skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I think that it’s very hard for us to comprehend just how much is out there on the internet.

The perfect example of that is the tikz unicorn in the Sparks paper. Seemed like a unique task, until someone found a tikz unicorn in an obscure website.

There is plenty of evidence that LLMs struggle as you move out of distribution. Which makes perfect sense as long as you stop trying to attribute what they’re doing to magic.

This doesn’t mean they’re not useful, of course. But it means that we should should be skeptical about wild capability claims until we have better evidence than a tweet, as you put it.
Can we observe the irony of a comment about avoiding paying for content, in a discussion about the most artist-equitable way to pay for content?
- Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Decent
- Telix and OS/2 terminal software for modems
- PKZip and other archivers
- Composer 669 -- 8 channel tracker on a 386 using flat protected memory
- Megaroids -- Asteroids clone for Atari ST
- Kedit -- large-buffer text editor for OS/2
- DeScribe -- word processor for OS/2

Of all the games the Decent series was my addiction, got the flight stick/throttle and just couldn't get enough of being almost lost in 6-DoF trying to stay alive! This might have been a shrink-wrap game though, can't recall.
Hospitals ask courts to force cloud storage firm to return stolen data
Can you provide an example of the US corporate tax code contradicting itself? Ambiguity is one thing, but I've never heard anybody claim that there's an actual formal contradiction in the tax code itself.
Here is a somewhat similar graph for the IRS I scraped together a few years ago:

https://nampas.github.io/tax-map/

There are a lot of lines :D
Actually purchased Wolf3d after doing an all night Prodigy dialup download of the shareware version on my friends dad's 386
I used plan9 for a while, because the video servers for nCube/C-Cor ran plan9.

I can't remember much about it, except that in ran two OSs at a time, but I can't remember which half did which. It also had great I/O performance.

I'm pretty sure they ditched plan9 for linux by the time they were bought by Arris, or soon after.
The average graduate starting salary in the UK (across all disciplines and universities) is around $30k USD. So I wouldn't kid yourself that you're going to get anyone especially exceptional for $40k. That's actually slightly less than the average starting salary for an Oxford graduate.

I appreciate the broader aspect of the question but I think that part is a bit unanswerable ("how should I hire people?")
You don't even need that. Even "just" OpenAI has a valuation large enough to just buy several major publishers and data brokers to secure access to data if they need to license.

And while I expect NYT imagines that their archive is really valuable for training, they're just not that special in the sense that while they may have broken more stories on average than many others, and have had influential op eds etc., the ones that matters will have been cited and referenced and written about elsewhere - the irony is that by virtue of being so well known, their historically most important content is also less unique in terms of the accessibility of the information in it.

So while I'm sure OpenAI would love their archives, I'm also sure that if OpenAI and others have to license content and NYT end up being "difficult", OpenAI will just license content from (or buy) a suitably diverse portfolio of other papers instead.

In other words, beyond producing outright synthetic data, if AI companies are prevented from training on data they don't have a license to, the net effect will just be a scramble to buy licenses and/or buy companies that can provide sources of content, and the price for that content will be a lot lower than some of the people pursuing these copyright claims imagine.

In the end, if we go that route, all we'll have achieved as a society is creating massive moats protecting the companies already big enough to buy access to a broad enough set of content and made open models harder.
OT: wasn't it less about the tax per se and more about "taxation without representation" (and also a culmination of a long list of non-taxation related grievances)?
Probably nothing else to do other than listen to the radio. Dude probably kept the machines in tip-top shape because it made them more money that way while reducing the total amount of work required.
There are also some heat treated modified timbers now which don't look like pressure treated sheds or fences but which are supposed to last well.
Yeah, in the US it's a certain percentage up to a limit, and some people are exempt. Pretty simple in terms of doing payroll

All the complexity is when you file your actual return, and that one would literally be impossible to chart out because there are so many different nooks and crannies that exist that most people don't need to worry about but might so they are out there. I suspect that is also the case in Canada in addition to this payroll calculation nightmare
Hi, Adrien here author of this article (and of updown.io).
That is true and I actually hesited to write the article for this reason, because it could make the spammer life easier. But after seing some of the legacy and nonsense in here I though it's still worth it so people at least understand what they are using.
> What motivated me most was a co-worker, that just MADE STUFF HAPPEN, I never thought was possible by just doing it.

