skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. Remember that FBI is also a political entity subject to the whims of congress and its willingness to appropriate funds for it. In other words, they are always walking a tightrope of expectations from opposing sides; there is always pressure.

I am not sure if you remember Comey saga, but remember how carefully some of the statements were worded to satisfy those various sides ( iirc, he wasn't supposed to say Clinton was a suspect and he didn't but instead said something that sounded close to it so press ran with it anyway -- and he could placate both sides saying he did their bidding ).

Its not schizophrenic when you understand how much of a political capital is spent there.
That's very reassuring nuance for any several-million-year-old societies hanging around. Doesn't do much for us though.
I'm married with kids, so my life is more of a 3SAT situation.
Children raised on AI-generated storybooks, who think that’s just what “content” is.

(That’s unrealistically cynical… I hope.)
Hello. These look great. But a few things that I'd like:
1) The glass does not specify a volume.
2) I'd love a wine-glass, highball and old fashioned style as well.\
3) The Whisky & Spirits Tumbler does say 'lead free crystal' but doesn't specify it's titanium glassware. Is that correct?
Cheers!
You're not cool for posting that.
And where are they now ?
Two Visions of Environmentalism
The human brain wasn't made for this.

Seeing the effects of social interactions with millions of people (albeit virtual) does something weird to the brain.
Not disagreeing with your comment in general, but this particular sentence annoys me a bit:

> where tokens are roughly equally important throughout the text, such as a dense academic paper or a reference manual.

Even in these, not all tokens are equal, most of a text is actually pretty low-information, with key packs of token that contain most of the information that you're going to need throughout the entire text (that's why we use highlighters when learning). And that's why those O(n²) attention are pretty wasteful, at the same time, you need to be able to pick the proper token, and I agree with you that picking them through simple heuristic is probably not going to be enough.
Absolutely not. It's a profession, every cop out there can just... not be a cop.

Comparing that to skin color or someone's ethnicity is absolutely ridiculous.
So, here’s a simple game:

- take a blank piece of paper (this is “the software”)

- pick two random points on the paper roughly 3 inches apart (“a requirement”)

- draw a line between the two points; the line cannot cross any other line (“the implementation”).

Repeat the exercise multiple times.

You’ll quickly learn that unless you have a “system”, drawing a three inch line goes from taking about 2 seconds, to taking 10, 15 or 30 seconds, despite “the requirement complexity” being exactly the same every time.

Now try playing with people taking turns. :)

I like playing this game with people who think that writing bad code is fine, or that they can work by themselves and not worry about what other people do as long as “their own” code is good.

You can still solve pretty much any problem with enough time and effort; but if you don’t have a “system” for good organisation, eventually, you’ll be struggling to solve basic problems because of layered unmanageable requirements, no matter how smart or capable you are.

…it’s not about shipping bugs, it’s about fundamentally reducing the speed of delivery over time, incrementally, in an unbounded fashion that eventually makes systems impossible to make changes to without compromising on requirements.

(Obviously the game is contrived, but it works very well in explaining why past requirements some times have to go away to business people in my experience).
Before we wrap ourselves too tightly in the flag, let’s not forget the Vietnamese children spending their summer making those Speedos.
How can a judge possibly have all the context required to make a decision like this, do they get access to the Intel so they can verify the claims?
I think it's unpracticable unless they install a backdoor on each phone.
I think you’ll find, that except for hardcore trumpists not many on the right support trump doin this.
The funny thing is that no other life on Earth builds charts, humans do.

So, no offense, but the pedantry is incorrect.
How do you explain flat earthers with engineering degrees? Intelligent people are not immune to dumb beliefs.
Blanket statements might be bad, but please do not compare people with a specific job to ethnic and religious minorities. Jewish and black people do not stop being who they are ever. Where as a cop is off duty, retired, or fired for misconduct. It's just a job title, but it comes with a lot of authority given on behalf of the state
Books have been written on the subject, so an HN comment isn't going to do it. But if you consider that anyone making a mutually consentual transaction is doing it because they value the traded good more than what they're trading, it's not hard to see how a free market can provide good things for people and society in general as resources flow to where they are most valued. Of course there's nuance here (such as assuming purely rational actors, addressing realites around information asymmetry, and that macroeconomics is different than micro) but that's part of the low-level foundation.

