skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When will Alphabet opaquely and unilaterally depreciate this product upon which we've come to rely, as they do with many other products all the time?"

Alphabet is a hopelessly disorganized bureaucracy whose leadership appears, at best indifferent to customer needs, at worst hostile to customers that don't toe their line.

It's just a risk calculation you have to make when you're spending millions to build systems of record upon which your enterprise will depend for years to come.

I don't know if its fair or even accurate – but it's the feedback I get from client CTOs and CIOs at sizable companies.
The issue is "ownership of a woman" or generally "ownership of a person." What on earth is hard to understand here?
Only if you brush up against somone.
> No longer purchasing women from fathers is a strict improvement over the allegedly pristine culture of the past.

Blah. This is pious view, and a pious dismissal... not a thought out or real feminist perspective... imho.

The past (and present) is complicated... and patriarchal. Marriage, dowries, other symbols, customs and language around marriage... they all relate pretty directly to patriarchy because marriage was (and often still is) patriarchal.

Intertwined within that web were all sorts of dowry customs. Money can go either way, be symbolic or actual. It can explicitly represent a prospective divorce settlement... etc.

Diamond engagement rings happen to have very little to do with either patriarchy or liberty. They're just common consumer culture in a void that once housed real cultural content, whether those were patriarchal or otherwise.
I agree.

What's the first step toward implementing this system? What actions can be taken to get to that from where we are?

The police are not going to arrest the police. The DAs are not going to prosecute the police (who they generally regard as the "same team").

The system as designed and currently operating is broken and intentionally unfair and unjust. How do we go about replacing or fixing it?
China, the United States and India also make up 40% of the world population.
CityDreamer: Compositional Generative Model of Unbounded 3D Cities
I don't want to do >1 Gb updates ever so often. So I stick to Leap.
https://archive.is/n3YNc
>and based on that chart are now hotter than any time in the last 100k years, heading into the last few million. A few 10s (of million) years at +25c are going to be the "new normal"?

No, the chart does not say that. The 2050 and 2100 dots are projections from the IPOC RCP8.5 “high emissions” scenario. Also, absolutely nothing on that says we’re going to +25c. That part of the chart (that goes to 25) is in F, and it still doesn’t say we’re going to 25f either.

Lots of people wonder why we have so many climate deniers. A lot of the reason is because of guys like this ^ on the opposite end of the spectrum, spewing their fears into a hyperbolic, warped reality. What we need more of is a balanced, realistic, objective view. That will allow us to get to work on a solution.
It's not, this is that Lisp thing where you can check the length of your argument list and do something completely different when you don't get enough arguments.

In this case `(map f)` notices that it was told to map a function but not told what to map it over, and so it decides to give you a new function. If this were a partially applied function the signature would be `[x] -> [y]` where `f: x -> y` would pick out the specifics.

But this is actually a totally different signature, isomorphic to `x -> [y]`, the signature of generators. Specifically `(map f)` generates what in Haskell would be `\x -> [f x]`.

However the type is not quite that straightforward for historical and compositional reasons; it is actually

∀z. (y -> z -> z) -> x -> z -> z

With the implementation being here

\handle x -> handle (f x)

This is a sort of enhanced map that can do filtering because it uses concatMap (also known as >>=, “bind in the list monad”) to combine. So to `(filter pred)` you would have the isomorphic versions,

\x -> if pred x then [x] else []
\handle x rest -> if pred x then handle x rest else rest

This also leads to an important nitpick for the article in question, a strictly better mental model of a transducer is not that it maps conveyor belts to conveyor belts, since that has more power than transducers do. (For instance, reverse is not a transducer.) But rather that it maps individual items on a conveyor belt, to their own conveyor belts on the first conveyor belt, then mashes them all together into one effective conveyor belt.

So filter will either map an object to a singleton conveyor belt containing that thing, or an empty conveyor belt. You can implement `dupIf pred x = if pred x then [ x, x] else [x]` as a transducer too, `handle x (handle x rest)`. Conveyor belt that either has one or two elements on it. You can potentially put an infinite conveyor belt inside your conveyor belts and make a chunk of the input unreachable, although Clojure is strict so I have the feeling this will just run out of memory?
I think the right metaphor to demonstrate the argument being made is you are coupled to the other car and it doesn't matter if you turn off your engine, you're both hitting the wall anyway if the other car doesn't decide to stop too.
That's too radical!
> NATO clearly justifies its existence largely as an anti-Russia organization as it denied entertaining the idea of Russia as a member

False. Russia was on a track toward membership, with some additional special treatment, but then Putin demanded immediate membership without readiness criteria ahead of any other former Warsaw Pact countries, NATO balked at that demand, and Russia abandoned its pursuit of membership and became antagonistic to the expansion process it had previously been part of.

