skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of Google specifically, my experience with third parties, even ones who are modestly well known is them not keeping up to date with the latest versions of Google’s software and APIs and whatnot and things breaking and becoming less stable. Nobody is as committed to long term support of Google’s technology than Google themselves.

Standards which should be interoperable in theory like Bluetooth have ambiguous specifications and the best way to ensure you don’t get bugs is to buy everything from the same company where even if they didn’t QA their own products you at least avoid the problem of Google and a third party pointing fingers at eachother.

Interoperability is a great way to add functionality to your product you would never be able to add otherwise. It’s nice for customization. Yet from the consumer perspective I’m increasingly finding I prefer with dealing with as few different companies as I can get away with. This lets me get away with a greater amount of complexity without it biting me in the rear.

From a business perspective, the focus on your own products over interoperability has an obvious appeal.
I used to trust consumer reports. I subscribed to their magazine.

They had a firewall between themselves and the manufacturers of products they review. They would buy cars themselves, then review them instead of getting a "perfect" car loaned and managed by the company that created it.

I also got an online account

But online, that firewall came down, and it got worse. They had funnels to sell you the products they reviewed and they had cookies and they got money for sales.

so I lost my trust in consumer reports.

Now they're releasing an app to help, but they've still left the barn door open.

When you look at that page, look at the Privacy Policy.

They clearly are in bed with advertisers - there is no firewall, they don't support themselves financially.

Even their privacy policy links to the ad networks to opt-out, which is a confusing mess.

If they were serious, they would have a button on their OWN site to prevent your browser from ever contacting third parties.

I have not regained my trust in consumer reports.
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I personally sleep better with sounds, so that's why I created the app. If you sleep better without sounds that's great! I understand the app may not be for everyone, just wanted to share it with those who may find it interesting.
I've been using blazor since release in 2019 and can count on one hand the amount of times a call to StateHasChanged() was used and actually needed when doing a peer review

Most of the time I've seen that function used it was due to improperly written asynchronous code.
"Attribution: Images are from Wikipedia.org with creative commons licenses which allows me or you to share them."

It's a start but doesn't attribute the creators of the photos or list the relevant license.
Can I _request_ my data? Or is this just for opt-out/delete.

I would actually like to "reclaim" it before it's deleted, as I try to do with every service.
> And no real machine can possibly be Turing complete, because they don't have infinite memory

That's too pedantic. A machine that has enough memory to make it indistinguishable from an infinite tape should be good enough.

> or time.

I don't think infinite time is part of the definition? If it can go step by step indefinitely, that's fine.
You’re missing the underlying mechanism by which they operate.

LLM’s don’t know anything beyond the current prompt and it’s “memory” of training data. They would sit for eternity with an empty prompt. You can change systems to behave differently, but it quickly stops being a LLM and turns into something else.
No comment on the substance of the post, but from what I can tell it is actually the complete opposite of the three laws (at least how they operated pre-robot series, in Asimov's short stories). Perhaps that is what you meant?

Regardless, in the early stories, robots could not lie to us. It was indelibly programmed into the positronic brain. They would destroy themselves if put in a position where the three laws were violated.

Anyways, if that were possible with current LLMs I would think the hallucination problem would have been trivially addressed: just program in that the LLM can't tell a lie.
This seems like a slight variation of "Let’s think step by step" [1] or "Let’s work this out in a step by step way to be sure we have the right answer" [2]. There's a good review of a bunch of these in https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02897

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11916

2: https://openreview.net/forum?id=92gvk82DE-
Most businesses do not need an SLA on ther webservice beyond ‘call us if it doesn’t work’.
> Strange answer. What do you actually mean by this? "furtherance of their repressive tactics" can mean just about anything - which government are you talking about, and which tactics?

Any government with racist tendencies might make use of this data and decide someone has $GENE which is primarily seen in $ETHNIC_GROUP so should be treated as poorly as the government treats $ETHNIC_GROUP
That can. But what about a field that is not initialized there?
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Good question! There are several implementations of the full λ-calculus on interaction nets; that isn't the problem. The problem is that these solutions always came up with a constant time slowdown, which made interaction nets even less practical. The thing is, HVM is getting so fast that we're almost at the point where we can just say damn it, eat that slowdown, and still be faster. So, optimization after optimization, we're kinda brute-forcing our way into supporting full lambdas in practice. And the best is that with some pre-processing steps (like EAL inference) we could compile Haskell to the fastest version when it is safe to do so - which is more often than you'd think!

