skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A contract is a meeting of minds, with agreement between the parties.

Even a verbal agreement is legally binding. Of course, it is hard to prove such an agreement exists to others, so we create a record of the agreement.

If there is evidence that such agreement exists, then the contract is enforceable, and that is all that has happened here. Using a thumbs up emoji to indicate agreement may look a bit silly, but the intent is apparently clear.
So, basically, you don’t care about the privacy of your digital data. That is fine, but it represents an extreme position regardless of how many people follow this path.
these would not all be drug users, right? most of them would start a successful life in America
Can I accompany this with the original course / book?
Same. Banned at the moment of creation.
> FWIW, private keys are stored encrypted on the server, we don't have access to them.

I'm always bothered by statements like this because it appears to be skimming over if the provider can perform cryptography with the key. My understanding is that those keys are only decrypted in the users apps/web browser, not server-side. Is that right?

You need to trust that the provider doesn't perform additional operations along side legitimate user triggered actions, which I believe PM handles.

https://proton.me/blog/encrypted-email
It’s simply complex.
I see they left this part of the Ted Williams story out..

"PHOENIX -- A new book by a former employee of Alcor, the company that froze Ted Williams' remains, alleges the Baseball Hall of Famer's body was mistreated by the company.

Larry Johnson says in the book "Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death" that he watched an Alcor official swing a monkey wrench at Williams' frozen severed head to try to remove a tuna can stuck to it. The first swing accidentally struck the head, Johnson contends, and the second knocked the tuna can loose."

https://www.espn.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=4524957
Verbal agreement usually done in person.
Maybe it can be done over the phone using voice communication.
But using a simple emoji is stretching it out, as there is no context: you can't see the counterpart's face, you don't hear their intonations in their voice. You don't even have UPPER CASE or punctuation marks.
I wish they would find a way to deal with it, the constant harassment is one of the worst things about Lisbon.
> Google having TPUs in its datacenters that do work that cannot be reverse engineered

Help me understand: TPUs cannot be reverse engineered because the user doesn't have access to the physical device, but other devices like GPUs can?

Can you show some examples of reverse-engineering of GPUs that has been performed on the basis of having physical access to the dies? Are you aware of any reverse engineering done on them using other means? How much has this reverse engineering prevented e.g. NVidia from being financially successful? Finally, since patents are freely available to the public once they have been granted, does that nullify some concerns regarding reverse engineering?

I'm not an entrepeneur, so take this with a fistful of salt, but having worked at places like NVidia, I would never try to compete head to head with them, as a startup. Very few semiconductor startups achieve any success, and the ones that do start by finding a very particular market niche where the established players aren't even trying to play.

Again, I wish you good luck.
My entire friend circle is outside of tech and hate politics, and are tired of Twitter imploding.

They all want something new, or at least Twitter before Elon.

Most recently, we were trying to find news about the Paris riots, and there’s nothing but misinformation (videos from other riots) spammed consistently, that have no community notes, and have nothing but racist twitter blue users pushed to the top of the replies.

It’s creating a huge fog of war when just trying to figure out what’s going on.

It’s like all the moderation systems have just gone offline.
Does protonmail has a canary page?

I know it's swiss etc, but the honeypot tactic is not new. Protonmail could totally be infiltrated or controlled by an intelligence agency under the guise of "we offer you privacy".

I don't like conspiracy theories, but when it comes to escaping government electronic surveillance, Snowden made me realize that tinfoil hats are not so ridiculous.
It’s an alt-right dog whistle.
I believe you want to link to https://discuss.python.org/t/a-fast-free-threading-python/27... (comment #99, the most recent right now.)
Yep, this is fear mongering with a clear agenda.
Fork of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590429 159 points 82 days ago 19 comments
The editorialized title "Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL removal is accepted" seems misleading at best. The actual wording was:

> support in the form of three engineer-years [...] between the acceptance of PEP 703 and the end of 2025

It seems much more like them pledging engineer time from Meta employees to work on this project than sponsorship, not a monetary sponsorship like the title implies.
Meth induced psychosis. Meth is given to many people as children here.
I mean to be honest, tough shit you live in NYC lol
Really? How would European business culture approach this? I feel like talking about debating religion when it’s not relevant to a potential employee is extremely short sighted or some type of backhanded mind game; it just doesn’t seem normal to say that at a job interview. After a working relationship has been established if it comes up, that is different, but if the VP just says that based on seeing a potential employee’s work with a church, it’s quite suspect.
Reasonable from openAI is again at their whims & changes to what they consider is appropriate for you.

Haven't seen a roadmap on Spotlight to include semantic search across my entire local drive. Maybe if they Integrate Journal/Freeform/Notes into one thing then it is deliberate & works with things I explicitly want it to understand & help me work with rather than the tools that you've listed which just help you find stuff
Found the filing: https://www.canlii.org/en/sk/skkb/doc/2023/2023skkb116/2023s...