> I'm going to stop responding to this thread now, as it really is a huge tangent from the original "disinformation" topic.

Disinformation was never the topic (though you keep repeating Russian disinformation), this whole discussion about Ukraine/Russia/NATO history was in response to your separate claims in the same post as the disinformation ones about justification of the war.
How does this work with a conversation? Did you ask them to press 1 if the item is in stock, or send you an email to a provided address?
That's literally what I said in the comment you replied to?

>the issue seems to be the "exchanging ownership of a woman" part
Hong Kong is lead by China directly which is why I phrased it as I did.

Secession would have been before China took direct control. At this point any "secession" wouldn't come from the government.
HCA Healthcare used the BEAM to fight Covid – Code BEAM V Talk review
Your description is unfortunately not correct. Booking.com does not work like that, they will connect with the booking system of the hotel in real time through XML and put the reservation directly into your system when the client makes the reservation. Likewise, they will ping you to know if you have any available rooms, before presenting to the customer. Allotment of rooms hasn't really been a thing for at least a decade, although there are still some old fashioned resellers that might manage to scam clueless small hotel owners into working with allotments, but booking.com doesn't do that.

Even for a tiny hotel there are cheap and extremely well made booking systems that can connect with booking.com, AirBnB, Expedia, as well as a bunch of other resellers in real-time, keeping everything synchronized and avoiding overbooking.

Of course, you can opt to not have any booking system of your own and put your listing on booking, and then yes booking.com will sell rooms without checking anything - since there's nothing they can check against. If you arrange things like that, you'd have to manually remove rooms from bookings system when you make a sale yourself. But that's self-inflicted harm.

I used to run a hotel a long time ago, and a couple of the large regional resellers tried to scam me into giving them allotments. I said "Sure, will you pay for your allotted rooms wether you sell them or not?", they said "Of course not!" - and that was the end of it.
Ask HN: What is the most exiciting development happening in your industry?
or rather, what development are you most excited about in your industry?

I am looking to stir up some conversation, and hopefully people will walk away feeling inspired or excited by the goings on in your industry.
Yes. We can do a good thing even if other people are doing a bad thing.
Thank you. Climate change is a diplomacy issue, nothing the west is going to do in the next 50 years will make a difference with what’s going on in china and elsewhere.

So either you are a realist about this problem, and you admit that either it’s war with many countries to solve this issue, or it won’t be solved (because they won’t stop economic growth for carbon emissions). Possible alternatives are technology.

But guilt tripping the west and stopping people eating steak will. Not. Make. A. Difference.
At this point we are in some sort of 'space station ecosystem collapse' situation and we need to start acting like it and completely change how capitalism works.

So... we're fucked.
Not true. Please contemplate how this works out for an actually honest person subject to a false accusation.
Somewhat related:

As someone who likes working on a single screen I typically like to open things in full-screen mode by default.

MacOS plays a sluggish animation when switching between screens. You can't turn it off, you can just switch between two similarly slow ones.

I can't imagine a good reason for this. What is their model of a user and how did they derive "slow animation when switching windows is good" from that?
Means people that tend to push over the limit to achieve the goals. Commonly at a 9-5 job you take weekends off

Thus the reason of "founders" in the question.
Or any other winter festival that was practiced before christmas, and christianity superseded it.
"For instance, let's say you want to trigger some alert when a particular kind of article is published or a particular kind of message is sent. Triggering the alert is a boolean thing, so that has to be a classification task."

I think this is a good example of how decomposed tasks can feel very different from goal-oriented task definitions.

We can imagine a goal like "I want to know when one of my competitors shows up in the news." Now you have a bunch of tasks: entity extraction, determining the subject of an article, maybe categorizing articles. Then you can define a pipeline and conditional to trigger a notification. And you might get great accuracy on each of these.

But the goal is really about getting actionable information. In practice the approach above creates a ton of alerts, and the person receiving them will filter through them, ignore a bunch, have to figure out what is really new, etc. An LLM could do things like accumulate a running set of background knowledge, identifying what information is truly "new" (and in a granular way, not just detecting duplicate articles). You can tell the LLM all kinds of details about what you are interested in, "categories" that are completely inaccessible to traditional NLP because they are described by higher-level concepts or have to be combined with history or user-provided context (something that happens naturally in a prompt).

Traditional NLP feels very industrial to me. Factories can be very productive and high volume, but they redefine the tasks to satisfy their processes. Individuals don't interface with factories, and factories don't serve individuals.
Without the magic of relativity, a car’s starter motor would not turn
I'm confused. This is standard practice for CI/CD, but nobody is mentioning it. Is CI/CD that obscure?
Senators want a special government unit help small businesses with cyberattacks
It's an act, but I wouldn't call it fake. He has more in common with photonicinduction than electroboom.
Nein. - Gödel

"Ignoramus et ignorabimus." Turtles all the way down...
What's the "pious view?" That women used to be treated as property (and still are in much of the world), or that that's bad?