Yes we're hiring GPU developers to optimize the current runtime (which still has a lot of room) and to extend support to more architectures. GPU developers aren't exactly cheap nowadays though lol. I blame OpenAI.
have you tried contacting onlyfans and other sites to integrate a pop-up ad that just randomly loads asking people to just answer one question and then you could maybe gather information that way? similar to those quick YouTube surveys that pop up instead of ads sometimes?

You could maybe work out a discount deal or even see if maybe your data could be useful for their business and you could reach out to other sites like cam or video sites.

Maybe there could be a sexual census where all porn sites for one week a year do a major push to get people to take the full survey, maybe giving people free stuff for the effort.
> It is indeed my understanding that life on such a planet is quite probable. Life is described as "not hard" given such conditions.

Yeah, see, that's an assumption. And "not hard" is very far from a universally-accepted evaluation of the odds for that situation.

So, when someone like me comes along who doesn't buy the assumption, can you provide a foundation for it that is stronger than "yes, I assume it" or "everyone knows"?
> story should be turned into a movie.

That's the problem. It wants to be a movie, and so it's a lousy game. If you get off script, you have to "rewind" to a previous point and get back on script, you loser.

Finding a good place between a track ride game (you will do all the quests in order) and a plotless open-world game ("what do I do now?") remains a hard problem. Especially for MMOs based on movie franchises.
Is there a country in Africa that starts with k?
About the "don't use floating point for money" advice
100% agree - we're working on exactly that for the upcoming release in a few months!
Having used airbnb in multiple countries I have never seen the appeal over hotels, except for location/neighborhoods.

I also don’t understand the appeal of Kardashians
And why would those companies do that?
I don't think they are stating that it can't be profitable, just that they won't make as much profit as a drug they can sell to rich nations:

"Though a good TB vaccine would be used by tens of millions of people, it has, in the parlance of industry, “no market,” because those who buy it are mostly nonprofits and countries that can’t afford to spend much. It’s not that a TB vaccine couldn’t be profitable. It’s that it would never be as profitable as a product like the shingles vaccine that can be sold in the U.S. or Western Europe."

At the scale they are talking about the maginal cost of developing each unit will decrease significantly. They can still make money and save lives. In practice here, the global powers are allowing a commercial enterprise to set global policy for who and how pathgenic diseases get addressed. Ceding this power to GSK doesn't sound like a prudent decision. Especially when they gained access to this drug technology through government enabled and funded research.
Interoperability requires conservatism in general if you want to avoid breaking a ton of APIs that third parties rely on.
What makes you say a physical computer doesn't have unbounded memory? Is it making assumptions about the real world that we have to make?
> The ease of implementation using CUDA means that your code because effed for life

yes, yes it absolutely does. establishing market dominance as everyone wants to use CUDA but almost nobody wants to write their kernel twice.
Call me strange: youtube. Neebs gaming channel. Thier six-hour supercut playing sea of thieves. I dont know why, but i have never gotten more than an half-hour in without falling asleep. I now have it saved locally so i can watch it on airplanes. I have never played the game. I really have no concept of why listening to other people play the game puts me to sleep so fast.
ChatGPT absurdity. Don't bother clicking, unless that kind of GPT failure is worth your time.
Face recognition comes to mind as a counter example of a technology which isn’t (yet) reached the level of ubiquity of email spam even though it has obvious economic benefits.

I’ve been pitched in building face recognition based systems countless times and I always demur on ethical grounds. I’m sure there are others like me. If only the tech guy who implemented the first spam system had refused to go for the easy money.
Feels to me like centrist left and right are getting pulled apart from one another to their respective ideological fringes.

This has pretty much just totally happened to the Republicans; Democrats have done a better job of staying centered and responsible, but I don't think that will last forever, unfortunately.

> Something that seems absent these days in American political discourse is the assumption that the other party, in general, has a similar north start to your own

Well, they don't have similar "north stars" or visions of the country or normative values. But this isn't discussed or debated directly by anyone; politician, talking head, or otherwise.
Maybe it was campaign headquarters? They wanted some signs where they gathered to help with esprit de corps.
> harder than gold, in the sense of inflation resistance

Are we saying bitcoin is this? Because it's stupid volatile and seems pretty correlated to inflation.
If only rich people and corporations payed taxes, just a 15% flat tax across the board and all the loop holes gone. The debt would turn into a surplus......
>According to you what were the contributing factors?

1. Inconsistent project-based funding model that leads to churn and a series of short-lived teams working on stepwise project deliverables, and little opportunity for consistent ownership of tech debt.

2. Micro-services that reflect poorly chosen boundaries (ie. project deliverables / team boundaries) rather than being based around well thought out domain aggregates. I guess this is Conway's law in action.

