skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this law/provision was passed at a time before there was a clear notion of CO2 from burning fossil fuels being connected to climate change, and they were thinking about more traditional pollutants/harms like logging and drilling oil.

(In my opinion) This historic law/provision is not specific enough (or it does not create a novel enough kind of cause of action) for the climate change type of problem, to be enforceable as it gets tested up the judicial chain. (see my other comment in this story)
>// now arr is [empty, empty, 2, '-4': -4]

This isn't pseudo-code. It's what your browser will output as the value for arr

What will seem weird and unexpected in this is that you're essentially dealing with dictionaries rather than arrays. They just have a length attribute bolted on that counts the highest key number as a length.
You might recognize some of https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
I agree with this, I was disagreeing with the broad complaint in the OP

> Killing them and eating them is not compatible with the environmental benefits of grazing

which does not attempt to qualify the disagreement at all.
Maybe re-read what I said?

> realistically it's probably cheaper to just re-emit than to add the machinery that enables this to their existing architecture

There are literally dozens of random projects that have implemented logit based masking, it's a trivial thing to implement.

What's probably not as trivial is deploying it at scale with whatever architecture OpenAI already has in place. Especially if they're using the router-based MoE architecture most people are assuming they use.

OpenAI doesn't expose token probabilities for their RLHF models, yet they did for GPT-3. Originally that lead to speculation that was to make building competitors harder, but they've now said they're actually still working on it... which leans even further into the idea they may have an architecture that makes the kind of sampling these projects rely on more difficult to implement than normal.

Given how fast and cheap they've made access to these models, their current approach is a practical workaround if that's the case.
Also things like compilers...which tend to make lots of garbage but the processes are so short lived who really cares? All the memory is getting released in no more than a few seconds, worst case.
No, fuck that. There are many people I know who have explicitly rejected a payoff to do the right thing.

If your morals go away when they actually matter, you didn't actually have morals, you just had an excuse why you weren't already rich. A person is judged by what they do, explicitly and especially when it actually matters.
I totally agree with your perspective and the current state of affair regarding ux in the blockchain / web3 space is what in part motivated us to create Cedalio. The mechanisim that we've built so far is to let the database owner be the one securing the private key because is the basic feature that needs to exist to built everything on top of and because we were first targeting developers in the web3 space, who value having this option.

For use cases where the end-user is not technical or security-savy enough (99% of users probably) we are providing other options. We support authentication via Privy.io that enables users to create an account with username / password or connect their other login accounts (Google, GitHub, etc) and never have to worry about managing keys. For more info check https://docs.privy.io/guide/frontend/embedded/overview.

That being said we want to offer more auth providers and make life easier for users that don't want to manage their own private keys, we haven't launch access to mainnet yet. For example providing MPC wallet for end-users as well. There are other mechanisim for account recovery as well, like social recovery that could be implemented.

As for your main point regarding business continuity and data leakage, our current solution allows us to recover the database because we have several backup mechanisims in place. That being said, as you pointed out, if the operation log is stored on a publicly accessible decentralized storage network and if an attacker gains access to the decryption keys then yes data will be leaked. Similar to how any application developer could get their AWS API keys leaked and a database is copied (assuming the database is not encrypted at rest). The current alterantive to this attack vector (if data ownership / portability without having to interact with Cedalio is not required) is to choose other storage solutions for the operation log. This is on our roadmap.

We are also exploring encryption using lit.protocol and making the decryption access programmable which would allow us to remove access to who can decrypt the operation log and the encryption keys would be stored by the protocol not by the end-user. Therefore is a user looses their keys, we can remove that wallet from the list of wallets that can decrypt the operation log.
You can sort of add new keywords backwards-compatibly using a trick called "contextual keywords": you require that they be placed in a syntactic position in which no identifier could legally go, and you maintain them as legal identifiers for compatibility. C++ used this trick to introduce "final" and "override" by moving them before the opening "{".
> Bezos’s annual reported income during these years of $832 million put him only at number 15. He paid an effective tax rate of 23.2%; as we’ve previously reported, Bezos had so little income in a couple of recent years that he was able to pay $0 in federal income taxes in those periods.

https://www.propublica.org/article/americas-top-15-earners-a...
Maybe, I don't know. I haven't read the whole thing. Like I said, to me it is self-evident incoherent nonsense from the get-go, so it doesn't seem worth spending a lot of time on it. But I will point out that Bill Clinton is infamous for having made the same observation in a rather different context, so it's hard for me to imagine how this could be considered a deep insight.
What are the unpaid taxes he owes? Tax evasion is a felony, go turn him and collect your reward.
I remember an essay on that from a transportation guy back during the first hype wave of self driving cars. He said you can rate transport by the number of passengers you can load per hour.

