skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are missing the context of why Stefanik's questioning is resonating with so many people, including centrists and democrats - for many years now, American liberals have gone unhinged on "words are violence". Multiple professors are criticized or fired for far more benign stuff and multiple speakers are booed and barred from speaking on campuses. On that backdrop, current events stand in stark contrast.

Just a hint for you - president of Univ of Chicago will not have suffered this fate because that school stands for true free speech and didn't disinvite or ban any speakers from its campus. You live by "words are violence", you die by "words are violence".
> On other hand, things like “genuine connection” do not exist outside of your imagination.

Really telling on yourself here.
Does it require 16x?

Previous-gen video cards were often connected to risers that only provided 1x, and lots of "normal" systems (with a bit of expansion) don't have enough PCI Express lanes to give 16 lanes to any one device.
Infant circumcision is done without anesthetic, seems obvious subjecting a human to a lot of pain when he's only a few days old would cause some issues.
my guess based on his strong (and extremely venerable) principles against monetizing uBO is that it's not approved by him, although I think him selling merch would be an awesome way to fund development. I would gladly buy some uMatrix t-shirts if it meant a resumption of uMatrix dev! :-D
> I have an idea for a programming language that would change fundamental aspects.

I'm interested, go on.
It is interesting how all of you jumped to the wiring and conduits as the problem, when the point I was trying to make (badly) was even if the wiring was there then there is a distinct lack of things on the market to connect to it which do anything useful.

We have a chicken/egg situation for home networks where normal people only see them as useful in the wifi sense, so we fail to exploit the potential we could have if things were wired.
>We also have horizontally sharded Vitess clusters for large-domain areas that outgrew the single-primary MySQL cluster.

I was thinking they could have been a planetscale customer.

I also assume they are sticking to MySQL LTS release. So their next upgrade to 8.4 will probably be next year.
>They don't want customers going the cheap aftermarket route 11 months of the year because one month of sales can't sustain harvest support teams long-term.

It can if you charge more for it...
The old saying "If a hammer is your only tool then everything is a nail" is absolutely pertinent to this comment thread.
The maths goes over my head, but this paragraph was very interesting:

> Tao then kicked off an effort to formalize the proof in Lean, a programming language that helps mathematicians verify theorems. In just a few weeks, that effort succeeded. Early Tuesday morning of December 5, Tao announced that Lean had proved the conjecture without any “sorrys” — the standard statement that appears when the computer can’t verify a certain step. This is the highest-profile use of such verification tools since 2021, and marks an inflection point in the ways mathematicians write proofs in terms a computer can understand. If these tools become easy enough for mathematicians to use, they might be able to substitute for the often prolonged and onerous peer review process, said Gowers.
> There really isn't any "both sides" of the political spectrum in Nordic countries when it comes to labour. The way the "right wing" parties can get elected at all is to say "We promise we're not going to do things differently than the left wing, but we'll give you a $100 more per year in tax deductions".

That's exactly my point. I think we're in general agreement about the state of things, but perhaps not in the reasons behind it. I see a rational consensus and belief in a system. I don't believe that these parties pretend something simply to gain votes, and then, after gaining power, do nothing to further this alleged political agenda.

> It is still the case in Finland, Norway and Denmark. These countries have a government church, that performs government functions, and levies taxes to the church from your salary. You still have to fill in a form if you want to exit the government church.

The church tax still exists in Sweden, and is opt-out in a similar way as you describe for the other Nordic countries. The tax is used for things like church weddings, burial costs, etc. I agree that this is a little strange, but the fact of the matter is that this system (at least in Sweden) doesn't apply only to the Church of Sweden. If you are a member of another religious communities, the fee can instead go to this entity. (In Swedish: https://www.skatteverket.se/privat/skatter/arbeteochinkomst/...)

> The year 2000 is not so far away, compared to when other nations separated church and state.

