skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Employee A adds a feature and adds security policies X and Y to prevent abuse. Employee B adds another feature and disables policy X because it conflicts with the new feature and policy Y is still in place. Employee C adds some functionality that conflicts with policy Y, but reasons that's OK because a comment says the feature is protected by both the X and Y policies. So policy Y gets disabled too.

You can see why everyone would then start pointing fingers at each other. Hopefully, regular reviews and careful analysis prevent this kind of situation.
I knew it was badly managed, but I didn't realize how badly I was being treated until it was over. The experience didn't have any immediate effect. Rather, it took me years to unravel the damage that was done in that short time. Time to understand what the people around me were going through (such as drug addiction coupled with severe ignorance) and to understand why I let myself be treated like that in the first place.

I came to realize after it was all over that the shop had been selling used parts as new, overcharging customers for billable time, and who knows what else that I've forgotten by now.

The point of me sharing my experience was to corroborate the article. A bad environment can turn a good employee bad by eroding their self confidence and making them feel small. I experienced that to an extreme degree. I survived it, not unscathed. And I'm proud to have not propagated the atrocious way I was treated.

Indeed to be well respected by the incredible team of people that I work with means the world to me. But, my desire to help others has always extended to my coworkers, and then the people I managed either as a supervisor or a manager. Customer service is priority one, and my first customers are the people I work with. If I'm not giving them the best customer service possible, how can I expect them to reciprocate that to others, nevermind our paying customers.
I wonder how much of the increase in fatal accidents is due to the increase in mobile phone use by drivers. The improvements in SS4A do not seem to address this.
Groundbreaking stuff. So security is fine, actually?
Guest mode does not honor your settings. It mostly defaults to install-time configuration.

Incognito mode is fine. It doesn't persist data, it doesn't give websites access to existing main-profile data (cookies, etc), and it actually honors the settings of the profile it was spawned from.

None of this robustly prevents fingerprinting, but neither does switching to another browser or wiping your profile clean. There's just a bunch of system and network characteristics that leak info because of how the web is designed. Google didn't make it so and I don't think they're using it to serve you ads.

I think two things can simultaneously be true. Google's privacy practices aren't great, and they weren't actually doing anything that a reasonable person wouldn't expect to be happening in incognito. This was a lawsuit filed to shake them down, not to benefit the consumer. And apparently, it was flimsy enough that it started with a $5B demand, and is ending with no payout at all.
So in other words, is it fair to say that this situation is not much different from what you get with Python?
To carry on, this is because they're both very interested in "knowledge in depth", rather than because of what they actually work on day-to-day. They've both made careers out of knowing what's going on with the thing they're building down to the most basic level possible.
The alternative is to stop giving a pass to censorship obviously?
is this the book you'd recommend?

https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Lif...

a cursory search online already makes this look absolutely awesome! I'm totally adding this to my repertoire

honestly, i work in public education and I feel like these kinds of negotiating and communication skills could easily be a doctoral dissertation
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By the way, for folks not familiar with EVs, most packs are 60-71 kWh. So you could build three or four EVs with the same capacity as a single Hummer EV.
I think the current state of file sharing is not as good as before. Even on the gray areas of the internet such as sharing of copyrighted work, the "profiteering" of the "contemporary internet" has taken over the "sharing is caring" mentality if yesteryear.

Now you have private torrent sites requiring stupid questionnaires and invites, iptv subscription based sites, and ad ridden sites... inmkss the simplicity of emule, soulseek, Napster and their ilk.
I've been getting back into some work on a text-based adventure game for GNU/linux (current title Dark Nights Rising) that my wife and I have slowly been building up over the last couple of years as a side project. It has an original story we're working on together, along with an original soundtrack.

