skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fundamentally low-income people are just being spoken for. On this site it's high-income people who claim to know what low-income people think

That line is spot on. Your comment on the data in the original comment felt like it was trying to paint that low income people don't want police. I think if we take a step back, we both agree that the data itself might not be an actual representation of how people in their area/district/transportation system actually feel.

I do think Bart, San Francisco, and of the like are going to now need to think of how to make people want to use and be active in the systems they created. They use to have the privledge of people being forced to use what was provided and didn't care about the quality or level of service it needed to have. But now people have a choice. AThey don't need to ride bart to go to work and feel uneasy around unsafe people. They don't need to go shopping in downtown SF because they can just amazon everything they need and don't need to interact with shady people outside the west field mall. People are speaking with their actions and hopefully governence are paying attention to why.
Nothing works without a reference to something else. Whose data? Who should be paid for this? The original knowledge creator, the thousands of businesses like Politico or blogs that regurgitate and reword their articles from a myriad of sources, the people that pay to host the data that was scraped whether its original or not?

Let's say I actually take the time to write a long form article with months of research and a list of references. I put it online and it, along with a hundred other articles on similar topics gets scraped. That text gets sliced, tokenized, vectorized, and whatnot.

I prompt an LLM that picks a random seed and generates the output. Where did the combination of n words or patterns originate? How can one prove that "this output" was scraped from Politico?

Are there ways to prove this beyond reasonable doubt? And honestly, all discussion of ethics, fairness, enforcement, etc aside; even if some sort of solution came along that somehow blocked bots from scraping data, what is stopping any hacker from pointing a camera at their screen and building a bot that uses advanced OCR to simply pretend to be an end user?

I don't know how to process this future. The one thing that's stood the test of time is that information routes around censorship, for better or worse.

I don't have any answers. Just endless questions about this. I understand content creators want to be paid for the value they produce. I also realize this is a hard problem and like the war on drugs, this war on information is already lost IMO. I can accept what is inconvenient. Like mosquitoes. It was lost the moment the internet was created and every nerd who's hacked since the beginning in the traditional and obscure networks knows this.

Embrace the future and pivot now. What is considered valuable will evolve as it always has. It would be wise for everyone to reevaluate what produces value to other people in the future. Not what produced value in the past. Not what is producing value today, in this weird transition period. But what will produce value and demand in the near future.
> you can affirmatively confirm that you own the rights to all of the IP used in the data set that trained the AI

i think valve is over reaching with this policy.

It should be that you need to prove the art used in the game itself that does not breach any copyright. The tool used to create said art has no bearing on the final art with regards to copyright.

Otherwise, would valve also have mentioned that the developer should also produce evidence of their photoshop license/subscription (if they used photoshop in the course of making their game)? Do they need to check that the version of windows being used to make the game is a licensed one?
Totally not a scheme to keep wages suppressed and avoid having to pay market rates to people who are already in the country, and have the skills needed.
For google, it's an open and shut case. Look up how they force numerous other companies to collude with them using their open handset aliance contract. They explicitly prohibit "forking android" which they consider creating a non-android OS with an android app loader as an "android fork".
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Daniel Swain, who is quoted in the article, is a fantastic follow if you live in CA - he tweets at @weather_west and is a phenomenal resource for understanding what’s actually driving the weather patterns in California.
"The Easy Way To Stop Drinking by Allen Carr", recommended for those who are curious about not drinking anymore.
>In how many G20 members does the average person make significant, regular use of non-metric measurements in their daily life?

This is an interesting question. The amount of usage would need to be quantified. The definition of "average person" would need to be explicit. You have data?

Whatever the data might show, I am confident it won't show a stark division between the US, Liberia, Myanmar, and every other country. But if I'm wrong, that would be interesting.

>Here, non-metric measurements are not part of the government-mandated curriculum

That's exactly what I mean about a hyper-technical argument.

Does the US have a government-mandated curriculum; is it an apples to apples comparison; does its treatment of metric measurements translate to actual classrooms, &c, &c, &c...

>how much time do schools in France or Germany or Japan spend on teaching how many ounces in a pound or how many yards in a mile

That might be interesting to compare with the US. If you have such a statistical analysis, would you share it?
Can of Coke has 39 grams of sugar. Diet cokes has 0.2 grams of aspartame.
> We had a huge project with about 20 devs that went on for a year and a half. We brought in a bunch of consultants. The leads basically spent all day herding cats, and all night coding. We all agreed we probably could have done it in half the time with just the 5 leads.

20 developers is a lot, but could in theory be worthwhile. I'd really try to get all 20 be very-effective ones and structure the responsibilities and communication so that they don't get bogged down. If you do it a naive way, and aren't lucky, it'd be easy for 20 1x..10x developers to become 0.01x developers.

