skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you publish something online and let me read it, I can use that knowledge

I think that's a subtly different angle since it doesn't make any appeal to scale/cost. Sort of like the difference between:

1: "Everybody should be free to use Article X in manner Y without negotiation or payment, as a matter of principle."

2: "When I choose to use millions of Article X'es in manner Y, it just becomes expensive and impractical to negotiate/pay, therefore my situation is qualitatively different and exempt."
Parent is suggesting we'll see war or terrorism in the US with drones. It was in response to a comment about Ukraine, where DJI drones are heavily (maybe as many as 50k [0]a month by the Ukrainians) to drop hand grenades in trenches.

Honestly realistic. Very hard to stop.

[0] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offens...
Some people are more responsible than others.

For example, one's spouse typically has a lot of power, but hopefully a low likelihood in practice.
This seems like it would signal good things for AI alignment, don't you think? It leads me to believe that if someone wanted to make a "bad" AI, they would have to build a corpus of "bad" literature: nothing but Quentin Tarantino movies, Nabokov's Lolita, GG Allin songs, and Integer BASIC programs. I doubt that would make a very useful chatbot.

[Edit: Though, I did find this recent article in Rolling Stone, that includes a link to a Gab post that seems like they managed. TLDR: They used open source models and fine tuning.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nazi-chatbots-meet... ]
> The problem with anarchy is that it will get toppled by a group

The benefits of anarchy get “toppled” the first moment someone violates another persons freedom, leaving them no recourse but ad hoc retaliation, and the unlimited risks of further repercussions to themselves and those they care about. Assuming they are left in any shape to do so.

No group needed.
Depending on your choice of measure, they are either greatly beyond their parents or mildly behind.

More importantly, why is that a reasonable expectation?
What this is missing is that you can be forced to do something by someone other than a military.

If a corporation pollutes the air, you're being forced to breathe polluted air. It's not in your interest for them to pollute the air, but it's in their interest because it's cheaper and they value money over incrementally cleaner air. Then you need a means to stop them from doing something they find to be in their own interest, because it isn't in yours and you didn't consent to it.

The problem with this is that if you extend it to its logical conclusion, now you're not allowed to breathe because I didn't consent to you emitting CO2 from your lungs.

The key here is to limit the government to the things that are both important and can only be feasibly accomplished through a monopoly on force. Prohibiting violence and monopolies, pricing major externalities, funding certain types of fundamental research, etc.

Not prohibiting entirely consensual behavior or micromanaging marginal commercial activity or impairing your view of the bay by having the gall to construct housing during a housing shortfall.

There can be some disagreement around the edges on what these things are, but the real hard part is finding a way to create checks and balances effective enough to resist when a wave of populism wants to stop imposing all of these restrictions on Their Guy. Because the thing that follows that is invariably centralization of power, corruption and injustice.
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Thank you! More annoying, but I really want to kind of stress distracting. We have so much stuff in a day

I acknowledge there's a bit of... irony (or something) in my critique. In a way it's yet another way to police comments - but hey! Democracy, I guess.
Yes. I've been aware of the intellectual property debate at least back to the great crackdown on sampling around when Paul's Boutique was released. And following it in depth from around the time Lawrence Lessig made arguments to the Supreme Court.

A large chunk of the tech community was following that case and most on HN seemed to be highly sceptical of the current status quo.
So? That doesn't invalidate the point of the comment you replied to.

To give another example: The cashier at the supermarket knows when I'm buying condoms, but that doesn't mean I want to tell my parents.

And neither would I want to know as a parent, when or whether my kids order bondage gear on Amazon.

It's not just about my information going to other people, but also keeping certain information of other people from reaching me.
Is it possible to dbscan on the unprojected space or does that lead to poor effectiveness? Also what led you to choose dbscan vs another technique?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) is driving Steam running windows games on Linux
In the Elixir library, we don't even have metrics. I went into the OTel rabbit hole for two days trying to understand how is it better to Prometheus, just to learn it doesn't even do the basic thing, just traces.

I've mentally decided to just go Prometheus and ignore OpenTelemetry for the foreseeable future.

It's one of those things big players are hyping to preemptively lock you in their solution, but it's actually just alpha-quality new tech and "boring" "old" tech like Prometheus or statsd are simply more functional and better supported in the wild.
Serbia (former Yugoslavia) was mostly in turmoil in the 90s, and while I did get online using dial-up in 1995, new tech was (very) slow to arrive: I used ISDN for a few short years in early 2000s before ADSL finally arrived. It was amazingly reliable even in Serbia.

