skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>May I ask why you consider Bayesian updates a “despicable philosophy”?

For the reason I said in that quote: Bayesian updates require upholding the same structure and considering things in networks of pre-established probabilities. This is very useful for say sportsbetting, or the weather, but in ones day to day life, especially in political circumstances, things often happen that are completely unpredictable because the socially normative prediction algorithms are always set to re-enforce the normative operations of society, making any radical change inconceivably impossible.

>If you have examples, I would much appreciate it, although I do not mean to pry.

I moved towards the Left because it seemed to me that the basis of so called "reasonable" ideologies like libertarianism and general laissez-fare market conditions always held within them notions of "fairness" and that people would "get what they deserved." It seemed to me that this is language more appropriate for disciplining a child, than ordering our society. In a sense, what was conceived of as "rational" by those who supported the systems of power was revealed to me to be nothing more than ideology which justified that power.
Not in my view. The idea has A LOT of potential. @nwienert, when I saw that I had to connect a wallet, I actually thought that posting a comment would cost some very low ETH/MATIC/whatever price.

It would actually be great to prevent stupid, knee jerk, spam and other comments.

There's also the possibility of "accumulating" part of the charged comment amounts and spread it between a) The original poster and b) maybe the top N commenters (after a week maybe?).

I don't know if you know, but, back in my day ,there was something called Hashcash which was envisioned to minimize or prevent Email Spam. Hashcash the precursor to one aspect of cryptocurrencies (the infamous PoW mining).

Man, this has so much potential.
Love it.

Too bad there aren't enough Mac users to prompt a similar backlash against Macs littering every computer they visit on the network with .DS_Store and other turds.
Probably in many countries there could be a sketchy but still potentially viable process of changing your DOB, for example by attesting to incorrect original documentation by various corruptible authorities and presenting such to other authorities (eg. claiming an off-by-one on month or day). This may be more effective in conjunction with name change as it pretty much removes the major de-duplicating factor in most government identification schemes.
Scrollbars are frustrating to handle. Getting their actual size if you need to do stuff like compensate for a virtual table is really tedious. And Macs do them entirely different from everyone else, so that’s not nice either.
I’m more interested in the tech behind these products. I have a dozen or so “apps” which amount to a python script or localhost site, but deploying them online has been a complete pain in the ass. I will spend ~8 hours perfecting a python script only to spend the next weekend figuring out how to deploy it behind a url. It’s extremely frustrating.

Maybe it’s because I’m not an AWS expert anymore but frankly I don’t want to be. I don’t care. I want to spend my time figuring out the business logic of the app, not tuning obscure IAM configurations so that one part of my app can talk to another.

What I want: take my flask app or node app and my frontend files and run it from a temp url. Include some hosted db. If everything looks good, sell me a domain name. Bonus points if this can be done from terminal like surge.sh can for frontends. And let me cap my monthly spend.

I noticed that one of the apps uses Netlify, are there better options or is that generally considered the best?
> Personally, I'd be happy enough with a mechanism that as long as inflation is above 4%, the corporate tax rate is 80% and all share buybacks and dividends are suspended.

Ok, so promote your ideas elsewhere. Why does it even matter, if people does not agree with you here.

You think you are right. But it is not some kind of settled science that everyone must agree.
What fucking society ? Society has nothing to do with that. Businesses like that exist just fine.

Problems like that are entirely the creation of venture capital and stock market. The wider society have very little effect on that. And partially allows them to outcompete "healthily growing one" by allowing companies to run on negative income for years, even decades.

Investor mentality is what spawns that. The ability for people not caring about the company or the niche it is in to force the direction or buy out the competition.

And I don't think that can easily go away any time soon, and it is very double-edged sword as obviously some good had come from "someone with good idea getting money from investors to realize it"
> There's no dad joke set up.

No dad = no joke
That's sad. When I last checked, insta pot was the only brand offering stainless steel vessel. Everybody else were offering only non-stick options, which I did not want to use.
I usually go into the inspector, find the element that contains the story and "screenshot node." Or I go the opposite way and "block elements" with ublock until I get a reasonable page, then delete all of those rules after I print. Unless they have a print stylesheet, of course. People still do those.
I’d love to do a similar project with a Newton eMate - there’s easily enough space in the case for a pi, battery pack and any other bits needed, and it’s possible to get colour touch screens the same size as the old one.

Just need the time and skill to make it happen.
Syre but it also caused many extinction events, yet biosphere survived just fine.
Recently, some university in the US came with yet another "inclusive language" update that was widely ridiculed for it tried to replace neutral and even positive words and expressions. Language vandalism.

I've seen a theory as to where this is coming from. The particular university, as do many universities, have an inflated administration where some even have more staff than students. A significant part of that staff is DEI and pretty much everybody is to commit to this agenda.

