skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think about it, though, the window for there being something resembling objective universal truth has been a very very short period of human history. It really didn't exist before the internet and ubiquitous smartphones.

Before the internet, TV, radio, newspapers were our sources of truth beyond just trusting people in our immediate vicinity, and these were all heavily filtered by what stories they decided to run, the amount of detail they focused on, any human bias that crept into their reporting, etc. I'm not a "FAKE NEWS!!!" kind of guy, but one has always had to ingest news from these sources with some level of filtering in this regard, and understand that there might be other sides to the story, or whole stories of importance going unreported.

If we revert to subjecting images/video/audio clips to the same level of skepticism we had with random people informing us of pieces of news with no proof, then we're effectively just at the same level of objective universal truth as we had been for the overwhelming majority of human history.

I'm not arguing this is a good thing - just that it might have been a small and blissful island that some of us had the privilege of enjoying.
Anyone else find the carousel on the homepage SUPER irritating. It's set to cycle faster than reasonable to read the diagrams etc. and gives 1998 pop-up-ad vibes which made me tab out.
Neat! Will send to my wife, who's a Chem professor. Could you add support for Esc to close out the modal?
"quick test" would mean QuickCheck, property-based testing, to me.

Let's keep "sanity test".
> provides check cashing, currency exchange, or money transmitting or remittance services

They're exchanging currency. (SWIFT is just a messaging service, for example.)
The correct answer is stop collecting the data.
Totally agree with this.

I wish Yubikey allowed users to import their own FIDO2/webauthn seed and overwrite the factory generated one, and then also allow the resident passkey functionality to be disabled.

It should be up to the user if they want to have multiple duplicate hardware authenticators and be able to backup their seed however they wish.
Pull/edit command line from history file on current command line. [1][2]

[1] : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4079/put-history-co...

[2] : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/529195/load-command...
If an unassisted driver had reactions like they'd
be arrested for reckless driving at minimum.

That's not unheard of. If I read the statistics correctly, unassisted reckless driving kills about 10,000 people in the USA per year:

https://www.goddardlawwv.com/2020/01/30/2019-united-states-c...
> Are we at the stage of inserting silicone in your junk so your jock strap looks better?

Yes. Packers exist. Also Synthol is oil injected into your muscles to make them look better.
"...eating what the animal would eat..."

There's reason that life on Earth exists in a food chain. In this case many of the animals humans eat consume and digest things we cannot. This particular discussion was about cattle and humans deriving nutrition from the milk they produce and the meat they yield. From that perspective, cows and steers as intermediaries provide such a distinct advantage that genetic mutation that allows some humans to digest cow milk drove the flourishing of those civilizations.

Grazing animals, properly fed (this is what we need to fix), eat mostly grass. We need that middle step. Just like we need the intermediate steps of plants extracting nutrients from the soil and turning sunlight into usable calories for us. We can't eat dirt and drink sunshine, either. Of course those aren't the only things to eat. But that's the argument I was responding to.

The "cut out the middle man" argument really doesn't work. The argument should be "here are better alternatives."
I disagree with the authors's key claims:

1. They claim that "an LLM does not understand the semantic meaning of a sentence in a linguistic sense, but rather calculates mathematically what the most likely next word should be based on the input to the model." My opinion, shared by many others in the field: In order to compute an accurate probability distribution over all possible next words, an LLM must understand semantic meaning, internally, in some fashion. How else could an LLM do that?

2. The authors claim that an LLM "is extremely good at determining the most likely next sequence – and convincingly so – but has no inherent representation of what those words mean." My opinion, shared by many others in the field: In order to compute accurate joint probability distributions over all possible subsequent sequences of words, an LLM must have some kind of internal representation of what those words mean. How else could an LLM do that?

3. The authors claim that "LLMs do not encode an understanding of our world." My opinion, shared by many others in the field: In order to be able chat with people, write essays, pass exams, etc., LLMs must encode an understanding of our world, even if that understanding is obtained second-hand from statistical patterns seen in language, images, etc. How else could an LLM do all those things?
Or they can just do what Georgia does and charge an insane yearly fee from non-gas vehicles. GA charges 29.10 cent gas tax, and my Model Y "Alternative Fuel Vehicle Fee" is $210 yearly. I would need to buy an equivalent 721 gallons of gas yearly to match that fee, which is over 20k miles a year on a gas car (assuming 30mpg).
To me it suggest that they are indeed targeting enterprises, which makes sense since their visualization feature is really only valuable for complex projects. You probably should just use a competitor.
Because the outcomes are disproportionate (aids vs non-aids) doesn't abdicate things from being stupid or not stupid.
The bar set by GP comment is that the BBC “ignored this”. Any amount of coverage proves that to not be the case.

