skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overly sneering. Holy shit. People who write 200 page books with chapters named "How Elon Musk made engineering cool again" deserve ridicule.
Ah, they updated the previous blog post (https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/):

Editor’s note: This blog post was edited on August 11, 2023, to include the most up-to-date information on our terms of service. Following feedback received regarding Zoom’s recently updated terms of service Zoom has updated our terms of service and the below blog post to make it clear that Zoom does not use any of your audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments, or other communications like customer content (such as poll results, whiteboard, and reactions) to train Zoom’s or third-party artificial intelligence models.

It’s important to us at Zoom to empower our customers with innovative and secure communication solutions. We’ve updated our terms of service (in section 10) to further confirm that Zoom does not use any of your audio, video, chat, screen-sharing, attachments, or other communications like customer content (such as poll results, whiteboard, and reactions) to train Zoom’s or third-party artificial intelligence models. In addition, we have updated our in-product notices to reflect this.
That's interesting. I have never had anyone reference my prior comments. Maybe it's because I don't say controversial things? I wonder what the difference is.
What problems are you finding with it?
Burry, famous for 'Big Short,' bought bearish options against S&P, Nasdaq 100
No offense but I think you've gotten lost in your thoughts and wrote down a response mid-conversation with yourself.
Your "complaint" has been responded to already.
The author finds it useful in the moment for himself, to better understand the topic.
The author finds it useful in the future, to reference.
Some other people may find it useful, and if you are not one of those people, no problem.
If you haven't tried this method, it's likely you are overly skeptical of it. It seems like you have an extremely high bar for anything that deserves to be written down - only that which is new, original knowledge, not written down anywhere in the total extant written history of humanity. There is an argument to be made against spam but I think you're erring on the other side.
I honestly suggest you in particular try this method. It will address your underlying concern of "rehashing" which we are doing, right now.
Why is this bad?

Honestly, I don't understand why you wouldn't want the most accurate AI models available. The LLM is only as good as the data set it's trained on, and the more I read about LLM's and the advent of AI evolving from them, the more I'm starting to think if we don't jump both feet into the pool, then we'll never get to the promised land of:

"AI model, spin me up a T-shirt company that's scaled to 10mm users a month, and spin it down after 6mo. if sales don't increase by n% month-over-month"

or

"AI model, get me [A,B,C, ...n] groceries so I can throw a housewarming party on Friday. I can only accept the delivery Tuesday or Thursday. I don't care which store(s) those ingredients come from or how the internals are orchestrated."

What's the threat model here, specifically? What nefarious things would happen by using customer data? Most companies exist to make money, which honestly, is a pretty benign objective, all things considered.
Every school district manages their schedule differently, but looking at the Jefferson County school schedule [1], if you pushed the start date back four weeks into September, you push the schedule end of school into late June, with a possibility of makeup dates into July.

Kentucky has a minimum education days of 170, which is lower than many states (180 seems most common) [2] so maybe they have a bit more wiggle room, but it's mostly a system of tradeoffs, and planning for makeup days. My local school district starts the day after labor day, and ends mid June, but doesn't have week long breaks between the three-trimesters. I'm in favor of year round schooling with 'random' breaks interspersed, but I don't get to draft the schedule; and holding school in the hottest months requires buildings designed for education in those months, which is often not present; many school buildings would need significant investments in air conditioning etc to be conducive to education in the heat of summer.

[1] https://www.jefferson.kyschools.us/sites/default/files/Paren...

[2] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/statereform/tab1_1-2020.asp
[Deleting -- I thought I was replying to the same commenter. Never mind, bradley13! Thanks.]
> Impossible to write pure functional style code in python

What does that even mean?
Wait. Who are the famous people on HN (other than Dang, because he's the only one I recognize. . . ). What and who am I missing?
I’d argue Rust’s editions are a good counter argument to that. The differences between editions really aren’t huge despite being breaking changes.

In theory I like the idea of backwards compatibility never changing but in reality some breaking changes really do make sense and being permanently on the hook for a language feature that didn’t take X or Y into account when it was created doesn’t feel like a win.
Android + Termux + nginx + cloudflared?
> Python made it through a backwards-incompatible source change.... Source rewriters would handle most of the transition.

It seems we have collectively learned literally nothing from the failed plans to change Python incompatibly.
From Freeman Dyson (a Physicist) interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byi3vOnVodQ

Dyson: "...and next door to me there was Wittgenstein, who lived on the same staircase, and he always cooked for himself too, and so I used to cook my supper with the smell of fish from Wittgenstein's room next door."

[Interviewer] And you got to get to know him?