Or, if you get people who just want to call themselves a "dev" and grind concrete task assignments in a straightforward way, then I think you either need to be doing something bog-standard and naturally amendable to just going through the motions (e.g., scalable Web CRUD, or yet another forum/chat app), or you need a brilliant approach to structuring the work.
Remember that the most downloaded app in Apple Store’s first year was this infantile thing called iBeer… it actually hit the mark of $20k of sales/day

This was an extreme bizarre example, but most mobile apps from the first wave were also pretty dull

Give it some time. I think something similar will happen: most LLM apps from this first wave will be forgotten soon, and when people shift the focus from the technology back to the users and their real pain points, the good stuff will surface
Should add something about how often your status page agrees with downdetector to the Joel test.
> The great thing about [passing structs by copy] is that it allows us to omit to allocate structs with malloc on the heap. Instead, we could create a struct on the stack and pass it around by copying it. This opens the door to new approaches for writing safer C code.

You don’t have to heap-allocate structs to pass by pointer; you can pass a pointer to a struct living on the stack. Even if you are talking about returning a struct, you can just take a pointer to memory allocated in some previous stack frame and mutate it—this avoids the allocation and thus preserves safety and performance. But yes, being able to pass structs by copy is nice too.
Definitely among the *best* uses I've seen thus far.
> The orange website and the red website are popular slang that you hear around here from time to time.

A Google search for "the orange website" returns a lot of results about Hacker News, "the red website" doesn't return anything about Reddit.
This is disingenuous. "Dogwhistle" rhetoric is a thing precisely because it is a "hidden message." It's not against community rules to point out that rhetoric is similar to dogwhistle rhetoric, especially when the comment actually is full of said rhetoric. Or it ought not be: if it is, the community rule is wrong.
> It's a matter of which books.

Right, but what I'm saying is that this argument is complete nonsense. "We censor some things but not other things" -- yeah, that's how the 1st Amendment works. It has limitations and they're established in law, and it is useful to try and figure out when something is still stepping over a line because it is possible to step over the line.

Of course, both Democrats and Republicans are often hypocritical about free speech issues. That is to be expected. But it adds nothing to the conversation to say "some censorship is allowed." Okay, some censorship is allowed. So? Sometimes Democrats are hypocritical about speech, and that means... what we're all going to be hypocritical now? We're just going to have a field day with it, everybody ban anything they want?

Is censorship that is (by your description) specifically designed to enforce religious adherence constitutional? That question doesn't go away just because we don't allow porn in the kids section of a library.

This just seems so silly to me. Who looks at someone being hypocritical and says, "the answer to this is to have fewer objective standards so that it's even easier for hypocrites to abuse power?"

> And yet, if they were to say an optional non-denominational prayer before the beginning of class, they would often risk be fired. SCOTUS has ruled that's OK. I think that's wrong but that's how that stands now.

If you're referring to Abington v. Schempp, SCOTUS protections for retaliation in that area have never been weaker. But okay, let's talk about those boundaries. The Supreme Court has clearly ruled (recently) that it is illegal to fire a teacher over some religious speech, including specifically optional public prayers. So there does appear to be a boundary here between what the Supreme Court views as government censorship vs government compelled speech. I guarantee you the Supreme Court does not see that boundary as arbitrary.

So we're back to the start. Some speech is protected, some isn't. But you can't act like this is arbitrary; pointing out that some speech is banned adds nothing to the conversation. And if your argument is that the Supreme Court believes that state-endorsement of Deism isn't protected, that's not really an argument in favor of religiously motivated book bans.

> My point was, is a teacher permitted to perform speech that would attempt to solicit such a relationship

Entering into a sexual relationship with a student is not speech.
By that logic, burning tobacco shouldn't be carcinogenic either.
But if you just say to someone that they should kill someone, as long as money doesn't change hands, you have no share of responsibility?
interest rates have been falling for over 700 years [1]. I wouldn't bet against that over a single unprecedented year

1. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2020/eight-cen...
I've always wished we could all agree on something like "timeout Tuesdays" where everyone everywhere paused on new features and focused on cleaning something up.
States can do many bad things because the US constitution designed by the founders of the country lets them do it. So, no this scapegoat is not available. The discrimination is 100% an issue of the US as a country.
DISCLAIMER: Under no circumstance think about to stopping eating without consulting a nutritionist. There is no medical advice here!

Fun fact: If you stop eating completely, your metabolism goes down.

Still, with a basal metabolism of 1500 calories (daily) and no food, you would lose 160g of fat (daily). You can add exercise to lose more fat, and keep your muscle.

