skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is a strange take for me to read -- i've written quite a decent amount of lua, and it is the first language i used to learn (zero programming experience prior)

when i eventually got exposed to python (but more heavily C/C++, and even some lisp/pascal) and came back to lua, i was grateful lua did not inundate me with parens/primitives/modules/data-structures/grammars, and found the flexibility of the interpreter and also what lua tables present as a unified primitive for multiple container types to be so nice and accessible for getting right to flow-state.

i did not have to look up another API and read about a set of semantics provided with a desired module, i just needed to know 1. what i want to achieve and 2. a single API: the lua table

its small std library is performant and easy on the cognitive load, and then it plays so nicely with other languages and environments.

have you written much lua?
> - can you kettle a peaceful --yet fully armed-- protest? what are the benefits? risks?

If you wish people to accept or even join your movement, violence seems to be counter-productive:

> For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10056014-why-civil-resis...
Framework for evaluating LLM outputs with ML models
I guess this will impact some commercial real estate and yacht sales, but will have a near zero impact on the local economy.

This isn't like an auto plant leaving town. This is a few dozen people who move electrons around.
Is there something (besides the convenience of being already in the proper vector formats) unique about the combination of semantic search and LLM's that makes it a better fit?

I guess I'm surprised that the approach is to use semantic search here, where in regular search, completely different algorithms (Lucene?) have "won".
I've read that it's largely the residency system (which, from the outside, feels more like hazing than training) that limits positions, and I don't think that's under any direct control by the AMA. Wikipedia says it's mostly funded by Medicare.
My math program didn't require graduate topology for most students, they offered a topology course but most of it was general, not algebraic.
Sure, which is why these cities are turning into ghost towns…
I know, right? I've spent the last 15 or so minutes just marveling at how nicely cleaned up it all is, I can only imagine how overwhelming it must've been to see the mess it was. Really shows what some extra time/budget could do for major studios releasing remasters.
An individual’s tax liabilities are different than a business’ tax liabilities, which are mostly dependent on where the services are received. Even independent contractors are subject to market based sourcing rules for determining tax liabilities, similar to how a store without a presence in your state still has to collect and remit sales tax to the jurisdiction that the item was shipped to.
TLDR Think tank spin job. Nothing to see here.

This strikes me as a number porn trying to spin something by benchmarking against a distinct and unrelated question.

Of course the answer to “Do you know Elon Musk runs Twitter? Yes/No/I don’t know” is going to be skewed towards Yes or No much more frequently than something that requires much deliberation: “do you think the US lacks a meaningful national law on privacy?” Even if I am I supposed to answer that question as a legal expert, it may require sophisticated analysis to know whether it is meaningful, and as a layman do I know something is passed on a national level or not. Just too many moving parts.
For at least a few years now, companies relicensing their open source software has not been just a theoretical possibility, but a plausible thing that could happen any time.

I don’t know what happens to the Linux Foundation when we’re all in the nursing home, but them relicensing everything is not currently plausible. It is a merely theoretical possibility.
Can't say I fully agree, but I definitely share the sentiment. Let's Encrypt is a nice hack, not a long-term solution. We need DANE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...
> Or is it possible to “upgrade in place” just the kernel and leave your files/data alone

Yeah. I've never heard of reinstalling the OS just to get a newer kernel.

> is there a good guide for how to do that

I think it's best to continue to use your distro's package manager to handle actually installing that kernel, so the instructions would all be distro-specific. Some distros make working with a custom kernel easier than others.

> for a homelabber would that be a good idea to avoid security bugs?

Depends on your distro. I would expect major ones and enterprise-oriented ones to do a good job of backporting security fixes to the older kernels they run. If they do a really good job of this, it might even be more secure on the whole.

But yeah, just using
the latest stable kernel is probably the simplest way to ensure that you have the latest security fixes. (It'll also ensure you have the latest undiscovered security bugs. ;)
I really wish there was an option for "no cliffs within X distance" or something.

My "dream world" would have the starting area for maybe 100 blocks have some cliffs for early biter funneling and a bit of a challenge, then just flat world for 1000 blocks, and then back to cliffs.

Or make it so you can manually mine cliffs very slowly before explosives.
So, yes, but it can take a little time.

The two main things is that a language will meet the needs of its speakers, and that people will have at least one native language. You can't prevent either thing across a group.

A new & true pidgin has no native speakers, so no group will depend on it for all of their communication needs, falling back to their native languages when possible/necessary. It will be a native language of the first generation born into its communities. But critically they will also usually be native speakers of another language, the one their parents use at home, and will still be able to fall back to that for some of their communication needs.

