skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The city was in decay and decline for a decade. This didn’t just happen overnight. The warning signs was pointed out and the people who flocked there wrote off the warnings signs as “it’s just part of the quirkiness of San Francisco”, as they happily took their inflated tech paychecks. I had the chance to take a job there but when I did the math even at 200k I was making less than my peers in the Pennsylvania office who were paying 150k.

Now that it’s reached a tipping point in decay there’s some pretty crazy finger pointing going on. Well who do you blame in a uniparty city where everyone votes for one party, certainly not the people who voted these people in that enacted these policies.

The author points the finger at the super rich democrats of the city, the one they presumably decided to work for and offered them large inflated paychecks that helped create this income disparity. The whole thing reeks of hypocrisy.
No, the product page clearly says they cannot be returned or exchanged.

(But you can return most things to Costco)
And yet you're listening to Spotify, still, instead of 'albums you bought'.

This is really the point. It's not new: radio was the previous way to have music discovery for 'free', or at least unmetered, with its own costs and issues.

If Spotify made no pretense that it even attempted to pay rights holders anything it'd probably fit its role even better, but it actively tries to supplant the whole concept of having to buy or own albums or music at all. It's designed to be what you have INSTEAD of buying music. When it hits, you don't need to buy music.

The music MAKERS might need you to buy their music, but Spotify is for helping you ignore that.

Heh. How about an ad-supported Spotify, except literally all the ads are for bands and live gigs and music? Bring payola to Spotify. You never pay for it, but you get radio levels of interstitials and they are all from music producers trying to sell their album or single, all for literal music. Albums used to get late-night TV ads and label promotion…
There was Barinsta which Meta DMCA'd down and threatened to sue its developer if Barinsta is not removed and discontinued. As is always the case, the developer got scared, had complied and these news spread across the community, so now there might be less developers who dare to publish an alternative, even less to put a lot of work into something that will be rewarded with threats and lawsuits. The reason why there's no alternative to Instagram is corporate arrogance. That is a common phenomenon at corporate giants like Meta.
In most of the time, you just set it on program start and never change.
This is quite common for programs that expects UTC.

Searching in github, other example are:

1) `jq` parsing datetime
2) systemd , timectl printing status
3) Unit tests
4) Some RDP client update its own timezone with server timezone
High levels of HDL (Good) or LDL (Bad) cholesterol increase dementia risk
Can a lawyer say whether those terms would claim to preclude training an LLM on the site?

And will that stand up?
> If you use a periodic market-based auction system (the only known way that could possibly yield accurate prices)

This system wouldn't work, because you would be measuring the property value not land value
It is more about how much people are willing to pay for the clothes and how an SKU nightmare it would be to base price on size + how easy it is to switch adhesives barcodes. Some people are expert at that.
Confabulate is definitely a more suitable and sensible term for this. It’s clearly semantically more descriptive and would do a better job communicating what is actually happening.

The thing is, “confabulating” will never stick. People like myself will enter discussions about it and insist that it won’t stick, and because of that, I certainly won’t start using that term and hopefully I’ll convince a few others not to either.
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Huge problem over in the UK, its called land banking. The scarcity of affordable property combined with some silly planning laws mean that you can double your money if you buy land and simply sit on it for a decade.
It's not just realtors but regulations that need to be changed. State regulators are partners who protect and serve the interests of the industry.
I would read a lot more CVE if they were written by this guy. It's beautiful like a Kafka novel.
But at least they would have a command structure to which they would be accountable. There's too many small, local police forces that are accountable to nobody. Without any checks on them, they run amok.
I do stream of consciousness writing and aim to fill out a page of A4 — so just whatever comes to mind, usually starting with today is x date and I am sat in y place and so on...

Fully agree with the parent comment about it being like clearing out RAM!
A costume and it's accessories do not make someone a professional.
A similar point was discussed 12 days ago (233 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37773918
It's not about the call stack (which I don't think is that special), but about control over layout of data structures. Languages like Java introduce lots of indirection and "object overhead".
I think they do receive more funds. And those funds go to training, education and oversight. We need more of that because many of our police really do not understand the roles of their job and the rights of the people they claim to serve and protect.
We don't find it surprising that there is a huge ecosystem of fake reviews for 2 dollar trinkets on Amazon. Fossil fuels are wealth extraction from everyone on the planet to fossil fuel overlords. This game must go on.

First, fossil fuels are not viable without massive subsidies but we almost never this statistic in the news. This is trillions of dollars in subsidies and growing! Last year, fuels that drive climate change and pollute the air were underpriced to the tune of $7 trillion. [1].

We will see so much news of how land is being used for solar, but nobody talks about 40 million acres for ethanol, which is a small additive to fossil fuels and the agricultural subsidies. Worldwide, this is 100 million acres. So much talk about food inflation, these 100 million acres could be used to grow food instead. but "news" don't want to talk about an easy win of stopping fossil fuel subsidies, which will also bring the prices.