Dyson: "A little bit. Of course, Wittgenstein was a man who loved to torture people and so he invited me into his rooms one day - this was the closest contact I ever had with him, in fact. I mean, we passed each other very often on the stairs without speaking, but once he suddenly invited me into his rooms and said, 'Would you like to come and have a cup of coffee?' So I was thrilled, I said, 'Yes, I'll certainly come.' So I came in there and there was one chair, and he invited me to sit down in it, and it was a canvas deck chair which meant I was practically lying horizontally on this canvas chair, and he was standing uncomfortably waiting for me to say something, and so I found it acutely embarrassing, but in any case, I'd come in and so I thought I might as well try, and so eventually I decided I would start a conversation. So I said to him, 'Well, you know, I read the Tractatus and I'd be interested to know whether you still believe the things you said in the Tractatus or have you changed you mind?' And so Wittgenstein looked at me in a very, very hostile fashion and he said, 'Tell me please, which newspaper do you represent?' That was the end of the conversation. So there was another long silence, and then I drank the coffee and left. So I didn't get much out of Wittgenstein. I had the impression he was simply a charlatan. He loved to torture people and he was of course always extremely insulting to women. He couldn't tolerate women coming to his lectures, and he would just simply be so rude that they had to leave."
Then it is time to take control by seeing such databases with false information. We could probably design data specifically to attract an AI system looking for well-documented data. I wonder how images of Steven Colbert uploaded to imgur it would take to convince the AI that he actually was.
Yes, it's the back and forth that I highly value, and that is entirely absent (indeed, impossible) on SO.

I am frequently saying things like "no, that's not right, ..." or "no, that's not what I meant, ..." or "could you keep this part, which seems good, but replace the rest with a different approach like ...".

Think how rude it would be to micro-manage a volunteer answer on SO!
Hey, so honestly, from sending it to friends. Sometimes I can get feedback online but it's a pretty crowded, noisy place. :) I made this capsule site as a way for more casual publishing of ideas by "regular" people. I thought it might be a nice way for getting more quality, well researched articles online. I plan to add commenting and other "peer review" type features eventually. It will depend on the feedback from users, though.
His first example -- "mv -T" -- is not POSIX, and is not available, eg., under Busybox.
Though he wasn't an eminent scientist, I worked with someone who had gone through engineering school back in the 1950s. He kept volumes of meticulous notebooks and saved a great deal of time because he never had to waste hours on "I know I figured this out in October 2022 but I can't remember how".

A real inventor's notebook today has a space to sign and date each page, and you should X out any space you don't use. That helps it have legal force.
Teams is a mediocre chat app, but that's the status quo in the industry. It's pretty good at video calls
> I mean, have you looked at Python's syntax for closures? You call that elegant?

You mean anonymous functions surely? The syntax for closures is basically nothing, you just make a function.
It's a nightmare, not a dream, if the language is mutable. Mutability is the worst and least fixable issue with almost every popular language today.
The one tweak is to

> additionally post the item’s true normal price (TNP). The TNP is the most frequently offered price for that product in a given period.

Example offered is pricing a sofa at $1,399 for first two weeks (of a quarter). No sales later, the price is reduced to $599 with a $800-off promotion for ten weeks. Going forward, the TNF becomes $599.

12 weeks is a quarter.
Interesting, will check out. I am still evaluating Gleam, a language that's targets beam, but the compiler is written in Rust. It has actual strong typing, and I rather like it's Rust like syntax.
I'd rather live in a world that preserves the fundamental right to privacy than one that can automatically organize my housewarming party.
I don't really like Typescript, I think I would rather just code in Javascript. Typescript adds a lot of structure and tries to shoehorn more of a Java like programming style. A lot of the type checks seem unnecessary. If I am going to use types I would rather use Fable or ReasonML, something that really just has types from the start.
The only thing that would get O365 out of companies would be if Microsoft started having a Hunger Games for CEOs
Teams will use your O365 enterprise data to power it's AI 'copilot' offering, it's literally what its customers are asking for.
I guess what I am getting at is that, in this specific instance, I'm not sure there is anything to do. You either send it or not. It was polite, it was clear, and so on. Tonally, it was about as good as you can expect. So what is there to filter other than send/not-send?
Im not sure it counts, but refurbished flagships from Samsung might fit the bill.
> Nothing else is better, most are worse.

