skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a border definition dispute where its unclear whose side this piece if land falls on, and where Croatia has decided (and Serbia has acceded to this decision) to administer it until the dispute is resolved.

But there's no dispute that either Serbia or Croatia owns it, and it doesn't really matter, as to any third party attempt to set up a state in defiance of the status quo administration, whether Croatia is conducting non-hostile administration of Serbian territory with Serbian consent or administering its own territory.

If there's a smudge in the only copy of a contract you can find and you think it called for a 60/40 split of profits from a certain kind of joint activity in your partner’s favor, and they think it called for a 60/40 split in your favor, there's 20% that is uncertain until some reolution is reached, but that doesn’t mean that someone else can just restructure the deal unilaterally to be 40/40/20, which is (but for the actual numbers and the nonfungible nature of land) what Liberland is trying to do.
How are you going to have “more worker rights” when your workforce is desperate, poorly educated immigrants who come from countries with no labor or workplace safety protections? Counter cutting is a custom business—these aren’t mega corps you can easily regulate. Did you know that this was even a problem until you read this article? Do you think do gooders can be everywhere to observe this sort of thing and bring it to the authorities? Do you think legislators are going to care about this issue when it only affects undocumented immigrants who can’t vote? (Or are you suggesting that people should be able to vote the minute they come over the border?)

There is a deep and fundamental link between having a native born workforce that is educated in this country and socialized to expect certain minimum standards, and the ability to legislate and enforce increased worker protections.
A strike is not leaving the company. A strike is refusing to work until demands are met.
We wrote a "book" of Calculus for the students of the university, but we published it as 5 parts (each with 2 or 3 chapters) so it's easier to buy. We published the 5 part the same day.

Anyway, we didn't publish it at Amazon. It's available only at the local shop.
First class on a train relative to standard seating is also much less of a big deal than planes in general.
It's debunking all the way down.
What's the goal of the project? It's not clear from the Github repo or the site (natalie-lang.org).
To answer the general philosophical question, I think it is simply because we don't like hypocrisy. Or to put it more elaborately, the statements are pointless if they don't actually require making tradeoffs or taking the harder path when necessary.

Why am I required to return to office but everyone in my management chain gets to work remote? Are the benefits of in-person collaboration not relevant to them too?

If a policy requires carve outs and exemptions, those should be documented ahead of time with the rational explanation.

Edit: note my example about remote work was totally hypothetical; I don't work at Amazon.
Yeah, it’s an interesting idea but I still don’t think it’s viable because this already done in some industries and comes with its own problems.

One high-profile example is “Hollywood” accounting for residuals paid out to actors and staff on projects. Peter Jackson sued New Line cinema because they argued that they lost millions making Lord of the Rings and therefore didn’t have any money to pay his residual, blatant manipulation and this happens all the time. Companies are good at moving cash around the world to avoid paying taxes, this same mechanism could easily be used to show workers a manipulated version of their value. Who really trusts their employer to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Ford himself was at least smart enough to understand that if you pay your workers well they buy your own product.

If you (any company) automate those people away (yeah right) who can afford their product?

Queue the fantasy about UBI but maybe it’s better if companies would pay their workers their fair share of wages.

Or dare I say it: we disband the notion of private ownership of the means of production and give that ownership back to the people.
Nightshades are members of the Solanaceae family.

Huckleberries are not nightshades. You are confusing the garden huckleberry (solanum nigrum) with the actual huckleberry, which is a member of the Heath family (Ericaceae). Actual huckleberries are incredibly difficult to grow and only grow on mountains. The garden huckleberry is a tomato relative that has similar looking fruits and some say a similar taste and is easier to grow. Hence the name.

Cashews are also not nightshades. Cashews are members of the cashew/mango family. All plants are highly allergenic. Many people have cashew problems, and many many people have reactions to the outer skin of the Mango. Poison Ivy is in the mango/cashew family. They are part of the Anacardiaceae family.

Gooseberries... you are thinking of the cape gooseberry. The cape gooseberry is a nightshade. Real gooseberries are members of the currant family Grossulariaceae. Gooseberries are very distinct from a cape gooseberry. The two plants are actually not very similar looking at all. Cape gooseberries, like many nightshades, grow in a husk (like a tomatillo). Real gooseberries do not.

The rest are indeed nightshades.

Sorry for the pedantry, but these are all very different plants.
I appreciate your intention to care for others, although I disagree with your most of your other arguments. I do find it irrationally irritating that you appear to assume I'm male.
In the Netherlands selling magic mushrooms is illegal since 2008 (after some incidents), but magic truffles can still be legally bought online and in shops. Buying spores and growing magic mushrooms yourself is still possible and completely legal for as far as I’m aware.
Thank you. That's consistent with my (very quick, superficial) read too.