It's probably only half-finished still, but it has been a blast to team up with her and knock about some ideas on the weekends.
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The US and its western allies are actively vying to keep advanced chip fab technology out of China, and restricting GPUs that can be sold to them. At the same time there's heavy domestic investment in new US fabs of a scale not seen for decades.
How the turntables.
Why would it be unconstitutional? There's a reason I made a direct comparison to the CBO above -- that reports to the legislature and has a responsibility to gather information and prepare analysis about the likely (fiscal and economic) impacts of legislation. To be able to legislate over matters of economic importance, our article 1 bodies need (and hence it's implied that they are allowed to procure) information related to the economy, trade, etc. Similarly, in order to legislate over matters with diplomatic or military significance, I think it's reasonable to say that to the legislature needs (and hence it's implied that they are allowed to procure) intelligence on those areas.
How well would this scale to a few hundred thousand users per day?
I recommend reading Sean Carroll’s Consciousness and the Laws of Physics: https://philarchive.org/archive/CARCAT-33.
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I think they mean using arxiv to host whitepapers so they smell more academic.
Arguably science is not able to define consciousness because of the subjective nature of it, and how the aim of science is to remove subjectivity from its observations and conclusions.

On the other hand, religions have been studying consciousness for thousands of years, and indeed it is not something that can be verified by science.
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I'm currently at an early stage startup around the series B mark, and we're currently using a PaaS, like Heroku or Fly.io, to host our infrastructure. However, while these solutions have served us to a certain extent, we're hitting limitations in terms of features, integrations, hardware options, and overall system reliability. For some context: we run a NestJS monolith application, use RabbitMQ for background tasks, Redis for rate limiting, and have an AI microservice for ML models. Our databases are managed Postgres and Google Firestore, plus we use GCP Cloud Functions for some legacy systems.

We're considering moving to native cloud solutions on AWS or GCP but are concerned about the feasibility of the setup for our volume. Although Kubernetes is an option, the idea of managing a cluster seems daunting. So, we're exploring intermediate services like Fargate, Cloud Run, or Porter, which provide more advanced features while still being somewhat managed. Any recommendations?
> it's lead to some weird and awkward behavior when trying to console verify TAS movies on these >30 year old SNES consoles.

For an example of this, look at this Super Metroid run from SGDQ 2018: https://youtu.be/T_oDcRKzoHI?t=3m17s

This particular game pauses and waits for the sound engine to “catch up” during door transitions, and the amount of time this takes is nondeterministic due to ceramic oscillators. But the game’s pseudo-RNG continues to cycle in the background during this waiting period, so the nondeterminism impacts gameplay elements such as the steam jets in the timestamped room. That meant that to play back the TAS on a real console, the authors (sniq and total) had to come up with a “polyglot” sequence of inputs that could make it through the room with any possible steam pattern.
Makes sense for dollars, but for anything like graphics or physics I'd consider a power of two like 1,024 as the fixed-point factor instead.

My intuition tells me that "x * 1000 / 1000 == x" might not be true for all numbers if you're using floats.
If it's written on rust then the spec is buggy
I bet language models could definitely help here, yeah. Perhaps something like (1) get content offeed items as they come in, (2) embed the content, (3) use those embeddings to group items. Probably not that difficult to be honest
I just use Tor Browser. It's kind of a pain with Cloudflare always trying to de-anonymize me but I figure, it's better than using the clearweb.
Then why do you think the tax-happy Democrats who control the legislature haven't repealed Prop 13 yet? After all, it is a relic of an era when anti-tax Republicans still had influence in California politics.

My theory is that if it were repealed, and people had to pay property tax on something approaching the actual current market value of their homes, home values would tank. Homeowners would then "lose" a significant fraction of their net worth, get pissed off, and immediately vote out anyone who had voted for the repeal.
What is the connection between them making a correct prediction and people trusting them? A track record of making correct predictions would be a reason why people should trust them, but it wouldn't be evidence that people actually do.
You don’t think “is dog conscious” is relevant to how we treat dogs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fFUfyT-EyA&t=1840s

This is the most damning commentary on AMD's firmware code quality.

I mean, that's horrifically bad.

To think that is code for the flagship GPU for a company with a market cap of almost 300bn is just crazy.
I agree, and I feel the same about the reverse too. Flat-out stating that cannabis doesn't cause hallucinations, or encouraging people to just try it because it they might find it fun (not OP, somewhere else in the thread) is deceptive, to say the least.

