skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forbes reported that x.ai will merge with x.com. x.ai is increasingly looking like announcementware, with a fluid set of goals. One would be to pull more money into Xitter before he can't meet a LBO loan payment. Ii predict it will become an orphan joke/troll company like The Boring Company. Real humans sign up for jobs at these joke companies, which makes the jokes less funny.
There must be mountains of legal concerns which vary by jurisdiction. Both in terms of copyright / right of authorship as well as GDPR/data protection.

Litigation is probably inescapable. I'm sure they want to be on solid footing.
Eh, yes it did :-)
who does anyone think the namespace belongs to?
I will leave you with a classic from Mencken: "For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Oooh this is fun!

Ok quick list

* Class Inheritance is an anti-pattern.

* Python is an anti-pattern.

* The 80/20 of functional programming is use pure functions and acknowledge that everything is a list or an operation on a list.

* Javascript/Typescript will continue to win.

* Erlang/Elixir/BEAM is the better timeline. But unfortunately we're not on it.

* Microservices are a luxury and most people should just vertically scale their monolith

* GraphQL is better than REST when you have multiple clients, codegen or any AI/RAG needs

* Frontend Frameworks are not changing as fast as a backend developer wants you to believe

* Including a FE Framework in your application at the begining is a smart move for anything consumer facing.

* The Haskell community is their own worst enemy.
iMessage reportedly won't qualify for EU "gatekeeper" laws
Homebrew stuff is not required to be certified by UL, in fact, surprise nothing is required to be certified by UL. But UL certification will have the effect of retailers marketing your products and reselling them for you.
Grow your OpenAI bill exponentially with this one easy trick!

In all seriousness — looks nifty! Do you guys have any plans to bring suggestion latency down from what’s show in the demo?
I know a couple of Japanese-American kids who grew up in the US and were forced to choose when they turned 18. There was no way they were giving up American nationality, so they sadly had to give up their Japanese nationality, which they did not want to do but was the lesser of two evils. This law is so outdated and unfortunate.
It is a formalization of knowledge with formal expressions. One could say it is a formalization of knowledge with executable/computational semantics. WikiMedia is actually an AI company and that's why they are always asking for donations.
I’ve been in the move fast and break things domain. Unsurprisingly, things are often broken there too.
Have you seen how much it costs to see a psychologist (including what insurance is covering)? It's several hundred dollars an hour. That increased price is also an increased barrier for entry, to get treated. Free market dynamics are horrible for healthcare
In my opinion, the critical part here is that Sony directly tried to force Quad9 to block resolving the domain canna.to WITHOUT first trying to approach canna.to directly. The court points that out as:

"A blocking claim also does not exist because the plaintiff has not
done enough to take legal action against the host provider of the disputed service."
GPT is so good at leetcode you don't even have to paste the problem, just ask for an answer to leetcode [problem number].
With this belief, does anything really matter?
Could be a legal issue, privacy or whatnot.
Depends on how rough ;)
they should be first notified and allowed to choose, at the very least, not automatically stripped of one. someone could wind up stateless this way, when both countries are acting the same way at the same time.

also, exit stamps? Japan is really backwards in this way.
Yeah, no I am talking about games with LGBTQ+ content being flagged by trolls. I am talking about any game portraying high-school student getting automatically flagged. Certainly not whatever messed up stuff your are thinking about.

Obviously any games where children are portrayed by a sexual manner wouldn't and shouldn't be tolerated on any platform but it is silly to say, we can't have children in games at all or that certain art styles should be banned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJgo3BBgWDA
No, Google is on a more level playing field than you think. It certainly can't train on enterprise data, and of course not on private user data like emails. Cross-division data sharing is tough as well, because regulators don't like it for anti-monopoly reasons. OpenAI can scrape YouTube all it wants, but DeepMind may not be able to just train against all of YouTube just like that.

We might soon get to a point where every player is using pretty much all the low-cost data there is. Everyone will use all the public internet data there is, augmented by as much private datasets as they can afford.

The improvements we can expect to see in the next few years look like a Drake equation.

LLM performance delta = data quality x data quantity x transformer architecture tweaks x compute cost x talent x time.

The ceiling for the cost parameters in this equation are determined by expected market opportunity, at the margin - how much more of the market can you capture if you have the better tech.
Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Connectors
> disabled the running kernel from accessing UEFI variables and the UEFI system partition.

How exactly do you propose doing that? I suppose you could see if OPAL can block writes to the ESP, but that does nothing about efi vars.
The images could be uploaded using a bot account, but if the user corrects any of the metadata during the upload, you don't want those contributions attributed to the bot.
20 years after the term "progressive enhancement" was first used in a tech talk[0]. People really ought to have received the message by now: javascript as a client-side feature is a way to enhance a website rather than to build its basic functionality.