So, you have a huge amount of people that continuously need to show evidence that they're committed to the cause. What would be the easiest thing to do?

You type in a bunch of bullshit in Word, because that's far easier than working in a soup kitchen. Actually improving the world is hard so instead you do this easy thing that provides the optics, and nothing more. You don't even need to believe it, it's largely driven by fear.

It's like an engine that can't be stopped.
All Europeans are their modern descendants.

(the doubling per generation + population bottlenecks makes this essentially inescapable)
I think he did explain it: Most coins have a centralized development team who are focused on increasing the coin's value. It's a classic investment no different than a startup.
You could probably address 99% of the market only selling BTC, a stable coin, and small amounts of Eth needed for gas and then any other trading could happen on dex's. And you could make that a modestly profitable business if you run a tight ship. But you won't build an empire doing that.
The question is whether a procedure to become a registered exchange of crypto securities exists, and that promise seems to be a lot more dubious.

Coinbase doesn't care if it can offer its customers shares of AAPL or TSLA. They care whether they can start brokering the types of securities that are found on public ledgers.
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I have started several:

- A small example of how to use behavior trees in structuring LLM chatbot applications: https://github.com/keskival/behavior-trees-for-llm-chatbots

- A project for extracting meta-learned reinforcement learning algorithms out of a large language model: https://github.com/keskival/king-algorithm-manifesto

- A proof-of-concept of embodying an LLM chatbot into a Gym PoleCart environment: https://github.com/keskival/embodied-emulated-personas
OpenAI CEO Calls for Collaboration with China to Counter AI Risks
I use "toxic" in the sense that it actively repelled users.
Off-topic but addressing the article, text which can be highlighted with a mouse should also be obviously a link (underlined, or in an aqua font in this case) if it functions as a hyperlink.

> On June 5, the SEC filed thirteen charges against crypto giant Binance, companies under its control, and its CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. The charges against the companies involve unregistered offers of securities and investment schemes; failing to register with the SEC as an exchange, broker, broker-dealer, or clearing agency; and making materially false and misleading statements to investors. Two of the charges are against CZ specifically, as the control person over Binance and Binance.US.
GP said the person jumped through the hoops to submit the resume online. They have the candidate's information; they're actively choosing not to hire.

The most likely explanation is that understaffing hasn't reduced revenue more than the additional staff would cost. That's not what I would call "incompetence".
Oh yeah JetBrains IDEs definitely need more RAM than Xcode. Likewise with Chrome versus Safari. I’m not familiar with OpenSCAD and Cura.
> unable to produce an interpretation of the law consistent with a completely analytical meaning letter of the law

The legal profession writ large (including legislators) consider this a feature, not a bug. The reason this is the legal profession's opinion essentially three points:

1. You can't write "bug free" laws and regulations

2. Fixing mistakes in laws and regulations is slow

3. The amount of damage someone can do with unintended legal cover can be catastrophic (imagine if I found a legal loophole to take possession of your home!)

So this has been chosen as the "least bad" solution. My personal opinion is that the SEC is acting within the spirit of the law which is what we should expect and if congress wanted to change things they should pass a new law.
The good news is we're past the era where you have to have a D&B number and a reverse DNS mapping.

You should be able to get away with a bank statement listing the name of the LLC, any local DBA (fictitious name registration) and whatever your secretary of state gives LLCs to prove they're registered.

I'm sure they won't like it because it means a human has to get involved (probably a couple humans) for a few minutes which means their RA isn't the cash cow someone promised management it was going to be. (Having worked for three CAs, I have never known one to be a profitable profit center.)
Yeah, I'm not an expert here, but I believe it might be the reporting rules. This is the law that governs it, though it delegates a lot to the SEC and the particular requirements could be in the rules that the SEC puts out itself

https://www.sec.gov/about/about-securities-laws#secexact1934
Mind if I drop by? I'm browsing random to find better subreddits.
Then you stopped reading right before you got to the part of the article that really highlights the central lie of Coinbase:

> Coinbase, as with most crypto platforms, has decided it wants to simultaneously operate as an exchange, broker-dealer, and clearing agency. These three functions — bringing together securities orders for buyers and sellers, trading securities on behalf of others, and intermediating trades — are typically required to be separate due to conflicts of interest that emerge when one entity controls all of them. Coinbase would need to fundamentally change its business model in order to separate these functions, and thus far seems unwilling to do so.