TV and anti-drug campaigns really do a bad job in explaining what really happens to someone on drugs. This is why I specifically linked Erowid.
Kidney failure is caused/aggravated by diabetes, hypertension/high blood pressure, and stress. All of these have a major environmental / social factor.
Why was subterfuge required? Something is missing from this story.
Please share an example. Whenever I ask anything remotely political, it returns maybe even overly-centrist responses.

It always replies with examples of how "the other side" might consider the question.
> Biden hasn't pulled back from the trade war either.

Biden has been maintaining Trump's policies, but hasn't really continued his escalation, even reopening diplomatic channels and dialogue with China.
Parent may be thinking more along the lines of a “hope we can print all the knowledge“ type catastrophe. Though if there is zero compute it’ll be tough reading all those disks!
Why not just interact with a virtual one that’s equally weak? You get all the same benefits
The best way to think of Rust as essentially the new Java, which sort of "won" over C++ due to its more strict syntax with mandatory OOP and code patterns. Rust enhances this by running most of the checks in the compiler so you get native code, with very few runtime additions for type safety.

But just like Java, its almost useless to code in it for personal or smaller projects.

For almost all of my projects where I needed performant code, the way I would do this is write it in C, and then just call the code from Python or Node. Its much easier to just focus on low level performant C code that can be written in usually one file, and then just write all the interface to it through higher level languages, especially for web frameworks.
What the article doesn't address is why there's no compensating effect from the people who like his antics. The two groups might be of vastly different sizes of course, but assuming this one survey from a single consultancy can be taken at face value, it would make me more skeptical that the views he's been espousing could make american conservatives comfortable buying electric cars without sacrificing even more business from liberals (which someone was arguing on here once).
I find it curious how many people severely downrate the intelligence of others: to even write a coherent text the length of HPMOR — regardless of how you feel about the plot points or if you regard it as derivative because of, well, being self-insert Marty Stu/Harry Potter fanfic[0] — requires one to be significantly higher than "moron", or even "normal", level.

Edit: I can't quite put this into a coherent form, but this vibes with Gell-Mann amnesia, with the way LLMs are dismissed, and with how G W Bush was seen (in the UK at least).

Ironically, a similar (though not identical) point about Bayes was made by one of the characters in HPMOR…

[0] Also the whole bit of HPMOR in Azkaban grated on me for some reason, and I also think Yudkowsky re-designed Dementors due to wildly failing to understand how depression works; however I'm now getting wildly side-tracked…

Oh, and in case you were wondering, my long-term habit of footnotes is somewhat inspired by a different fantasy author, one who put the "anthro" into "anthropomorphic personification of death". I miss Pratchett.
> dictionary

I'm not seeing how "a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts" favors your description over mine.

And yes both "needed" and "sufficient" are partly subjective. Most concepts are.

> Why not, say, Jeff Bezos?

Is this a real question, in good faith?

Having a fuzzy line is different from "yolo, no lines, nothing subjective can decide" as you seem to be suggesting.

Bezos is not a reasonable benchmark.

> In fact, historically, owning a home was quite unusual.

It affects rent too. Keeping a roof is getting unreasonably difficult.

> I don't follow. How does that relate to "preventing" supply and demand? That is supply and demand.

Fixing the price or using a lottery to allocate "is" supply and demand? What? I can't understand your logic at all now, this isn't worth continuing if we're drifting this far apart.
You're using the wrong CPU.

Consumer AMD 7950X supports AVX-512, it's faster than M2 Ultra at half the cost.
The first company that makes an 80s-90s Tacoma sized EV truck that can haul sheet goods will have a license to print money for decades
Right now, we're using Docusaurus, which has been working well: https://github.com/celest-dev/website

Though, Flutter Web has come a long ways recently, especially with the WASM work that's underway [1][2]. Flutter is very well positioned, I think, for web applications requiring a lot of interactivity and complex layouts--the DX is phenomenal. For static sites, it's very hard to beat a pure HTML/CSS/JS stack in terms of speed and optimization potential.

