skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a spot on. Now how do we make force a change on the legal framework to make this mind shift happen?
RichLite, Paperlite, and Paperstone make recycled paper outdoor waterproof vert ramps, countertops, siding, and flooring; but not yet roofing FWIU?
here’s a classic SO thread:

OP: “how can I accomplish X doing Y?”

top voted response: “I wouldnt do X by Y. Instead, I’d consider Z. It’ll do everything X by Y would do, plus these other things.”

buried sub comment to top voted response: “that’s not what he asked, to do X by Y (exact solution provided)”

then 10 comments blasting the guy who actually answered the question for not doing it the way the top voted answer did it.
Popular Happiness Strategies Are a Bust
Some fun takes from non-techies. Nobody's into this: https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/158ery9/elon_m...
Funny story: I had to root my phone to get the Fidelity app to work.

I installed lineageOS, which is passes the Google SafetyNet check out-of-the-box. So most things just work, including my local Credit Union's app.

But lineageOS fails the CTS profile check on my phone. Fidelity checks this after you log in and shows a "For security reasons your account has been blocked..." message.

So I had to root the phone to install a CTS profile fixer, and then more hacks to hide the fact it was rooted.

After that Fidelity worked, but requested root permission every time I launched it until I figured out how to permanently disable that.

Netflix was similar, but not quite as annoying.
x men and xena
Back in 1989 I worked as a one-man-IT-department for a bunch of ex-academic economists doing econometric modelling on a Digital VAX 11/750. This mini-computer was running VMS - a multi-user operating system. All users had admin rights and each one thought that they could make their models run faster by bumping up the process priority as far as it could go - which of course interfered with the realtime processes needed to manage the effective running of the computer. Unsurprisingly, this had the opposite effect to what they intended. When I discovered this was what was happening, I revoked their privileges and after a system restart, sanity was restored. I was thanked for finally making the system work faster.
I have 110% replaced it with ChatGPT. Perhaps SO would still have a chance back in its glory days but there's no comparison to having a direct, specific, instant answer vs having to fight against SEO or moderators for hours.
Every time I posted on SO(or other SE sites) I always have to clarify my question with something like "I know it's probably not good idea to do A, and I understand B could be a better solution, but in my specific situation I really want to do A."

Then people will still try to close my question because it's a duplicate of B.
"Overmorrow", for example. Very rare, and the Polish equivalent is used pretty often.
"You would have to steal a username + phone + PIN code for phone + PIN code for MitID app."

And when your phone is hacked then all three are up for grabs?

"Contrast this to what happens in the US often: your personal info is leaked from the plethora of places it’s kept."

And yes, totally never is your govt info leaked from the plethora of places it is kept. /s

The problem is not having govt information, the problem is having it kept on phones or entered on devices at all.

"I’d welcome any actual arguments against it,"

See the above. I dislike the automated exfiltration of my identifying information, and then being saddled with the "responsibility" for it. The solution is not to make it even more automated, but to generally never to accept any credential except as a revokable guarantee - doing business as a large corp you should accept the risk of fraud, and presume your clientelle are not who they say they are.
Or a StackOverflow-scraped site peeled off users looking for quick solutions, while those with SO accounts still used it for posting and voting.
> curries evidently haven't changed very much over 2K years

The addition of chillis a few hundred years ago feels like a very large change
I was on IRC circa 2002 asking C++ questions. Next year I was the one answering. Weirdly best time of my life.
Should Open AI have AR glasses?
For AI suggestions during conversations. If the other person has previously consented to Open AI to having their voice recorded.
"Web Environment Integrity" is just business as usual on all these other forsaken anti-humanity piece-of-shit platforms. The web has so far not been subjected to such dominion on high horseshit that everyone else just had to accept all the time.

My org was acquired a while back & has a coue old old old old unmaintained mobile products (well before my time). The fucking shitfucking worthless thieves in corporate security flagged our apps for not having anti-jailbreak measures. It offends me highly that corporate would take such immensely low risk inconsequential products & make sure anyone exercising any freedom would get fucked over. But it seems like the normal in most of the world. Security thought their request was totally normal, even though the product had incredibly fantastically tiny permissions to anything. What a terrible awful world these wankers exist in. Just the shittiest worst humans. This is how everything but web software has always been.
We've seen example after example of the Fourth Amendment being trampled all over with zero consequences. Why bother arguing over possible edge cases (and I personally don't see any reason online communications wouldn't be covered) when there are no meaningful consequences for even the most cut and dry violations. Like, why argue the finer points of a right that we effectively don't have?
What sets the modern era apart from the rest of human history is that Marlinspike's ideas are radical yet commonplace at the same time. He's in the company of people like Thomas Jefferson who advocated the idea of permanent revolution, or that the rebellion against unjust government would never end. It would keep on happening through the ballot box. That is what democracy is. It is continuous small, non-violent revolutions against the government.

