skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What technological measures do you propose to block Tor and VPN services to achieve this? Not even China's Great Firewall completely achieves this, though not for lack of trying.
Systemd is accessible via NSS https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/nss-...

It's only an alternative if you connect to it directly (and why would you?). It's more an alternative to writing another nsswitch backend.
checks USD exchange rates

Yep it's still the only currency that matters.

Checks Indian-Chinese relations

Yep they still have effective visa bans against each other.

So what is this BRICS club exactly? A dictionary club?
Sadly, right now the "throw lots of compute at it in the dumbest possible way" models work, and the "learn good background theories" approaches have gone nowhere. It's Rich Sutton's Bitter Lesson and a lot of us aren't ready to accept it.

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Yes we should ban any progress for 10 years and everything would be so cheap.

Then one leap, next os eats it all, but cheap again.

/s
If you keep doing tutorials and reading books you'll eventually find the way but it is so much better with someone guiding you and some pressure to motivate

Same position as you. I have applied for a job with with different skills than my experience, so I am being paid to learn, with the seniors help

Still not the same as mentor, and I had to accept some pay stagnation

But it gave me a new perspective on my career

The training is based on this:
Golang For Beginners - Let's Build A Key Value Store
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PMVyy5YecU4

How To Build A Complete Distributed File Storage In Golang
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bymQakvTY40

I could have done it by myself before, but with some pressure is easier. Definitely recommend them

The 'from scratch' tutorials on youtube are very interesting

Also nowadays where everyone thinks they know best, and new project keep making many of the previous mistakes
> If we had direct democracy, this bill would have passed decades ago.

this is an important point, rarely discussed.

Here on HN I noticed a strong adversion for EU and its politician, but I really doubt that here on HN many are aware of the opinions of the general population in EU.

Much worse laws would be in place if we had direct democracy, I am 100% confident that death penalty would be the first big come back, but also stricter immigration laws (intra-EU too) and a generalized increase in the length of penalties for petty crimes, just because people in EU are old and they believe a police state will make them safer.

edit: QED the comments show how people would make the EU a worse place. Lucky us they can't.

They simply took what's in their interest (for example immigration laws, like really EU was flooded by migrants, spoiler: it is not!) and discarded the things they don't think would happen, because people are like that: they do not think of unwanted consequences and when they happen (like the ban of intra-eu immigration, which would most likely happen, being entirely legal and very easy to stop, unlike the illegal immigration from outside the EU) it means that someone else (in this case I assume the progressists, that they would call communists) worked against it because they hate them and hate their people and traditions.

It's incredible how easy it is to prove that trusting the average Joe on long term planning of an entire sub continent leads to catastrophes.

EDIT 2: it's also incredible how disconnected people are on political matters, they have a split brain, that thing that Orwell named doublespeak.

The most extreme libertarians that scream about being deprived of their freedom to have encrypted chats where they exchange swastikas with their friends, are the most conservatives on all the social matters and are the same people that vote the same politicians that then propose the chat control for the sake of the children.
Personally my gripe is not so much with Frum as with The Atlantic overall which has been consistently fear mongering.

There is certainly a lot of bad in the world but The Atlantic stance seems over the top.

The Conversation and Rest of World are two much more even magazines in my opinion.
Similar was transition from covid to war in Ukraine. Suddenly, covid disappeared from media.
> Would you look at that, everyone who was passing court reform is now barred from office.

But then the population sees this, still wants court reform (now more than ever) and votes in new politicians to take it up. The new politicians haven't yet voted on anything and so can't be barred this way and the first bill they take up is court reform.

> You’re looking for a cheat code to effort in government.

I'm looking for checks and balances. Something outside of the whims of populism should cause politicians who repeatedly attempt to violate fundamental rights to suffer consequences.
well... yes, that's what trust means
Hi, Malakas.
The expectation is that you'll have to have dynamically generated benchmarks with better eval at some point given the potential for brute forcing the private validation set.
It depends where. In Poland, we had whole 7 hours of sun this December.
politicians don't propose law in the EU. appointed bureaucrats do. politicians get to vote on them eventually, but it'll get passed one way or another.
The follow-up comment about the Marines' "hot washes" retrospective meetings is interesting. I would love to browse through the Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned library that's referenced.
If your Win27k startup is a 8k 120fps video of a butterfly transforming to a windows logo - then it is latency

Btw all bandwith is built to reduce latency, aren’t they. Bit philosophy heh
Coming from a very pro-Israel guy like Frum that looks more like endorsement for Malaysia having done the right thing.

Also, it is high time for the US Coastal Elites to realise that they're losing the game, and they're losing the game globally, so unless they change their strategy they're going to be in for a hard time in 10-15-20 years, because at some point the money will stop flowing in.
Same here, I think Customer.IO had the nices sandbox experience yet.
These are very different challenges. Them being in the ocean is almost the only common thing between them. The whale (or whales) is in one piece, near the surface but moving about.

The airplane is either in a few pieces or a debris field, sunk to the bottom and very inert.

Finding one you need a sensor network which can track it in near realtime as you hunt it down. Finding the other you need to map huge swathes of the deep ocean with high enough resolution to be able to see debris.

