skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has it really killed that many people? I thought it was only 100+ but maybe the nearly 900 missing person are presumed dead now?
Was thinking about free will because if you go back in time and kill hitler then you have decided that its his story to do exactly what we know he would do and so we’re in a predefined script doing things that we’re supposed to
> Are the author and publication trying to sound as condescending and uppity as possible?

It's the New Yorker. That's the whole purpose of the magazine.
I don't think it would. Else we'd be able to ask 1==1? but not 1==2? .
A long time ago I had to set up a remote office in South Africa and the local finance officer insisted on a wireless connection. I explained that an ADSL connection would provide a much more reliable connection (no shared medium, less interference etc) and his retort was something along the lines of "only up until the point that someone steals the copper wire". Apparently it happened so frequently that most wired connections were no longer viable.
> When 3000 comes around, they can just add the fourth digit (1000).

or use 3 rather than 1 as the fourth.
I dunno, the places that spent the least on COVID had the best outcomes. Seems the predictions might’ve just been wrong. We should be careful before spending $12 tn as we did with COVID.
> forget the phony ethics, and focus on the best version of this technology

I’ve experimented a lot between the censored and uncensored versions of Llama 2.

Based on this, I’ve concluded that fine-tuning for political correctness and ethics negatively affects all answers. They become repetitive and washed out.
I agree, just say you were in the loo and didn't want to talk to them from the toilet. Or in the shower. Or driving somewhere.

Most people understand that, and you don't want to talk to the people that don't.
Will you guys bring "multiplayer" mode like Front?
This is my experience as well. Saving a username and password almost feels like it's worthless with these cretins. And then the dark patterns to upsell you on garbage hiding the actual unfreeze/thaw button.
> the emergency sirens weren't used

Are you meaning in Queensland or Maui?
Word is the police blocked traffic on one of the roads, which stopped people from escaping and causing fatalities. Reminds me of ventilators from covid
The original is AGPL, and the new one is MIT. I wonder if that's even legal?

I'm not sure if this is really a rewrite, or simply an adaptation. I don't think the license could have changed, be advised.
https://rog.asus.com/us/laptops/rog-strix/2021-rog-strix-sca...

Not only does it have a great trackpad (with an ability to become a numberpad), it also has an optomechanical keyboard, with "blue key" like feel. Plus a 3080 in it for games. It also has great cooling, so the fan only is on if you're hitting the 3080 hard.

It is certainly the most fun laptop I've owned (it has led backlights for the keyboard, too)! Granted, it runs windows, but win11 is pretty nice, honestly. No idea how amenable it is to putting linux on.
It also means this port requires orders of magnitude more resources than the original game.
My post was a dismissive response to the clickbait headline, and thus the Hacker News topic name. I liked the article.
If you go fullscreen in a WSL terminal, at least the ads can't hurt you. I still get jumpscared by the Apple Music popup when I put on my headphones with a Mac...
But is the captain shielded from liability if they make the wrong judgement call when deviating from the rule book in an emergency, and protected when following the rules? Or are they judged for making the wrong decision regardless if they were following the rules or not? Or third option, if in an emergency they are protected no matter what decision they make, as long as the decision could be considered reasonable based on information available, even if not optimal based on hindsight?

Of those I like 2 and 3 the best. For 2, it can help influence them to make better decisions (i.e., seek more training ahead of time). For 3, it seems to be the most fair to the person in charge.
Record-setting U.S. heat dome places 170M under alerts
How many people can a company scale to where they all get "life changing equity"? Certainly N<10 if you want double digit equity.
Chris Messina: The problem with the problems with hashtags
I mean... I'd say expecting a program written for a 32 bit OS to just work on 64 is excessive. And the fix is just to add mildly sane memory limits to the processes, which is an OS level task, thus, not necessarily a bug.

Not that the whole thing was very well handled.
That’ll add latency.
There is blood on this person’s hands and I hope they know that
Felica chips were made by Panasonic, but Panasonic sold their semiconductor division to Nuvoton in 2020. So perhaps Nuvoton changed something. General news tends to say that it's "semiconductor shortage", as if there's only one "semiconductor".
Well, that's true, but for example if the branding guide says to call Reddit with a lowercase r (reddit) then you do that. If they then change it and now want "Reddit" then you do this, too.

Or LEGO gets written in all caps.

To me, the style guide decision to conform to the desired persona when describing it is along these lines.
No government should rely on Facebook to provide life-saving emergency information to its citizens. Of course, the Canadian government doesn’t really and this is just shitty political theatre.
From the white paper, it appears as if this system requires its users to trust the server. That's not end-to-end encryption. What do I have wrong here?

