skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the prevailing dogma within Google and at most other Big Tech companies was this spirit of "information libertarianism".

There are people online that actually mock people that say they have freedom of speech by saying they have "freedumbs" and "freeze peach". These are people on the left. There are polls of university students and the majority believe the speech should be regulated. These are our future "elites".

There are obviously people on the right banning books before we get into the us vs them argument.
> When GNOME Shell happened, I was forced to go looking for a new window manager. I ended up installing Ratpoison.

Wow, I used Ratpoison around 20 years ago. SunOS labs in school used some window manager I couldn't stand (don't remember which) and I saw a classmate with basically no window chrome on their display, and was intrigued.

They helped me compile it (no small feat given our resource constraints) and off I went, until my hand started to cramp a year later from hitting ctrl-t so much. I switched to ion for awhile, and then ended up scavenging a linux box to do assignments from home.

I'm happy to see some folks still holding firm on the "no-pointer" front.
As others have said kids. Even if you don't want to have your own or adopt any, find young people to mentor in some capacity. It could be your nieces or nephews, neighbors, or kids you work with through a volunteer organization. If you're into sports junior and pee-wee leagues are always looking for coaches.

Also just in general change your mindset to being a producer and a giver instead of a consumer and a taker. Taking up a hobby such as wood working, leather working, or music where you can produce some tangible result for your efforts can do wonders for your mental health.
This brought back a memory of going to the mall as a young kid (late 90s) and seeing those toy helicopters everywhere!
Personally, if I'd be smarter or more agreeable/better with authority, I'd personally work at a place that'd advance science. Advancing human knowledge and helping with unraveling the mystery of why the hell we are here would be a part of my purpose.

But I strongly dislike how little academia pays and how much politics it has. It's not like I can pick out a problem myself that seems unsolvable and try to have a crack at it. Also, the problems to solve feel way too hard with the skillset I have.

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to know everything. I can't let that go. I'm not the brightest, and yet I'm still following that mission.
I think I'll keep my library of books written before 2023 a little longer.
45k last year in the U.S. = 123/day
I learned it in the 90s but it wasn't required in school after the initial learning period.

I think the only time I ever had to actually use it was when the SAT and GRE required us to write some oath or something in cursive. At least I think that's what was going on; it's been a while.

I still think there's value in teaching it. While I don't use the cursive I was taught, it still influenced my handwriting style in ways I find beneficial and I can still read cursive which comes in handy for anyone with interests in history.
Please stop using "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency or other blockchain-related technologies"—it's far too important of a term to water down like this.
the 8086 also has a specialized decrement counter and loop instruction, but instead of calling it 'ccs' it's called 'loop'

specialized loop instructions are pretty common actually
I have not restated the problem.

You’ve incorrectly assumed that I would be showing you a goat in every case. But that is not included in the prompt. All you know is that you were shown a goat on one play. This is possible in the setup I’ve listed. You landed in that 33% case where you chose a car.

There is nothing in the prompt that says we are not playing my variant of the game.

Being told that you SAW a goat does not mean you would ALWAYS SEE a goat if the previous conditions had gone differently. And that is why you’re wrong :)

Again
> all you know is that he opened a goat door
We are social creatures. Providing value to others arguably leads to better long term satisfaction with life (unless psycho/sociopaths, they need not worry about this)

It can be through having kids, but also through teaching others, passing on knowledge or being of help to others through work or inventions.
> It must run on batteries that can be purchased
This is not true, there are electrical outlets in cells and common areas. In cells, it is a requirement for CPAP machines and in common areas there are electrical devices like TV's.

The main complaint and cost for prisoners as I understand it is the high cost of calling family members. Where most people might not even remember pay phones, if you do at their peak it was $0.35 to make a call, versus $6-24 for 15 minutes in prison [2].

When you factor in that most prisoners, that can even find a job in prison, make around $0.10/hr and most of their friends and family members are struggling on the outside bc they are just poor or at least one of the bread winners is now making $0.10/hr, that $15/call is very expensive. And even those that run the prison systems will tell you the number one thing to keeping a prisoner calm is regular communication with their family and friends [1]. It also costs $0.35 to send an email, while the two companies that run the telecoms for the prisons in the US raked in $1.4B [3]

Sorry my rant wasn't aimed at you, just wanted to clarify the part about batteries.

[1] https://www.vera.org/news/prisons-and-jails-keep-making-it-h...

[2] https://ellabakercenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Who-P...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/high-cost-prison-communicati...
Little bit off-topic, but I love how probability gets you into phrasing like "the goat isn't distributed over those two doors"
> If you don’t know what a PWA is, please go research that yourself.