Coinbase's real complaint is that it wants regulation to change so that Coinbase is in compliance, rather than Coinbase changing so that it is in compliance. The lack of "clarity" isn't that it's unclear whether or not Coinbase is compliant, but that it's unclear how Coinbase can become compliant without changing foundational aspects of how it's structured. To honestly argue why regulation should change, you would need to explain why a currently-noncompliant policy should be compliant. In other words, why does an apparent conflict of interest in "traditional" finance not actually exist for the crypto industry (or at least why we should be okay with it existing).
I vote for Fahrenheit 451.
I suspect they've mixed up the Graham's.
The process is the same; securities are securities, crypto or otherwise. They don’t like that process, so they’re asking for a special one just for them. The SEC just said no.
> I wish I could still easily buy real borosillicate glassware.

You can, in NA and ANZ at least. Last I looked “lock & lock” storage containers were still borosillicate instead of soda lime. ISTR that there are a few other similar and easy available options.
That context here is so obvious, it almost makes you wonder if the comment you were replying to is a ChatGPT special.
"We don't have a Constitutionally permitted secret police with power over the President about secrecy."

Yes we do. If you think any president can read any classified document he wants to you are completely wrong.

> He determines what's classified

False, and Trump is a very good example of why it would be a very bad idea.

> You mean like a bathroom in a hotel room turned into a storage room.

When will you freaks get tired of selling your souls to defend this complete dumpster fire of a human being?
seems a bit strange that a financial institution he was doing business with is paying this... (although I know basically nothing about the case)
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SEC: "The vast majority of digital tokens are securities!"

Anyone: "Okay then, is [insert ANY crypto here other than BTC] a security?"

SEC: "We decline to answer, or give a hint, but the vast majority of digital tokens are securities!"

I really don't care what happens, or how it got to this point, but this state of affairs is absolutely and unequivocally ridiculous and absurd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhA1dZXeao0
Who actually thinks that? I haven’t met them or seen evidence of such people. Everyone knows evolution doesn’t happen on a linear hierarchy. The most blatant racists simply don’t like insert race of choice, without invoking an inherent superiority argument
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I think both can be correct, rescaffolding probably was the original reason for stray clicks but once identified, I'm sure profitable issues may be fixed while plausible deniability remains.
Conforms to Reddit Engineering Guideline ;)
The palm civet found infected in the market was infected with a virus 99.9% similar but unique to palm civets. The issue here is they have found animals infected with an ancestral strain at a market that's a 29-nucleotide difference. SARS2 none of this has been found, which stands in stark contrast to all previous coronavirus spillovers.

And the fact the virus not only was extremely well adapted towards humans, but also is more adapted towards human's than other species. Nothing about SARS-2 is typical.

I mean I get it, lots of people's careers/reputations are on the line so it's hard to accept, but it is vital we do.
I think you need only 12GB to train a DreamBooth model? I trained some on Collab over the Christmas break but just being able to run that locally would open a lot of doors. Using collabs is just kinda a pain.
Because the foxes are in charge of the hen house. The lobbyists, the congressmen, the patent trolls, the patent office - none of them would benefit from weakening patents.
Yes. I'm done. Uninstalled the app yesterday and I am not looking back.
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Is that how they've been selling the change?
I think it can be solved by personalizing the top page(s), so you mostly see the kind of stuff you upvote. If there are a few people up-voting crap you wont see it, but they will see all of it.
Perhaps the author can also address how our transportation needs can be better solved with teleportation, rather than airplanes, railways, busses, ships, cars, and bikes we have now.

I have a feeling that people who look too much to sci-fiction in describing the future are not that much different than people who read apocalyptic religious writings and try to make real world immediate predictions from them.
Can you be more specific? a JWT's structure is really simple and easier to process compared to what came before (SAML, etc).

I accept there's fragility in the wider distributed-authX/federation ecosystem (e.g. browser cookie policies breaking OIDC), but that's not inherent in JWT.
(Removed, I had confused Coinbase Earn with Coinbase Lend.)
Several billion people understand and make good use of the standard HTML scroll bars.

For any change, on the first day, only the programmer understands the new scroll bars.

For an Internet user who each month or so goes to dozens, maybe hundreds, of Web sites, all the new scroll bars are something new to learn likely particular to that site. So, for that user, a significant part of the Internet becomes dozens or even hundreds of times harder to use.

Same for standard HTML push buttons, links, check boxes, radio buttons, multi-line text boxes, single line text boxes (and the ones for passwords), etc.

Changes make the site obscure and significantly more work to use.

Web site owners: When I see a Web page with an obscure user interface, commonly I just do a single left click on the X in the upper right corner of the Web browser instance displaying that page.

Beyond an obscure user interface, often I can conclude that the Web site does not want me to see the content on their Web pages because they cover up the content with pop-up windows or expand and contract some header material at the top of the page, material that wastes limited vertical space on my screen.

