skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same experience here. It always depends. 2 month ago I was surprised, that a chatbot was able to solve my somewhat complex problem in no time, with a text by text guide. It was also able to awnser follow up questions.
"era of global boiling has arrived" says UN chief
Lots and lots of CI is cpu limited, for one thing.
My point was it was no allusion to the original at all. The format took a life of its own, and is now a meme, and the author himself confirms it was the case in the sibling comment. No need to pull that scary ellipsis out.
Developers learning how their system actually works? I'll believe it when I see it... ;)

More seriously, I believe nftables has the capacity to help here: now there can be several chains which all attach to the same hook. So docker can put rules into the FORWARD base chain of the filter table (belonging to iptables, mine is empty because I don't use iptables):

# nft list chain ip filter FORWARD
table ip filter {
chain FORWARD {
type filter hook forward priority filter; policy accept;
}
}

... but then the filter_FORWARD base chain of the firewalld table (belonging to firewalld) _also_ gets to process packets. Note the numerically higher filter priority, which means that this chain runs later:

# nft list chain inet firewalld filter_FORWARD
table inet firewalld {
chain filter_FORWARD {
type filter hook forward priority filter + 10; policy accept;
ct state { established, related } accept
ct status dnat accept
iifname "lo" accept
ip6 daddr { ::/96, ::ffff:0.0.0.0/96, 2002::/24, 2002:a00::/24, 2002:7f00::/24, 2002:a9fe::/32, 2002:ac10::/28, 2002:c0a8::/32, 2002:e000::/19 } log prefix "RFC3964_IPv4_REJECT: " reject with icmpv6 type addr-unreachable
jump filter_FORWARD_POLICIES_pre
jump filter_FORWARD_IN_ZONES
jump filter_FORWARD_OUT_ZONES
jump filter_FORWARD_POLICIES_post
ct state { invalid } meta pkttype host log prefix "STATE_INVALID_DROP: "
ct state { invalid } drop
meta pkttype host log prefix "FINAL_REJECT: "
reject with icmpx type admin-prohibited
}
}

Now if only tools would learn to stay in their lane, cease assuming they are the only tool managing the nftables state, we'd have ufw managing its own table, docker managing its own table, firewalld managing its own...
Your point is lost.

He claims when sites get dropped from bing they are automatically dropped from ddg and require manual efforts to get them up.

There is no process either. You need to connect with someone on the inside. No form, phone number or any reasonable way of contacting them. If you don't share a daycare timeslot with him or can get your submission upvoted here good luck
Well, even before electric power steering became popular, rack and pinion steering was/is used in almost all passenger vehicles. The only vehicles that I can think of that use a steering gear and pitman arm like this video are 1 ton Ford/Chevy/Dodge and the Jeep Wrangler.
Man, fucking scientists dude, they need to get their heads on straight

If you're one of the 7 people who invented room temperature superconductivity, it's not going to matter who has the Nobel Prize. You can take a part time 7 figure consulting gig and be as famous as you want to boot
> Because it selectively merges only patches which...

This is probably pedantic, but I think the way they actually work is that they integrate all upstream changes, and then disable any behavior they don't want to support? Which means they can minimize their overall divergence, which is what you want for maintainability.
> MTF "transwomen" are not women. That's not an opinion, it's biological fact ... they never had a uterus or other female sex organs and almost zero had a XX chromosome

A favorite technique of bad-faith arguers and spreaders of disinformation is to take a very narrow definition a word (often overly narrow), derive some conclusion about it, and then apply that conclusion to a much broader definition of that word. You've started by picking a definition of "biological women" that sounds somewhat reasonable (but certainly not completely agreed upon, especially regarding "other female sex organs"), and then used that to justify the statement "MTF 'transwomen' are not women.". But that 2nd use of the word "women" is very different. Nobody who posts that on Twitter really means "MTF trans women do not have uteruses and most do not have XX chromosomes". Nobody is confused on this point. They mean "MTF trans women are not 'real women', and therefore it's OK to mistreat them." I think you know this.