0: https://web.archive.org/web/20141108064903/http://hesketh.co...
It happens I frequently enough that I forgot it, I've used NextDNS for at least a year, and it's happened at most once before. How often do you try (deliberately) to use something so newly registered?

Frankly even most new things have older domains. (I know I'm not alone here in having domains registered for projects that may or may not ever materialise..!)

Also maybe worth saying that it's not even really about NextDNS as a tool, it's that block list or ones like it. I'm not sure if it's enabled by default or not.
They are releasing Bard with Gemini in many countries with a much lower income per capita than the average European country: https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14294096

My guess is the delay is due to GDPR or other regulatory challenges.
There’s a few big factors here - one is the amount that insurance will cover is extremely low - experienced psychologists won’t make more than $130 a session on most insurance, regardless of speciality or niche expertise. Medicaid is worse - the reimbursement rate is like $70-80 a session (not enough to cover CoL and expenses), AND if you want to bill Medicaid they make you jump through a huge amount of hoops and force you to take on more Medicaid clients. This makes for a situation where those most in need of therapy or counseling are only afforded providers who either work practically for charity, or only the most recent graduates with very little experience - that’s if they can find someone in their area, which is next to impossible given almost no therapist can afford to charge rates so low.

Another problem is the insistence from insurers on only the most “evidence-based” treatment modalities. Everyone taking insurance has to play a dance with them to somehow shoehorn in the use of these or else get denied payment for months. As a result diagnoses and treatment methods that get put into the system are only those approved by the insurer - resulting in a dance that leaves a ton of actually useful individual treatments from being recognized. If it doesn’t bill, it can’t be mentioned, even if it’s working. This can also lead to pretty bad outcomes for clients.

The medical model of treatment is preferred by insurance because it’s the cheapest and quickest to tamp down symptoms but rarely gets to the root cause, especially in the most traumatized populations. Take a homeless person and put them in treatment - they’re probably neurodivergent, traumatized, high ACE score. Making surface symptoms like substance use go into remission doesn’t treat the underlying cause of the substance use.

Lastly, psychologists and therapists can’t make up for the lack of integrated community, sense of belonging and social purpose, and relational support networks that are failing all across society. We are an individualistic society that downplays the value of relational ties, which is part of the reason there is such a need for individual therapy in the first place. Relational trauma, lack of community resources, lack of time to spend with others, lack of social cohesion overall all contribute to a mental health crisis that is intricately tied with the excesses and stunted values of our socioeconomic system. It is an intentional feature, not a bug that people are suffering with little to no recourse.

More money will help, more education and spreading of concepts and ideas will help, but as a society there is a massive amount of work to undertake to slow the engine that produces the social pollution that ends with mass depression, anxiety and worse. It is long overdue.
TypeScript's Hidden Feature: Subtypes
> Never heard of a shipping company refusing to ship based on political belief

But there are plenty of examples of companies threatening to leave, or leaving a state due to unfavorable politics. Companies choose all the time where and with whom they do business.
Thanks for the reply!

Can I suggest adding some docs to Fly to run Flame apps? To cover the more complex aspects of integrating with Fly, such as running Flame machines with a different size compared to the parent nodes, what kind of fly.toml config works and doesn't work with Flame, such as the auto_start and auto_stop configurations on the parent based on the number of requests, and anything else particularly important to remember with Fly.
Are any OSS models producing JSON with specific keys as reliably as OpenAI models do with function calling? That would be needed to implement function calling.
I am going to a publicly available web page, that they provide for the purpose of consuming their content, using standard protocols. I'm just filtering some of it out on my end on the computer I own and control. I don't see anything wrong with this, no matter what BS they might try to claim in their TOS.
I did some more digging and the T & D is definitely captured in WTW. Thanks for saying it.
would love a link to read more, thanks for sharing!
I want legislators to pass laws that prevent spying by the executive branch. I don't care who writes them.
Victron is good stuff, seconded. Used extensively in marine applications, I've yet to see a unit fail that wasn't purposefully abused.
IMHO, those of Lutheran Protestant belief - at least here in Germany the Lutherans are just about the most welcoming people you can get. Catholic ones push far too much anti-contraceptive, anti-LGBT, "marriage is sacrosanct" and other questionable stuff, and Evangelical/Amish/Pentecostal/Mormons tend to be even more nuts than the Catholics (we have everything but the Amish here as well).
And the EROI on solar is constantly improving. Every year we are using less material per cell to make more efficient cells.
You have only one broadband company active at a time, the website you visit doesn't have a choice but to pay that company so it doesn't have any option to haggle for it. I hope you see how this creates perverse incentives.
Spellbrush (YC W18), Hiring AI Anime Researchers and Gamedevs (Tokyo/SF)
As older researchers will often tell you: the job of a reviewer is to refuse your paper. It doesn't have to be completely black and white though. Maybe they did the maths and the results were middling/unclear, their calculations were filled with assumptions that they didn't want to/didn't have time to defend.