Facts like fossil fuel shipping account for 40% of global shipping, account for the largest water withdrawals[3], account for 10 million pollution deaths (but we do see 1.5 birds killed by wind turbines, lets never talk about the billions of birds killed by cats or buildings), these are never part of the conversation.

Lets also never talk about the easiest metrics to use is deaths per TWH, renewables and nuclear are 2000x better.[4]

I put together a comparison worksheet for kids [5] (fossils vs renewables), any 10+ year old can work through this sheet and figure out that fossil fuels are a horrible idea.

Lastly, and more importantly, lets never talk about price-fixing Oil, a commodity doesn't behave like most commodities do, Eg: Salt (and lots of industrial products manufactured at scale - millions of tons) which is so incredibly cheap that no one thinks or budgets for buying salt[6]. OPEC has a monopoly and pricing power and they destroy demand to keep prices up. Nobody has a problem with this!

And, lets spend trillions of dollars on military budgets to protect oil supply. Why don't we let the oil companies pay for defense of their own infrastructure? This is not factored into any of the subsidies.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-16/climat...

[2] https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-c....

[3] U.S. thermoelectric plants are the largest source of U.S. water withdrawals, accounting for more than 40% of total U.S. water withdrawals in 2015: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50698#:~:tex....

[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

[5] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y_VFQC5qMuLYKoqLg0ooKIgV...

[6] https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Oil-Into-Salt-Independence/dp...
Unfortunately, people are calling script kiddies "hackers" and LLMs "AI", so there's no likelihood of course correction.
What’s most frustrating about this decision is that these planning apps existed for months, but AWS chose to wait to pull them down the day before registration. I spent several hours planning my sessions out. This is a disappointing move. All these apps did was present these sessions listings in more usable calendar views and allowed you to bookmark them.
Thanks for your very reasonable response :) I think recognizing these things - and more importantly how they affect us - is really important, so good for you
Why not simply say "autocompleted"?
If they sell it, it was still inherited. But I literally seen handover to younger family member to happen.
TIL Microsoft ships curl.
The question is, why? Yeah, confabulation might capture the phenomeon better, but no-one knows the word, it is not commonly used, compared to hallucination.
And that is across languages:

Russian:
Hallucination: Галлюцинация (Gallyutsinatsiya)
Confabulation: Конфабуляция (Konfabulyatsiya)

German:
Hallucination: Halluzination
Confabulation: Konfabulation

French:
Hallucination: Hallucination
Confabulation: Confabulation

Spanish:
Hallucination: Alucinación
Confabulation: Confabulación

Italian:
Hallucination: Allucinazione
Confabulation: Confabulazione

Portuguese:
Hallucination: Alucinação
Confabulation: Confabulação

If hallucination isn't a perfect fit, but everyone and their dog know roughly what it indicates in relation to LLMs then that's still better than forcing a word no-one ever uses to describe something slightly different but overall rather similar.
My dad has Parkinson's and one of the pamphlets said such neural diseases can result in confabulating behavior. So I can definitely see the relevance of confabulate instead of hallucinate. It turns out, some medical experts wrote these opinions recently, but I don't have access to the full text:

"ChatGPT: these are not hallucinations – they’re fabrications and falsifications"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41537-023-00379-4#author-in...

"Chatbot Confabulations Are Not Hallucinations"
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...
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> We really have no option but to hope we can keep finding new antibiotics

Sure we do. We could stop giving out antibiotics like candy for every sprained ankle and cough to not cultivate resistance.
True, sun and wind aren't free. In terms of energy markets (too lazy to look up the up to dtae details, so it might have changed in the last 5 years), only the variable costs for producing one kWh of electricity are taking into account (so basically fuel plus CO2 certificates, over simplified a bit). In that sense, sun and wind are free. Don't ask me why fix costs aren't considered...

Grid stabilization is priced in, usually using specific contracts with producers and large consumers (read steel, chemical, paper industrial sites and other with huge electricity needs). In that regard, the European markets are working fine and as intended.

Long term, we have to solve the issue of electricity storage. Short term, we are totally fine with renewables producing <60% of our electricity, and on some days even more. Base load became much less of a problem, most hige consumers in the industrial sectors found ways to be much more flexible in their demand, driven in no small degree by being to make extra money on the spot markets (and we talk 10s of millions here).
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Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?
When thinking about humans, no matter their age and experience, we have no problem considering them generally intelligent.
But still, humans are not omniscient, make things up (hallucinate) and sometimes lack proper reasoning.

In contrast LLMs already have way more knowledge than the average human, have mostly good reasoning and occasionally hallucinate.

