skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we can't debate against nazism or slavery and win in the eyes of the audience, on democratic terms, I guess it is to late to be "intolerant of intolerance" and democracy has already failed.

So what if one in a thousand (or whatever the number is) want to reinstate slavery?

It seems like a nonsensical position to limit freedom of expression of everyone to quench a hypothetical Nazi takeover.
I’m working on old fashioned A.I. for my PhD. I wrote Doug a few times, he was very kind and offered very good advice. I was hoping to work with him one day.

I’ll miss you Doug.
What's the value add when comparing this with `atop`? atop has a history recording feature that I have relied on in past.
Is there a LLM prompt escape function to prevent injections?
> It's like working out. Sure, you can lift buckets of sand in your garage and get strong. People still go to gyms and hire personal trainers.

The personal trainer metaphor is one I used when trying to convince a friend (we're both Iraq veterans) to go to therapy.

Something to the effect of: "it's like personal training, they're there to respond and push you, but ultimately you're doing the work and making things happen. sometimes you need someone to push you hard, sometimes you need a soft touch, and sometimes you need someone to just check your form or get you to do different exercises."
If it was anything like the Purism refund situation featured on Rossman's yt channel, their wording was actually that, "you can request a refund once we reach your position in the shipping queue", and not that they would actually grant the refund.
Either on a standardized set of hardware or relative to other models. Performance benchmarks exist for all sorts of compute intensive things, so surely there’s at least one for LLMs?
As other said, everyone is using WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Viber, ..., however the reason to why iMessage is marginal in EU is because it is using SMS to communicate with people without iOS, and SMS are usually not free. So people are using applications which are guaranteed to be free per message.
Welders really should start wearing full P100 masks when they are working. Their issues seem to be primarily around respiratory causes.
> IIRC a lot of Cyc demos were various forms of common sense reasoning.

I never got to try it myself, but no doubt it worked fine in those cases where correct inferences could be made based on the knowledge/rules it had! Similarly GPT-4 is extremely impressive when it's not bullshitting!

The brittleness in either case (CYC or LLMs) comes mainly from incomplete knowledge (unknown unknowns), causing an invalid inference which the system has no way to detect and correct. The fix is a closed loop system where incorrect outputs (predictions) are detected - prompting exploration and learning.

I don't know if CYC tried to do it, but one potential speed up for a system of that nature might be chunking, which is a strategy that another GOFAI system, SOAR, used successfully. A bit like using memoization (remembering results of work already done) as a way to optimize dynamic programming solutions.
Great Example of What We Lose When AI Takes over News Reporting
Break up the vertical flow with some sort of visual anchors -- else it all becomes a blur for what's a too-long list. That's your chance at this stage to educate/sell to your user: tell them what the heck this site is.
My Technology Thesis
The weird thing is the text only says "Your Messenger verification code is G-XXXXXX" -- there's not URL that says "click here and enter your password to continue" (which would be pretty suspicious.)
> Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

It's a pretty well written piece. I think people from all perspectives should take careful note of what he is actually advocating: discussing and figuring out the mechanisms of what a modern society should like rather than blindly following an agenda.

That said, this is a 70+ year old article, based on ideas and problems at the time. Capitalism will make people stop working and be less productive? If anything we worry about the opposite problem. College will only be a means to a career? Today academia is powerful and a political force unto itself. And we have so many welfare programs and safety nets and worker protects than Einstein was even able to dream about in 1949. In a way, we are living in a world he was advocating for.

If it was written today, I have no doubt Einstein would still care about inequality and education and politics and common "workers" enjoying life. But I also don't think I would see him caring as much about Marxism and the labor theory of value specifically as a mechanism for understanding it anymore.
I Played with 500,320 Numbers from Algorand VRF: Let’s See How Random They Are
I wonder how they're counting those two million developers?
Not really, I don't have time for a debate on the pros and cons of each which is what providing some examples would lead to, nor do I have them handy at the moment. I was just making a point which I think stands firm without providing an example set of alternatives.
I may be wrong about his car (I read previously that he had multiple sports cars - sorry, not "super" cars). He still has multiple homes and will sell you tickets to dinners and books to tell you how bad capitalism is.

And even if I happen to be wrong about the cars... he still has multiple cars, multiple houses and has the balls to talk about inequality.

Never forget that Bernie hated "millionaires" until he became one... then MAGICALLY his tune changed to hate "the rich" even though by every metric he's in the top %'s and has done so by... using capitalism to sell the lies of socialism/communism.

Bernie is the epitome of socialist: Hypocrite that doesn't follow his own religious preaching because he's one the elite who think's he's better than "evil capitalists".