Classic crypto.
Bigotry against homosexuals is not taboo where I live.
Honestly, approaching problems empirically and routing around moralizing is one of my great hopes for AI.

If it's a black box, nobody can fan outrage that it's not doing {insert moral but maladaptive thing}.
MicroStrategy's X Account Compromised, Posted Ethereum Phishing Link
Seems to be the consensus of most people here. I.e. kids.
Yeah was a bit confused at first what a news website's web app had to do with crypto. Then I realized they were talking about that crypto and stopped reading.
Brands can change quickly, but they do matter in the short term. I've witnessed customer support teams use Firefox to say they only supported Internet Explorer and government ministers who thought it was "good" that IE was the "only" web browser, and weirdly a phone company whose customer support person thought their SIM cards worked better on Android than iPhone and that their web chat wouldn't work with a Mac even though they were talking to me on a Mac at the time.

And when I was a kid, it seemed like all the teachers thought it would be a waste of time to learn MacOS because "Apple would be bankrupt soon". (Given how much all the app UIs changed, right decision for the wrong reason).
Universal SQL
The idea of having a meeting about a rejection is not just gracefully saying okay thanks it's actually about you are now given an opportunity to interview the hiring manager. You can ask questions about what you did well and what you did poorly and improve your chances in the future. This is a massive opportunity for a job seeker that is hard to get any other way. Also keep in mind that these rejections that are done face to face are done that way because the candidate was in the final interview stages which means that they've passed all of the technical qualifications most of the culture fit qualifications and it comes down to really small details that can make or break a decision. Knowing those details helps you improve for the future because if you just okay thanks and hang up and move on you're likely to make the same mistakes at the next company when you get that far.

Also, this is just complete speculation, but considering that companies are having a really hard time to find talent and not just technical talent but culture fit talent this could be an interesting interview technique. Because how you handle rejection and disappointment is it a very important factor when fitting in with a company. Because when you were at the final stage of an interview that company will keep you in mind for future positions because you've passed all the other tests. So it wouldn't shock me that some companies would consider doing this and seeing how the rejection is handled see if they get questions back see if they can maintain a dialogue and then ask you if it's okay to keep you in mind for future positions because you know they have regular hirings every few weeks. Depending on the candidates response it could be they come back and they're actually prepared to offer them a job in a week or two.

Because we underestimate in current culture the ability to handle disappointment and rejection in a way that allows you to retain your poise and demeanor throughout it. Every aspect of your life rejection is a thing you will have to deal with and it companies rejection can be especially disappointing with talented people because they invest a lot of themselves in what a project they're working on. If you can't handle having a constructive discussion when you're restricted for a job how will you handle having a constructive discussion when you've spent 6 months on some new innovative feature you've invested a lot of time into and management decides to kill it off because they want to go in another direction. That's a very real thing and I've seen people handle it gracefully and I've seen people totally lose their shit over it. Guess which one I want to work with and bolsters the team?
Is it, are there any stats to support this? Driving to the airport is different from driving in general where most accidents happen when you are sleepy or close to home. Most deaths occur on two lane highways
No worries, thanks again the thoughtful feedback.

We are also very interested in the more novel RAG techniques, so I'm not sure that one is necessarily a higher priority than the other.

We've just gotten more immediate feedback from our early users around the difficulties of ingesting data in production and there is less ambiguity around what to build.

Out of your previous list, is there one example that you think would be most useful for the next addition to the framework?
I have at least three but at 40+ I'm still nowhere near being able to not work and devote myself to them. :(
This makes sense and I certainly hope and expect that the US military is using all available intelligence resources, including AI, that can reasonably help the military accomplish its mission, with the final commitment of lethal force being reserved for commanders.
"I started to look at new approaches to infrastructure, searching for automation to solve the challenges we were facing with Infrastructure as Code tools like CDK and Terraform. The latest innovations with Infrastructure from Code were an ideal fit to help our small team move quickly and efficiently."
Reddit DSP
I spent a long time on this question in my 30s. For me the ideas of Albert Camus are what stuck. Essentially we're in an absurd situation as humans where we have brains that want to find purpose and meaning in a universe that seems to be devoid of meaning (in a universal sense). But the silver lining on that is that it means finding purpose/meaning is actually simple - you get to choose what feels meaningful to you and can pursue that without worrying about what any external parties think is meaningful. That won't get rid of the instinct to search for meaning, but at least you can be mindful of it and not let it stress you out all the time.

For me, it feels meaningful to play with and educate my daughter. But also it feels very meaningful to find ways to help others through philanthropy and to just spend time learning more about the natural world. Before learning all this I looked for meaning in more egotistical places like career prestige and "achievements" but they just felt empty to me.

