skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find somewhat funny about this is, I did a whole analysis to find the best time to post on HackerNews, and posted at the best possible time.

But this post, that was posted on what is supposed to be a worse time actually ended up doing better :)

Thanks a lot for checking it out in any case!
>Boeing said it’s made substantial changes to its organization

...proceeds to list a bunch of fuzzy corporate speak bullshit.

Only a matter of time till a repeat if that's how they roll.
The reason the scenario is kind of twisted is that in the iterated game of "you pick door, he shows goat, switch or no", vos Savant's answer is clearly correct.

But in the iterated game of "you pick door, and host chooses whether to show a goat or to let you open the door you initially chose" I don't think you (or he) can get better than 50-50. If you chose the correct door initially, then he can try to trick you into switching by opening a goat-door. But if you chose a goat-door, then he can let you open your selected door (or offer some other deal -- $1,000 cash or the door you chose). If he only shows the goat-door when you have selected the car-door, then you should never switch, so his optimal strategy is to show a goat-door when you choose a goat-door 1/3 of the time, so you basically get no information from his actions.

The "always switch" solution imagines this as a one-player game rather than a two-player game, with Monty Hall actively trying to sabotage.
Nope, this definitelly fills a few gaps, thanks. I'm still too lazy of thinking about this whole O(n) time thing even though I'm constantly wondering whether "more" or better results could be achieved by throwing CPUs at stuff, hahaha. I rarely think in terms of time in general, just about depth, breadth and clarity.
Also G+ made your email address public to your friends/circles/etc and I don’t think there was a way to disable it.
In this particular case, the wildcards all intentionally resolved to the same address, regardless of whether or not they were already taken. Business logic was handled by looking at the Host header.
Let me translate: You were the wrong color, and when the hiring manager saw that, you did not get the job
I embraced this mindset a number of years ago, and I've also found it to be liberating. I always felt like I spent so much energy trying to find "meaning" or "purpose" or whatever, but eventually came to the conclusion that releasing myself from those concepts, recognizing that "meaning" and "purpose" are human inventions - well, I've had a sense of inner-peace ever since then. I sleep like a baby now, and I'm generally happier in life. I just feel like someday we're all gonna be forced to get off the rollercoaster, so until then, enjoy the ride. The universe doesn't care if your life has meaning or whatever. The universe just keeps on universe-ing.
Keep an eye on FEX-Emu, soon enough you'll be able to play x64 Halo on an aarch64 Linux machine
It's hubris to think any security measures are completely safe. Painting a target is a bad idea.
> Ick.

If you don't mind, please explain your aversion.
I taught this problem to a group of high schoolers as part of a statistics curriculum. It was engaging for two reasons:

The topic of the vitriolic responses to Marilyn is not boring.

It’s a great problem for illustrating the importance of simulation in statistics. By breaking off into pairs, half of whom played the switch strategy and half of whom played the stay strategy, we did hundreds of trials and found empirical evidence in favor of Marilyn’s answer. Furthermore, by actually playing the game, whatever any ambiguity in the wording of the problem was quickly resolved.
is it? I always thought that it was just the corrected spelling (a lot of composite words have been merged together in a spelling reform in 1990), and that the English word was actually borrowed from French.
There are levels of data classification, and different regulations and policies apply to each level and geo. They are probably disavowing themselves of any liability.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/data-classifi...
Supreme Court weighs free speech challenges to social media restrictions
I am suddenly reminded of the clever, morally educational joke about the dead horse raffle.
I've been getting a biosimilar to Infliximab for several years to treat Crohns. I go in for an infusion every 8 weeks; about 6 times per year. I can only tell you the cost on the invoice from US providers, but it's about $10k for each infusion. $60k per year.

That said, our healthcare providers get very creative with pricing, so I don't know how Adalimumab compares. It's never been suggested to me.
There are German sellers on Amazon. I would like to buy from sellers located in Europe as if gives me certain rights.
That's my game! We've been working on the tech for about 5 years.

I have had a lot of conversations about this exact topic.
A systemic problem is still a problem.
Meta forms team to stop AI from tricking voters
Thanks for the question!

1) We’ve made the conscious decision to start with AWS support, as our ICP is primarily on AWS (80%+). We plan to roll out GCP and Azure once we have sufficient coverage on AWS services.

(2) When you’re onboarded, we deploy a series of base resources (IBNLT networking resources, notification services, logging services). You can then select from a library of supported resources for your application-specific environment.

(3) To directly answer your question — no you are not locked in and can change as you see fit. Also, because we deploy infrastructure in your own cloud, you're able to go in anytime and make custom modifications to your infrastructure.
Historical imagery is a popular use-case, and was certainly not accurate when including people.
Does this have any relation to abelian groups from group theory?
That’s pretty nuts. This could have been written by me.