When Bernie voluntarily gives his millions to the IRS to redistribute to the poor? Then we'll move past my mistake about how fancy his car(s) are. because at the end of the day he talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. He's a walking banner of inequality that doesn't follow the rules he preaches.

The mark of the truly religious - both on him for being a hypocrite... and his faithful for ignoring his hypocrisy and "sins".
Am I the only one that thinks this is a huge waste of resources?

1. There are simpler tools that solve this [0].

2. 50 lines of code are manageable even for inexperienced devs which you are replacing for a non-deterministic complexity behemoth.

3. Lines of code are not really a good indicator of how complex a problem is.

[0] https://postalpro.usps.com/certifications/cass
Of course NJ isn't get to take the majority of NYC tourists but for those who are in town go to a game at Yankee Stadium, or perhaps this week's US Open, or people who just have a business meeting near Wall Street, there are far more convenient and economical places to stay than midtown Manhattan, or Manhattan at all.
Won't happen. Not enough people care. Convenience wins every time.

The only viable option is to get a used dumbcar and rip out the existing head unit.
Pine64 makes several products that don't overlap with Purism ones.
I described it as strange because only grave illnesses gave me some insights into the evolution of pain and emotions in mental disease. And when experienced.. it does feel very strange to kinda sense more data from your own brain and be able to witness nonsensical patterns come and go, while in your normal years your emotional layer probably felt very logical and coherent.
I'm a bit skeptical of the 100% success rate against the tests, when it turns out that to go from 90% to 100%, you had to list a bunch of examples in the prompt that I bet are right from your test suite...
No capitalism in itself is not the least game-able. It entirely depends on what flavor of it is in discussion. Free-market capitalism is inherently power centralizing. As a result, you need to ensure government is enforcing market competition.

Every actor is looking for a way to avoid market competition. Every time you hear a company discuss building a moat, that is a company that doesn't want to compete in a market and is actively working against the benefits of capitalism. Every time you see a monopoly, it is again a marketplace working against the benefits of capitalism (i.e. market competition).

At all times the government must strongly and actively maintain market competition or capitalism simply eats itself.
Ancient greek symposiums (aka socratic dinner party?) and salon style dinner parties off the top of my head
This is a classic XY problem [1]. My _immediate_ reaction to seeing the dev attempt to compare US addresses was “where’s the USPS library?” Using an LLM prompt instead of a vetted library is just the wrong answer to solving the right problem.

[1]: https://xyproblem.info/
Yeah it's been known that OpenAI hires domain experts. If anything, they augment that high quality data rather than just starting from bare bones synthetic data.
If it's not trained on all of SciHub and Libgen, is it as useful as it can be?
It looks like you didn't read my second paragraph.

My point is that few if any Republicans want to do anything about the labor impacts if globalism, until signing onto chip factory subsidies.

(Well, that and domestic oil production, which contributes to destroying the goddamn planet. But I get the idea that if we're gonna burn it we might as well burn ours. Unless we're playing a long game of exhausting global supplies and sitting on a rarer resource.)

Yes, conservative voters are probably more sympathetic to domestic production, but so are progressives in some instances. Cheap foreign factories and illegal immigration drags down wages and weakens unions.
I played with them a lot as a kid, and I distinctly remember enjoying the sound the wheels made turning against the wood, as well as the tactile sensation of moving the train across it with my hand.

This makes me want to get a CNC machine and start spitting out train tracks! I already know when I retire in 30 years I'm gonna be one of those guys that has a train room.
We don't have to condemn Jefferson as a man to acknowledge that his thinking was influenced by his position as a land owning slave owner. This isn't some minor detail. It is essential to understanding his worldview. I actually think Jefferson had many quite brilliant insights but much of his thought is tainted by his belief in racial hierarchy. Knowing the source and the context, I would like to be careful about lifting up the thought of figures like Jefferson without carefully considering the subtext.
It's only mythical if you keep moving the goal posts the closer you get - that's what I'm talking about. I've been there (to a degree), I've seen others who've been there. And that's what I'd call an unhealthy obsession.
Makes sense, they're probably using QUIC in lots of products and the kernel can't accelerate that anyways, it would only pass opaque UDP packets to and from the application.
They asked ChatGPT and that's what it hallucinated :)
My 5 year old learned to tolerate onions in his food. Plenty of low level intolerance can be squashed with simple guided exposure.
Jock culture is not a product of nerd culture
imagination, nor is it a fictional media invention.
You can kind find social athletic groups/venues
without it, but its pretty hard to predict where you
will.

Toxic athletic culture exists.

In many cases, though, there's an extreme mismatch between what athletes experience and what non-athletes perceive.

Many athletes like to compete. They like to play hard, against other people who are doing the same thing. Winning is fun, but competition is really the thing. When you train and compete hard it is not a zero-sum game; even if you lose you have sharpened yourself so to speak.