Be that as it may, the time span wasn't really part of the initial discussion. And people living day-to-day up here knows that the church has little to no say in anything in society. It has been like that for a long time. I think if anything people coming from elsewhere might be surprised how secular Swedish people/Scandinavians are. I don't think anyone that moved here (or even grows up here) would ever think about the fact that there was a "state church" not even 25 years ago.
Hasn't the USA collectively decided that houses are a luxury good?

Forget "better internet" — many of us can barely afford any shelter, much less one that we can 'own'
> My intuition is that the single scan will be faster because it requires a much smaller number of cache misses.

Thank you, that's helpful. Your intuition may be right, but I'm not sure either. Too hard to reason about, at least for me. Maybe the thing to do is test both... unfortunately that would involve the hassle of writing code for executing the single scan efficiently on GPUs.
Eh, rust has pretty solid type inference (sounds like you'd hate it), but with the rust analyzer extension, you can get inlay hints that tell you the inferred type of every variable, so you're never actually left wondering. Seems like the best of both worlds.
Absolutely anecdotal - for a couple months Ive been taking a probioria tab every night before bed, and my mouth seems to be less gross pasty sticky in the morning.

I’m curious to see whether my dental hygienist notices any improvement next visit.
It’s not yet a single project with residential and exciting ground floor like developers keep proposing…

The big money in California is in owning the traffic corridors and the developers who line politicians pockets are forever salivating and mucking with these areas to try to consolidate their holdings.

I don’t think gentrification is the operative word here. Mallificatipn? Private equity bundling ready?
Levy Rozman Wants to Teach You Chess
blowback, the social media strategy
Of course, it's mostly about slowing the speed of aging. Sleep, nutrition, exercise can only take you so far, gene-based therapy is the next era.
The only thing stopping me from using iA Writer for everything is being able to manually sort a folder. I realise that, being it's just a folder underneath, this would require storage somewhere. But it could be as simple as:

_index.md:

- File 1.md
- File 2.md
- File 3.md
Mark Twain: “When you catch an adjective, kill it.”
Stephen King: “The road to hell is paved with adverbs”.

But what do they know about fiction? :)
I see you are based in Tennessee. I don't know how to get it there.

The best way would be to buy the book through Books of Bengal/ReadBengaliBooks (if you have friends based in India/Bangladesh) or Rokomari/Batighar (Bangladesh). I see it for sell here- https://booksofbengal.com/in/product/9789848825754/ . So when a friend has received it, I would recommend they FedEx it to you. (India only- https://readbengalibooks.com/k29780000000098.html - I can vouch for ReadBengaliBooks)

If this is not an option, consider "other ways".
good luck. it'll take ages of scrubbing and inactivity for that to happen.

spamhaus doesn't forgive or forget.
> In the US, unions had a good year, but 43% pay raises in union contracts were mostly unheard of, so that part of the population probably isn't keeping up.

There's a difference between wealth and income though. It's entirely possible 10% pay raises yield >43% increases in wealth, so long as most of the original wage wasn't able to go in to savings/investment.
Wait, isn't "well well well" a dog whistle these days that edgelord people use online? Am I spending too much time on TikTok?

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/08/21/well-well-well-meaning...
Most SSGs will copy a literal file without a problem. I dump all the HTML snippets under a /metadata/ prefix and then in Hakyll it's just a matter of doing a literal-copy of '/metadata/*'. (Our convention for annotations or backlinks or similar links is that they live at '/metadata/$TYPE/$ESCAPED_URL.html'. Then you can fill in the necessary links easily in the template as long as you have '$ESCAPED_URL' provided to the template by the SSG.) The real obstacle is that most SSGs want you to do any transclusion at a compile-time, even though this leads to potentially exponential explosions of size, and won't include any JS library for doing client-side transclusion.