> the _group_ of folks who select "Black" or similar has a lower median on IQ tests

I will accept this statement exactly as stated as being true, but that's not how you're using it. This statement does not come unburdened with a ton of other (false) assumptions behind it. The most obvious one is that you seem to think this statement justifies the claim "blacks have a lower average IQ than other races" -- No! That is a completely different claim. Note the word "race" here. That statement is talking about "blacks as a race", really meaning "genetic, innate features of humans belonging to the race 'black'." Even the existence of such a race is reasonable to dispute, but the biggest problem is going from a correlation between IQ scores and specific group of people to a causation about why that group of people has low IQ scores (i.e. because of their race). That is not true, and has been basically totally debunked.

But look at how many more words it took me to address the statements, compared to making them in the first place. It was an extremely subtle change from "group that checks 'black'" to "race", yet the latter very clearly implies innate features while the former does not. It's a one-sided fight, and censorship is a perfectly reasonable tool to even the odds. There are very subtle ways that such "facts" can be completely misused, misattributed, and misinterpreted to support hatred. That (often intentional) misuse, misattribution, and misinterpretation is hate speech.
I think Chrisco does a great job of explaining why they are not at all on the same level (a possession versus something that is an innate part of you) but it's also not an obtuse non-sequitur. You cannot revoke your fingerprints or face scan; on the other hand, it's also probably already too late, especially as the parent pointed out they had already submitted to this in one location. And no doubt your facial scan data can be collected surreptitiously anyway.
Most of the algorithms we use in machine learning are chosen specifically because they parallelize well. If we could increase clock speeds arbitrarily high, a huge selection of algorithms we passed on would suddenly become viable.
I'm familiar enough with HN and your moderation to know that that was the chief complaint here.

Know two things:

- Economics was my own major field of study. I've since taken on a strong interest in sociology (despised by both economists and "real scientists and engineers"), particularly the work of Charles Perrow and Robert K. Merton, which offers insights into organisational behaviour which economics fails to account or allow for. Other significant study was in hard sciences, environmental studies, and ecology. I'm well aware of the conflicts between orthodox economics and these fields, and have spent much of my post-uni life trying to understand why and how this emerged. The works cited by Mirowski, Oreskes, and Conway go a long way to explaining why and how.

- That economics is at odds with basic physics, thermodynamics specifically, and ecology, is extraordinarily well established. It's the foundational basis for a number of heterodox economics disciplines, notably biophysical and ecological economics. There are widely-respected bodies such as the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the more popular Evonomics blog (itself featuring many notable economists as well as other critics) which address this as a major point of study. The mainstream profession periodically goes into hand-wringing mode itself, usually after some economic crisis, usually signaled by The Economist announcing a resurgence of interest in Karl Marx. I've been around the profession long enough to have seen a few cycles of this myself, as I commented here three years ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23941770>

Despite its attitudes and behaviours, Libertarian / Austrian economics is not mainstream, though it certainly tries to portray itself as that. It has had a profound influence on both popular discussion and the economics profession, however, much of that as a deliberate and decades-long (approaching or exceeding century-long) project. Again, Mirowski, Oreskes, and Conway all describe this, amongst many other authors.

The quip was far less a cheap shot than a shorthand. And again, my principle issue is that HN tone-polices criticisms, ignoring its own advice to "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Could the comment have been better? Sure. Most can, certainly my own.

Does it deserve flagging and censure? No.
To me it seems like it's more about control: Before coffee you are tired and sleep well, then "flip a switch" (drink coffee) and you are alert and ready for the day. And you can do this even if perhaps you didn't sleep well, or not enough, or you just take a while to wake up, because otherwise you are not productive for a while.

Yes, the baseline is unchanged - but it's controlled and on demand.
It can be, but doesn't have to be. "High performance" is just too vague to try and draw inferences about individual companies.

