skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were an unregulated market, the acquisition of Activision would have sailed through. China has shown the world an unregulated capitalist market. It gives you toxic toothpaste and food with sawdust in it.
Outside has a killer graphics card and zero lag.
How hard have people pushed this thing? We get regular threads of effusive praise, but little criticism. Last time I mentioned that years ago my colleagues found half a dozen ways to lose data in FDB I got called out here and even in private emails, but it seems more valuable to know where the limits of these systems are, and not very valuable to read the positive feelings of people who used FDB in trivial and uncritical ways.
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This is likely a result of Cloudflare DNS redirecting you, since archive.today does not have its DNS set up in a way that Cloudflare likes.
Is there a Juicero app for this or do I still have to squeeze the bags myself?

More seriously, this thing isn't a "pin", it seems to be the size of an external battery pack, which necessitates a front shirt pocket. Does that mean it's unusable by categories of people such as those wearing t-shirts, dresses, typical blouses, sarees, activewear, and so on. Even if it does pin to a shirt, most people cannot or do not want to hang something the weight of a phone off their clothing.
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Ya, I think people really underestimate how fast L3 charging is, especially for cars running on empty. But not all grocery stores have L3 chargers, and they can get really busy in holiday weekends. I plan my trips around these, but I wish they had more capacity.
For some types of distributed systems, you can do this kind of simulated testing in advance by building a TLA+ model.

It’s not a full-blown simulator (because generally the application code doesn’t even exist yet when you’re building the TLA+ model). But it can let you collect data and validate assumptions about your design before writing a single line of code.
That doesn’t change the real price of the car and what you should expect from it.
Why not just compile your whole program safe and then demarcate which functions you want to not be safety checked?
Is the idea that all pictures are the sane location? I got 17 miles, the pictures all had intense west virginia energy haha
We are already doing it. We are becoming the old dudes making fun of the next generation. Right on time.

Better to say things like: Young people are too idealistic or have a different sense of humor.

They learn from us, not the other way around.
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My first guess was 25 miles away (!), but could only get to 11 miles in the final one.
Goodreads had already stopped innovating before it was acquired by Amazon. What's sad is that they have a good user base, data on who reads what, I'm sure they could do a good recommendation engine, but somehow the closest they ended up with is poorly user curated lists.
If you want to limit your range of opinions to credible domain experts speaking scientifically, the range goes from "definitely not" to "maybe a little if you have a very loose definition".
A MacBook or ipad will be more portable if you want something you can take along wherever if you want to do that.
My trick is to get second and third opinions - sometimes ChatGPT gets it wrong, but bard is right, or 3.5 is right when 4 is wrong. So I just copy the same question to all available chatbots and compare. Asking them to provide sources for the answers is also a good way to keep them honest.
This is pretty neat! Although I find myself relying far more on triangulation via the distances than I do the images.
Yes, I actually think this is true. See my above comment, which supports your claim.
I am so glad you shared that. I've never seen it before and it made me laugh so hard I cried.
I've been using a mix of things. I actually like gnome for some reason, but anything that lets me avoid the mouse is fine. Systemd is a don't care for this experiment because I want something container focused anyway, where init or systemd can start podman and I'll take it from there. And I want rolling because I like not messing with things that aren't the thing I'm doing. I like apt better than dnf for cross compiling tools, but dnf better for most everything else.
Electric space heaters? That's crypto's most practical application.
> Giving your personal data to private companies, however, is a choice. You can simply not use their services.

This is what I do, but it certainly doesn't stop private companies from getting my private data anyway.

There is no way to opt out of this.
Other than the rate limit issue this past Saturday I haven't really had any problems with it. I still self-curate who I follow with follow lists. I still get to be involved in baseball discussions with friends who have stuck it out there. I'm also able to continue following a large Japanese car community, especially friends I've made when visiting for that hobby.

It's still a very useful place to be. You just have to do some work sometimes (follow lists, mute/blocklist words/phrases, etc.) to keep yourself more isolated from things you don't want to see.
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> The “attack surface” on human sensibility is just enormous if you’re able to use believably human language.

