skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? A company hiring another company like this seems perfectly reasonable to me. There is no argument to be made about contractor vs employee status because the employees are still full time employees. Why should they have to be an employee of a single corporate parent?

When companies like Amazon buy other companies and vertically integrate, people complain. When Amazon contracts with vendors instead, people complain too. I don't think there is any legitimate point to this and it's just "I hate Amazon."
I don't think 401k is a thing in Italy.
A valid crawler is following robots.txt
I think cars are more dangerous for that exact reason. I was being sarcastic in saying that roads filled with lots of cars aren't as dangerous or noisy.
I think the future is frameworks like Astro that allow you to use any library you want. That'll make the most sense until someone comes up with a new paradigm all together.
It is a complete fallacy to argue that just because it is a statistical model it inherently can not make correct deductions.

The model is definitely complex enough that it could include an encoding of rules and apply them.
it's called Walmart, and already exists as an in-person option.
I love OSM and use it all the time for hiking, but even though their restaurant and hotel listings have good coverage, they're sadly not much use to me without the reviews.

Short of scraping reviews from Google and importing them into OSM for the area in which I'm traveling, I'm not sure there is a good short-term solution.
No, I'm rather explicitly accusing them.

>most do or allow things that are blatantly illegal where they're headquartered.

Much of this would not be possible on a fair playing field. It happens because the companies outsourcing wield immensely disproportionate power, so they can get away with it. If "maybe we shouldn't let them kill people and dump the trash in their water supply" means slowing things down, I suspect it would be a net benefit, even after losing most of the positives it brings in.

I recognize it's complex and opinions differ, of course. Not claiming I alone am right or that my opinion won't change.
> These registers include the name and address of anyone in the UK who was registered to vote between 2014 and 2022

So the headline may as well read “ALL UK voter’s data since 2014 leaked”

I’m angry about this. Our technology strategy in this country is completely backwards.
Nobody has a track record of using money well. Basically period. At best, you can find some examples that were short lived, but by and large, building wealth turns to either wasting it, or hoarding it.

With that framing, I honestly don't like "as long as we tightly control where it is spent" arguments. They all beg the question that we know where money should be spent. Where history is a great guide that, no, we didn't. We have examples to look to, to be sure. Some decent guidelines, as it were. But they are often last year's guidelines, and that year came and went.

So, I'm game to "keep our eyes open" as we increase allocation. But, by and large, I think insisting on winning bets is a fools errand that will likely cause more problems than it solves.
While it is true that the harmonics will be off for any tuning system, octave stretching is relatively new and arises only on equal tempered instruments because it needs to be applied equally to every note, so it sounds terrible if you apply it to unequal tunings where (for example) the distance between C2 and G3 can be 20 cents different than the distance between C#2 and G#3.

In equal temperament, the distance is ~2 cents between the 2nd harmonic of C2 and G3 (and every other pair a 12th apart), so stretching an octave by ~1 cent spreads that distance out while being pretty much imperceptible. In a decent quarter-comma tuning system like Werckmeister (a very common Baroque tuning), four of the 5ths are off by about 5 cents, and the others are pure. As a result, the 2nd harmonic differs from the note a 12th above by a variable amount. Stretching every octave by 2.5 cents to balance this becomes very much audible across a keyboard, and sounds very odd on the harmonic series' that are nearly perfect.

Baroque tunings also pay a lot of attention to the major 3rd (the 4th harmonic), which is a notable weakness of equal temperament - it is far too narrow.

Regardless, octave stretching doesn't have to do with piano dynamics, it has to do with tuning systems.
What kind of competition would you like to see in the banking sector? All banks look exactly the same from this vantage point...
Let me know how that works out for you and if you would add anything to this tutorial!
Nah, they would just pay a fine and keep on doing business. At least in the US.
Breach of WTO rules, free trade principles, market distorting industrial policies.
Arithmetic problems have nothing to do with reasoning, and are a known weakness due to the tokenization schemes in these models.

Secondly, finding failure modes doesn't mean that the model doesn't have any reasoning ability. Humans can reason, despite the fact that high school students are pretty bad at formal logic.

So, the conclusion is over broad, and the paper fails to incorporate existing knowledge about these models. Kinda crap.
If you've ever tried to take apart Cloudflare's various session cookies, MITMed scripts sent for "high integrity" pages (or when in "super bot-fight" mode), etc., you'll have observed that it's basically running a web-worker to heuristically do browser-integrity checking. That is, Cloudflare is trying to run a series of tests that real browsers operated by users pass, but which headless browsers operated by bots will fail.