Is he still at your company?
Those trains seem to be moving waaay too fast...
I'm observing quite hard now.
I have rule that audible notifications are urgent, mainly messages and alerts. Silent notifications for everything else and can be sorted in bulk later. I haven’t had to mute any notification channels yet.
> an indoor fountain

His fatal mistake. Anyone with an indoor fountain is obviously up to _something_.
I'm not against that type of argument.

But do think that when a 1000 lifetimes are sliced into 5 minute chunks, those 5 minutes become less useful. It is false to equate this to loosing a 1000 lifetimes of productive effort. Like if this time is added up, it equates to killing a 1000 people.

Think because airline safety is so good, that it is easy to come up with these types of large number arguments.

Fallacy of Large Numbers

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/R8DBQD72tajt4mDhv/the-fallac....
Hands. The general public's hands... clothes mark far less
If the pytorch piece is for something low priority, its probably not worth reaching out to someone else.
While on LSD in this case.
This is a recent change. Youtube worked just fine for months in Lockdown mode. I've always assumed it was due to Google clamping down on ad-free viewing via mobile Safari.
Am I blocking too many scripts, or has it been HN'd to death with requests?
It was a technical job and union.

Looking at a similar job in Toronto they make $80-100k today

https://career17.sapsf.com/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&...
>And to think, in the US we revolted because the king wanted to tax Tea 3%....

There is an important difference between then and now and it's called the US Congress. It wasn't about the amount of the tax on tea but rather the fact we didn't vote for it

If we don't like the current tax system we have a surefire way to fix it, but we never actually take advantage of it (vote for someone else)
This demonstrates how any algorithm, software or not, works: Start with something desirable or necessary and add complications until you end up with a mess that can be used to yield arbitrary results, drive outsiders into madness, and summon some lesser demons if read in a chanting manner.

Now what could be done about this? The obvious answer is refactoring. That's what politicians promise in election campaigns and junior software developers demand when encountering a new code base. It's rarely ever done in practice because no one can disambiguate unnecessary from desired features and complexities. The second answer would be a clean implementation in some more formal framework (a statically typed language, a theorem prover, ...). That second solution often fails when attempted because the system is already unsound. Fortunately, no one cares about those "weird corner cases" and everything is left as-is until someone runs away with a million dollars or so.
Text Editors Should Be Worse
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> if you opt out Firefox

This seems to negate much of the proposed benefit for lockdown mode in the first place, no? Browsers are one of the attack/tracking vectors this mode was designed to mitigate, albeit with a virtual hammer.
Not true. Megafauna died out across the world in hundreds of different habitats when humans arrived and hunted them to extinction.
You're an idiot, goodbye.
These are examples
A Simulated Annealing FPGA Placer
honestly i think the main obstacle to global mesh is the lack of a good business case, which is pretty intrinsic to the format. mesh makes it possible to remove almost all intermediaries, so its difficult to position a company in a place where they can capture a significant portion of the generated value. even though a global self-organizing comms network can clearly be seen as a net good. which is basically an echo of the funding issues present in many critical open source components. there are some arguments to be made for cryptocurrency in this space, but for a nascent physical network the value proposition at first will be very small. a VC/startup could try to get into this space, but once the cat is out of the bag it would be very easy to bypass the artificial billing mechanism to create a rogue free mesh using a similar protocol.

of course, this doesn't include the very real technical challenges of building a scalable mesh protocol. which are nontrivial in themselves.
I understood Lyons as driving at a related point of Parfit getting too deep into theoretic analytic philosophy and being a little too ambitious or carried away with reconciling irreducible frameworks and values, which is tangential to your point around the difference between ought and is.
Are there any countries with good, reasonable tax systems? I'm only familiar with Canada and the USA, both of which are a bit of a mess, though seemingly in different ways. I'd be very interested in hearing what the process is like in other places.
I'm using uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and it was working for me until a few minutes ago.
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I agree. Push notifications could have been useful, but companies abuse them so heavily that they're the opposite of that, and I keep them disabled across the board.
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Obvious issue with any theoretical allocation -- synthetic playback astroturfing.