Further, it looks like the email encryption provided by this system only works between users of Skiff. At that point, why use email at all? Why not use a real secure messenger? Instead of building an "encrypted email service", you could literally just build an email-flavored frontend to Matrix; either way, you're proxying to SMTP, not speaking it directly.
There’s a place for this. Like fine tuning the model on advanced particle physics so that it can decipher cutting edge research papers more accurately, without teaching the model particle physics every time in the prompt.
Congratulations to a point. In the jurisdiction I worked on these problems inside government, the mandatory requirement was that the identity of each individual who accessed a personal health record was logged with the record they accessed. The systems caught some pretty egregious abuses and attempts over the years.

The controls on this system as described by OpenSafely are far superior to the ones in Canada I am aware of, which some researchers leveraged the pandemic crisis to push through as a means to squeeze the data toothpaste out of the tube before technologies like FHE and LLMs matured enough create a more complete screen over individual records. The scheme in Canada removed some hard controls that prevented abuse and replaced them with discretionary controls without clear liability for their failure, I thought.

I am very cautious about the benefits of this kind of data aggregation because the idea that researchers have altruism or respect for individual privacy is a myth. There is also the risk that it moves governance of personal health information repositories out of government and into academia where there is no AtoI/FOIA requirements, no background checks on the people accessing the health data and systems, no legally binding mandates for limitations on use, and no clear role definition of the responsibilities of custodians, agents, providers, and other formal roles.

That said, OpenSafely's public logs could be an unbelievably good control against this, and it shows a level of stewardship and respect for public trust that mirrors the principles and ideals privacy professionals who have spent their careers on these problems hold.

I'm used to building for hostile environments and for huge userbases who are at least 3% criminal, and the only thing those people understand is consequences. So cautiously, congratulations, but if this data gets used for digital identity, social credit, domestic passports, restrictions on movement, association and other basic freedoms, that is on you.
The “you can do whatever necessary to save the ship, but you might have to explain it” rule. It’s a good one to live by.
>There is no world where gassing children, or shooting women holding their kids, is justifiable.

That's a moral statement, so it depends on your society's morality. You'd be surprised how many societies found such acts justifiable, and you'd be the 'crazy one out' for considering otherwise. In ancient times few would bat an eye, and most would cheer for the succesful extermination of enemies.

Let's not even go that far back in time. There were societies considering slavery justifiable. Or seggregation. Or taking native populations land by force. Or colonizing Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
“Often wrong, but never in doubt” is a great tagline
Blocking the water use is not ok. It seems especially sad for this to happen to a coastline city. If freshwater is not available can saltwater be used in an emergency? Or do they need the water pressure/pumps? It would be more corrosive to equipment but could be cleaned after.
if anything they should be slower. propjets for anything under 500 mi. maybe 700 mi even.
How to Cut Bait in a Fishing Expedition
I think it will instead cause them to force companies to drop RISC-V development.

After all, an instruction set’s fabrication, tooling, software are far more valuable than any theoretical advantage of the instruction set itself. (For example, see how long x86 has been going).

The goal would be to leave China with an architecture that nobody else uses.
It’s usually 3, at least for pilots.

It’s helped by making a mistake usually doesn’t leave someone alive to yell at.
Looked into this, ...it looks interesting.

..Personally, this looks promising. I am going to say it though- Skiff needs some sort of mechanism to use PGP if for nothing else, then to communicate with Protonmail email addresses specifically. I see they are taking the stance its's time to move to something beyond PGP- but given the extremely large userbase that is Protonmail- I think their target market would feel better being able to communicate with their protonmail contacts- using PGP.

Also, i'm having trouble seeing if Skiff has a way to 'send secure emails' to other external email providers, like Tutanota ,Mailbox, and Protonamil do for their users to securely contact people outside their ecosystems(like peeps with gmail).
Solve those issues- and the pain/difficulty/unease of convenience will disappear for their market which likely already uses Protonmail/Tutanota, etc. And Skiff would be very attractive at that point, positioning itself as a successor to those two possibly.
do they call them all spheres just to pretend that their work is relevant? I've heard from captain beyond that everything's a circle, but this is one step too far. a 100-dimensional non-uniform egg is not a sphere in any possible way. why is it not called an n-manifold or something like that
The claim was that Apple is giving someone a degraded experience. How is "Android user doesn't like their Android phone" evidence of a degraded experience for an iPhone user?
> So why is this case noteworthy enough for you to elaborate on?

What did this question mean?
I can see having to swap back and forth between levels to pull up technical specifics as mildly annoying. I guess I’ve gotten used to it, either way having a source of truth that multiple roles can consume has been worth it in my org.

If you have smaller or less complicated systems, or your audience is smaller or all peers, then I could also see C4 as having fewer benefits.
NASA's Psyche mission to may reveal the mysteries of Earth's interior
I'm struggling to understand. Poor person has $100 dollars in their savings account. Rich person has $10M. Even if both achieve the same returns on their savings (be it through simply interest on a savings account, or through equities), let's say 10%. After just 1 year, the poor person would have just $110, while the rich person would have $11M. The rich person got richer faster in my book. Run the same simulation for 10 years and just imagine the result.