> real cultural content

The "realness" of any "cultural content" is circularly defined by its culture. Nothing makes exchanging goats more "real" than exchanging a shiny rock or exchanging nothing at all.
The same thing that's continued to happen: We adapt and create solutions.

People have been screaming "everyone will die!!!" via religious based prophecies for... all of human history. The Cult Of Climate Change is no different: a little bit of truth and a lot of faith in Revelations and the unavoidable apocalypse.

Prophecies like "all the icecaps will be gone by 2020" and "billions will die from starvation" (hint: those forecasts failed)

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocal...

This is no different than the people who follow the pastor that's wrong about the date of Jesus' second coming. every year he looks at the numbers and says "next year, on x date". That date comes. and goes. and the faithful see the failed prophecy and he goes "oh look... I was wrong... it's really next year on y date". The faithful see this each year and their faith grows stronger as each failed prophecy means the next one MUST be true.

What do we think will happen? More failed prophecies. The Church of Climate Doom faithful becomes more convinced that theirs is the One True Faith as each prediction continues to prove them right.
> However, we can't just stop using oil

The single best move we could make would be progressively taxing it: tell everyone that today is the cheapest a gallon of gas will ever be, with guaranteed 20% annual price increases with the tax revenue devoted to assisting low-income households decarbonize. That would tell every business to start investing in alternatives or efficiency improvements, homeowners would shift towards things like heat pumps to save money, and you wouldn’t have as many auto buyers locking in 15-20 years of pollution buying a heavy industrial truck so they can cosplay as a rancher on the way into cubicle land. Toss in credits for carbon sinks and you’d have a good way to support the kind of farming you mention without constantly being underpriced by farmers relying on subsidized cheap oil.

Around the turn of the century, that was a Republican idea but since the fossil fuel industry successfully managed an ideological purge that’s now too politically incorrect to even mention in those circles.
> "for CO2 to be captured, you need some equivalent of the energy from sunlight in photosynthesis."

There's approximately three trillion trees on the planet, plus as many more shrubs, bushes blades of grass. The amount of surface area of all their leaves combined is not capturing enough CO2 to help. So to solve carbon capture we would need machines which touch more air than all the leaves on Earth, pumping through a nontrivial amount of the planet's atmosphere, and finding the dispersed 400 CO2 needles in every million haystack molecules of atmosphere.

On the other hand the UK (which raises sheep) imports lamb from New Zealand some 11,000 miles away, by boat or plane.

It's unthinkable that we can solve carbon capture at all, but compared to the ease of stoping the emissions of those flights/ships is fantasy.
I use make and pandoc as my static site generator! Generates a good website from my markdown notes.
Apple issues 2 CVEs to patch zero-day flaws used to deliver Pegasus spyware
Is there a better way to not unnecessarily leak addressing metadata to adversarial remote nodes and middle boxes?

IPv6 with assigning end users a whole /64 and end-devices continually churning through privacy addresses is a start. But even then some form of NAT is still required to nimbly use source prefixes from different horizon providers - eg to avoid spilling your geographic location or opening yourself up to low-effort legal shakedowns.

An example: on my local network I've got an everyday web browsing VM and a torrent VM. They each have static 192.168.x.x addresses, both so I can ssh in for administration and also to control their view of network services. They each see a completely different Internet horizon through the router - the web browsing goes out from a rotating datacenter IP, and the torrent one goes out from a consumer VPN. Each of those outgoing horizons uses NAT - any of my hosts using that rotating data center IP appears the same, and any of my host using the consumer VPN appears the same as every other customer using that same VPN node.

What is the no-NAT equivalent of this? Make that rotating data center IP and VPN external IP into subnet allocations, somehow feed that addressing information back to the hosts that are using it, and dual-home each VM with two routable addresses? For equivalent mixing on the consumer VPN there would also need to be some ARP-like protocol that let me continually rotate the address.
Incident Review: What Comes Up Must First Go Down
You are even more right considering your modern app is subscription based so you must justify the monthly fee. Also you are paying an entire UX team which was useful for your nearly perfect v1, you’d better feed them some job.
No way that gets as many clicks
Hilarious take when he and his brother campaigned on creating these problems in the first place
A Markov chain with a large context is still literally a Markov chain.

Maybe you are used to Markov chains being shitty at language so you are confused how an LLM can be a Markov chain even though it's good at language and has some amazing emergent cognitive capabilities. That's a problem with your conception of Markov chains, it's not an argument that LLMs aren't Markov chains.

Finally, a Markov chain with a context space that cannot be practically iterated over (e.g. all possible 10k token contexts) can still be useful in ways that are shared with smaller Markov chains, even though if this weren't true it would still be a Markov chain. For example you can greedily generate tokens from it, calculate likelihoods, do some beam search, select multiple choice tokens, etc.
Absolutely.

