skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised. The issuers of code signing certificates used to ask the person getting the cert to provide links to public registries of business / phone number listings. I had it happen to me.

A lot of the "security" industry is a big scam designed to take your money. Many of the products they sell don't work because they don't have the ability to filter out bad actors. What's the value of a code signing certificate if someone can spin up a company in a corrupt country and get an EV code signing cert for that businesses? The answer is $0.
Wouldn't any detriment be related to the land/property itself, and hence that should be addressed?

For instance, if the owner is doing something obnoxious on a parcel in town, the town can put a lien on it, or condemn it. Then the problem is fixed and that parcel is taken away.

If someone is monopolizing hotels (say) in an area, the local county or state can pass a tax on hotels that make it less desirable to do that. Or start taking on anti monopoly action in the hotel industry in the area.

If that same person owns a parcel in another state, how do those two things relate? Or say one hotel in another state?

Unless someone also wants to go after that other parcel or property, anyway, as a prize.
Yeah it depends heavily on the field and sometimes on the subfield.

Also the approach I use depends on how much I know about the field. If I know less, I weight the introduction more. If I know a lot, I skip almost all the sales and stage setting content. E.g. if it's a psych paper, often I jump directly to the results and only read other content if the results look reasonable. And so on.

So, I guess my only real point is that it's hard to take advice for how best to read a paper from someone (like your advisor) who knows the field much better than you do. You should probably gather as many tricks from the advice as you can, but maybe don't treat it as gospel and do lots of experimenting.
When I read new thread responses, I briefly thought that I wrote[1] your reply and was confused lol. Great minds think alike. I feel vindicated about my weird opinion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39306764
You are not alone. I have experienced this my entire life and it has caused me to question everything people say about motivation, such as the idea that profit and wages are the only way to get things done. Then I came across Karl Marx's theory of alienation and things started to make a lot more sense. He started from the observation that work is the main thing that (healthy) people do, but that this should not be confused with working for other people and being alienated from the product of one's own labor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation
Which has a 0.16% global marketshare. I guess feature phones have to use something though.
Even if it's not protective, that's not enough. In the case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor..., one of the dogs that was shot was literally running away from the officers.
We just want to not be gaslit into believing that she did a great job, which she clearly didn’t

I’m not sure why all the excuses made for her
The Mac in the early 2000s was centered around creating. iLife was the big selling feature. As a kid, I was super thankful my parents bought an iMac because it meant I could create music in Garageband, organize it in iTunes, mix into into a home video that iMovie loaded from my digital tape camera over FireWire, then burn a DVD in... iDVD. I spent countless hours creating stuff that way, whereas on my previous handed-down Win98 laptop I only played games.

Not much of that works as a selling point anymore. iMovie and Garageband are still great, but they don't even come preinstalled.
They should have dogfooded harder - rebuilding Gecko fully in Rust, then shopping it around as the safer and faster alternative to Chromium for embedding. Community would get it for free, OEMs gotta pay, but it would be so much better, more modern, and more robust, that nobody would have minded.

That would have made money.
Fitting with the whole point of C++ where the original design philosophy was to provide language features that you wouldn't have to pay for (in performance cost) if you didn't use them.
I mean, I thought and still think the answer is five… am I an AI or a human?

If the answer is so ambiguous that humans and AI get it wrong, is it really that great of a question?
That would be the just outcome. It’s theft, and they should be convicted for such.

Unfortunately, we only have the law, and the courts regularly demonstrate that the law has little to do with truth or justice.
What's LastPass?

You and I know, but the great majority of the people in the world do not.

And, of course, we only see the cases where the scam app gets through. The success rate for these scams might be pretty low, but from our perspective we wouldn't know.
A couple of days ago there was a post for a site that would take you to hacker news on a totally random date; I had a look and ended up about 9 years ago. One of the posts I saw from then was this game! Many years indeed.
Following my navel gazing idea, the trick is that mail to real@example.com just gets spam binned automatically. Anyone who has any business emailing your should have an real+randomuniqueid@example.com email address to send to you. It's almost like the randomuniqueid is a password to your inbox.

Unfortunately, this is only for email no such thing for phones or anything.
Yeah sure, but I’m talking infants here.
Matches the German concept of "Nichtstun" (doing nothing) fairly well :) (It's not surprising, what with us being neighbors)

And just like 'Niksen', that too is without deeper intent. You just hang. Closest I can come in English is probably 'idling about'.

You do or don't do stuff. Your brain is meandering about. You don't really care about time passing.

