skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What am I getting wrong?

That in combat, it's never that simple. It seems like that, seems like the enemy has 100% information, or is 100% capable. And it's not (nor are we).

Everything is muddy, nothing is guaranteed to work, the environment is unforgiving, people react differently under stress. We, they, everyone KNOW this and it still doesn't work.

So, you plan, you test contingencies, develop capability, even if they're never used.

In Germany, they had plans to use shopping centers as ad hoc aircraft bases. Knock large holes into the store front (they tend to not be load bearing), shove out all of the shelves and what not with a bulldozer, clear the parking lots of cars and lights (bulldozers work well for this as well). Boom, instant hangar and tarmac.

But that's just it, just warplans. Think tanks thinking through potential problems and ways to solve them. They also had warplans to blow up dams to wash over a teeming Soviet advance. Seems, in the large, to be a bad idea. But, on the other hand, consider the events and thinking going on when someone chimes in "Hey, maybe we should blow up the dams...".

Combat is very messy. No plan survives first contact. Just ask the Russians.
Makes enough sense to me but curious why specifically? Are they quieter or less dangerous below that size / weight?
I am plain stupid. Is there anyway to change that?
This is not a self-pity post or imposter syndrome or anything like that. In fact, I get hit with the Dunning-Kruger effect quite frequently, always overestimating my abilities.

After a long, torturous and detailed recalling of my past, I have concluded without a doubt that I am exceptionally stupid, in decision-making, cognition, learning and functioning. Despite being decently privileged with parents encouraging a growth mindset and a focus on learning and hard work, I have been unable to accomplish or make any significant progress with any of my goals despite having all the resources for it. It appears that I am still a child from more than a decade ago who hasn't learnt anything from my experiences and mistakes.

I (suffer?) from forgetfulness, inaction, delusional years-long procrastination, inability to be consistent, slow thinking, wrong decisions, inability to learn from my mistakes, inability to self-regulate and what not. I have tested for any physiological deficiencies like blood tests which all appear normal. I also have an adequate, balance diet. These problems have existed even when I had an active lifestyle so exercise is not the solution imo.

It's like if a truck is racing towards me and despite knowing it will run over and kill me, I am either unable to move, procrastinating about moving thinking I can do it later, moving a few inches and then stopping or even forgetting that the truck is about to end me. And this is despite the truck has already run over me many times causing me great damage.

From a very objective, cold perspective, people like me are better off not existing but I would prefer not to take that step if there is a remedy for my malady. HN is probably the only place where I can receive some constructive advice and help on what I can do to eliminate or at least mitigate my vacuousness and stupidity. If you know of any solutions, no matter how controversial, please let me know. I need all the help I can get.
DJI Mini 4 Pro vs. DJI Mini 3 Pro: What's New?
Most paper will not last 200 years in a normal climate. The acid treatment often used ensures it will break down in less than that. Sure if you actually have a dry climate and archival grade paper it can last thousands of years. However most of us don't have that.

However most of us don't need that either. There are very few things you care about. I threw my kindergarten art out long ago when I realized I wasn't interested in seeing how I improved (back then I thought it would be cool to look back and see). There are things I have done I will care about, but not too many.
Terrible website. So difficult to view.
Another gripe about DJI for video use is that they rip you off for a "license" to use CinemaDNG... which is an open, license-free codec.
On LinkedIn "Promoted" just means that they paid to get top position at the listing.
Silly, but getting comfortable with vim macros.

Not really wow, but makes me smile when I parse +100 lines in under 10s. Coworker might be impressed if you can pull it off on the spot. Too bad some editors are not emulating it too well.
Sure. I usually just use GPS but I absolutely know how to read a trail map. Orienteering off-trail is a bit rusty but I can absolutely deal with most map and compass navigation.
> And no there's plenty of anecdotal evidence from long term users who never feel the same after frequent use, even after stopping.

Aging is a thing. Most adults don’t “feel the same” after the passage of a “long term” span of time, regardless of their level of substance use.
> Let's start with ankle monitor with microphone and camera for Mrs. Ursula

Really? She erased her phone to hide a contracting scandal.

https://www.politico.eu/article/wiped-phone-puts-von-der-ley...
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Northern Nevada isn't sleepy towns, it's nothing. It's the desert. But that's not even the problem if there was a metropolis on the other side of it.

There isn't.

Tokyo is ~300 miles from Osaka. If you go 300 miles from Sacramento, you're not in Osaka, population 2.7 million, you're in Winnemucca, population under 9000. The first meaningful destination on the far side of California is Salt Lake City, population ~200,000, 650 miles away in a different time zone. And that is not a big city, it's just the only thing anywhere near there.

