skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I guess legislating from the bench is suddenly sexy to the folks who were lambasting it not very long ago.

This isn't legislating from the bench. This is the Court telling the executive branch that they don't have the authority they think they do, and that congress needs to -gasp- write laws. The conceit of Chevron is that it has tricked an entire generation of Americans into thinking that unelected bureaucrats making rules is good actually.
>"transform the canal side environment into similar to the seaside environment"

That is one and the same, you are arguing for killing off the entire ecosphere near the canals.
And not of just the canal but also of the lakes it's connected to.
> The objectively superior product is the one that people pay for. They are exchanging labor/capital for the item/content.

No, that assumes perfect discovery of options. The product people see first is often chosen.

> I could make the best movie ever conceived, the movie to end all movies. If nobody watches it, it has 0 value.

Things only have intrinsic value if validated by others? That's just not true.
If people stay in terrible working conditions to maintain health insurance, I can't imagine the kinds of pressures involved when your home is tied to changing jobs.
Ahhh, I understand, I don't use most of these features and have a QuadLock case on mine so I don't notice most of them. Yeah, that really sucks.

I have noticed it hates to detect my fingerprints and fails too fast. It's nowhere near the quality of my old Motorola. I think they sacrificed something to do that "Through the Screen" trick. Also the screen rotation thing is a pain.

I mostly bought mine because my previous Motorola lost security updates less than a year after I bought it. I need them for my work apps so it pretty much made that phone worthless. One thing I hate is that companies provide security updates for the time period after the phone is released, not last purchased.

Apple is definitely blowing away Android phones in almost every aspect. I just can't live with them after my experiences with their iPad and MacBook Pro. Butterfly keyboard, broken touch strip, power cord not working, one drop of water away from disaster. Gah!
Corporations famously are unable to take advantage of potential internal innovations. Sun Microsystems couldn't do dedicated network storage, leading to Auspex. Auspex couldn't do cheapo storage, leading to NetApp. And then there's the Fairchildren.
Or if you hate modes, it’s like installing a Tesla motor in a car that was originally powered by the screaming souls of the damned :)
> I would be very hesitant to introduce a sorting proxy

> fair queuing is a good idea for the majority of production services

Huh? As you've said, fair queuing requires one to quickly look at incoming messages, decide whether they are high/low-priority and route accordingly (to the processing server/to the queue). This is a sorting proxy, and so it seems that having it in some form is required to implement fair queuing. Right?

> It’s absolutely great when a misbehaving client only DoSes themselves and doesn’t affect anyone else.

Yes, of course. But that's precisely the problem with DoS/DDoS attacks: they're, inherently, the cases of a client/clients refusing to obey the back pressure demands from the upstream.

Over network, a misbehaving client affects also affects their ISP at the very least, by the way.
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing"
I don't know the book beyond the quick google I just did, but I disagree with:

>And the asymmetry doesn’t for a second make those relationships any less valid, or less important, or less real.

I think that people developing these so-called parasocial relationships is probably not harmful until it becomes a substitute for them developing "real" ones. But I see that growing rapidly, and I think it's a problem in the future.
That’s to prevent overfitting on their dataset, it is not to prevent overfitting on the test data, which is likely in their dataset.

You basically cannot beat GPT-4 on broad reasoning tasks, which the tests are designed to cover, without having some of the tests leaking into training dataset. There simply aren’t enough parameters and isn’t enough training to make that possible.
the 30% only applies to digital goods.
Ah! Think of this more like software testing that goes in CI/CD rather than an ML test or validation set. We're providing this testing for applications built on top of language models.

For example if you're a SWE working on bing chat, you can make a change to how retrieval works and quickly know how it affected accuracy on a range of different test scenarios. This kind of evaluation is done by contractors today, and they are slow and inaccurate.
They'll have to if they don't want to be fooled. The problem is that people want to be fooled, not the fooling machine. If LLMs are better at educating than at fooling it'll be ok, if they are not it won't be ok.
> But.. what else can you even say?

The truth. That there is and never will be any solution.
but the science is settled, didn't you see the letter by signed by actual real scientists? (/s)
They thought they went with the cheaper option, but in fact they only considered the value of a life as estimated by the NHTSA ($0.2M). In reality, the damages that juries tended to assign for each needless loss of life turned out to be more like $100M.

If Ford had accounted for those punitive costs in their calculation, then the outcome of the cost/benefit calculation would have overwhelmingly favoured a fix. The real business problem was not the empathy-free approach, but poor mathematical modelling.
Math's 'Game of Life' Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns
Many people hear digitised and they think big brother is watching, I honestly don't know where they get it from because as you say the data we're talking about is already data the government keeps by necessity, that it's now in your phone doesn't automatically make it nefarious.