Have they reported on it enough? No. But that’s not what was being claimed.
Much better to do it on HN instead.
I wouldn't be surprised at all. It's not like they've got on-site IT support. Split off a guest network on its own VLAN and done, never to be touched again. The less complicated the better.
I have a dream of being an UFO to some extraterrestial civilizations.
So what? You don't find it useful to be able to use Wifi in more places if you have an Xfinity login?
Depends on the sophistication and strategy of the marketing folks. Some simply want their brand name in your brain.
What is the advantage here vs a polarization filter and a standard camera?
It's been that way for ages. I was genuinely shocked as a child when I learnt people who paid for satellite TV still got ads, but apparently this is normal and nobody else seemed bothered. Who can blame them for double dipping when nobody cares?
Yes, very easily. Go to a second or third world country and you will see what a bad government looks like.

The stability of western governance breeds the idea that this is just the natural state of things. Same thing with anti-vaxxers thinking we don’t need vaccines because they have no memory of what life was like before them.
I'm assuming you've been down voted (multiple times) less because you're wrong, but more because you're using the "wrong" words to describe your meaning. 'Terrorist' attempt to gain control through fear, but that's not the defining characteristic of a terrorist. It's hurting people. I upvoted you for your candor, but not for agreement. Arguing for what you think is better isn't what a terrorist does. Arguing, exposing rhetoric, that's ethical. It's objectively wrong to call that terrorism. Name calling, insults, idle threats. That's what children do, call them children. Active and continued harassment, that's what immature teenagers do. Specific actionable threats to people directly involved, that's what dangerous unstable people do. Direct threats against people not directly involved, that's terrorism. And no one actually sees the latter.

Call it what it is, people who weren't loved enough as children, meaning they're still childish. Or psychotic individuals needing direct intervention. But save terrorism for people directly hurting people who aren't involved.
Right, but I want a two-click solution from vanilla youtube, because it is not for me; it is for non-technical relatives. For myself I just open everything through mpv anyway.
“progressive individualism” seems a lot kinder than I would put it. I’d call it libertarianism or anarcho-capitalism (both derogatory).
> Ability to donate from/to some dissidents despite of crazy thugs is meaningful

Sure. Still isn't "a meaningful contribution vector for Ukraine."

> as reasonable as to say that USD is being used to send Bitcoins. Why not, aren't you able to buy Bitcoins with USD?

No, it absolutely isn't. The U.S. Treasury isn't holding a pot of Bitcoins to back its value. A stablecoin holds dollars or dollar-denominated assets. This is particularly germane given the context of money laundering.
Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate

I had to look him up. Never heard of him.

In contrast, Arnold is pretty darn famous.

So is Kim Kardashian.

Toxic femininity seems more mainstream than toxic masculinity and, in fact, this is the first time I've heard anyone use that expression. Most people think this cult of youth and beauty is fine and critics like me are weirdos.
Indeterminate. There's no information to be gleaned. And we don't turn our lives upside down on no information.
I'm not sure what they ran, but if it's Mastodon: it scales in troublesome ways.

For one, it uses Rails and is very big. Rails is known for being extremely slow¹.

A difficulty with ActivityPub is that it scales rather weird. If your server has (accounts with) many followers, you're essentially DDOSsed through activity. So it scales weird in the sense that not activity on your server demands Resources, but that activity on the fediverse, which you don't control, does.² So it can get very expensive really fast.

Maybe something like gotosocial could lower these costs. But that's not "stable" (as in: frequent, disruptive upgrades and missing features) enough for a govt, I'd say. Its software design, however is far better aligned with a server with relatively few (one, or a few dozen) accounts. Accounts that can have large following and activity.
Whereas the Rails project is much better aligned with servers with (tens of) thousands of users. I.e. with mastodon.social.

1 I've been helping companies scale and tune Rails for over 12 years now. I know it can be done, but also what the limitations are. They are real.

² https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed...
It also sounds like the code didn't come from inside the house... I wonder how many versions of the raw code for these early OSes actually exist? Start ups are more concerned with survival and not archiving their code. Like how many people at their current company are putting in real effort to maintaining early versions of their existing code bases?
I've long wondered if there was a place for a httpv mode. Where traffic is signed but not encrypted. This would allow local caching or torrent-like distributed fetching but not modification.

The obvious downside is that the page contents are not private.

Chrome implemented something sort of like this with https://developer.chrome.com/blog/signed-exchanges. However this is very limited. It requires the linking site to cooperate. For example Google Search can link to a signed exchange rather than the original site. But this just moves traffic from the site's CDN to Google's. It also packages full bundles so shared resources need to be duplicated. Also any navigation inside that site will go to the origin and can't be cached.

Overall it seems like it probably isn't worth it. But I find it an interesting idea.
Will you subscribe to it after the free trial ends?
That's #5 on the list of 5 Standard Excuses, from the 80s politics sitcom Yes Minister.