In ML it's not uncommon to drop datasets that you evaluated on but that don't achieve SOTA because the reviewer will focus on that and ignore your other results. An article must have a clear concise point.
It's blatantly false that "Bitcoin Core was purchased by Blockstream".

It's absolutely not the case. It's more like a conspiracy theory that keeps getting pushed into Bitcoin-related threads at Hacker news (maybe to tilt future analysis?)

If we take a look at the past month of commits from https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse/monthly, the top ten authors are:

- MarcoFalke

- fanquake

- hebasto

- ajtowns

- glozow

- ismaelsaadeq

- TheCharlatan

- instagibbs

- brunoerg

- mzumsande

None of them works at Blockstream.

When you say "long ago", it likely points to the "Bitcoin Cash" incident. Almost every person that knows of Bitcoin Cash thinks that Bitcoin is a scam; almost everyone else laughs at the idea of Bitcoin Cash working.

Long ago, that was also the case: https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/61blfg/blockstream...

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Animals and plants are the youngest, fungi are significantly older, at least almost as old as the oldest multicellular life. "Most forms of life" might be an overstatement, still, depending on how you count.
I don't think you can seriously be suggesting these are equivalent.

You would have to go to extraordinary efforts to keep a century old car running since everything will be a custom built part at that point. Some people do it but it is a labor of love (for the car itself or for preserving history). People who do it are fully aware you could buy a new car for one-tenth (at worst) of the cost of a restoration.

Houses are the exact opposite. Maintaining houses for centuries is normal, you don't run out of parts and the cost to maintain is a tiny fraction of buying a new one.
Jonathan Haidt: I'm Worried About the Boys, Too
Due to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, most insurance does cover it. Depending on the patient's particular conditions there may be limits on the type of care and number of sessions. In many areas there are also practical access problems due to a shortage of network providers who are currently accepting new patients.

https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/advocacy/federal-af...
Pentel Kerry (https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Sharp-Kerry-Mechanical-Pencil/...)
My friend who is studying to be a counselor put it to me this way: counsellors are usually ethically bound against giving strong interventions!

If you go to a counsellor and say "I'm feeling upset because my wife is yelling at me for cheating on her but I really want to keep cheating on her", an average counsellor can't say "well stop cheating on her, you numbskull" even if they know that's the best answer. Professional ethics dictates that they be neutral. So all they can really do is sit there and ask you questions about your feelings.

The things that increase people's mental well-being are well researched and often obvious: lose weight, find a church, get a girlfriend, make more money, call your mom, join the Army. Things that a professional counsellor could never tell you to do!

Not to say therapy is not a good idea for lots of people! But the modern need for therapy is not coming from some place of deep and widespread trauma. If anything, the opposite - we all live very comfortable lives full of emotional bed rest and mental junk food.
We're in the process of migrating our on-premise business application from SQLAnywhere to MSSQL.

Imagine the fun we're having...
Dual citizenship isn't allowed in around 25 percent of countries.

Still, if you gain US citizenship, you don't technically have to do anything to revoke your citizenship in your original country, but they can revoke it for you if they have the resources.
Hmm on mobile iOS this website is terrible.
The whole system of citizenship is bizarre. I am a citizen of two countries, neither of which I have ever pledged fealty to. I am a citizen of Germany because I was born there and my parents were citizens at the time, and I am a citizen of the U.S. because my parents were naturalized when I was a minor. And I am keenly aware that there are millions of people who would literally risk their lives for either of those citizenships.

And then there are horror stories like this one:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/25/virginia-...

Next year I am going to renew my U.S. passport. For some unknown number of weeks I will be in limbo, unable to legally leave the country, at the whims of the mail and some unknown bureaucrat who may or may not decide to grant my renewal or decide that the photo I've submitted is not quite the right size or whatever. The whole system sucks big fat honking weenies.
Which ChatGPT can utilize with the plugin! (although I'll admit I just go straight to the site if I need to use it)
I disabled notifications on my phone long ago. I wonder if they still occur.
I don't think humans will stay competitive long enough for that to even matter, frankly. It's a no brainer to go for the far cheaper, smarter, and most importantly a few magnitudes faster worker. On the offshoot that we hit some sort of inteligence ceiling and don't get ASI tier models in the next few years then that will definitely do it though.