That said, there are things in the category of surveillance that having it in an app do enable. For this reason I would personally like to require that the implementation of these apps is open source, unfortunately I know there was some resistance on that front with regards to eIDAS...
Kinda, not really. PII data sales are legal, but I'd imagine putting fake info and selling it may be on that fuzzy line.
I see, thank you for the clarification and sharing. I don't think I could do what you're doing. That is what I mean by choice.

I'm holding my 6 week baby boy right now as he sleeps. It is painful just to read your story, but also humanizing and helpful in a way.

As someone who is very risk averse I wonder if using certain philosophies can help hedge against this kind of pain. But then it might have it's own consequences. I've used this in the past with partners (visualizing them leaving) but I'm not sure it would work here.

Is it possible to love your son so much but not feel an equal amount of pain with loss.
Haha I wonder how many other judges this prosecutor has gotten away with that.

If we're sharing chuckles, I once had a magistrate say "I'm not prejudiced" in response to a request to dismiss with prejudice.
> A free market is in fact exactly what you do get in the absence of government regulation

No, you don't. At least not for very long. In the absence of regulation, a free market will always devolve into monopoly as one player leverages their advantages to absorb more and more of the market. This effect snowballs -- the more successful a company is, the more easily they can monopolize ever larger parts.

And that's not even mentioning that in the absence of regulation, companies will engage in profitable activities that are very harmful for everyone. Environmental issues, externalizing business costs, etc.
I'm genuinely surprised that your typical exec isn't looking at things like this thinking: "We're spending this much a month on office space for our 500 staff at this location. Let's knock that down to 100 and push everyone to work from home". Give ourselves a big pat on the back and a nice bonus for saving a few million a year.

If after a few years, it doesn't work, you go back to the market for more office space.

In the UK government orgs sold off their office space and turned to renting. Now the people renting the office space are annoyed that the demand is dropping. Poor them.
Are you able to purchase anything for 10 cents today? The price of a short self-published ebook on Amazon is 30x that, $2.99, and plenty of people buy those.

I understand that low-quality blog posts are worth nothing but if a viable micropayment option existed, those lazy posts would disappear (they only exist for SEO and collecting ad impressions). Websites and blog content would be more like what Substack has, which is semi-longform stuff that doesn't need to be padded with "blog" style posts.
The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87
If you deliberately misinterpret, then there is no reason for us to have a conversation.

Yes, healthy eating and regular exercise are pretty much the only real insurance for your health. Anything else is treatment after you've had a problem. Just like driving carefully is the best auto insurance.
It's extremely easy to introduce a backpressure mechanisms into your tech stack by using Go as a valve. If you can arrange data flow through a Go process, even if it's just a small tool inside your PHP/Rust/Javascript dream stack, then you can get backpressure done in about 5 lines of code:

func valve[T any](ch chan<- T, value T) (ok bool, err error) {
select {
case ch <- value:
return true, nil
default:
return false, ErrSlowDownPlease
} // nonblocking select
}

The other half of the valve is a goroutine that reads from `ch` and pushes values further down your pipeline. The channel can be buffered or unbuffered, it doesn't matter. Flow through this coupling will only proceed at the rate supported by the goroutine, and you can use this fact to partition your stack into rated flow domains.

Sometimes it's better to deploy a simple tool into existing stacks to help patch overload conditions until a "native" fix can be developed.
Politicians that create laws that are later deemed unconstitutional need to be removed from office. Without any repercussions they'll just keep trying until they eventually slip one through.
What if I want to find figure X from chapter Y? What if the chapters are much longer than a page length would be? What if there's only 3 figures in a 100000 word document?

These aren't impossible problems. A well formatted index or table of contents gets you most of the way there.

But what if we used some sort of immutable reference? We could add new reference locations after some fixed amount of content such that they're never too far away, and we could even print these references at the bottom of each section for ease of use!
Would anyone of you if it is trained to recognize geographical places, famous people, etc?
I think he meant as in Penn and ...
What we need is a page-based Vec that mmaps (anon) for the storage but leaves the unused portions zero-bytes and therefore not part of RSS until actually required. (And when clearing/shrinking sections, madvise DONTNEED the pages).

That is, the vec could expand to areas much larger than the actual used size, but this would have no effect on process RSS until those pages get dirtied with actual data.
I’m not running unity to get some fast matrix multiplication, lol.
It is only tens of gigabytes, no need for fiber to handle this. The 37GB of files can be downloaded in 1 hour on an 83mbps link.

(1gbps is 450GB/hour, useful for estimating things)
Example? Why not just use C++?
I don't know how important all this social science stuff is to be honest.

