skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I noticed - that's mostly just because of the general flow of trends.

XML was a hard swing in terms of complexity - it allowed you express everything, but did it in such a way that very few people would actually enjoy writing it. So it fell out of favor and folks moved to JSON for its simplicity.

Then JSON proved to be somewhat too onerous because of several tiny annoyances (lack of comments, but also things like not allowing trailing commas in lists/dictionaries), so devs started trying out YML.

YML quickly proved to have too many footguns because of the way its parser behaves, so it is now being abandoned in favor of TOML.

Trends are a pendulum. They go back and forth, slightly changing each time they do. Complexity falls out of favor so we move to simplicity. Simplicity proves too simple so we go back to complexity, but slightly different than the old one. That too will fall out of favor and we go back to a slightly different kind of simplicity. Just how it goes.

As for TOML - it's fine, I'd probably use it for a new project, but it's also undeniable that TOML in general feels a lot like supercharged INI. And that should in turn ask the question: why do we need that supercharged INI. Why should a config parser decide what primitives to return/what objects to construct them to? We can bolt schemas and other stuff on top of config parsers all we want, but why should that be the task of the parser?

INI only deals in strings. In many ways, that make things a lot easier. Most static typed languages I've worked with tend to bolt getPrimitive() functions onto their config parsers for every type that throw an exception if it can't understand the type (which also makes the API extremely messy to read).

Meanwhile most soft/duck-typed languages just throw you in the depths of it and give you whatever the fuck they parsed out of it. Usually you just end up manually type checking the data after.

With INI, all you have is strings. It's simple, it's clean and it doesn't need to infer anything else (which also fits nicely with paradigms like "do one thing, and do it well").
Replying to my own comment. Just read through the TOML spec for the first time in years and its tables are essentially dictionaries. Don't know if that was added later or if I just missed it earlier. I'll consider using TOML for future projects. That said, I still think some of the hate YAML gets is unwarranted.
Response from Amazon/Kindle:

> This title is not currently available for purchase - Have you moved recently?

Apparently this book did not pass the Dutch or Amazon censor. Makes me extra curious.
> One year ago, I switched my phone to LineageOS to get security updates a little longer.

is it usable again?

I remember using LineageOS for a couple of years, but ditching it about 3 years ago. The for me dealbreaking was when banking apps stopped working
The big challenge here is false separation we create with language.

I can say, “consciousness is neural activity” but others will say, what activity, how does activity become conscious, how do you prove those things are the same, all questions which imply a different causal model structure, one in which there are two entities (neural activity and conscious experience) instead of one. (!) the problem is one of cardinality of our model, not lack of evidence; you can’t fit a dualistic two-peg (the mind and the brain) into a monistic one-hole (mind=brain).

This language pattern creates a concept of separation between neurons firing and the mind experiencing. If, in reality, neurons firing ARE mind experiences, then to prove they are identical means to disprove a false separation between two identical concepts.

That’s a tricky problem (of language) to solve with tools (of neuroscience).
Four large US publishers sue ‘shadow library’ for alleged copyright infringement
As I've said countless times before here, the 737MAX software had nothing wrong with it. It performed exactly the way the specifications required.
Putin started a war which has interfered with Russia's sales of fossil fuels.
It's the same here in Japan: everyone uses LINE messenger. SMS is pretty much never used because it's considered a privacy violation; only delivery companies and banks and the like use it (and spammers, like you said). Nobody cares about iMessage's colored bubbles.
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GitHub enterprise /s

Jokes aside, I don't think there is an alternative except cgit and the builting `git web` both don't have much features.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb
https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/ used by linux kernel https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Makes me think of the Travis McGee books by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._MacDonald

about a guy who lives in a houseboat (got blown up in one of those books)

I still have some checked out from the library I should read.
Current system does have many nodes in a hierarchy but they are operated by trusted entities and there is not much fluidity. Also nobody owns their domain names; just renting from the centralized providers and you just have to trust them with everything.

With a blockchain, you would provably own your domain name and nobody would be able to change your 'zone file' aside from you since they wouldn't know your private key. I mean it would be physically impossible even if they wanted to do it illegally (or if the TLD operated under a crooked government).

BTH, this has already been done by Unlimited Domains (.eth TLD) but for some reason it still hasn't been integrated into major browsers (aside from Brave which has it disabled by default though it definitely works).
The paper mentioned was submitted in May. I think encoder-decoder architectures still make a lot of sense for multimodal models.

There are still many low hanging fruits. I have probably seen dozens of variations of chain-of-thoughts, tree-of-thoughts, graph-of-thoughts, self-ask, self-critique, self-plan, self-reflect, etc.
Yes but it was more or less a term of art used only in advertiser/publisher relations. Consumers didn't use it; creators certainly not. (Neither did these groups self-describe as "consumers" or "creators", ugh.)

