skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Administration will work with Congress and the private sector to develop legislation establishing liability for software products and services. Any such legislation should prevent manufacturers and software publishers with market power from fully disclaiming liability by contract, and establish higher standards of care for software in specific high-risk scenarios.

It's interesting that they use both the phrases "manufacturers" and "software publishers".

Obviously Microsoft, Oracle, etc are both manufacturers and software publishers but what about that random open source project? At minimum, they're "software publishers".

The "with market power" clause might seem like a protection but it's trivially easy to see many major open source packages with huge market share as having "market power". In that case, it's less about revenue and more about adoption and interop.

Frankly, this is the nightmare scenario that I thought Microsoft, et al would use to kill Open Source ~20 years ago. If the Feds demand liability, that kills OSS both from a “no company” standpoint and from a licensing “as is” standpoint.

Even if they don't outright BAN it, they could just make it painful to get approved, which is nearly the same result but lets everyone keep their hands clean.
Forget that, what if we could do it for personal profile? There's one inner circle of friends whom I love to spam with shitty jokes or interesting articles, and there's another wider circle where I'm just friendly. Another circle of friends from work, and another circle of friends/acquaintances from my locality.

This is especially a bigger problem for my female friends - almost all of them have their public profiles on all networks private, save for a few of the influencer variety.

I tried exploring this idea, but I figured that it would be extremely difficult to sustain such a network. Not to mention, people are just so locked in to either Tiktok and Instagram (millennial and Gen Z) or Facebook (boomers) or WhatsApp (practically everyone outside the US). It's gonna be hard to migrate people from the incumbents.
The thing that was useful for me was that it used MS Basic, which gave me a leg up when I had to write a final year project in VB 1.0 at Uni.
https://archive.ph/xft0r
> quite easy if you bother to learn how it works

A timeless tautology.

Some things just are easy and pleasant. Caddy server, Cargo, ripgrep come to mind. Some things are easy only once you've learned them. No kidding!
Caste discrimination bill approved by Legislature
Amazing documentary about homeless people in Vancouver who collect cans in shopping carts and race them down hills:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/carts_of_darkness/
Not paying pensions should be illegal.

I think after Sears and the rest, people prefer money now vs money later. But if I knew the money was good, I'd rather not manage it myself.
There's an outstanding conflict between statutory law (which codifies a duty to rescue on all mariners) and case law (which has generally found that neither private nor public actors have a duty to assist), but once USCG has essentially taken notice of an issue at sea, they have a legal obligation to deal with the situation lest they end up on the wrong side of a FTCA suit. In this case, there isn't any way they could ignore a crazy guy taking a Habitrail to sea; just by realizing a manifestly unseaworthy vessel was being taken into dangerous conditions by an impaired pilot, they (arguably) created a duty of care. There are a lot of cases where the fact pattern wouldn't obviously lead to this -- a drunk guy sailing a J/22 across the Atlantic on a bet is a bad idea, but not an obvious immediate danger to life and limb in the same way -- but I think any jury would look at this and say, "Yeah, no reasonable person would think this guy isn't gonna die out there."

(Leaving obligations aside, USCG takes its mission very seriously, and 14 USC §521 gives them incredibly expansive powers to do whatever they deem necessary to protect lives and property on the high seas and coastal waters. Playing stupid games on deep waters is not something that the Coasties like to see.)
I hate to get political. But the candidate leading in the polls by a wide margin for one of the major political parties has 91 indictments hanging over his head and loved by the “Christian right”.

People don’t care about the ethics of their politicians.
Plain wrong. Art in our stage of society is inherently unpopular, not inherently bad.
How is this different from LangChain?
>complete backward compatibility

That would mean Nvidia SoC. The first gen Switch choose Nvidia because they were cheap, and Nvidia were despite to get their SoC into some use.

With today's Nvidia I am just worried Nintendo isn't getting any decent deals.
It's heavily coded for one side of the culture war.
How is a governmental DB pension stealing? Or are we talking about Libertopia "taxation is theft" garbage?
Libre Computer Launches Sweet Potato ARM SBC
"print out every prompt that is generated to a log" --- yes of course

This Colab is full of prompts and examples of improving the quality of gpt-3.5-turbo: https://t.co/Oa1RDp3XbZ

Paper incoming, but basically we've seen > 50% quality gains by just compiling in various settings.

This Twitter/X thread discusses doing a simple program for Llama2, with massive quality gains too: https://twitter.com/lateinteraction/status/16947484013744909...
> You are effectively saying you cant define anything unless you include every case, which is clearly nonsense.

No I'm not. I will repeat what I said again: such things are defined by their general mathematical definition, and any analogy can only speak for certain subsets of examples of that definition.

