skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the whole way he handles OpenAI is also extremely sketchy with pushing for regulation that in effect protects OpenAI's products against competition and forms a soft-to-hard government monopoly on AI

To me, that's the least sketchy part of OpenAI.

The part that gets me is where one day it's promoted as the future, and will be integrated into every part of our lives. And the very next day, the same guy is telling newspapers that AI is so scary and potentially destructive that it absolutely must be regulated by governments.

It's like being so proud of continually building new and improved nuclear bombs, and then telling the government that it better build a bunch of nuclear bomb shelters for everyone.
I mean you can still hold data in hashmaps no?

Or even serde::Value(s)? Its not that everything has to be a type
I'm the author of DomTerm and the above-mentioned xterm.js PR. Both use the full UnicodeGrapheme Cluster Boundaries algorithm (https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundarie...). However, I haven't seen any specifications for how wide the resulting clusters should be in a mono-space context. So unless we enhance terminals to handle variable-width fonts (which I've been thinking about), we need to took at other terminals and make judgement calls. Generally, the width of a cluster is the width of the widest codepoint. Also, I decided that a "normal" character followed by emoji-presentation makes it 2 columns wide.

In your linked-to article, you suggest 2-em dash and 3-em dash should be 3 and 4 columns respectively. That might be reasonable, but it is explicitly contrary to the EastAsianWidths specification. You also suggest that Pictographics fullowed by text-presentation should have width 1. That seems reasonable, though I don't implement that.
There are similarly issues with criminalization and organized crime within China itself.

Only 10 years ago there was a significant chance that the bus you were taking in Xinjiang might be blown up or shot up, though this has been resolved via severe repression and human rights abuses.

Furthermore, Red-Black Collusion has been a very real issue in China to this day, yet hasn't been uprooted [0] [1]. In fact, this was the technical reason used by Xi to purge Bo Xilai (Bo was extremely corrupt, but so is everyone else)

The difference is American tourists aren't walking around the equivalent of Shenzen c. 2005 or Chongqing c. 2010 or Kashgar C. 2011, but plenty of Americans are more keyed into and cognizant of crime in Mexico.

[0] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/27027760

[1] - https://academic.oup.com/book/25594/chapter-abstract/1929386...
Unicode Character 'HOURGLASS' ⌛ (U+231B) says hello.
Yes. We should keep privatisation of profit and nationalization of losses.
You like flashlights!? I LIKE flashlights!

Please allow me to send you down the rabbit hole[1][2] of flashlights.

[1] https://zakreviews.com/arbitrary-list-2023.1.html

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/
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I've been getting stuck in the “browser integrity check” loop a lot on firefox lately. Not an issue in chrome, not using a vpn, etc. I assume it is some combination of extensions and/or settings in firefox.
It's also unfortunate that someone cool enough to make their own instruments would ever feel like a weirdo/outcast for it. The opposite should be true in the median high school.
A kiwi in a shed is nigh unstoppable. I have no idea why that's a national stereotype (maybe manufactured goods took a long time to replace for an agricultural/pastoral economy?) but it's pretty cool as national stereotypes go.
Isn't Taiwan planning to bomb itself if China invades ?
Sorry if I wasn't clear. The "'change my mind' crowd" I'm referring to is absolutely your group 3, or what I referred to as "the propagandists and the purposeful jerks". They're people acting the same way that Sartre was criticizing here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-...

Or here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semite_and_Jew#Bad_faith

And I'll note that he was writing well before on-line discussion. The problems run deeper.

Yes, to the extent that you can use a bad-faith actor to show something to a broader crowd, they can be useful. I do plenty of that here. But a) on social media, that's rarely the case, in that few see arguments down in the reply chains, b) any actual points they have will get discussed by more persuadable interlocutors, and c) one can find and address those points without platforming or elevating the jerks in question.