That being said, I think there's a good chance we'll see more work on Dart web frameworks going forward. Projects like Zap[3] and Jaspr[4] and doing great work in this area already. And it's safe to say we may see a Celest Web framework one day!

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[4] https://pub.dev/packages/jaspr
Darn I guess you’ll have to go back to living in the dark ages and actually write it yourself
> We know what consciousness is. It's our self-awareness

Not really. There are plenty of disorders that destroy a person’s self-awareness but appear to leave a fully conscious person there anyway.
I do it on the off chance that the ChatGPT history is used to train future AGI's, and want to ensure that my descendants are at least considered well behaved pets if nothing else.
I agree, but have to caution that the abstract and dry stuff is still part of math. It was what turned me on to math. I'd favor a blending of math and science curricula, and use more data analysis when teaching science.

It's a dilemma because math is so broad, and has both pure and applied sides. And a challenge for changing curricula is that the public defines "math" as the precise sequence of topics that they studied in school (and hated).
Panpsychism requires that we have a solid grasp on what constitutes consciousness, and we don’t. How would you falsify panpsychism? What testable predictions does it make?
It probably is actually good advice for a sole developer.
As you point out, that list is only necessary for the evolution of consciousness (perhaps) but it is not a requirement for consciousness itself.

From a functional computatoinalist POV, consciousness just requires information processing. People who meditate a lot can attest to the fact that conscious experience doesn't even need a self, it doesn't need thoughts, purpose or anything else. Consciousness is just raw awareness (meta-awareness)... however since we know the brain is processing information at some capacity (i.e. search Phineas Gage), then consciousness is something like the running simulation of reality being processed by the brain.

Joscha Bach, Max Tegmark, are two good sources for this perspective.
The sea people sounds alot like "ship"-residing refugees sailing along the coasts to me. They would be armed, they would be desperate and pillage like the vikings. And they would end wherever there boats ended up falling apart. Either fighting the locals or mixing with them. I guess this is what you do, when your city is besieged, runs out of food and you still have an open harbor.
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OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights
I really believe the people who drive hummers and pickup trucks don’t give a hoot or a holler about electrifying their vehicles. They want an easy to use, sometimes capable (though many are not using it as a work or off road vehicle) comfortable mobile living room.

These EV have spotty rural and exurban charging capabilities so would rely heavily on home charging, and as another poster points out — take forever to charge.
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Have you looked at Railway?
The "your mileage will vary" part is definitely true, as well as the "incredible what kinds of pain you can get used to". I had 30 cm of my upper intestine removed 12 years ago. Doctors said it was so constricted you couldn't pass a pencil through, but I was still managing to ski double black diamonds two weeks before surgery.

When it comes to fiber in particular, I think what can confuse people is the difference between water soluble fibers like oatmeal, and extremely insoluble "macrofibers" like raw green asparagus, leafy greens, orange pith etc. The former is OK for some, the latter is no-go for everyone AFAIU.

Another curveball is nearly underbaked dough, like you'll find in a lot of commercial bread and rolls, even if it has zero fiber. If you can knead it back into dough with your hands, it might just form a nice lump in your gut as well.

I have the same thing as you with corn, and also with nuts unless eaten with lots of liquids. I think it goes back to the possibility of forming tough paste in the gut.
> How do you explain the lack of other texts about this person if he was that popular and important?

On the contrary, based on the linked article, it seems that there are several works of literature from the time referencing Daniel. In fact, for some languages, it appears that close to 100% of known writing samples reference Daniel (because there are only one or two examples).
US and western alies cant even get control over gas and oil refinery tech exports to Russia after 2 years of full scale war and 12 years of sanctions. And all kind of dual-use nearly military tech being imported to Russia through other contries such as UAE, Turkey, etc.

And China is much more resourceful and GPUs are not 100-ton refinery equipment or heavy machinery.
> was never meant to be

Since "incognito" literally means "with one's identity concealed" [1], the fact that this was allegedly never intended to be a browsing mode that concealed one's identity is absurdly dishonest.

You developers who work on this sort of crap should be ashamed of yourselves.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incognito