It's pretty funny. The thumbs up was accepted by the court as an electronic signature.

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MR. JORDAAN: Objection. My client is not an expert in emojis.

MR. MARSCHAL: Okay.

Q.MR. MARSCHAL:But he does send emojis, correct?

A.Yes.

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tbh the reason I expected this to not be a thing is the reason you have given (consequences), hopefully a standard that suits everyones needs comes through at some point. Appreciate the work.
> addicts are a small minority of drug users.

Do you have any reliable data to back up that claim? In my experience users who purport to not be addicts are indeed addicts in massive denial about their poor choices.
LLMs simply process the input and generate outputs based on patterns seen during training.

Here's the process in brief:

Tokenization: The input text gets broken down into smaller chunks, or tokens. Tokens can range from a single character to a whole word.

Embedding: Tokens get translated into numerical vectors - this is how models can process them.

Processing: These vectors are then processed in the context of the others. This is done via a type of neural network called a Transformer[0] network, which handles context particularly well.

Context Understanding: The model uses patterns learned from its training to predict the next word in a sentence. It's not a human-like understanding, but rather it estimates the statistical probability of a word following the preceding ones.

Generation: The model generates a response by continuously predicting the next word until a full response is formed or it reaches a certain limit.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/4
> You assume that it's the guy who you frequently see standing near the second mate.

Men wearing steward uniforms frequently hanging around officers do tend to be stewards.

> There is also no indication in the game of who killed John Naples.

Probably the Swedish-speaking man being hauled away from the bloody sword to the lazarette while the captain shouts that he was “twenty years my steward.”

These are not guesses.
your statement doesn't only have to be logic, it should also even remotely resemble reality. it doesn't.
We are seeing similar for Louie.ai . Data catalog yes, semantic no. We are also doing a lot of non-SQL like logs DBs (SIEMs) and graph DBs, which adds even more fun to that kind of question. My hypothesis here is that "semantic layer is to semantic web as LLM + vector search over activity is to Google/pagerank": easier to let the machines figure it out. We use knowledge graphs in some of our work, so definitely not disputing the value when people do put in the effort.

Wrt llmindex, the new tools like vector dbs & llmindex have been interesting. Fine-ish for our self-hosted, but most start getting tricky when a multi-tenant SaaS where we lower costs for teams and users by sharing infra yet need sharing boundaries.
Or you could use other platforms, you know.
Exactly my thoughts. This person is just gaming the system on here
This is potentially problematic. It creates a conflict of interest: will the GIL proposal be accepted based on technical merits and potential benefits to the Python community overall, or just because the Python foundation wanted money? The problems that Meta faces in production are not necessarily the problems faced by every Python developer. In particular, Meta might value performance more than backwards-compatibility, while other Python users might feel differently. If Meta were to offer unconditional support, that would clearly be good for Python; attaching conditions to their support makes the situation trickier to navigate.
You can't be truly homeless and survive in Norway. The winters are far too cold. You will die.
Yep, the original comment was very carefully worded.
I don't think its fair. I use thumbs up emoji to indicate have received something. Does not mean I am accepting it.

Usually for that, I use the actual word: "Agreed" or "Accepted".
Langchain works completely offline with appropriate LLM/API backend & vectore store if needed
> Can someone explain how this is advantageous to Tesla in the long run?

A better question is who cares what's advantageous to Tesla? What's advantageous to North America is that there is a common charging standard that allows all EVs to charge at all EV chargers regardless of brand. Anything less is backward, primitive, and underdeveloped.

Apparently what North America has finally settled on is CCS chargers using Tesla's plug and now it has to go through a dumb plug transition with adapters and charger retrofits.

Europe, in contrast, got EV infrastructure right. They standardized on CCS Type 2 Combo. In Europe all brands of EV can charge at all brands of charging network just as nature intended.

North America has a lot of catching up to do.
What's unique about his cell phone? The article doesn't seem to mention it.
I want to object to what GP says, but whenever I think about it, I realize that I too am evidence in favor. Different methods, different groups. Some spending more of effort than money. Some substituting an idea for a group. But the need to belong somewhere - that is common to all.
people can be happy in many ways. misery is awfully similar though.
It's three engineer years until 2025, and it's just a person mentioning on the discuss board. It sounds a bit weird to throw something like this in a public forum.
Wrong about this?

he wrote that the leadership in the Arab–Israeli conflict had failed, and that the warring sides were "acting like adolescents, refuse to resolve their wasteful 25-year-old brawl"
Well, "put your money where your mouth is" would be more apposite. I commend them for volunteering to contribute in this way. A rising tide and all that.
Maybe the owner thinks Genera will become more valuable in the future? My point is I don't see any possibility of that actually happening. I'd imagine there is some revenue for maintenance/bug fixes of existing installations (David Schmidt has apparently been running the hardware maintenance/support side of things for quite some time,) but I don't see how the software does anything other than get less valuable commercially with every passing year.
From the article:

Chris Achter, the owner of a farming company in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, had sent a thumbs-up emoji in response to a photograph of a flax-buying contract from a grains buyer in 2021.

