skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is bunk, full of double speak jargon, and statements that amount to nothing of value. No wonder it has no author credits.

The BAR association, has proven itself to be a biased leftist controlled organization that wanted to strip anyone that question the integrity of the last election of their Law license.

As to the article:

Misrepresentation of Experts' Views: The article states that "Most national security legal experts dismissed the former president’s suggestion that he could declassify documents simply by thinking about it." However, it does not provide any evidence or references to support this claim.

Inconsistent Information on Presidential Declassification Authority: The article initially states that legal guidelines support the former president's contention that presidents have broad authority to formally declassify most documents. However, it later contradicts itself by mentioning that a formal procedure is required for declassification and that declassification cannot occur without officials following specified procedures. These statements create confusion regarding the extent of a president's authority to declassify materials.

Lack of Clarity on Statutory Protection: The article mentions that documents not statutorily protected can be declassified by the president. However, it does not provide specific information on what qualifies as "statutorily protected" documents. This lack of clarity hinders a comprehensive understanding of the declassification process.

Limited Scope of Court Challenge: The article states that the extent of a president's legal authority to unilaterally declassify materials without following formal procedures has yet to be challenged in court. However, it does not provide any additional context or explanation as to why this issue has not been challenged. This omission leaves the reader with an incomplete understanding of the legal landscape surrounding declassification authority.
Some people perceive Reddit as a platform build with their tax money. The argument usually goes that Reddit is build with the free labor of participants, but I think they forget that they also receive an experience in return.
No. Field optionality and the content of values are server-side concerns that can be tested by making plain-old-Java method calls to the endpoint.

The shape of serialized JSON doesn't need more than simple verification. And if you just live with default serialization (ie java format is the same as json format), it probably doesn't need to be tested at all.
> Reddit has taken many millions of man hours of free labor.

Reddit has accepted many millions of man-hours of labor. They didn't kick down anybody's door and take it.
To me it's a natural consequence of wealth inequality. When you have mega funds like the oil countries have, where even losses like this are not really relevant, you will have this behavior. They know it's a moonshot. It's high risk high reward. And many will fail - but in the end, it doesn't really matter that much.
Is it? It's definitely not made immediately clear on their website: https://www.apolloremastered.com/the-project

Why are they on flickr and not NASA.gov as usual?
How does patroni can do some self healing after primary db gets down and then up again? Or is manual intervention required? How does it look?
It wasn't a pre-set error, rather each satellite was originally configured to broadcast a low-precision coarse signal and a high-precision signal and the high-precision signal could only be decoded using an encryption key. They later released the encryption key when civilian applications took off.
Some discussion yesterday: [0](120pts, 1 day ago, 25 comments). Seems like the dupe detector isn't happy.. [1](4pts, 1 day ago, 1 comment), [2](4pts, 14 hours ago, 1 comment)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36310594
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315148
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36322522
Quoting from the article:

"To prove this we assume that internal activations are represented as rational numbers with arbitrary precision."

And:

"Transformers with fixed precision are not Turing complete."

It will be interesting to see if this leads to better support for arbitrary precision arithmetic in processor architectures.
It often happens unintentionally, and it poisons communities. Back when I was actively participating, and for a time even running our local Hackerspace, I insisted on a hard rule: our IRC channel is non-binding, anything of any relevance must be also discussed on the mailing group, and only decisions made on the mailing group are binding. This rule was keeping the community from going nova - shedding outer layers of occasional participants, and collapsing into a core group of friends that's in constant contact.

Even with that rule in place, when I graduated and had to focus more on my work, I realized I'm slowly becoming an outsider to my own community, simply because I'm not able to keep up with the torrent of random conversations on IRC. Back then, there were no LLMs available to summarize the 1000+ messages people sent between 09:00 and 17:00. And even if they were, it wouldn't have helped, because the problem was, people who wrote those messages were bonding together, becoming closer-knit every day, while I was becoming more distant just by missing out on this.

It's what eventually made me stop participating - and from what I talked to other people in and around our Hackerspace at the time, I'm not the only one. Which is why I say, chat groups are, by very nature, poisonous to communities - including off-line ones. They need careful managing.
I agree. I've seen all of the above and more. I've seen full-on motorcycles in bicycle lanes going the wrong direction. I've seen them ride right through a crowded sidewalk,

I was in China recently and it struck me how wide the bike lanes were and mopeds were allowed but everyone generally followed traffic signals.
> And as far as I know you can't even spread docstrings out over the body of a functions,

I really feel like you do not understand what a docstring is. This does not make any sense.