I now think that the search for meaning/purpose from an external source is a futile trap that you can burn large chunks of lifetime on.
Half the people on this forum are convinced that LLMs are actually intelligent and have an actual internal world model in their "brains". I wonder how they square this with the fact that it will give wildly different answers to the same question with subtle changes in context.
Good luck with that wish bro. Microsoft is all about money and there is no money in open source for them.
They're both washboarding apps, and while I'm sure they each have panel types the other doesn't yet support, I don't think that's intrinsic. The differentiation as I see it, is that Superset is designed to craft SQL queries and visualize the results. The query builder is probably where this shows the most.

To make it more concrete -- coworkers tell me Grafana doesn't work so well with Apache Druid, while Superset supports it quite well.
It's incredibly sad we've come to this and the free speech "libertarian" nature of the internet is long dead. These laws, even if found "legal", are just a band-aid and won't change the underlying truth about how half the country (and most new immigrants) think of free speech.
Albert Einstien Medical School Free After 1B Dollar Donation
Should prisoners be allowed hot water when they shower or is that too much comfort?
This is one of the few times that I wish Hacker News would allow the poster to edit the title... because crypto here means cryptocurrency, not cryptography.
I read the guy with the gun drawn was Israeli embassy security and not DC police. So not surprising.
I find it interesting that last week, we had a nationwide AT&T outage and one of the causes speculated on local news outlets (within a couple hours) was a solar flare [1]. Now, less than a week later, we have articles in the New Yorker priming thoughts about solar storms.

Why is this relevant? Consider where that speculation started: local news networks [2].

It's worth reading Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars [3] if you haven't already to understand why it's worth me mentioning this. Easily dismissed as "conspiracy nonsense," but it's worth asking "why this, why now?"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7scPFH0aq9U

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

[3] https://archive.org/details/silent-weapons-for-quiet-wars-or...
That's logically sound, as much as you appear to dislike it.

We have accepted that people cannot control who they are attracted to, IOW sexual orientation.

You can't very well now turn around and claim that people can control who they are attracted to.
I can understand that it's not nice having Apple pull the rug from underneath you. However saying that Apple nerfing what PWAs can do on iOS is an attack on this or that is a bit rich. It has always been in Apple's best interest to have native apps on their devices, so it's entirely understandable that they'd drag their feet around PWAs. Them downgrading some functionalities around it can be a bummer, but also understandable from their perspective.
Yes, it can't. But we can find other associated information with Hunter.io like tools.

We are doing something like this here but find links between Apps and SDKs: https://www.fork.ai/technologies
There have been points where I've become dissatisfied with where I'm at and have pondered the question, and now I do believe career and consumer outlets end up being hollow distractions at a certain point, but I don't have a narrow purpose. Instead, I've learned to appreciate that it's the ways you engage your curiosity over time, the way you treat yourself, the time you give others, as well as the things you do to make life a little easier for others, that make life wonderful.

Kids or a house have never and aren't likely going to be part of my future, and there will probably come a time where the absence of those life stages makes me wonder what else there is, but until then it's important to preserve and grow with the people I see walking on the street, my friends, family, girlfriend etc.. and write a little code and do a bit of work ideally along the way.
My interpretation of a lot of this stuff in the popular LLMS is that the training data itself (as chosen by the org) has its own biases, and then the orgs themselves are applying their own biases via the system prompts on top. Some of those biases move in the same direction, some move in the opposite direction.

Googles seemed specifically one directional.

Some of this is also I think just buggy/poorly tested system prompts & guardrails that people in the Bay Area Bubble working on it don't catch themselves. That is, many of these issues are only identifiable by ideologically diverse testers.
The whole american court system has a pretty twisted conception of justice—it's all based around punishment and "deterrence" despite all evidence that this is a super inefficient way to discourage crime.
Sure I guess I meant "entirely on the conversation history" in the sense that a prompt is a sin qua non of an outcome, and the outcome is dependent on the specific prompt(s). I was using the word informally as an emphasizer of "conversation history", did not intend to imply that it didn't have parameters or other internal things which effected the output, just the output at any given point in time is path-dependent on the prompts you put.
Learning a new skill that’s very different from what you do at work. I’ve found passion in reading and learning about financial markets and their cyclical nature.
> By US standards, Google Fi is cheap.

Not any more. I pay $25/month for unlimited text/voice/data service in the US, and there are quite a few providers that are even cheaper.
"Can I [action]?" is the exact question that Zanzibar[0] was designed to answer in a highly performant and scalable way.