Sending a written contract should provide more than enough context to the counterpart.
I'm confident that all humans enjoy status. I suspect this is an innate characteristic of social creatures. Less than basic desires like food or reproduction but significant nevertheless.

The hypothesis about status signalling is more difficult because many individuals acquire status by rejecting conventional status objects. Many people respect Socrates, AOC and Gandhi in large part because of their modest lifestyles. It's possible to describe their behaviour as buying status via the opportunity cost of other consumption, but I worry the opportunity cost approach makes my theory too overpowered to the point of being unfalsifiable.
Google+ was excellent until they started to copy Facebook and be Postcentric vs Commentcentric
I've made that argument for years. Decriminalization doesn't work because it enables the black market - people should do everything in their power to eliminate the black market. This means real legalization. It's the only way to actually fix the overdose problem. Our number 1 priority should be to keep people from dying. I'm open to harsh penalties on public use, though. This shouldn't be happening in front of schools and in parks.
Evil response. Say, "Sure!" and release python v4 with their feature request, and watch the python split wars happen all over again >:-}
They committed three person-years, not three years. This project would need dozens of person-years over a three year period.

Also a comment on Github is not a binding support contract. Meta executives could deprioritize this project at any time... hell the person making the commitment could already be laid off, we have no clue. As someone who worked in big tech for a long time, trust me - it needs to be in writing with an exec signature.
The fact that it is theirs. It was sent via their phone number, not some random number.
Another article on this trial also pointed out that in the past making a variety of scribbles were considered agreement since the majority of the population was illiterate.
I'd link to the Paris Hilton tweet where she wrote "If you're not having fun, then just leave.", but alas ...
Rate of change matters.

A car will naturally come to a stop if you don't push the accelerator pedal. A car will naturally come to a stop if you hit a brick wall.
Isolation is a big one. The classic study people bring up is the “cocaine rat”.

The rat in isolation was drawn to the bottle with cocaine water. When the rat was in a cage with activites and other rats, lost the preference for the cocaine water.
Think more that extended AI voice rights become part of standard contracts and video games with a 60 hour main story and voice acting have hundreds to thousands of tailored extended questlines powered by AI to extend the original performances across content no single player is ever intended to see all of.

It's been pretty wild the past few years playing games and realizing the difference between today and tomorrow AI will have on gaming.

Contract negotiation and licensing just needs to catch up.
True enough, though in that case the machine did agree with the additions done in the proper manner.
They have all been doing this from the start.
Your premise is incorrect, as this is not a promise of money.
They're not. The structures are quite different.
Sure, you can write bad code using abstractions. Doesn't mean abstractions are bad or useless. There's just a lot of devs out there who don't write very good code.

There are also devs writing decent code but too tightly coupled, making it much more difficult to develop the code further without first refactoring the existing solution. It is also often very difficult to refactor the solution because its parts are also very tightly coupled so you end up with a whole tree of changes you have to make before you can do the actual refactor you want in order to make the actual change you wanted to do in the first place.
I have been using lexy to parse a pythonic language I made, it was hard but I managed to do it (although I handle indentation myself).

Matcheroni seems to lack a proper tutorial, lexy's tutorial is pretty good.
Isn't this just how most open source software with enterprise customers operate?

Big companies pay (money or with developer time) in order to gain support and to steer the product to add features they want. The open source produce lives on, developers get paid for their work, big co gets features they want, and everyone lives a happy life.
This is a fools errand. Stop using it for a week. The product is a literal MVP right now and lots of stuff is in the pipeline. You’re spinning your wheels on this when shortly you’ll be able to see a different timeline.
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Did you know that lots of calculators (including the famous TI-83) actually use CORDIC and that the basics of that method predate calculus by a hundred years? Did you fully understand your tool? Did that keep you from using it?

If you know the purpose of a trig function, it doesn't matter HOW the answer is calculated so much as that you know the answer is accurate. This doesn't require calculus.

I took calculus. As an engineering major, I actually had real-world applications of calculus across my coursework. How many times have I found calculus essential outside of college? Surprisingly few. Meanwhile, I've found a LOT of use for trig or linear algebra. There are things where the underlying theory is very important, but in my experience, this is not one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
Most customers don't want to pay for good customer support.