It's definitely an art form, most people get bored after a while - true masters can do days on end ;)
>It’s very different from being able to say before hand “if the universe is simulated using x bit floating point computation, we will get result 1 in this experiment, and if it has infinite precision as we’d expect from a non heuristic physical universe, we would get result 2.”

If you're in the physical universe, every experimental result, no matter how surprising, simply shows you what a physical universe is like. The physical universe not conforming to expectations is just a psychological problem that presumably comes from being a descendent of apes who survived and evolved when they expected certain things.

If you're in a simulation, you have no idea what to "expect" because you're never seen a physical universe.
Firefox's multiple profiles' UX is not user-friendly at all. You need to either type "about:profiles" in the address bar or start the desired profile from the command line.

The history/bookmark manager UI is 2000-ish and does not align with current mobile-like design trends.

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Multi-account containers are a cool idea, but they are somewhat power-user-oriented. Ordinary users often don't grasp the concept of cookies, let alone understand the extension's description.

> Under the hood, it separates website storage into tab-specific Containers. Cookies downloaded by one Container are not available to other Containers.
Does that matter? Some open source code that wraps a proprietary service and presents it to another proprietary service is basically entirely proprietary anyway.
Rainer Sachs and H.-H Wu have one about general relativity too. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-9903-5
I guess you didn’t read the article very closely. The Science editor was talking about Science News (note the capitalization) which is a well respected information resource.
I run paperless on an Unraid server at home and it works really well. It has "machine learning" (based on a model that you host yourself that grows as you use it). It has good search, impressive OCR, and generally works really well.

My only complaint is that it lacks a good organization workflow. I have a shared network folder and any file (image, pdf, etc) that you put on that folder gets immediately consumed into Paperless. This happens almost immediately. I have a printer/scanner that allows me to scan to a SMB network drive. So I configured any scans from it to go to that shared folder, which makes integration really nice. I also use GeniusScan on my phone to scan to the same network drive (which requires pro, which is ~$16 a year I think). Genius Scan can save locally to your phone and upload later when you get home, which makes for a good workflow. The problem is that once it gets into Paperless, there's not a good workflow for reviewing and labeling the file. I have been meaning to sit down and provide a contribution to the open source project to improve this, but haven't found the time to do it yet. This is the biggest weakness of the project imo.

For those that have never used paperless. The naming may confuse you. It started off as an open source project named paperless. Then it got abandoned and a team picked it up to update it and make it more modern, and they renamed it paperless-ng (for angular I assume, the new frontend). Then that project lost momentum, so it was forked again and is now paperless-ngx which is the current iteration of it. It currently has a very strong community and gets good updates.
Image generation is working for me, and its much better than GPT4
And the whole point is that paying someone 6M means you should be able to figure out how to solve for these problems

The idea that nobody possibly could reconcile these issues and yet should still be paid egregiously is absurd
Maybe a counter-anecdote? I live in a studio layout house. The only interior door/doorway is to the bathroom. Yet I regularly forget things between my kitchen counter and my desk, or sometimes even between my stove and the counter across from it, despite having generally strong short and long-term recall.

I had chalked it up to the familiarity of the places. I see the same things inside all the time, so one day's moments blend into the previous days' similar moments.

I find a related thing happens in places I visit a lot, like my church, where each time I go, the previous experiences layer on top of it. There just aren't quite enough of them there to crowd out what I'm trying to do this time.
These services should be forbidden from using the phrase "Buy it now" if they do not mean it. The phrase should be "License it now" or "Get a license" so people know what they are getting into.

Words have power.
Everything old is new again https://i.imgur.com/6wKkitF.jpeg
Piracy should be more like joyriding[0] because the owner still has full control over the original :)

> "joyriding is not considered to be theft because the intent to "permanently deprive" the vehicle's owner of the vehicle cannot be proven"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyride_(crime)
I'd love to see winget with a command structure that makes sense. Currently if I want to install python via winget, I have to run `winget install -e --id Python.Python.3.11`. -e? --id? What are these for? Why do I have to memorize them? Almost every other package manager just does something like `packagemanager install python`, and then you can supply args for versions if you like.

Also winget does not have python 3.12 which was released 4 months ago.
Well, I respectfully disagree, both that it was a cherry picked part of the In Memoriam, (see the below, which I believe is similar, and 20%+ of the piece), and that it was not incredibly notable for such statements to be made in the specific context of a memoriam of a long term (originally as a volunteer) employee who died in such a terrible and anguished way leaving behind a widow and children.

When there is ambiguity, I assume the best. I don't believe that applies to the below. I encourage you to read this reaction (in my original post), which articulates my feelings far better than I could.

https://lwn.net/Articles/762345/

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Eventually Gerv felt called to live his faith by publicly judging others in politely stated but damning terms. His contributions to expanding the Mozilla community would eventually become shadowed by behaviors that made it more difficult for people to participate.

