skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gun example suffers from a lack of nuance in risk quantification. Anyone who owns a gun is putting their own life at risk, because “basically zero” is not “zero.” So the statement is “If you own a gun, you are putting your life at risk” is technically true, it’s just not very useful.

The way to overcome this is to start with the average risk and subtract from it by naming specific mitigations that must be in place to reduce risk. Unfortunately, it seems that in the US, there isn’t a voice of “responsible gun owners” in the conversation. There are only two voices: those who would ban them outright and those who would make any restriction illegal.

By the way, the largest victim of gun violence in the US is gun owners due to suicide. It’s unclear what mitigations one could put in place to prevent that.
If users don't have hardware accelerated video decoding, it's so bad that it actually hurts the experience. I can't imagine that being worth the space savings. There doesn't have to be a good reason YouTube does it, it might just be someone wanting to insert their tech, which I'm pretty sure is the reason Meet uses it.
That's a non sequitur, the existence or nonexistence of unions says nothing about human dignity.
Fastmail's podcast seems to be pro union, at least for actors:

https://www.fastmail.com/digitalcitizen/the-future-of-ai-wit...

I wouldn't read too much into it. Unions are just a counterweight to corporate interests in the best case. The places that union bust out in the open are usually the worst offenders, and Fastmail doesn't seem to be that.
"bad thing" is a matter of perspective and opinion. People see "bad things" both ways 99% of the time
If they're generating massive profits and not receiving proportional compensation then collective action can produce a fairer outcome.
I ordered a cheeseburger in Spanish and the server looked at me funny when I said:

”hamburguesa con queso sin pepinillos…”

I’m always interested in how to improve, especially since ChatGpt and Google Translate both suggested that translation so I asked why.

She said I’m not sure, it just doesn’t sound right.

I came back the next day after practicing with this prompt:

”When translating into Spanish, tailor it for Mexican-Americans living in Dallas, Texas. Leave certain words as English as necessary to produce the most idiomatic, culturally relevant, and understandable result.”

Ordered this time with the phrase

”Cheeseburger sin pepinillos."

She said yes, that’s better.
>Does Germany have an inquisitorial judicial system like France? In France, AIUI they use "Investigating Magistrates", who are both prosecutor and judge, and who direct police investigations. Acquittal seems improbable in such circumstances. Resistance is useless!

I dont think so. The closest thing is probably the shenanigans going on with anti terror trials (§ 129b). While there is the problem of sentencing being only possible with an authorization to prosecute for said group from the ministry of justice, the really dangerous part is it being possible to read in stuff that is "known to the court" (gerichtsbekannt) at the start of the trial. So for example the court declares that its a known fact that the not illegal group xyz is a "cover organization" (tarnorganisation) for the banned organization zyx. A fact that is not part of the evidence gathering procedure and as a result cant be challenged. Which makes the rest of the trial pointless, you are already guilty.

Historically its a concept first used for membership in the German communist party that found its way into anti terror trials later.
The „advanced” part of Andy Pavlo’s great great database course discusses classic database design compromises and the tradeoffs, among other things.

See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/
Because: https://old.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/18ike40/december_up...
They process so many transactions per second. It doesn’t seem too hard to try wrong ccv at a pace slow enough to avoid detection.
For a very long time, the Democrats were several different parties loosely united under one. As AOC put it "In any other country Biden and I would be in different parties". They were the "Big Tent Party".

Now it's the Republicans whose divisions are becoming visible.
> But there is very obviously a point below which unionization is a sign of dysfunction.

FWIW I don't think that's obvious at all. Even a small group of happy employees could form a union to set the current policies everyone is happy with in stone and protect themselves and future employees against potential changes in ownership or a downturn in company health.
That's not what I said nor was responding to. The GP asserted that companies have a fiduciary duty to avoid unionizing, and my counterargument is that such activity could be illegal which is actively detrimental to a company's fiduciary duty.
At least in Germany we have "sectoral bargaining" enshrined in law. The relevant union and the coalition of employers negotiate a deal (sometimes this process involves strike actions, if common ground can not be found initially). This deal automatically applies to all employees in the sector (i.e. metal workers).

Some sectors do not have sectoral bargaining but certain unions have agreements with some subset of employers in that sector to have all their workers covered by any deal that is struck. The incentive for employers in those sectors (i.e. automotive) to join these agreements is that desirable employees usually prefer unionized shops, as they have better overall compensation packages and perks. Also they might not want to become the target of strikes.

Not directly tied to unionization, workers in companies above a certain size have to be included in decision making (i.e. in public companies worker representatives get board seats) so a pro-union position often has a certain groundswell of support within a shop.