Unless a given distribution method is resistant to artificially playing nothing but obscure artists on fake user clients 24/7, done for financial incentive, it's a non-starter.

Otherwise you end up with the Audible 60-minute silent book problem (if I'm remembering right?).
Being someone who has some experience with tax law, the cycle of tax complexity goes like this:

1. Tax law is passed.

2. Really smart CPAs and Tax Lawyers figure out ways to legally avoid paying taxes.

3. Tax people issue regulations intended to close those loopholes.

4. Administrations change and they want to win votes and tweak the economy so they lower some taxes and add tax breaks.

5. New administration comes in and selectively reverses previous administration's program because of politics.

6. If the tax is international tax, then add really smart tax lawyer doing multi-jurisdictional tricks to lower taxes (e.g Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich[1]) , governments trying to encourage multi-nationals to do business there by adding incentives to their tax code, the OECD coming in and trying to standardize tax stuff across jurisdictions to prevent this, individual pairs of countries doing tax treaties with each other, etc.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...
That is making a couple of people extremely rich while contributing basically nothing back to the culture they are leeching off.

I’ll take Napster over this any day, at least they didn’t have profits at the forefront.
We don't need to radically rework ATC, we need to fully staff ATC.

FAA has this as a top priority and is publishing stats on class graduations and retention etc.
In fact, previously scientists tried putting some genes from brazil nuts into soy and it turned out to be exactly the proteins that cause brazil nut allergy to be expressed in soy, which caused consumers to have allergic reactions. It was caught early and never productized.
100% agree, I also hate that I had to do this.
$1 coins were common in Canada for most his operation.

Excellent magnets available inside any speaker, just crack off a piece of the length you need. Basically free.
Suprised to not see https://mxtoolbox.com in this list too
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These vinyl stickers are an elegant hack. Vinyl is cheap and easily replaceable, in fact it might just be easier to put another sticker over them in the future.
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Is this the infamous magnet-bandit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim_Kara
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12547 contains some info on where this discussion started, basically there is ambiguity in the old interface and rather than trying to rule on a sensible interpretation the standards committee agreed to make the behaviour obscelescent, and then later undefined, as even now at least one BSD seems to refuse to free memory with a size argument of zero.

This was a defect in BSD and the POSIX specification (which literally says it's not intending to contradict the C standard anywhere at the top of every function document), but the committee somehow managed to believe this was cause to deprecate behaviour of realloc() with size zero for 99% of the world. The defect report and associated documents don't seem to be very explicit about the potential impact of the choice to make the behaviour obscelescent in the first place, which might be why this compatibility break was accepted (and eventually completed by making it all undefined).

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/summary.htm...

The approach is inconsistent because the committee isn't perfect and every single change to the standard, especially defects, must attempt to best preserve compatibility on a nuanced case-by-case basis, and sometimes when you're in the committee I suspect it's harder to see the wood for the trees. realloc() was broken trying to address a defect report that suggested C's lax definition was potentially a cause of double-frees, a security nightmare, but probably exaggerated in hindsight; and not really made that explicit, although I haven't checked all the minutes and attended the meetings so maybe there was a more conscious decision to deprecate the free-on-zero rule.
AFAIK "Paying All Cash" doesn't necessarily mean the buyer has $1M (or whatever the purchase price of the house) saved up. It just means their offer isn't contingent on them securing a mortgage, and they have the money secured somehow (probably through a preexisting loan).