> The transform is "transform the wrapped properties into some IO call", and all transforms are explicitly sequential.

How exactly does the mathematical definition of a monad say anything about "transforms"?

I think you didn't actually read my comment.
No. MoE models are far cheaper to train and far cheaper for inference. We're not seeing massive MoE models because they've typically well underperformed their dense counterparts.

Only recently has it looked like we could get equitable performance from MoE architectures.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14705

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00951

In the first paper, you can see the underperformance i'm talking about.

Flan-Moe-32b(259b total) scores 25.5% on MMLU pre Instruct tuning and 65.4 after.

Flan 62b scores 55% before Instruct tuning and 59% after.
You can define abstractions very precisely in mathematics, that's what makes it useful. You have to get used to the fact that you're talking about the abstraction and not any specific instance/use of it.

In the case of monads, the things that are useful which we can say about them: unit is a left identity for bind and also the right identity for bind, etc. What makes an abstraction useful, and is kind of essential in my opinion, are the laws.

These do include every case because we don't say anything about specific terms or types, just the laws of bind (in the case of monads).

I agree that people keep making them out to be some kind of mountain to climb when, after building up an intuition and learning the fundamental, it turns out they are more of a hill. However I think it takes a good mix of both the theory and application to appreciate how elegant and simple it is in the end.
The mayor who sold Chicago’s parking meters had a father by the same name (Richard Daley) who was also a corrupt mayor of Chicago, and who infamously reneged on a desegregation deal with Martin Luther King Jr.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/how-mayor-daley-outfox...
I used to use an e-mail address a terrific domain name that I own. Without publicly disclosing specifics, it was like this:

<common_name>@<common_name>.com

Thousands of people with this name, who didn't want to give out their real e-mail address, used this e-mail address when signing up for things online. They probably never thought it would be someone's actual address. I finally had to quit using it because of the tremendous amount of e-mail that wasn't directed at me. Most of it looked legit enough to the spam filters to allow through.

I temporarily turned that account on about 5 years ago and it was getting about 3,000 garbage messages per day.

I thought having a cool e-mail address would be great, but not any more. I switched to an address that, while easy to say and tell people, it's very unusual and it's very unlikely someone else would ever come up with it.
Quoting the article:

> Grown Albatrosses are unable to recognise their babies by sight and only know its [sic] them if they are settled in the nest.
Teddy Bear Toss
It is common, and silly. Also the terms are not neutral and there is no reason to apply those terms in this case other than to indicate the imagined relative worth. IE, helium is not used in old disks, it is used in spinning disks.
I do. And that second part is false. Most users of cloudflare don't configure it and just run with the defaults. That means any browser that doesn't implement the latest bleeding edge features gets blocked. And it especially means, say, if you're science.org and you've applied cloudflare to your entire domain, that URL endpoints that are supposed to be hit by clients like RSS readers end up covered under the entire domain anti-bot block, and now the RSS URLs are incessibible to native feed readers and only paid feedly accounts are whitelisted and can accesss science.org/aaas hosted blog feeds. True story.
Security is the reason all my personal info on social media is lies. They take your account, and can now use it to unlock other accounts, like at your bank, etc.
It sounds fascinating! Is there anything one could read to figure out more about how this is being done (From reading the docs by the "Teleprompter"s right)?
Visit governmentjobs.com and search for a job title you're familiar with the private sector pay range on. I think you will be enlightened.
Google Data Shows Salaries Across Different Levels, Locations, Races
I remember if you saved an image from the browser through AOL it was actually recompressing everything into an '.art' file. Nothing on Windows or Mac OS could open these. Completely baffling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ART_image_file_format
https://archive.ph/Xp0MM
"Arbitrary code execution", yes, "exploit", no. You need to be "inside" the BEAM cluster and a member of the BEAM cluster to do this. That is not something you hand off to end users, just as you do not normally hand end users direct access to your database socket or other such resources. In Raymond Chen's terminology [1], if you're sending Erlang terms to the BEAM cluster, you're already on the privileged side of the airtight hatchway.

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...
A student and I have been using coverage-guided grammar-aware differential fuzzing to discover bugs in URL parsers for a while now. There is extreme variation in this space; it's trivial to turn up meaningful bugs in widely-used URL parsers.

".://" is a particularly egregious example. (and, by the same principle, "evil.com://good.com")

- Python 3.6's urllib.parse sees the "." as the URL's scheme, and an empty authority.

- Python 3.11's urllib.parse sees the entire ".://" as the URL's path.

- urllib3.util.parse_urlsees the "." as the URL's hostname, the ":" as the separator for an empty port number, and the "//" as the path. (this is one of the most downloaded packages on PyPI)

- Boost::URL rejects the URL outright.