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Gerv’s default approach was to see things in binary terms — yes or no, black or white, on or off, one or zero. Over the years I worked with him to moderate this trait so that he could better appreciate nuance and the many “gray” areas on complex topics. Gerv challenged me, infuriated me, impressed me, enraged me, surprised me. He developed a greater ability to work with ambiguity, which impressed me.

Gerv’s faith did not have ambiguity at least none that I ever saw. Gerv was crisp. He had very precise views about marriage, sex, gender and related topics. He was adamant that his interpretation was correct, and that his interpretation should be encoded into law. These views made their way into the Mozilla environment. They have been traumatic and damaging, both to individuals and to Mozilla overall.

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To memorialize Gerv’s passing, it is fitting that we remember all of Gerv — the full person, good and bad, the damage and trauma he caused, as well as his many positive contributions. Any other view is sentimental. We should be clear-eyed, acknowledge the problems, and appreciate the positive contributions.
The conversion of a conversation context to vector for retrieval is lossy and often very manual.
I don’t quite follow why people use ollama ? It sounds like lama.cpp with less features and training wheels

Is it just ease of use or is there something I’m missing?
No the LLC in Las Vegas has nothing to do with the corporation in Wyoming, i provided it as reference to show that one may have a business in one state but be incorporated in another to protect personal assets, it’s quit common. We could have accomplished the same by placing each property in an a Nevada LLC but Wyoming corporations are cheaper, arguably easier to manage with better protection. Both states have no State taxes.
Anyone know if Gemini has access to the web? Or how to give it access, if so? Happy to pay for Ultra but the docs are unclear...
Yeah I gave up after trying to ask this simple question in philosophy forums: is there a justification for eating meat? And for the most part the answers from actual academics is no. Then the simple follow up is are you vegetarian. The answer is very commonly no. So everything is just theory for them. Like a cardiologist with heart disease (also common). No wonder it's all gone south.
It's always ease of use lol. Thinking the best technology wins is a fallacy.
This comment is very compelling. Thank-you for opening my mind a bit.
I moved from PHP/Laravel to Elixir/Phoenix about two years ago and I can't imagine using anything else these days.
Don't (you or your partner) be afraid to ask for help from family, friends, or medical professionals. Being a parent is an amazing, rewarding experience. But it can also take a physical and psychological toll. Trying to work through it or tough it out is a bad strategy.
Spamming is about quantity but stripping a "+" is something a one line script can do, which is what will happen if this gets popular. A real solution should be more resilient. Like spam binning anything that does not use the "+" ?
If they hired remote it's not a crazy estimate..
I mean that the AWS SDK is a large API surface, they'd potentially have to re-implement all of it in Rust and then keep up with future changes, otherwise you have to tell people it's not 100% compatible.

I'm told this library is multiple megabytes of JavaScript. (That's why Node takes so long to load it...)
"The King downloads Sony Vegas," a classic.
This has been a standard practice in many countries

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_silence
Eh? Do you have that backwards?

Firefox has all those things.
Funny how you never read a thread about iTunes where someone states „hey, I am from iTunes dev team“
Wake me when/if they can get it to run for 10 minutes.

Otherwise we're are at the Wright Brothers' Kittyhawk level of 8 seconds of flight in 1903 as against the 10 hours or more of passenger flight in the 1980s.

I venture my opinion that enclosed plasma fusion will never be practical.

I am more confident that 'cold fusion' will be more practical than plasma fusion will ever be. And 'cold fusion' is considered 'quackery' by most scientists.
The data is probably coming from the Census [1] through the NECS that the author mentions. If so, the documentation is here [2] (starting on page 4-42) but doesn't mention anything about Louisiana having anything out of the ordinary. It calls out Vermont, Illinois and New Jersey for having some wackiness with "pseudo districts"

[1] https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series...

[2] https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp...
Michael Mann wins defamation verdict against right-wing bloggers
https://archive.ph/BfyL4
The CLI for llama.cpp is very clunky IMO. I put some kind of UI on it when I want to get something done.
None of the best or most interesting work I've done has been for pay.
Yeah it also happens to me on the computer. Specially funny when I end up distracted by something else, then a hour later come back to the original trigger and remember how I ended up on the last hour long rabbit hole and what I was actually going to do.
I have interacted with some Seattle PD cops in an environment where they assumed that the entirety of their audience is very sympathetic to them (a lecture on how to properly interact with police when carrying openly or concealed, delivered to a group that can be reasonably described as "right-wing militia").

