skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Partially unrelated, but I always post this whenever cannabis is discussed, as a PSA.

Proponents often say that this drug is harmless but in some people it's use can trigger psychiatric illnesses esp. schizophrenia and related disorders. In others it can actually exacerbate anxiety (its somewhat counter intuitive, just like some antidepressants can cause suicidal thoughts). Some people are genetically more predisposed to the effects.

This is a personal topic for me because cannabis (ab)use triggered psychotic episodes in two of my close family members, they had to be hospitalized multiple times (psych ward is no joke) and put on antipsychotics (which are also very hard on you and drain the life out of you). Their actions during the psychotic/manic phase disrupted their family and work lives. Both people were unwilling to cease cannabis use, citing its public acceptability and reasons like "it's legal", "you literally can't overdose on it", "a(n) (internet) doctor prescribed it to me for anxiety so I can use it", "everyone uses it and is fine", "xyz (popular celebrity) uses it". After multiple stints in the psych ward and the threat of government mandated treatments they were finally able to drop cannabis use, it then took them many months to come back to normal functioning.
There are reports from Ukraine that US supplied drones (both civilian and military) have not been effective — and this from a country that has been able to put drones made of cardboard to good use!
>Why is the US not a decade ahead

your implication runs foul there.

carry a big stick, but never pull it all out. just enough to win the stick-measuring contest.

The pitcher doesn't throw past 50% in warm-ups for a reason.

You know who benefits from the "idea" of an "incompetent" U.S military?

Us. Our intentional false projection of insecurity is just another layer of obfuscation.

A swarm of drones in any city could be neutralized within seconds if warranted.

You severely underestimate the power of the most powerful nation of the planet.
A critical piece of the incident here was that this involved special customization that most customers didn't have or use, and which bypassed some safety checks, as a result it couldn't impact "normal" small customers.
It's typically on Chinese social media apps, and when they get popular they get taken down immediately by the government

here are some remnants in non-chinese websites.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2023-06/26/c_1129716071.htm

https://botanwang.com/articles/202308/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%...

https://www.voachinese.com/a/more-chinese-white-collar-worke...

if you want to verify secondary effects: Retail sales of passenger cars in China declined to 1.095 million units, down 21% from a year earlier and 46% from January. https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/chinas-vehicle-sales-drop.... A decline of real estate development investment widened to 9.5% in the first quarter from 9% in the first two months https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/china-hom... Stingy Chinese shoppers are returning their goods, erasing up to 75% of their sales value.https://fortune.com/asia/2024/04/17/luxury-brands-new-headac...
This exists for several games. Probably not Factorio specifically, but games like WoW or Everquest have loot & XP farms where people just grind for hours to make a super powerful character for you and then sell it.
I’ll beat a bit of a dead horse with this one. This is why I’m not a big fan of water/pipe analogies when it comes to the study of electricity, electromagnetism and somewhere down the line electronics. While I understand early pioneers used “fluid” as a kind of hypothesis, I do not think they used them as analogies. I think they were trying to derive what was happening by comparing and seeing if their observations matched their line of thinking. All analogies break down relatively quickly the moment you attempt to work upwards from first principles (as we presently understand them which for all intents and purposes is “good enough” given we got many things to work just fine.)

The reality of the situation is far more impressive and engrossing if we attempt to truly get a handle on what is happening. Only then can we have a clearer idea of the nature of things like impedance and where/why/how the formulas that we use are derived from.
> I am a former Google SAD-SRE

From long enough ago that I should apologize to you for libgmail: https://libgmail.sourceforge.net ? :D
Politicians are openly discussing civil war as an imminent possibility in the US. What the hell do you mean by solidarity? If both sides agree that civil war is imminent, is that solidarity?
I'm not so sure it's fear. I suspect it's more often resentment, and the hope that 'our' enemies will soon be consumed by monsters and then 'we' get to watch them be punished for an eternity, so that 'we' may rejoice.
First heard that from a hippie in the 1980s. For regular consumers who started in their teens, it seems definitely more right than wrong
Instead of using custom instructions, I use the API directly and use the appropriate system prompt for the task at hand. I find that I get much better responses this way.