Technically, modern DNNs (transformers, CNNs, RNNs, etc.) don't have convergence guarantees either.

We've just gotten used to SGD somehow always working! :-P
Zediva!

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zediva

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Entertainment_Inc....

> The court held that the defendants were transmitting and publicly performing the plaintiffs' copyrighted works, and thus granted plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction.
> It will provide an entire cohort of CEOs with the mandate to invest heavily in automation to bridge the gap.

This is frequently parroted, but never occurs. Invest in automation all you want, robots don’t buy products, the middle class does.

If domestic automakers fail, the US government will bail them out. No one has the appetite to allow Elon (who only owns 13% of Tesla and his position continues to decline) and Tesla to take light auto manufacturing hostage and corner the market. We’ll just print dollars to do it, because we can. Pensions can be bailed out by the pension guarantee corp, funded by the general fund and the top 40% of taxpayers who have a federal tax liability.

The rules are flexible and can change at anytime. Labor is needed to build and generate productivity, shareholders are just rows in a database. If they get wiped out, meh.
For several projects I’ve opted for the even dumber approach, that works out of the box with every ORM/Query DSL framework in every language: using a normal table with SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED

https://www.pgcasts.com/episodes/the-skip-locked-feature-in-...

It’s not “web scale” but it easily extends to several thousand background jobs in my experience
> Including the skin of 'licking-toads' and the pineal gland of human brains.

That's a myth.

You can't lick the skin of toads — more specifically that of the Sonoran Desert Toad aka. Bufo Alvarius as it's toxic.

That's a meme propagated by The Simpsons: https://youtu.be/uFn7VjYksBM?si=OecdfsmXyOTJJAeF.

You can however milk it's venom via glands and smoke it.

There's also insufficient evidence for the pineal gland as that is an unsubstantiated hypothesis proposed by Dr. Rick Strassman.

Plus, the Wikipedia page you linked to literally says:

> "...although the physiological significance of this biotransformation is not yet known."

Soo...
“Everything” is a must have for me. It’s shocking that Windows doesn’t come with local search that works.
Looks more or less like munin...
Okay, so how long does someone have to be in the country illegally before they gain citizenship?
Search "mixture of experts" on Google, some unverified leaks say GPT4 is using it already.
Ah yes, the famous "If you're too poor to work that job, just quit" argument.

Companies can pay below subsistence wages longer than you can eat out of the job market.
You’re missing the point: every ticket has a name. Not the same single name on 4 tickets. Every ticket is personalised.

It doesn’t matter that one person can’t come. All the others can go. If you can’t go, you still can get refunded for your ticket cost.

If one person buys multiple tickets, they need to provide all the names of the people who are going. Just like when you book a plane ticket.
Notably it still uses Manifest V2 so it will likely break if it isn't updated before Manifest V3 becomes required.
Yeah these are good points, and I think a lot of the complicated details would need to be worked out in practice.

>What about positions that are considered negative value usually called "cost centers".

I think if finance people can get together to determine FMV of a company's private shares, they can determine how much employees in a cost center contribute to profit. There would be models and assumptions that would be generally correct to make the numbers add up.

>What about the fact that higher educated skilled workers are going to require bigger slices of the pie that will enviably reduce the money available to lower skilled workers?

No idea, but my gut says that this is a correction.
You can also just over-allocate to avoid having to call it twice, or do some really basic heuristics to fast path the call (it's very specific UTF-8 sequences that need more than 2 bytes in UTF-16).
Meta’s AI chatbot plan includes a ‘sassy robot’ for younger users
I just sold a 2010 supermicro Mobo on eBay with a 6 core Xeon and 8GB of ECC memory. It sold for $1.99. And I had to list it twice.
But following proper administrative procedure is a key component of a fair justice system. It's not all that's necessary, but it is necessary, otherwise you have rules being bent on whims of justices, prosecutors, or public sentiment.
Guess even more Toyotas and Teslas will be sold.
> How the system is supposed to work is that if they aren't getting paid what they think they should, then they leave that company and let it fail.

That's impossible. They're "too big to fail". Bush bailed them out with $7.4 billion in tax payer money, and later Obama did the same with tens of billions.

However things are "supposed to work" for failing businesses that exploit their workers, in the real world it's all a very different story.
The EU solution for that is specific 'data processor' agreements where (a) they process the data on your behalf; (b) they don't gain any permission whatsoever to use that data for their own purposes, only what you ask them to do; (c) they only have the right to do with that data the same things you are permitted to do; (d) you have to inform users (but not necessarily get consent) of all the processors which are handling their data; (e) you're fully responsible for what the processor does with that data. Reasonable cloud providers like Saleforce, Splunk (and pretty much all others which do business in EU) all have adapted to GDPR and will give contractual guarantees that they'll do everything properly but it's up to you to pick providers which will actually uphold that contract.
How does splitting it into multiple pieces make it easier to buy? That seems like it would make it both less convenient to buy and much less convenient to use.