This answers the question of the article. What customers want is offloading responsibility without paying for it. There are many concierge level services at the premium end. Chatbots are an attempt at offering this type of luxury to the masses. And it may succeed.
> Why people are wasting many millions of dollars to implement cryptographically-secure electronic signature systems, if a simple thumbs-up emoji is enogh? ;)

People insist on formalities (of all kind) precisely in order to avoid these kind of lawsuits. Paying all those lawyers is not cheap.

> What's next?

It is not like this was some hapless chap who got suckered into a deal. They had a business relationship going on for years and they have agreed on similar deals with not much more than a thumbs up emoji.

> Common Law system is flawed.

What aspect of this story makes you think that?
We should go back to common law. Your word is your word, whether that's digital or not. If you sends a positive confirmation in the form of a emoiji and then never follow up that's on you. He had for sure a week or more to clarify he could or couldn't fulfill the order without repurcussions.
This is incorrect. Taurine is structurally quite different from sulfonamide antibiotics and isn't converted into them.
Correct, private keys can only be decrypted client-side, the server doesn't have access to the password that they're encrypted with. Otherwise it wouldn't be end-to-end encryption, IMO :)
Personally I wouldn’t take advice on how to be successful from someone like Sam Altman. There’s better sources. Business/career success is only one facet of success.
Touchtype
Yeah, I'd go with the not running a company approach if I were you.
What about a dreaded accidental double tap
And yet you insisted on pointing out Bill Clinton, when this was literally part of the Republicans’s famous “Contract with America” manifesto at the time.

Just like this tweet complains about the lawlessness when this was used to increase funding for school kids but probably said nothing when Scott Walker used it to lawlessly hurt unions a decade ago.
Even if all the decryption resides in the app/web browser side, they can just silently change the code and inject some scripts to hijack the encryption routine.

Although they are open-source and can be scrutinized by anybody, it does not means that's what is run on the server side.

(Just say they have the capability; no accusation)

So at the end of the day, the question is whether you trust Proton or not. Encryption might not help in that case.
TL;DR: Metal has a more balanced approach to API design than both Vulkan or D3D12. In general, "programming ergonomics" seems to have been an important design goal, which is something that seems completely absent both in D3D12 and Vulkan (basically, if the Vulkan or D3D12 design teams had to decide between making an API feature more convenient to use for the programmer, or more explicit at the cost of less convenience, then the answer was always "make it explicit", while the Metal design team at least seems to have thought about the consequences for the API user before making a decision - at least that's what it looks like from the outside looking at the resulting APIs).

Metal started with a programming model that looks a lot like what a hypothetical "D3D11 next" could have looked like (basically D3D11 minus the warts, and plus PSOs, command queues and render passes, but keeping the traditional and straightforward slot-based resource binding model).

Later versions then gradually added optional lower-level, more explicit features which allow more control over resource management and accessing specific GPU features with less API overhead, but may also be less convenient to use (and it's not actually just "Apple GPUs", Metal supports Apple devices with Intel, AMD and NVIDIA(?) GPUs just fine - since there were Mac laptops which shipped with those GPUs).

Apple also maintains higher level libraries like MetalKit and SceneKit.

Because of this 'layered approach', a Metal application can just start with the higher level API features to get something running quickly, and then gradually switch to more recent and more explicit Metal features only when needed or desired.

One could also simply say that the Metal team applied common sense, "taste" and a balanced approach to their API design, instead of just mechanically collecting hardware feature requirements from all GPU vendors and trying to cram those into a common low-level API at all cost.
Author is just another grifter peddling pop-psychology/bro-science nonsense like thousands and thousands of others, since it generates like, views and even conversation (like at HN).

None of it is worth paying attention to.
What is Meta's end game with Python? Do they genuinely just want a stable build without GIL because of some cranky in-house code piles, or is this the first step towards a bigger mission to wrangle an entire ecosystem?
I genuinely wonder if this issue would cause a fork. At least a long term maintenance that keeps the GIL.
And also in direct response to a comment from GvR, not something out of the blue
I have the same feeling. There are problems, so let's point at a marginalized group or a thing that people look down upon, and now we have less to explain!
Ideally the developer doesn’t. At scale some platform or infra team should.
https://www.kaleidoscope.blog/

I write mostly about topics such as: astronomy, chess and programming.
We should treat this as the pandemic it is.
Microsoft is currently having a multiple person team work on the faster cpython project. That's "money talking" in the same sense.
> These people are barely human

I wanted to engage with you until I got to this part. Jesus, this whole post is just on another level when it comes to hatred, misinformation ("the science support this", huhh?) and ridiculous ideas (e.g. sure, what could go wrong with forced institutionalisation?).
Do everyone a favor and don't run a company