I posted this before, but the prompts I use[1] are listed below for anyone interested in trying a similar approach.

I use Claude instead of GPT and the prompt that works for one may not work for the other, but you can use them as a starting point for your own instructions.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/llm-prompts/
(For now) :-/
>They have to be to preserve their culture. The us population vastly outnumbers them and most of populated Canada is within a couple hours drive from the US. If there wasn't a strong border they'd end up being assimilated quickly.

You seem to be under the impression that hordes of Americans are gathered at the 49th parallel slavering to rush into Canada, and that only Canadian border patrol is preventing Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver from being overrun by Americans. Quite the opposite.
They make drones by the millions, it doesn't matter how many $200,000 gold plated hangar babies we have, they'll be swamped by the end of the first month, and we won't be able to replace them.
This is nonsense unless you go around asking everyone you meet, regardless of appearance, of their usage.

There are many many many highly successful stoners.

As of this year daily cannabis use is higher than daily alcohol use.
Google runs ads for a significant percentage of the web (or the markets for ads). Even if everyone stopped going to google.com tomorrow they'd still be seeing ads that make Google money. Google the company would still be tracking much of the web's traffic feeding it into their ads platform.
I think the parent comment ultimately concerned the reliability of /beliefs derived from text in reference works v text output by LLMs/, and that seems to be what the replies by the commenter concern. If the point is merely that the text output by LLMs does not really reflect belief but the text in a dictionary reflects belief (of the person writing it), it is well-taken. Since it is fairly obvious and I think the original comment really was about the first question, I address the first rather than second question.

The point you make might be regarded as an argument about the first question. In each case, the ‘chain of custody’ (as the parent comment put it) is compared and some condition is proposed. The condition explicitly considered in the first question was reliability; it was suggested that reliability is not enough, because it isn’t justification (which we can understand pretheoretically, ignoring the post-Gettier literature). My point was that we can’t circumvent the post-Gettier literature because at least one seemingly plausible view of justification is just reliability, and so that needs to be rejected Gettier-style (see e.g. BonJour on clairvoyance). The condition one might read into your point here is something like: if in the ‘chain of custody’ some text is generated by something that is incapable of belief, the text at the end of the chain loses some sort of epistemic virtue (for example, beliefs acquired on reading it may not amount to knowledge). Thus,

> text from an LLM is more suspect than text from a dictionary.

I am not sure that this is right. If I have a computer generate a proof of a proposition, I know the proposition thereby proved, even though ‘the text is entirely generated by an entity which is not capable of having justified true beliefs’ (or, arguably, beliefs at all). Or, even more prosaically, if I give a computer a list of capital cities, and then write a simple program to take the name of a country and output e.g. ‘[t]he capital of France is Paris’, the computer generates the text and is incapable of belief, but, in many circumstances, it is plausible to think that one thereby comes to know the fact output.

I don’t think that that is a reductio of the point about LLMs, because the output of LLMs is different from the output of, for example, an algorithm that searches for a formally verified proof, and the mechanisms by which it is generated also are.
I think the conventional wisdom is that we are going to replace DNSSEC with nothing. Security is provided at other layers of the stack.
The person who builds a graphics card in Minecraft isn’t passing an interview and 2+ additional rounds. Plus, requirements are high AF - almost asinine
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So?
"Professional fütball players aren't obese" is a stereotype too
Using Emacs Org for grocery lists and batch cooking (2012)
Which shouldn't necessarily instil confidence, as that technology isn't distributed and if a government was to become corrupted/captured and tyrannical, then the government would exclusively have access to that latest tech.
That's a very good point. There is the entire Linux network stack in the way, and the Hyper-V virtual network driver, and the Windows networking stack.