Arguable today everything is advertiser/publisher relations.
> Customers want their own private network to prevent intrusions and exfiltrations, just on machines they don’t own.

If your (default) gateway from one network segment to another network segment only has one rule, default-deny, then it's not a problem. If you think that's not enough, then use IPv6 ULA (fd00::/8).

But why should the incompetence of some customers limit what all customers can do?
UK regulator provisionally approves Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard buyout
> I am not the gp

what is GP?

(sorry, I am new to hackernews and don't yet know all the acronyms)
> Stock shorting has got to be one of the most pants-on-head stupid things I've ever heard.

What are your thoughts on insurance? Because shorting can be an insurance/hedge against price changes.
Never heard of this before. But if the results are actually better than Google as people say, than it’s worth trying. I’ve literally stopped using Google for a while now (and instead use chatGPT and Youtube) because all those articles were just some SEO-optimized bullshit
I’m one typo away from accidentally allowing IPv6 access to every machine in my network with my pf config on my home router. (I know this because I’ve done it one time, and didn’t notice for about a week.)

There is no such typo i could make with my single shared public ipv4 address because it’s just one address. Saying “allow” by accident isn’t enough, I’d have to somehow accidentally configure the particular ingress port to NAT to a particular internal machine, and even then it would only affect that machine and no other.

(Full disclosure, i actually like IPv6 and am in full favor of everything moving to it. This is in spite of the above, but i at least recognize that the above is the case.)
In 4 years, the author has raised 6 issues and zero PRs. The latest issue was raised last week to inflame this same argument and is 4x longer than any previous issue.
You could use the matrix-js-sdk or matrix-rust-sdk if you want to deal with wasm
En masse

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en_masse
Cheeky as it may be to say...

I always preffered Russel Crowe in Master and Commander as the ideal image of Brits, rather than a dressed up car salesman.

Hammond and May are spiffing, but Clarkson too often, only shows up to the job and doesn't follow meaningfully through.

What a world we live in where an Australian actor and director (Peter Weir) in Master and Commander put on a more realistic image for British values, than Clarkson's hundred-million-pound productions...
The Selling of America's Most Controversial Gun
GraalOS: Containerless instant-on cloud functions for Java
What's the problem with using JSON and providing a schema? It is not so "pretty" to write with braces, quotes and such, but not too hard either. I have been doing that at work for some time now. VSCode will even recognize the schema and check the document in real time.
It was not conservative media serving as an outlet for whatever is currently riling up conservatives. It was few conservative personalities creating issue, riling up conservatives and generally trying to create outrage and fear.

That is about it. So, you know, the same people can stuff themselves with complains about YouTube. YouTube is at least honest and not pretending that somehow situation is something it is not.
What's up with the extreme estimats?

And if you get 100s results instead of 0?

And what if it's not 90%, but 50%? It's definitely wrong for me, I most often use it to exclude irrelevant results, and I'd imagine it's also wrong in general case for such a targeted search engine

The "effort" is using the same typo detection algorithm you use for non-quoted search to display the same warning

Also the benefit of a warning is that you can press a correction link to automatically fix and restart search, which is better UI
I’ve seen way too many founders succeed by pivoting to something completely unrelated once they have funding and a big team to hate on people who do this.
The Roofshot Manifesto (2016)
Enshittification strikes again!
I keep forgetting that people still have TVs.

I guess you can call the detector vans Orwellian? But only in so far as they were probably fictitious and strongly implied things that they couldn't do, which isn't the usual usage but kinda fits with the general category of propaganda about what the authorities can do — it was technically possible but unlikely to be affordable when they were making the biggest deal out of it, much easier to take the list of addresses which don't have a licence and look through the windows or knock on the doors and pretend that the van driving the inspectors had the electronics for what would later be called Van Eck phreaking.

What is much closer to "so Orwellian you'd expect it in a comedy sketch parodying UK politics" are the pro-CCTV posters around London in the early 2000s, one of which I managed to spot in real life when passing through the city: https://www.wired.com/2002/11/londons-privacy-falling-down/

That and the way the heavy-handed Met police response to the vigil held by women protesting misbehaviour by the Met police.
How is the “school bus on front lawn” aesthetic avoided?
The censorship is already good enough reason to use open source models, or actually the only option if you want to do stuff that is censored by the commercial models.
I'm a proud supporter, it's an amazing service. I was also surprised when I learned it was a charity.

