skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GDPR was mostly useless

I would disagree with that. I like being able to download a copy of all my data from all these big websites. Since I no longer use Twitter/X, it's nice to have a copy of everything I have posted there.
> Pretty insane that Sam Bankman-Fried decided to plead not-guilty.

Would easily bet that was his decision. He's obviously made insanely stupid choices already, like leaking Caroline Ellison's journal and getting his bail revoked.

I'm sure he was counseled against it, but his lawyers were probably like "well, he wants to swing the bat, and we get paid more if it goes to trial anyway."
Agreed. Stata makes common statistical operations easy, and the higher-level licenses are extremely powerful. But I prefer R because it's so much more flexible when trying to perform more complex data manipulations. Plus lots of statistical papers with new techniques include R code.
lol yes thank you
developers, especially developers that work with a large contributor base on open-source projects, often get paid by non-profits under a consultant label
This is just a stupid spam article for the company’s NTFS product, which is probably just a rebadged piece of open source software…
Random anecdote: I worked at a company with an on-prem server room and the building got struck by lightning. It fried some servers and quite a few nic cards on employee computers. Our CTO decided since we'd be in the building doing hardware replacements anyway, now was the time to redo our wiring closest as well.

That was my introduction to wiring up CAT-5 cables and rj45 connectors and, with so many to make, I needed a way to remember the wiring diagram without having to read it over and over or use a visual reference. The mnemonic rhythm I used to remember the pattern was "orange/white, orange... green/white, blue... blue/white, green... brown/white, brown". Of course, said out loud, you couldn't tell if it was "orange/white, orange" or "orange, white/orange" and I kept confusing the rest of the team when I'd say it, but it worked for me.

This was circa 2005/2006 and I still say it like that. It just stuck.
Politicians are people-persons. They’re generally not technical people at all. It’s pretty rare for someone to be both a tech person and a people person. I have no idea why this is the case (other than stereotypes).
Are you saying the least competent candidate is always the one who gets elected?
Or just that only incompetent people become politicians?

Those are both pretty strong assertions so I assume you mean something else and I'm just not seeing it.
That is really cool! I didn't even know that forum existed!
The author of TECO, Dan Murphy, wrote an article about its history for the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. A PDF copy of the article is available here: https://opost.com/tenex/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf

Alas, it does not discuss the gap buffer.

The book The Craft of Text Editing claims the gap buffer technique was first used by TECO (http://www.finseth.com/craft/#c6.6), although this claim is given no support.
Also, nothing in the story suggests that calling customer support in any way expedited returning access.
If you don’t have any constructive input why reply?
Very true. Checked exceptions in Java are a form of function coloring problem for modern libraries.

Especially painful when using any of the functional style stream operations, like `map`, `filter`, etc, or any other higher order function library. Most take in the standard `Function` or `BiFunction` interface arguments, which will not support method referencing for anything which includes a checked exception as part of its signature.
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Ever had to troubleshoot bit flips on a non-ECC system? One friend felt like he was going crazy as over the course of two months his system degraded from occasional random errors to random crashes, blue screens and finally to no POST. Another time, a coworker had to stare at raw bytestreams in Wireshark for hours to find a consistently flipped bit.
Hey hey they are doing way more than that. They are also trying to change the national anthem… again!
I mean FWIW, they also probably really aren't thrilled with any game engines likely handing market share back to Epic, who is trying to put them in front of the Supreme Court for antitrust.
Was the exchange actually running on Python? Or was Python used for less intensive stuff?
I'll grant that politics is a field that attracts "people persons", but the OP originally said (paraphrasing, since it's gone and I don't remember the exact language they used) that politicians were all dumb, with the implication that we should let tech startups decide everything re: AI instead.

What guarantees that the decision-makers at big companies like OpenAI are actually "smart techies" or even technical people at all? Doesn't being an executive or board member or high level decision maker actually attract people with the "soft skills" you need to reach those lofty heights?

I see this assumption a lot - "politicians are all stupid/incompetent" and it's weird to see it taken on faith by some people (I don't get the feeling you're one of them)
It can be both. If you are the CEO, the buck is meant to stop with you. Don't weep for her.
Precisely.

Rogers, Telus, and Bell control practically all Canadian mobile/internet/tv/radio.

The bodies that are supposed to regulate them are run by former execs of these companies, and our competition bureau seems to think that anything short of one of them having 100% market share means they don’t need to actually intervene in any mergers or acquisitions.

Politicians obviously don’t want to upset three of the most powerful, well poised to influence public perception companies in Canada… which may as well be considered a single entity with respect to them actually competing at all. And so they basically all lobby for the same insane, protectionist, anti-competition, anti-consumer laws and regulations, and nearly always get their way.

