emacs Lisp
This is not completely true at all - unions also usually have an army of lawyers that will act on behalf of the members if needed and can be used as a pooled source of capital to lobby (or anti lobby against corporations).

They can also provide other resources like training, pensions, mental health support, etc etc. Lots of benefits!
The Apple hardware tax is arguably what funds the development of these suckers.
As an ar-15 owner, I'm still philosophically open to seeing about reducing the availability of rifle caliber carbines with interchangeable magazines. I'm interested in red flag laws.

This was an interesting perspective with some numbers to back it up. Survivalism/tactical prep was not nearly as much a pop culture thing 20 years ago.

But also, has ar-15 violence fine up significantly? I believe most deaths are still from pistols.
I think it was this one photograph that did for PHP

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/

It must have been submitted here a thousand times, so I'll leave it as a comment.
Since they've now completed the transition to Apple Silicon, I wonder if that starts the timer on deprecating MacOS Intel compatibility. Though plenty media industry users especially stay on older OSes for stability.
The same issue occurred with the test, "What is heavier, a pound of feathers or a Great British pound?" There is an obvious answer here, but ChatGPT was insisting they are the same weight.
If you're running a study like this and want to ensure a certain result to support your take on the issue it'd be easy to pick recipients to reinforce whatever your goals are. IE. only choose people with stable employment who won't all quit their jobs immediately when they start getting checks, or the opposite if your goal is to sink UBI.
At least the web gateway is down. Not sure about phones that were already connected. Perhaps a DNS issue - error is DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN ?
Demoing writing fake testimonials -- spot on for the target market.
I am aware of this option but it happen than not every financial service use them. Also, it is wondering than other countries where faster. Immediate payment account in Argentina exists since the late 90s and we are not talking precisely about a country with a good economy and financial system. Also take a look at the Brazilian Pix payment system [1] that provides a neutral code for payment where other services built on top.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)
Thanks for the kind words! they inspired me so i hope i can inspire others
While modern social networks burn, The WELL endures
Wikipedia[1]: "The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL, was launched in 1985. It is one of the oldest continuously operating virtual communities. By 1993 it had 7,000 members, a staff of 12, and gross annual income of $2 million. A 1997 feature in Wired magazine called it "The world's most influential online community." In 2012, when it was last publicly offered for sale, it had 2,693 members. It is best known for its Internet forums, but also provides email, shell accounts, and web pages. Discussion topics are organized into conferences that cover broad areas of interest. User anonymity is prohibited."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL
Ask HN: How do people adjust in grad school with a subject not their major?
Very often we see people doing research on a completely different topic than was their undergrad major. How do they do it? How do they get an admit in an unrelated domain?

Once they get admitted how do they learn the new field? Solely self study from books?
Hmmph. Try my build-no-programming language in 20 years instead:

- Be armchair-interested in programming languages

- Take some PL-whatever courses in college

- Read about PLs

- Read about progressively niche PL stuff…

- Get idealistic (get ideas)

- Read about the grueling design process of useful-in-the-real-world languages

- Eventually realize that There Are Always Tradeoffs

- Realize that the Tradeoffs are like two thousand parameters that might interact in super-weird and non-obvious ways

- Realize that a dozen super-competent PhD-wielders and multi-decade practitioners can easily spend a decade on developing the core of a language

- eh, why bother
>How does "func EatADonut() async {}" aka "eating a donut is an inherently async action" even make sense to people?

You have to think of it from a higher level.

Nobody knows if eatdonut is strictly async but everyone knows all IO calls are async. So something like socket.send would be async, this is obvious.

Then anything that calls socket.send would then in turn become async itself. The async sort of spreads around like a virus. Any function that uses other async functions gets polluted with the async marker.

So in this sense, you should think of it like this. If eatADonut is async it means it touches IO. It sends data somewhere else to some other thing. It also means it's not unit testable.

In a nut shell This is the intuition you should have about async:

Async Tells You about the properties of eatADonut. eatADonut doesn't tell you anything about whether or not it's async.