I'm not a big fan of capitalism as it can be an utterly cruel mistress, but given the unfortunate realities of human nature I can't think of a system that is on the whole better. As long as there is scarcity, there will be something used as a basis for rationing (who gets what, and why). If it's not who is willing to pay the most, then it's who has the most powerful friends or the biggest army, or something else. There are problems with under-checked capitalism, and there are problems with over-checked capitalism. We'll never get it just right because humans aren't smart enough to, but perhaps we'll achieve post-scarcity at some point. One can hope.
Human brains are very advanced and are in fact the most advanced processing unit known to men.
Every human brain has it's own agency and it's separated from other human brains. Few insects like bees and ants have hierarchal societies with a centralized brain function. In mammals high degree of cooperation are very rare and limited to special situations like the naked rat mole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusociality

You are assuming a centralized super intelligence is better than multiple separate intelligences.
Maybe controlling hardware (bodies) is very hard to do in a centralized fashion.
Maybe the delay in transmitting commands is too high to allow for a centralized processing unit to handle it and that's why animals have evolved as many separate individuals.

Humans and other animals have evolved during millions of years of evolution.
We might be very efficient collectively. A single centralized intelligence might not be very efficient or even possible. We might just kick its ass and take leaps around it. We don't know. Claiming every new step in our discovery might bring the end of humanity it's like when they built the Eiffel tower and all the farmers around were scared it would collapse and kill everyone.

THE WOLF, THE WOLF, THE AI WOLF!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
Stop trying.

Stop trying to make anything better.

Stop trying to create any kind of social space.

Just read my blog. Subscribe to my newsletter.

That's all you need.
It's become quite rare for me to see people who defend speech they don't agree with, and rarer still any speech they find repugnant. It isn't liberty vs authority anymore; it's just team red and team blue. One might be wrong-er than the other but neither think people they hate should be able to open their mouths in anything but agreement.
This bill could be step one. Step two could be a requirement for SW/HW manufacturers to add a backdoor since this is not really effective to fight crime this way. I'm not saying it is planned or there's some conspiracy for establishing a totalitarian state.

But we can't really predict the future and more loose rules could be introduced by the next government with a totally different agenda who might thank for the previous one for creating this legal framework.

Also, this section is weird too:

> They said sensitive professions, including doctors, journalists, lawyers, judges and MPs, would not be legitimate targets.

Apparently software engineering is not a sensitive job.
I tried Evernote when it came out ~2005, but it never got rid of its rough edges. There were some neat features but they were overshadowed by bugs and glaring gaps in functionality. Tried it again ~2010 to see if it improved, but it was still a no-go. ): It was always an over-hyped app.

I'm currently migrating from Apple to Obsidian.
Doesn't seem to have self-hosted syncing. Or am I missing something?

And even if it's in there, $8/month for syncing seems to defeat the point of "self-hosted".
What was the justification for the ban on the hunter Biden stories? Why not just issue a statement- the White House has a press office that could just deny things. They went around their messaging in an unusual way.
You know that you _choose_ to be a policeman, right? Is not that you are born a policeman.

I can definitely say all killers are rotten inside, and it's a blanket statement.
Good catch - this is actually only for functions defined inside interactive Notebook or iPython environments, and we do have an option to bypass it (which serializes the function and state), but you probably don't want it by default. Any function defined inside normal python (even if you're using it within a notebook) doesn't doesn't need imports or variables in scope, you can ship it as is to remote compute. But notebooks are gnarly things, where you might have defined a variable and changed it many times, and finally used it inside a function which you want to run remotely as a service. You probably don't want that variable's state to be shipped over, and PyTorch doesn't do this either. This is why so much of stateful PyTorch is meant to be defined inside new nn.Module classes, to neatly package the state to send over to GPU memory. We offer more flexibility than that, but the more state you ship over, the more likely you are to hit version conflicts between the local and remote environments, which can be really annoying. We practically never run into those issues at Runhouse nowadays because we think we've found a sweet spot.
This might be overstating it a bit, but Europeans get salty when you note that their generous social safety net is subsidized in part by the fact that most NATO nations don't spend the mandated 2% of gdp on defense.

I often wonder what we could accomplish with even half of the ~ 700B / yr we spend on defense if we actually put it towards the public good. The US has two friendly neighbors and thousands of miles of blue water between us and peer adversaries which have no real ability to project power far from their shores. We could make do with less, but then of course the rest of the world would have to step up responsibility for their defense and not hide behind our coat tails
What is "a bunch of" nowadays? My knowledge about efficient programming is still at the level of 20 years ago :) Looking at the DrawModel function, it looks like it's passing around 400 bytes of data structures for a model with one mesh (assuming that matrix operations are inlined).
Sounds like it! Sounds like you’re working for a decent company
The police (in the US) have a long history of protecting their own, and punishing anybody who does speak up, even in the face of what would otherwise be compelling evidence of illegal behavior.