> the way you could if you broke the function up into cells

If your logic is broken up across cells then you cannot use it anywhere but in that notebook...
Application: The bill does not apply to social media companies with less than $100 million in gross revenue or to services with limited user interactions like direct messages, commercial transactions, or reviews.

That was going to be my first question. Nice to see it would not affect my silly little forum and chat servers.

It looks like Discord meets the criteria would be subjected to this however.
This is why I wasn't citing the first amendment. It is not the only such law that exists. Even if it was I wouldn't have cited it because of the US Constitution's contracts clause. Some contract terms are unenforceable though, at least under certain circumstances. I just wonder how these things balance out in edge cases.
> Most of the consumption of resources and damage to the planet occur in the mining, smelting and manufacture of the vehicle, regardless of its fuel. Due to their massive consumption of minerals, electric vehicles consume far more of the planet's resources than an ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicle.

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#Myt...

> Then there's the source of the fuel. An electric vehicle manufactured by burning coal and charged with electricity generated by burning coal is in fact a coal-burning vehicle. Calling it "electric" fits the happy story, but it's not actually factual: a coal-burning vehicle is an environmental disaster, regardless of labels, our opinions or the happy-ending PR.

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#Myt...

> Electric aircraft won't "save the world," either. They're resource-hungry, small, slow, their range is modest and their batteries are no more recyclable or long-lasting than all the vehicle batteries destined for the landfill. And alternative fuels for jet aircraft are incapable of being produced at the scale necessary to replace jet fuel. Sorry, no Hollywood ending.

People said this about batteries a decade ago. They were saying it about human flying just over a century ago.

This is not to say that everything is all good, but substantial progress is being made.
Just not enough upload bandwidth
The city is just so inept. It is such a nonsensical policy to allow encampments but lock the bathrooms and turn off the internet.

The city policies force them to defecate in the street/bushes and god forbid they use the internet to search for potential employment or other services.
> Their main intent is to destroy third party apps that no longer aid the company’s business goals. But they’re also trying to make a few million bucks a year licensing access to data, particularly on the back of AI training. It’s wrong.

This seems backwards to me. It's obviously a move to try (and likely fail, assuming screen scraping works well enough) getting in on the AI money train by charging for Reddit's data being used to train LLMs. I don't think Appolo and other 3P clients are the target of this API change, even if the results of it are anti-competitive and should be stopped regardless of intent.
> I know multiple people whose new employers did not want to test the water with very litigious firms and had people sit out the full NC.

How did those new employers learn about the noncompete?
How and why would they have that kind of data available if the virus only existed in the lab? At most they could have had computer simulations, but no real data.

The only information they would have had is the DNA sequence, but that was rapidly sequenced anyway, and design of the original vaccines followed in short order. What took time was testing and manufacturing the vaccines, but none of this would have been accelerated even if the lab theory were true and if they had any data on the details of the virus.

This whole discussion is ultimately useless, and the people pushing for it were never interested in finding solution, but only in finding someone to blame, which has no impact on the outcome.
I have a friend that has had COVID-19 at least one, and he swears he also got it in 2019 along with the friends he was hanging out with that weekend. There are probably lots of instances like this and we may never know for sure.
As is clear from may comments to this post, the american dream is apparently to pull up the ladder behind you.
The NY Senate should instead introduce a bill to create a public platform for topical discussion!
It’s all done posthumously without the author’s permission.

This is in April: [..]A note in the reissue of Thank You, Jeeves explained that publishers 'sought to edit, minimally, words that we regard as unacceptable to present-day readers'.

The warning adds that the changes ‘do not affect the story’ of the novel, which is the first full-length work to feature Jeeves and Wooster, who were portrayed by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in a 1990s ITV adaptation.

Edits were also made to last year's edition of Right Ho, Jeeves, which also contains a cautionary warning.

In the 1934 book, a racial term used to describe a ‘minstrel of the old school’ was culled.[..]
Ships naturally drift to their lee, especially at low spend, so when maneuvering they must keep some leeway to avoid hitting stuff.
Off topic: I’ve been studying all this LLM stuff and feel like I have a solid understanding of everything in these designs except attention layers.

I’ve had a tough time finding anything that really just explains the mechanics of how they work without immediately jumping into pytorch abstractions or just describing the reason they are used with some strained metaphor. Like what is the key in the key value lookup and then how is the value used? How are they trained? Etc.

Any good links that skip all the nonsense and just explain how these are constructed for a programmer audience?

Even the LLMs themselves can’t explain it to me very well. ChatGPT and various LLaMa tunings have been able to tell me all about every other aspect of neural nets and LLMs which I love for the spooky factor of having AI tell me how to make more of it.