In recent years this means prodding the government to introduce absurd regulations on the internet.
"Microsoft losing lots of money on service massively gathering RLHF on code generation and telemetry which may turn out to eventually replace large swaths of an $80 billion dollar industry"

Fixed the headline for you...
> Ever had to troubleshoot but flips on a non-ECC system?

No.

> One friend felt like he was going crazy

Tell him about memtest86.
The downside of throwing millions of dollars at someone is losing those millions, which they did. You are basically suggesting that a fraud victim should be punished more than the money they lost because they were too stupid to see the fraud.
I mean, the reason the fraud looks so brazen now is because they were obviously true believers - they never expected to get caught. If crypto had gone up and up and up forever as intended, the fraud would never have been discovered.

Of course, the other possibility is that at least having this amount of visible paper trail was intentional - the CTO probably had a little voice in the back of his head going "Umm, maybe committing multi-billion dollar fraud is a bad idea...", but the GitHub history probably helps him more than it hurts now, at the expense of SBF.
Thanks for writing this up! I'm working on a very similar service (https://embeddingsync.com/) and I implemented almost the same as you've described here, but using a poll-based stateful workflow model instead of queueing.

The biggest challenge - which I haven't solved as seamlessly as I'd like - is supporting updates / deletes in the source. You don't seem to discuss it in this post, does Neum handle that?
Unfortunately, in our economic system this is not allowed unless that engineer CEO happens to have incredible clout, financial control or both.
Quite a curious bug that many people seem to have come across, some mention that they encounter it at least once a day, and yet I don't think I've seen this behaviour even once in the last decade and a half. It doesn't seem limited by OS either, so I wonder what the actual conditions for the bug to manifest itself were.

(The only place I come across a similar bug is with LibreWolf (a customized privacy-enhanced Firefox). And I'm pretty sure that has to do with the fact that it's a flatpak, rather than to do with the browser itself, since no other Firefoxes I run have ever exhibited this behaviour.)
I can't imagine it's that expensive to run.
Yes, quite a few in fact. That's why you'll see a lot of intentional mis-spellings like "virtual signaling".
I wouldn't say I'm particularly afraid of heights, yet my heart pounded while watching this.
Apparently when (I believe it was) the Sistine Chapel frescoes were restored in the 80s, there was outrage because the colors looked garish and "like a comic book". But that's how Michelangelo painted them originally; the subtle coloration that people appreciated was actually the result of accumulated dirt, grime, and candle wax over the centuries.
Michael Lewis reponds to criticism of Sam Bankman-Fried book
Looking to get an ASRock B650 Pro RS to go with a 7700X, hopefully ECC will be supported.
I know a book that might help you feel more comfortable with Pandas... (Wink)
This may or may not preserve your desktop and other important applications in an OOM situation. https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd

I've heard some good results with it and the applications locked in memory is configurable.
Yes k8s does not provide a out-of-box logging collection solution but since everything is in containers, we can piggyback on Docker or Containerd via deamonset to get all the logs.

Nomad on the other hand support various payload(native exec, exec via chroot, containers, even Firecracker VM by community support), so doing logging collection by end users is trickier.
It worth noting that Nomad UI(a official web admin panel) has log tailing utility built-in so maybe partial work has already been done. The developers may have other concerns.

The related issue is https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/10220
No sympathy for someone who can retire off their "resignation" regardless of how undeserved.

I'm just saying that I care a lot more about actions than playing the blame game. And it's clear Reddit took the bait here, hook, line, and sinker. Should have been the best time to work on an alternative and it would have been ready for the API schism if they invested those 6 years in to polishing the experience and fostering a community.

instead we got... Lemmy. Oh well.
Venkatraman is most probably a Tamil name. Which of course is in south India
At a highly competitive institution like Harvard, I would expect the nerd distribution between athletes and non-athletes to be much less "stereotypical" than in the broader society.
“Recently” is admittedly subjective but I was just there (2 times in 3 weeks) and can confirm it’s a new system to 4 years ago when the foreign passes were all paper. I think it’s called Tacent. It was so bad a local woman couldn’t even get in and they had to have her wait in the foreign line. You can simply visit the existing immigration website, as it’s public, to view the inconsistent data-the same forms that are displayed on their iPads in the reception hall. This wasn’t an outage, just poor technology implementation.
I appreciate that you not only have a nuanced critique but an alternative proposal as well.
It isn't rare in politics for a politician to be opportunistic rather than incompetent.

If they tell you they want to invade your privacy over internet casinos and copyright infringement, you tell them to pound sand. If they claim it's to arrest pedos then you tell them to pound sand and they accuse you of being a pedo. Then you have to accuse them of being a Nazi and reasoned debate is at a close and it becomes a popularity contest, which is the only way the people with no capacity for reasoned debate can win.