(And you do need a JS library, it's not just a line or two of throwaway code. Client-side transclusion is a bit tricky to get right for use-cases as advanced and general-purpose as ours - we use it for lots of things. Transclude other pages, transclude sections of pages, transclude section ranges, recursive transclusions... Needs to make sure styles get applied, render it off page for acceptable performance, rewrite paths inside the transcluded HTML so links go where you expect them to - that sort of thing.)

The percent match is also misleading because there is no sense in which it is a percentage. It just isn't. '79% match' is not 1% more similar than '78% match'. My finding with the OA embedding is that a distance of 0.01 actually corresponds to a pretty large semantic distance and after a few more increments, the suggestions are worthless. Also consider this: a distance of 0 (ie. itself) may arguably be '100%' (hard to get more similar than itself!), but then what is a distance like 1? (And can't the cosine distance go higher?) Can you really be '0% similar', never mind '-10% similar'? It is true that 80% is better than 79%, but that's all that means, and you can present that by simply putting them in a list by distance, as you do already.
CPython Internals: What Happens Behind the Scenes When You Do a and B?
Is this worse than having people working for the State Department tell Twitter than your posts shouldn't be seen and cannot be "liked"?
10 years ago a crack professor unit was defunded by an academic tribunal for misconduct they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum teaching schedule to the research underground. Today, still wanted by the activist community, they survive as proovers of fortune. If you have a problem that no one else can solve, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire The A-Team.
> but this crosses some sort of professionalism boundary?

I don't know. I assume any organisation interested in directing online discourse about subjects it is vested in does something like this. Especially political organisations.

This is politics. Kinda dirty, but that's what it is, I guess. It's probably only noteworthy because the context and persons/groups involved are noteworthy.
That's not universally true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_speech

> In the United States, commercial speech is "entitled to substantial First Amendment protection, albeit less than political, ideological, or artistic speech".

Now, the IDF isn't under US jurisdiction, but the idea that only individual humans have rights is... not supported by the facts.
> Since everything from RAG runs through the prompt, unintended prompt-induced behavior is still an issue, even if its not an information-leak issue

It also doesn't completely safeguard a system against attacks.

See https://kai-greshake.de/posts/inject-my-pdf/ as an example of how information poisoning can be a problem even if there's no risk of exfiltration and even if the data is already public.

I have seen debate over whether this kind of poisoning attack should be classified as a separate vulnerability (I lean towards yes, it should, but I don't have strong opinions on that). But regardless of whether it counts as prompt injection or jailbreaking or data poisoning or whatever, it shares the same root cause as a prompt injection vulnerability.

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I lean sympathetic to people saying that in many cases tightly tying down a system, getting rid of permissions, and using it as a naive data parser is a big enough reduction in attack surface that many of the risks can be dismissed for many applications -- if your data store runs into a problem processing data that talks about LLMs and that makes it break, you laugh about it and prune that information out of the database and move on.

But it is still correct to say that the problem isn't solved, all that's been done is that the cost of the system failing has been lowered to such a degree that the people using it no longer care if it fails. I sort of agree with GP that many chat bots don't need to care about prompt injection, but they've only "solved" the problem in the same way that me having a rusted decrepit bike held together with duck tape has "solved" my problem with bike theft -- in the sense that I no longer particularly care if someone steals my bike.

If those systems get used for more critical tasks where failure actually needs to be avoided, then the problem will resurface.
Ha, given that this is cosmologists talking, I assumed “extraordinarily heavy” meant… like, beryllium. Element 260 was a nice surprise.
> they all have half lives less than a day.

Isn't it the case it is currently not possible to create any neutron heavy isotopes and that causes the half-lives to be on the low end?
You’re absolutely right and I’m sure that something resembling higher-level pattern matching is present in the architecture and weights of the model, I’m just saying that I’m not aware of “logical thought” being explicitly optimized or designed for - it’s more of a sometimes-emergent feature of a machine that tries to approximate the content of the internet, which for some topics is dominated by mostly logical thought. I’m also unaware of a ground truth against which “correct facts” could even be trained for..
And now cars have to look in unexpected directions for bikes.