Another problem is Web pages that follow my mouse pointer and respond to its position without my giving a click. Big interruption in using the site. Nearly always I'm just trying to bring the window to the top of the Z-order so, instead, have to swat like a dozen flying insects the various responses to the mouse click -- again, I do want to see the page and just want to bring it to the top of the Z-order.

Then there is Web site code making the window larger -- again it's like swatting flying insects. No, no, 1000 times no, with rare exceptions, I do NOT want any one page to hog my screen area. The reason is fundamental: In visiting the page, I'm trying to get something DONE, and that requires seeing at least two windows, maybe a few more than two. When one program takes up all or too much of the screen area, I can't see the other windows I need and, thus, can't get the work done.

There is an old remark that goes something like "Just because you could doesn't mean you should."-
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"Espionage Act doesn't apply to him. "

Yes it does. Why wouldn't it? the US has presidents not Kings.

> Your president is not a spy

Then why was Trump acting like one?

> So you want to jail your former president,

Anyone else who handled classified docs the way he did would be in jail for a minimum of 10 years.

You really don't have a clue how the US government works.
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Yes I got the same email alert. Someone with a Bangladesh IP address was attempting to gain access.
> I hate articles like this because they present highly opinionated solutions as something definite

The first paragraph says "I feel this is a mistake". The author is very clearly expressing an opinion, not a fact. They go on to attempt to justify their opinion. I feel like you're railing against something that... isn't really happening here.

I will grant you that there are some very narrowly-defined situations where styling a scrollbar is useful and actually gives a better experience. But in general, leave them alone. They are browser chrome, and should not be touched by webpages themselves.
Is the spirit of the law always aligned with the analytical meaning ? Do you think it is here ?

I understand the spirit of the law, but I do not feel like that can override an analytical interpretation.
It's extremely common in asp.net apps
Wikipedia entry[1] of h2g2 (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition)[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2g2

[2] https://www.h2g2.com/
It's just bizarre to see how often this kind of weird psychoanalysis takes place instead of thinking about AI. Will it be "quite easy, if one wanted, to cause a great deal of harm"? Will modern AI put "'most' jobs at some degree of risk of elimination"? The author doesn't even bother to engage with the questions.
That’s the tragedy and part of the strength of open source.

Some people are just bent on doing their thing, the way they want it.

I prefer the current situation to the one where the ReScript people took over Reason and changed its focus and syntax.
no, you never should pre-train your own LLM unless you have 100k$+ to spare. You should only fine-tune. There is no reason you can't just fine-tune with whatever data you have
Not a ton of detail, but Tailscale uses it: https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/
Opinion: a truly free market is one where patents do not exist, in which case yes, the problem would be solved.
Coinbase is being sued specifically for Earn. How is it not relevant?
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It’s not the next big thing, but it’s definitely a thing now. Lots of big names in tech post there exclusively.
But where do the NERDS go?
Congestion pricing does not interfere with drivers going places other than the city center. They can also still drive to the city center if they value it enough. Deterring people from owning cars altogether, or restricting the spaces and routes drivers can use (in the way cyclists and pedestrians are currently restricted, in this "free" country) would be far more aggressive moves.
Taking all the flexibility away would be fantastic. I wish all webapps looked as close as possible to native apps, and couldn't style things like buttons.
We've only really started seeing strong apocalyptic thinking in the last several hundred years.

Humans have been contemplating the end of the world and the promise of a subsequent paradise or judgement for thousands of years, evidenced by ancient religious and cultural texts. The Book of Daniel in the Old Testament, Zoroastrian eschatology, etc.
I must be one of the only people in existence who absolutely hates the aesthetic look of AirPods, for lack of a better word, they're abnormally "long" looking when they're hanging from one's ears.
Archived copy: https://archive.is/nI83P
From the top of my head, virtio-gpu with KVM can also do acceleration. Not great support in Windows guests, though

A peer comment mentions GPU passthrough, that performs nicely but the setup is a burden.

Can share tips for anyone interested, this is a good start:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU/Guest_graphics_acceler...
One of the things people may have to learn is that it might not be possible (for several reasons) for privacy respecting user centric online systems to equal the ease of use and friction free on boarding of centralized silos.

There are both technical and economic reasons for this.

If people want freedom, privacy, and control of their own data they may have to tolerate a somewhat higher friction user experience. This may be unavoidable.

The cost of online freedom may be a few extra steps.
> While you have learned a lot about LLMs and generative AI for instance, it is extremely unlikely you have learned from the most well informed sources.

You are talking about tools that can be abused to make infinite porn. I am not sure anyone wants to know how much time 4chan users invested into learning about them just to be able to modify and fine tune their models.
Do they have any customer success stories about sqlite? I've mostly seen (compelling and well written) marketing posts. Details from someone using the product are much more interesting.