But compared to the regular 20V phone line, ISDN used something like 120V (which I learned by carelessly changing the connector like I used to on the regular phones), and in a country where power went out regularly, I wondered how much power could I get out of it for emergency situations.
dumped it??
DJI has almost everything locked down aside from military. Parrot and Skydio try to compete backed by heavy subsidies/large guaranteed contracts but in terms of volume, revenue, R&D spend etc they're irrelevant on the global market. Even in the US market they're only relevant in government - the only difference between them and niche providers like AeroVironment is scale and the attempt to market to consumers.

The US has a decent military drone industry, extremely expensive compared to international competitors with not as much dynamism/variety, but good volumes and reliability. China has good prices, is the global leader in dynamism/variety, and also global leader in volume; they're the biggest exporter. Turkey and Iran are both way above their weight class specifically in drone production, too, as is Israel. Turkey is even to the point where they're competing with China, which is really impressive for a middle power.
Scratchpad lives on in FriCAS https://github.com/fricas/fricas/commits/master/ which has commits 18 hours ago. Tim Daly worked diligently on Axiom for years. However some of his changes, like requiring every single file be literate code and complete refusal to compromise, turned decades of IBM research into an isolated dumpster fire; good luck getting it to build/run anywhere outside his Docker container. I'm reasonably happy with FriCAS since it's based on the same software and is much more open source normative, while possessing capabilities Maxima users could only dream of. See also https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2007-0... and https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2007-0... for evidence of his leadership style.
Because the EU knows better about this kinds of things, then the people who build and use these?

Just like the EU knows better about what chargers people should use than customers and engineers? Such wise bureaucrats!
Sounds like a variation on everyone and their mother.

https://www.yourdictionary.com/everyone-and-their-mother
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Some Muslims deem that acceptable, some do not. The former view, anecdotally, seems to be the overwhelmingly more popular view (though even those adopting this view can differ in reasoning).
Of course you don't need them! That's the point, isn't it?
cluster naming was still an open problem pre-LLM
Are Fines and Jail time needed to improve Cyber Security globally?
The only things that will move the needle or too many unintended consequences?
Isn’t it also formally equivalent to a Gaussian mixture model?

https://timydaley.github.io/kmeans_gmm/gmm_vs_kmeans.html
> I'd have something in my hands I just pulled from the fridge (e.g. milk) and be able to add it to the list without interrupting what I'm doing.

Non user-hostile technology would happily solve this problem: you pull from the fridge what is about to finish or before throwing the empty container into the trash, put it in front of a mini camera mounted on the fridge, image (possibly also barcode) recognition would identify the product, then you say a magic word and it would be added it to your list directly on the phone, then software would calculate the best path to the shops having in stock the products in the list.
Sadly, this would be hijacked by businesses in no time by making it dependent from some cloud services then selling your data to other advertisers or by pestering you with offers of similar competing products.
As of today, I still prefer a pen and a piece of paper over any type of automation.
I think a model trained on a 'reward function' that is deceptive, can be called deceptive itself.

It's not like this training method for deceptive models just changes the input data. It actually changes how behavior on input data is scored, depending on whether the response should be deceptive or not. Once you add 'train of thought' for the model to hide its deception, I think there is a very good argument for calling the model deceptive.
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No. DJI is a Chinese company. If it happens, the next world changing conflict after ww2 is war with China. You can bet your ass China will weaponize those drones if that happens, and that's a really big IF.
Nue with a content-first approach might work:

https://nuejs.org/

No templates yet so the "looking good" part requires CSS skills.
I just ran this shell script on my Mac:

#!/bin/sh
say Alexa what time is it

and my Amazon Echo told me the time. Is that shell script a derivative work of Amazon's Alexa code? It is very clearly designed to depend on Alexa.
What test that can determine someone has never drank alcohol?
Do you have a source for "nobody wanted it"?

From what I can tell they showed it off to get some tax credits, then decided not to deploy it anywhere (but keep the money of course).
"German Beer Purity Laws can't really protect the drinker from consuming nasty adulterants"

Can you expand on this? I was under the impression that non-export beer brewed in Germany according to their "reinheitsgebod" did not contain additives.
Some very interesting ideas here! Reminds me of what jtunney does with Redbean.. one is able to embed (rename to zip and modify) some html files and then run the redbean webserver binary.. in any case great stuff all around..
OTEL is a great concept with lots of potential. But current state of the project, reading about it just makes me dizzy.

There are too many layers of indirections across the documentation, the specification, instrumentation libraries, collectors, protocols, backends, github issues, enhancement proposals, distributions, api vs sdk. Try to file an issue and you will be bounced betweeen at least three of them.