Some of the most racist things I've heard in my life was from the officers delivering that lecture. And most of it wasn't even brought up deliberately - they were just telling anecdotes from their day to day work and the kinds of stories that they trade with colleagues. It goes beyond racist, too - one of them literally said that people in the neighborhood he has to work in are "all filthy disgusting animals".
Problem is, there are things you don't know you need until you know about them.

You can always code around not knowing your entire programming language or libraries.

Spaced repetition is obviously a tool for someone who wants to know all the nooks and crannies, in order to become a walking reference.

It could always be used for a subset. If there some 15% of some language you think you're going to use, and not much more, you could still SRS on that 15%.
I recall seeing that OpenAI finetuned ChatGPT on facts related to itself, and I figured Google likely did the same. But you're right about not relying on its representations. I only skimmed its answer to see if it seemed consistent with my reading of the fine print.
Yeah, this is the critical legal reasoning behind Citizens United, and it doesn't get enough respect from people who dislike the practical outcome of that decision. You do not surrender your rights when you join an organization. Anything that one of its employees could legally do is something that the corporation (which is, as the saying goes about government, just another term for things we agree to do together) should be able to.

It's complicated and difficult to draw the lines and impossible to do it perfectly. But if Elon Musk wants to blow an entire fortune for the lulz, that's kind of up to him. And we shouldn't stop him.
I've always used `llamacpp -m <model> -p <prompt>`. Works great as my daily driver of Mixtral 8x7b + CodeLlama 70b on my MacBook. Do alternatives have any killer features over Llama.cpp? I don't want to miss any cool developments.
I have the same question. Noticed that Ollama got a lot of publicity and seems to be well received, but what exactly is the advantage over using llama.cpp (which also has a built-in server with OpenAI compatibility nowadays?) Directly?
I don't get the reflexive antipathy some people have towards any notion of independence or self-sufficiency. The most common class of comment is "tHeYrE nOt 100.0% sElF-rElIaNt, acktchually", which I'm not sure is an expectation that anyone actually has, as evidenced by the numerous discussions on buying gold, trade/barter, swap meets, etc.

Any beautiful stories about dependence?
It's a wrapper around llama.cpp that provides a stable api
enjoy your time with them while they're young. the older they get, the less time they'll have with you.
My guess is there are factions internally
Ray Optics Simulator
Found this when looking for ways to simulate light paths. Thought it's kind of neat and the kind of thing usually appreciated by the HN crowd.
It was an impossible situation. Chrome can be funded and promoted by some of the most dominant web properties in the world. Even Microsoft is struggling to get a foothold with Edge, and that's after turning it into a Chrome reskin.

Not saying the comp package was justified. But it was a job doomed to fail.
This sounds like corporate speak covering up for a forced resignation. The red herring of the interim CEO doing anything serious on privacy is not real since:

> Chambers says she won’t be seeking a permanent CEO role because she plans to move back to Australia later this year for family reasons.

Here's my optimistic educated guess: The board finally caught on to the fact that Mitchell is an overpaid failed CEO for a "company" (e.g. weird for-profit entity that runs a "non-profit") propped up by its largest competitor to avoid anti-trust accusations. Its only real product has dwindling, barely mattering, marketshare (<5%)^. Chambers, being from the board and not the executive structure, is obviously a caretaker "for cover" while the new CEO search goes on.

^If you're curious about an expansion on this, my opinions on it based on their financial statements are in our podcast episode "How Does Mozilla Make Money?" from a year ago:
https://pnc.st/s/kopec-explains-software/bdecab32/how-does-m...
That’s not a counter-anecdote. The linked article describes how this is about psychological barriers which can align with physical barriers but doesn’t have to be. Such as application windows on a computer desktop.

What you’re describing is still a physical barrier but it’s not a literal door way.
OK, first...Science News is trash. Absolute trash. Maybe it's better than e.g. the current NY Times Science reporter (who is so incompetent that it's mind-blowing), but it's still just not worth reading, except maybe on the toilet. They can (and do) say nonsensical stuff all the time.

(edit: I just realized that you might be suggesting that "News" in the quote refers only to "Science News". I don't agree, but even if so, it doesn't change anything about my argument. If you are editor-in-chief of a scientific journal, you shouldn't be delegating your analysis to reporters, no matter where they work. If you aren't experienced/knowledgable enough to see why a paper is important from the work in front of you, give it to someone who can. And if you don't want to do that, then reject it.)
It is a refutable claim. Those voters continue to vote the same people in. We can derive from their action, that politicians not reducing spending isn’t a concern they hold highly.
Maybe not exactly that, but traveling salesmen (snake oil, encyclopedias) used to be more of a thing.