skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It could be read to say that computers should be presumed to be executing the instructions they're given reliably, unless evidence shows otherwise. It's about malfunction, not misapplication."

You are making a technical distinction the law does not make. The law relates to the output - to the evidence generated from the system as a whole. The presumption is that the logic is correct too - which is why it is such a terrible assumption.
Why not both? Robotaxi technology would allow for adaptively routed minibuses to be very cheap - and in fact be even better suited at it, which would solve the last-mile problem and make every other type of public transit even more efficient.
Disclosure: competitor to TW.

I see this as super risky as well. I'm taking a totally different approach with my business. We are only growing with customer demand. First off, we are getting a decent number of GPUs to rent, which should cover our initial capacity needs. Then as we grow, we will push revenue + further investment back into more purchase orders. We can also order and deploy compute on a very short timeframe, so if we have a customer that wants a bunch of compute that we don't have today, we will get it online relatively quickly. Grandiose claims of 20k GPUs by the end of the year, almost never works out the way you want it to.
Will be interesting for sure to see how the other non-American companies (Kia, Nissan, Toyota, etc) cope with the entry of lower cost Chinese cars into the U.S.. Does anyone know if you can buy Chinese made cars in Japan?
An artist might want to opt out of this, though. They might think, and reasonably so, that the optics of having affordable tickets - even if they make less overall - is better for their brand identity and long—term benefit.

That LiveNation has created a de facto system where they cannot opt out of their price setting is at the heart of the entire matter.
> Whereas most works seem to have a thesis and then explore them on different levels, Lynch seems to just throw out ideas in different scenes.

Many interpretations come to the exact opposite conclusion: that Lynch starts with a specific idea and then visits it in a different way in each scene. They may seem different, but there is an underlying theme. At least, if those interpretations are right.

Here is an example for Inland Empire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkk9GWonTyg

Try to ignore that person's overconfidence, he does actually make a good case for his interpretation, I think, showing that the film can be seen as boiling down to one clear main message. (I don't agree with all of his points, but I do think he is on to something.)

> I would love to unpack what parts of twin peaks were Lynch’s design and what parts were not

Reading Mark Frost's books can help there, as likely Lynch's influence on them is minimal. But it is still hard to unpack, Twin Peaks was really a joint project.
> It reads like something a GPT model would write, they go all over the place.

It's nothing like GPT IMO; it's opinionated, for one thing. I think it's just hard to follow because it does draw from a large variety of sources and ideas and doesn't weave them together very smoothly. This is showcased with the horrible modern trend of displaying a large quote of something the article literally just said, or will say next. This practice is always a bad choice, but failure scales with the complexity of the article; the author would have done better to use more headings, which would help them organize the work.

I do completely agree with your assessment of why the earlier internet was... a more rewarding experience. (I don't think "better" is a meaningful term here.) But, the article is explicitly rejecting the idea of returning to the past, and instead building something new that fosters emergent behavior and diversity. The goal is empowerment of agents who have a will to cultivate their ideas.
I suppose it depends what language you're even using for Switzerland. I can handle the French in Switzerland more or less the same as I can handle French anywhere else (not that great), German and Italian not well at all, and Romansh pretty much non-existently.
So you appeal to other extraordinary claims to buttress this one.
thanks for the feedback! I'll keep adding more and more words :D
Live Nation and Ticketmaster Could Soon Face Federal Antitrust Lawsuit
The age of MP3 players ended when streaming became ubiqutous.

I know some OSS players that became worse over time. The usablity hero that was amaroK became so bad after an overhaul that it was forked as Clementine. For example, if you had shuffle on, and double-clicked a song in your playlist, a different random one will start.

Then Clementine now sometimes hangs when you rewind an MP3. It understands where the new position is and that it is supposed to be playing, just can't. They also unlearned a tiny UI improvement that I've contributed a decade ago. Indeed they would be a much better product if they did nothing other than fixing bit rot.

I remember there was a Gnome option, wonder if it is alive. Can't remember the name though.
The Foreign Service Institute training is also full-time, 8+ hours a day, working with dedicated tutors in small groups. Basically, it's your job to learn the language.
> The more we talk about it, the easier it is to pick up a discussion where we left off.

Sure.. but.. does it lead to problems actually being fixed?
Availability is a big driver as well. If you can get a MI300x today vs. waiting a year for H100's, which do you go with?
Wild is good as long as it's not wild as in battlefield. It's not like you get diverse opinions; no matter what you post, you get warring factions, vulgar insults, and sometimes, death threats.

And bots.

I posted earlier today:

Anil Dash argues [1] that things can be better in not so wide-open communities.