3. Resume driven development. People love to learn on the job, and like playing with and learning about the next shiny tech stack, but if everyone is doing that, it means that we're always building things on a stack we barely understand. I get it, the FOMO is real, but there's a lot to be said for simple, mature, well understood stacks even if they're not trendy.
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So you can use the app to opt out of this stuff? Seems like good ux
I don't think anyone actually thought that Whole Foods was special. It's just the specific store that happened to sell this poison stuff. It could have been Kroger or Food Lion or whatever and OP would still have legitimately said "If you buy something at X you should be able to assume it won’t kill you."
> Not sure about the US law but Russian law disallows coercion into contracts which overhelmingly favor one side taking advantage of the other one.

Ok, now remind me why Putin was describing Ukraine’s position on the Minsk agreements with the following:

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How do you verify the "integrity" of a system like this?

I was doing business studies research stuff when blockchain was all the rage. The accounting integrity was a major buzzword around that circle. Nobody came up with anything concrete or utilitarian.

The challenge is that you need to remove malicious reviews or spams. But at the same time that review system cannot be exploited.

Is there a systematic way to do this?

Throwing an idea here. What if there was a distributable append only database that obfuscated the content (reviews, company, user, company etc) with hash function only showed the action (new review, update review, delete review etc.)?

The database should be shared across multiple stakeholders as single source database is easily corruptible. For each actions to go through, these stakeholder databases need to be verify them. Tis verification process essentially links these databases to a single system. Then once the verification is done the review can be added.

To incentivize the storing and verification we need to offer an incentive of sort that is not money. As money corrupts everything and is the source of all evil it should be a form of token of gratitude that can be essentially transacted with other participants a form of pseudo currency. The value of the pseudo currency derives from everyone believing in the system.

In fact we can probably create an algorithm that automates the verification process using LLM algorithm and historic patterns. Those LLM algorithms can run on the stakeholder machines preferably on GPU.

Would a system like this work?
It is a point of view (a bias) to say that the deficit was largely caused by large spending bills such as ARPA, but not mention the equal or large contribution to the deficit of tax cuts, such as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primar...
I feel like this must surely be an observation made from a skewed sample or from within some sort of bubble?

Tbh I don't have any research or polling data on hand, but I seem to remember gen Z being FAR more conscious of the environment (climate change and plastics pollution), their own health (drinking/smoking) and global social issues.
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LXD was run as part of Linux Containers with maintainers from a few different companies and hundreds of external contributors over the years.

Then Canonical, who owned the trademark on it told the team that it wanted it moved in house and rebranded Canonical LXD.

Shortly after, Stephane Graber, the project leader left Canonical.

A few weeks later, Incus started as a community fork with all the original LXD maintainers joining in and the fork moving to Linux Containers.

Incus feels like a more open protect, no focus on one distro or company, no shoving of a snap package down everyone's throat.

Will see how things go.
> Implementing libc and related libs literally means implementing their API. getaddrinfo() is a part of that.

I think you missed my point. getaddrinfo is implemented annoyingly and seems to rely on loopback networking to the same process for... some reason. Constant pain in the firewall because the port is randomized, so I have to allow the entire localhost. Which I don't like.

A reimplementation would be exactly good.
Yeah, it was the vertically unbundled platform that made the decision. Relative technical qualities of x86 vs 68k had very little to do with the outcome I think.
I am not excusing him groping people. But I see someone coming to terms and acknowledging the mistakes and harm he did.

Sharing his experience and talking about the mistakes he made and how bad it was is just a net positive for all - I mean he is still a role model and can influence young people - so I see no value in cancelling him. I would agree with you if he was still groping or promoting such behaviour, which doesn't seem to be the case.

I know all this doesn’t fix anything for the victims, and it is terrible for them.
Check your history, really.

Polygamy has been widespread throughout history, eg:

In accordance with the marriage-customs of the Egyptians the priests have but one wife, but any other man takes as many as he may determine; and the Egyptians are required to raise all their children in order to increase the population, on the ground that large numbers are the greatest factor in increasing the prosperity of both country and cities.

Diodorus Siculus

It's been widespread throughout the western christian church also - Popes weren't the only ones with multiple families.

> What grinds my gears about this is that it’s always some white American invoking the moral sanction of unspecified black and brown people.

What grinds my gears is the sheer number of idiots that assume the internet is made up of white American males.

Some of us were tagging along on logistics runs and meeting the Minangkabau, the Bugis, the Fore, and many many other people in the 1960s.

To the best of my recollection Paul Gauguin wasn't hanging out in Tahiti for the grinding monogamy.