You could also stop eating (only water allowed) for 74 days and lose around 10 pounds (combined fat and muscle)

This is the reason diets don't work longterm. It takes great willpower (which the person didn't have much of to begin with) for a really long time (probably for life)
Sorry that US Bank leaves you exposed to a sim-jacking attack which, if they use Twilio, is mitigated by their verify API. I don't need hardware tokens and full custody of my financial information. I Just Don't. That's literally the entire point of a bank. They do that for me.

You don't need to lecture me on how trust delegation works. I mean you use a bank right? You trust a 3rd party with your actual cash. Plaid hasn't demonstrated incompetence, have they? In fact it seems quite the opposite. There isn't any legitimate case against using them aside from "I literally don't trust anybody" which is hypocritical if you use a bank in the first place.
I bought this! Got immediate value in that I found simpler ways to accomplish my business goals. Thanks!
Do you have any more details on the latter half of the setup? The first half is trivial and almost every cloud provider offers that as a managed product. Does the internal one involve some sort of service mesh?
Many of us create incidents and page people in the middle of the night when there’s an issue. I assume there’s a built in filter there to ensure people are only paged when there’s actually something bad going on. Seems like a pretty reasonable place to change a public status somewhere.
That isn't what I was replying to though. Factuality is different than determinism. They are not trained to retain facts. They are trained to predict the next word.
I wouldn't propose apple seeds as a sweetener simply because they naturally grow inside apples.
I’ve been wondering about (1) recently—is there a way to memset the entire stack frame at the start of a function such that memcmp works as expected? Also, what are the performance implications of comparing a padded struct member-by-member vs a single big memcmp? Is member-by-member faster because you’re comparing less in total, or is memcmp faster because it’s one big contiguous compare? Or is it more complicated?

Regarding (2), sizeof(*x) doesn’t actually dereference x, right? The dereference isn’t evaluated—it’s all calculated at compile time, right?
i pay for the effects of questionable ad platform practices far more directly anytime i shop online. Amazon's "sponsored" product listings which forces sellers to compete away all their margins -- but not in the historic "competition leads to lower prices" but "competition leads to a greater take for Amazon" sense -- and makes the actual products i'm looking for arbitrarily harder to find.

the fact that the in your face malpractices are so foregranted that people reach for indirection or edge cases when throwing shade at the ad industry just highlights how one-sided the battle's become.
I don't think it's a decent argument.

You are using the "I was at the train station and I was never mugged there, therefore mugging never happens at train stations" extrapolated argument.

People still think that smoking doesn't cause cancer, even when they are in the hospital because of not being able to breathe.

People still deny that climate change exists because of that one bought study in the 60s.

People still drink chlorified water and governments still are too lazy to use a biological cleaning process all over the world, even though it is proven that this increases cancer rates 2x as much.

As the devil's advocate I'd argue that people will only change their behaviour if a person within their personal influence radius dies because of it.

If they just read about it, they don't care.
I have been using Mdbook for a while and its been great,

I maintain a simple knowledge base for myself
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Of course, Aluminaut was also built by Electric Boat, a major military contractor specializing in submarines.
The Apache software foundation announces new Top-Level Project Apache Kvrocks
I actually used smallstep when I rolled my own CA as well. They have nice tooling.The most annoying part of the whole ordeal is dealing with cert formats IMO
Those are solid analogies, thank you. I can see how that would work and also a little disappointed because it doesn’t need to give us any additional insight in to LLMs themselves.
For background, the French military industrial complex is in serious trouble. For example, the US had to step in to take over supplying submarines to Australia when France proved unable to complete the contract: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/11/australia-reaches-settlement...

Most charitably, France has serious problems they need to correct if they expect to participate in the defense industry. Less charitably, France has thrown away their commitment to their NATO and Western allies and regime change will be needed before they can expect even a minimal level of credibility.
Yes the entire conversation is fed every time. But also the web interfaces for example on ChatGPT or Bing do this automatically as part of their implementation detail, so the one above you is exactly right.
What a joke. Brazil has already chosen to align itself with China and Russia. President went so far as to publicly victim blame Ukraine for the war with chinese at his side. Is it even possible for Brazil's alignment to be more obvious?

Brazil chooses its own independent interests? What a bunch of bullshit. Its economy literally depends on exporting vast amounts of iron ore and soy to China. You'd think western countries would do something about that.

These europeans seem to be under the impression Brazil is a democracy when in fact it's a Venezuela tier socialist judiciary dictatorship. Ex-president Bolsonaro will be literally banned from politics tomorrow for the unforgivable crime of questioning electronic voting. They want to censor radio stations that were friendly to him last year. How much more obvious can you get?
> My biggest problem of markdown was the specific flavor I happen to be using and the type of cliffs I’d run into, then how to extend them.