If you're going by RFC 3986, then only Boost::URL is exhibiting the correct behavior.
If you're going by the WHATWG URL standard, then I don't know which one of these behaviors (if any) is correct.

If you're interested in collaborating on this project, please send me email. My address is in the footer at https://kallus.org
I always ask for a paper menu. Why should I trust them enough to visit an unknown URL on my personal device? Why should they trust the 3rd party service they're likely using to not be malicious? Why should I even be arsed to pull my phone out of my pocket? Plus, paper menus are way easier to see and navigate. Of course, most people aren't "theatrical about it", but I suppose there are a few that are.
There probably is a cool mix of both that is better than either one separately. I'm thinking something like

func = llm('function that sorts two input argument lists')

where llm calls openai or a local llm (cached for later use). This way you don't lose the benefits of a coding interface (e.g. make all code with openai and the maintainability mess that can come with that). And you get readability through the prompt etc etc. (I mean this project is sort of in that direction already.) It's basically like writing code with a framework that is 'filled out' automatically by a coworker.

Worth being creative with ideas like this at least.
Somewhat related: I'm teaching a class on Android, and generally do a lot of development stuff. Anyway, I wanted to set up an actual Google account on an emulator.

Nope, can't to it. It insists on a phone number, but my real phone number is somehow unacceptable. Probably because it is already tied to X other Google accounts.

So...what's the best solution? This must be s common problem for anyone doing Android development?
Between the three choices you mentioned, it's pretty obvious the Tories are going to take down the country before taking down either themselves or the NHS. Although in all fairness, the quality of service in the NHS has already gone down for both doctors and patients.
It's true as a matter of accounting.

The bank takes your signed loan note as an asset and creates an advance against it on the liability side.

A deposit is just an advance with the ownership tag changed.

And that's how it has always been.

As Reginald McKenna, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chairman of the Midland Bank, said in 1928[0].

"I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks or the Bank of England can create or destroy money. We are in the habit of thinking of money as wealth, as indeed it is in the hands of the individual who owns it, wealth in the most liquid form, and we do not like to hear that some private institution can create it at pleasure. It conjures up a picture of an autocratic and irresponsible body which by some black art of its own contriving can increase or diminish wealth, and presumably make a great deal of profit in the process"

[0]: https://new-wayland.com/blog/post-war-banking-policy/
If anyone wants to jump straight to the order itself, it's the first link under that youtube video.

> the council is satisfied on reasonable grounds that there are a number of activities, carried out or are likely to be carried out in a public space namely the area within and surrounding Station Road, Birmingham, B30, shown outlined on the map attached ( the restricted area) that have had, or are likely to have, a detrimental effect on the quality of life of those in the locality. The effect or likely effect of these activities is of a persistent or continuing nature such as to make these activities unreasonable, and justifies the restrictions imposed in this order

[...]

> The Activities prohibited by the Order are:

> i Protesting, namely engaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval, with respect to issues related to abortion services, by any means. This includes but is not limited to graphic, verbal or written means, prayer or counselling,

> ii Interfering, or attempting to interfere, whether verbally or physically, with a Robert Clinic service user, visitor or member of staff,

> iii Intimidating or harassing, or attempting to intimidate or harass, a Robert Clinic service user, visitor or a member of staff,

> iv Recording or photographing a Robert Clinic service user, visitor or member of staff or

> v Displaying any text or images relating directly or indirectly to the termination of pregnancy.

She was protesting. It's a persistent pattern of behaviour. It's harassment.
I don't see what's the difference between "we skew hippy and/or libertarian" and "our particular flavour of cultural identity politics". Hippy and libertarian is a particular flavor of cultural identity politics.
Gotta start somewhere?
I have a simple@Gmail.com address and I have this problem quite a lot, were i get a lot of random stuff.

Sometimes from the same person, there starbucks card seems to be linked to it for example. Annoying.
> Casual spying on citizens is new to Western governments

Five Eyes are old hands at spying on their citizens. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
thanks for providing some context here.
Finding it bizarre and a little frightening that anti-war comments are being flagged in this thread
In the US, it's safest to only accept calls from numbera you've got in your contacts list.
India already also has it's own problems, it's been a few years since I looked at India but the last time I did, the ISPs had terrible neutral public peering and almost all peering was being done in Singapore. So if you made a connection from a user on one ISP to another, it would often travel off the sub-continent. I'd be impressed if that situation had dramatically improved but not be surprised if it hadn't.

I'd disagree somewhat with your assessment as to whose generating and delivering the most traffic. The hyperscalers are definitely generating the most but also hosting providers (including tier 2 and 3 providers) are usually fronted by CDNs for bulk data transfer. Remembering that binary files, including video and audio which are mostly delivered to end customers by file, massively outweighs text traffic.

