skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happier just running an Elgg instance on a cloud server and inviting the people I know to post there. 10-12 people sharing shit they found elsewhere and starting conversations is more than enough for me.
Because congress has declared that it is legal for them to do it, so there's no criminal activity to prosecute.

Is that bullshit: yes.

Does that mean you should not prosecute it when it is illegal: of course not.

I get that you're frustrated that elected officials are allowed to trade on non-public information, but you can't say "why aren't you prosecuting them for it" when it's explicitly legal for them to do so.

Given the idiocy of the current setup, my feeling is people should get state level laws that say "all elected officials representing [state] must make all trade information available 5 business days prior to them being issued and once made public they cannot be cancelled; if they are aware of information that would reasonably expected to impact the price of the stock[s] they're trading they must indicate that; if any form of NDA or confidentiality requirement prevents them from indicating they are aware of such information that cannot make the trade; if they in anyway suggest or instruct any other person or entity to make any trades, they must provide the above details publicly just as though it were their own trade; if anyone receives any information, suggestion, or instruction from an elected official and through any mechanism other than their public notice, any trades they make are illegal; If an elected representative becomes aware of other officials - not from their state - trading in stock, funds, or industries while in possession of information that would reasonably impact valuations, they must publicly report the people they believe are trading, and the stock, funds, markets, etc that would be impacted by that knowledge". Finally, I'd add a "and every elected official's investment funds, etc must be public and trackable such that they can be automatically matched by anyone else".

Obviously in the ideal world what would happen is once you get elected to office or your investments, etc would be handed over to the relevant government body, where they would be liquidated into a cash balance, and then when you leave office you get that cash back increased by the median wealth increase of the bottom 80% of people in your state (for state government) or the US (for federal office). You'd also be prohibited from working in any industry you regulated or monitored for five years, and no contracts that offer you positions or compensation from before or during your period in government would ever be enforceable.

Because it's clear congress is not going to pass any laws prohibiting themselves from insider trading, so we're stuck with the ability for people to pass state level policies and laws to force the trading to be public, and to provide advance notice to everyone.
Still, the japanese mission had that problem. If the surface is guaranteed to be flat, low centre of gravity could be enough, but knowing there could be rocks or other kind of irregularities, I'd consider a fail safe shape.
> GIMP will never be big as it should be.

But having something "photoshopped" is a bad thing. Interesting. :)
From a practical standpoint they’re the same - it’s the at the margin (MMF is likely to “reset” more quickly than a high yield savings account, you’re also risking it “breaking the buck” in times of extreme stress, + a lot of the income in a MMF you won’t pay state tax on, on the other hand an HYSA is FDIC insured)
You would need to train on pairings of normal map images to source images. To my knowledge, that’s not a common training technique and this ability seems to bridge across several open models.
yes and bitcoin builds on top of that, I believe the white paper may cite that effort, it cites W Dai’s b-money paper from 1998

The bitcoin white paper specifies that this is a solution without a trusted intermediary

the first line of the abstract entails not using a financial institution

I agree that ‘unsolved’ was inaccurate, I try to also say bitcoin 2008 is one implementation and essentially all distributed ledgers are following this branch of solution

additional solutions remain evasive
Post is true unfortunately. Layoffs have everyone on edge backslapping is rampant. My team was a target of this behavior.
well, Slack is the one having the last laugh, since they get their hands on a lot of "sensitive business data".
Hah, HN shrunk it down to one space.
If walking ever gets easy it means you're not seeking out new challenges.
I couldn't follow this personally. It seems to be scattered notes pasted into a Google Doc saved to PDF on Google Drive without a whole lot of journalistic narration. I see what sounds like science but I cannot for the life of me find where those intermediate number came from. But, here's the conclusion, as a summary: "In my Bayesian analysis, modeled after Michael Weissman's analysis I concluded
PO(LL) / PO(ZO) = 1.7E-3
The product of my updates, I concluded
P(LL) / P(ZO) = 2.125
The final, then is
PO(LL) / PO(ZO) * P(LL) / P(ZO) = 3.6-3
I concluded that there is approximately a 1 in 300 chance that SARS-CoV-2 was the result of a lab leak." That is the structure of Bayes theorem, but I have no idea where the numbers came from.
Sure I understand that, but nevertheless I have seen at least 3 people who were confused in the same way. (c.f. https://youzicha.tumblr.com/post/728810860450136065). I think the issue is that if you see an equation f(c) = c you think about trying to evaluate the function f at the point c, since that's what you do in almost all other situations involving a function call.
Static Assert in Go
Already done it with GPT-4.