Surely they aren't artificial super intelligences, but it feels like the term AGI could apply.
You can usually look for archive links in the comments that will get you past the paywall. Someone else posted this: https://archive.ph/k58ID
"And yet"? Did you respond to the wrong post?
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Well, for one reason, having third-party apps for an AWS event that might confuse users about how official/genuine what they're saying is... could be a big security problem.

(For example, you just know that some users would be willing to enter their IAM credentials when prompted at some point.)

There's also all the marketing data leakage, and access to the users to promote other companies' products, or maybe even get an affiliate/intermediate cut for AWS sales that were already AWS's leads to begin with.
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> I don't really get why it matters.

Support, experience, control. Physical media supports the artist. When you play a physical album you experience the whole album. When you own an album you control it and it cannot be taken away, edited or lost.

Streaming doesn't support the artist. Streaming obliterates coherence of albums. When you stream music you do not control it and it can be taken away, edited or lost without your knowledge or consent.
Tasers are interesting one, I’m not a huge fan of them myself.

But I did have a very interesting conversation with a Met Police Officer while he was escorting me to hospital. He pointed out that without the Taser, his only other option was his baton. He frequently used the threat of the Taser to deal with situations where he would be forced to use a baton instead, and noted most of the simply the threat of a Taser was enough to get people to reconsider their actions, and accept arrest more peacefully.

Obviously there are places where the presence of Tasers have resulting an increase an escalation which wouldn’t have otherwise, and no doubt there are some officers that abuse their Tasers, but I don’t removing Tasers would be a clear cut improvement. But I would be in favour of more technical controls (automatic logging of a Taser being upholstered, automatic trigging of body-worn cameras, simple method for the public to request footage etc) to prevent abuses.

Edit:

> In Q2 2018, Avon and Somerset police record 1 use of taser for the whole quarter.

I would be very careful reading this data. Looking through what’s available it’s clear to me something significant changed in either police behaviour or, more likely, data collection.

According to the data, Tasers were used only 15 times in 2018/2019 Q4, but in 2019/2020 Q1 usage shot up to 201. They were fired 0 times in 2018/2019 Q4 and fired 30 times in 2019/2020 Q1.

Additionally “tactical communication” was used 1,865 times in 2018/2019 Q4, but only 515 times in 2019/2020 Q1.

So either the Avon and Somerset Police got a lot less talkative, and lot more trigger happy after the 2019 easter holiday, or the 2018/2019 data was collected using a different methodology, and appears to be wildly inaccurate. If we exclude the 2018/2019 data, the increase in Taser usage is still there, but it’s not a 100X increase, more like a 10X increase. Not great I agree, but still an order of magnitude lower than your original analysis.
It is obvious. Most words in different languages aren't 100% equivalent - they have large or small differences in sets of connotations. Same is true for phrases and sentences. When you translate a thought expressed in one language to another, you may get the primary, leading-order meanings across 100% right, but you'll still lose some lower-order connotations.

For a more direct analogy, I'd compare this to how LLMs process tokens, but I feel most of the community is not ready for it yet, as we're still stuck debating the validity of this comparison in the other direction...
And here I thought us nerds ruled the world.
No, the person you're replying to is right.

"Exportable, but in SEP" is a meaningless distinction (if it even exists, I am not convinced that the article isn't confused about things, but I do not have the time or energy to try to refute it).

The security benefits on SEP are that the keys _physically_ cannot leave it; if they're "exportable" and available to AP, then their security is necessarily only as good as of Keychain, and whether they're stored in SEP or on disk doesn't really matter if the AP can access them at all.
Because the market price is only fixed at the moment of sale. Until then, setting the market value of a property is fairly speculative.
https://nitter.net/roomthinker/status/1714213692051542399
Hamas and Palestine are two different entities. Considering a march for Palestine as support for Hamas is a big stretch. You wouldn't consider a protest in support of Israel as backing Likud would you?
The purpose of words and language in general is to communicate which includes intent and meaning. If I go ask 100 random people what confabulate means, I doubt even a third know what it means. But regardless of “accuracy” if I tell someone a robot hallucinated, they more or less get what I mean.

Besides both the general public and academics have been calling it “hallucination” for well over a year now. I’m sorry to say this ship has long sailed.
There’s a book called “Because Internet” you should probably read.

Tldr; language changes over time.

The idea of “precise language, and that someone is “using words wrong” is not correct, and history shows, repeatedly, obsessively trying to enforce “correctness” in language doesn’t work.

So… this is no different from telling people not to use “like, someone told me…” in sentences.

It won’t stick, and perusing it is probably meaningless.

If people call it hallucinations; that’s what they are.

That’s what language is.