This is quite different from almost every prior form of social system in human history and it's arguably the single largest idea which has contributed to lifting humanity out of poverty, war, oppression and misery (the scientific method is a very close competitor for that distinction, but without permanent revolution most scientists probably would have been burned at the stake or ignored).

There will always be people - the powerful, the entrenched, and maybe just the ill-informed, cowardly or intellectually lazy - who are terrified by the notion of permanent revolution, so to them it's radical. (One wonders what camp this writer falls in, because usually journalists are well aware of this stuff, for many it's their raison d'etre. Has this one taken a civics class? Do they believe Jefferson was arguing for anarchy? If so have they looked up the definition of that word in a dictionary?)

But despite the fears of those people, permanent revolution is the secret sauce modern society is built upon. Western civilization has a long line of prominent thinkers and historical examples which has led to this way of organizing ourselves. It is precious and it is still new and if we lose it we might never get it back again.

Anyway, I like the argument that Signal's CEO makes here [1], which is that for virtually all of human history, privacy has been the default. The Constitution was written before the invention of the telegram. At that point in history you could always go into a room alone with someone else, have a conversation, and be reasonably assured that the conversation was private. Bugs and wires didn't exist. Wiretapping didn't exist, surveillance didn't exist unless you had a third human physically present.

This makes privacy akin to a natural right, something we have always had, that we are entitled to by nature of being human. I'm of the view that the US needs a Constitutional amendment to protect it, and if any government seeks to deny it we should give them a reminder of what permanent revolution is and show them how it works.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E--bVV_eQR0
In a previous era of journalism an article such as this one would include comment, if there was one, from Whisper themselves. There are quotes in there but they are ones reported by other journalists for other articles.

That’s fine — it’s what editorial is after all — but it could have been made clearer.
I am certain I can find at least one angry blogger for every single post you’ve listed. I can remember at least a dozen angry articles over the flamethrower alone.

Regarding your complaints about twitter:

> In response to a 2017 request from the Pentagon, Twitter kept online a network of accounts that the U.S. military used to advance its interests in the Middle East

It’s not so much fun when it’s directed against you, is it?
Could it be that Google prefers their own AI-provided answers over SO?
The attestation need not be done by Google or web browser owner themselves. This can be done by operating systems or any third party attestation just like a simple version of certification attestation. I think even though the intention behind the idea is good, the integrity of the company that suggested this is so doomed that we are all afraid. I think such proposals will come and need to come so that gradually these proposals will mutate into something useful
Damn that was interesting.

And to the person who said they routinely slip Cessna landings... different bird my friend ;) Remember, the slower they get the less the hydraulic assist was working. It's a wonder they were even able to straighten out.

Here's a video on the forward slip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxy2MnUnfUM

I hope there is some kind of 'case study' that pilots study about this.
It should not be up to the pilot to ground the plane; shouldn't that be up to the airline or chief engineer?
Deciding which i should use : Elixir or Clojurescript or python or nodejs
Not at all. Nothing personal. Although, it looks like you are the one self-projecting here.

It’s simply how times change and people with it. Knowledge is lost when people move on and the reasons why certain decisions were made are not transferred.

At any rate, I imagine people at Google are trying to figure out why there is such a negative opinion on their search results lately.
I have tried fixing the brake cable on my bike (and other bike repair tasks), by using the myriad of youtube videos assigned for the task. It's actually quite difficult to hold a brake cable in tension, while forcing an old school front derailleur not meant for the bike into millimeter perfect position and at the same time pause/unpause/rewind a youtube video.

It is honestly easier to put a book down open to the right page, in line of sight. It requires no interaction and book authors are forced to write instructions that can be understood primarily without pictures, so there's no pause/unpause/rewind mentality. Books engage the mental tools to infer what happens next from textual description, an ability videos degrade in the viewer. The implications of that effects decision making subtly.

Books are also a welcome release from the trance-like state induced in consumers by most electronic displays.

I agree most books are garbage (like most of everything), the filtering of low quality books has failed. In my limited understanding most of the great literature was written between the 1700s and 1900s anyway. Recent literature does not grant the broad understanding and height over the subject matter.

It is somewhat problematic to rely on multiple youtube videos and find they all have 'small detail' gaps in their perfomances that exist because the video format is to train the user along a generic path of action. Those cracks often reveal a chasm of difference in understanding and in the end, the video is replacing turn-key parts and I'm angle grinding off a stuck cup and cone bearing, even though on the surface the problems look identical.
That is a good start. I wonder though if the change affects the ideal hyperparameters. Do you need more or less dropout if you make the change? What about learning rate?

So you might want to re-search the hyper params for a fair shot.
>...fuel hosers...