First time I heard of .mdx and looked up the site [0]. I am insufficiently in the loop of frontend standardization. Now it would be great to get rid of flavors and have one universal approach. In the Docs I read:

> MDX is not coupled to React. You can also use it with Preact, Vue, Emotion, Theme UI, etc. Both the classic and automatic JSX runtimes are supported.

A sibling comment already mentions a Svelte implementation [1]. So I fail to see how this doesn't open a pandora's box of yet more flavors, this time coupled to frontend frameworks. First in .mdx and then incompatible with .md

Extensibility. Yes, I guess, if your stack is supported by any of the existing implementations.

[0] https://mdxjs.com/docs/what-is-mdx/

[1] https://mdsvex.com/docs
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Every time I hear about LLVM, it turns into a rant. Clearly there is a problem there that needs to be fixed. Maybe the LLVM project team should address those issues.
Unless you're using weird C compilers, you shouldn't need to pack structures in order to have RiscV and Arm64 access the same structure. Packing structures will be detrimental in a situation where any of the processors have alignment requirements for accessing words. Extra instructions may be required to access that four byte member at offset 13, by using two accesses and some shifting and masking. Atomicity has gone out the window.

If we look at, say, GCC, the structure layout rules are very consistent across the targets. They are not absolutely the same, but consistent enough to work with.

Packing won't take care of byte order, though it's not super common to have a system where hosts of opposite byte order are accessing the same buses, and sharing memory. (I've worked on systems where a DPS had "weird order", like opposite endian from the host, but in 16 bit units. Not DCBA but CDBA or something like that.)

You may be tempted to use a packed structure for conforming to some layout in a network packet or on disk, but it leaves the code nonportable and slow. In between the time the packed structure is read from the file and written again, it might be accessed many times. All those times may be slowed down due to the packing. You may be better off writing proper serializing and deserializing. That can also help if there are multiple versions of the format, or some optional fields and other crap. You may be able to map all the variants onto a single in-memory structure, dealing with the differences only in the serializing and deserializing routines.

I'm skeptical of how common it is to need packing in order to map hardware registers bit-by-bit. Hardware registers tend to be very regularly sized and spaced. If you're literally mapping bit-by-bit, the language extension that is most beneficial is the ability to declare a bitfield to be of any integer type. E.g. if registers are consecutive 32 bit words:

// Register AREG (32 bits)
uint32_t AREG_foo_field : 13;
uint32_t AREG_bar_bit : 1;

uint32_t : 0; // done with this cell: go to next

// Register BREG
uint32_t BREG_bozo_bit : 1;

Bitfield allocation is endian-dependent. In the end, for utmost portability, you want to access the 32 bit word as a word, and do the shifting and masking, where you can add a byte swap, if necessary.
So a "founding partner" is now a third party provider? Frame it as you may, but there is in fact commercial interest here. Even if Rocky were a separate entity, it depends on the sponsors selling support.
With the amount Zig promoted being able to use it to compile c (and maybe c++ I forget) only to decide no LLVM at all seems wild. Without a LOT more people chipping in to support the odds of even coming close to the platform support of LLVM seems incredibly unlikely as well. I would understand planning to add another backend of their own for those who want that, but just getting rid of LLVM seems... rash?
And if you're curious who Cherie Deville is, here's a mostly-sfw page: https://wikifid.com/cherie-deville/
I bought this and it was very helpful!
Sadly the marketing just works too well and now you're a conspiracy theorist for questioning the narrative.
There's a whole cottage industry of ad quality/anti-fraud filtering tools. Some better than others.
That's always been an issue for lisp. The best software is paid, the best hardware at the time was expensive lisp machines. It's great to use if you can access the software
This was a genius move. Overstock has been around for years yet few people know about it. BB&B will explode their brand. Even at 21+ million it was a bargain.
That’s discrimination. Being white had an “unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity”
It's a great point. The funny thing is that the rest of the world just has dev, QA, and prod staging and canaries, while ML has "the 6 months it takes to translate from notebook to pipeline" or "uploading a new checkpoint/image to the platform." We can just stage properly and release through CD like everyone else does, but not spend 6 months flipping the switch. We built the ability to specify the package for a function as a git repo and a particular revision to enable this, and hopefully it means more people rely on version control as the source of truth in prod and not the most recently uploaded model checkpoint to Sagemaker. During experimentation though, it really is frustrating that many systems only allow you run what you've committed.

We've also built a basic permissioning system to control who can actually overwrite the saved version of a resource, so there are no accidents. E.g. if the prod inference blob is saved at "mikes_pizza/nlp/bert/bert_prod", you can set it so only x accounts can overwrite that metadata to point to a new model. Ideally we just inherit existing RBAC groups sometime soon.

Does that make sense? Curious if you had something else in mind as far as the danger.