To get to a proper metropolitan area you're going to Denver, more than 1100 miles from where you started. It's too far away.
I'm empathetic. My family background is solidly working class. My dad worked in a funeral home. My mom retired from a railroad. My brother-in-law drives long-haul trucks for a living. My ancestors were farmers, miners, settlers, and little horse teamsters. I love these people and want good things for them.

But there's "is" vs "ought". It ought to be the case that these hard-working people can earn a decent living doing the jobs they spent many years in. It is the case that a lot of those jobs are disappearing as the natural result of technological and societal changes. My grandpa couldn't have delivered ice in downtown St. Louis with a horse and cart today if he wanted to. That job no longer exists. In the case of coal mining, most people don't want those jobs to exist anymore: each ton of coal pulled out of the ground is nearly 3 tons of CO2 gas into the air (purely from the burning process, not counting the effort to mine it).

I don't have the answers here. I don't know what we should be doing. I sure don't want my BIL to lose his career. But what is the kind, empathetic thing to do? We've gone from zero to having self-driving cars zipping around San Francisco in a few short years. What will they be like in 10 years? 20? I don't know when it'll happen, but it seems absolutely inevitable that at some point in the near future, autonomous vehicles will be better drivers than we are. After that, do we build a little passenger cabin onto automated vehicles so that we can pay "drivers" to pretend to operate them? Even if we did, how long can we keep that going? I don't know. I just can't see a path where that's the new state of affairs forever.

Sometimes love means having hard, uncomfortable conversations. I think that's where we're at today with jobs like mining, and where we'll be soon with other careers.
Still not really understanding - you can do all of that with plain UPDATEs (using join syntax if you want to "batch update many many rows at once with entirely different values.") I would be hella confused as a developer if I saw an INSERT ... ON CONFLICT statement where you specifically wanted to prevent any inserts.
Direct link:

https://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/2023/news/use-of-unlicenced-t...
How do you solve for password expiration and prohibited reuse?
> Paper is easier to annotate, but if you didn't grow up with lots of paper, you don't notice, because annotating isn't something you think about, you mostly think in terms of quoting and leaving a comment.

In other words, people can be fine with worse because they don't know better.

One of the things that should be a deep embarrassment to the technology industry is its failure to replicate some of the strengths of paper and make them ubiquitous across platforms. Things actually seem to be settling for a lowest-common-denominator that's getting ever lower (e.g. people regularly resort to screenshotting text in 2023).

> Perhaps that's the big benefit, adding more variety of ways of thinking.

One of the strengths of paper is its flexibility: you can make pretty much any mark you want, not just marks approved and implemented by some 3rd party. You seem to be describing a situation where technical limitations (of digital systems) are so ingrained in people's thought processes that they have trouble thinking outside the little box they've been given.
Nova is worth a try if you're a Mac user!

On Sublime, it's a great editor, and being cross platform is really nice. They really do need to update the web site to reflect that it's not dead. The "see what's new" link is dated 2021.
I have a Spark and a Mavic Air 2. I really love flying the Spark, it's a fun zippy little drone. I'd compare it to something like a Miata. The Mavic on the other hand is all serious, professional utility. It's more like a mini-van. It's a great tool but it's not even remotely fun to fly.

My biggest issue with my Spark is the 9 minute battery life. Even though I have 4 batteries, having to constantly land and swap the batteries is a real drag.

Does anybody have one of the older Minis? How do they compare to the Spark?
Why would customers leave you if your product was AGPL?
Dangerous AI systems need a ‘smoke alarm’, warn UK ministers
Vaguely related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_school
The modern Firefox solution are the containers mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Basic UI for that feature is part of default install, and that basic UI covers exactly the work/personal/banking/porn usecase.

Also, Firefox still supports the original Mozilla concept of multiple profiles (which probably even comes from Netscape 4) which is more or less the same thing as Chromium profiles. IIRC the command line options involved in that are same, except last time I cared about that (~2017) Chromium did not have an GUI profile selection/management dialog
If we do that:

* Corporations would only ever hire there for cheap labor, if they hire there at all. Now these people are never going to escape poverty.

* The state would raise little tax revenue, and it will be easy for other states to reduce funding (and thus offering their own voters tax cuts). So no services there could be funded.

* The people there would be moved away from any remaining support network they do have. Again, this worsens poverty but also seriously hurts mental health.

* Why would the doctors, nurses, case workers, engineers, tradespeople and other non-homeless people your plan depends on move to a place being filled with the worst conditions and inevitably starved of funding?

* Likely many homeless people would not voluntarily join this program, so you're also going to require criminalizing vagrancy and forced relocation. This is a huge violation of their rights.

There's a reason homeless people aren't moving to West Virginia on their own.
I said somewhat viral. I'm not claiming these are crazy high numbers for TikTok. I've certainly been shown some dumb videos on there that somehow have 70million+ views. But it was certainly a big jump from the 300-ish views she was getting for her videos the day before.

