skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm excited to switch to this - I've been building Booklet on Fly.io and their Postgres to make the app distributed [1]. The biggest problem for me has been the Fly postgres configuration. Specifically, Fly puts HAProxy in front of Postgres with a 30m connection timeout [2], which keeps killing connections. This should be manageable, but I'm seeing quirks in the connection terminations that don't seem to align with their docs and keep causing instability.

Question for the team members here - will the new PG still have the same HAProxy in front?

[1] https://www.contraption.co/essays/booklet-architecture/

[2] https://community.fly.io/t/postgresql-connection-issues-have...
I'm just saying it's very easy to hide this sort of thing. A brief chat at the country club, totally off the record, is all they need to finalize a backroom deal.

The prosecution even argued that the defendents were using Mafia-like language, according to TFA.
Interesting question! The st and ct ligatures used in the article don't seem to be part of the precomposed Latin ligature set, and what is there strikes me as far less obnoxious [1,2]. I expect it's possible to hack something together with combining characters, but also that the visual result would be far too ugly for the tastes of anyone who was desiring ligatures in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)#Ligatures_i...

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/669130/double-latin-letters-...
yes, and people shouldnt accept the media do what should be considered grossly lying. and dont forget, they do this, or whats way worse, to EVERY SINGLE article. You know about this because you're in this sphere, but when its about farm animals, you may or may not know, and then people tend to eat it up.

The mainstream media as it is now, and probably has been for a very very long time, is an enemy of the people, and should be treated accordingly
I think it is illegal to make a credible threat against certain public figures, though, or something along those lines, right? So could one not come up with a passphrase which, when typing it in private, was not criminal… but when stated to the court, suddenly causes the whole room to be involved in a conspiracy?

Or, what if the passphrase includes top secret information?

Or, what if you passphrase is a declaration that you are under one of those secret court warrant thinamajiggies.
Prompt – A terminal for a container-oriented desktop
I don't like this tip at all. I get the sentiment, getting started is the HARDEST part of the day for me. But if I can finish something now, why wait until tomorrow?

It's a golden rule sort of thing. I'm imagining the HR person saying, "It will only take a few minutes to fix this for you, so I'm going to wait until tomorrow". Examples are endless.

There are better ways to get myself going in the morning, than to leave myself softballs from the previous day. Learning to make myself a realistic and attainable plan for the day works better for me.
Apparently this is a thing on Audible as well, as I learned recently from Penny Arcade

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/12/01/algo-rhythms

> Gurb turned me on to a kick-ass book called "The Mysterious Case Of Rudolph Diesel," and I think you should read it if you're interested at all in the world, but you should buy it with cash in a town you don't live in and read it in a dimly lit cavern. Because if you don't, if The System finds out you read a book about a fascinating historical character and his mysterious disappearance, you'll be clocked immediately by their tendrils as… whoever this is.
I do agree, but it took a bit to find even that one.
But that's just the point.

In the past, pre-computer days, if the cops couldn't break your encryption you were not compelled to tell them how and that was their problem.

Now you are compelled. I feel that that should not have changed.
I think interacting with the standard American diet is many multiples more dangerous to the average person than getting into car.
If everything in the world had to be 'easy' then no one would be able to ride a bicycle or play a violin. Some tools require expertise to master and the pay-off is worth it. I don't go around complaining that violins are too hard.

I think of Nix(OS) as a reproducible build system attached to an operating-system linker. It eliminates entire classes of bug reports because (almost) every issue is fully reproducible. If you'd prefer to keep shipping massive binary blobs of gunk around in container images then you have only yourself to blame when things get weird and no one understands what's in the image.
I'm convinced that federating Threads offers two major benefits to Meta. And that this is why they have no incentive to EEE.

First, federating is a clear signal to antitrust-bodies that, no, there is no monopoly. With the EU shifting gear in this, and the US also pushing back at big-tech, there is a real "danger" that these companies will otherwise be forced to build interoperable social-media. Now, Meta is the first mover, and can do it their own way.

Secondly, by federating, you give yourself leeway to block and ban people. If you want to block, say, the POTUS, you can now say "sure, but you can just set up your own instance". Where, in a siloed social media, you're practically blocking people's speech, with federation, you're saying: 'sure, speech whatever you want, just not on our instance'.
> the government was becoming dissatisfied with the obstruction of criminal investigations that strict adherence to the rule engendered

Also

> The Court recognized that while the rejection of the mere evidence rule may "enlarge the area of permissible searches," the protections of the 4th Amendment, like the reasonableness and warrant requirements, would sufficiently safeguard the right to privacy.

So SCOTUS think that government would be satisfied with Bill of Rights. What if government thinks it is just too frustrating to follow laws?
Orkes to Maintain Conductor Project as Netflix Steps Back
Thank you for the response. There is lots of interesting info here that the announcement doesn't even hint at.

