skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting story, if maybe a bit oversold. Since the game apparently announces this (didn’t know that), shouldn’t the model have detected a significant difference during the gameplay?
I don't think so. Harsh words... sure, but still a fair critics.
I retired last year but worked 40 years from 14 - 54. I made pizzas, drove a forklift in a warehouse, waited tables at a country club, managed a picture framing shop, installed cable plants and worked in a variety of IT positions from network engineer to VP managing the cloud services group of a major government contractor. In that entire 40 years every company was just like the family I had growing up. My family growing up was emotionally abusive, manipulative and would throw you under the bus to help themselves.
It's a great article. It also made me aware of a fun bit of unreliable narration in the Hobbit that went completely under my radar before:

In the Hobbit, the Tooks are introduced as the slightly quirky, more adventurous and less reputable cousins of the Baggins. (Marrying a fairy/elf, running off into the blue, owning magical artefacts of foreign origin, etc) The characters in LOTR are likewise: Frodo Baggins comes over as serious and at times almost statesmanlike, whereas Pippin Took seems more like a boyish mischief-maker mostly looking for adventure.

In contrast, OP suggests the Tooks are really the much more powerful, wealthy and reputable family: They have an entire region - Tookland - under patronage; they have a permanent claim to the Thain office, making them something like the representatives of the Shire to the outside world; the Old Took also seems to be at the root of several of the hobbit families.

If you take that suggestion, then some things look different: Their "adventurousness" could really just be a greater awareness and connection to the outside world than the "normal" hobbits, something that probably comes with the Thain office. On the other hand, the Baggins seem to have been an extremely conservative family even for hobbit standards (before all the events of the books at least) : It's mentioned that Bilbo looked and behaved like an exact copy of his father. The family also had a reputation for being so predictable that you could answer any question that you'd want to ask them already in your head, without bothering to actually ask the question.

So it might be that the description of the quirky Tooks and reputable Baggins was really just the self-perception of the slightly stuck-up second family of the land making some friendly scoffs at the first family of the land.

(Of course things change massively already at the end of the Hobbit, when Bilbo sacrifies much of the families predictability and gains worldliness instead - and at the end of LOTR anyway when the entire social order of the Shire is basically redone and Tooks, Baggins, Brandybocks and Gardeners probably all have equal ranks in society)
> These videos often rack up millions of views which is proof that there is “clearly an appetite to watch as strangers are shamed, ridiculed, gawked, or generally caught off-guard, even when we know it isn’t exactly morally sound.”

This is has been a pretty hot topic since Allen Funt kicked off his little gig in 1948.

As much as I personally like to people-watch, I don't think it's cool to share but I also don't think you can rein it in.

I suppose I tell myself that the more people do it, the less embarrassing it becomes.

Yeah, yeah, people of Walmart, ha, ha ... okay moving on....
The population health database I work with uses generated IDs for people and relies on health systems to link records before submission (they put a lot of effort into data used for billing). But we do check for problems by looking at duplicates of SSN with date of birth. We don't consider names, because they could be transcribed differently. Even though the SSN+DOB pair should be unique, there have been cases where a widow provides her deceased husband's SSN. Likely because she used it for Social Security benefits and forgot her own long ago.
I don't think you read it carefully.
As someone who has take MDMA many times in the past I very sceptical about it's therapeutic value in treating PTSD. The high is incredible, but that comes with a comedown of the opposite feelings; including depression, anxiety, fatigue, and can last from hours to days. Those effects are of course dose dependant.
That is an AuthZ problem, orthogonal to DB key debates.
Well, its good that it works, but its intended for correcting for hardware defects, not hardware engineer defects.
it's important to read your comment in the context that we have established in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40582885 that you wrote it before finding out what pegs were

i'm curious if you change your mind once you understand peg's limited backtracking semantics
The Builders High — Developer burnout and YouTube addiction
There are a lot more failure modes specific to LLMs deriving from their auto-regressive nature. "Enough training data" isn't enough, the training data also needs to include lots of directions for when and how to hedge outputs so that it doesn't dig itself into a hole.

Example query: "list 5 songs where the lyrics start with "hey" but the title doesn't"

It will confidently hallucinate answers where the lyrics do start with hey, but so do the song title. But if you tell it to first output the lyric and then the song title, it will correctly check that both conditions are true before claiming a match. "sufficiently similar training data" wouldn't help in this case, or at least not without making the training data so exhaustive as to be impractical.