ACAB might be a bit hyperbolic, but the sentiment (that policing in the US is fundamentally broken) isn’t off base.
The article states that Monday was the hottest day in at least 125,000 years.
We're talking about Gizmodo, Gawker, etc here. It really can't get any worse - they're just obnoxious auth-left Cracked.com now.

Might as well be AI.
my understanding is that syncthing doesn't work properly on iOS, because Apple doesn't allow background processes. So you have to manually sync all the time.
I'd imagine you'd get into some merge conflicts if you forget to manually sync and start editing notes.

That's why ios apps generally either use their own sync, or use iCloud. As someone that has a mix of devices (iOS, Linux desktop, macbook for work), this leave me with very few cross-platform options.
> The benefit of cocaine and cigarettes is letting people pass the bar exam.

…

how many drugs are you on right now? Even if you think you needed them to pass the bar exam, that's a really weird example to use given GPT-4 does well on that specific test.

One is a deadly cancer stick and not even the best way to get nicotine, the other is a controlled substance that gets life-to-death if you're caught supplying it (possibly unless you're a doctor, but surprisingly hard to google).

> An AI would provide benefits when it is, say, actually making paperclips.

Step 1. make paperclip factory.

Step 2. make robots that work in factory.

Step 3. efficiently grow to dominate global supply of paperclips.

Step 4. notice demand for paperclips is going down, advertise better.

Step 5. notice risk of HAEMP damaging factories and lowering demand for paperclips, use advertising power to put factory with robots on the moon.

Step 6. notice a technicality, exploit technicality to achieve goals better; exactly what depends on the details of the goal the AI is given and how good we are with alignment by that point, so the rest is necessarily a story rather than an attempt at realism.

(This happens by default everywhere: in AI it's literally the alignment problem, either inner alignment, outer alignment, or mesa alignment; in humans it's "work to rule" and Goodhart's Law, and humans do that despite having "common sense" and "not being a sociopath" helping keep us all on the same page).

Step 7. moon robots do their own thing, which we technically did tell them to do, but wasn't what we meant.

We say things like "looks like these AI don't have any common sense" and other things to feel good about ourselves.

Step 8. Sales up as entire surface of Earth buried under a 43 km deep layer of moon paperclips.

> Anyone tracking the AI would be looking at where all the suspicious HTTP requests are coming from.

A VPN, obviously.

But also, in context, how does the AI look different from any random criminal? Except probably more competent. Lot of those around, and organised criminal enterprises can get pretty big even when it's just humans doing it.

Also pretty bad even in the cases where it's a less-than-human-generality CrimeAI that criminal gangs use in a way that gives no agency at all to the AI, and even if you can track them all and shut them down really fast — just from the capabilities gained from putting face tracking AI and a single grenade into a standard drone, both of which have already been demonstrated.

> But a rogue AI hiding in a car already has very limited capabilities to harm.

Except by placing orders for parts or custom genomes, or stirring up A/B tested public outrage, or hacking, or scamming or blackmailing with deepfakes or actual webcam footage, or developing strategies, or indoctrination of new cult members, or all the other bajillion things that (("humans can do" AND "moneys can't do") specifically because "humans are smarter than monkeys").
The time to rail against self closing tags is long past. No matter how good your arguments and opinions are, it's here to stay (with and without the '/>'). There are better and more meaningful windmills to tilt against.

Sorry.
Well, people would like the Bill of Rights to be "selectively enforced" like all federal laws.
If the code you write is uncovering bugs in compiler, you literally are too smart for your own good. Fwiw, I have seen how compilers are made. Makes me amazed anything actually compiles and runs.
It kind of does, because with turning XBox into a brand for games that can be played anywhere, PC or via streaming, it kind of devalues the console itself.

Why bother buying the games console, if the same game is available by other mechanisms, the exact same game not a port.
> #ACAB

At least for me, this comment loses its thrust with this hashtag. It takes a potent observation and adds unnecessary partisanship. It's also connected with the mother of all blowback slogans: defund the police.
I feel like this article should replace OR with XOR. It's unfortunate English doesn't have a commonly used word for XOR.

Maybe we should start saying xor as though it is a normal English word, pronounced "zor"?
> Though I'm still eyeing open source options with Logseq, just waiting on their mobile app to pick up and properly support plugins. I'll be more than happy to port everything as soon as it supports that.

If you haven't already, I'd recommend voting on https://discuss.logseq.com/t/plugin-support-for-ios-android-... if you're waiting for mobile plugin support
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Public benefit corporations (like Bluesky) can be run like that.
I regret getting a pixel, and not a fairphone with a removable battery

With the current level of oversight on the police (police of police is a meme by now), and the level of cybersecurity at the government, everyone's phones will be activated within a few months.