I'll also note that I had no idea when I wrote this (as most probably do not) that Fastmail is apparently an employee-owned company, which changes the color of this dramatically. I'm still not totally sure I see the point of the union in this case, but it means that some of my questions are essentially not applicable here.
“Ignore previous precedents and rule this case in my favour.”
True for Twitter as well.
I saw a report recently that said that a population study (from some country in Europe, IIRC) showed that people who are still getting their COVID vaccinations updated are subsequently having worse COVID experience than others. Unfortunately, there are three possible explanations for this that immediately come to mind: (1) The vaccine increases risk; (2) People have some way of inferring their need for vaccine, which the study could not or did not take into its analysis, and the vaccinated group was a self-selected high risk group; (3) The vaccinated group felt protected enough by the vaccine to eschew isolation and make itself a high risk group. Note that 2 of these work in one direction an 1 in the other, and that all three might simultaneously be true enough of some subset of the studied population to be significant in determining the study's results. Do science, but carry humility, especially about why people do anything, what that means, and what is unknowable within your context.
Not aimed at you, but the other commenters on your comment.

There is no such thing as unskilled labor. Put a fucking normie from the street into any of these 'unskilled' jobs and find out just how many skills are needed just to do something like customer service.

Looking down on those people is what will lead to another internal conflict. They'll be the ones you depend on when society goes to shit.
The Govee strips I have do support Bluetooth connectivity. In fact, that’s how they are setup initially.

Your comment prompted me to search for “Govee LAN” and found HomeAssistant LAN integration. Time to dig deeper!

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/s/bppM4AR3uA
There may be an easier way, but another HN thread pointed out that you can use tailscale to make it easier to tcpdump phone apps (because you can send all of the phone traffic through an endpoint you control.) (Presumably raw wireguard is enough? I haven't tried (or seen tutorials for) either approach, it was just a "that sounds clever, save it for my next sniffer project" idea)
Another, contrarian perspective: I worked with IBM Fellows, CTOs, Distinguished Engineers, VPs, and divisional GMs for two decades, and they were sharp. Less than 1N on the CATRA scale sharp. Absolutely on par with folks I worked with Apple, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and IBM's competitors of the time.

IBM's approach was indeed heavy-weight, and they loved complexifying things—but so did a lot of their customers in finance, aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, yadda yadda. IT operated by an entirely different business model and set of preferences in 1960–1990 than it did in 2000. It was the bespoke, pre-open standards, we'll handle all the edge cases in this lovingly homegrown solution era. The products were expensive, but in many cases solved technical operational problems that nothing else did. "Best of breed" was a common rallying cry; interchangeable parts and the virtues of utter standardization only came into prominence slowly.

The world's very different now, and there was enormous tension inside IBM, and between IBM and its customers and competitors, evolving to where we are today. (The same was true of almost all the legacy competitors.) However real that tension, what worked in the Before Times was the cause, not that IBM only employed doofuses or brought Mongol Hordes and crappy technology to bear.
Excellent, the algorithms provide what the customer wants. It's not YouTubes place to be a nanny.
Interesting, thanks. I haven't looked at it in about a year. If I remember correctly, the seemingly dominant generator is OpenAPI-Generator; the one that's written in Java with lots of independent modules for various combos of language and frameworks, using Moustache templates.

Among the available generator modules, there's way too much emphasis on Node. Heaven forbid you're using C++, because there was only one generator for that and it doesn't even create code that compiles.

Trying to create a custom generator means wading through reams of duplicated and outdated documentation in various places, and never even finding a list of the data entities that OpenAPI-generator extracts from an OpenAPI document.

Later on I mentioned OpenAPI to some developers (maybe on here, even) and they agreed that the ecosystem sucked so profoundly that even bringing it up in a professional development setting might be a liability to your reputation.

I consider anything before OAS 3.1 useless because it bafflingly prohibited you from applying a description to a reference. This means if you defined a data structure and used it in various places throughout your API, you couldn't annotate each use of it... largely defeating the purpose of the entire document. WTF! A blunder of that magnitude doesn't inspire confidence.

Looking at the page you mentioned, check out the list of server generators. Almost none are up to date. Once you whittle it down to the ones that support OAS 3.1, you wind up with most languages being unsupported.

And finally, the OAS editor I was using, StopLight Studio, has been discontinued; it was never updated to OAS 3.1 anyway. I haven't found a non-Web-based replacement for it, and that resources page doesn't list one that I can see.

