skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't necessarily choose their life circumstances. A drug addict is a disabled person, their brains soaked in chemicals inhibiting from any logical reasoning. Sometimes they may experience monetary lapses of consciousness where they can feel both physical and emotional pain. Many of them have parents, siblings and children, and may have decided to stay away from their love ones because of shame. So obviously this social experiment was absurd, you are facilitating the trade of drugs within a vulnerable community. Everyone would agree that a 10 year old kid should not have legal access to alcohol, so why we think a mentally disabled addict should be able to buy drugs? Sobering up is a monumental challenge when you are on hard drugs, you need at minimum a doctor and weekly therapies designed for your particular type of addiction and health/psychological condition, and a strong support system of relatives and friends around you almost 24/7. So expecting that an addict all by themselves voluntarily wants to "get out" and seek or receive help is as ridiculous as the idea of a legal market for hard drugs. Addicts need to be forced into rehab where they can receive the right treatment and eventually be reunited with their families and slowly get back on their feet. This should not be hard to do for a country like the US but no one wants to have the hard talk, so we brush the problem under the rug and call for legalization of drugs and affordable housing
Wait, isn't this the Catholic church, having accumulated wealth for centuries?
No one is saying they are subsidizing people scavenging. They're talking about farther up the chain.
Same here besides some travel ball that screwed up a couple summers for me when I was a pre-teen. I ended up getting burnt out with baseball and quit. Besdies that, from my earliest memories to about 20 I screwed off basically 95% of the time and had a blast. Still ended up going to a top notch university, although it was a struggle for me at first.

Fast forward to present day and my kids are beginning to build ramps for their bikes just like I used to do - and I'm right out there with them building so I can shred on my MTB just like the old days lol.

The neighbors have been gone every weekend to a different part of the state or another state entirely for 8U baseball, and I can't help but feel sorry for them as someone who went through the same thing as a kid.
> I despise generative LLMs and avoid using them at every opportunity.

why? it's just a tool.

despise how it was released, how it was trained, the people that operate it , whatever, but I can't really understand why someone would 'despise' a wrench -- even if it was used really poorly and produced by a shady company with a checkered past.
I love it, I was about to complain that all it needs is a 24 hour mode. But it has one.

Very nice.
For some of us, 'oversight' means identifying and correcting issues before lawyering up. But, sure, I've definitely seen people claiming that addressing a problem only after it's out of control is perfectly cromulent.
I don’t think the driver benefits in this arrangement. I suppose I should provide an example. On a $60 airport fare, Uber+Fees was about $35 and the
driver received $25. Two years ago, that trip was maybe $40, so if Uber took 25% and taxes took some, the driver would’ve received $26-28.

More so, even if the driver received more in absolute terms per trip (e.g. in some other $60 fares, the driver received $30-32), the increased price due to Uber’s cut results in less people riding and less total fares. Then, even if the driver makes more per trip, they’ll make less over all.
Yes, double-checked locking is broken if the code does not use fences to enforce the order of checking the initialized flag and getting the value. TFA uses atomic operations to do that.
I've never used traceroute, but after reading this article, I know I will.

Went ahead and looked at the source for traceroute. This heading comment is quite great and informative as well:
https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.sbin/tracerou...

They also use the event APIs to implement the loop of traceroute. Seems like a lot of effort to me given how few events. Maybe someone else has insights why.
Thats dependency, not addictivenes. Alcohol is among the most dependent substances, but its not nearly as addictive as hard drugs or nicotine for that matter. Some people will find themselves strongly addicted to alcohol, but most wont. Heroine by comparison will result in nearly everyone becoming strongly addicted. Its not nearly the same. It has no place in society.
And there’s the third group that likes to comment on meta-hn behavior in a disparaging way
Gentoo users win then. They don't need to boot from USB, because their installer is tar. The ones that use a BINHOST don't even have to fiddle with compiling anything but the kernel unless they demand non-standard USE flags
If you use sumsung dex and run a vnc client to itself, that would work.
What? What do cults have to do with bigotry?
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Phantom Time Conspiracy Theory
Pearson Offers New AI Study Tools in Time for Back-to-School
I can view the HTTP version of the site just fine, but I seem to get stuck when trying it over HTTPS.
The abolition of private property ought to do it
https://archive.md/POgNx
> Teen marijuana usage was 1/3 what it was in the US at the time.