It district attorney's started prosecuting cops, the system would crumble and come to a fast halt. There is no credibility in court and the charade continues.
https://archive.is/9jjSp
Trying to find a playlist as it magically reorders them in front of my eyes is a ballache
You might want to consider making the output text editable, that way I would not have to regenerate the entire response and lose what I already have
Obviously putting humanity below replacement reproduction eventually causes it to disappear, then the planet will recover from whatever we did after a few million years.

But I don’t see how that will make it a better place to live for us. We know that birth rates already fall with higher standards of living, so if you want fewer kids just develop those countries where the birth rate is still high.
When a social media account that is not Russian controlled goes viral, but nonetheless it contains quote "pro-Russia propaganda" unquote, is that "disinformation"? Maybe they just disagree with you. Are John Mearsheimer, John Pilger, Jeffrey Sachs, etc., spreading "disinformation"? Geopolitics involves a lot of historical understanding, and there are legitimate disagreements, and "disinformation" is a brush swept very liberally. Jens Stoltenberg said a few things in a speech recently that were called "disinformation" a year ago -- he is the NATO secretary general.
> there were too many comments

I didn't even knew this was a thing. I write tons of comments thinking they could be appreciated in case somebody has to glance at the code.
https://archive.is/3Ju69
If we stopped all emissions, global warming would be capped at a certain level - basically, at a certain level of CO2 in the atmosphere you have a certain world temperature. Warming doesn't continue endlessly just because there are greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - an equilibrium is reached, at a higher temperature than the previous equilibrium with less CO2.
It's necessary but not sufficient.
Technically, you should be able to share a domain socket via a shared volume too (between an "app" and "web" container) - as with postgres:

https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-postgresql/issues/30#iss...

Curious about benchmarks and tests of TCP vs Unix domain sockets between docker containers.
Reaction: Even for the 1960s, that was incredibly callous.

Hence why scientists and doctors shouldn’t and mustn’t get a free pass.
What web frameworks, and what do you mean by "so many"?

Just checked - React, Angular, Vue.js and Svelte don't use it.
DNA of Ancient Phoenician Could Make Us Reconsider History of Human Migration
The point of Miranda isn’t to make the police collect all evidence of crimes, that’s what they always did. They’re not (necessarily) hateful scumbags, collecting evidence of crimes is literally their job. The arresting, detention, etc, is secondary. What Miranda does is make it clear that:

* You have the right to remain silent

* That’s important because if you aren’t silent, they can use anything you say against you

The second point explains why the first is so important. And it’s important to tell people that being silent is their right and won’t be held against them, while what they say may be. Unfortunately it’s become so perfunctory that I think people don’t actually pay attention to the words and why they are the way they are.
> It's weird to say, but we should crash the economy if it can slow down climate change.

To save humanity we should destroy humanity.

No thanks.
Great post. It sometimes is a little bit awesome and terrifying to consider the edifice on which the entire superstructure of IP ownership rests. Think about all that intangible property out there that’s subject to long forgotten contracts, copyright assignments, license agreements and the link. Entire empires can be made or broken on the existence (or non-existence) of a piece of paper.
This is the stuff I'm talking about. I make a deduction, and you respond with a defensive statement and change the subject. I'm just looking for evidence of what you're implicitly claiming. Are the models accurate or not?

Anyway, probably just the inherent difficulty of trying to have a conversation online.
I can give you a counterexample anecdote from my own career: I have spent my entire career writing code mainly in Common Lisp. I have a long list of successfully executed projects, some of which were done in the face of directly competing efforts written in other languages which failed spectacularly. I have a "profound belief" in Lisp, and I can justify that belief with a litany of empirical data and theoretical explanations. Nonetheless, every single time I have ever expressed that belief it has led to my career advancement being cut off and ultimately to the loss of my position and having to start over.

So no, it's not enough to have "profound beliefs". You have to have the right kind of profound beliefs (unless you are extremely lucky -- see below). They have to not conflict too much with the profound beliefs of your management and co-workers because if they do you're sunk no matter how much data you have to back them up. That just turns out to be how the world works. I learned this lesson the hard way, and far too late in life for it to do me much good, but I thought I'd pass it along.

There is one exception to this rule, and that is if you just happen to get have iconoclastic beliefs that are also correct and you somehow manage to acquire the resources to act on those beliefs and the results you produce happen to find a large market. Steve Jobs is the poster child for this, and even he is a cautionary tale because his career very nearly ended when he was first fired from Apple. It was only the good fortune of Apple management being utterly incompetent that gave him a second chance, which he seized on to spectacularly good effect. But Jobs was literally one in a billion.
most likely Google Podcasts next
https://archive.is/zdzKo