They currently need to replace their existing helicopters, so if you live in London, please consider donating.

https://www.londonsairambulance.org.uk/up-against-time-appea...
Quick links for the curious:

site: https://www.ladybird.dev

code: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird
LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11206

AlpaGasus: Training A Better Alpaca with Fewer Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08701

Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463

Skill-it! A Data-Driven Skills Framework for Understanding and Training Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14430
Go disrupt Oracle and see how that works out.
The people actually using the constant are translators.
> The "Fermi" "paradox" is like someone locked in a bathroom going "OMG I can't see anybody! Everybody on earth must have died!!".

I’m going to try this today just to see how my wife reacts.
DEF Con 31 War Stories – Tracking the Worlds Dumbest Cyber Mercenaries [video]
This is what happens in capitalism. There's profit to be made educating the masses, and setting yourself up for social capital and intellectual capital by being a thought leader. In fact, these centrally controlled Big Tech platforms share this profit with influencers who help get eyeballs and engagement.

On the startup side, venture capitalists encourage startups to fail fast and remove friction aka propping up money-losing economics, so they can have an IPO to wall street stockholders. After which the company must extract rents from its ecosystem and report every quarter to its shareholder class how well it's doing that.

At every level, the system is designed to extract money from the masses of people. Whether it's "I will teach you how to flip a house" in the real estate bubble, to "I will teach you how to do AI stuff". The entire system optimizes for that.

People might say "what, are you advocating communism"? Well, the alternative doesn't have to be that. It can be a universal basic income providing a floor to people, financed by pigovian taxes on fossil fuels (already done in Alaska for decades), plastic pollution, tolls for congestion of roads, etc. While at the same time subsidizing open source software. If the government did these two things, it would massively improve society. As the UBI would grow, we would not have so much need for labor unions, minimum wage laws, etc. to protect workers. People would spend time with their own families, learn new things, practice their religion, hobbies, etc. And stop having perverse incentives e.g. to avoid reporting some recovery just to keep receiving disability payments. Both sexes would "lean out" instead of "leaning in" to corporate life. They'd stop sticking their elderly parents in nursing homes and their kids in government schools for long hours a day just so they can work long hours without vacation.

Instead we have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8
Danish AI Trained on Data from a Web Forum About Horses
A small company in terms of staff can still be internationally renown.
From the OP:

> Is this a good deal for the American consumer? [...] Certainly the system is bad for Americans who don’t have points-earning cards. They pay higher prices on ordinary goods and services but don’t get the points, effectively subsidizing the perks of card users, who tend to be wealthier already.

It's the economics of "scrip". https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/scrip.asp
I think it solves a different problem. One of Brotli's strengths was a built-in dictionary tuned for the web contents, which makes it especially suitable for short data with no known priors. The compressed dictionary transport is same but tuned for each website. In comparison, rsync algorithm would make sense only when the data is long enough (say, more than 1 MB), in which case a custom dictionary wouldn't help much because the compressor already has a lot of patterns to working with. Ideally both can be implemented, where the HTTP Range request can be updated to support rsync-like algorithms.
Features a photograph of the lovely boxed set that's available for 35 euros.
'Power, influence, notoriety': The Gen-Z hackers who struck MGM, Caesars
Not only is parameter expansion delightfully esoteric, it can replace sed for many applications. Or, as you’ve done, inverse basename.

Since it’s a shell built-in, it avoids the overhead of exec. Ever wonder why asdf is slow? Go peek at the source code. This is why. I have a draft PR that fixes it, but there are still some failing tests I need to fix.
You can buy a lottery ticket for every single big jackpot for a year and lose less than your average options trader. The value is the feeling you get that you and your family might not have to work for the rest of your lives. That feeling is clearly and obviously worth a dollar a day.
Interesting! Do you think RLHF would be a necessity for smaller models to perform as par as state-of-the-art LLMs? In my view, instruction tuning will resolve any isssues related to output structure, tonality or the domain understanding but will it be enough to improve the reasoning capabilities of the smaller model?
Interesting how every subscription business is slowly turning to the traditional ad-supported model. People might refuse it, but ad-supported is one of the most efficient business models on both the consumer side and business side. Allows more customers to access a service, for free, with the same quality. Plus, every company needs marketing, and even consumers need it. It allows us to notice things we might need in our lives. Not sure why people thought that the subscription model was going to take over. Imagine having to pay for every single service/website we use daily
What a lovely ending Plainview had.

There are many ways to live with tragedy. Becoming a cynic is just one of them.
Of course. We now have a new grift in AI where almost every startup is immediately begging for VC money and presenting how their LLM is the solution to all your problems.

Explaining the increase of grifters descending on AI all of a sudden when the majority of them are ChatGPT wrappers and calling themselves AI companies.

More like a new griftopia has been created.
> So what? It still all needs compressing and caching and firing across the internet in a similar way, hence content.

But it's not DBA and network engineers calling it that, it's "everyone".