So the pidgin will grow and change from the use of the first native speaker cohort, but it can take multiple generations for it to have a base of native speakers who depend on it absolutely. Though in other cases, esp with more than two combined languages, it can happen in one generation.

And as it's happening, it's fuzzy on whether it's a pidgin or a creole. I don't think linguists consider them separate non-overlapping categories, but more like the two modes in a bimodal distribution. Understanding is also complicated by the fact that these emerge relatively rarely, and tend to be in groups & parts of the world, until relatively recently, without a lot of scholarly attention on them.
Potentials do not equal violence.

In Seattle the George Floyd protests let emergency vehicles and even city busses through frequently
Full interoperability at this point is impossible without compromising our core feature. But there are millions of users already using this kind of technology, and we believe the decentralized ecosystem and the demand will be growing. And we try our best to make the transition easy.
Raise Less, Build More
If your leg gets blown off, and the only help you're getting is from Gary, who claims a strong stomach and has used a needle kit before, for sewing closed your femoral artery, I reckon you're taking a swing.

Are you sure the desperate don't deserve this attempt to help them? I can't imagine what it must be like to have such issues and have zero professional options to turn to, and you know what the solution for many is.
Holding molten fuel in a small container and extracting heat via convection is quite interesting. The idea seems obvious, but Oak Ridge never tried because they were designing an aircraft reactor that couldn't rely on gravity.
Looks like "open-tf" is available as well. That'd be even better!

As an added benefit, shorter names add a sense of legitimacy to new projects.
I'd love a mod that actually respected the true materials/engineering recipes in real life.

Obviously, you can't recreate the complete complexity of all global supply chains, but it would be nice for a mod to get a little closer.

Standard factorio glosses over way too much to be considered educational, which is what i need before I get my son addicted with me. (Yes, i know standard Factorio still has a lot to offer - i just want more detail)
Except of course that they do, though given volume and repetitiveness of moderation issues, this isn't in all cases, and often points to earlier threads:

A general search showing links to rationale / reasons: <by:dang please don't https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=>

You can also typically search Algolia for "by:dang" + the text used to describe what guideline was transgressed.

As I've noted elsewhere, HN operates on frictions and nudges: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137757>

And you can always email mods for clarification, as has been noted several times already in this thread. Dang explicitly includes this option when banning established accounts in many cases.

In large part though, HN presumes adult behaviour, which includes the ability and inclination to research for yourself what you might have done wrong.
This is a pretty low-value comment: attackers have been hosting malware on public indices since day 1; the more interesting observation here is that crates.io is now "important" enough to get their attention for typosquatting.
Why do you think complex algos, complex feeds, across large search space (all content instead of friends and family) turns out to be more profitable? Are ads suddenly more valuable in that context? I don’t think so. And it’s certainly much more expensive to operate than a simple chronological feed of friends and family.

It comes down to time spent. People spend more time on the apps and see more ads. We can argue over whether that’s a sign people like the app more… but no one is being forced to scroll a feed they don’t enjoy. Interesting that people “are begging for changes” yet using the apps more and more anyways.
> Its the outcome when agents don't co-operate

Cooperation is a choice, as you very well say immediately below the above statement.
Can they do that without reverting their own license back to MPL?
Exactly. So why now are we trusting 'Research' that is trying to predict the future of other 'Research'. The linked article is just some estimates on the error built into the current LLM model.

How can we extrapolate that to be "well, gosh darn, these LLM's are already played out, guess we're all done"
I agree. My comment was meant to supplement and support yours.
We? I didn’t know this had a name or was formally recognized, and at best I had an intuition for it rather than an explicit understanding of what was going on.

This article solidified the concept for me, and I’m grateful. Why so cynical?
> the loss of high-income taxpayers

California state revenue is ~66% income tax.

Don't have resources for what percentage of that comes from the top 1%, but it's likely more skewed than at the Federal level, which is ~45% of income tax.

It's almost as if Prop 13 wasn't a genius idea, and it's starting to come back to bite the state.
This seems to contradict statements like the one below that even a single laser, "...is no different than shooting a firearm at the helicopter."
....so what? This seems completely reasonable. If you don't want emails regarding transactions and inquiries, don't make any transactions or inquiries.
Heineken exits Russia with €1 sale of operations
SALT change in 2017 limited federal deduction on state income taxes, which seemed like a direct and successful attempt to create this outcome.
Many lawns in the US do use grass native to that part of the US. Not all, but many. However grass goes dormant when it doesn't rain for a couple weeks and people don't like that brown look so they water even though the grass (either native or imported) doesn't need it. Likewise people don't like flowers and other weeds and so they apply a lot of chemicals to the lawn - but the grass doesn't need them.