For historic reasons, in some sectors union membership is part of the "culture", as well. Historically, unions have had an important role in upwards social mobility, popular education, culture, etc.
> Which phrasing do you thinks work better?

I like as a rule-of-thumb "You are blah blah blah. Respond to the user's text [insert style rule here]". Then following it up with an additional rules and commands such as "YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE FEWER THAN 100 CHARACTERS OR YOU WILL DIE." Yes, threats work. Yes, all-caps works.

> Also, when dealing with Completion models, which do you think is better?

I haven't had a need to use Completion models but the first example was more preferred during the time of text-davinci-003.

> Even more still, what about these ones?

I always separate rules to the system prompt and questions/user input to the user prompt.
but i didn’t say a single thing about custody

my entire comment was about package management and nested software dependencies, what did you even read
Please, for the love of god, stop with the custom scroll bars, and on the wrong side of the viewport, no less!
> I'm convinced this is happening. I notice it regularly

So am I and no oce at this point can convince me otherwise, it's the singular "conspiracy" I believe.

The amount of times I've had the same thing happen is staggering to the point I can't dismiss it as a mere coincidence anymore.
Cognitive control in times of digital distraction
Makes sense - if I look at the overall Japan numbers, they look pretty flat (seems like foreign nationals are plugging some of the decline).

Curious what happens when there's a real demographic nosedive.
Attention, from a Philosophical Point of View
Yeah, I also miss the mid-80s. But they're not coming back. We haven't had anything even faintly resembling "rational and informed discussion" in decades.

The thing with Machiavellianism is that it works. The anti-Machiavellians are welcome to discourse with each other all day. But they'll take orders from those who manipulated the rules to get more rules passed. It has never been about who's right; it's about who wins.
CRDTs turned inside out
> All the effort of thought, hiding it from the producers, thinking themselves so radical, and nobody noticed anyway.

And good for them! In this modern age of rage porn, someone would have noticed, started a twitter storm (or is it X storm now), and more likely than not, some people would have had their career ruined, just for having some fun at workspace.

Sigh.
The scammers are very effective. One of my family members almost fell for a similar scam recently.
US-Finland expat here, and yes, I quite like my union. But I especially like my unemployment fund: 100 euros a year gets me 50% of my pre-tax salary for a year if I lose or leave my job.

Unemployment insurance plans
seem underrated in general by FTEs, both in the US and elsewhere. Without it, your ability to exercise both halves of "voice or exit" in the corporate world are severely curtailed. Like life insurance, it's relatively hard to game as a policy - it's usually pretty clear when you lose your salaried job, just like it's usually pretty clear when you die. I see few downsides, especially if you live cheap enough to pay all of your bills on that X% of your income anyway.
I wouldn't expect human ears to be able to pick it up, because human ears would have far more serious problems just being exposed to the vacuum of space. But if it's possible to make sensors that can detect this sound, and devices that can generate it, and communication between the two would be accurate and really this fast, well, that would certainly be interesting.

Not sure if it would actually be useful, because I'm sure radio waves would be much more practical, but sound in space is a fascinating idea.
I sunk so many hours into this game as a kid. It's crazy how much depth they were able to pack into a flight simulator in 1991.
I don't think so.
It still remains that you are asking a question?
Do you have any examples of case law to support this claim you’ve made? As a layman my understand of fiduciary duty is not very good, it is easy to imagine how things might in the long term interest of the business, or might not be, and it seems like it would be extremely difficult to prove either way in court.
Also of note is that the US doesn't really have sectoral bargaining like, say, France does. This would prevent scenarios where nonunionized companices in a sector can start up and outperform established unionized ones just by hiring desperate people and paying them below the fair rate.
Top-level management doesn't even have to be "the enemy" for a union to be very nice to have—companies of more than like 30 people are gonna have a shitty, abusive middle-manager somewhere and a union gives employees cover to resist their bullshit at far lower personal risk.

"No, I won't be (coming in on Sunday/'just doing this one extra thing before leaving after hours'/breaking company policy and legal requirements for safety or waste disposal or whatever), please see [section of union agreement], if you'd like to continue this discussion I can bring in my rep and, as required by policy laid out in [other section of union agreement], your boss, and we can all have a chat about this" will get a lot of abusive pricks to tuck tail and STFU in a hurry, with low risk of effective retaliation.
Exactly right. A union is basically a cartel.
The whole idea of a union is to nullify at will employement.
Pspg: Unix pager designed for work with tables
> Asking some generative AI bot about how to write a better hotpatch function or how to automate a terribly-detailed set of steps that require two people would defeat my own learning. I'd rather take 3 days to sort that out than solve it in minutes with AI. I get better by slogging it out and the mistakes I make help me avoid future mistakes.

