skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is rational.

The odds of disaster are >10%, if history is any indicator. We had two world wars in the last century, for example. Events happen. Past doesn't predict future, but there are dozens things which can go wrong.

If I had $100B, it would make sense, from purely an expected value perspective, to invest up to perhaps $10B preparing. An expected value perspective isn't the right way of looking at this, but it's hard to argue that a <$1B investment doesn't make sense. That's 1% of an ultrawealthy person's wealth, and almost not noticeable to lifestyle.

The ultra-prepper lifestyle is irrational, but it's the rich person version of having a stock of non-perishable emergency food and medicine in the basement. If I had $100B, and didn't care about other people, I'd do the same.

Footnote: spending $1B on prepping is enough to change the lives of a million of the very poor. That's 3 years income for people making $3/day times a million people.
Because he didn't fire everyone in the first week.
Anybody have a Mistral invitation they can spare? I’m super curious how the medium performs compared to GPT3.5/4
The description of preconditions seems a bit incomplete.

To me it seems you need to avoid certain constructs, like UNIQUE constraints. Otherwise you might have a local insert plus a replicated one, both the same value in the unique column, and different nodes reject different inserts.
So elegant. Always loved Forth in a platonic kind of way, just couldn't ever stand the stack shuffling myself.
My SimpliSafe doorbell lit its own fire this winter
Ha.

Part of our software has a data ingestion and normalization process that can be somewhat costly. Basically, on a near per client basis we get data that needs to be transformed into our data model. We are currently investigating into using LLMs to setup our normalization DSL (or at least fill it out as best it can before a human signs off on it).

There's also an investigation going on to allow a client to ask an LLM about there data. I'm not sure how well that one will pan out.
How exactly is providing support for the defence of a country being invaded by another “escalating hostilities”?
The ‘recall’ mentioned here is just a voluntary Over-the-air software update by Tesla; Through: "increasing the prominence of visual alerts on the user interface".

The headline is being purposefully misleading. There is no ‘lie’ that is ‘exposed’ in here, just an update.

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V838-8276.PDF
> I want to live in the 90s.

Gross

I don't like the values I see in the 1990s TV shows.

However I love the tech, like CDs:

> CD audio is a little bit nicer tech. They

I love CDs! I even got a CD player in my car!

After trying them, I've found I really don't like vinyles or mechanical keyboards so maybe it's not just every 1990s tech I like, just some of it
Who is talking about the internet?

Also Poland is probably the last country that would have an internet conflict in the next decades.
YJIT won't help JSON generation because it's all implemented in C (either the stdlib `json`, or `oj` or `yajl` etc.

If what is slow is some RUby code like Active Model Serializers etc, then maybe it can help a bit there.

But yes, generally YJIT works very well on HTML templates because they are compiled as large methods with not a lot of branches.
I’m curious why you think constraints are such a problem? I’ve worked on quite a few large rails apps, and whilst you’re not wrong, the extra traffic from checking constraints has always been a tiny negligible part of overall db traffic.
You know what would be good? No longer repeating:

> “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein

Does anyone writing that really think Einstein said that? Apart from it being completely apocryphal, it’s a terribly shallow appeal to authority.
“Forecast for US Recession Within Year Hits 100% in Blow to Biden,” a Bloomberg headline flashed in fall 2022.
Meme pages and other "aggregate" accounts reveal a flaw in the internet in that credit is rarely attributed to the original content owner. This is unrelated to AI specifically.

You'll have an account "Amazing science". You follow it and it does post interesting videos. You believe the account provides a valuable service.

In reality, these accounts never credit the original source, and even if they do, in a disconnected way. The actual person that made the content does not get the views, likes, reshares, and follows.

It's all done under the disguise of "fair use" but it's a great injustice that these accounts profiteer from effectively "stealing" content. Or at least stealing exposure.

And yes, AI would be the next evolution to make the production of original content increasingly pointless.
Looks like that provides an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint, which means you can use my LLM command-line utility against with the same pattern as for Llamafile: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/18/mistral/#llamafile-ope...
> That trade will be complete before the market "sees" you are trying to buy a ton.

That's not how the market works. There are not enough open sell orders at any price (let alone a little above most recent price) for someone to sweep in and buy 51% (or even just a few percent) at once.

As soon as more than a trivial (in the noise) amount of your buys goes through all the open sell orders will start to move up in price (since it's nearly all automated), so you'll be chasing that ever-increasing price a long way up.
I don't dispute that at all, but may I ask why you're replying to me?