Companies start going from paying lots of local workers to paying a few select corporations what's essentially a SAAS fee (some are already buying ChatGPT Plus for all employees and reducing headcount) which accumulates all the wealth that would've gone to the workers into the hands of those renting GPU servers. The middle class was in decline already, but this will surely eradicate it.
Just because laws don't matter 100% of the time does not mean they don't matter. And the solution to better enforcement of laws is the same as the solution to passing better laws: elect better lawmakers.
Google CEO wants to "make it useful" to everyone, however until its off the internet, it will never be possibly useful to me...
I did another simple coding question between bard with gemeni upgrade and gpt4, it does not give me correct code, in fact completely wrong. Like hallucinates with calls from non existing libs, while gpt4 got it right with exact same prompt.

It's more on the level of GPT3.5 maybe not even.
I used a service years ago that did effectively this. PiCloud were sadly absorbed into Dropbox but before that they had exactly this model of fanning out tasks to workers transparently. They would effectively bundle your code and execute it on a worker.

There’s an example here. You’ll see it’s exactly the same model.

https://github.com/picloud/basic-examples/blob/master/exampl...

I’ve not worked with Elixer but I used Erlang a couple of decades back and it appears BEAM hasn’t changed much (fundamentally). My suspicion is that it’s much better suited for this work since it’s a core part of the design. Still, not a totally free lunch because presumably there a chance the primary process crashes while waiting?
where are you seeing that 32-shot vs 1-shot comparison drawn? in the pdf you linked it seems like they run it various times using the same technique on both models and just pick the technique which gemini most wins using.
> I've asked it for stuff like what I should eat if I have certain fitness goals, how to improve meals, how to work out more effectively

The sad reality is that typing this into google would have given you AI generated content, anyways. Might as well use the best model for it.
That would be very surprising. They show in this work that their problem is complete for the complexity class BQP. That means that if you can solve it on a classical computer (analog or not) in polynomial time you get (for free) classical polynomial-time algorithms for solving a bunch of problems we don't currently have classical poly-time algorithms for.

Most surpisingly this would include the hidden subgroup problem and hence give you a classical poly-time algorithm for integer factorization.
You want me to provide references for my personal experience?
So far, yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) still downloads youtube content (at least it downloads videos), and once downloaded there are no ad 'insertions' during playback.
Secure Boot, under its default configuration, doesn’t actually prevent running a trojaned userspace off a USB stick. It tries to block trojaned kernels on a USB stick, and does every bit as bad a job of this as you would expect given the quality of the spec, the quality of the code, and the degree to which the problem is not very well defined.
And if they shoot you dead first, you're cool with that? For the cause?
For every one youtuber making a living, there's 1000s making pennies.

I'm old enough to remember that content creators existed before the youtube monetization machine.

I think if there's one thing we can rely on not stopping, it's people's urge to create and share
I have a couple of things that I have mentioned at recent job interviews and helped me get the job, but in a sideways manner. Still make me smile because I essentially did them to learn something and they kinda acquired a life of their own.

Long story short: I had a bit of a fixation with political data wrangling.

This got me two really odd personal successes (excuse the slightly blowing of my own trumpet here, for story's sake): an app [1] that takes UK Parliament debate transcripts and makes an interactive n-gram analysis, similar to Google Books N-gram viewer, which was used by Robert Peston's political show on national TV and the press in the UK (e.g. on the Financial Times [2] and the Sunday Times [3]); then I did a quasi-viral blog post that used code to calculate the average face of a British MP [4], which got me a few contracts, including one with the BBC for the same thing in the US Congress [5]

When I say sideways, what I mean is that the interesting thing is that the jobs I got when using these as examples were not hands-on data wrangling jobs (in fact, they are terribly dirty pieces of code, but that's another story).
What they got me is two things: from a technical perspective, the ability to see an end-to-end process to create a product, the running of a service no matter how small for a decade, the use of cutting-edge technology; from a broader point of view, they were great to show me catching the zeitgeist, seeing stories in data, engaging with national media. Both were incredibly "catchy" stories to tell during an interview, and even when challenged (my recent employers being in the public sector) they allowed me to explain myself and my journey.

So, in summary, I love how these two one-day hacks turned into great interview stories, beyond the very minor direct income that they got me.

Aside from the ability to blow my own trumpet a little, the broader applicable lesson here is that by working on something you have a passion for, no matter how geeky it might be, you can build something simple and not necessarily super tidied up, that will however be a good prompt to discuss both your technical and non-technical skills.

I've coached a few candidates for interviews in the intervening years, especially people in tech roles, and it strikes me how often they play down their own side project, which are sometimes much way technically better than mine and with some pretty good stories around the initial motivation and use examples.

[1] https://parli-n-grams.puntofisso.net/

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/d9db05e7-bb1c-4f38-9a02-bd6b66c9c...

[3] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mps-are-becoming-more-loc...

[4] https://puntofisso.medium.com/i-calculated-the-average-face-...

[5] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171018-this-is-the-face...