Rail and light rail excel in that. And loading usually doesn't disturb other traffic. Busses are worse but better than private cars. Taxi's are worse than private cars.

He thought self driving cars will be the worst of all. Low passengers per hour, a lot of empty trips, and highly disrupting in high traffic areas.
One win at a time. Better have cows and clean electricity than cows and coal energy (article says Montana has the largest coal deposit and always granted mining applications).
If the poor could tax the rich, they wouldn't be poor.
Off topic but is anyone else super tired of this generic looking product showcase page?

I think that if I ever launch something I'll have to create something that looks completely different because here I got hired right at the rainbow colored headline.
Relevant studies showing how QA activities reduce project costs?
Lot of comments here are replying the nature of the solution matters.

E.G:

"Sure you are being paid for a solution. But you are also probably being paid for a quality solution"

or

"Code can be the solution. Good code even more so"

or

"when you pay to get your car fixed, there's an implicit expectation that it will be fixed well enough that it doesnt break the same way again"

But the article does address this:

> Now, of course, this is a tad more subtle.

> Different types of problems have different types of costs, consequences, and constraints. And solutions to those problems as well also have them.

> When code is the solution, it has a cost, at the very minimum in time and man-hours. And constraints, such as licenses, NDA, platforms, versions, formats, resource limits... And of course, consequences, such as technical debt, electricity consumption, user experience and hiring difficulties.

> While the clients don't care about the code, they care very much about those.

> And so, as IT professionals, we must communicate talking about that. Not about the code.

Of course the quality of the solution matters, but it any good thing has a price. Therefore you have to present it with the price, and then your opinion on the whether it's worth it.
User research, UI design. Windows 95 was a big leap in that regard, at least in the PC space [1]

Nowadays it's "move fast & break things", following the fashion, and asshole design ("dark patterns").

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611
"The detailed research is so believable that I expect this unique thriller to be an instant best seller in the Kremlin."
> Are we going to run out of Sun?

No, but this is the same orgiastic mentality that prevailed when oil was cheap in the 90s. It bit us in the ass when demand increased.

Just because capacity exists doesn't mean we should maximize usage.

> consume all the wasted energy radiating out in outerspace

That's not wasted, it's just not captured. Capturing it requires strip-mining of the planet for the materials needed to build the damn panels, just so we can do dumb shit like generating fake money and running air conditioners with the windows open because it has no apparent cost to us ("free energy from the sun!").

Your logic literally drove the buffalo to near-extinction. People were killing and leaving them for dead just because they could. It's parasitic behavior.
It says in the article that they weren’t migrating from REST. They had an internally-developed technology that’s very similar to GraphQL called Falcor that they’ve been using. They actually had it before GraphQL was a thing, but futzed around with getting it released to the public during which time GraphQL took over in that niche. So now they’re streamlining and going with the commodity tech.
Plutinos
>I don't know who that is.

Nuclear Energy Advocate / Activist and author... Also has a new Documentary coming out about Wales and Wind.

>Presumably someone you are using as an example of someone who seriously suggests that we should burn more coal

Unlikely, he supports Nuclear as the resolution for Fossil Fuels.
My partner deeply disliked when I attempted a study of the effects of methane in our bed.
Starship Static Fire // A:B Comparison with Deluge [video]
> Rent control isn't the reason you can't build.

Can you explain why builders are paying rent control tenants to leave [0]? And where does the payoff money come from? Future rent? Future home buyers?

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/25/nyregion/new-york-builder...
I read that as "strong preference for having Carplay/Android Auto over the car manufacturers own UI".

And everyone is just frustrated with laggy UI's in cars. But in reality they'll probably still just use Waze with a 10 buck phoneholder suction-cupped onto the windscreen.
Cynical HN user presents cynical mind reading in sarcastic post
I've found this too, but assumed it was placebo.

I lived at 6500' for a while - that was too high.

The sweet spot for me is a particular mountain I go to which starts at 1200m and goes to 2000 (although I don't spend time at the peak - it's a ski field).