This was multiple videos she was getting those numbers for (like for a couple of weeks), and she was seeing her preorders go up exactly 0 from it, while seeing better returns for her time on other social media, she ended up with several hundred preorders from other sources. I don't doubt you can get some numbers from TikTok, especially if you can regularly get 100k views.

But it seems to be very fickle and require constant (and as you say, uncreative) spammy videos on there to get that (at least from her experience).

And it's not like it doesn't take time even to make the seemingly low-effort videos. While she was doing it, she was spending time watching other videos to get ideas and get a feel for the TikTok voice/zeitgeist, checking trending audio sources, coming up with how to do something similar yet link that idea to her book, preparing for it (like putting on make-up, making props, etc), filming it (sometimes requiring multiple takes), editing it (within the app), and then posting it. It was taking her somewhere between 45 minutes and 2 hours each day.

I still think she could have gotten to the 100k+ views if she stuck with it, but it was taking significant time and energy away from other things, and as is she's trying to write books while also working a full-time job, so she has little energy for much else right now to begin with.
But what if the bad guys "just" ask you not to close your eyes persuasively enough?
they probably should have better security on document storage but if an agent that's trusted stays later than others in his dept, how would the others be liable the system if securing docs sure, but even Donald Trump made it out with boxes of top secret docs, negligence isn't complicity either.

it could be they used camera in the guys glasses that nobody would even realize he's taking pictures. all he has to do is read a document to snap a pic, it's not necessarily like he had to use a smartphone all conspicuous like.
The US nationalize Amtrak because the railroads were going to stop doing passenger service all together. But 100 years ago rail in the US and Britain were busted out. The British nationalized their rail. The US turned rail into a semi-regulated monopoly. Notable in the US due to geography the economy depends on freight rail to move bulk goods at least part of the way.

Writings I've seen basically say transportation systems fail under the free market eventually.
Mini 4 Pro vs. Mini 3 series: DJI drones compared
Hey, cofounder here. As far as I know, LangSmith focuses on observability (token usage, chain of thought insights, LLM cost), is vendor locked into LangChain, and uses LLMs to evaluate themselves.

Here are the problems with what LangSmith offers:
1. Focusing on observability brings insights to engineering teams in terms of cost, latency, but these conclusions aren't really actionable

2. Not all teams use LangChain, plus a lot of teams who originally used LangChain to prototype is moving away as they productionize and look to improve what they've built

3. Not every LLM implementation involves a chain of thought, lLamaIndex is a good example. Apart from vendor locking, there are other use cases such as evaluating fine tuned models that are overlooked in a closed source software like LangSmith

4. Using LLMs to evaluate themselves are fine, but a lot more can be done. We offer other metrics (metrics that can be quantified from 0 - 1) such as factual consistency trained on NLI models that are much more deterministic. You can also use our package to pick and choose metrics that you care about (bias, relevancy, toxicity, etc)

Hope that answers your questions.
Ah good find. yah, I tried bing and it is able to read a photo of that manual page and understand that the seat collar takes a 4mm hex wrench (though hallucinated and told me the torque was 5 Nm, unlike the correct 6.2, suggesting table reading is imperfect).

Toolbox: I just found it too strong to claim you have the right tool, when it really doesn't know that. :)

In the end it does feel like the image reader is just bolted onto an LLM. Basically, just doing object recognition and dumping features into the LLM prompt.
Hah, fixed that typo. Thank you! Just added the Poppy Wars series to my list as well.
>If you can train a machine using video, and get it to repeat what you have taught it

I might be wrong, but from what I know about Transformer models and neural nets in general, what you are describing sounds a lot closer to something like an AGI.

When you say “train a machine” here it sounds a lot closer to “teach a machine” rather than “finding weights and baises for an existing function”.

I think we are still a ways off from AGI.
Historically, subreddits were run by community volunteers because people were tired of being censored on official forums. Now subreddits are the official channel more often than not, and we're back to square one.
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And I'm genuinely curious as to why you might think that is of any relevance, especially as we have the opinion of an established musician quoted elsewhere in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37625189 and also the examples of Brubeck and the Rolling Stones.

As it happens, I am merely a consumer, while several of my close relatives are musicians, two make a living from it, one of whom also composes and has had their work performed in professional concerts by other musicians.

Now, how about you? And let's hear from coldtea as well, especially given his remarkably condescending reply to the above post (I associate that sort of attitude largely with teenagers - which, of course, he may be.)
Blackrock doesn't care about the ROI of their housing investments, and they expect the financial system to collapse? Damn. Big if true.
The NW had a case over the last several years, where there was really perverse behavior.

Except for Seattle / Portland, not many companies really invest in the NW. Except all the residential prices just rise and rise. ex: "66% (8331) of residential properties in Post Falls saw a property tax climb between 2019 and 2020. Yet only 6% (71) of commercial properties (6%) experienced an increase".