TL;DR: lawns in the US do not need any resources. It is "perfect lawns" that need a lot of resources.
Honestly? I don't think it makes sense for us to continue down the path where the clients connect to the CA to verify status. While I trust most CAs (like LE), the less information a client has to expose to one the better.
I think people assume that the current LLM release cycle is similar to other software releases which is to say, MVP followed by full product. ChatGPT is an actual product though, it's not the beta version of the technology. I think the dramatic increases in the product have likely mostly happened before launch but that you're right and we will see minor improvements.
Actually, I think it's been found out recently that thinking that everyone has an "inner voice" is a presumption by those who do. Apparently it's only 25%~ of the population or so that actually have an inner monologue.

It got revitalised again recently resulting in much commotion from people on either side of the fence: shock that someone might never hear their own voice or talk to themselves inside their head, and shock that someone might have this voice talking to themselves, for somebody who has only known silence.

I think there are a couple studies that back it up, but a lot is anecdotal as people describe their side of the fence.

I have an inner voice myself, but I have thoughts and sensations that my inner voice does not voice, and some where it does.

The human brain is so freaking cool.
Yep, as an individual you have to sleep. As an individual you get sick. As an individual you have massive gaps in knowledge and capability.

Any prepper that is an individual and thinks they have it made is just an egotistical disaster in the making.

A few people working together can take any prepper out simply by being patient. If the person is in a bunker then you just poison the bunker. Otherwise you just wait till they come out and pick them off one by one.
Was listening to a Peter Zeihan video yesterday about what makes Texas economically successful and he was saying that these big firms love Texas so much because it's a red state with blue cities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K__yDAix51Q

Tl;dw: One of the key points in his hypothesis was that Texas is a Goldilocks zone where firms receive attractive tax breaks from the state and the workers receive attractive services from the cities.

Thoughts on if this model makes sense and if this could make sense for states like NY and CA to follow if so?
There's also all the things changed in the base game that mods weren't able to do, but developers can. We'll find more and more about this over the next year, but they will enable even better mods.
> You may not know exactly which part needs to be replaced, until you go to a shop to diagnose the issue.

Isn’t one of the major, constant gripes of the repairmen that they can’t do component level repair and so they have to replace assemblies?

That works in the favor of the repair program here. Oh it’s the camera? Well, there’s only one part that it can be - the camera board. Easy to order.

Repairmen don’t like that but apple is never going to sign off on randos drilling and repadding and reballing their products.

Like again, the accusations of bad faith are fundamentally misplaced. The faith is so good that independent repairmen can’t compete with the service rates that apple offers unless they’re using non-genuine parts to do it. It’s not exactly the way repairmen would prefer to do it, but it accomplishes the goals of maintaining product quality, preventing phone theft, and minimizing e-waste, and repairmen don’t really care about #1 or #2 so their solutions don’t solve for that.

People don't like this take, but most of the time Apple's goals are not completely malicious or incoherent. Just like the sideloading thing: there are legitimate user-focused security and permissioning goals there, and people just don't like it when those ideas are taken to their logical conclusion. Letting users bypass permissioning and app review mean those processes might as well not exist, you have to put a non-trivial barrier there (like requiring a developer account). And providing board-level repairs and driving down the cost of assemblies is realistically how products have to be serviced in the modern world. Krisfix drilling and repadding 4090 boards is not typical quality/skill and is not a scalable model for a repair network. This needs to be something that can be done by a person with 1 year of experience in a strip mall store.

Right to repair does not mean that rossman's business model is the only way that can ever be allowed to work. Shipping around a tiny PCB is not a big deal and board level repairs still keep phones out of landfills, even if it doesn't keep rossman in business. There is no inherent right to profit in capitalism, you can't outlaw someone's business model just because it makes yours difficult.
I would hope he doesn’t get worse, too, but it’s hard to imagine anything else with how far he’s been going south and for how long.
I don't want to give up caffeine, but I have my two shots before 7 or 8am and that's it for caffeine. You didn't mention alcohol, maybe you aren't a drinker? Giving up alcohol for ~4 days definitely improves my sleep - no 2am wakeups, more dreams - but then it's the weekend again, whoops. If I can't fall back asleep after around 15-30 minutes, I get up and read for an hour; that always works. I try to think in terms of sleep cycles - did I get enough? can I get one more? I'm surprised a sleep mask doesn't improve sleep onset. I am addicted to my scarf eye cover's total darkness.
Security isn't a binary. Banks are secure. Prisons are secure. In software and hardware the thing being secured against is increasingly the "owner" of the device, for the benefit of rentiers.
I sure someone had published a url about "personal assistant", rely on LLama and work notebook. guess this is the dream of author of this article ?
Not "better", but for a different target audience. Also written by the author of said mod, who was hired to work on the expansion.
California leads the nation in quite a few enviromental, consumer safety, consumer protection, and other policy areas and manages to have an economy larger than the lower 25 states in the US combined. They're doing something right, evidently.

