skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to say "Which is essentially leaking the existence of something terrible inside. They should be embarrassed to say something like this in public. Like saying you can't have %s or $PS1. Why the hell not? What are you doing with this user-supplied input?"

But maybe it's more about what everyone else might do with a channel name. Ie they might cut & paste it anywhere, and I guess windows users aren't expected to escape their own strings when pasted into cmd or powershell or wsl.

The teams code itself can probably handle it just fine, but maybe not all the unknown janky random things out there that might handle channel names.

Other people have pointed out the SharePoint folders associated with the channels. Not sure I would excuse that myself since it's easy enough to just escape or modify or encode to create a safe version for the directory, but maybe it's important elsewhere for the channel name and the directory name to be identical. Within one app you could simply encode and decode both the channel name and directory name the same way and totally hide the encoding from the user, but if the directory is used outside of the app, then it would look bad with URL encoding or something that everything else will just display as it is, not decoded.

So the directory has to be safe for everything else, and so the channel name has to be the same.

Essentially choosing to have these limits rather than have directory names that look ugly sometimes. It's ultimately not even a safety or breakage thing, just a cosmetic thing. All directories will always look natural and good, because they don't allow anything that would have needed to be encoded.
"Concerns about privacy" on just "works at office/remotely" is a weird complaint.

I'd think even under EU and GDPR logging whether user badged in or used VPN would be entirely fine.
No sneakiness. Fully open my friend. This is just a bit of fun.
Yet the very same author turned over the OG uBlock to a shady character, having to launch a competitor to take back the momentum. To this day there is still confusion among normies.
This is going to spawn a plethora of linkedin influencer and biz insider articles about "psychological safety" and "hostile communication" and HR consultants will get paid to use chatgpt to make language sound less bad
Yeah, Clojure basically takes one of the ideas from Alan J. Perlis' "Epigrams in programming" to the next level.

> 9. It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
Great questions. I wish I could answer them here, but especially #1 and #6 will chance me being identified, and this company is so interesting they include like 5-6 different versions of "Non-disparagement Agreements" in the offer letter. Should have been a red flag for me.
It's the end of WFH Hybrid for certain industries.
That's a good summation.

A lot of the costs problems were directly related to the "over-land sonic boom ban" (on both sides of the Atlantic). The aircraft is VERY inefficient in subsonic flight, the bans had a triple effect:

- Longer flights: Meaning higher staff costs, more wear & tear, suppressing demand (no more "breakfast in London, dinner in Washington DC" ads).

- Reduced destinations: Meaning a smaller fleet, making each aircraft suffer from lack of economies of scale.

- More subsonic flight time meaning higher total flight fuel costs

If sonic booms didn't exist suddenly, I think Concorde could have been a success. The real mystery is why the sonic boom problem wasn't found during testing or development? It isn't like they weren't known about at the time...
Given that you feel you have the superior product, this isn't tragedy but a great marketing opportunity. Your calm, direct response can explicitly and convincingly list the features and advantages of your product without appearing to be a sales brochure, but simple self defense. To a reader it looks like a morality play instead of an advertisement, but the sales message still gets delivered. You might start wishing for more such blog posts.
This%20is%20what%20escape%20sequences%20are%20for.
Relying on token probabilities seems like the exact opposite of random
The problem is that many times I get no results. Absolutely nothing.
This was where my mind went, but I don't understand how the user got it to output 
. Are you saying there are parts of what was actually submitted that are not shown in the shared transcript?
I have an unfortunate story of my father's hoarding.

About a decade ago, my childhood home got raided by the DEA because my brother allegedly ordered precursors on the darkweb. My father consented to a full search. DEA agents opened up his garage as our neighbor pulled out his lawn chairs to watch the affair. The garage was the crown jewel of my father's hoard, filled with ancient technology and useless crap. One of the DEA agents, frustrated from hours of searching, screams out "Why does he have so much fucking shit?!"

They found nothing and completely trashed the place, likely a little upset. Thankfully I didn't live there at the time. I did find it comedic that the cops were there way longer than they wanted to be just going through my father's shit.
That is explicitly encouraged by YouTube, if your video is at least 8 minutes (I think) you're allowed to add more ads.
People are responding to incentives. Costs, including opportunity costs, increase substantially when we're beyond the equilibrium population. As population declines and constraints ease, the costs of having children will decrease, and fertility rates will increase.

All women will not need to have 2+ children for an equilibrium. Some women and families will want 0 or 1, and some will want more. But in any case, people obviously respond to incentives, and the people who think there is an "inescapable mathematical fact" that population will simply continue trending to 0 ignore this fact entirely.
Back in the 90s, I helped clean out the apartment of a Holocaust survivor. She'd been taken out of a death camp for a labor camp, and nearly starved.