I get it, the idea is to be vendor agnostic. But the central hub needs to be a lot more refined. Especially the language instrumentation api don’t need to pretend they are independent of the central project.
Poor effectiveness. (again another hint why working in high dimensional space may not be ideal)

I was not aware of a robust clustering technique that's better/as easy to use other than DBSCAN.
Of course, it is a big world out there with health agencies that do require indication of "what's in it", so we can easily determine what is in a product like Bud Light sold on the global scale. What in Bud Light are you referring to?
An interesting consequence of the HashLife algorithm is that when people design patterns in Conway's Game of Life they sometimes try to tailor them to the algorithm. The rule of thumb is that any repeated components should be laid out with spacings that are powers of two, and the period of any oscillations should be a power of two.
Yeah, I implemented this in 2010 and the Dr. Dobbs article was essential. I even had the original C code and couldn’t figure it out without this article.
Moving the goalposts, eh?
It sounds like the solution is to keep the game open for awhile before going into multiplayer? You say "until you see the game console or wait 5-10 seconds after you saw the intro video." How long is that specifically?

I don't play CS:GO but I've seen the "No user logon" error when playing other games online, specifically Portal 2 and It Takes Two.

> I'd love to get feedback

Please put the solution in the tl;dr. The write-up is interesting for some folk, including many on HN (and myself) but the average person looking up this error could not care less about the intricacies of the code or network calls that cause the error, they just want to fix it.

(added in edit) The "You can skip to No user logon if you don’t care about the history." link that doesn't jump to the answer would be extra frustrating for someone who is just looking for the solution. From a pc there is a table of contents and the fact that there is a "Solution" section is great, but a phone user does not see that.
1D could work on certain datasets but it wouldn't be ideal.
I am planning on buying an EV for in town driving and keep my gas car and truck for long trips. I frequently drive through Western Nebraska and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one EV out driving around.

When the infrastructure is there and reliable, and range is consistent with gas vehicles, I’ll make a full switch.
That stat isn't true.

The question in the survey is whether they "would cover
a hypothetical $400 emergency expense exclusively using cash or its equivalent".

Got $10k in highly liquid stocks and you'd sell some? Or you have plenty of money in your savings account but you use credit cards for all purchases? Then you get counted as "can't come up with $400".

It's useful to look at how the number changes over time, but trying to interpret the raw percentage is prone to misstep.
Here's a great explanation and implementation: https://johnhw.github.io/hashlife/index.md.html
Can you explain a bit about denatured alcohol? I searched about alcohol in hand sanitizer but didn't find anything useful
Nice reference to the Musical Youth Song of 1982!
> It's not in your interest for them to pollute the air...

Not at all a settled point. There is a strong correlation between air pollution and rapidly improving quality of life. I think it probably is in my interest. The best salary I drew in my life was when I lived in the region with the worst air pollution and that wasn't an accident.

I think the evidence suggests governments have crippled society's capability to improve itself, in part through over-regulation of environmental issues based on faith and ideology rather than thinking seriously about what the optimal behaviour is.
I eventually almost forgot about the topic and was just amazed by the effort that went into making this this readable.

Someone told me about a paper long ago. It compared 2 groups of heavy drinkers, one drinking mostly fancy wines with elaborate expensive meals and the other drinking mostly beer while eating out of a deep fryer.

The banquet winos consumed more alcohol per day but had much better health. They also tested both diets on rats with the same result.

I suppose the moral of the study was that nutrition has such a large effect on health that alcohol hardly makes a difference, even in large amounts.
React components, not just HTML
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Maybe something like: Flowbite, or Tailwind UI? Both mostly paid but I think the value is pretty good for what you get.
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> In general, the Senate's ability to set its own rules surely cannot be unrestricted. For example, when the Democrats had 60 votes in the Senate would it have been constitutional for them to create a new rule that all tax decreases require unanimous consent of the Senate? Or for Republicans in the same situation to create a rule that all tax increases require unanimous consent? Both of these changes would seem to be within the rule-making authority of the Senate. However both rules would be profoundly undemocratic because they would generally prevent a majority (or supermajority) of US voters from changing US tax law in the future.

I think we should clarify that there is no "filibuster rule" in the Senate. The rule is that debate by default is unlimited; in order to close debate on any non-rule change, sixty senators must agree to invoke "cloture," after which debate continues for up to thirty hours under various restrictions. Then the vote on the underlying measure (e.g. a bill, a resolution, advice & consent on an executive matter) takes place with the majority vote rule. (Debate about rule changes can only be ended by 2/3 of the Senate, followed by a majority vote on the rule change itself.)

With that settled, we should also consider that the Constitution itself mandates super-majorities in the Senate for various reasons, including expelling a senator; giving advice and consent for the president to ratify a treaty; convicting an impeached president, vice president, other officer or judge; overriding a veto; or proposing an amendment to the Constitution. It further specifies certain procedures that can be invoked by less than a majority, like the 1/5 vote to record the names of those voting on any given measure, or the minority vote required to compel the presence of absent senators in the absence of a quorum. The Constitution clearly contemplates these situations where the vice president's vote wouldn't matter, so it stands to reason that the Senate is free to adopt rules requiring a different vote threshold than simple majority.