I work somewhere with what I would consider a high performance culture. We all show up to work and consistently put in ~8 hours of high effort work. A few times a year that may mean some late nights, but mostly not, and folks usually take 4-8 weeks of vacation a year. Working around the clock is not rewarded. I find the whole setup fun and invigorating.

That said we do sometimes make a bad hiring decision and those people may end up working 80 hours a week to try to match the output everyone else. We have to let those people go.
Inversely, I hate trying to search for old articles and being unable to find them because something about the websites metadata says a blog from 2004 is from 2018. It makes Google's time window search (and general, research for contemporary views) almost impossible.
You know this is coming with Uber: you book an Uber to a fancy restaurant and get Macdonald’s ads in the app, and then the driver’s app picks a route that drives past Macdonald’s and tells them to offer you a $5 off coupon on any order in the next 10 minutes.
Wifi calling sends calls (sent and received) over the Internet as UDP packets. So you can call somebody in your home country using your home country SIM, but the data is actually using your holiday SIM's data allowance. As roaming and "international" rates are crazy.
That is not a fact.
Those studies have all been debunked, pseudo-science, that only get quoted in context like this when someone wants to justify racism.

Hey, I just read a study that Republicans have a lower IQ. That is documented fact. Not even joking, there are studies that show this, also easier to fool, less able to deal with change.
It has been said that Coca-Cola saved a lot more money on glass bottles than they ever spent investing millions into recycling ads and PSAs.
Makes sense. In some ways there's less magic to ruby, because it's not using macros, templates, reflection, generics etc. In other languages you're stepping out of "normal" code into "special" code to make the magic work.
Danny Hillis: The internet needs a Plan B (2013)
I’m in Czech Republic
You need to check on those definitions.

And Global Entry only requires to show a valid passport and state ID. There’s no thumbprints involved.

So in effect, Global Entry requires only information that the government already has, especially if you have a passport.
Teams is not competing with messenger apps like slack, it is competing with Operating Systems. They are building an ecosystem that a business user never needs to leave. And not just competing with Mac OS, Android etc. But competing with the traditional windows machines where a user has a real file system and native software.
If they're not just a mirror, it seems rather strange that when a specific website disappears from Bing's index, it also disappears from DDG. In my very common sense based view of the situation, if DDG really builds it's own "index" based on a variety of sources, then why did TechDirt completely disappeared from it's search results? DDG can argue all day about how much their "local and knowledge graph" is built in-house, yada yada yada. At the end of the day, a search engine must retrieve the most relevant websites for a given query. And nothing can be more relevant to "site:xxx.xxx.xxx" than the site itself. If it doesn't appear on DDG results, then it's not indexed. And then it clearly shows that DDG is nothing but a fancy mirror to Bing search.
If Peter Zeihan is right, the era of 0% interest rates is over, and we're looking at 10% rates for a decade, in the US. (If, and only if we manage reshoring correctly, otherwise rates never go back to normal) The rest of the world is likely to be worse.
But if one lab *does* succeed, it means there probably is something of substance.
The paragraphs upon paragraphs of history made me click out of that article. There’s no relevance to the point being made.

In regards to ChatBot usage, in my limited interaction with support bots, they are usually quite useless. Each time I use one, it’s a game of ‘get to the actual support agent’.
To play Devil’s Advocate I don’t think it’s just simple trans hate.

My understanding of at least some of the backlash is that as an influencer Dylan Mulvaney targets mostly teens on TikTok with her content. This is a completely unethical target for the Bud Light brand to market to. It’s akin to the Joe Camel ads that likewise targeted underage individuals.

Of course anti-LGBT people and groups have joined this boycott as well, but given the numbers I have a hard time believing it’s as simple as
bigotry.

This is just my understanding of the situation, I don’t have any skin in this game. You couldn’t pay me to drink Bud Light simply based on the taste of it and nothing else.
What's funny is I have yet to encounter anyone IRL who talks to Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant often enough to notice.