I've worked for 20 years in global teams, and written communication is very important. Having US/UK/Ireland/HK/Singapore split team isn't much different from remote. Over the years I've worked in smaller orgs with a higher % of local people.

What I can tell you is that the amount of chatter grew exponentially. One place I used to call it "bilateral communication" because A-B would side-talk then A-C, then A-D, then B-C, then B-D.. all in-person. Tremendous games of telephone constantly.

Remote is a forcing function on better written communication.

It's funny that half this site is people working on various SaaS tools that are supposed to make work collaboration better, but somehow we need to sit next to each other to be productive?
I guess you’re going to find out. But the answer is “it depends”. If I start every speech with “Carthago delenda est” for a year and nobody destroys Carthage, and then one day I say it and they do, was my comment directed to inciting imminent lawless action, and likely to produce it?
That's still a really good speed, but I think the bigger question might be latency.
Who was really reading/believing articles written by random people anyway? I would not take any random blog as true or useful unless I was familiar with the author and their work. How is the "AI injected" world any different? There will be more disinformation to fool those of us who believe something they read based on anything but the source. So what? Thats already a huge industry.

Fooling the easily fooled accounts for most social media and ad traffic already. So now they get more fooled or fooled more often? I think thats not good but also not catastrophic in the way that is being implied.
for most applications you dont need gc, you can just have a one-off temporary allocator. you only really need the malloc model, or the gc model, of memory management for long running apps

for python-style apps, theyre all die quickly
Sure, but imagine if someone had patented the wheel and decided not to license it to anyone...
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> Why did highly trained, presumably competent pilots make the error?

Confirmation bias is really hard to break. When you're in a situation and start telling yourself a story about what's going on, it's really hard for even break that narrative, even when the "you're being an idiot" light turns on.
One step at a time! Next it'll be defensive technology only, then defensive weapons, then the best defence is a good offence.

LLM chatbots pose no existential risk, because they are not autonomous. However, give a model an OODA loop and planning, and it could become an existential threat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

The problem with military applications, is that having an OODA loop which is potent enough to defeat a human being is basically required. Once multiple factions have such AIs, then those AIs will be in a mutual arms race and become ever more potent. Planning capabilities will also improve in such an arms race.

Before you know it, it'll be "wipe out the humans to achieve peace in our time."

If the AI arms race is very rapid and the improvement curve is steep enough, then humans might become as irrelevant as black powder arms on the modern battlefield. (And everywhere else)
Thanks for the link. I don't think you can conclude that from the discussion at all.

The comment (https://lobste.rs/s/v8xovv/how_design_isa#c_pluxuy) about JALR doesn't convince me. Yes you can use other registers for millicode and coroutines, but that is also baked into the ABI. See "Return-address stack prediction hints encoded in the register operands of a JALR instruction." in the unprivileged spec.

It's an argument for supporting 2 link registers, not 32. I suppose you could argue "but there might be a future use that needs 3!" but it's definitely not clear cut.

I haven't seen a solid defence for the lack of conditional move or advanced addressing modes either.

Also the inclusion of compressed instructions in RVA22/23 seems to be a mistake: https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/topic/101741936#297

I don't think Qualcomm have published their proposal & benchmarks in full, but I can the pain of compressed instructions is very very very high so it would be worth removing them from RVA22/23 even if there is a slight performance penalty. Though it is probably too late realistically, since the profiles are meant to be backwards compatible.

Overall I still think these are pretty minor mistakes and RISC-V is a nice ISA.
Yeah. I work as a PM in a company that builds integrations between ERP and "heavier" accounting systems. It is absolutely not simple, to the point where we are building an ETL-style engine to drive things. It's not "copy record X to Y".
That is so cool !
I took on a role with earlier/longer expected hours, but with the agreement I would do it remotely. And yes it's for a lot more money, not just an extra 10-20% for the extra 10-20% hours.
You mean like Steve Jobs' Apple Orchards? https://youtu.be/lm8cScTvvBo?si=7ItrpdnFPqgLLNxR
The Air Report -- Indoor pollution edition
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Probably should default to "I don't know why someone would do that, but they probably have a good reason I can't think of" when we're discussing taking away their liberty.
"Now" in the sense that he should expect Americans to call him that, so he decided to use it as a nickname?

Or "now" in the sense that US government documents record him under that name?

What is "the immigration desk"? When he first arrived to the US? When he got his visa? When he got his citizenship?

When he enters the US (pre-citizenship, on his Chinese passport), how do they reconcile the name on his passport with the name on his US-issued documentation?

The Chinese nationals I know in the US did not have their name changed. Some do have English names, which they chose voluntarily as nicknames, but that does not affect their legal name.
Gotta be more to it. They blithly say, reeling it in takes a fraction of the energy it generates when it pulls the line out. But that's nonsense on the face of it.