I showed it a TypeScript module, asked it to generate a unit test and it made a working test not only covering the happy paths but a few edge cases as well.
You can also do before:2030 (or some other date in the future). It shouldn't change the results except removing the "recommended" garbage. It's crazy how much more usable it becomes. You could probably write a Userscript or something to automatically add it to every query.
Or maybe from the CIA overthrowing your elected leader in favor of a military dictatorship? I feel like that'd leave scars on any country 50 years deep.
Codebases + every textbook + every academic paper + every recorded lecture on whatever topic you're working on going back a few years.
Point taken. Not opposed to self-hosting, its just that we haven't seen interest in that so far. And the way things are right now, it can be very complex to setup.
I have no idea if this would work with Google, but I've noticed with Alexa it seems less likely to play a song when I ask for a non-song if I tell it to "listen" to the non-song rather than to "play" the non-song.
Thanks for engaging with the above constructive criticism, it's a refreshing change from what is sadly the norm.

One additional question - do you forsee any issues with this application where LLMs enter a non-value add "doom loop"? I can imagine a scenario where a test generation LLM gets hooked on the lower value simplistic tests, and yet management sees such a huge increase on the test metric ("100x increase in unit tests in an afternoon? Let's do it again!") that they continue to bloat the test suite to near-infinity. Now we're in a situation where all future training data is now training on complete cesspool of meaningless tests that technically add coverage, but mostly just to cover an edge case that only an LLM would create.

Not sure if that makes sense, but tl;dr - having LLMs in the loop for both code creation and code testing seems like it's a feedback loop waiting to happen, with what seems like solely negative repercussions for future LLM training data.
it doesn't take 100k equipment, most 3d printers will experience weirdness without a real sine input.

the cheapest APC models are notorious for this.
It would be amusing if the AI inferred the identity of a mystery character before they were revealed.
A recent abrupt change in Internet SSH brute force attacks against us
I had a toy poodle growing up that would often know what I was going to do before I did.

He also growled at my girlfriend for the only time around when she started cheating on me. Maybe coincidental, but it was the only time I ever recall him growling at anyone and he had known her for 2 years.
I can't help but wonder what'll happen to those boxes when AMD inevitably discontinues ROCm support for the 7900XTX 3 years down the line.
Would you be OK using a Github login on stuff like this? Or would you be OK just using tokens emailed to you as a means to login? The reason I'm asking is because I don't like passwords and so designed a password-less login system that relies on emailed tokens and 2FA, with either the Authenticator app or texts.
I think it’s fair to say you should do chargebacks only to companies you won’t do business with any more.
Not only well done but well-presented. Lots to learn from that codebase! I think the most impressive part is keeping track of which LED is which, especially with multiple drones flying around. I would've tried something goofy like PWM'ing them to make identification easier, but that would have added more latency than doing it the hard way with the math.

I wonder if the LED support wires are stiff enough to avoid some stability loss. Seems that any flexing could make tuning more difficult.
I tried asking "What is the size of Phind-70B's context window?" and it couldn't answer the question. Strangely, it immediately found the page with the answer (https://www.phind.com/blog/introducing-phind-70b) but refused to acknowledge that the answer was there. I tried asking several ways. It even quoted the exact answer in the displayed snippet, but still said there was no answer!