Point being, through the same exact investment vehicle and with the same exact rate, a rich person of course will built more wealth than a poor person. It's just the nature of a percentage-based growth.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/world/canada/canada-wildf...
If only there were some other source like the Pacific Ocean on all sides
I think it’s normal procedure in California when an evacuation is ordered for the police to go door to door making sure everyone is out. Regardless of the sirens, depending on mobile phones, which in this case did not work, is not good enough. Even if the network were running, not everyone has a phone or it’s turned off or the battery is dead. You can’t just leave those people to die. Even just driving around town with a bullhorn would have saved a lot of lives.
To who? The email police?
Your comment is a little confusing to me.

>>The priority should be to stop the spread of fire not prevent houses being burned down.

This would imply you think DLNR should have released the water the West Maui Land Co. as they were using it to "help prevent the spread of fire" (direct quote from your quote). Yet you say at the beginning.

>>Reading the article this seems perfectly fine.

Do you believe DLNR acted appropriately by not releasing the water which increased the spread of fire or do you believe DLNR should have released the water to help stop the spread of fire?
Linux 2.4 is where it’s at. I ran that kernel into the ground.
T2 thread: https://t2.social/chris/status/194140

Bluesky thread: https://bsky.app/profile/chrismessina.me/post/3k4uopcsmg42i

Mastodon thread: https://mastodon.xyz/@chrismessina/110884576401814266
These are the 10 wealthiest cities in the world–3 of them are in the U.S.
This is a system that appears to have long-term identity keys, for which "forward security" or "forward secrecy" appears a total of zero times in its white paper. If this is an improvement on PGP, it's not totally clear to me how. Maybe one of its authors will clear that up.
Where the textile industry goes, you find people moving from farms to cities to get those jobs. Often sending money back home. And then better factories move in to take advantage of the new workforce, and textiles move on to a new place where people can be found who are desperate enough to take the worst factory jobs.

This pattern has been going on for over a century. I base "this job is better" not on an arbitrary monetary standard, but by the fact that people show their preference by voting with their feet. Over and over again. Over decades, and across many countries.
ggm can explain it for you, but he can't do your thinking for you.
Maui. A good case is being made that this was the right decision. I don't live there and I think thats something locals should say. So, I'm reading this and reflecting more than writing.
I didn't mean aggregate as in summarized data, but aggregate as in a common repository of multiple different data sources as a single massive data warehouse. If I needed to group or summarize the data, I had to do it in my own queries.
I definitely agree, we are considering what to do here. I think there is a lot to improve with PGP (https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html), but I agree with the problem.

Right now, you can use Skiff Pages for this. You can share public links that have E2EE using link fragments, add passwords, and collaborate in real-time.
Most people paying attention already figured out by now that the fires were started and kept burning intentionally by the government, but I guess it doesn't matter because who's gonna do anything about it?
Pilot in command can deviate from regulations to the degree necessary to address the emergency. It’s very well established, drilled into every pilot and there truly won’t be any trouble for invoking this.
Here is another thing I despise about these Credit Bureaus.

Ive walked into Commercial Real Estate brokerages where every single broker had a license to a credit bureau - with many of the junior brokers using it daily to look up real estate owners to call their mobile phones.

Obviously TLO knows theres no way a huge chunk of the CRE brokerage industry should be in their product on a daily basis if they were actually using a GLBA compliant use case... and they look the other way and find a way to monetize.

You really dont need to go digging in some dark corner of the internet to obtain this information... you can walk in through the front door
I'm clearly biased, but at least in my experience, while this is technically true, you're still dealing with XML (and now JSON) shoehorned into a tuple-based context. In other words, there is still a (lossy) translation layer, it just happens to be in the RDBMS rather than in-app.

Fauna's advantage here is that this way of structuring queries is deeply integrated with the language (and underlying wire protocol) itself. For example, Fauna's response format supports returning independently iterable result sets (supported by cursor-based pagination under the hood), allowing you to lazily populate the result graph in your app based on further user interaction.
The particle nature of dark matter is not understood, but it's not necessary to understand that in order to understand how it will interact gravitationally. There are a lot of well understood physical processes that produce clear predictions about what we should observe with X amount of dark matter, Y amount of baryonic matter, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37230146

We have a commenter here who lived on Maui who says that the behavior on hearing the siren is hard coded, not something people second guess. If you hesitate when there's a tsunami, you die.

Personally, I'm not qualified to have an opinion on this, not living on Maui, so I'll defer to the locals rather than the armchair emergency response managers.
A call to general action is the same as no call to action. "We" and "changes" are so vague that they diffuse responsibility to everyone, and therefore no one. It feels good, and nothing happens.