Moving parking to one side of the street, then the car lanes, then the double bike lane would have been a bit better, or as someone else said make the road one-way for cars and then you have lots of room.
It's probably something of a generational thing. The fairly young electrician who the contractor who did a few fairly large projects I used seemed to know what he was doing. It's probably not perfect but it seems to work fine. Everything isn't wired but the cable comes into my office where my modem/switch are and it goes off to ports next to a couple of complexes of electronics downstairs that also have local switches.

I still use wireless a lot but quite a bit of the higher bandwidth gear is wired.
Seems like a mess, I remember the old-style arrangement from when I lived in SF, it was imperfect but adequate. In Portland we do have some protected bike lanes / cycletracks, and they're mostly good, but you couldn't sprinkle them everywhere, mainly you need a lot of extra room. I will say the best thing about the article is its link to the guerrilla signs[1] that were added to the Valencia bike lanes.

1: https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/valencia-bike-lane-new-sign...
Every TV I have has an RJ45 connector. They also have wifi, but the RJ45 is there for anyone who wants it.
It's not a medical procedure. It's genital mutilation. Time to put an end to it.
Huh, interesting. Yeah, in the US cryptic clues are almost unheard of and considered very hard.
I don't need self-destructing USB drive, but a USB flash stick with a hard write-protect switch (that can't be overridden by the USB host) would be great for purposes like immutable installation and boot media.

(Also, like any USB device should, but even more here, you have to ensure that the device controller can't be modified by the USB host.)
We have had Roombas for 20 years and they still can't clean floors properly, let alone do anything else.

"Could be porters" is a judgement by someone who has never been a porter in a hospital. The social skills required are fairly high-level. Higher than the average journalist's.
Only because "remotely nice" is defined relative to people in your neighborhood. What percent of people worldwide have their own bedroom with >10gbps WiFi and an outlet?
My car could power my heating system for multiple days, that's better than freezing in a pinch.
Not who you asked, but I like and own both, but have found myself moving to Obsidian more and more. I'm not entirely sure why. IA writer now has document linking and I love the typography. I like the editor better.

I think there is something that makes file organization easier in Obsidian. I have a plugin that creates a new note for each given week. And it feels easier to navigate a bunch of files without the descriptions/first few lines of the doc.

EDIT: And this thread has encouraged me to second guess myself about some of these things and there's a setting to remove descriptions in the library. Maybe I'll try picking IA Writer back up!
In Toronto, one of the major east west bike thoroughfares alongside eastward one way street was moved from the right side to the left, reason being “multiple loading bays on the right side of the street”. As a cyclist and a driver I hate this change - dedicated left turn lanes and signals diminished the throughput, cyclists ignoring dedicated bike signals, car drivers that do not drive through it frequently forget to check left shoulder etc. I can only imagine what kind of cluster is putting the bike lane into the center.
Enforcing device trust on code changes
"Loser pays" is a better and simpler legal system.
IMHO there are probably ways for heavy elements to form without neutron stars or supernova explosions. We have so much of these heavy elements in the crust of the Earth (and they tend to fall down towards the center when a planet is formed).
I wonder whether in the future doctors have a visual designer(WYSIWYG) similar what programmers have in the form of Visual Basic/QT to alter DNA. It'd be pretty interesting if it happens
Here is one, https://swc.rwth-aachen.de/teaching/courses/2022-summer-seme...
Consider that traits can be recessive (like sickle cell anemia) so a healthy population can still produce children with severe incurable diseases.
The real solution is to remove cars from the street entirely and make it a pedestrian mall with a center running bike lane that can also be used by emergency vehicles. We'll get there in another 10 years.
$5 for a wrench really dates that joke
https://nitter.net/paulg/status/1733146138226614465
Best practice is to use CAA records, which would help reduce the impact unless the CAA specifies letsencrypt.
Not truly "out of support for a while" -- it was fully supported right up until a couple months ago.