There’s some deep irony in talking about this with language models.
Probably that is because these three cURL issues are quite convoluted for an attacker to exploit, and so the issue has seen less urgency at Microsoft:

- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38039.html => that one is a resource exhaustion that needs the victim to connect to a malicious server intentionally

- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38545.html => that one needs a way for the attacker to control the target hostname and the victim needs to use SOCKS5, which in itself is incredibly rare. Never seen it either in BigCo or government environments, I only remember that from a decade ago when dabbling in warez.

- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38546.html => that one only affects people using libcurl or its bindings directly, and use the `duphandle` function, which is why it's ranked "Low" in severity.
I'm talking about better versions of this for example: https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/10/nvidia-video-bandwidth/
All C programs do the same thing: look at a character and do nothing with it.
—Peter Weinberger [0]

Humorous 'memory' explaination of various levels of 'memory'[1]

Without reviewing the video, looks like a coding artifact related to segment 64k memory of 8/16/32/64 bit dos/MS windows (vs. arm / sparc with flat address space).

far/near pointer delclaration would clarify things a bit.

This is a c language artifact. Using in C++, one would need to impliment/override the default C++ supplied memory management to avoid memory management gotchas.

The code example was a way to make sure that pointer variable on a non-unified memory architecture was initialized to point within a given memory segment.

aka Reference zero's out the non-unique bits and leaves the "memory reference bits for given memory segment" alone / segmented NULL.

Zeroing out the non-unique memory bits still allows one to make use of the upper address bits to find out where in memory the given

memory segment is (useful for implimentation of setjump(), figuring out machine byte order, 1st time in segment, etc.).

[0] : Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets by Peter Weinberger

[1] : http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/paging.game.html
> And sure, I could verify it... but then that's no longer trust

That is the common trust in the open-source software community, but AFAIK not practical in hardware hence impossible. In software we can build from source and verify the checksum to make sure the binaries aren't manipulated, but not for the hardware.

We know we can't trust humans so we use software to protect us.
The first time I heard somebody say an LLM hallucinated, I knew exactly what they meant, so I think hallucination is a good term.
I don't understand how that needs a special tax though. Wouldn't the more obvious choice be to just tax all wealth/assets?

E.g. where I live it's just assumed that all your assets produce a yield of 4% yearly, and that is taxed as regular income. Makes the tax declaration also a lot easier, since people don't have to list all exact dividends and profits they might have gotten from investments.
Would be interesting to see people rough idea of YOE to Level mapping for MSFT.
Everything from Level 50 through 60 looks pretty junior, like grad hires and possibly outside HCOL areas. Surprised there is so much granularity.

I do also find the base to stock ratios interesting.
I guess base pay caps out in FAANG the same way it does in fintech / Wall Street tech. $360k base is a lot of money obviously, but its interesting you can have like a $1M signing bonus & $1.25M TC but never get about $360K base.
De-escalation is entirely possible without guns.

You can crack a skull with armoured gloves or steel-toed boots until resistance ceases.

You can use any of several body holds like "the sleeper" until resistance ceases.

You can kneel on a neck until resistance ceases.

Plenty of police actions have successfully "de-escalated" and "brought the situation under control" without resort to firearms, even in the USA.
Just 2?
Some things we disrupt, others we fail, often because the very laws of physics are against it. There are also laws of what makes a union work and they don't point to success. Mind those laws are not as absolute as the laws of physics, but they also place limits on what a union can do, and in turn make me less interested.
Rewind’s privacy policies are incredibly misleading. It’s a huge red flag for me.

Their most public statements only apply if you use the product in a very restricted and clearly unintended fashion.
Do people really want to sleep at temperatures that high? Wow.
I'm confused, was he being an arsehole?
Totally disagree; the alternative clients are providing invaluable feedback for the atprotocol.
All three of the mentioned CVEs are affecting 8.2.1. Even 8.3.0 is affected by 2 of them still. The latest version (8.4.0) is the only one that is not affected by these.
These kinds of reports have been coming out since computers were invented. There's no real evidence that writing by hand is better than typing, especially in people with bad handwriting. It's just bias coming from the last few generations that grew up without computers. "I learned cursive, therefore it must be good"
Mypy in daemon mode has been good enough for me. But yeah, a reimplementation in a fast language would be great.
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-daily-active-users-dr...

However, even X's revised number of 245 million daily active users would still see X lose millions or around 3.7 percent of daily active users from before Musk's acquisition.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/10/twitter-t...

Matthew Prince posted a graph from Cloudflare’s ranking of the most popular websites in the world showing Twitter has been in decline since the start of 2023, not long after Elon Musk took over the platform.

So according to their own (suspect) numbers they have a slight decline, according to outsiders they have a heavy decline.

What numbers are you looking at?
>On-hire stock awards: $310,000 default to $1.2 million with approval

>Annual stock award range: $0 to $945,000

Wow. Those numbers are huge
How would you spend a lot of time monitoring relationships for sexual harassment?