This is essentially another kind of CoT prompting which helps these failure modes. It seems difficult to train the models themselves to determine they need a suitable strategy to work around issues like these (as opposed to prompting it to).
That would require some serious lobotomy; OpenAI's RLHFing politics would pale in comparison. I doubt the AGI would remain G or I after that. Otherwise, at some point (sooner than later) you'll get an atheist AGI, and you're back to square one, except with the AI knowing you're willing to play dirty.
Do you believe in the flat earth too? CO2 has risen in front of my eyes in my lifetime from 350 to 420. It most certainly is not self-modulating. Oxygen isn't either, as it slowly escapes into space.
There is no darkside of a moon really,

matter of fact its all dark.
> immigration rules only apply to legal immigrants.

No, this is clearly false. Rules apply to illegal immigrants too - those who just crossed the border without approval or prior paperwork. Those rules are rather lax and are not enforced as can be seen in the current administration and "sanctuary" states - who simply ignore the rules.
> 3^4 is just 81X

Yes.

> i.e. 10B to 40B of compute, certainly within the budget of a single big tech company.

That's not 81X. That's 4X. 81X is 10B to 810B. That's... less within the budget of a single big tech company.
Right, however it is customary to ascribe accomplishments to the person making the work possible rather than those who execute it. The same engineers won’t do as much anywhere else.
Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis (2001)
There's a better solution for many of the exceptional cases that the author describes: aliases & audit logs.

Take for example the Danish CPR number. That's perfectly fine as a natural key; its definition is the first CPR number assigned. If a person's CPR number changes because they've changed their gender, you will want a separate table recording a.) the date of the change. The new CPR number is not valid before that time b.) the new gender c.) probably the reason for the CPR number change, since if the policy now is that they can change because of a gender change, there's a decent chance they'll be some other policy in the future that results in a new CPR issuance.

Or the chassis number. Also fine as a natural key. If it's changed because of a data-entry error, you also want to record a.) the date of change b.) who changed it. This opens up a whole host of auditing, monitoring, and reporting functionality that eg. lets you catch fraud, determines if a single person is being sloppy, identify mass changes in policy, notify and update external records of owners, etc.

URLs are another good natural key: they are defined to be unique (otherwise your webserver won't work), they make for very easy lookups when you're fetching from a web request, and if they change, they break the web. Except that they do change. But when a URL changes, you don't want to just update them in the database everywhere, because again, that will break the web. You want to leave a redirect from the old to the new one. So you create a redirects table of all the other aliases that point to a given page, use it to generate server redirects, and you can throw in other data like the time of change or hit counts on each individual alias.
A primary key implies a uniqueness constraint. But you can have a uniqueness constraint without a primary key.

You can change primary keys within a database but you can’t change them outside the database. A database is a map but keys are part of the territory.

The second URL with the UUID is more secure and is preferred in many situations where information leakage is a concern.

The first URL is more descriptive but more prone to breakage. It depends on the situation.
>Strawman. Ukraine is not in NATO and is thus forced to keep neighboring Russia happy. That's just realpolitik. US can not and will not retaliate as that would be WW3. On the flip side, Russia will not attack NATO countries as that would also be WW3.

And yet USA has had no issue fighting against the soviets during Vietnam and Korean war.

You can try and be armchair president all day long but the truth doesn't favor your argument.
Please, nobody tell these people about Claude Debussy's "Children's Corner" piano music.
> OCR for distorted text is a solved problem

I mean yeah, but thats because text is a fairly predictable, simple thing to extract. It has sharp edges, limited number of lines, and is neatly spaced relative to each glyph. Its also mostly high contrast.

Structure from motion however has none of those luxuries. for "AI" to overcome that, it would require a model that has an innate understanding of the scale, shape and orientation of most objects in the world. Not only that, it'd also need to have an innate understanding of lens distortion to work out if the object is bent because of the image, or the object, or some other effect.

I look forward to you releasing your model that does all this.
If I'm going to do that I think I'd use Bitcoins BASE58 which avoids letters that could be confused for each other. The number of times I see an O and 0 and wonder which is which, because the font does not make it clear really annoys me.

Edit:

Other honorable mentions: ObjectID's as used by MongoDB which contain the creation timestamp. Also Discord's snowflakes (inspired by Twitter's iirc), which also contain the creation timestamp.
Nope, but it does have a Visibility Map due to its MVCC implementation. Go ahead and do an index-only lookup on a table using a UUIDv4. Then repeat with something k-sortable. See how many buffer hits each one has.