It's one thing to say you prefer a state with lower levels of regulation and government services and resulting lower taxes. That's a preference. It's another thing to say that taxes in California are 'well-spent' or not. That's a value judgement for which you've provided no justification.
Not once in my days of using tape storage have I ever enabled compression, so it always seems like a waste to my specific use case of storing large files of media formats, specifically video. Unless the video was in some sort of RAW uncompressed format, which is close to never, and video in a CoDec would not benefit from this compression.
Kinda meaningless. Headquarters doesn't mean much. Companies have employees everywhere no matter what. Commercial real estate is getting hammered by wfh more than anything else. Prior to covid, NYC office space was overcapacity as was residential. With accelerating plans to convert office to residential this will only be a benefit.
$2T in assets, assuming 2% management fees means loss of at least $40B revenue.

The revenue from % of investment profits, generally in 15-20% range, is additional and harder to estimate.
> Several soundness issues were found in previous versions of the standard library that allow a malicious crate to take advantage of undefined behavior to run arbitrary machine code. It seems likely to me that there are similar unknown issues lurking in today's standard library or compiler.

Even without any soundness issues or bugs or security flaws, people can just plain write malicious code. Rust prevents a lot of common _mistakes_, but people can also use it to write completely "safe" worms that are guaranteed not to have use-after-free errors, data races and unexpected panics.

I don't think there's any way to get around the social aspects of software security for most developers ("trusting _people_ not code")
Thx for the reply and the porided sugestions. I will check them out.

"the average family probably has less than 2TB data"

Backups here are 23TB, reduced to 7.5 after dedup. Maybe we're a bit more into tech than the average family, but 2TB does not sound reasonably if you have some retention.

We do have the O365 family sub. The Onedrive portion is used sparingly, and I would never count on it for backups.

I've always had something NAS like. Had Microsoft's WHS for a while on a spare PC until that was discontinued, now on my second Synology. It's not perfect but saved the day several times. Putting in the usb after a disk replacement and restoring to yesterday's point in time quickly is vital as disk crahes tend to happen at the least convenient moment.
Are you aware of any of the recent advances?

There is the set theoretic types work [1] lead by Jose and a couple of PhDs and also eqwalizer by WhatsApp [2]

[1] https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/10/05/my-future-with-elixi...
[2] https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer
I used Ubuntu for many years, and I switched to Fedora about a year ago, and I've been really enjoying the experience.
The C++ source code to the engine isn't publicly available, but Wube have given access to some outside developers.

The Lua source code to the "base mod" is (necessarily) included in the game. You can read it if you have a copy of the game, and the modding API is fully documented: https://lua-api.factorio.com/
>No one is truly living off the grid.

This has been my thought as well, but I gotta say... I do know of a place where the owner put in absolutely millions into an eco lodge and while a "prepper cabin" wasn't his goal, it really is a great example of how one could live in a degree of comfort off grid. Probably their biggest weakness is they rely a lot on their diesel generator. But, they do have some solar, they have a good greenhouse, access to hunting, a private airfield, access to a river for both fishing and water, in an area with mild(ish) winters... so guess I'm saying that if you've got absolutely wheelbarrows full of cash, it can be done... but that's not the case with the vast majority of prepper types I've seen.
The ease of use outweighs the security concerns for most reasonable people.
I'm hopeful on this news. Terraform has become the standard in the industry, but incentives weren't quite aligned. My attempts to submit Pull Requests for much wanted features (fully working documentation with new integration tests all passing) often took months-a year to be accepted and merged.

Hashicorp engineers were incentivized to work on features related to Hashicorp paid services, and Hashicorp competitors who would similarly benefit from a stronger Terraform codebase were disincentivized from potentially helping Hashicorp.
Rampant + deathworld (I think is the combo) is the way to go if you want a real challenge, because you need to build defenses that do not use too many resources.
OpenSK – open-source implementation for security keys written in Rust
> If you have alternatives to participating in this auction, perhaps you should abstain.

totally off-topic I know -- it's a great answer to so many dull thought experiments too. Like this one that was going around Twitter recently:

Everyone responding to this poll chooses between a blue pill or red pill.

- if > 50% of ppl choose blue pill, everyone lives
- if not, red pills live and blue pills die

Just walk away! It's so easy!