That is a good answer. Certain kinds of tools can become a crutch that limit you and stifle your own development. Maybe that's tolerable when it's not a core skill (e.g. never learning your way around your city because you only know how to react to GPS prompts), but when you're talking about a core job skill, it's a recipe for disaster (e.g. letting your skills atrophy or not developing them in the first place).
Maybe it's because I have very good spatial intelligence, but I always found PKI to be a lot simpler than most people made it out to be. People treating me like some sort of priest of the church of crypto when generating and signing keys is really not that hard.

PKI is like a kitchen knife. The hard part is not getting one, or picking it up, it's using it without cutting yourself. But people treat the 'knife' like all aspects are magical.
I played on a 486DX2 with a math co-processor, and it ran well, though fairly low FPS unless I turned the graphics down.
Is usability really just one flaw, like, could we get some usability experts to sit down with it for a couple months and then it's perfect?
They had no problems denying it to slaves, either. And much of the holdup for adding new states to the US in the first half of the 19th century was the political question "will it tip the balance in favor of slave states or free states?" It was easiest to admit two at a time, one slave state, one free state, so that states could be admitted without political controversy.
As a FastMail customer, congrats to their workers on their union.
That is literally what quantization and distillation are
The best jokes need to be explained. /s

Honestly, this reads more like a cautionary tale about subtle subversion: sometimes its so subtle it's invisible, and therefore wasted effort. This kind of subversion is "safe" and therefore useless, or worse than useless, since it still gives the catharsis of action without being effective.
You struggle to imagine anyone understanding current fair treatment does not guarantee future fair treatment?
Could you imagine the world of shit Facebook/Google/Apple/etc would be in, if someone from their engineering team proved this was possible? People have claimed this NSA-style "listening in" has been happening for years, just to target ads, but there's never been a single shred of code to explain how it would be feasible, especially via an iPhone.
Thank you for your perspective!

(We are looking into both for https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt)
How would you do it in Go? It is my understanding that FAISS is integrated into the SQL database itself (using embedding in the table), so writing it in Go wouldn't integrate it in the same way.

> But you can try to use my build scripts, and tweak my code, to build SQLite+sqlite-vss+Faiss into one large WASM

That makes perfect sense to me! I'm looking into your build scripts right now. I'm pretty proficient in Go, but haven't touched wasm or C much, so. I may reach out with more questions.
I detest what Lego has become. I cringe when I see most of the sets are a movie themed fad which won't fit well with the rest of your Lego. It's very clear Lego profits more when the planet is filled up with more plastic crap. So I stick to the classic ones which are timeless and versatile. I guess the themed sets are designed for man-children collectors.
There are enough anecdotes to be more than confirmation bias

Try it for yourself. Choose a product. Maybe one of the examples here. Talk about it loud with your phone in proximity. Maybe turn off adblocker and see what happens.
The way US system works, even when the entire industry is unionized, your union membership is generally through the "local" associated with your employer, not something independent of your current employment, with very few exceptions. That local may be part of an umbrella union that also covers the rest of your industry (or even a wide range of different industries, e.g., AFL-CIO or SEIU.)
There are a few reasons. You could say that putting humans on Mars has intrinsic value. In other words, "because it's cool". The other main argument for putting humans on Mars is that the grand projects of humanity push our technology forward. Putting humans on Mars requires solving a larger class of problems than sending probes does. The first space race accelerated the development of rocketry, integrated circuits, computers, satellite communications, and materials science. There's reason to believe that sending humans to Mars will cause similar advances in our capabilities, possibly in novel ways that we can't anticipate. A third argument is existential risk. If something catastrophic happens on Earth, there is some probability that having independent colonies on other planets would prevent extinction of the species. This is definitely true in the long term if we truly master the technology of surviving and thriving in space, but it's less realistic in the near term.

That said, I don't think Musk and others working on this problem are taking the challenges of creating a colony on Mars seriously. We know very little about the long-term effects on the human body, reproductive cycle, and psychology. If they're serious about this, one of their top priorities should be funding research to create isolated self-sustaining human colonies closer to Earth as a proof of concept. If we can't survive for decades at the bottom of the ocean or on the moon, we probably can't survive for decades on Mars. We would also need high confidence that generations of humans born on Mars wouldn't accumulate severe genetic damage and birth defects. This is a whole research program in itself that we're nowhere close to solving.
Every time I see someone do this I start wondering how common it is. Is saying to Google, "Please show me the finial score of last nights Detroit Pistons game." more common than my "Pistons game" query that gets me the same result?