So if you want to engage with the jerks as part of your own personal quest, go for it. I sometimes do. But I say again that blocking bad-faith actors is not, as you claim, the heart of why discourse is broken online, and that people who have a block-on-site strategy are making good and reasonable choices, especially when they are the regular target of historical inequities that you and I don't face.
It's not a "web-TPM", far from it conceptually.
Ben Horowitz on What Traditional VC Gets Wrong [video]
They can unionize the firm they work for. However, if they unionize, then the union needs to work with the business to ensure they remain competitive with the other firms offering the service. However, unions don't appear to be terribly interested in a business remaining competitive.
To be fair, fractional scaling on Windows is kind of garbage, at least if you don't have the same scaling set on every display. If I have one screen at 100% and one at 125%, any application will look okay only on the display it was started on, and blurry on any others. I don't think the situation is any better on Linux, but I'm pretty sure that as long as you're using Wayland (only), it's not any worse.
Thank you for that prompt, I can already think of a few developers I want to give thanks for changing my life.
One of Ory’s core competencies is permissions. We built the first Google Zanzibar implementation in the world and it’s part of Ory Network‘s global multi-region platform (https://github.com/ory/keto)

A push model is also valid if you’re heavy on policies and can accept eventual consistency. We will investigate how to generally push things to the edge (like we did with Ory Edge Sessions) or to cryptographic verification wherever staleness is acceptable.

By solving the primitives correctly in the beginning (with a multi region architecture) that job does become a lot easier, which is what we decided doing at Ory :)
A Silicon Valley developer on $200,000 costs $100/hour in salary alone.

When your employer onboards new hires, do they have a commit merged into main in their first 90 minutes with the company?

Software development is an expensive business, and some companies are used to paying this much and more. The no-fix-no-fee pricing model would also command a premium over hourly work.
Windfall taxes and bailouts aren't the policies that create a healthy banking sector. Instead they should worry about crafting better regulations and having competition for where people's savings go.
[UK] Electoral Commission subject to cyber-attack
Achieving Fault Tolerance
Have banks not been bailed out?
Being an expert and being biased on purpose implies acting in bad faith.

Being biased due to ignorance is not a big deal since in principle no one is going to pay you attention anyway.
>One of the interesting lessons of the past few years is that supply chain lead times are a thing and policy doesn't just happen because central planning says it should.

The dominant ideology in the US, at least until recently, is that there should be no central planning. The invisible hand of the market was all-knowing and would allocate resources far more efficiently than any human planner.

I wouldn't blame central planning, I'd blame the lack of it.
> search engines that prioritized minimal (or minifiable) websites

https://search.marginalia.nu tries to be this, and is now being worked on full time by its creator.
This. Breaking from 30km/h wears brakes much less than from full landing speed. A policy of just using thrust reversers more generously would save quite a bit of brake life.
I've found MCTS works very well with turn taking board games:

https://github.com/bediger4000/squava2/blob/main/algorithm-c...

https://github.com/bediger4000/kalah

Seems faster than an alpha-beta minimaxing opponent of the same strength, and also typically a less predictable opponent.
It's not about ability to code, willingness to learn, or ability to understand. It's about friction. When you're iterating quickly and you're thinking about complicated mathematics and ideas, a complicated type system just adds a ton of friction. This is especially annoying when you know what you're doing is correct but the type system is unsatisfied and demands proof.
Nowhere near as neat as candle or ggml, but just released a 4-bit rust llama2 implementation with simd. Runs pretty fast.

https://github.com/srush/llama2.rs/
Yeah, it's a similar tune. That's why I have a serious issue with "startup culture".
> Arnold Schwarzenegger is 6'2" and weighed 235lbs at contest (30.2 BMI) and 260lbs in the off season (33.4 BMI). So much for your "all" claim.

Congratulations on discovering that tail ends of distributions exist.

It doesn't invalidate anything in the comment you are responding to.
> It's just the dictionary example of what you get when software developers start coding without adult supervision.

git was originally explicitly a VCS core for anyone to build on. Remember the "plumbing vs porcelain" days? I do.