There was food stashed all over the apartment. Like you mention, canned food in odd places, hard candies hidden everywhere imaginable, boxes of crackers behind books on the shelves, etc. Also, small caches of coins or other valuables.

It was both impressive and pathetic.
Students’ insight proves that the local-global conjecture doesn’t hold
The text is so gray that it almost blends in too well with the white background.
I think we're going to need to wait a few more years, at least, to see any improvement. I expect to see 4 new models a year, before GPT-5 arrives. I'll just keep using the latest model and we can all reconvene in 1, 2, 5, 10 years.
I know some people with similar stories. The frugality ends up being a cause for purchasing too much cheap stuff, with the hopes that "the next" will be as good as something top-shelf. Or it's stuff for their DIY project. The reality is that they don't need any of those things, it's just aspirational. Throwing them away kills the aspiration.

I know some quasi-hoarders who are similar, too: I know a person who has 30 guitars but they're so cheap and badly maintained that they're probably less worth than a high-end one. And the "next guitar" they buy is only good for a couple days.
how could data off the chain be replaced if it is signed? sure it can be lost, so that's a different issue. if the chain itself is trusted and it says that, say a movie that has this signature is owned by this studio then noone can replace the movie or even steal it because they need the chain to access it. if the studio doesn't keep a copy of their movie and they loose it that's their own fault. same with NFTs. i think the idea is stupid, but i don't see the risks you are suggesting.

to your last point, that's only an issue if you pay in advance, not if you pay after use. and stealing money on the blockchain is nothing new. that's of course a problem, but one that affects the whole ecosystem, so it will eventually have to be fixed. adding computing resources into the mix doesn't change anything.

i am not really interested in discussing why something should or should not be done. because i do not know enough about how it actually works before i can argue about that.

so i really first want to understand how it works so i can make up my own mind on whether it is a good idea or not.
again? already?
This is all related to a “reasonable expectation of privacy” [0].

People who rent a home are legally entitled to privacy and the home owner can’t put cameras up and monitor them unless the resident permits it.

But if I own a home and live there I can put cameras up wherever I want. And if you come into my home, you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy standing on my front porch. But if it’s different if you’re in the bathroom of my home because you expect privacy there.

Of course “reasonable” varies and states vary. But, in the US, the courts have ruled that at work you should pretty much zero expectation of privacy except in a few exceptions like bathrooms and lactation rooms and clinics and stuff.

[0] https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/w...
Agree BC is a laundable goal and appreciate their efforts. Though I do wish it didn't include limiting passwords to obscenely short lengths or absurd subsets of characters.
Or expository dialog in a movie. For example, most people have context in the real world when you say “any news on the election?” - “the election” is going to have local or national significance enough that “upcoming” is unnecessary (there would be news about the outcome, dates are known in advance, etc.) and “mayoral” might be kind of helping (I don’t mean city council or county commissioners) but I have never heard anyone use the term outside The Media. But this is exactly the kind of dialogue I expect from on-screen characters at the start of a movie or episode.
> emotional attachment to inanimate objects (to which she ascribed feelings of their own)

This I have heard is a common element amongst hoarders and observed it in a hoarding family member as well. Throwing things out was like killing a pet in front of them.
>Today, Russia is essentially also arguing for pre-emptive war but the reasoning - putting American missiles and forces in Ukraine - is a hell of a lot plausible.

The Russian government invaded Ukraine because they consider it a fake nation that was illegitimately carved out of Russia. The "neo-Nazi NATO" excuses were just lies they made up for naive Westerners.
I’ve thought about this comment a lot since you wrote it. I’m reminded of Bill Gross, “the bond king,” who founded PIMCO. Skilled, wanting to win at all costs, but who built a strategy primarily for a declining interest rate macro (“structural alpha”) that slowly became less effective near the end of his career, requiring creative maneuvers to successfully compete against competitors.

I’m not ignoring the varying degrees of skill, education, and intelligence. I’m emphasizing the luck required for all that to be effective.

Great comment, appreciate the history lesson and teachable moment.
The Something Terrible in this case is early DOS which did not have separate folders. So the device files were in the same namespace as the user's files, so the user couldn't name a file CON or LPT1. These are preserved for backwards compatibility. To this day you can write a program that writes to a CON file in any folder, and the program will print the write to console.
> but i fail to see how they plan to achieve that. not only they have miniscule amount of editors compared to wikipedia by default

That's an unfair criticism. Wikipedia itself started with a "miniscule amount of editors compared to" its competitors at the time.

