skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, the last paragraph seems totally made up. The whole panel was stolen, not half of it. And Goedertier never demanded any ransom, the thief did but the article assumes he's definitely the thief. It's still unclear whether he was involved, he was a suspect because during the final minutes of his life, he mumbled some words about being the only person who knows where the stolen panel is.

The paragraph in question, for posterity:

>The artwork was stolen yet again in 1934 by stockbroker and businessman Arsène Goedertie. He sent a group of men to the cathedral one evening to steal the bottom left panel known as The Just Judges. Goedertie had sliced the panel in half, leaving the other half for the police to find, and demanded a ransom for the panel. The Belgian Minister refused, so the panel is still missing to this day. You can still check out the entire 12-panel Ghent Altarpiece on display, with an impressive replica of the missing panel.
Someone with the intellectual arrogance to proclaim someone unfit for a job after reading a single blog post by them is also unfit for leadership.
As I recall Koreader did not recognize that there are basically two versions of TXT-files.

In the first one paragraph is marked with single Carriage Return.

In the second one the paragraph has two CRs and all single CRs can be replaced with space.

Annoying but bagatel:

sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n\n/XYZ/g'|sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g'|sed 's/XYZ/\n/g'
Another poster below mentioned Brother. I second this, I've owned cannon most of my life, but my best friend's parents hp. As the "Rev come fix our x guy", hp troubleshooting has 9 out of 10 times come down to crappy software and post purchase monetization. Both hp and Canon companies have gone the route of requiring nasty software to leverage basic functionality. Canon is way less egregious, but the point I'm getting to is support the company doing things you feel best. Brother printers have become the only choice in my household.
> Encountered numerous situations where work was "urgent" and would likely land a contract or sales for the company, and everyone would be a superstar if they delivered this "crunch".

> After 2 months of pulling all-nighters and sleeping for 3/4 hours, we deliver the project ahead of time

In my career, none of these have ever paid off. Every time I've crunched this way on something dramatically urgent like this, it has turned out that the "if we can deliver this, this huge moonshot sale is a sure thing" turns into a no-sale

The sales person never seems to get cut loose for diverting the entire R&D towards a longshot for months and burning people out, though

And you can bet the sales person isn't putting in weeks of overtime for the duration, either

I basically refuse to do overtime anymore unless I'm working extra to make up for my own screw up. I'm not putting in extra to hit some other assholes unrealistic deadlines ever again
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I've read that, but I disagree. Stack Overflow would be better for the community if it allowed repetition. Repetition isn't harmful, and it lets the next generation learn how to answer questions, which is a legitimately hard skill, and I'm arguing is more useful than creating a static repository of documentation.
Good outcomes by what measure? Happiness? Freedom? Community? GDP?

I will argue that by many standards, what we view as barbaric has better outcomes. Have you met a Singaporean? I disagree with their criminal justice system (as I do the U.S. but I rank Singapore’s as “worse”) and yet it has better outcomes for the majority of its citizens by most measures. Are they the measures you and I care about? Probably not, because to you and I, hanging someone for using heroin is not a fair price to be paid for a lower crime rate and higher GDP, but that’s a moral judgement, not some objective “modern” absolute. If you don’t value human life above all else (which many cultures don’t) then killing a few drug addicts a year to make life for millions of others better, that’s inconsequential — and excellent “modern” thinking about doing the most good!

If you can’t imagine why the bad of anti-lgbt sentiment is far outweighed by the good of community-spirit from an anti-lgbt religion then you’re not considering “outcomes”.
With bezels that big, they may as well have included a larger screen

Edit: And it's twice the thickness of a normal phone
Ahh, the classic case of seeing the bottom half of an S curve and projecting it out to infinite exponential growth.

The number of times things have experienced infinite exponential growth in all of history starting from the Big Bang: 0.
Which is basically how software engineering is done.
"you think the bees are checking patents?"

Framable
This is off-topic, but I was looking at your sbts-aru project and remembered having read the hackaday post on it about fireworks. I'm curious if you've ever seen the RaspberryShake BOOM sensor? If so, any thoughts on how your project and it differ?

https://shop.raspberryshake.org/product/turnkey-iot-atmosphe...
When you look at the history of scaling up Transformers, e.g. GPT2, most people in the community were in fact quite surprised that just scaling up those models worked so well. And every time you read a lot of opinions that this is the end and scaling them up further will not give (much) improvements. This criticism is lower now but still there.

Scaling self-attention has also worked much further than it was initially believed it could work. Initially it was always believed to be the main bottleneck, but this turned out wrong. The feed-forward layers are much more the bottleneck when looking at where most of the compute is spent.