At the end of my psychedelic journeys I found a deep abyss of meaninglessness and hopelessness. I think it was DPDR, but it shook me to my core. Ram Dass and Alan Watts spoke to me profoundly through psychedelics, but from a place of suicidal hopelessness Jesus was the only idea that redeemed this existence by reframing it as an opportunity to learn to love (albeit imperfectly).
so 112,000 people died from fentanyl overdose, and it is affecting both poor, mid and high income people.

What will be court sentence for someone who stabbed 112,000 people? this is plain genocide, that US progressive liberals somehow allow to happen as "harm reduction" - while in fact it is harm increasing by spreading out everywhere
The Win32 API assumes ambient authority, you really can't add proper capabilities on top if it, it has to be replaced completely.

Also, the whole Vista UAC thing was permission flags, not proper capability based security.

STRONG AGREE with the suspicion that this hasn't been solved, on purpose.
Oh, the press know. They also know that gimmicky headlines get clicks.
This is a good question for any provider like AWS--what kinds of information do I leak with seemlingly mundane choices like bucket names.

The other attack vector is from insiders. Many organizations "shield" identifiable information behind UUIDs or some other scheme. In the event of a breach, the UUID might mean nothing to most (it's not foolproof, though), but opens more doors for an insider.
While it used NT4 this was around y2k, I recall we also had to test all the 486 and BIOS combinations they had if they survived y2k transition (one failed!). Which also means my memory is hazy.

Anyway, what comes to mind is Etherboot[1]. I'm pretty sure he used BOOTP[2] with a TFTP server for the distribution part.

[1]: http://etherboot.org/dokuwiki-2017-02-19b/about

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_Protocol
Did the host have to open 998 doors, or could he have chosen to just let you open your selected door? If he's "out to get you" then you get very little information here, because he could have just let you open your door. The only reason he'd open the other doors is to try to get you to switch, which means that it's pretty close to 50-50.
We don't want computers answering those questions, and certainly not in the authoritative/didactic tone of the contemporary language model.

As annoying as it is, this would probably be better: "As a language model, I am unable to credibly stake a position on the moral question you've presented me with. I can, however, provide some background on the historical and legal context which might help you with your own assessment."

Then it's just a matter of getting the facts right, which one hopes should be easy.
Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity (2005)
Most things are better than python for system administration. For that you want a stable language that stays the same across time and OSes. There really isn't a single Python anymore: just pythons. Typical instructions to run anything python mean setting up a dependency manager manager container and then within a dependency manager to set up the custom python install for that specific application. This is standard practice because getting python applications to work with system python is dependency hell.

Python is so popular and widely used it changes very fast. Even if those changes are improvements they break things.
Those are good points. Perhaps a better way to phrase it is you want the system to be able to utilize as much disk bandwidth as you give it.
https://github.com/justinvanwinkle/Norm

Similar idea, more fleshed out, doesn't require all the weird interpolation stuff and special python functions which map to SQL grammar.

Almost nothing to memorize so you can use the library.

The SQL it outputs is extremely readable and cleanly formatted.
I'm not going to make an argument for or against owning real property, but you need to do better financial math if you want to make a argument from economics.

a) You want to have two (or more, potentially) scenarios to choose from. Maybe Option 1: rent for X years (with assumptions) vs Option 2: purchase a house for X years and then sell it (with assumptions). In both situations you start with no housing, and end with no housing, and you can compare the financial state after X years. Or maybe you don't care about your housing, so you could do Option 1: purchase a house and rent it to someone for X years, then sell the house vs Option 2: do nothing for X years vs Option 3: invest the starting funds from Option 1 in a S&P500 fund for X years and then sell it. Again, you'll be in the same situation after X years, except with more or less cash.

b) If you're going to compare dollars, you need to cast them all to the same time frame. Today's dollars and next year's dollars are not comparable units, because of time value of money. This requires assumptions about appropriate rates. Look into net present value.
Whats wrong with a project that does something useless? I can find tons of them on Github.
Could the change of the Website be due to the deal with Microsoft that the Financial Times reported today?
If it isn't profitable overall, it shouldn't be built. Whether or not it should be profitable at the point-of-sale is a different question. But public goods which don't contribute to the common wealth are parasitic makework enriching the few at the expense of the many.
Last night I asked ChatGPT 4 to help me write a quick bash script to find and replace a set of 20 strings across some liquid files with a set of 20 other strings. The strings were hardcoded, it knew exactly what they were in no unclear terms. I just wanted it to whip up a script that would use ripgrep and sed to find and replace.