Still, it's hard to bame people in a post missionary world for having culturally blinkered views formed by the pinhole of white saviour pamphlets.
"uniform" is exactly what I hate about hotels. If I never have to stay in a hotel again I will call that suceeding at life.
It was fine once upon a time when people used it for local accomidation. Now people rent airbnbs for parties, as drunken post-party crashpads, and even when they needed to isolate for covid. The customer base is now equally as shady as the professional airbnb landlords.
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Which is of course really weird given the history of big tech, Facebook in particular, serving as a distribution channel for right-wing bullshit. The internet in general served as an incubator for all sorts of right-wing stuff that found it difficult to find purchase in broader society.

Being down-voted by people who deny the reality of fake news about Hillary Clinton even though many of us saw it with our own eyes, and who deny the existence of places like 4Chan. Deny the existence of reporting about Facebook's role in propagating content that led to genocide in Burma (their right-wingers do what ours can only dream of), etc.
>>Because there are so few late stage rabies victims that you simply can't get the data?

In India, estimated 20k(!!!) people die of rabies each year. Surely that's enough to warrant human testing.

https://www.who.int/india/health-topics/rabies
Good idea! I did make it so that if you switch between the available sounds throughout a sleep session (if you woke up to do that) it would take that into account when determining the sound rankings.
In some countries (Australia), heat pumps are often called Reverse-Cycle Air Conditioners. Some newish (last 25 years or so) houses have no other form of heating.

In other words, reverse the cycle, and instead of the air-conditioner pushing cold air into the room and warm air outside, it will push warm air into the room and cold air outside.
Cambridge analytica was the "casus belli" if you will. It was an overnight shift, I worked on the public api team and all our work was deprioritized and I was eventually moved to a different project. I'm sure there were competing factions, even in in Facebook, some advocating for open apis and other advocating for locking everything down.
For me staying in an airbnb is always so much nicer and more trustworthy I haven't been willing to stay in a hotel in years
God that was such a good show, I might have to re-watch it if I ever have the time.
Nobel is a vanity certificate. The author of that paper must have made more money than whatever the Nobel committee would have given to him.
I'd also add Flying Blind by Peter Robinson, a book written specifically about the demise of Boeing's culture and how it translated into the 737 Max disaster.

Out-Sourced Profits: The Cornerstone of Successful Subcontracting by L. J. Hart-Smith, an engineer at Boeing's Phantom Works unit during that transition period, was a internal paper that walks through one of the many disputes between Boeing and Douglas/GE culture and derives why the Boeing way was correct.
> And whomever has watched Yes minister knows who actually rules a country.

Are you under the impression that Yes Minister was a documentary?
Well the sad chain hotel next to the highway at least doesn't hyper-gentrify the neighbours out.
In cases when head is used though, you clearly just want to unpack the first element of a list. So if you replace head with a function that returns a Maybe, all you’re going to do is pattern match on its result to check if it’s a Just. So I don’t see a benefit over matching x::_ against the list straight away.

(I do see how a function like that is useful, but I don’t think it’s a good replacement for head.)
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That's one of the features I still have to add. I assume you mean like "after 45 minutes stop playing" or something like that, correct?
They don’t sell your data, they just barter with it.
Airbnb strayed from its original purpose. It was meant to be a side gig for homeowners to get a bit of extra income when they have to be away. Now it became a full on business with all the auxiliary jobs around it. People make a living by become airbnb cleaner, airbnb property manager, airbnb landlord, airbnb supplier, etc.

For once, scaling up made it more expensive. All these people and jobs want to be paid a living wage. And so costs stack up and it became no better than a hotel. In some cases, worse than hotel because at least a hotel is a mature and professional service. People involved in this airbnb "gig" aren't guaranteed to be.
That’s surely part of it. But people’s senses are warped. They’ll often point to games that are small in content but clearly non trivial dev tasks.
When I think of a hotel room, I picture a one room studio apartment with a desk chair, and maybe a couch. This studio apartment has no kitchen, but it might have a small refrigerator and a microwave. It's a cramped space, and not very functional, outside of sleeping. For most people, this means making a bunch of sacrifices from their normal living situation. Lodging that doesn't force people to make these sacrifices will continue to be in demand, even at higher prices than hotels.
This was posted 52 days ago (1) and despite everyone recognizing how absurd it is Google is parsing and featuring just garbage content it is still there.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37144723
Facebook never offered federated XMPP. They did offer federated email for a short while.
Well, you can be sure the SEO creating content farms will pick the path of least resistance.

They won't make up a lie when telling the truth is far easier and when they do have to lie, it's a slight bit more effort.

But that's a moot point with LLMs ...

If/When they use LLMs, they will pick the cheapest LLM possible which will produce the most garbage - they might not even bother keeping it up to date; why bother when hallucinated BS sound just as convincing.

It has already started to happen.