Here are a couple screenshots:

https://imgur.com/a/u7iKOyw
https://imgur.com/a/aHAto5H

And here's the link to the whole conversation:

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=zlaksmzkm0h5cpx8l95n62tl

Why is this happening? Does it generally have difficulty with reading web pages, or is there something strange about this particular question?
Clearly, when there is real disagreement between elites and the masses, you can't "scope platforms down to the bits that everyone agreed with".

In such a case, what would you call a political movement that embraced the position of the non-elites, not as a political tactic, but because actual support of the "masses" is core to the movement?

Whatever word you would use for that, I think you'd understand Rayiner's post better if you replace populist with the word you prefer.

If (and I'm not sure this is true) the "masses" do oppose globalism (worldwide) and secularism (in India), then there is something inherently ______ about those positions.

This side discussion about the true meaning of the word "populist" only distracts from the more important question of whether the people's desires are actually being suppressed by an elite who control the levers of power and the channels of communication.
I thought the bigger concern was that the charge and duty cycle of the different battery chemistries were incompatible so it was not a good idea to swap lithium based batteries into lead acid ups's.

If someone knows different, I'm all ears.
One hopefully constructive comment… I didn’t find this a motivating example as intended:

int foo_or_bar(int which) {
// Assumes you don't mind both functions being called
int x = foo();
int y = bar();
return *(&x + which);
}

The argument being (if I understood right) if x has to have an address, it can’t be put in a register, so that must be UB or we can’t use registers. Well, how about the rule is that if I take the address of x, it can’t be put in a register? That seems like an obvious rule, and I seem to remember that was a safe assumption before the “great UBification” of compilers.

I’m sure there’s a better example of why UB helps optimization, but this one didn’t work for me.
This is most likely why

https://unifiedid.com/
> core offering of a web search engine.

They will get replaced by someone else if they dont focus on AI.
"Wall Street Traders Are Too Scared to Fight the AI Rally, Short sellers have gone missing amid meteoric Big Tech rally"

Garden path title
Not gonna lie I upvoted this post based only on the title.
Up until a few years (well, it feels like it) ago wells Fargo had a case insensitive password for accounts. I didn't believe it since my password was upper and lower case and special characters but I tried one day and sure enough got right in.
If you can mobilize enough people to make a stink, councils will give you whatever it takes to make you go away.

Even if politicians were entirely pure and good, the calculus yields a bias towards non-action.

Each and every decision will piss someone off. Now or any time in the future. Some of the enraged can make a stink. It's very hard to predict negative outcomes. So the best strategy is to play it safe.

Then add corruption, incompetence, fossilized worldviews, and pathologically power obsessed try hards.

Politics is just the worst. And unfortunately necessary.
What does Lilypond offer that other robust, free, and open-source notation programs like Musescore don’t?
Likewise your comment(s) makes no sense to me.

If you can understand attention and transformers, how can you not understand that population numbers can rise, reach a peak, fall, and then level out (all w/out any genocidial actions)?

How can you claim that it is "absurdism" to imagine something that can be seen in data across the plant and animal kingdom?
Interesting idea, but 1TB of storage would cost $13k!
What's the TL;DR on that Quantune device? Does it achieve a new level of noninvasive accuracy?

(I did visit the website but there is no information (possibly because I'm in Japan which has regulations around public disclosure of information about medical devices that haven't been approved — which is enough of a hassle that sometimes companies just basically show a blank page).)
I remember a story about space combat where just transmitting a firing solution would disable the enemy ship. Can't remember the title or author for the life of me.
You do realize people see things internally, right? Sometimes they see things augmented reality-like as well. Just because we can't see it doesn't mean they can't, or they are lying.
Seems to me it is new construction vs upgrade, and most folks that build things favor new construction. People that pay for things favor upgrades. I think the answer is in the middle.
Copied verbatim from your link:

“Camping is not permitted on enclosed farmland, cultivated fields, or land around houses.”