I'm sure you remember my name, as we were having a discussion on the same topic just a day or two ago. You called me immature, didn't know what I was talking about, claimed I was arguing in bad faith, and that I had a chip on my solider, and then ended by giving yourself a reminder not to reply to me again in the future.

I think we would both prefer it if we avoided each other, so I'm just curious why you would instigate a conversation with me after apparently having such a negative experience and claiming you wouldn't do so in the future.
There are more than three compilers, and many of the changes if done at all in an existing compiler, are a mix between private branches and ongoing unstable features, hardly battle tested as the first standards were, when existing practice is what came into the standard.
Design wise it feels to me like they stagnated since his departure. Every other iPhone design used to be different and exciting before he left.
That's the philosphy behind Markus Docnet

https://github.com/markusdocnet
For everyone else wondering what a fully automatic tofu line looks like, I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJomLW3QMDI (CGI)
But looking at alternative browsers like Brave, Vivaldi, Opera or Arc they are also Chromium based. Brave is even by Mozilla's former CTO and they still don't use the Mozilla stack. Many apps will either bundle in CEF or are entirely written in Electron.

Mozilla just made technology that nobody else wants to use.
No, I have tried about 3 times and all failed. Altough it might be that I'm simply doing it wrong.

There are people (can point at a discord server) claiming it works for them and that they even sell finetuned models to business clients.

EDIT: I found one of the articles I tried to follow: https://www.mlexpert.io/prompt-engineering/chatbot-with-loca...

EDIT2: Ignore above. This seemed much more promising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnwVz64jNvw . Author provides consulting services and seemed very nice and approachable
Switzerland has a lot of guns but a homicide rate below 1 per 100k, it is not necessarily the guns as such.

US rate is a little bit up from early 2010s, but a lot lower than in the 1980s, in the EU the rate was low in the early 2020s compared to the previous ten years.
I'm not convinced, if anything, teenagers of today seem to have less of anything unique going on (note that this may just be perspective, I'm not up to date on teenagers), whereas back when you'd have a number of subcultures.

I mean you mention anime characters, but there's a big greaser / rockabilly subculture in Japan - grown men dressing like they're from the 50's.

Then there's of course the survivalist / homesteader subculture, people who live off the grid. There's LARPers who - usually only at events - dress up as elves and co. There's medieval re-enactors who have full suits of armor. There's renaissance faire people. There's Dickensians. Furries. Peaky Blinders. K-Pop stans. The list goes on.

This is normal human behaviour. While I also think it's a little strange, it's harmless. Let people have things.
> Have you forgotten how many democrats have called for the murder and/or execution of trump publicly?

Citation, please?
Wasn't a problem with broadcast TV.

Seems like the internet ad industry wants scale, but doesn't want to solve the problems of scale.
>You don't have to buy it. That's the reality. [...] You guys are simply factually wrong.

It's the argument and the conclusion that I don't buy, not your (and Adobe's) carefully selected set of facts.

Here's a very big player in the graphics software market that tried to buy a potential strategic threat out of the market. This is the fact that matters in my view.

I wouldn't let the top 5 in any market buy another company that is or could soon become a significant competitor in that or a closely related market.
> Mr. Cooper said in its regulatory filing that the cyberattack will cost the company at least $25 million, up from an estimated $5 to 10 million, largely due to paying for identity protection to its current and former customers for two years.

For a company that makes ~$2.9 billion revenue, $25 million is a drop in the bucket. Why aren't there more repercussions for companies that can't protect their customers' data?

There have been so many breaches that result in "free identity protection services". Maybe these "identity protection service" companies are paying the hackers?
05/06 CRV were the best vehicles Honda ever made. Absolutely reliable and super easy to work on. Crazy amount of rear legroom. A hatch that swings sideways instead of up. Roof rails that you can bolt a 2x4 to to haul stuff around. And they have a picnic table in the back!
What do you mean it "takes away choice"? Did you mean "imposes annoying bureaucracy"? Because I have a hard time seeing how forcing people to make a choice is taking away choice.

Also, the people who have accounts away from the big instances have actively declined to use them, so they are clearly more likely to move to some other mid scale instance if they need to migrate than to head for the big ones.
> For the same purpose that all standards have--to formally define it in writing.

This is tautological. It's equivalent to saying "it needs a standard to be written because it needs a written standard."