These range from pretty simple things that check that the browser is actually a browser rather than a raw HTML parser (e.g. "draw an image on a <canvas>, export it to PNG, hash the PNG, compare to an expected result"); to things that check for low-effort headless-browsing techniques like the one you get by default using Puppeteer in a Lambda/Cloud Function (e.g. "do we have the weirder fonts you'd expect to exist on a consumer OS, but which these default batteries-included container images don't bother to bake in"); to things that work really hard to detect the "scent of humanity" through the browser (e.g. "before the user activated the integrity-check prompt, did we record a sequence of 'extraneous' mouse movements and key events that look like a human making individualized mistakes on their way to completing the form, and don't look like a recorded capture of such similar to other ones we've seen recently.")

If you're getting caught in a verification loop, it's because you're using a browser or device or extension that obscures/disables enough of these heuristics that Cloudflare can't get proof positive that you're a person rather than a bot — and so, under whatever settings the site-owner has it set at, it will just keep trying to get that proof, rather than telling you you've failed and been blocked. (Why? Because telling a bot they've failed tells them that they should stop trying something that's not working and instead — in the words of Star Trek technobabble — "rotate their shield frequency" before trying again.)
Your own link indicates that they have gone back and forth on the guidance around "opt in or pay" models three times already.

As I have said, this model attempts to enshrine free ridership, which might work while there is the rest of the world subsidizes it, but it is not a sustainable model to force tech companies to serve users at a loss.

The objective of the DMA which will serve to enshrine the illegality of these models is to target American tech companies and European legislators have explicitly stated as such.
Or, the Tesla simply just plows into a barrier at highway speeds, which also solves the problem! Progress!
Users in Egypt are unable to visit my Fitness website https://musclewiki.com

Cloudflare is a huge part of the internet. Often they won't respond and it appears that for whatever reason, their IP range is blocked in Egypt.
We probably get 10 support emails per week. I contacted Cloudflare and they simply said there is nothing they can do.
WhatsApp at least has the possibility to back up messages, maybe signal too.
If react can get server components to work then it will be going in a completely different direction. React as your connection to the server.
Performance is never what drives adoption of general solutions like front end frameworks, developer productivity is way above that as a metric and yeah: React having a massive ecosystem is it’s killer feature.

Trust me, I wish we could move one from React for something more reasonable like Solid or Svelte, but no amount of benchmark will change the trend.

Feels like Twitter is living in a parallel universe.
The process is more complex and the energy more intense the more 9’s you need, because the contaminates in quartz are different depending on where it was mined. This complexity is why there’s only one place in the world that can do it at solar panel demand scale — and that’s because China dumped a ton of money into the process and doesn’t have strict pollution laws. If you can start with purer quartz, you’re way ahead of reaching scalable refinement.

Here's a great video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRfWyyOFPg
“GPT-4 is just 9 GPT-3’s in a trench coat”
Seconded on the trackball. I was a trackball user for years until Microsoft discontinued their trackball ca. 2005, and I was unable to find a suitable replacement. A couple of years ago I was feeling some wrist pain from my conventional mouse, and reexamined the trackball offerings. After a couple of missteps with mediocre Kensington models, I found the Elecom HUGE Trackball. It is excellent, I am tempted to buy some backups in case they stop making it.

For the Mac users: I find that it is quite handy to keep a Magic Trackpad on the side of my keyboard opposite the trackball. I use it to make quick gestures such as switching desktops, showing all windows, etc.
The new __VA_OPT__ feature in C23
The above twitter thread it looks like he does that too with the ferromagnetic material. He has a long chain of posts although the first post after the original video has him rotate the sample 180 degrees on top of the magnet (still points up) and then again back to the original position. He does have it flop on top of the magnet at some point and has to poke it back upwards but that happens in the original video too so meh. The way the object moves is just too similar imho. It looks like plain old ferromagnetic material of that shape does this.
He was the BDFL of the project with some ahem quirky architectural choices which is why the neovim project was to founded to begin with. He also did some odd stuff like rewriting everyone's commits with his own account. So I'm not sure direct hand off is going to be as easy as "its open source".
Yea I noticed the same thing for awhile. Cloudflare actively blocks non-Chrome browsers.
Quartz = SiO2 --> Silicon and Oxygen QED
How do you pass the bar exam without the ability to reason?
It may just be for different people, not sure. I'm a Rust fanatic, i use it for everything, including web dev. We even have a shop full of similar Rust folks.

Personally it's my most productive language, and this is after years in Python, NodeJS, and ~5 years Go.

Which isn't to attempt to invalidate your experience. But i do think:

> writing Rust is a slog where you have to jump through hoops and spend a lot more time thinking about programming language abstractions than thinking about the problem you're solving.

Is quite a leap. A language you describe not speaking natively is, unsurprisingly, difficult for you. Which is a far cry to say it's always that way.