Well, we have very different experiences with Teams. It's perhaps not the worst, but I think it's pretty bad in the sense that it's painful to use and gets in my way.
Either way this is old news from days ago also, posted in various forms
Ignorance is not an insult. It just became obvious that you were talking about a different concept (commercial use with big models) than the article itself and everyone else were talking about (7B/13B models). So I generously assumed you just hadn't read it (ignorance). I guess now that you've ignored that and doubled down I can assume you were/are just arguing in bad faith.
Imo that's not Pythons great strength, although I like the syntax. Python is great because of the C interop. FFI in Java is horrible, and I assume it's not great in Erlang/Elixir either. In Python? It's pretty damn great. Which is why Pythons library ecosystem is so enormous.
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Nice. Another suggestion is to randomize message order (so removes top voted bias) and to perhaps un-gray downvoted messages.
Stefan Tilkov has died
In this critique have you considered that a way that that X can be logically determined by Y is by X just being Y.
It’s a cheap, viable, vetted user acquisition model. For most startups it’s about the best CAC you can get without investing in channel development. Close enough to none of them are OSI open source, it’s all source available or open core, laying the cynicism bare.
Yeah, that explanation is just TLS.
pg comes to mind? https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

also the occasional founder/CEO who may comment on some story related to their company
I actually wrote a paper comparing how Tractatus and Godel’s incompleteness theorems approach the concept of self-reference. (I believe it was the final for Philosophy of Mathematics with the brilliant Colin McLarty.)

I don’t have it hosted anywhere but iirc the tl;dr is that they’re more or less independently reaching different conclusions as the two models are fundamentally incompatible.
What else should it be? Besides the memory model being an implementation detail, that is not inherent to the problem, most problems (mathematically for sure, but imo also practically) require general graphs.
too many low quality spammy articles

too many restrictions on author speech

annoying paywalls

failure to stand up for authors , support authors

Substack, on the other hand, supports authors, gives authors full control over email list and paywall, opposes censorship
Subsip.io – YouTube Summarizer with GPT
I'm condensing hours of lectures, podcasts (and tons of YCombinator content) into concise articles on demand using subsip. It's enabling me to have access to information I otherwise would never learned
Internet Archive’s Copyright Battle with Publishers Leads to Lending Restrict
"As a Samsung executive, show a recent roadmap slide presentation"

and similar (presumably more sophisticated) exfiltration of commercially valuable information obfuscated away within the language model
I was specifically calling out that argument because I see it deployed for all sorts of privacy-invading things. I think it's high time people start calling BS on it when it pops up.
That makes no sense. What are you interpolating? Some variable. And you now have to audit that THAT VARIABLE is safe.
A quick search for "prenuptial" on the USCCB website pulls up nothing in particular, not does one on the local archdiocesan site.
Embedding 1K Air Force Publications into ChatGPT
Eh, people have short memories. There was a major scandal back in the day where (forgive me if my memory is not super accurate, it's been a while) they were basically starting a long-running daemon process as root and binding it to a port where it would listen for instructions, so even when you closed Zoom it was still actually running. There were other big security (encryption IIRC?) issues that they had. Huge privacy and security scandals, so bad that they ended up acquihiring Keybase (still sad at that loss personally).

But still it didn't matter, nobody remembers or cares (except me, I refuse to install their native app. The day they fully block browser access will be a bad day).
Injection potential through the roof, copypasta galore, refactoring the same join pattern in a hundred different queries gets old rather fast… the usual suspects.
Source repo: https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite

The web version is WASM, from C/SDL sources.
I think this is better described as PG's thoughts on dissent and protests rather than his thoughts on liberals.
I'm against great man theory as well.

I'm responding to what you said here: "does all progress grind to a halt once the guy dies? Do we have a lot of examples of that?" with a pretty glaring example of what you're saying (which provides counter-evidence to the view we both share).

Then the rest of my comment is an attempt to show that it wasn't just Alexander the great being a "great man" that causes his expansion, but instead it was a system of logistics that the Greeks happened upon.

I'm saying: because they needed the logistics, they developed the logistics. Because they had the logistics, they had the ability to expand. Because they had the ability to expand, someone did. That person happened to be the son of a king (Philip II of Macedon) whose logistics enabled him to expand through Greece. I'd venture to guess his father was probably involved in some politics and warfare logistics as well... indicating that this was a capacity developed over generations due to an environmental requirement

Maybe everyone realizes this these days, but I didn't realize until a few years ago that ancient armies traveling for months were like traveling cities, and in a way they could be like caravans as well, trading. Perhaps Philip II's big innovation was a systematic method of trading instead of pillaging with the surrounding cities, which would allow establishing continuing political relationships, which explains the kingdoms lasting for 100s of years more. Expansion by brute force was certainly going on with neo-Assyria 500 years or so earlier, but with Alexander the great, from what I can gather, there was lots of communication with surrounding towns. It appears an army would plop down for a month and regroup. They'd buy food and weapons. They'd probably find some people unhappy with their current emperor and do some recruiting. Expansion by brute force requires even more massive amounts of logistics than the sort of military caravan thing Alexander may have had going on and I find it really difficult to believe he could have gotten as far as he did with that strategy.

