skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you encourage people to help others (as we should!), then we should help people ourselves. Not delegate it to others, especially if they're not doing it voluntarily.

What if that reduces our policies, in every area, to zero effectiveness?
There are many other examples of failed policies that increased financial pressure on taxpayers but did not result in an overall improvement in the homeless situation.

E.g. what is the outcome of CA Proposition 2 that passed in 2018?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_2
If those utilities cared about that sort of thing they'd already have been rewritten in OCaml 20 years ago. The reasons unix utilities are written in C and C compilers don't do bounds checking are political, not technical.
Literally, fentanyl is legal and regulated. It's used as an anaesthetic.
You should be able to sell your gasoline to customers with Ford's cars, regardless of whether or not Ford has their own gas stations.

But why are we reaching for a car analogy? Should gmail or google.com be able to block Firefox and force you to use Chrome? Not make use of some feature Chrome has, but just purposely block Firefox even if it supports that feature or its users are content to use the service without it.
Thanks I updated to clarify.
Well the original post uses a for loop with a prompt that manually sets the date to various dates, then measures the length. So it seems very easy to set a holiday date.

Testing “friendliness” or “holiday cheer” could be done via some sortof proxy…

you could prompt it to reply to generic pleasantries while role playing “as someone busy who is late” and see if the word choice changes. Or maybe ask it to be a judge for a crime of desperation (stealing toys for orphans?) and determine sentencing durations as a proxy for sympathy? I suspect that is too far from training data though.
There is a critical difference between heroin, and heroin laced with uknown amounts of a fentanyl analog. The adulterated stuff kills even first time people experimenting with drugs.

Joe Perry & Steven Tyler (Aerosmith's "Toxic Twins") are still here. Clapton lives. So does Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.

All those guys would be long dead if there had been fentanyl lacing back in the 70's.
Yeah and humans have seen it for centuries and failed to stop it

Who is to say any progress we make won’t be undid by another pandemic we cannot predict, or some nutter launching the nukes

We have political agents hell bent on war and subjugating undesirables, rather than pushback against them let’s focus on some people who don’t want to live?

Why not ask Oceangate how the war against physics is going. It will always win and erode any social progress we think we made
They made a ton of money not long ago. 30% in 2021 eye balling it.

But all those factories have to be paid for no matter income.

So if income goes down your profit margin goes to terrible.
Same price from publisher: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45468-4

Price fixing at Amazon with books also included publishers: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/technology/amazon-price-f...

It is a new book, so my question is, is this title worth 90 bucks? Nope probably not. Maybe 9.99 for an ebook would be reasonable.

To paraphrase: Do you want piracy, because this is how you get piracy...
People don't realize how HuggingFace is for anyone curious about AI
This is the real issue. If you “fall” to heroin it’s not economically viable to help you get up. The cost per success is in the millions of dollars and even success is a pretty degrading state of existence. It’s not like insurance people who fall never paid in, it happens too often for that or charity care. It’s just not possible to treat everyone
Munching sounds, those can... Be distracting. Some super sensitive microphones seem to pick up those a lot more than a human ear
https://nitter.net/halvarflake/status/1156815950873804800

for those who don't have an X a/c
To entertain an actual technical discussion for a moment on this (and assuming air security is a legitimate goal), I wonder what kind of pen testing certain people might try on this, given that now there is not someone so actively watching if you display suspicious behavior. As in, at least with traditional checkpoints, an agent watching your moves could easily see if you were fiddling with something to try to evade detection. And that would deter people from trying anything.

But with an automated portal, who knows what someone might try and test the tolerances of, to understand how it works and the limits.

Although, perhaps if it is operated like some automated immigration checkpoints abroad, a dedicated officer still does oversee several booths and will probably notice lingering behavior where someone is acting suspiciously.

Imagine it's like if you knew that after 3 tries, your login attempt gets reported to root, versus if you know that never happens.
The TSA is not the best of the best. A friend of mine worked for them in grad school (just post 9/11 mind you) and told me that 40% of the workforce at his airport (Chicago Midway) got fired because yearly they failed a proficiency exam that they had to pass to get hired.
Agree 100%.

If you absolutely need to distribute data, it means you're working at a scale where things are already complex.

Using SQLite for that will not simplify your life, it will just make it harder to tackle the complexity.

Unless you are extremely careful, eventually consistent writes are almost guaranteed to produce behaviors that are hard / impossible to anticipate during development. And a PITA to debug.
I got lots spam on WhatsApp,
None on signal.

