skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone in this post commented their military friend says get gas

The Rogers outage in Canada took out the nationwide debit card payment network because that infra depended on Rogers. Credit cards still worked, but depends on your station’s access to make the transaction. And no shortage of shops running their POS “in the cloud” and needing to close if they lose internet access. I actually did have to lend cash to a colleague to buy gas to get home during that Rogers outage.

All it takes is for one pipeline valve to depend on a cellular connection for billing to get the whole line shutdown.

And ugh, we hope for a botched software upgrade too, but a corp cyberattack is so much harder to recover from so can’t be discounted from the realm of possibilities. I know that’s where my mind went with Rogers given how thorough their outage was.

Was kinda unimaginable for a total outage to happen with no org comms ready to go in the pipeline. Your plans are supposed to have those comms ready for a bad update that you’ve been planning for weeks. It’s a cyberattack where you may stay silent. But I know Rogers isn’t going to admit fault until they find someone else to blame.
Text editors and the likes (modern day's typewriters) should have an automatic check that you are not criticizing the government, censor the text and report you to the authorities if it thinks it an alternate political party.

Hopefully you are going to be absolutely shocked by the prospect of the above sentence. But as you can see, surveillance is a slippery slope. "Safety" is a very dangerous word because everybody wants to be "safe" but no one is really ready to define what "safe" actually means. The moment we start baking cultural / political / environmental preferences and biases in the tools we use to produce content, we allow other group of people with different views to use those "safeguards" to harm us or influence us in ways we might not necessarily like.

The safest notebook I can find is indeed a simple pen and paper because it does not know or care what is being written, it just does it's best regardless of how amazing or horrible the content is.
One of the strange things about YouTube is you can get sucked into it and forget what good content actually looks like. It becomes a matter of what’s relatively good on YouTube, not overall.

You’re right that there’s good content on there, but I’m not convinced someone would be missing out on 99.9% of it. Or more.

I’ve used it far too much in the past as well. Today I feel like it was purely a vice and a distraction. My impression of various things being “good” was based on its ability to keep me watching without feeling immediate shame or being made too aware of how I was distracting myself from more important things. Had I never seen most of it, not much would be different. Things would likely be better for me.
If the training data was a photo of every nurse in the world, then that’s what you’d expect, yeah. The training set isn’t a photo of every nurse in the world, though; it has a bias.
I've setup Decap CMS before, back when it was still called Netlify CMS. I loved the core idea of keeping all your files in Git and tracking them normally but like you said, it was just too hard get up and running and was very quirky, always thought to myself: "I wish someone would make a git based CMS like this but something that's easier to run with a less wired config / UI, seems like you did just that. Congrats!
A good teacher can already do that. Nothing is stopping it.

There are books like 'Historical Atlas' that shows lots of maps threw world history.

This what my school actually did have as the main book.

But its also pretty challenging as going threw specific periods is part of what you have to teach.
I think the "long-running" part is important. Like, if I'm doing pair programming with someone one else for a bit, and then we settle into a mode where we're both working on our individual parts, and then all the sudden we hear a third voice in the call from a person who just joined -- it does seem out of nowhere, and kind of discombobulating if there's no warning.
Safety is also safe for people trying to make use of the technology at scale for most benign usecases.

Want to install a plugin into Wordpress to autogenerate fun illustrations to go at the top of the help articles in your intranet? You probably don’t want the model to have a 1 in 100 chance of outputting porn or extreme violence.
>I don't think this is any more libertarian than kings and aristocrats of days past were.
So very libertarian.

>If anything it seems a lot more democratic since he wants it to be available to everyone
No, he want's a solution that minimizes contact to other people and let you live in your bubble. This minimizes exposure to others from the same city and is a commercial system, not a publicly created one. Democratization would be a cheap public transport where you don't get mugged, proven to work in every european and most asian cities.

> I admit I don't know anything about this one
The cybertruck. Again a vehicle to isolate you from everyday life being supposed bulletproof and all.

> lots of republicans including Trump do the same thing, and they're not libertarian
They are all "little government, individual choice" - of course they feed their masters, but the kochs and co want exactly this.

Appreciate the exchange too, thanks for factbased formulation of opinions.
Only check it on a schedule, keep it closed, and turn off all notifications
Ironically for many, the lack of support for arbitrary extensions on RDS, Google Cloud SQL, and the like means that if your data's stuck there, you'd need to migrate to a self-managed database instance - which means you'd need to use the strategies in the blog post anyways!