And after 18 years what have the "adults" done in the meantime? Come at them sideways for having the gall to release an unrefined tool that got popular?
> [0] See, for example, the J&J case, which was an even more generous form of the same.

I think you have seen a very simplified view of that situation, likely provided by the opposing lawyers. J&J has agreed to give that company 2 billion dollars and the bankruptcy filing would, essentially, be forcing the lawsuit against them to be settled for 2 billion dollars and then, most importantly to J&J, the matter wouldn't be a concern for the future. They are trying to limit being perpetually sued for the same issue.

There's also the situation where the bankruptcy judge has to accept the situation, [1] which did not happen, twice.

[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/j-j-is-left-wei...
Isn’t Waymo already operating a full service in Phoenix? Haven’t heard of many issues from there.
What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You to Know – Al Gore [video]
I'm surprised Apple PAT and Google WEI wasn't mentioned in the article.

Especially since Apple has partnered with Cloudflare on PAT.
Does anyone who knows about GDPR know if being blocked by a CDN comes under "Automated individual decision-making"?
It's interesting to see that, in the end, the domestic manufacturing guys were right but in a different way. The biggest blockers to America presently are ossified construction and manufacturing. Chip fabs delayed due to local red tape. Ammo factories cannot expand manufacturing because they are now historic buildings. Fascinating.
> The next day, I tried accessing a web page internal to my company… […] I couldn’t get past a security check page because of issues in Cloudflare’s software. […] The silliness of it all is that I was on my work device the whole time, which was behind my workplace VPN.

This seems more like an "IT department gone mad" problem than a Cloudflare problem. I'm surprised they'd rather switch to Chrome than submit a support ticket.

Having used passkeys for a month+ now via macOS/iOS/1Password betas, I don't understand how they're related or the author's concerns. Couldn't you just replace "passkey" with "password" in all of their questions?
Or have an LLM do it after indexing the project.
Show HN: HN-demo.log-store.com HN comments and stories in log-store
TL;DR: I loaded all 37M comments and stories into a demo version: hn-demo.log-store.com

I created log-store to scratch 2 itches:
1) I was bored while working at Meta/Facebook
2) I wanted to see if I could make Splunk.

I accomplished 1 and got laid-off, and I'll let folks here decide if I accomplished 2.

If people here want to get a feel for log-store, you can play with the demo site[1] or the HN demo site[1]

If a query seems slow (more than 5s), please be patient... log-store was made for 10s of people doing simultaneous searches, not the HN crowd.

Happy to answer any/all question... thanks!

[1] demo.log-store.com
[2] hn-demo.log-store.com
The irony of that statement is that car manufacturers have been lobbying against public transport for decades.
They will do it a lot less when it turns out that it's illegal or will get them fired. Which is what the article we're discussing is about.
> which I bet are not as different as you'd expect, a lot of this is federalized

I've lived in 5 different states over the course of my life. The operating environment varies substantially. Local ordinances vary greatly. Fuel costs. Climate (vehicles in Phoenix are not exposed to rust, salt, etc while here in Michigan they are). Local labor laws, unemployment costs, insurance costs and restrictions. It's literally completely different in every state.

Businesses love to subcontract, particularly when it is outside their core competency. It's a line item on the expenses.

If unions did not exist I would posit that they would still operate this way.
I sense that most folks will end up using this via a Python wrapper, if at all, much like how HF has Transformers written in Rust but with a Python wrapper.

This library is targeting production, a much smaller subset of engineers. See the 'why candle' section: https://github.com/huggingface/candle#why-candle. So you could use PyTorch to build models and Candle to serve them.
On Windows, it had to compete with C++, Delphi, and a brand-new C#. That's a tough competition, considering that all these languages offered IDEs with fancy GUI builders. On Linux, it didn't feel at home because the D compiler wasn't free software.
Obesity Drug Wegovy Found to Prevent Heart Attacks, Strokes in Major Trial
> I've been wondering what might move data scientists to Rust.