You of course shouldn't be in a rush to rewrite anything unless you see the value in it. I make no claims of that value, either. Rewrite It In Rust (RIIR) is a meme, imo a destructive meme. But i do take issue with labeling any language broadly.

Most languages are pretty good when you're very fluent in them, and while they do have tradeoffs, i don't think Rust's tradeoffs are as you put them.
There are humans who can't add two four-digit numbers without scratch paper, too. So what?
> until someone comes up with a new paradigm all together.

Like Bun?
I'm not an expert in this field, and I'm ust partway through this paper, I'm already impressed. Very well written and argued.

A good antidote to the "Sparks of Artifical General Intelligence" paper that was making the rounds and getting headlines, which was I think really a press release masquerading as a paper.

Love it: "if a human made these mistakes, the ones reported in this article, then I would conclude without any hesitation that they cannot reason"
Mine still has the touch bar but the Escape key is a real key. It's bearable but overall still a terrible idea.
I haven't had any problems on Waterfox. However, it is absurd to me I need javascript to simply visit a website anymore.
I just tried this, and GPT-4 said:

Based on the information provided, Mable was alive at noon. Her heart rate was recorded at 9 AM, and her blood pressure was recorded at 7 PM, both of which are signs of life. She was reported to have died at 11 PM, so she would have been alive at noon.

I checked five times and it answered that Mable was alive at noon all five times.
I am inclined to agree. I do somewhat like it on my 13” MBP but do miss physical function keys. If they just let you do fn+num for the F keys it would be a big improvement…
Anyone remember that Torch was first glued with Lua before PyTorch?
When building nontrivial applications, I don't want my UI framework to be radical from version to version. Performance improvements are great and all but if radical means substantial change to the design, an upgrade amounts to a rewrite.
Hah, you know, most crawlers were fine. The only one that actively DDOSed websites was fucking Yandex. It doesn't respect robots.txt and it will actively fight against any rate limits by spawning connections on new IPs the moment one is blocked
No, but to clients accustomed to paying Silicon Valley prices $150 isn't too bad, if the tickets get closed.

If you look on sites like Upwork, even developers from poor countries often cost $30+ per hour.
You are correct, and that is fine. If the ecosystem becomes "You control your browser but not the apps on your mobile device," that's pretty much the status quo.
Yeah, gitlab also blocks me from logging in (via its cloudflare use). It did so even when we paid for it. We no longer do. (for other reasons, but anyway, good riddance)
This was my original post:

> That doesn't mean it should always be applied. We shouldn't be attempting to annihilate companies. Just make sure the fine outweighs the benefit of doing something - just as we would with most fines.

You seem to be agreeing, but given the length of your prose it's hard to tell. Do you disagree?
Substitute "domain modeling" for"abstraction" in my statement and it may make more sense.
> this model attempts to enshrine free ridership

No it doesn't - you can still charge for a service.

It just makes stalking/spamming an unviable method of payment.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Interviews the NASA UAP Chair, David Spergel
Star talk podcast looks at the UAP subject from a scientific angle ahead of the NASA public hearing set for this month.
That's remarkably dismissive. He addresses your argument right away in the paper, and in multiple places? Did you read it?

It's not about testing the ability to do arithmetic. It's testing the ability to plan a reasoning process / argument.

It's also not the sum of his paper, only one section.

The problem is not that GPT-4 can't to the math problems, it's that it can't reason out how it would begin approach doing a math problem -- it would be totally okay for it to get them wrong, if it was actually making an attempt and could show evidence of working through them,.

Instead it just produces "answers" which are a statistical guess based on other things it has seen on the internet. It's true humans do this, too -- often a first lazy approximation for a problem -- but the key difference is a human can reason out, through interrogation and introspection where it might have gone wrong. GPT-4 appears to be unable to do that.

And worse, my experience with these systems (and the paper's) is that during dialogue about errors they actually rapidly degrade in quality of answer.

I'm probably as bad as a high school student at formal logic, too. But if you sit down with me with a problem and we talk about it, and I'm interested, it will become evident I am capable of reasoning through it, even if I make mistakes. That's not the case with GPT-4.
My recollection of calculus disagrees with your initial proposition. When the algorithm pool grows wide enough you have to apply reason to pick the correct strategy.
It’s fundamentally different. Barring the fact that it’s lower friction to approach someone in person because you can read if they’re busy (you can accomplish the same with a online status but they have to trigger it or you have to send a chat message asking is now is a good time to talk), calling someone is way more intrusive.

It’s also lower bandwidth in terms of communication. Losing the ability to gesture and point and to write on a board in real life is significant. It feels like it shouldn’t be, but it is.