Nobody is trying to steal anyone’s land or gun collection here.
I had it do it with several anecdotical reports, and it said those were nonsense, where this one it said made sense and explained why. Metaphorically speaking is a thing, and it doesn't make it inaccurate, just a bit odd.
The main advantage of recursive descent is that since parser rules correspond to functions in the host language, you can put a breakpoint on them in the debugger and understand how you got there. You can't do that with a table-driven LALR(1) parser like Bison.

I think you cover that with "debuggability" remark.

Here is something else. Yacc/Bison parsing uses its own stack for the symbols. Whereas recursive descent uses the regular run-time stack.

Pop quiz: which stack is visible to your garbage collector, and which isn't?

In TXR Lisp, which uses a Bison/Byacc generated parser, GC is suspended while yyparse() executes. Otherwise it would prematurely collect anything that is only stored in the Yacc stack, and so there would have to be a GC hook to traverse that stack (which would depend on undocumented features of the generated code, and likely have to have some separate coding for Bison versus Byacc.)
>...using a third party vendor (costly).

I promise we're not _that_ costly.

But yes, having built a slackbot/Slack OAuth myself and dealing with it at my $CURRENT_CO (stytch.com), Slack is a service you have to be very careful with. They offer a very powerful API and permissioning model, but it can be nerve wracking.
Scientists closer to finding quantum gravity theory
Reminds me of popular malware and their process names.
I wasn't selling anything, and if you don't believe it to be true, then good for you. As for the other stuff, that's just bullshit you are telling.
Will This Rare 1980s HDD Live Long Enough to Save the Data? [video]
I got 10/10. At least 3 of them I remembered from Sora's announcement page (or samas twitter thread the same day). 3 or 4 of them seemed obvious, just having a lot of experience with cameras personally, and having seen a lot of AI content. I just chose the video that looked like the biggest pain-in-the-ass to do for real. One of them looked like a f/0.9 lens. Ain't nobody got time for that irl. I got lucky on the rest, I wasn't sure.
Agreed.

LLMs will never get any better than they are right now and haven't improved at all in 2 years. Just fancy Markov chains.

The only way they can be used to write code is by people who don't know how to code blindly commiting code to prod without any review whatsoever.

People who do know how to code couldn't possibly have a use case and it won't make them any more productive.

I'm just going to ignore all this LLM nonsense that isn't changing the world at all and you definitely should too.
Do not worry. The NSA, the FBI, and DHS all have copies.
"video platforms" compress or delete most nonverbal channels of communication, and the resulting culture is filtered down to a thin broth.
KiCad 8.0
I believe you can condition on a probability of proposition.

For example, if you are in a fairly dark room and you observe with 90% confidence a red object.
Then you can do (iirc)
P(X | 90% confidence see red object) = 90% * P(X | see red object) + 10% * P(X | do not see red object)

I would think that in principle, this allows for allowing all observations to be fallible, without any kind of “infinite regress” problem? You just apply the same kind of process each time.
There have been substantial wage increases, in a rather tight labor market. Both of these factors would conspire to limit scalability: if you can’t find more workers or if they are too expensive, you can’t scale.
Or people could learn to be based and redpilled like me and not karma-whore
That is a common misconception about TDD.

TDD is _about_ writing tests that matter, but most people think it is about writing all unit tests first.

If you are following TDD anywhere close to the way it is described, you will only be writing tests that relate to domain functionality first.

Note how it is described here, although it is turse.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestDrivenDevelopment.html

The coverage metric as a goal writing style doesn't work for TDD, sorry you were exposed to that.

You are correct that model doesn't work.
Anarcho-capitalism is the "it played out differently in my head" of political theories.
I've got a Nextcloud humming away in my attic. It gets backed up to my office systems. NC has a recycle bin too.