Thanks for your anecdote, now I feel I can take my observations more seriously
It can't be less sensible JSON than syntactically invalid JSON. All the tokens higher on the list are syntax errors.
Apollo 1 was high pressure oxygen, since the capsule was still on earth, and they wanted to simulate the positive pressure difference between the inside of the capsule and space. In space it would have been low-pressure oxygen, just enough to satisfy human breathing requirements (so 0.19 atm).
I found a source, quoting the quote, so provenance is what it is

> This sparked an interesting memory for me. I was once working with a
customer who was producing on-board software for a missile. In my analysis
of the code, I pointed out that they had a number of problems with storage
leaks. Imagine my surprise when the customers chief software engineer said
"Of course it leaks". He went on to point out that they had calculated the
amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time
for the missile and then doubled that number. They added this much
additional memory to the hardware to "support" the leaks. Since the missile
will explode when it hits its target or at the end of its flight, the
ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...
Looking at that found this item, which seems to cheap to be good (under $100 for 8k DP over fibre): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4S3F5CK/
Doesn't that lead to _increased_ inflation?
I likewise do not like the front loaded flavor text.

A good news article should be written in order of priority. Each word, each sentence should be written in order of decreasing priority starting with the headline. "JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe" is a great headline, it encompasses the entire story. Especially at the beginning of the article, the purpose should be expand and clarify the most important pieces.

I really dislike the kind of journalism that goes into biography mode and starts off with an anecdote about Jane Einstein's childhood dog leaving the most relevant bits 2/3 the way through.

I'd like to be able to choose the level of detail I get from an article by being able to stop when I'm done.

I don't like having to dedicate several minutes to finding a piece of information that took several seconds to deliver. Much like the 10 minute youtube howto video hiding the five seconds of information I needed.
Perhaps, but why do you think that's relevant? Both of the references in this case are plural.
Tax avoidance is not a crime. Evasion is. All these billionaires know how to skirt the rules.
Oh yes - google still has great technology - but they aren't consumer products.
7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Resume: the tit birds in genus Aeghitalos are pure cuteness concentrated in a tiny pack

You aren't being called mito (myth) for nothing. Can be spotted from Portugal to Japan, always in small groups. USA has its cousin the bushtit instead.

(And is not a member of Paridae anymore it seems, so is not a tit? doh. Damned taxonomists, always changing things)
Are there any historical relations to this? For example has nitrogen concentration varied across centuries? Or have innovations occured more frequently at higher altitudes?
It's just randomness, so perhaps not so strange.

The dupe detector only gets strict if a previous post has already had significant attention. It's more important to give good articles multiple cracks at the bat, than it is to prevent repeat URLs.

When we see cases where an earlier submission "loses", we sometimes look through that submitter's previous posts and see if there's another good article that we could invite a repost of. Those go into in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so they get a random placement on HN's front page.
> that they made browsers block access to your site AND that you have no ability to do anything about it short of filing a lawsuit or waiting for them to get around to fixing it if they ever do is unconscionable, right?

So do AV vendors. What specifically makes it not okay for Google? Have you tried delisting a website from other vendors' products? Microsoft SafeScreen?

If you want to hate on Google doing (or not doing) something, do it based on criteria that can actually be fulfilled.
This is a terrible demonstration of an unnecessarily complicated solution using pictures of signals instead of the actual signal data for something that is very unlikely to change patient management.

The Mayo study is marginally less questionable with uncontrolled confounders and an outcome measure carefully chosen to show a positive result for a tool that is patented by the Mayo Clinic. Also doubtful that this changes patient management and they chose not to look at that in their study despite having access to that information.
I worked on the Go compiler for a couple of years, and it wasn't a big deal. We just thought carefully about things, and dealt with a lot of rejection of ideas. If we couldn't make it fit, it wasn't right, and we'd try again. If we still couldn't make it fit, we probably didn't have a good handle on the problem, and it was right to stew on it longer.

Frankly, I truly appreciated working with people who thought carefully and tried to make sure the right ideas were in. I appreciated Russ being a BDFL, Ian, Rob, and Rob. I'm glad I did it, and it made me a much better engineer.
How many minutes until someone applies to YC with HaaS Co - Helium and facemask as a service subscription startup.
Does this work in tandem with beam search or does it do greedy sampling?
Right tell that to the people who have crashed and been horribly mutilated or killed from unexpected traffic jams or ambulances or fire trucks that can’t get through because of unexpected traffic.

It’s not like regular traffic where everyone knows this part of the road is jammed up at this specific time range if the cars are just locking up in random areas.
Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT?
TL;DR (summarised by ChatGPT) - I'm experiencing increased productivity and independence with ChatGPT but grappling with challenges such as lack of work-life boundaries and overwhelming information, leading to stress and burnout.

Long story...

I have been using ChatGPT for a while, and moved to the Plus subscription for their GPT-4 model, which I must say, is quite good.