Guess it's local issue?
I mean, I remember how things were before fentanyl came around (as an outside observer, not as a user) and heroin was a horrible, life-destroying drug addiction back then as well. And I think it was and is convincingly argued that it is much more addictive than alcohol.
Among other things, they were the Web and email list host that the Lua project used.
Outsourcing a part of your network to a third party service doesn’t really fit the definition of self hosting to me. If you used headscale or wireguard it would.
> I decided the most simple way to accommodate this was by subbing the work out to other small cleaning companies.

So the best way to make money is to hire someone to do the job and pay him less than what you're billing your client?

> Each subcontractor must sign a contract that I had created before they commence work for me. It spells out their legal and service obligations.

And create a legal binding between you and the subcontractors that are finally like employees without any employee protection?

Let me guess, somewhere in the contract there's some non compete clause that they must follow because they're not employees?
Exactly I can’t see how this is as big an issue as they let on
> I think most people think school is like pokemon training, where X minutes = Y XP, and more minutes in class = more XP, thus leading to higher-level students.

To be fair, most people think this is how productivity works in any domain. It's certainly true if your job is to turn a hand crank all day producing widgets and under the assumption that you have equal energy throughout the day (but even accounting for that you still get the effect that more time = more widgets). But that most certainly is not true in the modern world and definitely not with any task that requires creativity. I'm actually more shocked at how many developers believe this considering I think we've all been in plenty of situations where more time debugging creates more bugs and the solution is to walk away, go do something else, and come back later. Maybe the problem is simply momentum and the coefficient of status stubbornness.
This was one of the topics covered by "A History of God" by Karen Armstrong [1]. While she didn't propose people should find religion per se, she did present the argument that a god sized hole exists in our psyche, so if one is not religious it needs to be filled somehow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_God
“No cameras on the keyboard please”

(Presses only one key)
What scale does you site operate in terms of QPS?
> It's a fruitful discussion with a lot of nuance

It wasn't like that when I saw the thread; that's why I posted my comment!
You must have been very young in the 90s because AOL dominated the late 90s. And it carried over into the early 00s with AIM even as people started to drop AOL as an ISP.

MSN was more of mid-00s thing. The 90s were all AOL though. I knew people who used ICQ (it was definitely more of a nerd thing) and Yahoo Messenger too.
Agree. I have been through Frankfurt a few times, and never experienced anything like this. Let alone the rest of Europe.
This make them a nice target for malware injection.

edit:
When the signing is in single entity like f-droid, we have single point of failure.

When everybody sign their own app, we have trust scalability issues -- "trust" just can't scale to everybody.
I'm well aware! At this point I think everyone is, as it seems to come up in every sub thread!

That doesn't change anything about what I said.
I mean if you propose we just kill addicts it might be effective in some cold, economic sense, but it sure would be great not to do that. I don’t know why you’d use china as an example unless thats what you’re suggesting.

Say we put someone in prison then treat them for drug use and it works. This person is cured, found jesus, and will never touch another drug in their life. Why would you still keep them in prison? They’d have been sentenced to a time in prison regardless. Why? Would you propose a system of early release for cured drug offenders?
Okay, so are we claiming then that video games are for children? That was my original question.
By that logic, we should remove any suicide prevention or other mental health support as well. Allowing, even encouraging, people to suffer when the very nature of their disease destroys their agency should be repugnant to everyone. Religion is a red herring here.
Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
Well thankfully my day job is actually ML research. :)

Lines of code is not strictly speaking a bottleneck for the next generation of models, but it ties with other objectives that are: researcher productivity, hardware efficiency, and model verifiability. GPT-5 might be another case of simply scaling up the existing transformer models, but the next step-function change of model quality are going to involve a lot more R&D about the right architectural primitives to take before scaling it up. And in that case lines of code do matter - because they allow simple concepts to be robustly tested, optimized, and iterated against. Doing that against a 50k monolith is a much harder task.
So this is one of those "his book is the real earner" things right? No way this dude is going around picking up trash for $52k a month.
I get the feeling that LLMs will tell you they don’t know if “I don’t know” is one of the responses in their training data set. If they actually don’t know, i.e. no trained responses, that’s when they start hallucinating.
These people will do whatever is possible to not be prevented from getting off of fossil fuels. It’s up to nations consuming fossil fuels to destroy demand for them as fast as possible. Make fossil fuels as valuable as rocks. Onward [1] [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593642

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38595107
trivial. you can multiply by any n and then set the viewport attribute to compensate.
Well I can surely say that you’re wrong. Mostly because the source appears to be using numerical dates not the English spelling of the month name.

But yea, the data could be better (but the hypothesis is very plausible, considering the training data).
Is this an ad for a $100+ book?
Still chewing but my takeaways thus far:

SSM models strengths are with continuous data like audio and video, they struggle with discrete data like text/ DNA. This newest architecture uses selective attention to try to address the weaknesses around discrete data with some loss in performance in continuous tasks, empirically shown here with audio. The empirical exploration was limited to smaller size models, the performance as larger scales is yet to be explored in practice.