It rubs me the wrong way the same way gamers suddenly using the word "franchise" did. "oh yeah, this obviously sucks and makes it a worse game, but I can understand why they would want that for their franchise".
In the show, they are close and meet up regularly. They even take care of their kids in crisis.

Which also makes sense - siblings who have good relationships meet up often and once having partners, those partners meet up too.
How do you chose between ClickHouse and DuckDB ? It feels like they solve the same problem
In your view, are there any non-extremists?

Perhaps the only purity to be found is in the ignorant, the innocent, the children?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade
> Allows more customers to access a service, for free, with the same quality.

Being interrupted and attempted to be brainwashed every X minutes is not “the same quality”.
Nearly 500 brands exited smartphone market during 2017-2023
Yet Bitcoin's market cap is $500 Billion and has a trading volume is over $10 billion per day and has been outperforming the markets for over a decade.

If the financial system is fine, then how is it possible that a 'scam' is worth $500 billion? What kind of financial system allows such scam to exist for over a decade and keeps attracting investors year after year?

If the financial system is not fine, then how could you say a blockchain like Bitcoin is a solution looking for a problem?

That position doesn't make sense from any angle.

And anyway, I've explained clearly what is the advantage of blockchain:

- It's a system which supports unlimited reads at scale.

- Spam-resistant when it comes to writes.

- Its data can be verified independently so there is no need to trust service operators.

Those are the most important characteristics of a DNS. Sadly the current system is missing the third point and that's why nobody truly owns their domain names. Everyone is merely renting from a TLD provider and hope that the laws of whatever country it's in are going to respect your claims.
The main reason I dropped prime is that the shipping stopped working. Two days slipped most of the time.

But what put me over the edge was their music stopped being included, it was another fee to remove adds and unlock everything.

And video had these annoying preroll ads. Frequently for things I already watched.

Now there will be ads throughout and it’s a monthly fee to get what was free.

I do like some prime shows -maisel and peripheral - but those get conveniently packaged up and downloaded through trackers.

The best UI experience for streaming is just torrent files autodownloading and being available the day after. No ads, no confusing interfaces. Id pay for this, but I can’t.
As far as I know, the OpenBSD team ensures that the base installation is useful already, so that their "secure by default" claim has some intrinsic value. As a result, even without installing extra packages, you get an usable system, unified (written by the same group of people), well-documented (reading the man pages and knowing what to expect from the software often is enough), easy access to OpenBSD-specific software, etc.

I personally enjoy having not to ask myself questions like, which http server I should be using, and just be rolling with whatever's in the box.

I wouldn't be surprised for Debian, and others, to provide a similar experience, perhaps not as tightly packaged though. I'm not sure the difference is that remarkable either, unless perhaps you have some specific needs that you know are well-managed by *BSD-centered software.
Probably even more pertinent, in my last job, I worked with a guy who got sued for taking the source code with him.

https://unicourt.com/case/pc-db5-better-holdco-inc-et-al-v-d...
Reading, writing and arithmetic are becoming less relevant to the day to day of the majority of young persons. How much text actually appears on Instagram? How much reading skills are required for it? Outside of school, when does a young person ever require literacy?
Even numeracy is less relevant on average, as payments are digital, no longer requiring quick mental sums.
If you want to interoperate with C and C++ and could either make people specify low-level details of the interface themselves or process C and C++ header files to do it automatically. Obviously the latter is a much better interoperability solution.

Processing C and C++ header files means using a C/C++ compiler. It would hardly make sense to write a new one if there was a good one already available.
It still seems expensive for just a search engine. You can get a streaming subscription for that and that has actual content on it. You’re just listing other people’s content.

What are you offering me that is worth $10 more than just using DDG?
Turkey is joining the EU. All in progress now....
None needed, this is a drop-in replacement
Wtf am I even paying these parasites for.

Navigating this world is such a pain in the ass.
https://archive.ph/MVwK6
Except Amazon Prime continues to be a paid service. I quickly stopped watching prime because they already had excessive advertising, I can only imagine how much worse the service is becoming.
I'm not aware of any single dashboard that will cover all your categories. Each category will probably be served better by a specialized dashboard.

For financial data I use Sofi Relay Insights:

- https://www.sofi.com/financial-insights/

- (I used to use:) https://www.empower.com/empower-personal-wealth-transition

I just found Polar Habits for habits:

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/37596483

Apple Health seems to be a decent health dashboard.
DoD CIO Accessibility Statement
Are we destined for a zero-sum future?
What is curious is that all entertainment really only seems to be viable when heavily cross-subsidized by everyone.
SymPy Gamma
loving it!!!
60.73 is not great
I read it differently than ads:

> the ONLY thing you hear on the news.. any news.. are bad things(tm). War, corruption, you name it.