> i would say this looks like a waste of time and people behind it should rather invest time in "fixing" wikipedia articles and potentially work with wiki foundation on some rules and techniques to prevent manipulation rather than start their own project

That idea obviously fails if the problem is a personal/social one (e.g. you fork because the maintainer keeps closing your bugs as WONTFIX). Wikipedia's culture is dysfunctional in many respects, and there are arguably many problems with it that it's maintainers are fine with and will not fix.
Sodium Carbonate is edible. It's used in a few recipes, like a strong version of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_carbonate#Food_additive... I'm not sure how dangerous is a teaspoon of pure Sodium Carbonate alone, because it's very basic (anti-acid), but mixed with some weak acid it's used to make the fizzy power that is inside some cadies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbet_(powder) (The proportions are important, don't try silly stuff at home.)

A teaspoon of quicklime in your mouth first reacts with water to produce a lot of heat that will burn you, and then the result is very basic (anti-acid), and make new burns in a different way. Definitively don't try it at home.
double descent is a different phenomenon from grokking
> We had stuff like "this is the thing you have been looking for", with the sentence ending with "for".

To misquote Winston Churchill for the joke:

"Ending sentences with a preposition is a thing up with which I will not put."
You don’t have to justify yourself to the HN peanut gallery :-)
The value of your hoard is zero if you can't find the item you need, so organization is key.

My recent scheme (I organized during Covid): everything goes in covered Sterilite transparent containers with labels from a brother printer. The containers are cheap, stackable, somewhat waterproof and I find it helps that you can see a bit inside them. There are many sizes to choose from, I tend to use the 6 qt. and 16 qt. sizes the most.

They do crack if you drop them, but this is mitigated by the price.
I guess they assume people gonna compile that on normal linux box
Through pcie using GPU P2P with a supported AMD chipset (epyc processor) so they can talk to each other or going through your CPU and RAM. I think the latter is what people using nvidia RTX 4090s do because P2P is disabled and NVlink is unsupported
in this case it just makes sense to write it that way though? leading you to consider, primarily, that the russians might try to do something with the information, rather than an abstract "we think they're probably bad".

Like sure its leading you but imo its leading you to consider the actual issue rather than unrelated questions
This backwards compatibility chain reminds me of the age old tale of how rockets are the width of two horses... (1)

(1) http://astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
> To me, the fact is that before pointing to what wrongs others do, we should fix our own thing.

What's the phrase... letting perfect be the enemy of good? We'll never be perfect. So by that logic we won't ever be able to criticise anyone, even if their record is considerably worse than our own.

> The US collects so much data about everyone, but people seem to find that ok. On the other hand, Russia collecting data is outrageous. This is such a weird thinking tbh.

The US government is accountable to US citizens. There are regular elections where they can vote out a government that acts against their wishes. They have no such power over Russia, an aggressive power currently waging war against a US ally. Equivalence is the weird thinking, IMO.

(EDIT: I should add all of this is from the perspective of a US citizen given the OP said “my own [UK] government”. If, in this scenario, you’re neither a US or Russian citizen, yes, I can see why you’d equivocate)
What a bizarre article. How can an employer not be allowed to keep track of when you work?
Except a calculator will just show you an error if the inputs can't be calculated (dividing by zero). An AI will give you the wrong answer and act like it's right and that you're wrong.
This is such a Microsoft thing to do. DOS compatibility will haunt us for the rest of this century at least.
Not sure this "us vs. them" stuff / generalising every reader of a website is helping anyone here
This misses the context: the claim is that 100% of things your employer wants you to do you must do or you are fired, and therefore we should call these requests "duress". That's not true. There are laws protecting employees, and, more meaningfully, there are other employers.

> Like how an employee accounts for 1/n of an employer's work capacity (where n can often be large), but an employer typically accounts for 100% of an employee's income.

The employer needs 100% of that employee's work, or they wouldn't pay for it. Conversely to your point, the employer may very much struggle to replace an employee, and an employee may have various other employers to choose from.

Of course there are jobs where this is less the case, and there are jobs where this is more the case. I'm not assuming that all jobs are like this, but I don't think we should be assuming zero (or vanishingly few) jobs are like this.
> literally nobody can currently identify it as you that is still a privacy violation.

In this hypothetical it is not a privacy violation under HIPAA (US) or PHIPA (Ontario, Canada) as consent would not be required.

Whether such a level of deidentification is possible is a different question and I agree it’s best to avoid the situation altogether.

> if any link can be created in the future

An example of this is CT/MRI scans of the head that were shared in open databases. The technology now exists to make a 3D rendering of the patients face which was not anticipated 15 years ago when these datasets were made.
AWS is out of our price range - Shield is quoted at $3000/month and Network Firewall Endpoint (which also looked promising) is ~$300/month. Both of these are significantly higher than the OVH VPS we're using. I might look into if whether we can activate NFE only at peak hours to cut that down.

Unfortunately the game isn't Minecraft (it's Quake), so Cloudflare isn't an option without an "enterprise" plan. I'm assuming that's also way beyond our means since they want customers to contact them for pricing.