I assure you, those add up. Nothing like explaining to a dev that they have hit the theoretical memory transfer limit of the hardware, and it cannot possibly go any faster unless they refactor their schema (or a faster DDR version comes out).
It does, but if you already have a Personnummer or get a residence permit right away so that you are eligible for one you don't get the temporary Samordningsnummer.
The randomized algorithm doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to present a failure probability << the failure rate from other causes. And it can easily do that, since the failure probability goes down exponentially with the number of iterations of the test.
I do not get the link between the quote and the accusation
I think so. This is a great blog post.
If anyone can veto content for a whole community, after that policy plays out is there any content left? It has become difficult to identity any human behavior that someone somewhere doesn't think is racist.
In practice, we already tax/fine companies for killing people.

So I'll bite the bullet, and say: yes, of course. Ideally, a large part of that tax would go towards (the estate of) the victims. That's more productive than locking people up: that's just a straight up loss for society.

We also already tax stochastically-killing people; or in some cases, we don't even tax it and just allow dangerous activities. Eg we allow people to drive cars and we allow people to run coal-fired power plants.

Going from a small percentage chance to a larger percentage chance (nothing is certain) is not a qualitative difference, only a quantitative one.
IOException While Connecting to Port
Hi,

I have a problem with Spring Boot and Docker compose.

I am developing a deployable e-commerce site having a docker image as an option as well.

Where is the problem? When I start the application via the ide, spring boot processes the docker compose file and tries to connect all the services. But the spring-store-docker service fails saying it can't connect to port 8080; this it does with all ports, not just 8080.

What I tried?
- Stop the postgresql service through systemctl.
- Disable the firewall.
- Change port both side.
- Factory reset docker.

Below is my compose.yaml file:
```
services:
spring-store-docker:
build: .
environment:
- 'SPRING_APPLICATION_NAME=springstore'
- 'SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL=jdbc:postgresql://postgres/webstore'
- 'SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=springuser'
- 'SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD=boot'
- 'SPRING_DATASOURCE_TOMCAT_MAX-WAIT=10000'
- 'SPRING_DATASOURCE_TOMCAT_MAX-ACTIVE=50'
- 'SPRING_DATASOURCE_TOMCAT_TEST-ON-BORROW=true'
- 'SPRING_LIQUIBASE_CHANGE-LOG=classpath:db/changelog/db.changelog-master.xml'
ports:
- '8080:8081'

postgres:
image: 'postgres:latest'
environment:
- 'POSTGRES_DB=webstore'
- 'POSTGRES_PASSWORD=boot'
- 'POSTGRES_USER=springuser'
ports:
- '5432'

```

In the output console, I get:

``` Suppressed: org.springframework.boot.docker.compose.lifecycle.ServiceNotReadyException: IOException while connecting to port 8080
```