"It was an unfortunate lapse in judgment by an individual party, that has now been dealt with through internal disciplinary procedures".

In other words, nothing to worry about, we're squeaky clean again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y4PEqvk0Jg
Yeah, I do this too, but many people I know wouldn't even think about the fact that they could do that, or why they would. They just know that whatever password manager they use doesn't find the password but if they search for it, it's there. So they do that and get on with their lives, inadvertently opening up an avenue for phishing.
Of course. So when those drivers are reckless, we arrest them. When Tesla's software is reckless we... shrug our shoulders?
Congrats on shipping!

I'm curious how the search results rankings work, doesn't look like it's based on date or number of citations, but seems to be deterministic (persists over multiple searches). I did a keyword search using one word.
Fat or Thin, We Are Not Meant to Feel Good About Ourselves All the Time
> for her it is, in many ways

Sure. I never said crypto is useless. But something being randomly meaningful to one person doesn't make it "a meaningful contribution vector for Ukraine."
That's interesting. I wonder whether an ISP could block traffic using TLS SMTP ports to force opportunistic senders to revert to plaintext.

I suspect this may be possible because TLS SMTP uses port 587, rather than 443 like other TLS connections.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/email-security/smt...
> If I'm sending crypto to a friend, they can see my account balance, and my entire account history.

"I've created a public ledger, only to realize it's a public ledger."
mental pain is as real as physical pain.
I do have issues to access from firefox, but I was able to read an email already received on my phone (on browser). They say Turkey is blocking proton services for the moment.
Model-based evaluation service for LLM calls in langfuse
Popular but stupid. Surely we've learnt by now that outright prohibition is only good for funnelling money to criminals?
Worse Than You Can Imagine
> Math B seems, in contrast, beyond me. There is a programming analogy: Math B is like Haskell, or pure functional programming, which also is as ungraspable to me.

This is not just an analogy – Haskell (or pure functional programming in general) is a lot closer to math than other ways of programming. Specifically, it is derived from category theory (which fits to your description of math B being things ending in "theory" as well).
I just don't get why people have to pretend things are what they really aren't.
Thanks, seems to be the primary way most insurance companies share this type of data (accidents, claims).

At least I have peace of mind with 1 of these companies.
> ChatGPT4 says it's always been that way since the beginning of Python3

This is not a reliable way to look up information. It doesn't know when it's wrong.
I think you missed some of the context/point behind the reference.

The bug was reported when it first came up in 23.10, a non-LTS release. The previous non-LTS release is a final proving ground for an LTS release. They had an opportunity to fix it from 23.10 until the release of their next LTS, and chose not to.

There won't be an LTS for 2 more years, so this regression is likely stuck there (It worked fine prior to 23.10, even supported snaps).

If Canonical hadn't been forcing snaps down everyone's throat for the past several years, and continually ignoring all of the negative feedback they get over it, it might have been a different story, but on the back of everything we've seen from them over the years, it reeks of "deliberate choice", and it's really hard not to see this as a deliberate break rather than accidental.

Canonical have unfortunately reached trust thermocline stage with everything related to snaps.
My guess: raw inputs preserve the linearity of radiance at each pixel. In other words, for a linear function f, f(Total Radiance) = f(Base Radiance + Reflected Radiance) → f(Total Radiance) = f(Base Radiance) + f(Reflected Radiance). Conversion from raw to another format may introduce a non-linear map on total radiance to compress the range to 8 bits while preserving contrast in most of the image (particularly for parts of the image washed out by a bright reflection).

So with raw images, the value you need to find is f(Reflected Radiance), which is probably why having a reference photo in the reflected direction helps. On the other hand, for other formats the reflection component of the image isn't a simple linear transform of whats being reflected, so even with a reference image, the reflection component would be hard to determine.
>I'm also confused about what role you think investors should play in business if money is unimportant. What would YCombinator look like? A bank that just loans out money for a fixed interest rate?

In my libertarian-socialist days, I have actually gave some thought to this question. The best I could come up with was 1) variable return lending or 2) profit sharing agreements with a sunset duration.

Both seem like a more expensive option for companies in an environment with economic growth. The beauty about selling stock/corporate ownership is that you never have to pay your investors a dime as long as the company has growth prospects. The return for investors simply comes from sale to other investors.

When a company issues a bond or makes a profit sharing agreement, they actually have to pay that back. Maybe in a growth environment, they could perpetually use new loans to pay old debt, but this would put them at the mercy of the outside lending rate.

By way of example, instead YC buying 20% of a company, it could receive the rights to sell a 20-year contract for 20% of the company profit.
I was upset about this invasion of my privacy when I found I had been opted into this program somehow -- I would not have accepted it if I knew what it was. I immediately changed that setting in the GM app then requested my info be deleted from GM. Unfortunately, they've already sold it but at least they won't retain it any longer.