More generally, of course, it's not always a "free lunch" to have your analytics compute using the same CPU/RAM that runs your production transactional database. If you're at billion-row scales, you're likely to be at the point where mirroring to a data warehouse is becoming necessary.
Good to see someone talking about it.. I used to spend my free time watching Youtube, these days it's only during dinner before I put on a TV show (and just before bed where very long LPs put me to sleep in minutes). What helped I only notice in retrospective: I got diagnosed and medicated for ADHD.

Now I actually have the focus and drive to do the things I should be doing, rather than lazying my day off on YouTube with a hidden yet growing shadow of worthlessness and self-hate. In fact, now that I have improved focus, I don't have the patience to sit and watch Let's Plays any more. I either zone out, doze off or think about stuff I should be doing, and I just turn it off.

YMMV.
> Is there a term for that?

Projecting, biased.
> For the video on your landing page, ideally the youtube would be embedded so it doesn't open another window

Yep.

> In regards to the video, while I love the content and info, it's not the most marketing friendly. It's over 2 minutes before the background of the video even changes. Ideally the video would get into the demo portion muuuch quicker.

Yep. I also recorded it when I was sick, and my mic is pretty horrid.

> I clicked on this hackernews link, clicked through to your landing page, scrolled around, but really didn't get a grasp of what it was offering or how it worked or who or what it was for (admittedly I was prly lazy reading). Only after I watched the video, heard you specifically mention eleventy (which I personally use a lot) was my interest piqued enough to actually engage in the content and understand it more. Glad I did, but I gotta feel there's some better way of presenting what you're doing. I quite liked your calling it a wordpress-like CMS over top an existing static site stack.

I definitely need to level up my marketing game.

Thanks a lot for the input.
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I don't think trying to shove "everything is a file" everywhere is going to work well but let's see what the future holds.

IMO we actually should gradually start moving away from that. It's a leaky abstraction (though granted, our current tooling is pretty strong and excellent about all this so I guess it's a 50/50 here).
Right, that's the "con" of looking at charges as opposed to only convictions.
That's a good point. The problem is most of those 100 people are from my network. But it seems now other people I don't know are also joining. I guess the best thing for me is to keep being consistent at writing and forget a bit about numbers, for now. Thank you for your comment.
Yeah. If you fly over the Midwest on a clear day, a lot of it is almost a cookie-cutter pattern.
This is something that I see mentioned by a lot of people but I really cannot relate. If a video is shorter than 10 minutes I usually don't bother clicking. There is something that I find unappealing about short videos. That said I am 100% victim of reddit doom scrolling. But just seeing a short video makes me close the app or scroll faster.
This is an eye opening article.

My list of vices:
Youtube
X
Hacker news
Telegram “news” channels
Funny that the student project will be the first private landing followed by the commercial vehicle?
This reminds me of a YouTube video from a black female from the US, where she argued that Montenegro sounds too racist. Yet, that name existed way before the US was conceived.
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Tesla has a P/E ratio of 45, vs. 17 for BYD. A lot of Tesla's value is based on hype and expectations, not on its current business.
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> Hell, even printers, maybe not if invented today but perhaps in a couple years if we stay on the same trajectory, would probably require some sort of ML to refuse to print or "reproduce" unsafe content.

Fun fact: Many scanners and photocopiers will detect that you're trying to scan/copy a banknote and will refuse to complete the scan. One of the ways is detecting the EURion Constellation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
What if the AI explicitly required users to include the desired race of any prompt generating humans? More than allowing the user to control it, force the user to control it. We don't like image of our biases that the mirror of AI is showing us, so it seems like the best answer is stop arguing with the mirror and shift the problem back onto us.
Pure speculation, but CISA released this [1] a few weeks back and tweeted [2] it out.

[1] https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...

[2] https://twitter.com/CISACyber/status/1758495005176447361
Those are places where you only call the cops ('public security') because the situation has seriously degenerated. Their security measures are the ones you are already familiar with; locks and keys, the understanding that you need specific permission to be present, some sort of fridge policy etc.
It’s not just a bag of many contents. It’s an ad board full of dark patterns to steal your focus and attention.
On the other hand - https://www.wunderground.com/article/news/news/2023-08-08-te...
I thought the popular narrative was that this was primarily driven by the pandemic? The debate about the value of standardized test scores has been raging for decades and up until the pandemic most elite colleges and universities still required them. (Upon reflection, there was a prior movement at some schools to boost declining enrollment by making tests optional, but that seemed more driven by profit-seeking than morality.)