In like 2008 I was using a Perl library that was all about zero-copy networking. That is not what this is.
I'd have preferred to read a thoughtful paragraph of your own writing than an obvious LLM bullet list, but here we are. You get out what you put in.
> The automatic enrolment in the Etsy advertising program means the platform fees for anyone selling more than 10k USD increase sharply at that point to ~20% of total revenue.

That seems to assume a very very unrealistic 100% of orders being from offsite ads. In reality it's probably 10% for most shops if even that many.
Perhaps they could run each search result through ChatGPT. It's pretty skilled at spotting bad results. For example, I asked it whether the glue-on-pizza result was "valuable and should be shown to a user" and it returned "No, this response should not be shown to the user. The suggestion to add non-toxic glue to the sauce is inappropriate and potentially harmful."
He wrote a well reviewed book https://www.amazon.com/Life-30-Max-Tegmark-audiobook/dp/B074...
So from the look of this, you’re open sourcing all of the agent/usage code, but I’m guessing you’re keeping the trained model in-house, so that becomes the value prop for Dataherald the product - the trained LLM?
Last time I tracked this closely: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL4N3960Z5/
Why not make your kids do the dishes with some gamification instead of having them play video games and see how it goes.

That builder might just be the wrong suspect in this two-party relationship issue.

Maybe your products need more awe, your attitude needs more respect and you might just give it a try to look at the person and not just see their exploitable potential as a start.

With your kids, reward them with more responsibilty, choice and partial ownership of your household and its direction and decor, and it might actually work out. Share your assets and see what they will be used for by those you see so much potential in.

In a way that is what those interships and simple tinkering allowed when companies were smaller and the industry was less complex. Finding ways to encourage them and supporting their ideas instead of looking for work force for your own projects might just be a real investment in everbody's future.

You might just have to give up the idea that it's now your turn to lead (from that inherited spot).

It just has always been your turn to add value.

Invest your (real) assets.
I'm a https://logdy.dev (logs to UI interface) author and been recently thinking about how to enable users use a query language to search throught logs beyond usual filter. I was looking at LogsQL but then I felt that is just another QL a user will need to learn. My next though was on SQL, but it was not designed for this purpose. Any ideas? I would appreciate any recommendation (peter at logd.dev)

[1] https://github.com/logdyhq/logdy-core
What characteristics did you test against?
So long as they are choosing to live in such a way that improves the lives of the people around them to some degree of their abilities rather than burdening the rest of us then it's fine. Do all the drugs you want.
> You are also 'american' too right

This happens in Canada.

> Why else would you have written : "... and gave it to China."

Because he gave it to China! If I transfer military technology from idk Russia to my American company, I gave that kit to America. Whether I’m American is irrelevant. (And that action per se doesn’t mean I coördinated with the CIA.)

Countries can use agents of backgrounds other than their dominant one. Not every Russian spy is of a Russian ethnicity.
Would love to see the visualization if you have it on hand!
AlwaysReddy is a LLM voice assistant that is always just a hotkey away
What Does GPT Stand For?
My initial thought was to simply have any match with an Onion story blacklisted... But then I realized that The Onion became prophetic in 2016 when Trump ran for president.

Since then the only difference between an Onion fiction and things actually sucking that much is a decade or less in almost all cases.

If we blacklisted content seen in the Onion, we'd automatically wipe out most news.
The article asserts (plausibly, but does not justify it) that there is a correlation between land value and structure height, since a higher structure has more floor area to be used in that high value area, while in a low land-value area you can do the same thing by spreading out.

The article is actually quite disappointing as it’s really just clickbait content for a video that I have no interest in watching.
The Houthis have shown that with the proliferation of advanced cheap drones we're starting to enter a period like the 18th century where random rebels can compete militarily with nation states. The ATF and FAA don't know how to handle that. Meanwhile, U.S adversaries are taking advantage of that paralysis.
I agree with everything you're saying; I think pretty much all non-prescribed drugs make it really easy to ignore underlying problems; it's why I don't drink caffeine anymore, since I feel like it allowed me to mask my symptoms of sleep apnea for around fifteen years.