The article doesn't mention that it's illegal to use this data for insurance in California, happily. Hopefully more governments take that lead. It's fine if people knowingly opt into some insurance program (say), but tricking people into giving away their data for free in a way that they wouldn't benefit from should absolutely be illegal.
This actually is a fairly controversial stance in education, so there's reason to be combative about it. A lot of education tends to emphasize meeting students where they are to the point that it can completely subsume the irreducibility of complexity when confronting some knowledge conceptually; one _can_ be better served instead by attempting to memorize some bulky, impenetrable abstraction and instead make sense of it through its application. A lot of knowledge only becomes clearer when one forges ahead with a dim appreciation of what is being articulated but the confidence, willingness, and (most crucially) feedback mechanism for testing it out anyway.
These apps are pretty straightjacketed. When there’s a simply gui option to drag-and-drop it works like a charm. When you have to do anything in DAX life gets significantly worse. I’d rather be able to do data modeling in Python. But the point is pretty graphics so not a big deal. I wouldn’t look for a competitive edge in the analytics side.

For me the real issue is data engineering. I spend much more time changing data sources manually than I do making fancy analytics. I’m not sure if that sells software though! Execs want analytics that increase revenue or decrease costs. There may not be value in improving the weak points in this software even though it would make a better product for its users.
The question was why people may find Linux inconsistent. The distributions are very much part of that, and even within a distribution, just a 2 year later LTS might have wild differences because of the kernel promoting new mechanisms

It may not be that much of a problem in practice, I deal with multiple distributions because for new servers, we pick 'm based on expected future support, and they're only a bootstrap to docker/podman which is the great 'equalizer'. So the inconsistencies are only a problem until our Ansible scripts have learned the difference and when we need to debug an issue. Not that often fortunately, once the configurations are in place things are generally stable.
I was contracted with AWS to provide engineering support during their Blink acquisition, back when that was news. It was horrible. While my boss was great, the same couldn't be said for some of the others I had to work with. All around very high stress for everyone, which I think caused a lot of interpersonal conflict. I quit after three months.
Show pricing or I'm not interested.
copy/write edited shell history to unique shell file for each set of edits. make shell file executable. run shell file containing action want to use.
I’m a hobbyist mechanic and own way too many cars and I agree with your assessment all around. Newer cars are easier and cheaper all-around to fix in terms of parts (maybe labor is higher but it’s doubtful). So if a newer car is cheaper to maintain, why the rising insurance/registration costs for newer vehicles.

I own a mix of old sports cars to new SUVs and even a Tesla Model 3.

The old cars are cheaper to register so taxed the least yet pollute the most and are the most expensive to maintain in terms of parts.

Insurance premiums skew cheaper for older cars too unless it’s an agreed value policy.
> Not the point.

No that's exactly the point. The point is what is a legitimate use case for crypto, this use case is getting around pointless bureaucracy. You don't get around regulations, the responsibility of adhering to them just shifts from a third party to you, hence the person you're replying to paid taxes.

Are you implying avoiding operating fees is not a valid use case? Operating fees help facilitate adherence to regulation at scale but they themselves are not the regulation.
but nobody is making that claim
That sounds like a crummy thing to do to the people in the lab.
That sounds like an issue between you and the merchant (Stripe's customer), not Stripe. The quickest path to resolution, if the merchant is unresponsive, is to ask your credit card issuer to block payment to that merchant.

It's tough for Stripe to intervene here because Stripe is not aware of what contracts exist between you and the merchant, or how the merchant is integrated with Stripe. A scammer could initiate service, tell Stripe to remove the card, and still get access to the service (because the merchant isn't listening to web hooks). This is a new fraud vector that ultimately violates the trust between Stripe and the merchant.
Essence Game
That's pretty much what Apple does, and, I suspect, Google.
Yes it is, in the same way you can't just walk into someone's house if the door is unlocked. They might not press charges but they certainly could.
Abstract math (type B) is a very rigorous discipline that underpins the other kind used by engineers (type A). Type A is indeed learned by repetition along with understanding. It is very important to simply do the math to become better at it and understand what you can expect from your calculations.

Type B on the other hand far more about understanding. You will never understand the theory of a mathematical space and how to apply it, by simple repetition. That is a far more theoretical and creative endeavour. You need to learn it and apply it to understand it. I suppose you could call the process of applying it some kind of repetition, but in my opinion the insights comes from applying it to concepts you already know.

A formal learning path is a very good idea, because people with more knowledge know what order you can progress in, in such a way that you actually apply your knowledge in a natural way and build on previous learnings. And it is definitely a huge help that teachers can help you guide your learning when you are stuck.