https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/all-cash-offer-upfront-...
Being super-rich comes with the unfortunate affliction of paranoia that criminals are about to take your precious dollars from you, which private security companies are only too happy to exploit to take your precious dollars from you.
I still have my 3.5" PKZip floppy with the personalized license, and a copy of Procomm Plus (with the nice manual) somewhere.
I was using CP/M for most of the 80's and switched to Linux in the early 90's, so aside from commercial software purchases (like Borland C, DesqView/X, some games, and Linux OSF Motif), there wasn't much else. I did purchase a Yggdrasil Linux (live) CD too, but I'm not sure if that counts. I also signed up for 386BSD (via FAX), but Linux arrived first so I never did much BSD. I had a subscription to the Slackware Linux CDs too.
email doesn't work, fyi.
Quebec is essentially a different country altogether - there are a legion of strange HR rules and requirements that are entirely specific to QC.
Been down this road with a bunch of tools claiming to smartly transform unstructured docs into structured data. Most of the time I hit the same wall: accuracy. It's a deal-breaker. These tools often struggle with the nuances and complexities in the data, leading to a lot of manual rework.
Country sized.
Why is it needed? Who decides, and what if they are wrong?

The only reasons I saw given were: 1) it's a Confucian duty, 2) "Soldiers win battles", and 3) "Let’s extend the Chinese bloodline", none of which sound all the convincing to me, a non-Chinese person.
Following links I came across with this:

https://lsub.org/nix/

I cannot really understand what is it for, but this Nix is different from the Nix package manager used in Nixos.
I did something like this for a personal project that I use to track my time and it is a massive undertaking full of little gotchas. Kudos for getting this working so smoothly, this is really awesome!
In the US a huge percentage of kids are raised by single parents, who some were also raised by single parents, and these families have no wealth and they are just another child away from destitution. It's actually so common you see AITA reddit threads about single parent grandmas are conflicted on how to support their single parent daughter and grandchildren and leads to all sorts of social problems. I come from a single parent household and it's clear to me what is lost by only having one half of your familial network available to you. It means your single parent has much less accountability in how they treat you and you have no where to branch out from your family if the only parent you have has an abusive or very small family.
> A marketing notification here and there is fine

Not to me. Any use of push notifications for marketing purposes is an abuse of push notifications in my view.
Society came to a point were nobody can be bothered with the smallest inconvenience anymore for something greater then oneself.

Pretty sad actually.
What does my comment have to do with poco phones at all?
I’m thinking they had to be a licensed electrician for the job (there’s AC behind that panel, oh no, you could touch the wrong wire and DiE!!!1).

Lots of demand throughout the 70s for electricians in Alberta.

I hope anyway…
A small piece of tin foil under the tape should help with that.
Burl: A simple but flexible HTTP/3 testing framework based on bash and curl
Honest question:

Is the "blazingly fast" tagline satirical? Like, how would I compare the "fastness" of this implementation? I assume latency? Is Rust as a language choice the predominant minimizer of latency or is the dividing line between systems-level stuff (C, Rust, Cpp) or optimized networking (Go, etc) versus higher level stuff (python, etc).
DNSControl: Synchronize your DNS to multiple providers from a simple DSL
thats pretty cool, I wonder though what the implication is if there is a bug or package hijacking? Are you expected to cross check the calculations and they are only offered as a convenience, and not authoritative?
Do people really finish these books cover to cover?

I have been working on Bishop's PRML, and it is extremely time consuming to really finish the book, and do all the exercises.

I saw a blog from a guy who did the same, and it took him 1500+ hours.

Not a single person in my masters program finished any of these books. They just did the courses and googled whatever else was necessary.
Apc Customize UI++
And in the United States, copyright notices are not even necessary; you own the copyright to your work whether or not there is a notice.
1) Wolfenstein but reskinned so you kill Barney the purple dinosaur instead of Nazis
2) Descent on 3 floppy disks
3) Some primitive CAD/3D modeling thingy, can't remember the name

No doubt I had a ton more, including a lot from magazines that came with CDs, but those top three were some of the earliest and most memorable.
I came here just for your comment. Thank you for doing this work so the rest of us doesn't have to.
Isn't the bass clef just an arbitrary position on "the grand staff" with a reminder that "This line is F"?
Some old games are infinite, and don't have a proper end, then can roll infinitely. So as a result, you can play as long as you wish, until you reach the hardware limits, which is called the kill screen, and might be the closest thing to "finishing" a game when it's infinite.
Actually the lesson I take away is the importance of not having a 0% (or 100%) prior, since it leaves no room to update with new information.