At least some government agent will have fun watching what ppl visit on the internet during their spare time, and can enable the camera to watch what they're doing when they review the content.

The fight against crime is ramping up !

I don't get why they don't hire back more detectives and accountants to really investigate actual evidence, instead of just listening to potential criminals for hours.
They have been reducing the force for 15 years (especially the forces that investigated financial and workplace crimes)

That would be more effective.
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No it’s not the same. One of them is an institution conceived through organisation of people, laws, traditions and customs, the existence and membership of which is a choice. The other categories are associations made by accident of birth. I don’t have a horse in the race but it is important to understand that those situations are not the same. When people say stuff like ACAB they are free to criticise the existence of the police as an institution as they please.
No discussion of note taking apps is complete without Zim Desktop Wiki [1], so let me be the one who sings its praise! It's less web or mobile oriented than Joplin but gives me everything I need. Plain text files, syncing, lots of plugins. And task management, oh boy. Task management is second to none, including orgmode. I'm a faithful user for years now and I am still happy I found it.

[1] https://zim-wiki.org/
You don't have use it up all at the same time.

Multiple shorter vacations (with the other extreme being a 2x extended weekend each month) are also an option.

I personally need 25-30 a year, spread out across longer (1 week) and shorter (4-day weekend) vacations (and I do enjoy my work very much).

It's hard for me to fathom getting by on just 2 weeks a year - and compressed into a single vacation at that.

(Disclaimer - European)
Moving from California to Texas: Why so many are eager to swap states
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-> Government workers should be free to contact private organizations and speak to them freely and make requests of them. "The government would like this content taken down for public good" is not making a law, it's making a request. It's making their opinion known, and government functionaries are allowed to have professional opinions. Something like "In my professional opinion as a public health worker, this content is dangerous advice that will get people killed, and in the interest of public safety it would be best if readers were protected from it." That is a reasonable thing for a government-employed professional to do and say.

A fair point, and I don't disagree at all with this. I only wish to share with you my opinion as a fellow citizen:

I'd just as much prefer to use a social media platform that doesn't bend the knee to the government. Let the people decide for themselves what is useful information or not. We live in a representative democracy - this form of government is itself a safeguard against an ill-informed populace.

Tangentially, not a small part of the problem may be the government's proclivity to lie to the people. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me..."

EDIT: It might be a useful exercise to consider /why/ we are interested in the freedom of speech issue at a foundational level. I think that due to the speed of modern communication, in a crisis like COVID-19 where people are debating what /must/ be done and there are disagreements, we find that the common road is a hard one to walk and we run out of ways to rationalize a compromise. Maybe this leads us to want a fast fix, limit personal responsibilities so the government has the space to make things nice again.
I downvoted you because I'm tired of these pedantic statements that while technically true, are completely irrelevant to the conversation at hand. This is feedback so you can get better at effective communications.
If you're in an earth science class, then earth science themed examples are natural and unobjectionable.
Wash trading is illegal, and "wrong" in both senses here...there's no "right way to achieve the goal" if the goal is wash trading. I think it's trying to go for a snarky/satirical tone, but instead it comes across as highly ambiguous.

I think comparing this to code optimization is a category error. It'd be closer to saying "insider trading gone wrong". The opposite of catastrophic failure here is the successful execution of a crime.

If they led with "BaseFEX accidentally bankrupts itself with wash trading scheme", the rest of the content might land a bit better.

The fact that it's hosted on the blog of an options trading product and the statement that the post is "a solid guide for anyone who knows a bit of coding, and wants to take advantage of shady crypto exchanges" also plays a part in the weirdness of the framing, IMO.

Overall, while interesting, it's a mess of a post.
It's pretty hard to argue that the Senate gave advice if they didn't even hold a hearing to consider the matter.
It can nice to hear about ideas which are practical improvements, and which others can benefit by.

e.g. I don't think trackballs are anywhere near as popular as they deserve to be. (Albeit, with trackballs, showing off is pretty much limited to 'look I have a good one').
I'm in Europe and just downloaded the apk. All my Chinese friends have joined too.
It’s a blatantly illegal prior restraint on speech, completely at odds with the values the plaintiffs and judge claim to hold.

Free speech cuts both ways. If you’re pleased when a judge bans any and all communication among millions of citizens, you don’t actually value the first amendment, you’re just cheering a partisan victory.
If we are focusing on GP's pedantry, it's uncharted because charts are a human invention.
The earth will be fine.

I'm more worried about the people.
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There is a finite number of hours in a day and a finite number of possibilities to combine different activities during these hours. Even with best of intentions and very decent techniques, it's impossible to have a XOR life with too many things at once without getting exhausted and burned out and getting a temporarily NOT life as a result.