I found my deepest understanding of the selection mechanism came from struggling with the discretization in section 2, followed by the deeper explanations of the variables involved in 3.5.2. This video gives excellent background to SSMs, along with a detailed walk through of the paper itself.[a]

I am still coming to understand S4, SSMs in general but the video suggested this annotated explainer that has been helping a lot[b].

I would also point out section 3.1 and it’s discussion of the tradeoffs between compression and effectiveness as particularly interesting.

I do wonder how many different GPUs / hardware architectures will be able to execute the optimizations that are described as critical. I think the nature of the optimizations is the part of the paper I understand least well.

The paper taken at face value looks very exciting. The promise of a very large context window with 5x throughput for inference would be huge if it proves to scale well. I do wonder if it will make sense to train SSMs without this selection mechanism for specific continuous use cases where it seems to perform better or if other architectures will prove to better serve those cases.

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[a] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouF-H35atOY

[b] https://srush.github.io/annotated-s4/
It will be extremely interesting to see how this shapes android going forward.

Google didn’t just lose some point— they lost every point

> The jury unanimously answered yes to every question put before them — that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution markets and in-app billing services markets, that Google did anticompetitive things in those markets, and that Epic was injured by that behavior. They decided Google has an illegal tie between its Google Play app store and its Google Play Billing payment services, too.

This may wind up being an enormous shake up.
With my personal experience of knowing so many addicts that have been in/out of various recovery programs, I'm totally at a loss. I too leaned libertarian with let people do the drugs they want, but that's back when I thought people were only doing things for recreation. I didn't have experience with true addicts until I was older. I've even played with liking the idea of a version of The Wire's Hamsterdam on the sole basis of the yo-yo lifestyle of recovery/relapse is just something that has no real answer.
>> consider a worse chat experience with Android users a feature

Well not really - it would be great if the sms feature set matched imessage. The main benefit to me when I see blue is that I know that person is probably at least authenticated and probably has a credit card tied to that account. That in itself seems to limit the riffraff (scammers) that want to send spam or other garbage. I see way more of that from green than I do blue.
Codegen AI still operates on bare text. Wait for those transformers which will be aware of language rules, scoping, types etc.
Google Fiber super fast 20GB internet service sign ups begin in some cities
I’m gonna doubt that a million dollars couldn’t put a fent addict on their feet again. That’s a bold claim.
QR codes are for suckers – it's time to break them for good
I use vi frequently, but I would be interested if the Wordstar mappings provide a speed benefit. They do seem to be easier to type.
The website shows something like a net but with a trash bag instead of netting[0][1].

It appears the thing he's holding in the picture in the article[2] is not a prop but is the same tool.

[0]: https://cleanlots.com/images/general/then.jpg

[1]: https://cleanlots.com/images/general/now.jpg

[2]: https://dollarsanity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cleanlot...
I don't see the current tech making supply infinite. Not even close.

Maybe a more advanced type of model they'll invent in the next years. Who knows... But GPT-like models? Nah, they won't write useful code applicable in prod without supervision by an experient engineer.
Not the stuff coming in from Mexico and China.
> The disorder was informally nicknamed "immigration delay disease" by Professor Peter Itin after his first patient had trouble traveling to the U.S. without any fingerprints for identification.

Thank you for the chuckle, Professor Peter Itin!
As a general rule, anything that uses electricity to get hot is going to need to run a PID if you want it to maintain a stable temperature. Once you've got the microcontroller in there it's trivial to add nice little features like thermal runaway detection or auto cooling/auto heating when the iron is put down/picked up, which are a couple of things the pinecil does.
Do you happen to know if it has always been this way, or is this the result of a gradual squeeze to a limit due to megahertz wars, increasingly shortened product cycles, and each companies product line structured in a way that tends to cannibalize their own sales before creating fresh profit.

And the decreasing return, in practical terms, for their customer base when upgrading since most basic computation tasks have long been solved and it's only exotic high-end workloads (plus constant bloat scaling factor that is largely a consequence of the added performance, rather than it's target) that benefit from added performance.

In short, was Intel making percent, or even single digit margins back in the 80s or even early '90s?
For the few things you'd need to write a check for... Certified check from the bank or a money order from the grocery store both seem like an easy way out of this. More than anything I wish I had the option to turn OFF check withdrawals from my account as I never write them and worry some stupid company (for example, rent processing one) is going to leak account numbers.
Do you have any docs describing the method?
When Bayer created heroin and brought it to market in the late 19th century, is this what happened? I don't know for sure, but I've never read about that having been a problem when it was available over the counter from a reputable brand.