As to the main point, yes publishing multiple books a day doesn't necessarily mean writing multiple books that day, but as sustained rate, the limit is high enough that AI spam would still be able to overrun the platform unless the percentage of bad actors is extremely low. It'd just take a bit longer.
One of the great things about the Elixir ecosystem is that, in so many cases, the libraries you’re using make the appropriate use of supervision trees so you don’t have to.

Obviously it depends on what you’re building and you can craft your own supervision structures if you want to. But most of the time you can get the benefits of BEAM resiliency without having to drop down into the details.
Cool!

I used https://github.com/pionxzh/chatgpt-exporter in firefox, which had a bulk export option.
We Don’t Need Another Antihero
What is it with non-Americans and their strange view that the US as a whole does anything?
I've done even simpler without locks (as no transaction logic), where I select a row, and then try to update a field about it being taken. If 1 row is affected, it's mine. If 0, someone else did it before me and I select a new row.

I've used this for tasks at big organizations without issue. No need for any special deployments or new infra. Just spin up a few worker threads in your app. Perhaps a thread to reset abandoned tasks. But in three years this never actually happened, as everything was contained in try/catch that would add it back to the queue, and our java app was damn stable.
Most of these aren’t made in a “factory.” Because countertops are heavy and pretty much all custom sized and shaped, they’re being made in small scale local businesses.
That's exactly right. When people see YC funding a lot of AI startups, a lot of them think it must be because YC has some thesis about AI.

Actually, it says something much deeper about the world than whatever YC's partners' opinions are. YC funds founders, not ideas, so the reason that so many companies in S23 are AI startups is that that's what founders want to work on right now. It's an emergent phenomenon, like stock prices in the market.

One thing that's interesting is that there have been many hype cycles between 2006 and now (chatbots, several waves of crypto, VR, online-to-offline, etc). YC funded a few companies in each of those hype cycles but never anything like the current %.
This is a syndicated from the upstream blog, which gets content from Bruce and Larry earlier:

https://systemsapproach.substack.com/p/how-congestion-contro...
Why central banks insist on a 2% inflation target
The depth is inverted if you look at them cross-eyed. If you swap the positions of the two pictures it will look correct.
We agree that Apple is stuck with Qualcomm. I remain unconvinced that the reason they can put a modem in my watch and not in the top of the line MacBook Pro is for simple market reasons.

“Qualcomm licenses all its patents as a group. For a set fee -- based on the selling price of the end device” according to https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-and-qualcomm-settle-h...
One issue with Redis as a queue backend seems to be that persistence is quite expensive, at least for managed Redis instances. Using PG seems like it could be much cheaper, especially if you already have an instance with room to spare.

I thought it was an interesting article, and I'd love to hear more from people using PG for queues in production (my intuition would say you'd get a lot of table bloat and/or vacuum latency, but I haven't tested it myself), but when it comes to the conclusion - "choosing boring technology should be one’s default choice" - I can't think of anything more boring (in a good sense, mostly) than Sidekiq + Redis for a Rails app.
PID Control Challenges
There's a lot of thoughtful speculation and salesmanship, but no clinical data.

Create a prototype product, get some volunteers, and after that is successful, raise some money to go through clinical trials with the FDA.
Both Serbia and Croatia agree that one of them owns it.
If I recall very vaguely I don't think I was present for the actual incident, but immediately after? Very vague.

I was however, friends with legba at the time.
Metalworking apprentice here, I started wearing a respirator regularly after seeing the gunk cleaned out of my nasal passages by using a neti pot.
I'm so confused, what's the role of Redis here? , looks like a "special case" of running redis instead of pg?
Tesla Bot update with end-to-end training – video in, controls out
I am more impressed by the hardware and seamless motion than the autonomous sorting. They seem to be iterating both the hardware and the software at an insane pace. The post mentions that it's trained end-to-end - saves a lot of time from tuning old-school controllers.

Tesla Bot team also made some impressive hires - I know a few PhD students who were working on end-to-end learning based approaches for robotics that joined the Tesla Bot team - these are the folks that were pushing the boundaries of what's possible with pure robot learning in real robots.

I remember reading this article by Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/20/22633958/tesla-bot-elon-m...) when Tesla Bot was announced and thinking "I wouldn't be betting against the Tesla team if they really are going all in on this".
There is much more freedom when they don't have to work to support a lie though. I'd rather a dishonest person or company have to put in a lot of work to defraud someone, than to have no scrutiny whatsoever.
I agree this solution solves privacy in an economically sensible way.
I agree that inciting riots and violence is not something to tolerate, but what’s new about this?