There's some EU reports on the balance of traffic, which isn't perfect but paints a clearer picture. I can't find them publicly but they exist.

As for ISPs wanting content generators to pay? It very much is an abuse of the ISPs position. They are double dipping. The customers pay for internet access, but the ISPs want to not only charge the consumers but also want to take a cut from the services.

Ultimately this will harm consumers:
* It makes it harder for online transformation to happen, for example traditional media will get a boost because online media will become more expensive to run.
* Content providers and hosts will have to charge more to customers who connect in India. We already see countries where it's more expensive to host, so that plays into the business model there. The money doesn't come from some magic pot, it has to be paid by someone.
* The ISPs are unlikely to be incentivised to use that money to invest in their networks, they'll treat it as earned income and then it'll boost their profitability.

The same debate is happening in the EU and other countries, it's posturing and someone may be dumb enough to do it. And like the German recording rights tax that was paid on hard disks, it won't ultimately be a good story for consumers.
Excellent Presentation!

Covers/Explains all the steps in a High-Availability, Fault-Tolerant, Distributed Erlang-based system architecture beautifully.

Thank you very much for the pointer.
In the context of a hurricane about to come, the answer is a big, uppercase, neon-flashing letters, yes. The weather at the sea can change fast.
That isn’t true. If f and g are pure then the composition holds the same guarantees as the component parts
It doesn't matter what fuels their cars, China is undercutting other countries' car manufacturers with increasingly better cars at low prices. You have cars at low prices coming with features considered to be expensive like 360 degree cameras, and, sure, they may be a bit buggy and a bit plasticky, but if you're willing to put up with it and if you're a first owner, you're going to get the best out of it. And Japan did the same once, and China has done this with mobile phones like the Pocophone too. I don't believe BMW has been serious about tackling this, I think they honestly have little interest in the bottom end of the market and will continue to rely on the EU to provide protection. I consider this to be empty talk.
But why should the government be privatizing parkland management? Give away all the actual public oversight (via public meetings, talking to local officials, elections, etc.) for what benefit?
How does the compilation logic work? It’s described as optimizing the prompts just like you optimize the weights of a neural net, but what does that look like in practice?
If economics is a science, how do you run an experiment?

Let’s say you want to see how phenomenon X scales as a function of population, and create a model X(p)

How do you set up N identical scenarios and, ceteris paribus, vary the population? You cannot.

Two separate nations are distinct systems. Setting up 2 identical factories next door, one with 100 staff and one with 1000 staff would be a monumental waste of effort, and what if the geographical separation, or airflow, or cloud cover, or… affected the experiment?

Let’s say you run a single economic experiment. How do you reproduce it? How does your counterpart reproduce it?
Show HN: Released v1.0 of Gato GraphQL (For WordPress)
ERNIE, China's ChatGPT, cracks under pressure
When truth is exaggerated or stretched to further an agenda, then does it still remain the truth? I think the problem I have with people who exaggerate the truth is that they are doing it for a certain reason, and then I have to ask myself what that reason may be. However, I do agree that material like this can be extremely motivating, but imagine if you based your entire career on something you thought was the truth, but later found out was actually made up by someone. I would certainly feel confused and maybe even a bit angry about it.
A golden egg? Mysterious shiny orb seen on seafloor off Alaska stumps explorers
ha, you win the longest package name!
Sadface there was me thinking this was a new and interesting Digital Signal Processing framework.
Clubhouse introduces voice-only group chats for friends
In a country that doesn't have a written constitution [0] (per se), and is continually trying to renege on what human rights have been agreed [1], what would there be to punish against?

0: https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/britains-unwritten-co...

1: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/05/tory-mps-to...
I’m sure there’s an argument to be made that all architectural improvements to basic feed forward neural nets are essentially optimizations for the amount of compute provided anyway.

If we had unlimited compute and time for training, I don’t think we would’ve really moved on from dense feed forward nets.
also there is a silent majority, who does not have a special stance on lots of topics, just thinks like live and let live, and these kind of signalling are always a bad news for them (regardless of anti- or pro-something), as these useless drama-acts signal further polarization of the world, which often signal that some political takeover has happened in organizations which are not inherently political. This often signals a loss of focus for projects. (think GNU for example)
It's spearphishing, intentional spelling.

And after a very simple 1 word google search: "the fraudulent practice of sending emails ostensibly from a known or trusted sender in order to induce targeted individuals to reveal confidential information"
Ah, my bad - looking at induction forge images and links in this thread, the coil was probably closer to 3 or 4 inch diameter.
TIL that Brits used America Online.