It's still a bit unclear how much further we can take the scaling. We are mostly at the limit of what is financial feasible today but as long as some form of generalized Moore's law continues (e.g. number of transistors per dollar), it becomes financial feasible to scale further. At some point we also hit a limit of available data. But maybe self-play (or variants) might solve this.

I guess most researchers agree that just scaling up further is maybe not optimal (w.r.t. reaching AGI), or also will not be enough, but it's a somewhat open question.
Did we just figure out a DoS attack for AGI training? How large can a robots.txt file be?
No, it feels that way because music is a monthly service, any media is a monthly service cost, backups are monthly service cost, news are a monthly service cost, VPN is a monthly service cost, internet is of course a monthly service cost, password management is a monthly service cost, anti-malware/AV is a monthly service cost, ...this list just goes on and on.

And they want $10/month for unlimited searches full well and knowing $5/300 isn't even a reasonable bracket for half of us.

It's steep, and we're all swimming in in these costs.

$5/unlimited would be more reasonable, but it still piles on all these SaaS costs that everyone now uses. Gotta grow grow grow grow you know. Capitalism is great!
The Silicon Valley Machiavellian TechManager way to deal with this situation is to say "Yes, we will do this, but only if I get an up-front bonus and a team of twenty." The CEO instead gives you 6 headcount and a bonus schedule with performance milestones. You put the team together. Drag things out as long as you can, managing upwards with bullshit and a charismatic smile, faking the goals when you can, while the team is on a death march. Finally, when it's obvious that you'll never deliver, blame the team and parachute away to a different company with whatever bonus money you managed to get your hands on, where they offer you a "Director" title and $1M in stock because you were a "leader."
No they're the opposite. I want a small screen that I can reach the entire thing with one thumb. Not a screen that folds out to be twice as big as I want
fifty percent of managers, manage through fear .. an industry veteran once said .. "virtue stories" will ignore this ugly fact of hierarchical commercial services
/jk just wait long enough and that zero will go to Infinity
Let's not use the term "trophy hunting". It's analogous to calling an OBGYN an "abortionist". People hunt for all sorts of reasons. The question is often not whether X number of a particular animal will be killed, the question is who will do the killing. State game quotas are set by biologists who are fine tuning populations. If the animals aren't killed by hunters, they will be killed by State wildlife employees. This process is a core tenant of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Model_of_Wildli... ) which is the reason why there has been a flourishing of game animals in North America in the last century.

But to your point, they are referencing two main funding streams for state fish and game / wildlife / natural resources departments:

1. Pittman-Robertson funds ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittman%E2%80%93Robertson_Fede... ). The gist is that there's an excise tax on firearms and ammunition. One fun consequence of this is that hunters aren't making up the bulk of funds here, it's recreational shooters. A hunter may shoot 10 shots on a hunting trip. It's gun nuts at firing ranges who disproportionately pay this tax.

2. Sale of hunting and fishing licenses. This varies by state since states' wildlife vary in quantity and quality. Western states with prized large game animals (elk, mountain goats, etc) earn more from this funding stream than Eastern states.

To take an example of Vermont ( https://anr.vermont.gov/sites/anr/files/FY%202023%20ANR%20Bu... ), 36% of funding comes from hunting and fishing licenses and 33% from matching Federal funds. $7.1M of the $9.67M in Federal funding is from Pittman-Robertson ( https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/WR%20Final... ).
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one of the alternatives to Go's error handling that OP writes about is the Rust Result type, which is the same as Either.
OP seems to think this is the best of the alternatives to the way Go handles things, but that switching to a sum-type approach would be too difficult, given that it isn't compatible in any way with normal Go error checking and a lot of software has already been written in the old style.
That's valid criticism. It seems like Parsec also has almost the same problem (and owned by Unity):

<https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/gfinee/pars...>
Do many dumb phones include whatsapp? I think for a lot of europeans that might be an issue
Why does that label look like it came off a cereal box? I legitimately thought that picture might be a joke of somebody riffing on the nutrition facts label.
Nah the point was that the public IPv4 space has run out. Anything like removing NAT or making everything routable is just more icing on the cake.
What material though? Nanosolar was also doing CIGS roll-to-roll cells, and that didn't work out too well for them.
search engine trickery to get people to click on his amazone affiliate links I reckon
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> I think we should be careful about the word Christian. It has different meanings to different people.

Indeed it does: It's what the first "C" in my user id stands for.

And being my given name is the only way it applies to me.
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Interesting. Yes looks like that ACeP screen had reasonable specs on paper with 300dpi and as low as 500ms color refresh. Seems like this tech could be getting closer. Reviews of the Galy were terrible though and it’s unclear how much of that was from the screen vs. the device around it.