That seems pretty evil.
Does that table in the article not compare Buffet's share values vs S&P shares value plus their dividends?
The "refused to discuss draft state" thing is remarkably common. I am unsure why so many governments do this. I suspect it's because a large number of bad ideas get dropped before public draft, and nobody wants to wear the newspaper headlines which say "Government considering mandating second head for all voting citizens" when the 2 head idea is only going to get dropped before the document goes live.

There's also the problem of multi-draft convergence. They don't want to "out" a proposal being thought out in concert with another agency, or economy. In effect the document has to remain sealed until the most important one decides it's time to declare. So, across the life of the drafting there are huge reserved chunks. This happened in the TPP docs, which had sealed sections. They enraged local IT people in Australia because of the strong likelihood of the US trying to wedge the Australian 'right to repair' laws and their effect on DRM/IPR locks.

I have very briefly seen 'behind the curtain' of this kind of thing (a ministerial communique for a meeting) and people take the secrecy seriously, because you won't be invited back to draw up the next one, if you blab about this one. It doesn't have to reflect anything particularly special. I think it's likely the mystique is maintained for it's own sake: Vanity.
I am really sorry you are going through this. Thank you for your perspective and I hope things will work out for you soon.
> As a huge fan of Buffett, I must point to the fact that can materially change this comparison in the years to come:

The beauty of financial 'journalism'. They choose arbitrary points of comparison to fit whatever they are trying to 'sell'. Wonder why 20 years and not the past 21 years or 25 years or 30 years?

> - stock market returns were abnormally high for the past 15 years

Which was expected since we had QE and low rates for much of the past 15 years.

> Mind blowing, knowing what happened later.

Sure. He also said everyone should buy when the markets were collapsing in 2008 ( aka when there is blood on the streets ). And that was great advice as well. But Buffet's problem is that he discounts tech. He famously chose not to invest in microsoft because he didn't understand software and technology.
You realise this government has done one of the biggests things in modern history in regularting cannabis? Lame duck, nah, every single country in the world is feeling these same problems; we had conversatives in AUstralia the last 15yrs (just imagine you harper gov didnt get kicked out, whats what we lived with) and our economy is EXACTLY the same.

Taking away party from the debate, and we see the similiarties in our situations. The world is run by corperations who have been yeilding value from the supply chain over the last 40years, creating record profits, concentrating record power, printing record money. THIS IS THE RESULT THAT. No single government of today is to blame, its the system of picking sides that creates collatoral for polticans to barter with coperations for things like censorship, monopolistic access to markets via in/action of laws, etc etc.
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Most powerful portable display. What do you think?
If b = 0x7fffffff and c = 0x7fffffff, b and c both fit in 31 bits, and b + c overflows to -2 in signed int32 twos-complement math (I think).

If b = 0x40000000 and c = 0x40000000, b and c both fit in 31 bits, and b + c overflows to -2147483648 in signed int32 twos-complement math (I think).

Maybe the definition of "32 bit integer type" you're using is meant to encompass only 32 bits as all unsigned (but then there are a - b terms that would overflow if b > a).

Or perhaps I've gotten something else wrong.
Conversely, I plugged my USB-C cable into a USB-A port by feel recently, and didn’t notice until much later that it wasn’t charging.
Doesn't cover sponsor block though
Canadian here. Government sticking its nose into AI bias in human rights issues like law enforcement powers and employment standards … OK. But regulating search algorithms … feels worlds apart in importance and maybe too far.
I think Cory has done a great job picking apart the problems with governance and incentives, but there is another side to this... the insecurity of general purpose computing.

We can't run random code from the internet, because we can't control its side effects when we run it. This leads to avoiding novelty in general. This leads to going only to "safe" sites, and only looking at "safe" types of content, from "safe" channels.

It doesn't help that the anti-virus systems we're forced to run (because of our insecure computers) flag any novel executables as "dangerous" merely because their signature hasn't previously been present in a statistically large enough sample of users.

As for the "access" part of internet connectivity, which was originally intended to be symmetric, we collectively don't care because there aren't any trustworthy operating systems that can withstand direct connection to the internet without the full time attention of system maintainers. You can't turn a box on with a public IP and expect it to survive a decade without updates. (Unlike the wiring in my house, transformer on the pole, and everything else in the power grid)

Once we get Genode, Fuchsia, GNU Hurd, or some other capabilities based OS for our machines, we can reverse at least the "safety" part of the problem.
And alienate an entire continent, where, people are much more likely to fight against such shit and support you?
Hanlon’s razor indeed. I believe that even some of the more historically famous evil political leaders started out that way.
right right, the solution to an oligopoly is to have it controlled instead by a single entity that also has a monopoly on violence.
OK, but why is America's economy so much healthier than Canada's?
I broke mine on a S21. It's also getting wobbly on 2 Essential Phones.