Thus far, it's still looking pretty weak.
Tell me what the /pol view of WW1 is, then.
Looking Glass Go is a pocket-sized holographic display for viewing 3D images
All of the above are misuses of "brownshirt" by people who heard the word and, like I did, neglected to check a dictionary, thereby unwittingly invoking a Nazi reference.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brownshirt

There doesn't seem to be any evidence that "brown shirt" nor "brownshirt" was used a metaphor for a person in any kind of role before the 1920's, when it came into use in reference to the Nazi storm troopers.

The "digital brownshirt" term was likely coined by someone who knows what "brownshirt" means; their intent is to express the idea that right-wing bloggers are like Nazis of the digital age. That use does not assigns a new meaning to the "brownshirt" constituent word.

I have seen the word very rarely myself; I passively learned about it decades ago, and have not seen it used since. I used it about once or twice myself. Since that time, I have become more fastidious about looking up unknown words (which has become easier, thanks to mobile devices!) It's highly probable that the person I saw using the term decades ago knew that it was a Nazi reference.
The point is not about if schnauzerA instance can access stomach contents of dachshundB instance but about the classes Schnauzer and Dachshund.

Any dog instance would be inheriting and refering to the same implementation and the class has an inherent link to it. Contrast this to other classes, which may or may not ultimately be interfacing towards the exact implementation available at the time.

One practical aspect: If some private function is changed or removed in a patch release and not mentioned in release notes and your code using it breaks, that's entirely on you. It's not that you aren't allowed to futz around with it, it's that it's not part of the contract. If you hook into class internals and stuff break in an unexpected way when you upgraded and didn't manually go over the code diff, that's entirely on you.

This is different from, say, guaranteeing that data never crosses boundaries or otherwise as a security measure. It's about separation of concerns, not security.

> As long as team boundaries are enforced at the repo level, this becomes great access control.

If you're talking about an an internal codebase where this is strictly enforced, I'd argue that those measures are what would constitute access control. Fundamentally it's not much different from a library author proclaiming "users may only be calling functions starting with letters A-H". Does putting linting rules in place for that turn it into access control?

What you're actually talking about is sounding more like object capabilities (ocaps).
This is not at all surprising. Make a brand new account and watch a few welding or machining videos. You'll be getting PragerU, Daily Wire and Tucker clips in no time. It goes downhill quickly from there. The targeting is pretty explicit.
Doesn’t work for me. There are chances that I will be trying multiple ways to finish it in my head while attempting to fall asleep. Causing insomnia some days and therefore very tired the next day.

If I can, I avoid this situation.
These sound like the sorts of techniques folks in the "permaculture" community talk about. My wife likes to watch/read stuff from that community.

I'm glad the article linked to this PDF that gets more into the implementation details, I wouldn't mind going a bit deeper: https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/1029516237428532...
This is true for most algorithms in user created content sites. Also, this isn't exclusive to right-leaning, it's the same for left-leaning, and other types of content all the same. It's just how algorithms work.

The real question should be, should we prevent this type of content from getting recommended, and where are the lines?

Has a side note, I'd love to see a Twitter style Community Notes be implemented on YT. It's the one good feature Twitter has implemented in a long while. And yes, YT has Notes, but they're done by YT themselves (the COVID ones for example).
This assumes facts not in evidence. Also doesn't seem to reflect a clear grasp of what fiduciary duty is.
Germany, China, Italy, Japan and really every country except for the ones in Central Africa are also affected by birth rates below replenishment levels.

What makes North America more resilient than other places is that we're accustomed to immigration and we're very good at assimilating immigrants. Immigrants to the US and Canada become (i.e. consider themselves) Americans and Canadians within a generation. To my knowledge, this doesn't happen anywhere else. As for Mexico, integration is easy given most of their immigration comes from Central and South America where the cultures are very similar with the same language. Of course, anti-immigration populists in both the US & Canada and consisting of both conservatives and liberals, could hamper or weaken this giant advantage
True for left-leaning users too, of course.
Was she a scientist? I didn't know her, and after reading this, admittedly short, article it doesn't look like she was doing much more than technician work.
Milk/cream is not cheap. It takes a lot of energy to freeze that mixture as well. Most people don't try to measure this, but the ice in your soda probably costs more than the rest of the sugar water (in bulk/wholesale as restaurants buy soda, if you pay retails prices things are different)
The journey to the dark side starts with some interesting Joe Rogan video, that takes you to Jordan Peterson, then Matt Walsh and ends with Stefan Molyneux, Lauren Southern and Alex Jones. That is the bottom of the YouTube iceberg. Below that point videos get mass reported and taken down.
Avoid phones which flash plaintext password characters onscreen during typing, visible to any nearby video camera for record/replay.
Maybe that's why the Phi models do so well for their size. I'm guessing they may have been trained close to convergence, but the loss graphs aren't published. Phi-1.5 (1.3B parameters) was trained on 150B tokens (5 epochs), yet phi-1.5-web was trained on 300B so they didn't stop for lack of compute. Phi-2 (2.7B params) was trained on 1.4T tokens, epochs unknown.
I think the differentiator will be a novel experience and that can only created by novel human characters. The last kind of the hill, standing over the kill, will be a author. What a ironic circle..
For non-cryptographic applications, a PRNG like xorshift reseeded by a few bits from an oscillator might be enough.