Marijuana isn't illegal in the US anymore (at least where I live). Fentanyl, which is basically laced into all hard drugs these days, I guess you could argue that they are going to be dead in one or two years anyways? I guess that's tough love for you.

Hey, marijuana should be legal...and here in Washington state at least it is. The biggest problem with marijuana, due to dumb federal rules, is that the (non-marijuana) drug addicts are more likely to do armed robberies of dispensaries because they are cash only businesses.

But let's not bait and switch here: "marijuana has been shown to be manageable, so let's allow people to do all the fentanyl they want" is not very logical. A lot of teens are just dying on their first experience with fent (or something they got that had fent in it that they didn't know about!). These aren't the same things at all.
It's difficult for me to overstate how much I disagree with you.

I don't need more people being shamed for being gay, for wearing the wrong outfit or for not fitting in. Shame just doesn't work well at a practical level. To say nothing of the superpower that gives the shameless.

Meanwhile, I find your alternative of "well if we don't have shame, we'll just have to make explicit laws about it" to be not a bad thing at all. You called it fascism with no real reasoning. Explicit laws that we can change and discuss seems like a good way to manage things!
Really? Sounds like it could be fun to play with my nieces. It'd be fun to show them how to play with "programming".
The SANS course for this still teaches to use IE for debugging JS because it is the only browser that lets you break at arbitrary points in the code instead of newline boundaries.
Do they mean Hansen's disease?
> how the executive should raise the money

Only Congress can raise money through spending bills.
This is a pretty poorly reasoned article.

Multimeters aren't real because the schematics, design documents and repair manuals for this device don't mention them. Therefore the voltage readings I'm getting here and there don't mean anything.

Sonar isn't real, because it's not in the specification of submarines and ship hulls that they should reflect sound.

Air pressure isn't real; it was here before us and is undocumented, so cruft like 101.3 kPa doesn't mean a thing.

Meltdown and Spectre exploits or other side channel attacks aren't real because the behaviors cannot be deduced from CPU architecture manuals.
> It's not hard to believe, it's just the arguments don't square

Have you ever had a conversation like this?

Person A: Hey, what's your favourite food?

Person B: Pizza.

Person A: Really! Why?

Person B: I dunno, I just like the taste and the whole experience of eating it. But obviously that's just my opinion, and I totally get that some people might prefer something else.

Person A: Your argument doesn't square. Here, let me explain why your preference for pizza is wrong...
This is like some weird version of the halting problem
But labor is fundamentally transactional, and genuinely so. A cult is not.
Yeah, executing drug dealers/smugglers at scale would require significant and likely negative rollbacks to our system of jurisprudence. The US used to do things like this though!

(I say likely negative because a system of trials that didn't cost 100k+ and take years for an actual defense would be a dramatic improvement)
They've added a lot of safety features. Knowing very little about LLMs, I would assume these prepended prompts are using up a chunk of the limited "attention" the transformer has
Guilty. I’m obsessed with LLM and LK-99. And in the past, was attracted crypto and NFT(which was a bubble)
MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, and water
Evals is not suitable for evaluating LLM applications such as RAG, etc because one has to evaluate on their own data where no golden test data exists, and techniqus used have poor correlation with human judgement.
We have build RAGAS framework for this https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas
Actually the Demo Center in E40 (I was working for Janet Murray on the Writing Project at the time.) I did eventually end up joining SIPB though.

(And then years later wrote enough of an XOpenDisplay in elisp - by porting the codegen for the perl version to generate elisp - though I never got much further, certainly not far enough for a WM. Amusingly I did find another elisp-X implementation, years later; since elisp doesn't have any native types, your choice of byteorder for the protocol was arbitrary, and we'd chosen opposite ones...)
That's not particularly user-friendly though: at least for CG/VFX software (where USD came from and is designed for), non-technical (at least in terms of understanding IEEE floats) people like artists often want to look at the values to verify stuff for 'debugging' (i.e. is the software tool I'm using actually exporting the correct values I selected in the UI params panel).

Having to do any form of interpretation (even scientific notation is not ideal in some cases), is not great for many users.
It's an incredibly good predictor of life outcomes.
I’m initially bothered by browsers doing this but perhaps it’s fine
Interesting - If I'm running a "single" chain, do you know if langsmith would be helpful?
Deployment solutions would be interesting - things are so new it would be hard to choose so my default would be just to wrap the API and keep it simple.
I'm an employer.

While your points are valid, they are only part of the picture.