The primary explanation I have heard both in the news and from friends in admissions departments for so many elite schools going test-optional at the same time was for the pandemic, and most of the ones I am aware of explicitly called it a temporary measure as Yale did.

Now I could buy that the testing debate may have played a role in why some schools have been dragging their feet to return to requiring tests post-pandemic because anti-test folks are exploiting this opportunity. But having worked in academia I also would not discount the immense inertia in university admissions playing an equally large role.
I would be a big fan of solid infographics or presentation slides. That would be very useful.
YouTube is amazing, just stay away from content that encourages you to buy stuff. The free documentary channel is amazing (check out their Apollo series) but lately once you’ve seen all the amazing education videos (think vsauce, smarter every day, David butler) it does turn into a nervous tick constantly opening the app.
Start meditating, improve your sleep and work out. I find this improves my willpower whenever I do it.
Thank you for taking the time to write it up. Really nice to see some modern Java, as well as the ideas with comments - many of which seem to generalize quite well - beyond Java and the jvm.
That's just not what that term means.
Nice. Does it support multi-projects? I got a lot of sites and dont like to have to have a seperate CMS for each.
AI isn't a coworker, not a human so it's not as awkward to talk about one's disability.
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Many people hit 5-7 hours of phone use a day just through morning, lunch, breaks, and bedtime use as part of daily rituals that add up astronomically over time
thanks for reviewing it.
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You don't need to dig them constantly. In a few years your village has enough, and now you just need to maintain them which takes less time and so can be done in the cooler parts of the day. And these green places will be cooler than the desert so even in the heat of the day the whole is cooler.

Of course as the village population grows you send the "young men" out to the edge and have them dig a few more half-moons at a rate of one/day. However they are building next to previous green areas which are already lowering the local temperature, and if sometimes it takes 2 days to build one - who cares, there is no hurry.
Yeah this is probably the most realistic reason
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Here's a UBO filter that hides YT shorts https://letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts
> Instead, CL forces you to do this:

(if (cond)
(progn
(preamble)
(let ((a 5))
(do-stuff a)))
(do-stuff 6))

Above would be unusual. I'd only write code that way if preamble was dependent on some previous binding of a. Note that let subsumes progn in most cases.
I'd write it like this:

(if (cond)
(let ((a 5))
(preamble)
(do-stuff a))
(do-stuff 6))
The funny thing is, as a white (mexican american) engineer at Google, it's not exactly rare when I'm the only white person in some larger meetings.
Some form of at least partial superiority is inherent in the notion of "helping", as is a power dynamic.

You say that your colleague's diversity-focused activity gets results, and my question is: what results? A more diverse body of students studying neurology? And if that is the answer, then who cares? What is your argument that increased diversity makes neurology or science better?

If diversity is your objective function, fine. But there are other goals to pursue, and which should be pursued in academia by faculty. I think diversity is very far from what should be the top priority.

The advantage of diversity is that it is an easy metric to understand, pursue and make gains in.
And when they would need more workers... What could possibly go wrong.
What do you do for two hours before bed with no screen time? Read physical material? I'm not sure what I would do to wind down before bed besides reading or watching something. I do find that I need a similar amount of down time before bed after more engaging activities like going out or playing video games online. I usually try to read longer form articles or watch tv. I'm not sure what else I'd do around the house for that amount of time every night.
Finally, I'm not on parole or in the slammer.
It's a twitter thread he turned into a blog post.
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> My Psychiatrist has told me no screens two hours before bed

I struggle with this, but it's incredible what a difference it makes when I make it happen. I'm mostly content with watching a show before bed now (which is technically a screen), but this comes from having Netflix/YouTube up, my phone out, and my laptop sitting in front of me (yeah, it's crazy one can operate like that).

More importantly, I've been strict on "no screens in bed" which has also played a key role.
Would not be the first time "Open"AI abused words.
I would highly recommend Youtube Revanced, even if you already have Premium or don't care to block ads. The Vanced Manager app can selectively apply patches to the official APK, removing shorts being one of them.

I had a similar experience to yours. It's very hard to not get sucked into them. I would keep scrolling even when I am actively disliking the actual content being shoved into my face.