So when the pandemic was ramping up, all the property tax burden dropped right on top of the homeowners.

Annnnnd: If you don't pay your property taxes, it doesn't matter if you own your house. Title. Everything. Can take it away for a couple years of property taxes. In many states, they don't even have to pay you the sale price difference.
Stanford CS224N – 2023 – Lecture 16 – Multimodal Deep Learning, Douwe Kiela [video]
> but like any powerful drug why would I not suspect something that floods your brain with serotonin would not end up in a situation where your brain anticipates the drug and creates an dependency situation where your brain does not produce serotonin in normal levels without it?

Because this is such an incredible oversimplification of what goes on in the brain. SSRIs also dramatically increase the overall serotonin flux, to the point where if you quit suddenly, the brain is left in a deficit, the effects of which can be quite unpleasant. And contrary to the "serotonin is happy chemical, more serotonin = more better" myth, the net result of all this serotonin is that 5-HT receptors actually downregulate. Ultimately, the result of all these changes is an increase in neuroplasticity.

Blasting 5-HT receptors (eg by LSD, psilocin, etc, and to an extent MDMA) is also shown to increase neuroplasticity.

Neurotoxicity and psychopharmacology are extremely complicated. It's beyond reductionist to say "drug floods brain ergo bad".
I've been looking forward to the release of the Mini 4 Pro so I can hopefully get a Mini 3 Pro on the cheap.

I want something that can autonomously follow me on my mountain bike or follow my RC car as it goes over jumps for under $500.
> I mean, titles don't really mean anything to developers.

To the developers themselves? Yeah, it does to many. To the company in general - there's a reason level descriptions exist. They define expectations for a given person. Let's say you create a new team for project X: you want someone who can plan the project out. Are you going to give that to any "developer" who all exist at the same level? If no, then you have different levels, you're just pretending they don't exist.

It also makes things more clear for the pay. Let's say you get some good mid level dev who gets bumped many times for being really good. If they're just doing well at that level but not advancing, are you going to pay them more than senior devs with more responsibility at some point? Is that a wise decision?
We will be adding a tutorial on how to use DeepEval as a Custom Validator for Guardrails very soon :)!
Solution: stop saying "why didn't you do anything", righteously slap people who do.
Companies in 2023 are just competing in how hostile they could be to the users/workers and still get away with it.
It's probably more subtle than that:

As part of the dispute, Croatia didn't claim it, and neither did Serbia.

But in the meanwhile, Serbia did control various other disputed areas. So it would make sense that in turn, Croatia did the same with 'Liberland'. There's no contradiction between [not claiming an area] but still [asserting some degree of control there].

'Liberland' people claimed homes demolished "without warning" etc, but then complain about having been harassed for years.

So, more likely there were previous warnings, legal procedings or whatever, Liberland ignored those because 'not in our country, doesn't apply', and at some point time is up.

Given its history, it's logical Croatia would be sensitive about border disputes. And then some 3rd party steps in, complicates things & proclaims a new country between your neighbour & yourself?

Can't have that! So this whole clearing operation would simply be "what a nuissance these people! Let's fix that" on Croatia's side. And in the process, assert some control over the area.

All in all it seems the Liberland folks are rather naive about land being abandoned, or how border disputes work. Possibly no-one would care if they'd just squatted there without proclaiming anything.
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This is Finland, not Norway, and the landing sites definitely are prepared and marked as such, they are not just random stretches of road.

edit: you can clearly see in satellite images the strip in question here, its significantly wider than the surrounding road and additionally has been recently repaved: https://maps.app.goo.gl/teYJ7wzbTzcfwngB6
You might not be able to close your mouth but the new file makes wonders. /s
What I love deeply about this reply, is that the "you think about the Roman Empire?" people would absolutely gesticulate wildly, then point, and breathlessly exclaim "SEE? I DO NOT DO THIS!"

I mean, I get you. I just watched a youtube video about the first normal person in history whose name we know unambiguously, and it was this delightful dive into the fact that people just like us were keeping track of beer a few thousand years ago and that stuff just makes me fizz. I love it. I want my life to be long and free enough for me to learn at least a little bit about the pre-Indus Valley culture that brought some absolutely unique cultural features to the culture of what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan that cannot be traced to anywhere but that one geographic location. Or Basque language -- why did it, and no other, pre-Indo European language survive? My brain is consumed by this, and so it is statistically likely that I'm going to stumble into the Romans here and there.

This is fundamentally different than some of my acquaintances who think about Rome disturbingly often because, I think, they believe they could be emperor someday and would do a better job of it than this democracy nonsense.
The others do not say a thing because they are polite probably :)
‘Doing an Alexander’ [pdf]
Moreover you keep saying we can't scale infinitely. Sure...but nobody is saying we have to. 4 is not as scaled from 3 as 3 was from 2. Doesn't matter, still massive gap.