If they didn't migrate to Julia they certainly won't migrate to Rust.
It makes me so happy that almost none of the current laptops have it. We're so close...

I'd be fine with the bar in addition to a function row. There are some really nice interactions possible. But absolutely not as a replacement, much less a non-optional one for many models.
With ethernet and TCP/IP, it becomes absolutely usable.

Any TLS would need a cryptographic accelerators, however, as the puny 68K family will doubtlessly suffer.
Of course not, but it is less likely to trigger manual recaptcha on the site you're trying to visit in Guest mode.
> so we should stop until we figure out what the signal means.

We should determine how to handle driverless cars based on their overall safety, not edge cases. If driverless cars have significantly fewer injuries/accidents/etc. per mile driven than human drivers, we should push to expand them. If they only drive better in certain areas, we should geofence them.

If they're safer than human drivers but would hit the guy with the dogs in this case, we should still allow them. The opportunity cost of the other accidents that would've occurred if self-driving cars weren't allowed very much matters. Plus the guy with the dogs shouldn't be stepping out into the street (and the guy with the small dog should be able to maintain control of a small dog).

Also, in a world of self-driving cars, the guy doesn't have to try to get somebody's attention out of fear they won't see the small dog, because self-driving cars don't have the limited visibility issues that a human does.
This seems to be explicitly targeted at deploying ML models rather than developing them
Yeah, and that makes sense to some extent. We often understand that it's hard to think like someone without our knowledge when writing docs for other developers, and that's more extreme with end users. The hubris is what kills me, though. Empathy is hard, but developers tend to be so arrogant and dismissive, sometimes even disgusted by others not knowing what they know. It's kind of funny: on one hand, many people in tech-- developers, ops, IT, etc.-- have an intense feeling of superiority based on their knowledge, but act like people without that knowledge are imbeciles.

Even worse, it tends to go hand-in-hand with astonishing overconfidence in their understanding of other fields. I've had two other primary careers-- designer, and chef-- and I can't count how many developers have "explained" parts of those fields to me despite knowing I'm a subject matter expert. Like their astonishing intellect and that related Metafilter thread they skimmed makes them authoritative. I get supernova-intensity cringe when I hear other developers shoot off Dunning-Kruger-esque oversimplifications of other fields' genuinely hard problems.

When I hear developers talk about the arrogance of designers, I can't help but laugh... then maybe cry. Many seem genuinely aggrieved that interface designers have more input on the interface design than they do.
But it comparison the blog makes between religion in GoT and the Middle Ages don't make sense. In GoT we are explicitly told that the "church" was deliberately culled and broken by the kings back when they had dragons and only survived on the kings mercy, it might make sense that this could have lessened belief in religion. We are not told what religion the dragon lords had, but apparently they took over the local beliefs after breaking the "church".

I also don't see how a army with allegiances to noble houses must defer to tradition and religion, how would you then explain a king converting to christianity (or the other way)?
Don't mean to alarm you but Texas is a coastal state
It matters to some people that their preferences are enforced by the tooling.

How much sense does it make to switch to some immutable data structure or even a language with support for such rather than just not mutating the one you have? (Works for me.)

There is a philosophy behind Gemini which is to fundamentally simplify the web, not jut individual web pages that opt-in.
Go 1.21 Released
> are you equally onboard with subsidies during lean times?

The problem is that these companies do receive subsidies during lean times, in both energy and banking fields, whether you want it or not. They are too important to be let to fail, and the governments will either subsidize them, bail them out or just plain nationalize them. In the case of Greece banking crisis, they nationalized the losses of foreign banks...

So a windfall tax makes sense in these industries, maybe in others too.
You earned €1 last year and €1.06 today. You could exchange that to $1 last year and $1.17 today. If US inflation is currently 3.1% and you go to the US, that money buys you 13% more than $1 last year. These numbers change from day to day, because exchange rates are full of effectively random noise.