I'm guessing, it changes it's wind profile, maybe going edge-on or closing up, to make it easy to pull down again. Gotta be something.
If we tightened safety regulations so that every car was as safe as the S-Class then cars as safe as the S-Class would dramatically drop in price, simply by virtue of there being more of them.

As for where you draw the line on safety regulations, the optimum answer is always “considerably past the point that business owners start complaining about excessive regulation”.
I think he has thought about this question and 1000's of other scenarios that we will never know.

I write "you" figuratively, interchangeably as "one" or "oneself". I don't expect a reply. I'm asking for others sake or just simply to put my own thoughts down.
You're being silly. The majority of the world also doesn't have access to airplanes, but that doesn't mean they don't work. OP is certainly not in the ridiculous bubble you're describing.
If I am understanding this correctly; you could file 3 "high value" patents, which would result in 12 points awarded, which you could convert to a...$1,200 payout?

I guess it is better than nothing, but $1,200 is like is like gold sticker level for people in those tiers (at least I hope so).
Ah, good on ya!
They should offer a small Bloom filter for download.
Learnings: I built a static SaaS product website
Excuse me. That's not 'killing' them, that's "rightsizing" the class.
Study the field of engineering at large, and bring those practices back to programming. That’s how one evolves from being a programmer/code-jockey to true Software Engineer
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Because there are platforms with no, or really buggy C++ support.
News websites are not independently owned. NYT is publicly traded, Wash Post is owned by Bezos, Time Magazine is owned by Benioff, etc.

They survive on patronage outside of their subscriber base.
I think someone who keeps shilling for genocide, some fairyland version of communism and tries to gaslight people should maybe check whether pathology could be applicable for themselves.
> and create drama to entertain its users.

You don't need Drama, but you should indeed communicate and deliver something worth the peoples' money. I mean, there are many big and small creators who just steadily and silently deliver their work and have usually no drama at all.

Drama is just popular because it's cheap, fast, and any idiot can create it. So people who have nothing else of worth, tend to live from this.
I believe that’s called a revolution
Agreed, that seems like a really bad design. At the very least there should be an alert whenever the system detects that both pilots are touching the controls.
> Your parents aren't exactly a predictor of current or future markets

Sure but they have two phones, two laptops and a desktop, all of them running chrome with absolutely no reason to switch

Hence I'm not surprised adding a gimmick to bing didn't create any market share movement

100m active chatgpt users

3b chrome users

Do the maths, even pinterest and quora have 2-4 times more active users
I'm convinced that I overstated the problem in my initial post.

It's clearly viable to distribute outside the App Store, but "easily avoid it" is also a little overstated IMO.

Apple has increased the friction for outside distribution and 15-30% off the top of all revenue is a wild thing to demand of anyone.

Keep in mind that the government is coming along for another 30-50%, leaving value creators with a small fraction of the value they create.
Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud
Your comment convinced me to try Notion’s calendar but then when I went to add calendars, I’m only able to use a Google account, bummer. I have a Fastmail and an iCloud calendar which I’m guessing will come later to Notion.
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After 1 month of coding (probably more), and beyond my 8-6 work hours I developed this website to discover who doesn't follow you back on Instagram and in a very secure way. Finally, I did it, because the website did not need logins or registrations.

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It is the most secure tool because you don't need to log in with Instagram and even you don't need to register on the website. Is free.
And how do you get those tickets into the issue tracker in the first place? How will an issue tracker help a team coordinate on a complex problem that needs to be worked through as a group? How does moving a ticket to a different status help you connect with the people you work with to build social capital you then spend on conflict? Who is coordinating and lubricating these interactions constantly because natural human interaction isn’t there to do it? And god forbid somewhere have a job that isn’t software engineering…

Your comment feels like the comment a person might make if they thought building a cohesive team was a paint-by-the-numbers exercise.
> And for each plateau achieved, IBM would pay its inventors $1,200 in recognition of their efforts.

After taxes, this is a pretty small amount. With paltry rewards like that, I wonder if employees even cared much about this program.
Part 3

https://libcom.org/article/modern-anarchism-part-3-revolutio...
There's a decent summary table at the bottom of https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/2013/4/11/nissan-to-offer-b...
Problem with leasing a battery is that the company defining acceptable mileage / show battery % is also the same company trying to maximize income.

The longer they can charge you with the same battery the more money they make.

Kinda like iPhones and their battery level when you get AppleCare. If it drops below 80% in the first 2 years you get a new one for free.
Plus, if you’re writing the front end in react or something else, that’s essentially the “other endpoint”. You’re just moving that back closer to the source of the origin.
No. They asked to be on it but that was a hard line for us.