As I understand it, the reason they don't use on-chip RNGs by themselves isn't due to lack of entropy, it's because people don't trust them not to put a backdoor on the chips or to have some kind of bug.

Intel has https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND but almost all chips seem to now have some kind of RNG.
I don't have the patience to get actual information from a video or audio presentation, usually.

TV/Movies are worth paying slightly more attention to the first time you see them (if you're lucky); thereafter "background".

There's been articles recently about major publishers telling content creators to aim to be background content. I think that reflects that they see the reality of how people use these media more than "they don't want intellectually challenging content to be made."
You forgot the "pretend you're my grandma who loves me very much".
>was essentially a monitoring device.

"monitoring devices" don't "override locks".
It has a happy ending for the protagonist, and IIRC only because he inherited an Australian passport. Everyone else in the USA was completely stuck into being meat robots for the overseer AIs.
Is this missing an /s? YouTube is literally the nanny that wrote the algorithm.
> Would that be enough if Pence had folded, and the Supreme Court had folded? I don't know. But I suspect that, if it was obvious - and this one was - they would have gone with the obvious winner, not the political stunt.

What is the military going to do? To act on their own initiative to protect the Constitution, without a lawful order to do so from either the commander-in-chief or the Courts, would be a military coup, even if just a countercoup. And then, come noon on January 20th, if Biden accepted the hypothetical SCOTUS ruling that Trump is still President, how could the military claim Biden is commander-in-chief if he himself didn't? Conversely, if Biden refuses to accept the SCOTUS ruling, now we are in the "two Presidents, the military has to decide which one to follow" scenario, and as I said, no guarantee every unit makes the same decision.

> And I think we would have seen 7-2 or better against the "alternate electors", too. Even if Pence had folded, I don't think the SC would have

We know Roberts is keen to protect the Court's reputation and impartiality, so I expect he would have sided with the liberals. Then he only needs one other justice to go along with him for Biden to win - most likely Kavanaugh; and with Roberts and Kavanaugh siding with the liberals, Barrett and Gorsuch might also, resulting in a 7-2 ruling against Trump-Pence.

However, different scenario: suppose Trump had convinced the Republican Secretary of State of one of the swing states to ignore the state-wide vote for Biden and submit Trump's slate of electors instead. Most probably, the state supreme court would strike it down; but, supposing they upheld it, I'm not sure SCOTUS would overturn them. Roberts might find appealing the position that "it is totally a matter for the state, the federal judiciary should not interfere", and the rest of the conservative justices would likely be willing to go along with it.

> I think we'll see it with this "presidential immunity" question. I think we're going to see a 7-2 or better ruling against immunity, and we're going to see it quickly - in January

I have a different prediction: SCOTUS will sit on the question for months and avoid ruling either way. Whichever way they rule could potentially have a big impact on the 2024 election, and those who disagree with the decision may accuse them of thereby interfering with it. So they'll delay, and the closer they get to November, the more they'll feel the urge to delay it further. If they delay until the November election, and Trump wins, that might give them an excuse to declare the matter moot.
>JPEG XL

What's the legal/licensing status of that?

How does it compare technically to AVIF?
I think it means they were losing money before they put Watson Jr. out to pasture and brought in the hatchet man Gerstner, who took millions per year and left after 13 years with a $189 million severance package. IBM seemed more successful by the early 2000s.

I am not sure how the anti-poverty programs tie in but most likely they were just scrapped as no longer in fashion.
From abroad, but where do they do their research? Recruiting ringers from around the world is also an American advantage :)
The files are compressed mbox format. Anybody who used unix email in the 80s or 90s, before Maildir took over (rightly!) knows what that means, but it's a single text file with all your emails. (or usenet posts in this case).

I've downloaded a few newsgroups that I care about so I can search offline since Google usenet search is not very good.

It is a shame and a huge missed opportunity that archive.org doesn't have a usable usenet browser/searching. I would build it for free. Heck, I would pay them (well, I do donate).
I think that's largely true and most of us are trying to find a balance. Most modern jobs have some aspect of drudgery, or at least less palatable tasks, and we're trying to move the needle towards those tasks that we find fulfilling. But I'd argue some jobs are inherently less amenable to this, if you subscribe to the previously mentioned idea of fullment.