As to the hypothetical about rules governing tax legislation, I see nothing in the Constitution forbidding such a ludicrous procedure. I do see loads of evidence that it would be extremely impractical, including the 2/3 majority required to invoke couture on rule amendments; the "nuclear option" precedent; and the fact that the tit-for-tat is possible.

Finally, all legislative bodies have substantially undemocratic procedures. Referring matters to committee is undemocratic, restricting floor amendments is undemocratic, points of order are undemocratic, etc. It seems to me that preserving the minority's right to further debate is not so different.
Are there narrowly focused tools in the observability space even?

I was shopping for one after being outside of this field for a while, and they all do the 101 features and the kitchen sink model, which adds onto the complexity. DataDog, Grafana, but also the open source ones like SigNoz itself.

Ages ago it was all about metrics, today it's metrics traces logs APM alerting exceptions and a dozen other acronyms, on top of the protocols (statsd, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), paired with crazy complicated yet unwieldy graph building UIs. Let's not even talk about pricing models. The entire business model is based around having one more checkmark in the feature list than the competition. The wire format (OpenTelemetry) has never been the pain point in this space.

For a moment, I seriously considered just going back to the 2000s and using RRDtool.
Buildings are less friendlier to birds than either.
Unless they compared both groups to a good control I don’t think you can conclude that.
"Of course you have absinthe, which was notoriously adulterated with all sorts of horrible stuff"

In general the claims of Absinthe having a special intoxicating effect had more to do with the ABV.
> Link it how, though? If you statically link it with Y, then I can see the argument that a.out is a derived work, because it literally contains all of Y in it.

That one.

> But if you dynamically link it, a.out contains no more of Y than greet.c does. Are you asserting that a.out is still a derived work of Y in this case as well?

No, I'm not asserting that that a.out would be a derivative work of Y.
Is Lit and some of the libraries made with it what you're looking for? Like maybe

https://bui.js.org/
Not much of a sense of humour around work, the Germans.
True, there's an easier way to get that information. Download your chat history and look in the conversations.json file. It's all there.
Great write up!

My only comment here is that the trail in the article and the conclusion don't quite make sense (well, they do, but you've kind of glossed over it slightly):

> The way Counter-Strike is started: the blame factor is 90%

But also:

> We could confirm that players world wide are facing the issue outside of Esportal and thought it indeed is caused by some maintenance in the middle of the night in Washington.

Those can't both be true.

If the blame is 90% about the way counter strike is started, then the issue wouldn't be distributed over the maint window.

Rather, it seems like this is the key part that should be highlighted in the summary:

> So the last thing that happens before the game loop is started is that the Steam ID validation is initiated.

> When the initialization of levelload is incomplete (speak: CS2 has not been fully loaded/initialized), the Steam3 validation is never initiated because it is the last thing that loop wants to do.

Which is to say, that when the `steam3` server is as slow as balls during a maint window, it makes this take longer, which means you're more likely to interrupt the loop by starting a game.

So when you say:

> The way Counter-Strike is started: the blame factor is 90%

It's true.... but maybe it's also true to say:

> State of the moon: blame factor is 3% <--- isn't quite right, since this is basically the maint window?

Maybe the advice should also be: 'and give is an extra couple of minutes during 13-17 PM CET, because Value does maint in that window'

...if I understood that correctly. :)

Either way, this has happened to me, but this 'just wait a while and let it finish loading' solution is by far the most useful sensible advice about it I've ever heard. Fantastic stuff.
It's tumultuous. I should be optimistic; personally things have trended upwards consistently - and if you look around, so has 'modern society'. Whatever that means.

Yet... I'm conflicted. I'm the exception. Without guessing numbers/getting too into it, I can say a majority of my graduating class spanning the southern half of a state had no future. We all live in different realities.

I see the Great Value Dystopia being built around me. There's value [for someone], I'm just not sure it's me.
A list of the features being removed from Google Assistant
Even with the large drone manufacturer, why the cost of drone is so high? We have reached a point where we can build high performance single board computer under 100 dollars because we can automate the build process.
thats was my (not very well made) point

they're cutting corners in pusuit of profit and thus the planes are developing fault
There’s a chance to move outside London but finding work is harder, on top of that rent is quite high in any commute areas.

I don’t see how this whole housing situation is sustainable. A 1 bedroom house in Peckham, Hackney, ex council going for 400k at 10pc deposit and current rates that’s almost 2k monthly payments for 25 years for a leasehold. Insane!