I am not a lawyer but we’ve had these same discourses during the 1960s (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio)
The term chemical wastewater generally sounds like it's generated by some kind of chemical process as a byproduct. In this case though there is nothing chemical happening to this waste water. It comes in via trucks and is then pumped back out again.
Spamhaus will protect the internet from AI-driven spam [video]
Here is my interview with Spamhaus talking about what they are doing to protect the internet from bad stuff. We talk about the history of Spamhaus, the challenges of generative AI in the email space, and how Spamhaus is evolving.
The overall memory usage is still much lower than 512MB when running the older Office XP suite - and when using Remote Desktop. In contrast, I tried running Opera 36 and my system started swapping already. That has nothing to do with hardware.

While there is a point about I/O being expensive, and I did mention that they get removed over time when chips get faster, it still points to the fact that software that is not bloated runs better. Period.
Who are the world's remaining media moguls?
I can kinda see the point there, but in the lottery example there's at least a possibility of making contact at a later date.

The bus is irreversible and sudden.

I'd say the lottery example works for example with skills/knowledge. ("Do we have someone else who can do what that person was doing?")

While the Bus factor is very relevant for issues like infrastructure and access ("The only person who knew the important passphrase or credentials is now lying dead on the pavement.)
> I’d love to see more neoq-like libraries for languages other than Go.

Python has Celery, but maybe the author is looking for more choice between brokers. https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/index.html
As it should. Btw thats the worst of their worries, they will get wiped out in bankruptcy and they should.

The shareholders who didn't fight of unionisation like their lives depended on it deserves to get wiped out.

I'm all for treating workers fairly and with respect but who thought it would be a great idea to give an entity with no skin in the game a massive blank check.
Australian here.
As someone from Adelaide originally, us being a dot on the map is still pretty accurate
AFAICT The Junk Science at play here is not that SBS doesn't exist, but that the triad of symptoms is enough to definitively prove SBS.

The reference to Texas is because the subject of the article is a particular case in Texas (with references to other laws/cases in Texas like the "junk science writ" and Kosoul Chanthakoummane whose case had nothing to do with SBS).
The reference to hypnosis is sort of orthogonal to SBS, it's used as another example of junk science in the article.

This section of the article is probably the most relevant:

Paradoxically, Texas is a leader in countering junk science. In 2013, the state introduced a first-in-the-nation “junk science writ” that allowed prisoners – especially those on death row – to challenge sentences on grounds of misused forensic science. It was under this law that in 2016 Sween saved Roberson from imminent death by securing a stay of execution four days before his scheduled lethal injection.

But the hope generated by the new junk science law in Texas has proven a chimera. There have been about 70 attempts by death row inmates to utilize the law and of those the number that have obtained relief is zero.

Kosoul Chanthakoummane was one of those who appealed through the junk science law. He had been put on death row on the back of three different types of junk science: hypnosis of a witness to obtain identification, bitemark analysis and a discredited form of DNA testimony.

In August 2022, Texas executed him anyway.
If only. The EU declared exterminatus on them. I saw a few in the wild recently in Germany and it reminded me of happier times.
It's the Google keyboard on a Google phone. Out of the box experience.
Hollywood is not really in transition. Streaming services just did a bunch of Uber-like shit to skirt union agreements and the lack of proper anti-trust enforcement has allowed for obscene consolidation among studios and all the bad decision-making that comes with a lack of competition. AI can’t write 100 lines of correct, testable code without major hand-holding. It’s certainly not going to write films and television most people are ever going to want to watch.
Indeed. Strike is kinda nicer, you're giving the company the option to reconsider their bad decisions, instead of killing them instantly.
Elixir seems to be picking up insane steam right now. Every day or two there is a fascinating Elixir post here and its promise seems too good to resist. Has anyone else latched their cart onto this horse?
I'm really curious to know why my root comment saying 'this investment strategy is very risky and would make me nervous' has loads of upvotes, but my parent comment here - which I think has broadly the same message phrased in a different way - has three downvotes. Please enlighten me :)
I guess you update it with the assigned worker id, where the "taken by" field is currently null? Does it mean that workers have persistent identities, something like an index? How do you deal with workers being replaced, scaled down, etc?

Just curious. We maintained a custom background processing system for years but recently replaced it with off the shelf stuff, so I'm really interested in how others are doing similar stuff.
Writing/editing worked fine on my Blackberry. It's the people who introduced the glass surface keyboards that are the root of the editing evil.

Cursor keys to edit, a scroll wheel to navigate one's inbox, it was a dream that "they" stole from us with RIM's demise.
> This will open up opportunities for other companies that pay better and aren't shitty to take over from the broken company.

I guess I don't see that result as a given. It seems at least as (probably more) likely that if an automaker falls it'll be taken over by another entity that could be even more hostile to workers.
The Secret of How Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light