I still think there's a physiological element to the weed stuff as well, and I do think that the research seems to indicate that, but I don't know anything about medicine so I don't really know what I'm reading with the research.
My biggest concern with weed is that it stays in your system for a long time, much longer than the actual high. THC is fat soluble, getting stored in the body's fatty tissue, and can slowly enter the blood days after using. This means it can affect you for days. I usually feel off for 24 hours after vaping cannabis.

My other concern for legal states: I think a lot of people using weed are doing it every single day. This is because it gives a relaxing 'weight off your shoulders' feeling at lower doses. At higher doses you get 'faded' and it can be scary. Using daily means the high becomes your new normal, affecting memory and reasoning.

It definitely helps with exercise (much less boring) and sleep for me, but at what cost?
> ... relaying trade secrets of a Canadian company working in the defence industry to a foreign adversary ...

SkyCope itself is owned by a Chinese company, Shenzhen Shengkong. Bluevec is, if anything, the more "Canadian" of the two companies.

> [188] Skycope submits that it and its parent companies have suffered detriment by being forced into extensive litigation in China and that Bluvec and Lizheng’s entry into the market has harmed Skycope and Shengkong’s market position in China. ...

> [222] ... Similarly, there is no evidence that Skycope (including its parent, Shengkong) operates outside of Canada and China.

https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2023/2023bcsc1288/2023...
“musicat is moving away from WebAudio towards native playback in Rust”

According to the linked document, this is based on Symphonia + cpal. Why not just say that - stating what programming language it’s in is pointless, but the backing software is meaningful. Why make it harder to find what the actual libraries being used are than the language they’re written in? I don’t get why people can’t resist pointing out rust when rust appears somewhere even if that choice is irrelevant from a user perspective.
Pencil: Generative AI for Ads
Thanks for the useless advice, random internet stranger! Not all night sweats are remedied so easily...

https://www.healthline.com/health/night-sweats
Do people on only fans ship handmade contents to subscribers ? I thought it was a subscription website, but they may have more streams.
There was HTTP SXG (signed exchanges) but it never seemed to get any traction https://web.dev/articles/signed-exchanges
Technological progress is still about building the future we saw in Sci-Fi, it's just that sci-fi has become increasingly dystopian. Parts of Black Mirror, The Diamond Age, Her, Children of Men, Upload, Don't Look Up, The Day After Tomorrow, etc have all made it into reality.

Note that sci-fi goes through cycles. The optimistic Star Trek or Jetsons future was a product of the 1950s and 1960s, when people were generally pretty optimistic. 30s/40s sci-fi is Brave New World and 1984, which is a decidedly different vibe (and also came true in many ways).
Google Opinion Rewards. It definitely asks them.
yes but why do you keep saying it? It sounds like you are trying to invalidate people's modern problems or something?
Want more people with the builder mindset?

Bring back high school and junior high shop classes, along with the obligatory grizzled shop teacher who dispenses cautionary tales ("Yeah, I had a student with long hair who leaned over the drill press that way. Scalped herself." "Yeah, I had a student who spilled some molten aluminum in his shoe. Learned to do the Highland Fling without any lessons.")

Those used to be available to all students. Now, when they even exist, they're shoved off into "vocation" programs, which in practice serve as a dumping ground for those deemed unfit for a college education (its own form of bigotry... you can't be a skilled machinist, programming CNC tools, or even machining by hand, if you're stupid).
> We cant follow the rules unless we know the fraking rules.

This is extraordinarily correct.

> How does it hurt security to say it out loud?

Comparing Gov NatSec claims against known facts teaches us something over and over and over again: Govs lie.