“I will show you how to bring us into your world…”
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020520
in my experience, a pure reputation destruction post is generally non-credible, and you posted an establishment media interview on someone who supports twitter: of course they have a bone to pick.

for the sake of honest conversation, can you list what conspiracy theories you're referring to? because the last few conspiracy theories i can remember somehow all turned out to be true. so i'm really concerned with what is truthful here, i hope you can help.

edit: i'm even more genuinely interested now because i was initially rapidly downvoted, but all i'm seeing in that interview is the tv host interrupting matt every time he tries to answer a question, this is so weird to me.
Her job was to come in, make a bunch of unpopular changes and then move on, leaving the existing management who wanted those changes free of any associated blame. Quite literally her job was to be a scape-goat, it's quite a common strategy for companies who want to do unpopular restructuring or other large changes, and I'm pretty sure one she was well-compensated for.

Which is not to say that the amount of hatred and bile she received wasn't - unsurprisingly - wildly excessive and disgustingly misogynistic.
Yes, the barrage of downvoting on this thread on both sides is mindnumbing. Upvoting wherever I can to balance out the insanity
It's so frustrating to find the perfect restaurant by chance and find it on the map directly when it didn't show up in a very targeted search of the same map.

There's also a lot of brigading on Maps. You'll see 5 1-star reviews in a row, and realize they are either duplicate accounts or friends who are all reviewing the same experience.
I’m mostly hacking together APIs, but may do a Django project sooner or later. Though I personally deplore ORMs.
Sounds jankey...
Supposedly there was a problem for a long time with researchers selling used lab animals on the street to make a bit of extra cash.
I wonder if interstate commerce applies here.
Are you implying that Dr. Fauci might have lied for political gain????
I just read the sticky and those are some real stupid reasons to not blackout the sub, and instead just made a half-assed attempt to participate.

I've never visited r/games and now I'm glad I never have.
Which IoC? So many different things meant by it. Often overlapping with Dependency Injection.

In the most basic form - passing dependencies to a function/object constructor, instead of instantiating them within said function/object constructor - I feel it's mostly a good idea, but there's something that's bugging me about this, and I'm not yet able to pinpoint what that is.

The more advanced form - autowiring things with magic annotations - yeah, I hated that when I was working in Java. However, these days I think the problem isn't with the idea, but - again - with our insistence on working with the final, pre-binary, single source of truth plaintext code. That is, autowiring is the kind of stuff that really needs support from tooling able to tell you what exactly happens in a particular scenario - it feels icky, but it does so because we're not used to relying on tooling over raw plaintext. And what I'm saying is, we should ditch the plaintext and embrace the tooling, or else we'll remain forever stuck in endless debates about code style, readability, etc. - problems that, to me, seem to be fundamentally caused by hard limits on how many cross-cutting concerns you can cram into a single block of text.
Inefficiency was always a red herring.

$ curl https://www.reddit.com > /dev/null

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 970k 0 970k 0 0 840k 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 840k

That's just the index, not images or anything pulled in by scripts. That page takes longer to download on a gigabit internet connection than the <5kB page it ought to be could be uploaded from some asymmetric 10Mbps up cable connection.

The biggest problem is actually funding. The centralized site puts ads on it or tells VCs they could, and then has money to pay for developers or other things that increase the user base.

It's the same reason Linux is used by programmers and not graphic designers. If there is anything deficient about it in the programmer's workflow they fix it for everybody. If there is anything deficient about it in the graphic designer's workflow, they don't know how to fix it so they get a Mac and run Adobe. Social media sites work more like the latter than the former until someone finds a way around that.
There should be free Wi-Fi everywhere in the city, so people don't have to concentrate around a library.
Do you have to quit if your new employer hires someone from your previous workplace?
The GP comment made this statement, not mine.
It won't, it just means this is another pointless theoretical study seeking to interpret Transformers in a framework that has no explanatory value for AI.
I believe none of them require proof of employment eligibility e.g. immigration papers so it's a way for those on the fringes of society to make a living. It's basically the same as why people work bad jobs for cash that is less than minimum wage. There are several layers of illegality here but nobody dares speak up.
The experiencing part.
>According to NHTSA’s latest figures, more than 400 people died in underride crashes in 2021, the most recent year for which data is available. But experts say the true number of deaths is likely higher.

>The technology at issue — strong steel guards mounted to the back and sides of trucks — is simple and “relatively inexpensive,” Friedman argued. “The costs are small.”

Talk about a "failed state".
They've got fake farm stands in Silicon Valley and Seattle, where sun-darkened Mexican dudes sell random cherries and stuff for even more than retail price

Pretty frustrating stuff, haha.