I mean what use case is there for Rust language users that isn't already met by the Ferrocene project? And the Ferrocene project is not a standard as in "other implementations will be found lacking," but a description of the 1.68 compiler as-is. That is a specification, not a standard. Ferrous Systems did not need Rust to have a standard in order to qualify the compiler for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.
> So I don't want to do a Facebook page. What are my relatively low-cost options?

There's some level of complexity in all of those choices compared to just having a FB page.

I liken it to taking the bus everyday over buying an e-bike. Buying a bike is complicated, expensive, easy to make mistakes. But at the end of the day, you'll have a vehicle to take you from A to B.

You don't have to buy one, as long as the bus keeps running. But one day the bus route or schedule might change, and it no longer takes you where you wanted to go. This is when having a bike, warts and all, would've been be useful.
If I can't close it immediately and resume I right-click->Block Element. If doing that leaves the page unusable, I usually just click off. I'm with you, the web today is exhausting and feels hostile to the user in most cases.
Again. I’m not claiming that alternative implementations don’t exist, just that they’re not particularly common/popular compared with OpenJDK/Oracle (which is largely the same codebase). Android is the only alternative implementation with serious adoption and it lags quite heavily.

BTW GraalVM is based on OpenJDK so I don’t really understand your point there. It’s not a ground-up reimplementation of the spec.
I disagree that stereotypes really vary over time or space as it seems like you're implying. Many of the gender stereotypes today are more or less the same as they were 2000 years ago, either here or on the other side of the world.
Threads has (as of late last week) enabled federation for a small set of employee accounts. Here's a federated post; it doesn't look like comments and likes are federating: https://mastodon.world/@mosseri@threads.net/1115866154367492...

I don't think most instance owners will block them. The larger servers I've paid attention to don't plan to at this time, though many people have expressed concerns about it being an attempt by Meta to embrace, extend, and extinguish the Fediverse. A few people are very loud about not wanting a Meta presence and are trying to convince others to block them.

I think the opportunity outweighs the threat. There's a chance for Mastodon and others to show their software to a mainstream audience which has already shown a willingness to try out new social software by joining threads. Ideally, some projects will have a better pitch than just "we're not corporate".
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> Do you know if Lembke has had much success in treating addiction? That is how I usually filter authors like this.

> I am yet to find an academic that has any unique insight in actually solving the problem.

It sounds like these two together indicate that your “filter” eliminates 100% of the authors on this topic. Are there any authors on the matter that you respect and might recommend?
> I know corporations hate standards and love to make their own little one-offs, but it's really holding back technological progress.

Corporations create standards all the time, either directly or through standards bodies, that they also fund. You can already push logs with syslog, or transform them with Beats then push them; you can already attach storage from elsewhere, etc etc. It's just often a bad idea to for performance and data movement cost reasons.

I don't see the major technological progress this holds back, and if you think technological progress is a measure of how much corporations hate standards, then by that logic, based on the last 50 years of utterly insane progress, they must love standards.
Given there’s debate even amongst high powered patent lawyers, a layperson-friendly explanation of the specifics rather than “try to parse the patent applications” might still be somewhat valuable.
Netflix has a couple series, a “Dictator’s playbook” and “Mafia boss’ playbook”.

What they really need to do is make one for tech scroungers and frauds like SBF, Holmes, Newman, Nikola founder, etc.
It's middle school cliquism. Assuming that stereotypes about clothing tell you everything you need to know about a person.
Are you on their waitlist? I got through that in less than 48 hours, so it might be worth a shot.
Vintage car restorer / driver? I dunno, I think if you can't think of a job that doesn't require a mobile phone or computer, you lack imagination.
And since Rust does a release every 6 weeks, we’re talking a ~4 month lag. That’s unheard of for C/C++.
I don't know why car manufacturer need to re-invent things in interior.

Many people are familiar with shifting knob but now companies are introducing switches (Tesla takes it up notch in their latest cyber truck, they are putting drive switches below rear view mirror)
I would prefer for critical activities like wiper, heater where I can rely on muscle memory.
The fact that PFAS are everywhere and have been for decades is IMHO itself evidence that they aren't actually as big of a problem as some want to believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid#Global_...