Maybe building chatbots as a layer beneath the existing virtual assistant platforms would be a viable user experience, and I'm sure there are people who would use them—but how many? I'd be interested in statistics on how many smartphone users actually use the voice assistant for more than a couple simple questions once or twice a month.
All mentioned items have side-channel borked firewall and route rules in the past. Some bugs intermittently silently block local daemon instances from (re)loading like magic (some bugs only happen when the system is brought up).

If your daily tasks include something less borked, than consider yourself very lucky you live without systemd. If I recall, ufw was intended for simple workstation rule sets.

Personally, for home stuff I tend to use a heavily customized rule-set that interoperates with fail2ban. And a very old repeatably stable approach to setting up the interfaces from a known default state...

https://shorewall.org/

Best of luck, =)
Generally speaking I'm pragmatic when it comes to carrying a weapon. The same as carrying a tourniquet, first aid kit, or helmet. Personally I live in an extremely safe community with almost no violent crime. So carrying a weapon is comparable to wearing a helmet while driving a car. While it could save my life, it's too much trouble considering how rare such situations are.

However, I understand there are hundreds of reasons to carry a weapon and everyone's situation is unique. If you want to put up with the trouble to carry one, it is literally your right. I just wish people would be more responsible about their weapons in general...
The title applies to almost everyone’s chat bot… except for a couple.
Actually you can. My "published" phone number is parked at a voip firm, and I get calls on that number over data (fairly few real ones, since my friends tend to mostly use whatsapp to arrange social stuff.) When I travel, I buy a 25GB-for-a-month physical sim from 3UK, sold on the US Amazon site. The only downside is that you can't top up the data using the same pricing unless you're physically in the UK, so I have to get a new sim each trip.
Per the article this is likely DoA:

> Two bills on this matter — the TRUST in Congress Act and the PELOSI Act — have failed to move the needle this year, and it’s unclear if or when the Ban Stock Trading for Government Officials Act will be debated and voted on.
Looking past a lot of unnecessary verbiage, I think he's saying that everything that you might want a chatbot on your website to handle should instead be integrated with ChatGPT (or its replacement) in the future. And that you should just have your web app, doing its thing, and not bolt on an isolated version of a chatbot that is only used for interacting with your specific site. The assumption is that people will want to talk to chatbots, just not your chatbot: they want a one-stop shop with every chatbot in the same app.

I see the point, not sure I agree totally.

I'm not someone who ever wants to talk to a chatbot, but sometimes I am forced to. I suppose that it is better in such cases to have a single place I go for that. On the other hand, if my confusion begins on your website, I would hope that your website would help me resolve it: if I have to go from yourwebapp.com, to a third party application, then type "how do I do X on yourwebapp.com?" that seems convoluted. Perhaps a browser-level integration, or at least replacing the proprietary chatbot with a doorway to that single, unified chatbot.

Hmm, I dunno. Sounds like whoever runs such a chatbot would have their hands around the throat of the web, doesn't it?
"I'm always delighted by the light touch and stillness of early programming languages."

Except for COBOL, of course, which is one of the oldest.
Hmm, seems my suspicion about the origin of the term was right:

> The term "range anxiety" was first reported in the press on September 1, 1997, in the San Diego Business Journal by Richard Acello referring to worries of GM EV1 electric car drivers. On July 6, 2010, General Motors filed to trademark the term, stating it was for the purpose of "promoting public awareness of electric vehicle capabilities"

Can't think of any other product where the user gets blamed like this. I really do have "MPG anxiety" in my ICE car, always checking the gauge, but nobody calls it that.
> The dream it seems to tap into is "You don't need to deal with the arbitrary whims of 5 different groups of web designers, just talk to one thing and get a single response."

This calls to mind the old joke: "a person with one watch always knows what time it is, a person with two watches is never sure."