Of course, the real growth was only 1% and not 13%.
I'd be willing to accept a 0.25% less return annually on the S&P index if workers had meaningfully better existences. It might even increase returns if workers could be more productive by having dignified lives. This is the best way to frame thinking about things in our current macroeconomic environment.
It must vary from area to area. In my area, you could swap "UPS" and "Amazon" in your story and it would fit. (Minus the music blasting - neither do that around here- and both wear identifying clothing.)

I always cringe a little when I get a UPS shipment notification, and I try my best to be home for it, for the best chance of success.
Not really: unlike traditional publishers, Amazon presents itself as just a printing on demand service. They don't have any objective in policing users of their service.
That's pretty wild. Thanks for the details
> Applications are usually written to know that anything sent over the network could be lost.

Generally they are—when you make an HTTP request, the client waits until it receives an HTTP response before it reports success.

> We /could/ turn all computation into remote procedure calls. There is plenty of precedence that that will not end well. You do it where you have to. Not everywhere.

I think you may be having some kind of a different conversation here. I don’t understand your position, and I don’t think you understand mine.
Moar. Maybe you have some more stories or insights from him. I'm a shameless fanboy. I also listened to I think every podcast (not many of them unfortunately, Lex ones seem the best as expected). This guy oozes wisdom.
Sorry, what's your model for how safety isn't impacted by firefighters and police having to deal with the sort of incidents described but occurring much more frequently?
Muon catalyzed cold nuclear fusion is a thing. You're going to pour more energy into creating the muons than you get out though. It doesn't violate thermodynamics, you're just using some kind of catalytic process to get past the fairly massive energy barrier between getting those nuclei close together. You're still gaining net energy from the overall reaction itself. Catalytic reactions don't violate thermodynamics (unless that's really why there's so much catalytic converter theft because you can build perpetual motion machines out of them).
That's a very well-written explanation!

I would hope that we see this kind of explanation more frequently.
You don’t need to trust Meta, there’s tons of regulatory oversight
That's a nice and succinct diagram! I liked the inclusion of examples in particular, good job.

I'm sure that the folks here would enjoy you sharing the post as a submission, too.
Ironically enough, it was never even intended to be a magnum opus or a legacy.

Just some jottings, and notes to help him think things through while on campaign or holding court.

Yet we read them 1800 years later and aside from the parts about the gods, can still apply it to life.
Interesting how you can rehabilitate your image by just the existence of someone else that people want to hate. On the Internet, now:

- UPS is now apparently the height of professionalism

- Zuckerberg is the hero fighting off Elon Musk

- Microsoft are the good guys reining in OpenAI

Of course, this doesn't really match the common brand view. Really goes to show how Internet commenters are not representative.
While I agree that the ACLU has become defanged, there are many more civil liberties to protect beyond simply free speech, which seems to be the only concern of FIRE.
It's cool that this is coming from huggingface and it isn't just someone's hobby project.

Rust is in a weird place where people are trying to push it in a bunch of places where it doesn't belong naturally (web dev, data science) but then when you complain that it's difficult to use you get told that you're using the wrong language for your use case...

I really want to like Rust - I've read the Rust book, done the Rustling exercises, read Zero to Production in Rust and did the project there, and still it's not clicking - 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.

So I'm not in a rush to rewrite anything written in Python just yet.
But they're not offering Silicon Valley developers, the comparison is moot.
This is an old European disease. Corporate profits are often seen as an adverse result; of consumers being taken advantage of unfairly. Taxing excess profits beyond what are already high tax rates is popular amongst voters (e.g. see poll results in the UK, 2022). However, this lowers the appeal for new entrants to enter these markets to compete for these excess profits through better and more efficient products and services. If one wants free enterprise and reap its benefits one has to allow high profits for companies and see if competition takes care of the "problem".
i love the spaces that gemini created, but agree that (from a protocol and technical standpoint) gemini and gemtext were more "frustratingly inferior" rather than "elegantly simplified".