It was a very sober realization for me that our brains can hijacked like this using the TikTok formula.
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> So there is an actual need

You state this as a fact. Is it?
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I think that sounds good compared to now, but if it actually happened, it would lead to a lot of unintended consequences.
I love gimp and have used it for ~twenty-five years now without issue. Thank you folks.

(Entitled haters that always show up can take a hike. Time to get the downvotes out.)
I don't know what kind of damage you developed to wish harm on others based on their race or gender but you are a horrible person.
Why are Fowler's ideas so loved when such ideas lead the colossal failures? For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens...
Yes:

- There's an online version, you can just go to https://app.pagescms.org

- You can switch between repos and branches straight from the interface (just click on the repo menu in the top left corner).
Cake disabled checks in a few linked list functions like pop_front pop_back.
Those seem like easier to resolve ambiguities than in the parent. One is almost certainly never going to be correct because it's nonsense, and that's a determination that requires a semantic understanding of the sentence, but no further context. The ambiguities in the parent are such that both parses are semantically reasonable. There are even contexts in which either could be intended. Suppose someone asks "What materials are heavier than water, and what are everyday things made of them that could float anyways?". If someone answers "cast iron sinks", it's unclear whether they're answering only the first, only the second, or even both, punningly.
I understand the Divide and Conquer part, but I am not understanding what the disempowerment is about. Can someone give me their interpretation of what AI-Driven Disempowerment means?
An article about successful start-ups started in garages is going to mention billionaires. That's hardly worshiping. The focus is on garages' role in founding.
NewPipe lets you watch shorts but completely lacks the shorts-type UI, so it's not addictive. Also has no ads and lets you play things in the background or with the phone screen off.
Ah nice, I can just reuse an old comment from a much smaller debate :-( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234200
I noticed last night that my iPhone showed SOS in the place it normally shows bars. I wondered if this was because the battery was very low, but didn't give it much thought. Apparently there was a cell phone outage — weird!
For me, doing stuff like that only replaces one thing with another. If I block youtube, I'll be spending that time here. If I block HN, I'll stay on reddit. If I block reddit, I'll spend time on Skyscrapercity.

The real solution seems to be having stuff in life that actually gives you self-actualization and spend least possible time at work fucking around.
I have done the same thing with YT. Notice my first post on HN is adding this website to my hosts files because I found it too addicting. As of date, I have unblocked YT but kept almost all of the social media sites. I watch Twitch for background noise nowadays. I find it to be less addictive since it feels more ephemeral to me.
FlashAttention(2)[0] reduces context-length space complexity to linear. Compute is still O(n^2) in length though, AFAIK, so we'd expect these long sequence lengths to take some time to compute.

I'm a bit out of my depth, but I think ultra-long exact-attention work like this also probably has to answer some questions about where to put the KV-cache before it can be used in practice?

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14135
More importantly, these green spaces are sustainable. So even if you run out of budget in 5 years, the people no longer need you to pay them as they now get everything they need from the work you paid them to do in the past and so they can live without subsidy. Or if you do have budget you can move to some other village and pay them to become sustainable.
I think this isn’t software as much as a service. When viewed through this lens the guard rails make more sense.
This! I know they think they are punishing you, but after a while I came to appreciate it.
This looks like more fun than sudoku or crossword puzzles.
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Compact mode is a must for me as well. When __new UI__ released for Android Studio, I didn't enable until they later rolled out the so called compact mode.
Love it. Polypane gets better and better! Great job, Kilian!
ADHD-haver here. I do the same thing but with music. I created a playlist of albums I've heard hundreds of times. The songs are in album order and when I play the list I play from the start of an album somewhere in that list.

It keeps that part of my brain occupied, but not focus, while I work on the task at hand.
We built Stytch's B2B SaaS solution with this specific shortcoming in mind -- most other solutions aren't actually built with an organization-first data model (they're user-first like Auth0 but support the general concept of orgs), which makes it difficult to offer those per organization controls in an ergonomic manner.

There's some more info on our multi-tenancy data model here (https://stytch.com/docs/b2b/guides/multi-tenancy), and here's the PUT request you'd use to manage any of those org configurations: https://stytch.com/docs/b2b/api/update-organization
> (of course unless you are into yoga, then everything is permitted)

...or children's gymnastics.
For LA, there's another factor that you left out: Oil. There's a fair bit of oil under the LA basin (hence the tar pits), and the commercialization of that is what made LA the boom town it became. The aerospace and military presences followed the oil.
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People don't even want wind turbines in their neighborhoods, I don't think they will be exactly thrilled about nuclear reactors...