And then there’s someone like Darius Kazemi, a computer programmer and community organizer who has been patiently toiling away building tools that let others build healthy, constructive, human-scale online communities — the sort that are full of acts of kindness and genuine connection, instead of incessant fights about hate speech. There’s been a huge uptick in interest in Darius’ work as networks like Twitter have fallen apart, and a new generation discovers the joys of an internet that’s as intimate and connected as a friendly neighborhood. And this hearkens back to that surprising, and delightful, discovery that often underpinned the internet of a generation ago — sometimes the entire platform you were using to talk to others was just being run by one, passionate person. We’re seeing the biggest return to that human-run, personal-scale web that we’ve witnessed since the turn of the millennium, with enough momentum that it’s likely that 2024 is the first year since then that many people have the experience of making a new connection or seeing something go viral on a platform that’s being run by a regular person instead of a commercial entity. It’s going to make a lot of new things possible.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/inte...

I have had ideas for a different internet -- a network of networks. Since Stewart Brand and Ted Nelson and Kevin Kelly, technology was meant to empower and liberate people. Only a handful actually do, as in Wikipedia. People have enormous computing power in their computers and mobile devices. It often just liberates cash from their pockets.

Time to reinvent. I'll share ideas later.

No need for this crap: [2]

Well, things changed a little bit in tech of late. Often, the power shifts in the tech world because of a dramatic new invention that solves an old problem a whole lot better. But in the current era, when most of what's getting funded and hyped up are just various attempts to undermine workers and control consumers, we're instead seeing lots of major players lose power because their signature offerings have gotten so much worse. Search engines are becoming far more useless as they attempt to chase AI hype and shoehorn in less reliable results, even as their legitimate search results get cluttered up with AI-generated crap. The most culturally influential social network has had its cultural relevance destroyed by its billionaire man-child owner's tantrum-based managemenet style. And the major mobile phone platforms overplayed their hand so badly in exerting power over their app ecosystems that regulators around the globe have responded by prying open these heretofore-closed markets.

[2] https://www.anildash.com//2024/01/03/human-web-renaissance/

Time for a network of networks, not a network of 4 or 5 castles surrounded by serfs.
And you often don't even need a closing tag
If UBI is encoded as a negative tax rate at low income levels, it no longer really makes sense to talk about it as applying to all income levels equally. It naturally gets distributed as

1) A check (issued by Social Security service?) if income is less than X

2) Less of your paycheck being withheld if your income is greater than X (or more if you're significantly above X, depending on how this gets funded)
WizardLM was unpublished due to missing toxicity testing
If your lawyer makes a mistake, sue them I suppose. But we can't have people arguing "oops!" and unwinding settled court deals easily can we?
I used winamp in the late 90s and early 2000s. During that time it was a necessary program to have on the PC, but I stopped using it once MP3 players and ipods became more common / affordable. Then youtube came out and when on my pc, I mostly listened to music that way.

Its extremely rare that I want to play an mp3 on my pc, thus no need to use something like winamp.
Yeah, but music would auto-play in the background, random stuff would float across your screen, and your cursor would turn into......something.
One time they said that fast food was cheaper than grocery food.

It was so wrong, that I never listened to NPR since.
I was looking for Hungarian and didn't see it, unfortunately. I learned a smattering of it some twenty years ago in a study abroad. I remember it was difficult, but fun, to learn.

Three things made it difficult, as I remember: one, it is agglutinative, so you get strings of suffixes on the ends of nouns, verbs, etc.; two, it has zero overlap with English vocabulary, or even the Romantic & Germanic ancestors of English; three, vowel harmonizing takes a bit of practice. None of these is particularly demanding, but they have no equivalents in English.

But a very aesthetically satisfying language once you get the hang of it.
DoorDash does this. When I make an order the “Resume DashPass” option is checked. If I’m not paying attention/in a hurry and forget to uncheck it, I’m back to paying them $10 a month.
It seems weird to say that filing anything incorrectly doesn’t constitute “procedural irregularity”. I don’t know, maybe that’s a specific term of law in this particular jurisdiction, but if that’s the case it doesn’t seem to mean anything close to what the actual words mean.
Being "puzzling to unpack" is the point. His works often try to put the audience into a state of awe, confusion, wonder or other emotional/unconscious mind experiences... which is only possible if he can first subvert your rational conscious minds attempts to pack it into a simple, logical explanation or story. With Lynch, just when you think it's about to make sense, he will take an abrupt turn and completely derail that.

Most shows seem to gradually reveal the underlying story/truth as they progress. Twin Peaks is the total opposite of that- it starts out kind-of straightforward, and gets progressively harder to make sense of the more you watch. The owls are not what they seem.
This is much more representative; if you look at a country's population and at their politicians you will see large differences in age, education, wealth etc. This can be used to overcome that by selecting, as much as possible, a random representative group of people, much as you would in a scientific study. It also avoids party agendas and things like that.
If Winamp lived it would've HAD to become first a music store, and then a streaming service.