That's a fantastic quote ;-)
No. Most of the political and corporate apparatus communicates as an occupation, what they believe has no correlation with what they say.
Why, because it figured out sentiment groupings of words and phrases? There's lots of humor and tragedy from writers of eras past that just don't really land well with modern audiences unless they've studied and acclimated themselves to the culture.
Do you know if it works?
I think this is correct. The acquisition was anti-competitive, and Lina Khan's FTC would probably challenge it.
Beats me? I was on vacation there 4 years ago. :)
This. LLM's have a surface that suggests they're an incredibly useful UI. That usability is like the proverbial hand full of water though - when you start to really squeeze it, it just slips away.

I'm still not convinced that the problem isn't me though.
I've never been to the states in the photos and somehow got within a few hundred miles of them. Guess my brain has had enough training data.
The values that include commenting on writing in general aren't small to most people. I can't imagine a larger value.

edit: hopefully somebody reading the WaPo has some sort of connection to Amazon, and can really commit to making sure that people's inappropriate opinions on the quality of books, the subjects of books, or whether books should have been written at all - will be corrected promptly and repeat offenders banned in future.
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I think it's because it's happening everywhere, even outside of less profitable businesses. I flew United the other week and they played me 4 min of ads blasted through the cabin and on my screen after the safety video, even after I paid for my flight and in my mind, the "United premium". They are a heavily profitable company, making $11 billion Q4 '22, and yet, they consciously decided to make my experience flying United worse for a small profit. To me, that's the difference between "enshittification" and trying to make a viable business.
You are at liberty to believe what pleases you the most. If you're interested in finding the truth, you'll have to first understand that drug markets are underground, which means you will not find any verified accounting. The UN estimated [1] in 2020 the size of the darknet drug trade to about $315 million per year or at most $725 million per year - which is nothing compared to the overall drug trade, but disruptive for certain categories of drugs that are easily sent by mail.

People are buying drugs on the darknet, who would never buy it on the streets or want to be associated with regular drug users.

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If you want to follow domestic US politics/rage bait, I imagine you are having a good time.

After the facebook stuff of 2016-2020, I went to twitter trying to avoid ragebait, it was there too.

Its not dead, its just not helpful. You get way better stuff from individual subreddits. You get even better stuff reading a non-fiction book. Reddit's app suggests rage-bait which is why its become so bad.
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> It's true and false at the same time. The operations C gives you map 1-to-1 with assembly. Given some C code you can quite accurately predict which loads/stores will be elided by the compiler and what the resulting assembly will be.

I mean, can you though? After all you won't even have the same output depending on compiler and flags. And of course not all architectures have the same capabilities, so the same code can compile to a various number of instructions depending on the target architecture.

Not to mention things like bitfield access that can result in non-atomic load/stores for a simple `foo->bar = 1;`

I'm not sure in what sense you could say that C operations map 1-to-1 with assembly any more than Rust, C++ or basically any compiled language.
I have more fear of the people running the system than any AI.
I also think that AR/VR is more scary than AI.
My fear is how poorly rendered AR/VR can be more positive interaction than interactions with the people that surround the observer.
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I think sharing a Washington Post article about Amazon is... probably not a good thing to do at all. This article probably isn't worth reading, to be honest, the bias is too high.
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I kind of expected AI to be AI - and not a mirror.
Does it need to automatically render whether today is Friday... something like this is silly but kinda works -- requires you to set the date though which I'm not sure is allowed.

<input type="date" min="0001-01-05" step="7" value="2023-07-03"> // valid for all Fridays starting 1AD

Then you can use some css when invalid:
input:invalid {
background: red;
}

or whatever other styling you want, maybe slap some content on another element... you get the point
I think large corporations are typically fine with criticism that doesn’t affect their bottom line.
It's not published.

Germany publishes a lot of statistics. You can read up-to-date counts of how many people live in each city, how many people had their tonsils removed, how many people had breast enlargement, how many people pay income tax, how many people are church members. But you can't get this information about any single person. Not even the state can get that, even though most of that data is collected (and the statistics published) by public bodies. Cities can't reveal much to their encompassing states or the federal things, states can't reveal... and so on, and it's all handled very strictly.

The federal minister responsible for fighting covid didn't even have a precise count of the number of people vaccinated. That's how strictly people's data are treated.

If it's only a matter of time... don't hold your breath, this has been basically unchanged for seventy years.
Yeah, but the settings are almost non-existent, and the NPCs constantly ignore them anyway.