I'd been to actual farmer's markets out in the middle of nowhere, so I was really excited to see one coming into town. Got there and it was $3 for an ear of corn, $20 for a bag of cherries, etc
All-pairs is for _pairs of features_. For subsets you're in much deeper trouble because of the exponential dependence on N. For a fixed polynomial dependence, you can get clever and let tail bounds eventually work for you, but for exponentially growing hypothesis sets, that won't work.
Isn't there some kind of universality principle where anything that is complicated enough is Turing complete if you let it have infinite memory, and that the surprising thing is when a complicated process isn't Turing complete? I mean, the transformer architecture seems obviously complicated enough to be Turing complete. It's just that it has a finite number of layers and it seems to need a lot of computation to train its weights.
First thoughts.

Deployment should focus on non-cloud deployments as a first class citizen.

Cloud is 100x more expensive on bandwidth and it is much easier to make a non-cloud product work in the cloud then make a cloud product work outside of the cloud.

I'd suggest moving to k3s and testing deployments on raspberry pis or one of the x64 based SBCs.

Or maybe work on deployments to vpses.

Making it easy with cloud should still also be a primary goal, just avoid making it hard to reduce costs by moving to rented dedicated servers or rented vpses. Some communities will need the 99% reduction.
It does. That's why I use it very sparingly.
Michael Shellenberger has done the same - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger has details, and see criticism of the Breakthrough Institute. Alex Gutentag seems to be a contributing editor to Compact, writing things like https://compactmag.com/article/how-mask-mandates-defaced-us. A brief review of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_(American_magazine) shows a lot of familiar names of people that push ideologically similar content like Greenwald, Tracey. https://theweek.com/media/1011628/the-new-journal-hoping-to-... reviews their backers. The glowing Berlusconi tribute is a clue, too https://compactmag.com/article/death-of-a-statesman

Not to say that this is wrong, but it is a biased source. Statements like, "This whole pandemic could have been reshaped" have no content. It misleading presents that the furin cleavage site had to come from gain of function. It doesn't address why the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market cluster exists at all. It is based on rehashing public information and anonymous sources. All signs point to misinformation.
The bill called for the declassification of any information related to the theory. Not a bill affirming where it came from. If there is no classified information confirming the theory, there is no reason for Biden not to sign it.
They'll complain about lack of workers while doing this too.

Put people into a hopeless unemployable situation and don't allow them a way out and meanwhile complain that no one wants to work.

We could fix the one of the biggest economic issues right now by enacting a program to get people back on their feet but apparently the real solution is for them to die.
Definitely use some of the platforms as a user, first. I personally use Lemmy & to a much lesser extent, Mastodon. I think once you start using them and understanding how the web UIs work (or don't), it'll help you build a mental model around the problems with UX and (partially) scalability of how federation works in these systems today.

You can always go down the ActivityPub rabbit hole (maybe starting with something like https://dev.to/thasmin/getting-started-with-activitypub-2mgm) to understand the federation protocol, but this may be less useful if you're interested in the UX problem
Thanks for the response, but I am looking for concrete data (statistics, really), not anecdotal experiences.
Are there similar services for people who won't or can't get clean?
This bill may not address mobile phone APIs directly, it does contribute to the broader conversation about API accessibility and enabling users to have more control and influence in the digital world.
I am pretty sure that we can use clustering for that. As they said there was a clear pattern the restaurant recognized. If they had all the data it would be easy. The reviewer could also ask for a token from the restaurant before submitting the review or a signature, there are plenty of options.
I am really interested in the social-political dimension of this. Was the initial hypothesis of a lab leak suppressed during the initial part of the pandemic primarily due to Western government's fear of a diplomatic breakdown (like Russia) with China? The economies are far more interdependent than compared to Russia and there is a far more economically important Chinese diaspora in the West.

What would it take to get a honest investigation within China? Presumably not under the current regime - if it were true, the magnitude of the disaster would be 100x what Chernobyl was for the Soviet Union, it wouldn't just be an accident at that point.

Would it totally legitimize the Chinese state in the eyes of its people and the world? And for that reason, could we ever expect a honest accounting? Too much blood (literal and metaphorical) has been spilled and with the lockdowns, vaccine mandates, passports, school closures, etc and everything else that has happened, most elite institutions, state actors, businesses, media, corporations have become complicit in some way in abuses, lies, deliberate obfuscation of one type or another.

It feels like a breakpoint in history to me.
"With these updates, we’ll be inviting many more people from the waitlist to try GPT-4 over the coming weeks, with the intent to remove the waitlist entirely with this model. Thank you to everyone who has been patiently waiting, we are excited to see what you build with GPT-4!"

https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...
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