Specifically, directors & spokesbots of LEO, IC and NatSec agencies

have no history of telling the public meaningful truths by default.

--- Not just federal but state and local LEO, etc. ex: Cops say strangers will kidnap my kids. 50 years of FBI stats say kids are safer than ever.
As Tom Cruise[1] is wont to say, it masks rather than solves. I suppose it’s up to the user to decide the acceptance of not addressing the root cause, but hiding it with chemicals.

[1]Sure, he’s out there with religion and stuff but he’s pretty clear-headed there.
As we all predicted. Because they don't argue in good faith, they're just opposed to ... whatever (science, research, media, school, etc.)
What about scriptability? Is Zellij as hackable as Tmux to create different plugins?
> That, to me, doesn't "look like industrial espionage", but rather is pretty clear cut.

If the article is to be believed, it's two chinese co-workers who transferred to canada and started two competing firms in canada. And one stole tech from the other. My advice is stop reading comments from 'China hawk' shills like
JumpCrisscross but read the article.

'The two met when working in the Beijing office of Fortinet, a cybersecurity firm. Both transferred to Fortinet’s Vancouver office and became good friends. After Liu left the company in 2016 to form SkyCope and work on developing anti-drone technology, Jia joined him months later as SkyCope’s chief technology officer.'
Don't need any self-awareness for that. Might want to look into how we got the oxygen atmosphere for an example.
> SkyCope itself is owned by a Chinese company

Thanks. Edited.

Given Ottawa is using a national security law, it would appear there would be ring-fencing around SkyCope that these companies didn’t have. Curious if SkyCope has military customers in China like at least one of these companies allegedly did [1].

> Bluevec did not "give" the anti-drone tech to "China". It sold it to a (different) Chinese copmany

Don’t court records in China show the company he “sold” it to is controlled by him?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240105144551/https://pegauni.c...
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They did take over maintenance but abandoned it shortly after: https://github.com/libsixel/libsixel/

You can add this to the enormous pile of open source forks that didn't survive long enough to have any real value to the industry.

I respect that Goyal has been bitten by this dynamic before and said this back in April 2020:

> That said, I wont refuse a patch to implement it on top of the existing graphics support, provided I was reasonabl confident the person implementing it would stick around to maintain it as well.
I started with screen and then move to tmux (don't really remember why). I've never been a fan of :terminal. I start and quit Vim multiple times a day (even for the same project) and opening new tmux pane or tab is the reflex for me. I rarely use tabs in vim. My philosophy is that buffers are like sheets of paper on my desk. I rearrange them based on what I want to do. Moving to another tab is like moving to another desk. If I need the terminal for a quick command, I do Ctrl-Z.
That sounds kind of like what Groupsy does. It creates a spider web of ideas.

https://groupsy.applicationfitness.com/post/healthymeals/664...
It failed: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...
That background leaves out the fact that Skycope itself is literally owned by a (different) Chinese company, so I doubt this is a follow-on of that in any straightforward sense.

> [188] Skycope submits that it and its parent companies have suffered detriment by being forced into extensive litigation in China and that Bluvec and Lizheng’s entry into the market has harmed Skycope and Shengkong’s market position in China. ...

> [222] ... Similarly, there is no evidence that Skycope (including its parent, Shengkong) operates outside of Canada and China.

https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2023/2023bcsc1288/2023...
There's still not a better alternative that I've found (searching eBay, Amazon, AliExpress) for specific niche items in some pretty broad ares, from fandom to vintage jewelry to 3d-printed or gray-market custom parts/accessories for cars. Ebay/sometimes Amazon seems better for electronics or manufactured parts; AliExpress if you're willing to gamble more, but for "accessory" things I've had really good luck with Etsy.

Whether you can turn that into a profitable public company... eh.

And there are certainly some blogspammy listings in all those venues (Amazon and AliExpress probably the worst for that), but good luck solving that without human curation - and then you're an even worse investment as a business.