This is largely identical to how the IO monad works in Haskell. Unless you want all your logic polluted with the IO monadic wrapper or the async marker you have to learn to segregate your functions into async functions and non-async functions.

Under this intuition, EatADonut, by good design principles should NOT be async. This is what it should be:

fn eatAdonut() -> ResultOfEatADonut
async fn sendDataToIO(data: Data) -> ()

async parentCaller() -> () {
let data = eatAdonut();
sendDataToIO(data.serialize()).await;
()
}

The async marker forces you to organize your code in this way, You have to do this unless you want all your functions to be polluted by the async marker. This is the proper way to organize code Anyway, as it allows your code to be unit testable. Async calls are, in general, not unit testable because the functions are not pure. So if you look at what I did above, I segregated eatAdonut Away from IO and made part of the logic of the overall code testable via unit tests.

IO calls should be very general and small functions while your other functions should be pure and unit testable. This is the overall intuition you should have about async.

Believe it or not, this specific aspect of async is actually an improvement over golang style concurrency. Not an overall improvement, it's still debatable which style is better, but I'm saying the async marker is actually a feature that other styles of implementing concurrency don't offer.

Basically, async encodes the concept of IO and function purity into the type system. It allows the type checker and You to tell which functions touch IO and which functions are pure and unit testable.

People think unit testability is some kind of marginal benefit because you can cover testing with integration tests which are basically tests that happen across IO. It's more than that. The ultimate dream of programming something as if it's a bunch of modular lego blocks that you can elegantly place together is most fully realized with pure functions. Async enables more of this style of modularity in Rust (but not without some cost which is why it's debatable whether or not it's better than go style concurrency).
You forgot the '/s'...
I’m guessing those might power the upcoming headset
I'm thinking more in the lines of getting this kind of attention it a strong indicator to get sherlocked [1] by Apple in the future. For example the hydration app.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co...
The rule is trying to prevent commercial entities from having access to the IPR process. The EFF sees this as a threat to civil liberties in the digital world... From the EFF's About Us page:

"The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world."
Apple is supposed to maintain good relationships with hardware vendors and support them in porting their drivers. Apple has done a poor job of this. They are practically enemies with Nvidia due to legal disputes and as a result I don't expect to see an Nvidia driver for Apple Silicon in the foreseeable future. Maybe AMD or Intel will write one but at least one should have happened before launch.
There's also Copier (https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/comparisons/) that is worth a look at. I especially love the how you can bring a template up-to-date based on a new changes.
That reminds me I don't want to move anywhere in the US that has sales tax. I realize that limits my options.
Lots (all?) major frameworks push for dependency injection though, where interfaces are a must, as far as I know (not for DI-the-principle, but DI-as-implemented). ASP.Net Core is a good example. It's not C# at the language level forcing interface-driven development, but frameworks like ASP.Net are so tightly integrated that boundaries blur.
It's funny, the people I know in biotech say the opposite, that biotech patents are bogus but they don't think they'd be able to get rid of the system because of how much traditional tech relies on them. Their minds are blown when I tell them how much of an issue they are for us in traditional tech too.
Mac Pro is a desktop, not a laptop.
Can I have an explanation because I don't understand the joke?
I'm curious why you describe UBI as socialism. I wouldn't think transfer payments would have that deep of an effect on the underlying economic system. Are you suggesting that without fear of starvation the workers will rise up and seize the means of production?
Another twist on self hosted web apps is peergos. Uses a capability based system for access and sharing. End-to-end encrypted and P2P.

App Examples - github.com/peergos/example-apps

API Docs - book.peergos.org/features/apps.html

Disclaimer: I work on the project.
I would consider that for many people in your position, the desire for a discrete GPU is a proxy for the real desire, which could be one of several things:
- Performance, which apple's GPUs may compete sufficiently with
- Upgradeability, which apple's GPUs may not compete sufficiently with

If all you care about is the performance, does it really matter if that perf is achieved via a discrete or integrated GPU?