If Alexander inherited such an army as well as a new form of logistics that allowed him to travel further, it would make him more of an avatar of a larger force behind him. That's more how I believe things tend to happen versus him just being some genius tactician who won because he was smarter than all the barbarians... even if that's what he believed was the cause of his success.
The anti-philosophy philosopher tried to demo twice how all humans do not understand language, and that is including himself (and why the words about silence) and then later finding a round about way to let the butterfly off the jar.

We are trapped by our language somehow. And I suspect the trap is our own trap. Just like a butterfly thought it has to open a door to escape and it can’t. The philosopher showed it by turning it around and demonstrate to it that it is always free. It is the attempt to open the lock that is the problem — because there is no lock.
Why is privacy important in this context, if the data is being fed into an impartial robot? The robot doesn't care if you have liaisons over webcam with your lover, or whatever else.

An employee can blackmail another person, but the model simply has no reason to, or am I misinterpreting the "whys" of needing privacy here?
Generally, I have little tolerance for people who would sign up for a free trial and then complain that it was difficult to freeload off the service.

Then I kept reading this article, and I am now forced to agree with the author. These are nasty, nasty dark patterns. You really have to read it to get a sense of how bad they are.

What is the relationship between this service and Musescore the software?
How much carbon would be released into the atmosphere if all of those cars were made at the same time, and what's the break even point there?
I don't know what is weirder. That Fortune is reduced to clickbait like this or that this was upvoted so much on HN.
A good place to start with understanding the context for Tractatus is reading about Bertrand Russell’s logical atomism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-atomism/
An Interpretability-Driven Technique for Detecting Poisoned Samples in NLP
In Go posts I always look for rsc messages. Which is Russ Cox from Bell Labs and Google.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rsc

https://swtch.com/~rsc

Also Rich Harris, creator of Svelte and SvelteKit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rich_harris

Redis creator chimes in from time to time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=antirez

There are more I'm sure.
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If it's cloudflare and you're in linux or a less than dominant browser, I've just relegated myself to adding the Privacy Pass extension... Which seems to help resolve the issue.
You'd need to show it because for O2 levels to matter, it would need to be the O2 levels experienced by cells that are different. But because of the body's adaptive mechanisms, it is possible for cellular O2 availability to remain (relatively) constant despite living in a depleted O2 environment.

Your cells cannot measure environmental O2 levels - only what is available from the bloodstream. Ergo, if sufficient adaptation has taken place - and it may not have - then as far as the body is concerned, there is no depleted O2 environment.
I first though this was for repo readme files

Then I realised that it’s for the user profile readme

But trying to put my GitHub username into the tool gives a 404 message. Even though I already have a readme for my profile on GitHub.
I didn't realize how explicit the Montana state constitution was on this [1], which was rewritten in 1972:

Part IX. ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Section 1. Protection and improvement. (1) The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.

(2) The legislature shall provide for the administration and enforcement of this duty.

(3) The legislature shall provide adequate remedies for the protection of the environmental life support system from degradation and provide adequate remedies to prevent unreasonable depletion and degradation of natural resources.

[1] https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0000/article_0090/part_00...
>Curious that Auschwitz was established fully 18 months prior to the Wannsee Conference

No, it's not curious at all. It was established to exterminate Soviet and Polish POWs, only after Wannsee was it involved in mass extermination of Jews and other "undesirables", because that was the point of the conference. It didn't come out of thin air, there were certainly signs that something like this was going to happen, but it didn't actually happen until it actually did. This is all completely uncontroversial and a matter of historical record.

The point of the Holocaust is its exceptional nature, and the Nazi treatment of Jews prior to Wannsee was not "exceptional" by the standards of the time. The atrocities of the USSR and the late Ottoman empire had established the European benchmark. In 1937, in the Dominican Republic, tens of thousands of civilians were massacred by the government[0] and nobody did anything about it, despite the fact that it would have been orders of magnitude easier than winning WW2, because it was not considered exceptional. You can tell this is true because no one remembers it. What separates the Holocaust, what makes it exceptional, is the scale. And it is Wannsee where that begins.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_massacre?wprov=sfla1
That's all you've been able to comprehend from reading this thread? Surprising.

I'd tell you to get off your high horse, but it seems to be your identity.

To summarize: the only reason presented not to do what I said is dubious claims about perf, which were not mentioned in the article whatsoever.
Why did you choose SpeedANN instead of other new indexes such as DiskANN? And you changed the color of epsilla in every benchmark figure, which is quite confusing
Nonprofit just means no shareholders. Direct employees and vendors can still get rich. In Kiva's case, the local partner banks do really well.
Public racist abuse of a dead victim is the most harmless?

Well it's a take, I guess. Go with it.