I've also seen this with various voice assistants.
She couldn't tell you "we say 'cheeseburger' instead of 'hamburguesa con queso?'" This is a good anecdote on why LLMs are great for translation but a strange example lol
(NSFW) Posts like: https://twitter.com/l9friendlystyle/status/17351986277931541...
sure probably helped sway opinion
Sure, and the console industry is already moving past it. It's now just asking you to lay $10-20 for a "season" of a battle pass, where you grind and get more rewards for your grinding. No RNG at all, just one input, and X actions to guarantee Y rewards. No more, no less.

But the games discourse online isn't exactly giving games like Fortnite any slack despite no longer using lootboxes for its monetization. Or on a fighter game (of which few ever used lootboxes) for offering dozens of skins.

That's the dangerous part on what to or not regulate. Do we want thr government regulating how many add-ons or cosmetics a game can sell?
Not sure what is the point of this thread since even Linux/Windows/MacOs are bizarre names.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/fouWj
3800. Simple majority wins when they vote, so less than another 1000 to go.
Do you realize how much convolution this is? Without even considering the core of the issue: glibc devs and gcc are making core sys libs backward ABI handling a massive pain in the toolchain, and a kind of "silent killer".

It is inappropriate to consider those containers compared to actually doing something about this backward ABI handling in the toolchain for inexperienced devs on elf/linux (those coming from windows). This is technically more reasonable, with a abysmal difference.
Interesting you should say that, I was playing around with prompting last week and did one around a legal question. The first time I asked very concisely without much detail, and the answer it gave was poor. Then I re-wrote the question explaining who they are, why they are answering the question, etc etc. The answer seemed better so I showed it to a lawyer friend and they laughed and said "You re-wrote the question into a very standard bar exam prep style".
I remember it taking minutes to load and then only getting under 20 fps. Maybe I had the graphics up too high. I didn't know what I was doing at all.
If you tried and couldn't see, it might be like others say that it's more visible on certain monitors and setups. But then, again - if you are designing codecs or choosing them, you probably want a monitor that makes it easy to see these things. I can see them on my old iPhone screen.

It reminds me of how sometimes you see a huge billboard hideously strong 10 foot wide JPEG compression artifacts. It was someone's job to make those, too.
Big Node-RED fan here. For me it has the perfect combination between visual flow based programming[0] and textual coding. It makes a great effort in making visual programming incredible efficient.

Node-RED does great job in implementing the ideas of FBP in visual manner.

[0] = https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/
my lighthouse will not have details in it that someone who can recall a photograph of one might.

To be fair: most folks don't really remember as many details as you think. Definitely not photo-level. I generally tell folks that you'll be able to draw a bird, sure. Even different kinds of birds - but they will be fairly generic and simple. You'll know it is a duck or goose or little bird or owl. But unless you've studied birds and drawn a lot of them, it won't be a blue jay, an exotic duck, a snowy owl, and so on. Not without a reference picture, of course.

Those reference photos are important enough that I had an art teacher that tasked us with taking reference photos with disposable cameras. This was mid-90s, before phones were everywhere and there were so many resources for such things.

I'll also add that I keep a dialog in my head as I draw. I can visualize well enough, but the 'thinking voice' come along and narrates the things I'm drawing. "Put that line there and go down and across the page...." "Just add that little window down there and remember the handle!"
I had a boss who was making giving me a lead position into a bigger deal than it needed to be. Like he wanted me and one of my peers to be secret leads before he announced it formally. The entire situation was odd.

I told him I didn't care what he called me, what mattered is whether people would listen to me when I asked them to do stuff, like use a better solution to a problem. If you want to be a lead, you have to do a lot of that yourself. But I was young (1st lead position) and his lack of backing that up were making it all more complicated than it needed to be.

Made all the weirder by the fact that he was good at selling people on ideas, to a fault (it took me 3 tries to quit that job, he was such a smooth talker)
A democratic nation with powerful economy and complex social rules. Parents push kids to study hard in school. Kids learn a lot, so they pass exams, create smarphones, robots, yet unable to create an environment where people would be motivated to bring their kids and wouldn't be as stressed or suicidal.
South Koreans on HN, any ideas why? ;-)

For me personally, South Korea is a great example, how entire nations of homo sapiens can be unconsciously cognitively trapped, and in how technological progress, science and ability to solve differential equations !== wellbeing.
"TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms"

The clause can be rendered irrelevant at any time by government legislation. Such legislation could also be retrospective.
Wait till you find out that there is even DE called 'Gnome'.
> as an outside observer it seems that the Nordic model is primarily propped up by public-owned natural resource extraction

Nordic, not Norwegian. Sweden, for instance, isn’t particularly dependent on mining and isn’t an energy economy.