I'm kind of confused at the pricing difference here - OVH manages to provide this for our $20/month VPS. Surely there must be another comparable provider?

Edit: Having done some more searching, Linode seem to have something similar to OVH as of 2020, but I'll have to look into it. DigitalOcean is reported as blackholing too easily, and vultr's marketing only talks about protecting websites.
When you prompt GPT-4 with the API, you can only get text out. In this case OP is asking for text that happens to define an SVG file (which is a text format).

When you ask Bing Image Creator to produce an image, your prompts goes to the image model and an image comes out. It's a bitmap image, not an SVG—that unicorn is defined not as text but as a series of pixels with different colors.

Comparing the two is comparing apples and oranges, because there are completely different models underneath and completely different output formats.
Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists
Anyone with "software engineer", "developer", or "programmer" in their job title should be given full benefit of the doubt by default and only bothered if the program is proven malware. It's our job to know what we're doing, so we should have admin too. I feel like Ron Swanson in Home Depot every time I have to ask IT to do something.
Creating color variations with CSS Custom Properties
Once we start talking about multi-agent AI systems I think my intuitions go out the window. If we consider that GPT-4 is about as capable as a reasonably intelligent high school graduate or college freshmen, I wonder how much actual benefit we get from multi-agent setups.

I mean that intuitively I couldn't imagine replacing 1 experienced professional with 1, 2, 10, 100 or even 1000 intelligent high school graduates. Intelligence doesn't seem strictly additive across multiple individuals for all cases. But then I consider that one of the most powerful life-lines in the TV game show "Who wants to be a millionaire" was the "Ask the audience". I am reminded of the cliche of the wisdom of crowds, even when the crowd is made up of non-experts.

This suggests to me that there is a kind of problem where multiple lower power agents can solve the issue to a higher quality. But there are also kinds of problem where a single higher-power intelligence will be necessary. I haven't developed an intuition when each approach is valid.
Google could launch a honeypot extension to get offers from those new companies and keep removing offending extensions.
I will tell anyone that there are two truths about children 1) they cost exactly as much money as you have and 2) the heaviest cost is time.

I'm a high earner. I have no money issues, what I have are time issues. I'm a single parent with high flexibility and every single struggle I have with my child could be relieved by having a homemaker to distract my kid and take care of the impacts of my kid. I do more than double laundry and clean more often and burn hours at places I don't necessarily want to be but the kid does. My career has stalled out because I don't have the extra hours it takes to get promoted.

Now imagine this in Japan where they're not just working 40 hours a week, looking at add 5-10 more for advancement. That's the issue of children in my opinion. It's why very wealthy people hire nannies. It's the only way to free the most value resource you spend on children: time.
It's not the right tool for that job. What you want is e.g. XMPlay/BASS (https://www.un4seen.com/) or MikMod (https://mikmod.sourceforge.net/).
The thing I’m keen for is keeping my open ai function definitions and having Claude (or Llama) return the same “do this function call with these arguments” syntax. Needs a little prompting to do it but by hand it works just need a wrapper so I can talk to Claude with same inputs as functions as Open AI. Does this do that?
Fully agree with hirundo.

Don't sweat it if you are confident in your product.

They played themselves with these claims.

If they consistently rank themselves and others in the same bucket, but no clear winner, just you as clear outliers, you stand out.

Any potential lead/ user worth their need in money will want to check you out either out of curiosity or to benchmark their product eval better.

Better to stand out if you have no downside to be afraid of on your end.
The inspiration for weight decay was to reduce the capacity to memorize of the model until it perfectly fits the complexity of the task, not more not less. A model more complex than the task is over-fitting, the other one is under-fitting. Got to balance them out.

But the best cure for over-fitting is to make the dataset larger and ensure data diversity. LLMs have datasets so large they usually train one epoch.
indeed this is location tracking, not productivity monitoring.
The human brain has synaptic pruning. The exact purpose of it is theorized but not actually understood, and it's a gigantic leap to assume some sort of analogous mechanism between LLMs and the human brain.
I don't know, I'm not the one who made the claim that X was faster than Y.

Are you saying that studying how efficient various text editors are for some groups of people is not possible?

Here's what I believe to be an example of some study on how text editors compare:

https://mjambon.github.io/vim-vs-emacs/

Not saying that this is a good study - I haven't even read it. Merely providing it as an example that at some point a study has been made in this area.
What is interesting is that we're kind of going backwards. Wide body did help out-compete Concorde, but now we're seeing airlines buy ETOPS-180 certified twin engine, two row, aircraft that can do transatlantic point to point.

I think a large part of that is passenger demand but also advancements in engine efficiencies. Making the fuel consumption per passenger not horrible.
I actually laughed out loud at that headline. Fantastic.

AFAIK those still can’t be used as file system names, so I’m assuming it’s related to that.

Tim Paterson’s Revenge.