If it's a team sport this is going to involve some level of sacrifice and subsuming one's self into the whole. That level can be extremely small (the ultra casual darts team at your local pub) or quite large (a professional football team). This can be hard for non-athletes to understand in a sporting context, and it all just seems like a giant incomprehensible ball of toxic hate to them because they don't understand the appeal of any of this in the first place.

Jock culture is not a product of nerd culture imagination,
nor is it a fictional media invention.

It certainly wasn't invented by nerds or the media, but it is amplified by the media. Obviously the media doesn't typically report on healthy sports participation, you know? And the dumb "jocks versus nerds" false dichotomy is such an easy and functional Hollywood trope.

I would also note that a lot of "toxic sports culture" is the product of overbearing and overcompetitive parents living vicariously through their children and forcing their kids to do things they don't want to do. So, is that really a sports thing? No, it's a parenting thing. Those are toxic parents.
Turns out the story was really about a little town in Iowa called Lansing that was building a new bridge across the Mississippi river to Wisconsin. It wasn't about a bridge across Lake Michigan but brought a lot of chuckles for those of us living in the Capital Region of Michigan.
Think twice click once. I suggest you use that maxima or one day you will accidently delete yourself. And this is inreversal operation. ;)
Oh. Then, unless a Googler jumps in here and says I'm wrong: no, ordinary applications at Google are not as a rule built on userspace networking. That's not my opinion (though: it was my prior, having done a bunch of userspace networking stuff), it's the result of asking Google people about it.

Maybe it's all changed in the last year! But then: that makes all of this irrelevant to the thread, about FreeBSD vs. Linux network stack performance.
As I recall democracy did fail to settle both of these questions and instead they were settled by force of arms.
The COVID vaccine caused this?
Is HackerNews part of that government/corporate grip on information?
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25522518 [2020]

https://default.blog/p/heaven-banned-for-your-terrible-headc... [2022] [Blog]
Tangential, but speaking of Jefferson and dinner parties, apparently he was introduced to pasta while in Europe, had his own pasta machine, and served what was essentially macaroni and cheese at his dinner parties, including state dinners while president. Reportedly guests were unimpressed but he kept doing it anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT3DeFxyLms
>You couldn't even get your email on the device outside of a handful of open source web clients

Totally false. The first iPhone shipped with Mail, which handled POP and IMAP accounts very well, including gmail accounts.
Healthcare is most definitely producing goods. People will consume it much over their needs if it is free. A fire department or police are not, people will not call the fire department for the fun of it, only if there is fire.

That said, healthcare is definitely a troubling one because its interests do not align particularly well with a profit-driven model. It should probably have some kind of halfway model to discourage overt usage while ensuring people get healthcare in the scope they need it even if they have a bad financial situation. I don't have a good answer for it.
A different take on dining while discussing diverging perspectives, where apparently participants often find some common ground:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/dining-acros...
I wonder if attitudes to climate change have germinated on the West's post Christian values.

We're largely a secular society now, but carbon emissions are akin to a sin that must be atoned for by cutting them. If it is unpleasant, almost better - sin must not be merely repented but also atoned. If we don't, we will meet a just punishment for our sin.

Studying workaround or saying some things are OK is no use, as sin is absolutely bad and can't have upsides.

I initially thought it's maybe a bit far fetched but think also:

- how dogmatic and aggressive some people are about climate change.

- how climate change is much bigger an issue in the West (in general perception) than elsewhere

- how more Christian people seem to care less about climate change

None of it is about the hard science of it, fwiw I think we're screwed and need to think hard about our survival as a species. But the article does touch on a nerve of the dogma of climate change discussion.
why do you think that?

like sure, i suppose every nation dreams of being the top dog ruling the world, and China even has a realistic shot at it

but i never got any 'we want to destroy the west' vibes from China
Show HN: WatchMySSL – Automated SSL Certificate Monitoring
Hey HN, I'm [Your Name], the solo founder of WatchMySSL. This tool keeps track of your SSL certificates in one dashboard and sends alerts before they expire, eliminating downtime risks and SEO penalties that can harm your business.

I'm eager for your thoughts on:

* Use case: Does this solve a problem for you?
* Solution: Any features you’d like to see?
* Pricing: It's free, but considering a paid version. What features would you consider paying for?
Probably counting the number they kicked from their discord server to require ChatGPT driven verification.
Using symbolic logic to mitigate nondeterminism and hallucinations of LLMs
For a medical & caretaking project, I experimented with combining symbolic logic with LLMs to mitigate their tendency to nondeterministic behavior and hallucinations. Still, it leaves a lot of work to be done, but it's a promising approach for situations requiring higher reliability.