Most industrialized nations have average PFOA blood serum levels ranging from 2 to 8 parts per billion;[57] the highest consumer sub-population identified was in Korea—with about 60 parts per billion.[52] In Peru,[58] Vietnam,[59] and Afghanistan[60] blood serum levels have been recorded to be below one part per billion. In 2003–2004 99.7% of Americans had detectable PFOA in their serum with an average of about 4 parts per billion

I know correlation is not causation, but look up the corresponding other statistics about those countries' population health such as life expectancy, and that data seems to suggest the exact opposite to "PFAS are harmful".
I run in Linux system it via cli using Ollama, very easy to setup

https://ollama.ai/library/mistral

curl https://ollama.ai/install.sh | sh

ollama run mistral:text
Curious now if you could use D in the same way? Walter Bright built a faster preprocessor for Facebook (kind of a sidenote and not fully relevant), wouldnt surprise me if D is another good candidate especially given its age.
> There are YouTubers like "ReportoftheWeek" who like to dress in an older style, but choosing to not learn to use a cellphone

There are also HNers. Count me in the "refuse to use a cellphone" camp.

I want to learn how the hardware and software stacks work, but I don't want to carry one ever.
Using living cells as a read/write storage medium also makes them a target for malware. It's not limited to ransomware and classics, but also fun new possibilities [1]. Figuring out how to implement W^X should be a top research priority.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270005/
I just love seeing people still hacking with FORTH
You're 100% right. Gave me a big, big smile after 7 years at Google feeling like an alien, I was as a college dropout from nowhere with nothing and nobody, but a successful barely-6-figure exit at 27 years old.

Big reason why the FAANGs get dysfunctional too. You either have to be very, very, very, fast to fire, almost arbitrarily (Amazon) or you end up with a bunch of people who feel safe enough to be trying to advance.

The "rich kids" w/o anything but college and FAANG were taught Being Visible and Discussing Things and Writing Papers is what "hard work" is, so you end up with a bunch of people building ivory towers to their own intellect (i.e. endless bikeshedding and arguing and design docs and asking for design docs) and afraid of anyone around them who looks like they are.
There is the option of contacting the program committee chair or proceedings editor to complain if the reviewers misunderstood something fundamentally, like it looks like it happened in his example.

The teacher should have fought this battle for the pupil, or they ought to have their efforts re-targeted another conference.
Now that’s awesome. Thanks for that, I was not aware of this feature.
>https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine...

Look at a breakdown of funds to date. Even if you believe the military hardware is actual junk, it is less than 1/3 of the total. >40% is straight up cash, and %25 is services.

What is the source of your talking points contrary and why do you trust them when they are wrong about simple facts like these?
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https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_imagelist.html

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or:

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And something like:

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What would be the status of those six million refugees (not to mention those who haven't left) under the Russian regime?
> It stinks of hypocrisy to me having this kind of regressive behavior on a site called "hacker news"

Not sure how long you’ve browsed the site, but this isn’t particularly uncommon.
That sounds like a classic example of doing something and making the situation worse (aka almost every regulation ever)

If advertising providers were de jure and de facto liable for fraud, then that will raise the bar for competing advertising providers, as if Google wasn't enough of a monopoly.

Regulation almost universally benefits established players and stifles competition, which is why a lot of regulation is (secretly) backed by large companies. (Note that I'm not saying that regulation never hurts large companies, and regulation can hurt both large companies and small companies/society.)
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Despite being on shaky ground due to local minima, barren plateaus, classical simulability, and more, variational quantum computing is definitely a real field. ChatGPT can't even hallucinate properly.
Papers are absolutely judged on impact - it's not as though any paper submitted to Nature gets published as long as it gets through peer review. Most journals (especially high-impact for-profit journals) have editors that are selecting interesting and important papers. I think it's probably a good idea to separate those two jobs ("is this work rigorous and clearly documented") vs ("should this be included in the fall 2023 issue").

That's (probably) good for getting the most important papers to the top, but it also strongly disincentivizes whole categories (often very important paper). Two obvious categories are replication studies and negative results. "I tried it too and it worked for me" "I tried it too and it didn't work" "I tried this cool thing and it had absolutely no effect on how lasers work" could be the result of tons of very hard work and could have really important implications, but you're not likely to make a big splash in high-impact journals with work like that. A well-written negative result can prevent lots of other folks from wasting their own time (and you already spent your time on it so might as well write it up).

The pressure for impactful work also probably contributes to folks juicing the stats or faking results to make their results more exciting (other things certainly contribute to this too like funding and tenure structures). I don't think "don't care about impact" is a solution to the problem because obviously we want the papers that make cool new stuff.
I really should! I'm not the type to publish videos of myself usually, but it really does need a video demo.
Oh please tell me how a climate knob is a safety-critical flight-control element.