Also, no respawn. Lame.
It's interesting to me how deeply politics gets into everything. You like Twitter more because "it was unbalanced to the left" and now reflects your political views better. My experience is that the first 100 replies to every semi-political post are now right-leaning blue checkmark holders and conspiracy theorists, and now I find it "not very much fun".

Honestly, I don't think the "public market square" has ever worked all that well, not even in a physical market square. You get 2 groups with sufficiently different views and before long it's devolved into shouting, if not a brawl.
Calling "contextualizing a piece of literature in its broader sociopolitical context" review-bombing is pretty myopic. For example, if you decided to write a book on how awesome the Nazis were, you would rightfully raise some eyebrows. But in any case, the problem with crowd-sourced reviews is that this is a "live by the sword, die by the sword" kind of game. It's great when a bunch of lemmings love your book, cause it to catapult in ratings, and go viral. But, some are now discovering that it can go both ways: the masses being "negatively viral" or purposefully trolling, or brigading.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too. This is the main reason I've never seriously used Goodreads as a source for pointed literary criticism. Like most social media, it's a bunch of self-important folks trying to be more self-important.
Swift is one of the only languages that actually makes long names work.

Rust's flavor of variable shadowing is a great way to support developers to keep names short.
With crypto people can buy drugs anonymously. You couldn't do that before.
I have found myself thinking about this as well the more my career matures. It’s a great thing to consider.
Web technologies are also not representative of all the whole tech ecosystem. I can’t fit an SQL database on my microcontroller.
Author here. It was fascinating technology but in some ways it was aspirational. It was a bidirectional device at a time when the network itself could only talk in one direction.

The hope among NABU developers was that the service would become popular enough that cable services would upgrade. That ultimately did not happen, because the service itself did not become popular enough for that.

I mean, this service had Tom Wheeler, coming right off of being the head of the cable industry’s trade group, running this in the U.S., and even he could not get the industry to move faster.
You just described exactly why you're vastly superior to an LLM. You identified a possible knowledge gap and looked for more data to fill it in.

I don't think it's impossible for an LLM to do that but they currently don't.
Why ask a question like this without explanation?
Unfortunately that's exactly why so many startups get bought. Not to become part of the parent company's business, no, just not to become a competitor later. Would stronger (and enforced) anti trust laws be a solution? I believe businesses would just lie and say they are going to be part of the business but then just bury them anyway.
I think I beat a level but then it just instantly changed to a new one. Or am I crazy?

The game reminds me of a few games I’ve played, most recently Dungeons & Diagrams in Last Call BBS (from Zachtronics).
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> I believe it's impossible to live in modern society without having an account in FAANG

Oh, this is completely possible -- I do it.

But it won't stop them from getting your personal data.
It's a bit different, since we're early adopters. The average person hasn't spent dozens of hours with GPT-4 yet, and doesn't realize how useful it is to everyday life.
Well... words and decades of circumstances. If you removed the circumstances (the religion, the conflict, the money, geography, etc) then the words would be absolutely hollow.

I think we tend to credit words where often circumstances are doing the heavy lifting. For example try to start a riot with words in Rodeo Drive. Now try to do it in Nanterre. Or better yet, try to start a riot in Nanterre before a 17 year was shot by police, vs. after.

You'll get a sense of just how valuable your words really are.
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Beatutifully made guide.

The numerical represention of Bezier curves is quite a challenge to internalize and the clean interactive canvas helps build some intuition.

Vector graphics and SVG deserve far more love.
This is an important discussion to have.

The fact that this and another article about Harvard race-based admissions yesterday were both insta-flagged suggest that many don’t even want us to have the conversation.
> Its a language model and it fooled DH. It hasnt gotten smarter than us yet. Its just faster at repeating what other humans verbally said.

One of my take aways from LLMs is that humans very often just repeating what other humans have said with only superficial understanding of what they are repeating.

I think there is more to general intelligence than pattern matching and mimicking but a disconcerting amount of our day to day human interactions might just be that.
It depends on how you define fed forward, LLMs are typically auto regressive and so can take their own previous output into consideration when generating tokens.
i've been "using" goodreads since long before amazon bought it, and it's always just been kind of terrible. It was a clunky, not terribly nice to use site full of absolutely garbage-tier book reviews. the only redeeming quality was the authors who would leave honest reviews on each other's books.

i wish there was a site like goodreads, but good. but goodreads was not on track to be that site before amazon took it over.