I'd like to encourage people to get organized with people in their own communities. Doesn't matter all that much what you focus on, so long as its constructive. But you have got to become active about something that matters to you, and organize with like-minded people. Reading articles and writing comments about them online changes nothing. Get in the habit of catching yourself writing an opinion, saying "I'm only wasting my time", and turning to something that's more substantial. At the very, very least, encourage other people to become active.
Incorrect. The "home" page had recommendations with watch history turned off before. They were able to get this from likes and saved videos, and if they had no likes or saved videos they would recommend based on another algorithm that involved locality, language, age, and generally popular videos.
I guess I'm making an assumption that the 850 or so missing people are dead. I don't know that, but unfortunately it seems like a safe assumption. Reporters who have managed to get near the affected area are saying that there are dead bodies lining the streets.

I truly hope my assumption is wrong and that those 800 people are safe, but it just doesn't seem likely to me given what we know.
And closed source. As was the authoring system.

Flash was truly awesome, but I'm glad we only need a text editor these days.
6 of the 10 are in the asia-pacific. one is in europe. the rest are in the USA.

"the bay area" is probably understood to be equivalent, but its not a single city in the way Hong Kong or Shanghai are, I guess you could argue "the new territories" is not exactly a city and "singapore" is an island-state.

It looks to be a per-capita measure. If you upped the density of the US locations to match HK and Shanghai, I suspect the rich list dimension might change a bit.

I was surprised Zurich didn't make the list.
Fire those folks and move on. If you're a subordinate and your leaders are not firing those folks, quit and move on.

Gameable KPIs offer windows into the souls of your colleagues.
> (Also, the support(?) phone number at the bottom seems pretty unusual!)

Ok Zoomer. (Sorry couldn't resist)

So, old phones had letters on the digits (1 = ABC, 2 = DEF etc.) so you could have the phone number 555-GET-BEEF (555-438-2333) or whatever.

Christ I feel old.
Here is my implementation used for my discord and slack bots. The logic for rag is the Shelby_agent module.

RAG is straightforward but i improve it by generating extra keywords to help the search. I also add extra metadata filtering to return both technical documentation and more fluffy sales and marketing stuff. IMO, semantic search alone might not be the best, and I want to also add keyword search.

I think the thing most people will struggle with is prepping the documents. Chunking them to the best token count for your use case for example.

https://github.com/shelby-as-a/shelby-as-a-service
By the time you can see the slightly denser smoke, you're stuck in traffic headed towards the fire, no?
Can they fix file navigation next? I’ve never been able to figure it out, somehow I can have files shared with me that are impossible to browse/ search for, you just have to bookmark the link.
You're right! It's been a long day.
Dark matter interacts gravitationally, so its density can be measured, and has been in many different environments. Weak lensing is one method of measuring dark matter density, for example.
Can you elaborate on how you saved/earned money from it?
As far as I'm concerned, replacing a feature with a similar one (major version bump in semver) and adding a new feature (minor version bump in semver) are pretty much completely equivalent to me. Adding a new button for a purely-new feature is a "breaking change" - that is, if it's in some keyboard-navigable menu, I now lose muscle memory on how many 'down' presses it takes to reach it (or, in a GUI, the entire layout might have changed to fit the new button), which is about as annoying as being forced to use a new workflow due to a replaced/removed feature (assuming I ever used it).

So semver for GUIs is just entirely useless to me. Whereas a calendar-date actually gives useful information:

- if I desire some obviously-desirable feature, how likely is it that the newest version might have it (semver even de-emphasizes this via making additions minor bumps!)

- whether it's worth bothering to report a bug (devs likely won't care about problems in years-old versions, but 10 semver major bumps could be anywhere between decades and weeks old, depending on how the developers chose to define "breaking change")

- whether the version is representative of the up-to-date state (for semver you could maybe determine this if you looked up the up-to-date version number (already a big ask) and subtracted, but again that'll primarily only tell you about amount of removed stuff (and not even amount!! just the number of batches! you could have 10 major bumps have less removed stuff in total that one major bump), not added stuff)

- whether whatever package manager gave me a reasonably-up-to-date version
PROMPT: Generate a table of per- process/thread/greenthread/coroutine costs in terms of stack/less/heap overhead, CPU cache thrashing impact, and compatibility with various OS schedulers that are or are not preferred to eBPF

Is it necessary to use a library like trio for nonblocking io in lua, or are the stdlib methods all nonblocking with big-O complexity as URIs in the docstrings?

Trio docs > notes on async generators:
https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference-core.html#no...
Facebook Marketplace Lets Users Sell Recalled Baby Products, Lawmakers Say
Post dungeon-master. AIs will take over the hosting of Dungeons and Dragons sessions.
I haven't seen any evidence of this, at all.