The core idea is to use LLMs to extract logic predicates from human input. These are then used to reliably derive additional information by using answer-set programming based on expert knowledge and rules. In addition, inserting only known facts back into the prompt removes the need for providing the conversation history, thus mitigating hallucinations during more extended conversations.
Speeding Up Deployments with Lazy Image Streaming
For this specific problem, I trust the large number of companies that have product lines with devoted test suites more than I do a random LLM. Sometimes it’s better to pick the correct specific tool for a job than a random general purpose tool.
What about the the numerous older cars that don't have that functionality?
YouTube is adding HTML5 instant games to its service
Convergent tech has been something I've wanted to work well for ages - I remember trying a Samsung Note and Linux on DeX, but it never really worked well. I see from a quick Google it's long since dead. It's likely the only thing that would prompt me to even think about moving from iOS.

One day?
As an ex-bank employee one time I needed space and was told I couldn’t get it because all the filers were full.

When would we get new filers?

Dunno, because the datacenter was also full.
Most LLM Apps Are Bullshit, and That's OK
You might want the vocative of "world" (MUNDE) and the singular imperative of "go" (I). The latter is a bit easy to confuse with the Roman numeral for the number one, though!
During the pandemic, I started exercising daily (mostly walking for an hour a day.) It did wonders for me. I lost 20+ pounds and I sleep so much better.
I completely agree with you regarding the power lag on automatics. Currently I'm driving a Jeep Renegade with a 9 speed automatic transmission, and I live in a really hilly area. The transmission needs to downshift CONSTANTLY because it's tuned to try to cruise the highway at 1500 RPM to maximize fuel efficiency.

If I'm running the air conditioner, it steals enough power that it has to downshift an extra time. It's bad enough that the constant shifting makes my son carsick. Luckily, it has a manual mode I can use to just drop it into 5th gear and it has the torque to smoothly climb the hills on cruise control that way, eliminating my son's carsickness.
Modern pickups have 8-10 speed transmissions. They do a better job of keeping you in the power band.

In addtion, no heavy duty pickup comes with a manual anymore, but the ones that did years ago, de-tuned the engines in the manuals, so people didn't burn up the clutch. Modern Diesel Heavy Duty pickups only put their full 1000 ft/lbs to the wheels in 3rd gear or higher, something they can't enforce in a manual. Also, in most manuals (granted, its been a few years since I drove one) with turbos, pushing the clutch stats unspooling the turbo, where in most automatics, it does not. (since its knows your shifting, and not just coasting)

Yes, these are all related to driver skill, and a skilled driver will not cause problems. But I wouldn't want to warranty the systems on an 'average' driver..
We already had composable components server side with SSR, they just didn't query data inside the render loop. But that doesn't really gain much, if anything leads to slower overall performance as now instead of doing something like GraphQL and resolving your entire tree in a single optimized database call, you're probably waterfalling all over the place.
Show HN: Hovercard.js, simple hovercard utility for web pages
One of my favourite features of Wikipedia is the hovercard. You can hover over a link and see a preview of the content at the link destination.

I made a small JavaScript utility that accepts a JSON object with link information and enables hovercards on a personal website. I am "eating what I cook" per se by running this on my website. You can hover over any link in blog posts on my personal website and see hovercard.js in action.

Here's an example:

https://jamesg.blog/2023/05/19/airport-pianos/

I also maintain a Python package [1] that makes it easy to retrieve meta information about sites for use with hovercards [1] (The format is title, image, and description, so you can use any tool you want, though!).

[1] https://jamesg.blog/2022/10/12/hovercards/
I was recently driving to visit a friend near Mt Baker, WA. and about 10 miles out, in a not particularly wooded area, the phone said 'lost GPS signal' and just assumed I had stopped moving, and wasn't able to pick up GPS again for the rest of the drive. Not a huge deal, because I was just following the road and only had one last turn to make, and I had directions from the car's nav anyway.

GPS seemed to work ok on the return trip. And I was getting an LTE signal for most of the drive too (gets pretty spotty at my friend's house, but I was streaming music when the GPS stopped, and that kept working)

Sorry, I don't have a debugging tale here; almost all of my excursions into figuring out why an Android device is doing something wrong leave me wondering if the device is doing anything right, and usually without any more insight into the original problem. Not going to try to do it, unless it's important, and probably not on a vacation.
I would be terrified of building on top of openai’s api. At any moment they can just cut off access or mark a model legacy (or change its behaviour but keep the same name) and all my work is bust.
That's just creating a blackmarket for people that can crack the DRM without the car losing functionality.
It's not a lack of updates that is the problem. It's the fact that the product has security issues that need patching in the first place. If we could fix that we wouldn't need long term support.