First, it gave me a bash script that looked pretty much exactly like what I wanted at first glance. I looked if over, verified it even used sed correctly for macOS like I told it, and then tried to run it. No dice:

replace.sh: line 5: designer_option_calendar.start_month.label: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".start_month.label")

Not wanting to fix the 20 lines myself, I fed the error back to ChatGPT. It spun me some bullshit about the problem being the “declaration of [my] associative array, likely because bash tries to parse elements within the array that aren’t properly quoted or when it misinterprets special characters.”

It then spat out a “fixed” version of the script that was exactly the same, it just changed the name of the variable. Of course, that didn’t work so I switched tactics and asked it to write a python script to do what I wanted. The python script was more successful, but the first time it left off half of the strings I wanted it to replace, so I had to ask it to do it again and this time “please make sure you include all of the strings that we originally discussed.”

Another short AI example, this time featuring Mistral’s open source model on Ollama. I’d been interested in a script that uses AI to interpret natural language and turn it into timespans. Asking Mistral “if it’s currently 20:35, how much time remains until 08:00 tomorrow morning” had the model return its typical slew of nonsense and the answer of “13.xx hours”. This is obviously incorrect, though funnily enough when I plugged its answer into ChatGPT and asked it how it thought Mistral may have come to that answer, it understood that Mistral did not understand midnight on a 24 hour clock.

These are just some of my recent issues with AI in the past week. I don’t trust it for programming tasks especially — it gets F# (my main language) consistently wrong.

Don’t mistake me though, I do find it genuinely useful for plenty of tasks, but I don’t think the parent commenter is wrong calling it snake oil either. Big tech sells it as a miracle cure to everything, the magic robot that can solve all problems if you can just tell it what the problem is. In my experience, it has big pitfalls.
If I remember right, the pre-signed url generated for R2 uploads include the account ID in it.
US tells Musk to allow Starshield service in Taiwan
Earth is becoming sentient
Yeah, but this pairs well with that joke about being lost in a hot air balloon. The one about the answer being detailed, technically correct, and utterly useless.

I mean, if homo sapiens could reliably prioritize long-term payoffs over short-term ones, the world would look very different.
I know of this one in Go, where the author goes through his loop of trial-and-profile with measurements and flamegraphs along the way.

https://www.bytesizego.com/blog/one-billion-row-challenge-go
it's pretty counterintuitive that his personality enters into it, isn't it?
Perhaps in a MRF context, but there's all kinds of recycling going on that isn't MRF.
I agree. A lot of it just seems to be general big company ossification and trouble avoidance. Don’t do anything anyone might criticize you for = don’t do much of anything innovative.

But AI is very innovative. Since it’s trained in biased/imperfect data and just hallucinates in general they seem to be in a minefield now by mistake.
AI: The Difference Between Open and Open Source
Use of Fakes for domain driven design and fast feedback loop
It's also unrealistic to expect existing software to go away. So "memory unsafe" languages aren't going anywhere. People who don't want to learn how to manage memory correctly have had good alternatives to C and C++ for decades, each with their own drawbacks. And C and C++ remain viable with active developer communities despite all the attacks over a span of decades crying about memory management being difficult.
It asks for access to my private repos. I don't want to give a brand-new AI tool access to my private repos. But if it looking at my private repos was optional, I would try it.
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> for in-built HIPAA compliant OpenAI access

Sorry but what?
Finally!

As a Swede I'm happy and relieved. It's great to see how Russias ambition in reducing NATOs influence backfired hard.
It was used elsewhere. E.g.: https://www.apple2history.org/museum-a-l/articles/byte8501/ says:

> BYTE: Isn’t Sweet-16 still used in Apple DOS and ProDOS editor/assemblers?

> WOZNIAK: Yes, it’s used in EDASM , mostly in the editor portion. Randy Wigginton wrote EDASM. He’s worked here since before we even had a company. Lately he’s written the Macintosh word processor – MacWrite. He’s done a lot for the company. and he’s used Sweet-16 in several things he’s done.

At least some 6502 assemblers included Sweet-16 opcodes, so I suspect many assembler programs included Sweet-16 in the parts where speed wasn't as pressing (simply because it was easy to invoke).
> My implementation ... All the results are incorrect. The station names should be sorted alphabetically but the last station showing is İzmir and it should be Zürich.

It is easy to forget, that names of places can have non-ASCII characters. As this is a speed contest, I wonder how slow the default library implementation for ordering unicode strings alphabetically is in Java?

Edit: Apparently there is no universal way to order words alphabetically, but it depends on the (human) language in question.

For example, İzmir is in Turkey and in Turkish alphabetical ordering the dotted capital İ comes after the dotless capital I. And in Turkish, Ö comes right after O, but for example in Swedish, the Swedish special letters Å, Ä and Ö are at the very end of the alphabet.