1. ChatGPT makes us very productive. Personally, in my early 40s, I feel my brain is back in 20s.

2. I no longer feel the need to hire juniors. This is a short-term positive and maybe a long-term negative.
[[EDIT: I may have implied a wrong meaning. To clarify - nobody's going yet because of ChatGPT. It is just raising the bar high and higher. What took me years to learn, this thing can do already and much more. And I cannot predict the financial future of OpenAI or the markets in general.]]

A lot of stuff I used to delegate to fellow humans are now being delegated to ChatGPT. And I can get the results immediately and at any time I want. I agree that it cannot operate on its own. I still need to review and correct things. I have do that even when working with other humans. The only difference is that I can start trusting a human to improve, but I cannot expect ChatGPT to do so. Not that it is incapable, but because it is restricted by OpenAI.

And I have gotten better at using it. Calling myself a prompt-engineer sounds weird.

With all the good, I am now experiencing the cons, stress and burnout:

1. Humans work 9-5 (or some schedule), but ChatGPT is available always and works instantly. Now, when I have some idea I want to try out - I start working on it immediately with the help of AI. Earlier I just used to put a note in the todo-list and stash it for the next day.

2. The outputs with ChatGPT are so fast, that my "review load" is too high. At times it feels like we are working for ChatGPT and not the other way around.

3. ChatGPT has the habit of throwing new knowledge back at you. Google does that too, but this feels 10x of Google. Sometimes it is overwhelming. Good thing is we learn a lot, bad thing is that if often slows down our decision making.

4. I tried to put a schedule to use it - but when everybody has access to this tech, I have a genuine fear of missing out.

5. I have zero doubt that AI is setting the bar high, and it is going to take away a ton of average-joe desk jobs. GPT-4 itself is quite capable and organisations are yet to embrace it.

And not the least, it makes me worry - what lies with the future models. I am not a layman when it comes to AI/ML - have worked with it until the past few years in the pre-GPT era.

Has anybody experienced these issues? And how do you deal with those?

* I could not resist asking ChatGPT the above - couple of strategies it told me were to "Seek Support from Others" and "Participating in discussions or groups focused on ethical AI". *
Autoformatters and linter presubmit checks are used extensively at Google. Readability has nothing to do with those. It exists for everything else - ensuring that code is structured properly and idiomatically. Readability talks about structuring code, using the proper tools and containers where possible, and more. Everything from "that method should be named differently" to "you can use this function to do that thing you just wrote code for" to "this could be done with Immutable containers if you A, B, and C" and so much more.
> Some standard would be better

Careful what you wish for. Standards that aren't quite good enough can be worse than not having standards. Because then at least then people will keep looking for something that might be better.
Incredible website, gonna have to struggle to avoid buying tons of stuff
What is with this 'help me, but not like this' attitude?

Of all taxes paid, where will the government allocated funds go? Its not like the government is running out of money to not fund this.
i think it cleared a thing up or two. However, would you mind sharing why insertable streams are apparently required for this to work? As WebRTC traffic is encrypted already E2E it seems to me that constructing the SDP with the key, currently used here with insertable streams, would be good enough.
Search has significantly declined in quality in the past two years.
Mumbles something about complexity theory and system dynamics.
> it's astounding that the first-party platforms haven't done this yet

I was under the impression LLM tech is currently in a breakneck arms race and that things are dramatically changing every few months. It could simply just be a consequence of limited developer resources. It would be "astounding" if decade-old tech were missing such a fundamental feature, but for AI tech in arms-race mode it seems reasonable that they are still missing QoL features.
That's actually one of my reasons for writing in Rust whenever possible.

The Rust ecosystem has a broad collection of tooling for using Rust to extend other languages, so there's minimal chance something I wrote in Rust will have to be rewritten to use it in a project in another language.

See https://www.hobofan.com/rust-interop/ and https://areweextendingyet.github.io/

In Python's case, there's also maturin, which aims to make building and publishing Rust-based wheels as easy as Cargo makes doing so for Rust-based crates.

...plus, in the worst case, Rust CLI tools start very quickly, so forking a Rust process for poor man's FFI is more viable, and Serde plus a JSON Schema generator like schemars will streamline microservice-based options.
Definitely, it is a sort of quirky and fun use of .gg.

It is a little surprising given their field that they didn’t also grab the .io.
Taxes -> Uncle Sam -> Some Politician Pockets -> Dumbass projects, pointless initiatives [sometimes fueled by lobbying] -> Maybe some of it finally towards underprivileged communities with a 25% chance?

Donating directly to the communities removes all this mess and gets money where it needs to go.