Self hosted is not for everyone but at what point is your stuff important enough for you to really take responsibility for it. Do you simply Dropbox or OneDrive or whatever or do you do it yourself and self host or get a family member/friend do it or engage someone to do it for you.

You do have choices. Even if you lack the skills to self host you can engage someone to set it up for you. You probably don't plumb your own bog 'n' bath and yet you own a toilet and bath/shower/whatever that works. A trade has fixed that up for you in return for some consideration.

So, do the calculus for yourself: How important is your data, what sort of losses if any are sustainable. What are the risks ... have you done a home fire risk assessment - do one, its not hard. Fire blanket in the kitchen (ban towels drying on the oven), one shot ladders (that sit in the bottom of a wardrobe - inform guests - make a joke of it) for upstairs bedrooms, foam fire extinguishers - one or more per floor. Plan for escape. £500 or so per five years is a very rough budget for hardware. By law you probably should also have battery backed, mains powered smoke detectors already, so I don't count that in the budget. If not, then get some and test them.

UPS ... get one, especially if your storage does not include a battery backed RAID controller. File systems are rubbish with holes in them. APC and others do several small units for home use with domestic plugs (in the UK we get our fearsome three pin plug sockets). Get PoE+ switches - Netgear and others do reasonably cheap switches. That smart doorbell really should be PoE powered with UPS backup ...

If you are reading HN then there is a good chance you are either an engineer of some sort or the sort of person who thinks like one. Once you have worked out the risks and costs and yes, some of those costs might include being kicked from here to tomorrow by a partner (where are my photos?), then you can create a plan. I'll leave it up to you how you squirrel away the costs but please ... pretty please ... do a proper plan for this sort of stuff and whilst you are at it do a reasonably wide risk assessment. You might want to cover "everything" as you might at work - it can be quite cathartic.
My Shiba knows his "spots" where he meets friends of his and what times we usually run into them. And when they miss those times he will lead us to their apartment because he knows which door they live behind. It's crazy.
What’s the failure mode you’re guarding against by having the UPSs on separate circuits and breakers?

Is the idea to protect against a breaker failing, a wiring issue, or something similar?
10 years ago, I would have agreed with you. Today, facts are useless. Once someone has picked a side, there is no changing it for the majority of people.
> It also produces more STEM PhDs than any other country, and now leads the world in rankings of high-quality research output.

And the rest of the world still benefits from that output as much as China (emigration shot up during/after covid).

> Yet Chinese-made and -designed automotive batteries are among the most advanced in the world, and China is quickly becoming a leader in the development and production of electric cars.

Battery production isn't really something you can get villagers to do alone. Otherwise, the quality of Chinese cars is pretty consistent across brands (so so, China's chabuduo culture), but it doesn't matter much because auto shops/repairs are still pretty affordable.
> Well, how about the rule is that if I take the address of x, it can’t be put in a register?

The issue is that y might end up in a register, and you didn't take the address of y.
Or a nation state where energy is very cheap and people can live anonymously over the internet ie. Russia or China.
Friday standups just don't work -- people want some day to do some tasks-- only hardcore engineers work that day which is probably norm at IT tech sweat shops
I currently have 2.2 TB of personal data on my NAS. If I wanted to get it all into the cloud, ArDrive is quoting me $28,902. It will break even against Backblaze B2 in 133 years.
This would be a great intro scene in a movie about hackers: the ominous drop off in attacks noticed by a random admin due to all bots gathering their strength to deliver a huge tsunami of attacks agains the US power grid.
It's hard to know, but since it's virtual, we know with certainty that there's no guarantee of any sort of "air" between the object locked data. Much less the total severance of any kind of plugged in network that "air gapped" implies.
The perfect ruse. /s
The Pentagon's Billion-Dollar Hunt for Batteries That Won't Explode on Soldiers
Absolutely - or if the check clearing process made it more obvious to customers that a check hasn't cleared yet, possibly even by not making funds available for checks drawn on dubious banks until the check has fully cleared.