And we'd be getting articles about how Winamp "used" to be simple, but is now "bloated", and all the internet greybeard nerds (hi, it's me) would be talking about how they just want to play the tens of thousands of local MP3s they have not pay for a subscription to stream from the web, which is why they're "still on Winamp 5".

So, while I do think there's an alternate future where "Winamp" became as big and as ubiquitous as iTunes or Spotify, or both combined, I don't think there's a future where it does any better than those and there is no 2024 (or 2017) nostalgia for what it once was.
I wouldn't die on that hill but I agree and have done the same. In fact I would argue that if you find yourself in arguments about the practice it is a good sign your team is at a level where you should in fact prohibit all use of goto.

IIRC at least one of the revisions of MISRA specifically allows for using goto to break forward to a cleanup-and-return block, but others don't.
Their podcasts went from non-fiction stories to advertisements for peoples random cultural book.
It sounds too much like "So without intention you'll simply perpetuate the negative voices" is "you are either for us, or against us", which has caused the world no end to misery.
A quick post on Chen's algorithm
> someone that is strongly pro-vaccine is more harmful than not.

You make it sound like " someone that is strongly pro-vaccine" is like the supporter of a football team or a "my country right or wrong" person, and therefor "harmful", rather than someone who has reached a decision based on weight of evidence.

And I do not see that as accurate at all. In fact it is harmful.
I've been through it as well, not as in severe poverty, but definitely to the degree where what you can do in life is very limited and ...

>that's a really disempowering belief

... for me at least, it had the complete opposite effect. When you're young and particularly a teenager, you want to do as much cool things as possible (not just fun, but also things like profiling yourself to end up in a good career, make money, etc), plenty of times this does not happen if you're not privileged enough, and then most of the time people blame this on themselves, maybe I wasn't that smart, maybe I wasn't that disciplined, blah blah.

Sometimes "you just didn't have enough money" is an acceptable answer, it takes the blame out of yourself and it gives you an objective to pursue. Note: this last phrase could definitely be misinterpreted and strawman-ed to death, so I'll clarify on both points:

* It takes the blame out of yourself ... in a healthy way; most likely you are just good enough or are as good as all the other people that are already doing what you want to do. Money could well be the only limiting factor and, if this happens to be the case, you're actually lucky in the sense that is much easier to "just get some money" than to actually nurture and develop an ability that you don't have.

* It gives you a (clear and focused) objective to pursue. Money is not everything but once you identify this as the limiting factor in your life, you can become laser-focused on acquiring said wealth and things just get easier down the road. Anecdote from me: I was once a plane trip short (out of money) from enrolling on a nice PhD in a different country than mine; that, of course, got me very frustrated and sad, but after that my only purpose for a short while was to make money, I went on to work and live frugally (by choice!) and after a year I had saved up a significant wad of cash, this put me in a position where I could not only afford the plane ticket towards any PhD program I wanted, but also afford at least 6-8 months of life anywhere I wanted in the world, so I could just go to places and explore and make a decision about that when I was comfortable about it. Also that small cycle of "set up goal", "work towards it", "execute", gave a lot of meaning to my life at the time and it's a framework that is very useful to master going forward in life.
Maybe it averages from newest -> oldest

With software that bad, who can say
Very wise advice:

> Strongly consider taking a backup of your current working directory and .git to avoid any possibility of losing data as a result of the use or misuse of these instructions. We promise to laugh at you if you fail to take a backup and regret it later.
> Until recently, the algorithm that was protecting all organ donor patient information in the country, so STI status, mental health, every physical history, was from 1996.

I take issue with the way this point is presented. I'm willing to believe that healthcare data wasn't encrypted with the SOTA methods and one that was regarded as "good enough" instead, but the age of the algorithm has nothing to do with it's security. After all, RSA encryption is from 1977.
Sounds identical to health insurers. We need a new word for this arrangement. “Cartel” probably comes the closest but doesn’t feel quite right.

It’s like a cartel but it’s lead by one “extractor” (front of house, Ticketmaster in this case).
Ye maybe. It's probably mainly that I personally had such an easier time to learn German than French, so I might extrapolate my experience a bit too much.
Frankel is a a developer I hold in really high esteem. IDK what I would do without LICEcap, which I use on a daily basis (and I'm sure it was just a little side project they through together to make debugging easier in a short amount of time). And REAPER is probably the only user-customizable and extendable digital audio workstation in existence. You can see the echos of Winamp in it...
those vendored dependencies are still libraries that redis couldn't use if those libraries weren't open source

for example, something like jemalloc is highly nontrivial
Actually yes, some dictionaries (like Merriam-Webster) define fee as "a fixed charge"
Swiss German isn't the same as high German
By 'do' I meant only align :)
Investing in stocks is definitely akin to gambling.