Firstly, to answer your question directly, there are lots of companies that have adopted full remoteness. They have no offices, and everything happens online. These companies (collectivly) hire tens of thousands of workers.

Naturally remote means their workers can live anywhere. And it turns out that people who can live cheaper will work for lower salaries. Salaries that are a tenth of what you need.

So yes, there are lots of remote jobs, but they are not being advertised in London. If you're going to live in London (one of the more expensive places) then you should be trading hard on your proximity to office not full remoteness. Being fully remote, but needing a London salary is the worst possible combination for an employer.

Now, to your point about the advantages of bring in the office. We were 100% office before Covid, 100% remote with really short notice, and since lockdown ended a sort of hybrid (most people at home most of the time.)

We've had to keep our office space. Partly for lease reasons , partly because space in our building is hard to get so giving it up is a very permanent decision we're not ready to take yet.

It's hard to demand folk to come back (time and commute cost) but at the same time I can see the negative effects being remote is having on people. Productivity is fine, but professional growth is non existent. Product knowledge is hard to disseminate and its hard to figure out where people lack knowledge and skills.

In other words its easier face to face to see where people are struggling, where they are bored, where processes are hurting not helping. It's harder to identify leadership potential. It's easy to ignore promotions or even know who wants them.

Remote work turns workers into a commodity, and really that's not good for either side.

I say all this not to convince you of anything, merely to point out that the issue is a lot more nuanced than you're seeing.
"hybrid retrieval (traditional search index + embedding-based search) works better than either alone."

- any references for how this hybrid retrieval is done?
There are some photos of my aunt in this article :)
There's a good example of how fast, intuitive thinking often fails in "Thinking Fast and Slow" (referenced in the article):

A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
> Marc Andreesen famously said Netscape would “reduce Windows to a set of poorly debugged device drivers”.

Thankfully it didn't quite end up like that... the drivers did eventually get fairly high quality;)
> The heavy metals coming from the steel refineries ...

Steel mills or petroleum refineries. We have both.

I thought that mercury in the environment came mostly from coal fired power plants. The mills have their share of pollution issues but I think that's more air pollution. Well... There was the issue with killing a bunch of fish a couple years ago. IIRC that was cyanide.
I would love to see the PS or VBS example of this
Funny how it completely ignores the fact that covid sent everything to hell, and bureaucratic crap caused funding to not even be dispersed for over 2 years after passage. Of course programs that you judge based on an imaginary 3 year timeline will fail when they have only had maybe 8 months to do anything.
Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers
I'll give it a shot and keep that in mind
LOL and who exactly do you think are the fair, wise, omnipotent arbiters of "good shame"?

Religion? CNN? Fox News? The average person?
I dont think that I buy your line of reasoning. For one thing, historically, a lot of social contacts were based on ignorance and bullshit. Women were persecuted for being witches, people were killed for having the wrong religion, race, sexuality. There are many episodes in history where this was socially sanctioned and approved by authority figures.

I think people are right to have a healthy dose of doubt and even disrespect for authority figures. That's far from infantilization. It's learning to think for yourself and to choose carefully who you take as an authority.

As far as addiction goes, the US had a pretty long experiment with authority figures telling people to just say no. How well did that work out?
I'm a victim to the bug. Man someone out here help.
defi is fraud, I dont trust anyone.
> 65 min read

That's when you know it's going to be amazing. Single best narrative-form overview of the current state of integrating LLM's into applications and the challenges encountered I've read so far. This is fantastic and must have required an incredible amount of work. Massive kudos to the author.
I understand! Thank you so much for the execution plan. Yes, I am CS major who is about to graduate soon.

I will review my resume and try to make it better! Figuring out the rejection is the hardest part.
Absolutely Musk doesn't need to, but in the past his MO absolutely would be to do so and to tell the whole world about it. Remember the whole Thai Diver thing with the submarine? Or when he said they'd build loads of ventilators early on in the pandemic? Musk loves bandwagoning hype cycles.
This is a very well written and detailed article on the Art of LLMs. Thanks for writing this.
Could you spot me a link to that CERN incident or on the topic of superconductors becoming conductive (looooool)? All I got for CERN was reports about gas leaks but I find myself very curious about the way superconductors fail now
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While working on my latest project, I wanted a simple GPT chat bot API hosted on Cloudflare Workers. I decided to make this skeleton a template for future projects and to share it with the community.

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Let me know if this helps, or how to improve it! :)
> Those days G was heavily, almost totally, profiting from adwords/adsense.