Surely some people became addicted to it (not that different from alcohol, nicotine, fatty sweets, or various prescription drugs), but it didn't destroy society.
It's not a total solution, but a jailed addict isn't breaking into your car, robbing people at knifepoint, or resorting to prostitution to fund their habit. And they should have much more limited in access to drugs.

To help the addicts and reduce reoffending, what we probably need is better jails that are less a punishment and more an enforced rehab program with high-quality mental health support. And then a better path from jail back into society.

But that's expensive.
AMD is fabless since 2008/2009 (and sold its last stake in the subsidiary in 2012):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries
Thanks, good context. "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful" posted there in the picture on Wikipedia in support of him. And yet he supports Hamas actions. Fascinating cognitive dissonance.
What ends are you referring to?

You send the notifications to Apple/Google and they send the messages out to the app users.

If you think that you are one end and the app is the other end, you likely misunderstand the system.
> Has there been any research into how to measure potency (of fentanyl) and cut it properly?

Yes?

When you're having surgery and the anesthesiologist uses a mixture of fentanyl and propofol, such that you safely wake up, they aren't just guessing.

One problem is that what's out on the street isn't necessarily fentanyl in the first place, but any one of hundreds of fentanyl analogs, which all vary in potency. You have no idea whether what you're measuring is fentanyl.

If you "give information and supplies", how do you keep the government out of it? At the very least, the government has to decriminalize what you're doing. Then what; someone has to pay for it. What about liability? If someone dies and it turns out you gave them the supplies, you're liable.
Indeed, in CCC's "systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations"[0] the presenter explicitly calls out OpenBSD's tendency to present mitigations without specific examples of CVEs it defeats or exploit techniques the mitigations are known to defend against:

> Proper mitigations I think stem from proper design and threat modeling. Strong, reality-based statements like "this kills these vulnerabilities," or "this kills this CVE; it delays production of an exploit by one week." And also thorough testing by seasoned exploit writers. Anything else is relying on pure luck, superstition, and wishful thinking.

Some of OpenBSD's mitigations are excellent and robust in defensiveness; others are amorphous and not particularly useful.

[0]: https://youtu.be/3E9ga-CylWQ?feature=shared&t=2770
It's not about having accounts. Again, the data source (which I admit could be wrong/misleading) all say active users, which I take mean users actively sending messages using FB messenger. The sources, by the way, are companies that sell services that market to consumers using these services, so it's in their interest to know usage stats and patterns. Admitedly finding information around iMessage usage is harder, which is why I went with number of active iOS devices. Yes, it's sketchy AF, but I'm not going to pay Statista $149 in a vain attempt to pyrricly win internet points.
Meanwhile init7 are offering an even faster connection for about a quarter of the price.
> Much of the cig consumption reduction came exactly due to them being replaced by vapes

> assume pure nicotine consumption is not decreasing

If you look at data that covers the last 100 years instead of 20, you will see these are not valid assumptions, at least in the US. Other countries are different, but this is a post about the US

The vast reduction in cigarette usage has been attributed to the relentless anti-smoking campaigns, from statements on the pack, banning indoor smoking, banning advertisements, anti-smoking ads on TV, and ever increasing taxes
Well what they do is:

- Have a government who owns almost all the land, and provide subsidized housing to over 75% of the citizens.

- Provides universal healthcare, again subsidized through the government

- And forces quotas for all ethnicities to ensure everyone is equally represented everywhere.

So I guess we could try it Singapore's way, but Republicans keep saying it's a bad idea.
I suspect the article is about returning the contributing tables in a join as multiple relations... while not possible in SQL proper this is possible with stored procedures (at least in T-SQL)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40013747/return-multiple...
> Guess, if you have an itch, could fill it with open source projects instead.

Somewhat related, but I do wonder what this community will look like once humans enter a post scarce (or mostly) world. Which a 4 day weekend seems like a step in that direction. Along with the other aspects of what humans will do with their new found free time. Which seems especially interesting in a consumer based economy.
Not all addictions are the same. Nicotine is extremely addictive but you will never have a total breakdown of your life which is essentially a guarantee with heroin, whether you get it legally or not. There is no such thing as a functional heroin addict (outside of extremely rare cases). Even if they received very pure heroin for free they would be dead within the next decade or two.
Funny thing with carbohydrate metabolism: Histamine is an essential part of glucose metabolism, and histamine is an alertness neurotransmitter.
No, I mean mathematically. I had a skim through the original paper[1], but unfortunately it's not easy to figure out what the coordinates are. If any of them are related as a factor of an irrational number, I don't think it's possible.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798