Haha, clever.
Oh, lovely. Just like the Chinese “everything app”? With the social scores?
I have seen similar. I wonder if a new set of people are old enough to use SO now, and their style is different than the original community.
Not trying to get you back on your iPhone but I can tell you that 1Blocker + NextDNS do wonders when it comes to blocking ads on the web using iphones. Granted, sometimes some sites do break for weird reasons but i'm happy to live with that if it means I get to avoid ads. Hell, it even manages to block ads on mobile youtube.
I think I see your point but 10% (or heck even 1%) of books being engaging and worthwhile is still more books than anyone could realistically read in a lifetime. Good books are a fair bit more accessible than good urbanism or rural activities are to a suburban kid (speaking from experience sadly), and I don't think people extolling the values of reading are suggesting doing it completely in lieu of other productive activities like fixing a brake cable (fwiw probably an activity better assisted by YT or maybe even TikTok than books).
At least part of the reason for the hostility is that SO is a game. You get points, but you can also prevent others from getting points by voting down or removing their questions and answers.

On SO this hostility is pronounced because participants believe that if they get a lot of points they have easier time finding a well-paying job.
3.7 was released in 2018 and is already EOL. Those folks should probably start considering an upgrade...
Stinks they had to lay off 4% of their workforce and were feeling threatened by CIQ/Rocky and CloudLinux/Alma enough they had to lock down source code a bit.

Though I'm guessing a lot of the Red Hat growth came from the OpenShift side, maybe Ansible too?
I think google has started to downrank them.

Try asking a few programming questions and SO won't be the top link anymore.
"OpenBSD does not use the AVX instructions to the same extent that Linux and Microsoft do, so this is not as important.

On Linux, glibc has AVX-based optimizations for simple functions (string and memory copies) which will store secrets into the register file which can be extracted trivially, so the impact on glibc-based systems is HUGE."

Perhaps I missed something, but it appears musl does not use AVX instructions much if at all.
It would be a very big win for goodwill if Google built out a team that took over as much of this as possible. Just have a bunch of this hardware and try to keep these machines up to date.

The biggest problem from the outside feels like people working at Google might not be super hype about this (no I'm not talking about the "new project to get promoted" treadmill, just vibes), and really there's probably external people who are up to this.

But seriously, just figuring out how to get these to run "forever" in whatever degraded capacity is possible. At least until the hardware itself starts falling apart of course.
https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/234
Just a FYI your argument is that Elon got a Huge Head Start to his serial entrepreneurism just because someone in relation to him had a business 40+ years ago in South Africa. Far after which he lived almost as a destitute during his college years.

Nothing else, carry on ...
Hey, you had helped me out in the past ! thanks.

I have since deleted my account on SO, which was actually a somewhat involved process. They did not however allow me to remove the answers that I provided.
More ELI5 than the other comments. Considering the softmax network:

During quantization we find that values in the network vary from 0->5000, but 95% of values are <100. Quantizing this to 8bits would mean that our values would be in increments of about 20. Remembering that 95% of our values are below 100, we would only have about 5 discrete values for 95% of our values - so we would be losing a lot of "resolution" (entropy/information). For example (assuming rounding is used), an original value of 19 would be quantized to 20 and 30 would be quantized to 40. The original values differ by 11, but the quantized values differ by 20!

This is where exotic encodings come into play. We might try to use a logarithmic scheme, for example. This would result in higher value densities at lower values - but we would probably still waste bits and it would require more APU cycles.

Now switch to the softmax1 network:

The range of values is less important than the distribution - instead of 95% of the values falling in a small range, we would see the values more evenly spread out. Assuming that the range is now 105 (so the 5% outlying neurons from the softmax network are still >100), we would have 243 values to represent everything under 100. The same example with 19 and 30 would result in 19.27 and 30.34 respectively, a difference of 11.07 - which is very close to the unquantized difference of 11. We have retained more information in the quantized version of the network.

Information is lost either way, but what's important is how much information is lost.

The reason that the large values appear is because the heads attempt to "scream really loud" when they are certain that they are right. This is an emergent behavior due to softmax - it ironically sucks at paying attention to a few of the heads: it boosts the volume of the heads that are trying to abstain, and mutes the volume of the heads that are trying to vote.
Ganimede: Version, Maintain and deploy Jupyter notebooks as rest endpoints
Store,Version and Run jupyter notebook via ReST api.
> She’s under no obligation to pay but I do wonder if she ever decides to take a trip to the US if she will be escorted away from the airport under police escort on landing. That’s a big worry if I was in her shoes.