How are you supposed to deal with this in this contest? Are you somehow supposed to know that Özalp is a town in Turkey, and thus comes after O in alphabetical ordering, but Örebro is a town in Sweden and should be ordered to the very end of the alphabetical ordering, after Z and Å and Ä?
Singapore is diverse country of many cultures and they clearly figured out.

Problem is US - smart people dont go into politics, smart people self-select into high paying industries like tech or high frequency trading, and the local city/state politicians are mostly liberal arts types, who are not familiar with STEM or are plain ideologues with their own agenda.

what is lacking in the US is political will to solve problem and too many decentralized decision makers who are not on the same page.

District attorney may be prosecuting criminal, but then judge just lets him loose back on the streets - like what happens to hondos in San Fransicko
They can fix the bug if they don't like it.
The greenhouse effect and how CO2 affects it is actually quite complicated and not what happens in an actual greenhouse, and most of what happens that is relevant to climate change actually happens in the upper atmosphere (which cools!).

And there are other effects, like how CO2 get absorbed in the oceans, clouds, water vapor, etc... That CO2 has an effect on temperature is "easy" to realize, quantifying it is much, much harder. And I am just talking about short term effects, long term effects (including a potential tipping point) is yet another layer of complexity.
Most of the relevant similarities are there. Every plausible model in computational neuroscience is based on neural nets or a close approximation thereof, everything else is either magic or a complete non-starter.
No, he wouldn't always open a door -- sometimes he'd offer a trade; like "you can take $1,000 cash from me now, or have your door".

I wonder if anyone has gone through every episode of "Let's Make a Deal" where this scenario occurs and look at the empirical distribution of switch/not-switch.
there Queryset.query but it's not obvious unless you read every line of the docs
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-26/honey-...

> Loudon and his wife generally worked in home offices within 20 feet of each other. As a result, they frequently overheard and witnessed each other’s work-related conversations and video conferences. In late December 2022, Loudon and his wife traveled to Rome, staying in a small Airbnb where Loudon’s wife regularly worked on the TA acquisition and discussed the deal while Loudon was seated nearby.

> But also: “Loudon’s wife acknowledged discussing aspects of the acquisition with Loudon during the normal course of marital communications.” This is not a case where she rigorously kept the deal secret from him, and he broke into her laptop: It’s a case where a husband and wife talked about their days, and she trusted that he would not go and insider trade on the deal. Because why would he do that? That would be crazy!
So what you're saying is that subsidizing the train infrastructure in your country contributes enough wealth to offset the expense of the subsidy? Weird, that's what I'm saying too.
The article considers billing systems in an interesting way. There are topics presented as problems that I'd hand off to accountants or other specialists we're probably already employing.

> Billing systems are of high complexity; I recognise that. [...]

They're less complex than whatever your developers are working on. The article tries to paint hard legal requirements as a difficulty, but in practice this means the specs are easy to find and well documented. Parts of the process do change frequently, but those parts are well labeled and well explained.

> Indeed, there's no better approach than the one that serves you. If you're a subscription-based SaaS, you have specific solutions for your business. If you're a usage-based API, you have specific solutions to the billing.

I mean, will your customers allow you to shift the burden of responsibility? Is your income important enough to verify? Can you afford the haircut?
VSCode? Typescript?
Those initial OpenAI donations really were for open development.

The problem was, there was no formal legal restrictions put in place at the start that stopped them from hatching a private subsidiary or not remaining open. Just that the initial organization was non-profit and for AI safety.

Which is the only way that could have been stopped.

A failure of initial oversight. A lack of “alignment” one might say.
I guess that you missed in my parent comment that this type of security in practice is extraordinarily difficult to implement correctly and I've seen confused deputy privilege escalation issues in pretty much every system I've ever come across. Do you have any examples of someone doing it correctly?

Otherwise you're just sort of no-true-scotsman'ing this and I have no interest in engaging that.
> Can you give a hint about what you've built that generates this kind of ROI?

Sure. Absolutely nothing amazing: (Mostly) internal software for a medical business I am currently building.

It's just that the actual cost of hiring someone is even quite a bit higher, than what is printed on the paycheck and the risk attached to anyone leaving on a small team is huge (n=0 and n=1 is an insane difference). GPT4 has bridged the gap between being able to do something and not being able to do something at various points over the past year.

EDIT: And to be clear, while I won't claim "rockstar programmer", I have coded for roughly 20 years, which is the larger part of my life.
Nope. Write the simulation for 2.

Or look at this case analysis for the three element case. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714612

You can get intuition by understanding that the cases where the game is ruined are only the cases where you didn't choose the car.