As OP said, now those 3 expensive devices are mostly broken or at risk instead of the cheap cable. It's bad design compared to the Lightning connector, and I don't like Apple...
Mandated USB-C disincentives ever improving on the connector. The EU attempted to enforce a similar mandate for micro-USB back in the day - can you imagine if they succeeded? Fortunately, we got Lightning and USB-C thereafter, but improvement is always possible.

Product design doesn't need to be written into law.
> Are you saying the least competent candidate is always the one who gets elected? Or just that only incompetent people become politicians?

The candidate that is most capable of being elected is the one that either:

- Can garner the most votes

- Can prevent other candidates from getting votes

Nowhere in the above is technical competency a requirement to be elected. It may help, but its far down the list of "electable attributes".
That sound you hear is billions of dollars being flushed down the toilet as tech companies pay expert witnesses (and lots of attorneys) to convince judges and juries that they're using "algorithms" instead of "artificial intelligence". (Keep telling the shareholders it's AI, though.)

This kind of reminds me of the whole DeCSS thing. Everyone ripped their DVDs. Several years too late, it was declared "illegal". Someone golfed it down to a t-shirt. People continued removing the digital restrictions from their media. Physical media is now dead as an industry, and literally nobody minds. Everyone is happier and the content creators make more money than ever before. AI feels like it's going down the same route. I have already seen the "generative AI in 40 lines of C", and those can easily be t-shirts. Whatever efforts are made to make AI illegal at this point are too little too late. The cat is out of the bag. Whatever you think is going to happen because of AI will probably happen. So it's probably time to find some cash to solve those problems, instead of paying expert witnesses to define what "is is".

No government in human history has ever succeeded in making math illegal. Canada is unlikely to be the first. (It is even more futile than making alcohol illegal, which still makes me laugh when I think about it. You leave sugar water out in air and it turns into alcohol. You can't solve that "problem" by signing a piece of paper that says a government says so. You are going to need more fungicide than humanity has the capability to produce. It is an unwinnable war. Fighting against AI is going to be like that.)

I think the hype about the downfall of humanity is probably overrated (a bold claim, because if I'm wrong you won't be around to make fun of me). The biggest impact will probably be things like banks denying loans to people for the wrong reasons. If that's what we're worried, make some laws that makes that illegal. It shouldn't matter what tools you use to get a result; whether you use AI or a bunch of employees sitting in a room with a pencil and paper to run an illegal business, the outcome is the same, the business has illegal practices and the government should step in.
It depends on your definition of "fast".

https://twitter.com/danielgross/status/1619417508360101889

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1665402680376987648
I wonder if we'll end up with a piratebay style site for YouTube content if they block adblocks.

Kind of like how pirates get better quality TV shows, movies, games with drm removed, etc
Hey, feel free to disregard this as I obviously don't know you.

Have you considered if you might have ADD[0]?

I know someone with identical experiences and this was the root cause. Having the diagnosis was life changing.

[0] https://add.org/adhd-test/
You're comparing apples to floor tiles as though the comparison is relevant in the least. I think that's the issue you and the others are having in these discussions.
Evil might be too strong a word, but when we have seen such a pattern of behaviour, I think we're well past the point where we can assume ignorance and incompetence in the case of von der Leyen.

(That's not to say she's not ignorant and incompetent in many ways, because she clearly is, but I'm talking about the root of these specific behaviours, which seems pretty clearly intentional at this point).
Wow I came back to post this exact reply. I set my system to a slightly high frequency, ran memtest overnight with errors.

Set it back down to a supported frequency, ran a full memtest suite again with no errors.

Never had any issues since.
Yeah, this confused me, too. Do they not put names on envelopes in England?
Back when she tried her censorship thing in Germany, people openly (this was all through the news and done by child abuse survivors, so it’s not as if she had no clue) showed her how easy it was to get CSAM removed, yet she refused to entertain even a "best effort" to get it deleted and kept saying it’s impossible to remove, only concentrating on building up a censorship infrastructure.

That said, she has generally been pretty incompetent in every role, but keeps falling upwards.
These regulations are so overwrought, complex, and even contradictory, that it is literally impossible to comply with them fully. Hence fines.
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Oh, I just happened to grab a B650E-ITX!

...But are there any ECC sticks with "known" good Hynix ICs? I got lucky with a pair of sticks that can do DDR5 6000 CL30 at 1.3V (and maybe better), and I wouldn't want to sacrifice a ton of RAM performance for ECC.
Data vs power-only is very much a problem. See this Daring Fireball note about an iPhone review: Becca Farsace plugged her iPhone into an external drive for shooting video, only to discover later that it was only useful for charging, and the recording was very low quality.

(This is something Apple should fix at the software level by alerting the user, but it highlights the problem that cables are not readily distinguishable.)

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/05/farsace-iphone-...