Do connecting flights in the US count? It's possible also that airlines can reroute flights to connect through the US.
Creo que solo se deben publicar artículos en Inglés aquí.
Let us all increase our questioning, answering, voting on Stack Overflow! With private chats like Discord and Slack, and chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT, a lot of the shared knowledge is not indexable. That's bad.
Wasn't there active attempts to hide the extent of the issue with Chernobyl which significantly worsened the damage? If so, that seems like saying there were cascading human errors in a murder-suicide. You're technically right on some level, but I wouldn't so much call that human error.
Foreshadows Israel, interesting..
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You don't get to extend an embargo unilaterally. Now that there's a new uniform 90 days the conversation looks different.
As soon as you consider google no longer does search but instead is a "suggestion engine" it all makes a lot more sense. Sadly.
Totally agree. History does not repeat And study history is not about prediction. It is about learning. In a sense perhaps we never learn from our mistakes totally and keep on loop on our karma. But still might be helpful. After all we are dealing with complex systems, from human body to society. These artificial one help and by itself interesting.
I actually had a great use case for this last week. Needed to flatten a list of nested dicts, e.g.:

[
{"name": "/dev/loop0"},
{"name": "/dev/loop1"},
{"name": "/dev/loop2"},
{
"name": "/dev/sda",
"children":
[
{
"name": "/dev/sda1",
"children":
[{"name": "/dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-root"}, {"name": "/dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-swap_1"}],
},
],
},
{"name": "/dev/sdb", "children": [{"name": "/dev/sdb1"}, {"name": "/dev/sdb2"}]},
{"name": "/dev/sdc", "children": [{"name": "/dev/sdc1"}, {"name": "/dev/sdc9"}]},
]

Wound up writing a recursive generator (with some help from #python on IRC):

def flatten(items):
for item in items:
yield {k:v for k,v in item.items() if k != 'children'}
if 'children' in item:
yield from flatten(item['children'])

which results in:

[{'name': '/dev/loop0'},
{'name': '/dev/loop1'},
{'name': '/dev/loop2'},
{'name': '/dev/sda'},
{'name': '/dev/sda1'},
{'name': '/dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-root'},
{'name': '/dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-swap_1'},
{'name': '/dev/sdb'},
{'name': '/dev/sdb1'},
{'name': '/dev/sdb2'},
{'name': '/dev/sdc'},
{'name': '/dev/sdc1'},
{'name': '/dev/sdc9'}]
The very fact you need to create an account on twitter to view tweets should be a blocker for any gov't communication. That twitter rate-limited views is another strike against them. Government information should be open access. I don't know if activitypub is the answer, but they need to get off twitter.
It would be far better for the Saudis to use Twitter to shadowban dissent and astroturf support than just shutting it down.
... and if it's dark outside, their eyes are adjusted to see in the darkness once they've evacuated outside the plane too.
This made me laugh out loud frfr. Well done, you.
> An owner of this repository has limited the ability to open an issue to users that have contributed to this repository in the past.

It sure seems like they're silencing opposition.
This looks really, really good. I would certainly use and pay for this if it had my data, but I'm not willing to take the time to enter it all and keep it up-to-date. I don't see anything discussing features for importing data and linking accounts, so it just doesn't work for me.
What a weird ritual!
I feel like the moderation culture of Stack Overflow became toxic and counterproductive years ago. It's like the worst parts of Wikipedia, but squared. Just endless arguments over what is or isn't a duplicate or is or isn't relevant, while every interesting question somehow ends up closed, good answers are downvoted, and spam drifts to the top.

I'm sure everyone involved actually wants the site to be useful and pleasant, but somehow the actual result is the exact opposite.

That being said, I don't think the culture or moderation has got worse recently, so I suspect the traffic decline is either a change in Google's algorithms or the impact of ChatGPT (or both).
If a complete rebranding to X actually happens, I wonder if someone else is allowed to take over the Twitter brand.

But I suspect what will happen is people will continue to call it Twitter and the X name will not stick.
Looks at dmesg... "Heh, how is this thing still running?"
>The EUC works by tilting you forward to speed up, and tilting you backward to slowdown.

I think this is the root of your misunderstanding. To speed up and slow down, you tilt yourself forward and backwards. This is actually a strength of the EUC's physics, as it means you're always perfectly balanced for any acceleration or braking, unlike a scooter or bike that can 'throw you over the handlebars'.

I highly recommend trying one, it's my regular commuter and extremely fun.
Informative, as always something top notch from Andrea.
>Additionally, the use cases listed depend on the ability to “detect non-human traffic” which as described would likely obstruct many existing uses of the Web such as assistive technologies, automatic testing, and archiving & search engine spiders.

Assistive technologies will still work as the browsers implement platform's assistive APIs.

Automatic testing will still work because a developer isn't going to add restrictions to their own tests from their site. Unless they are testing if a captcha gets shown from an unsafe environment.

Archives, search engines, and spiders should already be respecting robots.txt. Site owners can already block those things if they don't want their site crawled.

>This means that no single party decides which form-factors, devices, operating systems, and browsers may access the Web.

The proposal allows anyone to become an attestor. There would not be a single attestor who you would have to prove your trustworthiness to.