and

``` Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused```
The article mentions that “It simply doesn't have data about full moon variables in its training data, so a branching series of decisions likely leads to lesser outcomes, or just confusion.”
I'd go with "can't print in Tuesdays" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
Feedback on the sample playbook:

- The “rename step” functionality is not intuitive. I expecting tapping on the step name to “unfold” the step and show me the full details, not start the renaming process. After tapping it, I still didn't realize what was happening; i thought perhaps it had executed the step, which the check mark indicating completion or success. It wasn’t clear that it was an input box since it didn’t have focus, and it wasn’t clear that the check mark was a button.

I would have guessed that the pencil icon perhaps was the rename action, though it still did not put focus on the input box. There shouldn't be a second step needed to focus the input box.

- It’s not clear what defines the “type” of each step; eg whether it’s a log filter, or dh query, or shell command, etc. It seems like it’s the “Data” field, although the name doesn’t make much sense. The field does not seem to be editable; I would have expected it to be a dropdown list with other possible step types listed. If it is intended not to be changeable, then it probably shouldn’t be an input element. There’s a “reload”(?) icon next to it, but I have no idea what that does.
What's not 'safe' about AI?

If you mean the hallucinations I don't think that will ever really be solved. I think people just have to learn that LLMs are not divine oracles that are always correct. Just like the training data generated by the flawed humans that are often either wrong or outright lying.

Garbage in, garbage out.

Not saying that AI isn't useful. But expecting what is basically a "human simulator" not to inherit humanity's flaws is a bit disingenious.
Well if it was only trained on non-full moon days, even if the model did detect a difference it would have no idea how to adapt its play style.
> If there is ROI for $100 Trillion, we (banks) will print $100 Trillion by a click of a button

And that will create exactly zero new hardware! All it will do is create twice as much money, so everything will now cost twice as much.

As you say, money is an abstract concept. So don't think about money except as a measuring stick for stuff. Is there enough hardware for a cluster that measures at $100 trillion? No, there isn't. There won't be four years from now, or eight years from now. There's not enough hardware.

Printing an additional $100 trillion changes the length of the measuring stick, but it doesn't give us any more hardware.
What's the point of playing devil's advocate, or giving any benefit of doubt to Google? They have shown repeatedly that they intend to control the internet. Just because we can't see why yet, it's not far fetched to assume that this might be a step in that direction.
We are heading, headlong, towards utter silence. Only AI-generated -and sanctioned- content to be heard.-
https://youtu.be/EF3g4Ua5e7k?si=216W5ZK7AQma2JIR
Certainly the natural instinct (or at least mine) is that the books are what they are at the time they were published. However, it's also true that there are probably lots of terms, stereotypes, and just general attitudes throughout books for children and young adults from (especially) the past that wouldn't make it past a mainstream editor today. (Of of course some Disney and other cartoons as well.)
> a third party moving my mouse and clicking around

any computer physically accessible is open for hacking...id check what software is installed in the computer (offline)
AI's Dirty Little Secret
Great to see new tools in this space. So far we have been using WebPlotDigitizer, it has recently released new versions that stopped being open source but moved to be a paid software, requiring login, plastered with AI advertising terms.

https://automeris.io/
I Tried React Compiler
When buying my child her first iPhone we went through so many used devices at the local phone store which had all been refurbished or repaired using sub standard 3rd party screens.

Being able to see Apple’s warning on the iPhone 11 and up "Unable to verify this iPhone has a genuine Apple display” meant we were able to find a phone which was still stock.

I’m a big proponent of the right to repair but in this case Apple’s repair deterrence feature had a big benefit for us.
Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers
How obvious nobody in the planet actually ever fought an actual nuclear war. The whole thing has no imagination whatsoever regarding tactical deployment.

- They could send operatives with at least a dozen of nukes into Kiev. Then just announce the end of the war. You fill the details.

- They could just bring some big nuke just as close to Ukrain as possible, anything like 50-80 megatons deployed on russian soil would just erase most of anything at the other side of the border. If you see lots of russian towns evacuated, this strategy should be obvious.

and so on.

The bigger nuclear game is all about NOT triggering any bomb never ever. An actual nuclear war would be a very different thing.
I think a reasonable outcome would be to make a distinction between incidental recording (I have a camera recording Times Square and happen to pass you) as opposed to direct recording (as in you are the subject of what I’m recording). It’s definitely a grey area still, but would help if we want to apply limits on this type of content.
This is why it's a "hype wave" --- people are buying in and jumping on board (or least claiming so) without any clear reason.

Just a few years ago, it would have been blockchain.
I'm surprised that the researches had played so little nethack that they didn't know about this.

By the way, this story is several weeks old, ars is late in covering it.
The solution I outlined is the one GitLab and PlanetScale both use internally, so it has been tested at scale and works well, for both Postgres (the former) and MySQL (the latter).

> It shouldn't contain information about the date, it shouldn't be auto increment, it should really be just random.

That’s a great way to tank performance. You want your PK to be k-sortable.
Just for reference, what they're describing is already illegal in Germany, and by the first two articles of the constitution no less. (DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild_(Deutsch... - no english version of this wikipedia article sadly)

(You are not allowed to publish¹ photos or film specific/individual people without their consent. This is only abated when individual people are not the focus of photographing/recording, i.e. crowds or random stragglers in photos of other things.)

¹ edit/correction: this originally said "take" rather than "publish". The legal limits relevant here are on publishing, not taking photos/filming.
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"Candid Camera" required people to sign a release for the scene to be aired, no?
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Obviously, we should talk about the period after 1875 when the Supreme Court declared regulation of immigration a federal responsibility. There is little point to talking about a time when the known population of the U.S. was less than 5 million. Lets talk about the 20-21rst century.

Social Security Program was created in 1935. Medicaid was established in 1965. Non-citizens became eligible for social security in 1996. Why talk about ancient history when there was little to no burden in citizenship ?
When you set dark mode in the current gnome (with support for dark mode), the following will be set:

org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'

Valid values are “default”, “prefer-dark”, “prefer-light”.

org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme '(your-theme)-dark'

This is the one you have set.
Some D and T sounds.
Interesting case, but the article itself really feels like a submarine ad for Singularity, whatever that is.
Interesting. In my mother tongue it's called "back side" instead of "dark side". Looks like that "back side" is a more correct term for that.
So we need SSNv6? ;)
"the report just has to look right"
It costs 10 to make, but how much are you willing to pay? If the development of the software stack makes any sense depends entirely on the profit and scale.