But the thing is, a person with one watch can't be sure the time they have is correct. For more complicated things, don't you want multiple answers? How do you know the one answer you got is the best one?
Then the significance of my first reply should be sufficiently apparent.
Get the fuck off the road with that attitude. You're why people die.
He's still being prosecuted for the more serious crimes. Prosecutors pick and choose which things to actually try to make stick all the time, it's basically their job.
How would a crypto network help here?
They are behind schedule on this though

"Intel 4: Ramping Meteor Lake production wafer starts; expect to launch in 2H 2023" -- https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_7117ea38b8ffd24d6f3a6e...

BUT when it was announced

"2022 H2 ramp, 2023 H1 products" -- https://www.anandtech.com/show/16823/intel-accelerated-offen...

2022 H2 ramp vs 2023 H2 ramp... seems like a year out.
As mentioned by a few folks elsewhere in these comments, if FedNow is wildly successful and takes a meaningful portion of payments, it centralizes information about lots of peoples' financial activity in one place, across banks and across payment platforms. This potentially leads to FedNow being a one-stop OLTP shop for governments to run queries against realtime data, or even build stream processing agents that filter or take action on patterns.

Currently, it would be more difficult to build this database as it's hodgepodged together from suspicious activity reports and subpoenas. There's of course the unknowable possibility that law enforcement and security agencies have secret ways of building a comprehensive realtime dataset - but, if they do exist, their secret nature reduces the scope of situations in which they can be used.
Adding a veneer of security isn't necessarily superior to leaving it out altogether. Systems of this sort are best secured at the network level, i.e. only trusted hosts should be able to connect to it. Redis is a good example of where this has been tried: it does support password based log in, but the password is stored and transmitted in plaintext, and a redis server will happily accept thousands of auth attempts per second making brute forcing a viable attack. Rather than improve the auth system Redis has instead doubled down on encouraging appropriate network level security by defaulting to only being accessible to the local host, so admins have to go through an explicit step (with warnings) before they can just expose it to the internet.
Glad to hear! It is free to use for now. We just got running and haven't figured out the pricing model, but we're planning on something freemium SaaS.

Totally understand the privacy concerns. That's something we've been thinking about a lot. Right now we're only SaaS but might offer something "local only" in the future if there's enough demand.
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons (2017)
It's very easy to see how favorably or unfavorably Tesla's claimed range compares to competitors based on independent tests of multiple EVs in the same conditions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LWL90paufE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynCaTDR4rDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFB6hsYXDiA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvwOa7TCd1E

Spoiler alert: Tesla models fare about as well, if not better, than their EV cousins, hitting around 80% of the stated range in the wild.

No matter how much you guys say you hate Tesla, it doesn't change the fact what the best selling car in the world is.
If you have some group that all understands and checks each other from the beginning, Ruby is probably great.

However it was every startups default choice for a while, and those code bases get wrecked and have no oversight until way later. A lot of bad ideas becomes foundational. This scenario is far more common than good Ruby code bases. It’s just easier to rule out Ruby when looking for new jobs.
Then why do some of them exceed the minimum medical loss ratio by quite a bit? Why did Elevance simply not deny more claims so it could get closer to 80% rather than 90% and book more net income?

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2023/mar/...

> MEDICAL LOSS RATIO TRENDS

>Reported loss ratios are 89.4% for Elevance (fka Anthem), 86.0% for CVS Health (Aetna), 83.8% for Cigna, and 82.8% for UnitedHealthcare. Loss ratios have been impacted by seasonal patterns and the return to more stable utilization than seen in 2020.

Seems like an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.
The main pet peeve about chatbots is that now they're on almost every page, popping up with "I am here to help, what would you like to buy today" and the more atrocious ones that are implemented instead of a call center to reduce the number of human operators to the minimum possible.

Yeah, I really don't want to talk to a chatbot.
In Big Sur you can find prickly pears and sweet lemon trees at old homesteads.