With multiple data sources reading and writing to SpiceDB [1] (our OSS implementation of Zanzibar), those questions can further be extended into "Can [subject] [action] on [resource]", which allows for supporting not just permissions, but (as you suggested) feature flags, entitlements, role-based access control and even billing-based entitlements (if the billing system's information is supplied in as relationships or dynamically via caveat context [2]).

As a concrete example, feature flags can be represented as a straightforward permission:

definition user {}

definition featureflag {
relation enabled: user
permission is_enabled = enabled
}

They can then be checked directly:

check featureflag:somefeature is_enabled user:{currentuserid}

The real power comes into play when different aspects of the system are combined, such as only allowing a feature flag to be enabled if, say, the user also has another permission:

definition organization {
relation member: user
}

definition featureflag {
relation enabled: user
relation org: organization
permission is_enabled = enabled & org->member
}

In the above example [3], a feature flag is only enabled for the specific user if they were granted the flag and they are a member of the organization for which the flag was created. While this is somewhat of a constructed example, it demonstrates how combining the models can be used to grant more capabilities.

With caveats [2], these kinds of questions can even depend on dynamic data, such as the time of day, whether the user's account balance is positive, or even be random based on some distribution (to enabled, for example, partial enablement of feature flags)

[0]: https://zanzibar.tech/
[1]: https://spicedb.io
[2]: https://authzed.com/docs/spicedb/concepts/caveats
[3]: https://play.authzed.com/s/eML6cLz9ByAZ/schema

Disclaimer: I'm CTO and a cofounder at AuthZed, and we build SpiceDB
> You’ve incorrectly assumed that I would be showing you a goat in every case. But that is not included in the prompt.

Yes. It is. It is a fixed part of the scenario. Monty opens a door and shows you a goat. He knows it is going to be a goat (he is "well-aware of what is going on behind the scenes"). He's showing you a goat as part of the problem which is: should you switch?

Again: think through what the problem actually SAYS:

> Imagine that you’re on a television game show and the host presents you with three closed doors. Behind one of them, sits a sparkling, brand-new Lincoln Continental; behind the other two, are smelly old goats. The host implores you to pick a door, and you select door #1. Then, the host, who is well-aware of what’s going on behind the scenes, opens door #3, revealing one of the goats.

> “Now,” he says, turning toward you, “do you want to keep door #1, or do you want to switch to door #2?”

No matter what: the goat Monty shows you is not a matter of chance. It is a fixed part of the problem. It's there in writing: he shows you a goat. Full stop.
At the moment I am busting my ass to get ahead at work so that's my focus. But...

I have a 22 year old adult daughter (I had her when I was 19) - she didn't grow up with me (I did provide financial support) but I do feel connected to her. Its nice she exists. She's even finished college. I would though like to have 1-2 more children (I am 42 so its possible) ideally in the next 2 years.

I plan also, as a hobby, to make a 'social' boardgame. I hope one day it can be turned into a web application.

I would also like to write a blog / write stories.

When I'm retired I would like to help out with community stuff too.

I want to try and be useful and spread kindness till I'm gone. Other people are all we have.
I haven't been able to get a great answer regarding why OpenAI is consistently leading the pack. What could they possibly be doing different? I can't imagine they've invented a technique that nobody else can reach at this point
There was no rat race coming - almost nobody was going to participate in that (a good and a bad thing, all at once).

Yes, they all stepped aside to make their own England, their own galleries or music halls, which gave people like Don Letts a place to thrive, etc.

it was a desperate reaching for something of one's own

It sounds like you don't disagree...
throughout the 50s and 60s it was common for computers to not provide the bitwise operators at all; the first versions of mix (used in volume 1 of taocp) didn't have them. they take very little hardware to implement, and they're comparatively very slow if you have to implement them in software (though less so on an 8-bitter!) but most software doesn't use them at all. so it makes sense that you wouldn't include them in sweet-16; if you care about speed you'll call out from sweet-16 to 6502 code
"...executives for both supermarket chains have conceded that Kroger’s acquisition of Albertsons is anticompetitive, with one executive reacting candidly to the proposed deal: “you are basically creating a monopoly in grocery with the merger.”
yes, because it saved more rom space than that
The punk ethos, shortlived as it was as a mainstream culture, and a little longer lived (still short) from some totally uncommercial die-hards, was not about technology at all.

Xerox was not some fancy new technology, it as 15+ year old staple at the time.

Cassetes were not a thing in the punk scene at the time. They were insignificant in sales in the UK, and no mixtapes, they caught on in the tail end of the 70s, several years after the original punk movement commercialized and died "Punk is dead" came to be.

Same, of course, for VHS.