With individual stocks, you are just betting on horses.

With hedging, you are betting on economic sectors (which can be as large as the whole world economic system) growing infinitely.

And regarding systems growing infinitely in limited environments, I have some bad news for you. Some would call them cancerous.
> it's much easier to build shelters if everyone knows you have no first strike capability.

Why is it easier?
In my experience it's the vocabulary. Sometimes it feels like for every word like "Hand" that's easy to recognize there's a dozen like "Ausbildung" that aren't. (For comparison, the French word for Ausbildung is "éducation.")
Remember Remote Disc from Mac OS X? https://support.apple.com/en-us/101323
> At least with the AI chatbot, there's not a person being sexually objectified because they need to pay rent next month.

Not sure that's a good thing. For some people, AI powered buddies will be a perfect training ground for all kinds of abusive behaviour. Because "it's a machine, no one gets hurt, right?".

Over time this will only help to blur the lines concerning acceptable behaviour towards others (with others = any group that includes humans).
That's pretty rare though, especially in the US. And generally afaik, historic listings here impose a cost on the homeowner but not a benefit (i.e. a tax break).
On the section for gun violence, it says "And these are the kids who witnessed gun violence", but the title says "See someone shot with gun". I'm curious which it is since gun violence encompasses things other than seeing someone shot.
The reason for his suspension is: "the organization told the editor [i.e. Berliner] he had failed to secure its approval for outside work for other news outlets, as is required of NPR journalists."

Not because he criticized them.

It this a punishment that is always applied; or used selectively? If the first, then it's fine, if the latter... then yeah there's a problem.
The full opinion can be found here: https://law.justia.com/cases/new-jersey/supreme-court/2008/a...
Any naive use of an LLM is not likely to produce good results, even with the best models. You need a process - a sequence of steps, and appropriately safeguarded prompts at each step. AI will eventually reach a point when you can get all the subtle nuance and quality in task performance you might desire, but right now, you have to dumb things down and be very explicit. Assumptions will bite you in the ass.

Naive, superficial one shot prompting, even with CoT or other clever techniques, or using big context, is insufficient to achieve quality, predictable results.

Dropping the resume into a prompt with few-shot examples can get you a little consistency, but what really needs to be done is repeated discrete operations, that link the relevant information to the relevant decisions. You'd want to do something like tracking years of experience, age, work history, certifications, and so on, completely discarding any information not specifically relevant to the decision of whether to proceed in the hiring process. Once you have that information separated out, you consider each in isolation, scoring from 1 to 10, with a short justification for each scoring based on many-shot examples. Then you build a process iteratively with the bot, asking it which variables should be considered in context of the others, and incorporate a -5 to 5 modifier based on each clustering of variables (8 companies in the last 2 years might be a significant negative score, but maybe there's an interesting success story involved, so you hold off on scoring until after the interview.)

And so on, down the line, through the whole hiring process. Any time a judgment or decision has to be made, break it down into component parts, and process each of the parts with their own prompts and processes, until you have a cohesive whole, any part of which you can interrogate and inspect for justifiable reasoning.

The output can then be handled by a human, adjusted where it might be reasonable to do so, and you avoid the endless maze of mode collapse pits and hallucinated dragons.

LLMs are not minds - they're incapable of acting like minds, unless you build a mind-like process around them. If you want a reasonable, rational, coherent, explainable process, you can't achieve that with zero or one shot prompting. Complex and impactful decisions like hiring and resume processing isn't a task current models are equipped to handle naively.
No matter what you do, 90/00s internet is never coming back

They demonstrated the ready willingness use of violence by special interest groups bankrolling and giving insider trading tips to your political leaders. Meanwhile some college student torrents some Hollywood movie and gets arrested.

ex) Megaupload
Right. The alternative is an unchecked box with a negated label ("Don't do sensible default"), which is harder to parse.
Not at all. It's still a transaction. It's sold as a membership in a community, but that's not real. That just means they pay more.
Yes, MongoHQ, later renamed compose.io: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose.io
I was very confused when I saw that Hungarian is easy and Romanian is hard, then I read the legend.
You are just being pedant while answering to a non native english speaker.
I dare you to require a login!
There is unintentional poor design and then there are intentional dark patterns. That sounds like the latter.
> Eye witnesses, expert witnesses, etc. can be unreliable. It's very difficult to prove that they have not made any errors. However, we don't ask juries to presume they are infallible.

There is a difference between being infallible and being correct. No one assumes that computers cannot err, just that they have not erred unless there is reason to believe they have. Likewise, if a witness gives coherent evidence and no one has any reason to assume they are wrong or lying, that evidence will not generally be disregarded simply because humans are fallible and therefore the evidence is presumed to be flawed.
That is an odd decision by your admin team, unless you simply aren’t admin on your computer, in which case it all comes into focus.