I was worried that Apple was going to discontinue support for my early-2015 13" MBP after their new Mac announcements in the late Oct 2023 event, so I took it to the Apple Store in Sept and had them replace the battery which had been needing service for a while.

It's stuck on macOS 12 Monterey, but got a macOS security update in Oct (possibly its last) and a Safari update just over a week ago.
Getting indoctrinated that "I am the 99%" and festering anger towards "the 1%" is, in fact, very unproductive and a waste of time and energy especially since so-called rich people don't generally deserve any of that nonsense.

I have a lot more life experience now. If I'm going to fester anger against anyone now, it's the media (mainstream, social, et al.) and relevant powers-that-be for taking me on that ride and continuing to try and take me on more.
They are working to improve it and service quite a few station between pdx and Seattle. Still it is around a ~3.5 hour trip which is only slightly longer than the ~3 hours it takes to drive.
Here you go: "Harvard gets worst score ever in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings" - https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-f...

Many examples there, like: "From 2019 to this year, Harvard sanctioned four scholars, three of whom it terminated." or "In 2020, Harvard revoked conservative student activist Kyle Kashuv’s acceptance over comments he made on social media as a 16-year-old, for which he had since apologized. "

Some other colleges as well:

Yale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Christakis#Yale_Hallo...

Stanford: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/04/05/judge-duncan-stanford-l...
137 billion parameters were outrageously large at that time.
The Non-Men from Prince of Nothing are more or less elf-equivalent, and I thought it gives a much darker and more interesting interpretation on the impact that immortality and tremendous historic loss can have on such a race.

However, I reckon the only reason these dynamics seem bizarre is that they would be very bizarre for humans, but elves are definitely not humans; their nature could potentially be very different, especially in LOTR where they have an infinite lifespan and a very different creation than other peoples.

Elves are basically aliens, however human-like they look. Would it be strange to find such dynamics in an alien species of octopus-shaped creatures that communicate through electromagnetic fields?
This presupposes that you know what/where bugs will be found and how they'll impact future users. In my experience knowing either of these is very rare at the point where you're "building quality".
Self-assembly of nanoparticles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assembly_of_nanoparticles

Molecular assembler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_assembler
Which means that people without much money can't risk suing a company with deep pockets.
The Two Milan Kunderas
thanks that's neat, although I wish it wasn't with a Solanaceae member. Do you know if they are working on other types of produce or are they just working on potatoes?
The Hep C cure was 100k USD when it released in 2014. 10 years later, it’s 25k USD max before insurance.

The price you see now will likely shrink in the coming years. Pretty good opportunity for an analysis on CRISPR pricing if you have a well-trafficked blog and are willing to track this for the next five years.
Fair and valid points, it’s been years since I played magic but I agree an LLM would Be very useful in reading the cards and possibly then getting into understanding strategy based on that context.
I don't agree that it is nothing. 2 millions, if applied properly, could do good for many people. Take ten children from poverty, give ten children chance to get a good education, etc.

There is always a some kind of moral dilemma: should you spent millions to try to extend extremely I'll person or help with that money to some healthy poor children?
That's exactly right. My grandfather owned a fairly large farm and had a workshop so he and the workers could service the equipment on site. Some of the tractors lasted 30 years or more because they were so well maintained. Even in his 70s, the joints he welded when repairing them were far better than the originals.
Yes, you are. That article spends a lot of words avoiding any explanation of what "well, well, well" is supposedly saying.
Key point: on weekends. Northeast corridor is high demand all week long. And much more of the national economy flows through that region. LA <> Vegas is mostly leisure.
No, but selling overpriced olive oil with fake health claims does.

It’s never “sleep, nutrition, exercise” with those types. It’s “sleep, nutrition, exercise, and this absolutely unique expensive product that you must take everyday that totally works”.