> there is another person who is glad that they can get in a work flow without random coworkers coming over to talk about something they aren't currently working on.

In corporate life, you lose a lot cumulatively if you’re not generally aware of goings on. People who keep their head down and do their work do ok for a while but over a lifetime they lose out on new ideas and don’t work on important problems. Richard Hamming (of Hamming window, Hamming distance fame) noted this in the 1980s and wrote about it in “you and your research”

http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

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Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect sequence because you might say, "The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind." I don't know. But I can say there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing — not much, but enough that they miss fame.
That's not going to be enough to pass Cloudflare.
"Smart" is a useless concept because it conflates cleverness and wisdom, which are orthogonal dimensions. Clever people who are not wise fall for lots of things.
Claims of revolutionary superconductor LK-99 are meeting resistance
And now we know it in a new way.

Nothing wrong at all with checking what we "know" with experiments, even if we have high confidence we know the outcome of those experiments.
Yea, I also carry stuff in the bed alot of times.

I don't need extra room for passengers, I need extra room for other stuff, lumber, pipes, etc. I've had a van before, and I think the tradeoffs are better in terms of the truck. Not all folks that have trucks are soccer moms that use it to drop off the kids like you think.
I mean do you not have to hedge again china just landing troops on taiwan? I think the pandemic chip shortages threw into sharp relief that we are totally dependent on imports (and for higher end chips on taiwanese imports almost exclusively). If china decides to blockage or invade Taiwan it would be cataclysmic.
> John Brown Gun Club is becoming a better NRA.

JBCG doesn't really replace much of the NRA. Even if hypothetically people could join JBCG at mass scale, which they can't due to the way its structured.

The NRA-ILA is increasingly useless for 2A advocacy and legal efforts, but JBCG isn't replacing that at all. FPC, 2AF, to a lesser extent GOA do more there.

NRA courses are crufty but don't really have a replacement approaching anywhere near the same scale. Certainly not JBCG.
Maybe USCCA for just the pistol side of things, but that has its own issues since their business model is fleecing people.

NRA competition... there's no replacement for bullseye, but that's because bullseye is becoming an afterthought compared to e.g. USPSA in a lot of areas... smallbore and air as a college&younger sport notwithstanding. And nothing is close to trap/skeet/sc in popularity in the US, but that's not NRA either.

NRA club/range support and insurance.... also nothing replaces this.

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What JBCG has that the NRA doesn't, and never had, is the same thing that the black panthers had in the 60s - armed support of disenfranchised subsets of the population. It's harder for the police to shut you down, or stand and watch as an adjacent supremacist group shuts you down, if you have your own armed guards.

Same as armed guards prevented mobs from attacking schoolchildren during desegregation in the late 60s, you see JBCG in a lot of places protecting pride events, drag events, etc. 'cus the police often don't. (In the US, it's not the police's job to protect anyone, that's been tried in the Supreme Court multiple times)
EDIT:

Originally posited an incorrect fact here. I completely missed who wrote the article at hand (not sure why, but I didn't see the authors names)

Good catch everyone
Confused about your comment, they already work.
It would be interesting to measure humans vs these scores as well. I can fail arithmetic pretty often too does that mean I’m non human or can’t reason?
How much safer must they be 'per mile driven' to be acceptable by society?

2x, 10x, 50x, 100x?

If it's 10x or higher then it would almost certainly need to take into account edge cases like a dog owner waving down a car.
Yeah, _vertigo is mistaken IMHO, believing that the prices on housing raise through some kind of "programming" and not through the market as I observe in reality.

If people believing something is a sound investment made something an investment you could just buy random equities on the stock market and make bank as everyone* on that market believes that they make a sound investment.

* Statistically everyone, there might be some individuals intentionally taking a loss, I imagine.
Cloudflare does not use Google's reCAPTCHA anymore, and hasn't for some time.
> knowing that 99 will fail but 1 will make astronomical returns. How would this work if there were windfall taxes?

the same way it works now: counterbalance losses with gains.
That's nice way to teach kids about history, Ubisoft also use one of their IP for educational purpose: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/assassins-creed/discovery...
Maybe the tax could be progressive to help smaller players? I dunno why only wage tax is progressively taxed.
Amazon’s final talks with FTC unlikely to thwart antitrust lawsuit
"401k" as in subsection 401(k) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code might not be a thing in Italy, but personal pension/savings account probably is.
The car industry in Germany already makes a huge number of chips for cars -- they just aren't as sophisticated or as small as the ones made in Taiwan suitable for personal computers so by your own logic they have followed the South Korean model already.
Still living here I must point out that you are pointing an equally one sided picture.

While all of what you say is true and problematic, there are people from all over the world living in Dresden and some parts (especially Neustadt) are politically rather left leaning.