Still watching this space and holding out with my Kindle Paperwhite.
A "honeypot" is a system designed to trap unsuspecting entrants. In this case, the website is designed to be found by web crawlers and to then trap them in never-ending linked sites that are all pointless. Other honeypots include things like servers with default passwords designed to be found by hackers so as to find the hackers.
Its easy to see this in the US. Ignore the news and Twitter and look at results. This election cycle Justice Democrats: the poster child of the progressive left has no choice but to just defend their existing seats having already lost one and some of their top stars nearly losing their seats last cycle.

Ignoring the age issue in the far right (not enough young people replacing the dying elders in the movement), we have repeated losses in special elections due to their stance on abortion indicating their current plan of action is not in sync with where the country is. That does not look long term promising for the movement. Either they move left or they will continue to cede power at all levels of the government.
Also see Bloomberg Businessweek's excellent "You Could Fill a Museum" graphic — every item with dimensions listed in the FBI's stolen art database illustrated, to scale. You could fill a museum indeed!

https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/3266-y...
https://xkcd.com/1053/ applies to shitty things as much as it does to cool things.
Actually, a lot of people doubted that you could ever do what Waymo is doing today in SF (and Phoenix, and probably other places).
Spying on users without explicit consent is sadly extremely common these days in all types of software.

Achievements were just the earliest iteration in games.
> The labels are required now for providers with at least 100,000 subscribers, while ISPs with fewer customers have until October 10, 2024, to comply. "If a provider is not displaying their labels or has posted inaccurate information about its fees or service plans, consumers can file a complaint with the FCC Consumer Complaint Center," an agency webpage says.

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels

https://www.fcc.gov/document/what-look-new-broadband-nutriti...

EDIT: @windexh8er Doing God's work. Many thanks.
Scraping is legal. Always has been, always will be. Mainly because there's some fuzz around the edges of the definition. Is a web browser a scraper? It does a lot of the same things.

IIRC LinkedIn/Microsoft was trying to sue a company based on Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violations, claiming they were accessing information they were not allowed to. Courts ruled that that was bullshit. You can't put up a website and say "you can only look at this with your eyes". Recently-ish, they were found to be in violation of the User Agreement.

So as long as you don't have a user account with the site in question or the site does not have a User Agreement prohibiting scraping, you're golden.

The problem isn't the scraping anyway, it's the reproduction of the work. In that case, it really does matter how you acquired the material and what rights you have with regards use of that material.
I meant we should stop techological innovation of most kinds.
He says 3 million, and 1.8 million are for robots.txt

So 1.2 million non robots.txt requests, when his robots.txt file is configured as follows

# buzz off
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Theoretically if they were actually respecting robots.txt they wouldn't crawl any pages on the site. Which would also mean they wouldn't be following any links... aka not finding the N subdomains.
I do tend to use those in exactly that way, yes.

However, while your mileage may vary, I end up getting the same complaint from the users either way. Even when my 400 contains an exact reason why the input is incorrect.

Granted, on the one hand, this can be fixed on the individual level, but on the other hand, it's the same effect writ small that when writ large makes the response codes nearly useless, so this post is maybe half cathartic grousing. I can't push caring about response codes. I can document it, I can yield detailed errors, and I can be as careful as I like, but this is a "it takes two to tango" situation and at scale, on average, the other end doesn't want to tango.
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> Maybe we need a new guideline for that.

So, don't say anything demeaning about China or the CCP unless you write at least two (for now anyway...) paragraphs?

Sounds like a reasonably good idea. 500 social credits for you.
Apple will approve used parts in iPhone repairs
Security folks, especially on HN, are very actively hostile to alternative implementations and clients because in their mind it breaks security. Just see any Apple or Signal topic.

The walled garden lockin in by design for you to be safe.
I can't add you as friend/contact or follow you here, so why do you think this is a social media platform and not a discussion board?
The word scaling has multiple definitions. It's not just the same hardware getting cheaper over time, there have been many architectural improvements:

- Better training algorithms for training with lower precision
- fastattention, fastattention 2 for decreasing bandwidth inside the GPU
- ring attention for decreasing bandwidth across GPUs
- algorithmic improvements in handling long context window
- MoE
- Lots of algorithmic improvements in fine tuning / alignment
- GROQ hardware architecture (deterministic hardware, storing all data in SRAM for inferencing instead of using cache hierarchies)
- Improvements in tokenization

So far softmax(K * Q')*V is the only thing that hasn't (yet) been touched.

If the question is that ,,just'' improving LLM perplexity by further algorithmic and hardware improvements will lead to AGI, at this point many researchers believe that the answer is yes (and many others that the answer is no :) ).
Same, but with ads instead. Sing "mountain dew is for me and you" to get to your floor.
You do see them from time to time in especially rough rural areas. I can remember one that was apparently painted from the "oops" paint section of the local hardware store surrounding a strip club next to a junkyard.
hiQ was found to be in violation of the User Agreement in the end.