Er, isn't that still the majority of their income?
Sorry, 14
How is this different from glTF? Are we getting another XKCD #927?
I didn't exactly intend it to operate precisely the same way that git does, but rather to have extensions of git that unify the system into one easy to use version control for data and code.

In most projects today, the code is (or generates, anyway) the data. This is true for materials science in physics, neural networks, and creation of databases via ETL. So, it would make sense to remove the requirement of making users of some software to regenerate this data, which may take 2 months on a supercomputer. Downloading that would be much faster. You can put it on a university server, or AWS, but now the data is in some system that is not guaranteed to be there. In fact, it's almost guaranteed to *not* be there in a very short period of time (people move positions and lose their access to these servers constantly).

So the very obvious best solution is IPFS for distribution of the data, but it does need to be linked to the git repo somehow. Of course, the data may not be simple or textual and play well with simple text based diffs for version control, so using something like borg can solve the issue of both data privacy, if needed, and block based diffs.

So this isn't to suggest "just git everything", but rather to say, 'if there's a new version control system for data and code, it's probably added some improvements to fit, and this could be a direction that makes sense'.

So I was checking to see if it had gone that direction yet.
ngl that's a pretty sweet look
I have compared about $400 worth of stationary supplies in the past two years, looking for office pens that work well for drawing.

My conclusion is that there are basically three that I will gravitate to, and to get qualities beyond that I'll turn to fountain, dip pen, or felt markers:

1. Bic Cristal, the world's most popular ballpoint. They've had decades to get the ink feeling just right(and they do tweak it every year) and it produces a nice, gradual dampening on movements without being slippery or scratchy. In the 1.6mm bold colors, you can also feel a distinct difference between each color. Oil paste has nice qualities for texture and value and it doesn't smudge easily - there's always a reason to want it around, even if isn't suitable as an archival art supply. Bic's other ballpoint models are also fine, basically just alternate bodies for the same ink.

2. Uniball 207+ Plus. The "+ plus" model is a new version of Uni's permanent gel ink. It's a terrifyingly consistent gel pen: the line doesn't skip often, it doesn't feel soapy like the original 207, nor is it scratchy like many competitors. It's a "default all-purpose pen" that makes a bold and dark line.

3. Uniball One F. Uni scores another hit here, but in a more niche realm. The Uni One ink is designed to sit at the surface of the paper and not saturate, which makes it extremely dark, comparable to dark india inks. As a general tool it has issues with skipping and is rather demanding of the paper, but it can make some remarkably delicate lines in 0.38mm when working slowly. It also scrapes off easily since it doesn't saturate. The F model has a higher weight at the tip which adds a bit of extra control.
Defi is not fraud, people are fraud. This essay makes a point in case
for this argument. I'm sorry to hear that you were victim to the bug!
We’re nowhere near AGI dude, even with several breakthroughs.

AI today is a glorified search algorithm.
Notes App:

1. Obsidian is the best. Simplenote is a close one. Used OneNote over the years. And tried many others for at least some weeks.

2. MS PowerPoint is the best for making slides for talks/classes. Used Keynote and Impress seriously, too.

3. Used Windows, macOS, and Linux for very long times. Altgough Apple hardware in unparalleled, Linux as an OS does it for me. Endlessly tweakable at every level.

4. For learning fundamentally new things, nothing ever beats group study and group discussion. I have, as anyone else, studied alone, and in a class. Don't care about the quality of peers in study groups as long as they are motivated.
The solution is what measure 110 was _supposed_ to be. Not what it turned into. At least that was my understanding when I voted in favor of it a few years ago.

The problem is that is has now manifested into default legal possession and consumption. That was not the idea.

What should happen is that if you’re caught doing drugs like meth, fentanyl, etc. you either go to rehab, or you go to jail.

Instead, at least here in Portland, the police LITERALLY doing absolutely nothing. Partly because they are genuinely understaffed, partly because they despise the voter base (understandably so). That still doesn’t excuse the complete lack of enforcement.

This isn’t specific to just drug use either. Day time camping is illegal now in Portland. The police won’t enforce it. Stealing a vehicle is illegal in Portland. The police tell you over the phone it’s not worth looking for your stolen vehicle and they refer you to a Facebook group that tracks stolen cars (I shit you not). Traffic stops, missing tags, no insurance, etc. anything related to traffic is unenforced to a laughable degree. I know people who haven’t registered their vehicles since 2020. They somehow still have a valid drivers license.