Basically, in the end, it was essentially a breach of contract.
That app doesn’t look novel in any way.
> Except the fiist thing openai does is read robots.txt.

Then they should see the "Disallow: /" line, which means they shouldn't crawl any links on the page (because even the homepage is disallowed). Which means they wouldn't follow any of the links to other subdomains.
> If the allegation is true, it looks like Protonmail decided to munge e-mails without anyone opting into it.

As an active protonmail user, unfortunately they have a long history of this. My major gripe is that they manipulate emails that I've sent over the desktop bridge. If you sign your emails locally, this of course completely breaks the signature. And if you are sending emails to mailing lists, their internal email header fuckery has a history of eating things like reply-to headers that they can't find a local copy of in your mailbox.

I love their web interface and I am a big advocate of their other features but I am begging Protonmail to just give users the option to send their emails without interference through the desktop bridge.
Yeah like I said it could still collapse, but I am not ready to write them off so quickly like others are, thats all.
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You can use plain HTTP for time sync. Almost all HTTP servers respond with a time header.
It's too bad they didn't stick with LibGDX, but not surprisingly the console situation makes that difficult:

https://libgdx.com/wiki/articles/console-support
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Make this obnoxiously anti-consumer behaviour illegal and enforce the law.
If you estimate that stocks A and B have long-term expected returns of say 15% and 10%, you may prefer to invest mostly in A (although some investment in B may still be indicated for diversification). The situation with colleges is a bit different, because the investments are discrete. If college A has cost of $360K over 4 years and ROI of 10% and college B has cost of $160K and ROI of 15%, you can't invest as much in college B as in college A -- you would not earn two bachelor's degrees there. So you should compare an investment of $360K in college A with an investment of $180K plus $180K in financial assets.

Another problem with ROI is that adjustments for student quality are often not done. MIT graduates earn more than the average college graduate, but they would also be earning more if they went to their state flagship universities.
I don't get the screentime argument. The way to reduce screentime is to move people off Instagram/TikTok to platforms that aren't optimising for engagement as much, not to make a fancy mini phone for booking Ubers and checking when my flights are, which constitutes almost no phone usage at scale.
> An example of uncertainty in business is when your CEO tells you they promised a feature to your biggest client and it needs to be built ASAP as highest priority, so all hands on deck. Then a day later they tell you another feature, completely contradictory to the first one, needs to be built as well and is also highest priority. When you tell them they both can't be highest priority, the answer is: make it happen.

Hardly.

What I've found to work best in such scenarios is to always chop up the task at hand to essentials and nice-to-haves[0]. If another task comes up before you're finished, chop it up as well and ask your leadership what's more important: the essentials from this new task or nice-to-haves from that previous one.

It's never the nice-to-haves.

Also it always helps to not promise something you can't deliver - this applies to every level in the hierarchy.

[0] Sometimes, if essentials are the vast majority, you can produce versions of them which are simpler, but still workable from a business perspective, and have bringing the full-featured versions as a nice-to-have.
Since when does does satisfying curiosity not provide any value. This has the potential to be a real life spy story ffs. Yeah you won't know anything for sure, that doesn't make this any less interesting.
Apple touts major 60% leap in Safari and WebKit performance
I should indeed have clarified that the browser web has a much richer set of headers and response codes in use, and they are truly useful, and anyone serving web pages at scale should indeed learn about them. IIRC it's still about 1/3rd to 1/4th of the nominally defined HTTP response codes that are useful, but it's still something.

The non-browser web, they approach useless. Which I'm not happy about and not celebrating or advocating for. It's just how it is.
I've been using RealVNC for some non-critical remote access.
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Great questions!

> - I want to deploy my own things with argo alongside this cluster, how?
So using "cndi init" command, cndi gives a repo that contains Iaac, Cluster Manifests and Application Manifests. Everything gets deployed on choice of your cloud once you push to github. Use helm charts or K8s yaml.

> - I want a private nlb, even locked by a vpn subnet, how?
Not fully baked but there is a way to add NLB manifests.

> - I want to put this in an existing vpc, or peer with a vpc, or tgw with a vpc, how?
Working on this.

> - How do I upgrade each separate piece of the stack?
This needs to be looked into more.
I think there's something in this. Watching the video made me realise that my main irritations with my phone are born of the bit where I have to navigate through a minefield of distrations to add an item to my todo list, or check my calendar, or send a text message. All the "what bridge am I looking at stuff" is cute but feels like solving a problem I never really encounter. Anyway, I'm guess I'm going to try and use Siri more, ubnlock my phone less.
And they do have (the same) robots.txt on every domain, tailored for GPTbot, i.e. https://petra-cody-carlene.web.sp.am/robots.txt

So, GPTBot is not following robots.txt, apparently.