One is not a "harder version" of the other, but entirely different challenges. It is a bit like saying "oh you can't even make a jetpack? Good luck making a fully reusable orbital launcher." Yeah they are both rockets(ocean) things but they have nothing else in common.
There's also this one
https://pypi.org/project/pydantic-gbnf-grammar-generator/
I have come to the point that it is not really fair to the LLM to statistically train it on human output and expect it to come up with something more than the average.

There will be much value in automating the tedious and the routine.

Of course, that doesn't make for a great science fiction story. We first have to placate all these science fiction fantasies and in the process we will automate the tedious and the routine as a side effect of trying to figure out how many AGI can dance on the head of a pin.

Then human creativity will just be worth all the more.
I guess the indicators used largely overlap with the ones used by anti-cheat software, so you probably want to think twice before using that on your gaming pc :)
Is there anything incorrect in what he’s said though?

It’s a few hundred character Tweet that has been reproduced fully. You don’t even need to know the author to assess the contents of the tweet.
Very interesting point. Does a well functionality democracy require the right to be anonymous?
That barely answers anything. If you want more light make the pwm cycle on longer, even up to just driving it with the smoothest dc you can.
The problem is that this (if my theory is not just bunk) isn't something you can really go back and do differently. An emergent property of the reactions of polarised groups to the behaviours of their leaders was discovered to be quite different to what had been assumed. You may as well say "we have to go back to the old ways" when lamenting the relativity makes physics too complicated.

Though, as to the point I think you're actually making, it's also been made very difficult to object to these things in any terms that could possibly have an effect without being thoroughly denounced as a nutter, an extremist, or worse. After all, the "right" thing to do is always to simply "vote!".
Most likely that code already existed server-side and was duplicated client-side. It's what usually happens since frontend code can't enforce invariants.
Britain is already terrible when it comes to matters of privacy and/or encryption
Can we please also ban smartphones in parliament?
The problem isn't that computers are more capable, it's that they're being used inefficiently.
Almost 100% of the "scientific community of mathematicians" is funded by the government. They can't be trusted either. If they want to publish something that is considered to be a "threat to national security" the agencies have multiple avenues at their disposal to "convince" them to not publish.

> And finally, we wouldn't get laws like this.

Codifying covert practices into law has the big advantage to make the whole oppressive surveillance state much more efficient. Gone are the days of "parallel constructions". Also the chilling effects of total surveillance alone might be enough to prevent the opposition to be effective.
Ironic for the Pulitzer Center of all places to be publishing a different article, based on the original but not at all the same thing, and claiming that it's a "translation". Maybe they should follow their own lesson plans.
I’m capable of reading someone else’s Node, Python, Rust, C++, and Java. I’ve seen good code and bad code. I’ve also seen good Go code and bad Go code. I know this is what the designers of Go intended, but they accomplished it by dumbing down the language far too much.
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Hasn't everything in ChatGPT - been posted by 6 year olds on reddit, and ChatGPT is simply a very impressive indexer and query interface? :-)

The real question is ChatGPT a better information retrieval tool that the old Google search interface before they dumbed it down?

For me the main differences are that for ChatGPT it summarises across multiple sources - sometimes good, sometimes not, and the refinement of queries feels much more natural with it's use of context.

Though I often find myself fighting both the new Google search interface and ChatGPT to try and get the right answers to the specific area I want.
Arguably it's the second best, after: don't use computers
The only challenge I have encountered with Postgres template [0] databases over the years, is depending on the test framework to get a random name for the database and then inject that random name into the connection URL. Always found a solution though.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-templatedb...
He's the Joe Rogan of Canadian born NeoCon's, former hype man and color commentator for both The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the Bush Jr. administration, ... put your hands together for David Frum!!
How to find clients without social media
> Yep it's still the only currency that matters.

That's what the US govt thought when it sanctioned Russia. It only resulted in Russia falling back to their local currency without any significant problems, while making the rest of the world wary of reliance on the US dollar
Nice term and mental model. I hadn’t seen this connection before, but I think I’ll be using this word from now on in a lot of discussions!
Good, I have the same suspicions about "no mental imagery vs. vivid mental imagery". Perhaps people who claim either thing are just being, uh, imaginative.
This was my experience as well. No great template generator on the node side.

I use PUG. I don’t like to close HTML tags. This cuts 30% of the visual bloat out of my templates.
I think this work is great.

A lot of top researchers claim that obvious deficiencies in LLM training are fundamental flaws in transformer architecture, as they are interested in doing some new research.

This work show that temporary issues are temporary. E.g. LLM is not trained on grid inputs, but can figure things out after preprocessing.
If you do SRS correctly it will not pass DMARC alignment for your domain but it will pass plain SPF which does not have the DMARC alignment check and is sometimes checked independently from DMARC. If the sender included valid DKIM it should pass DMARC for the sender's domain as long as you don't alter the signed parts of the message (unless possibly if they do something annoying like sign the absense of X-Forwarded-To). Google also wants you to use ARC, add X-Forwarded-{To, For} headers, avoid forwarding spam, and use a different IP address or domain for forwarding vs sending mail from your domain. Some email providers let you indicate that you trust particular ARC forwarders but I don't think Google uses it that way.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/175365?hl=en

I don't know why Google want to force forwarders to do spam filtering.
And indirect, through the use of manufactured ‘uprisings’ which the West are great at.

But really, you can go back many more decades than that. Innocent lives are not something the West (especially USA) have historically valued.

I hate bashing the West all the time, but come on, we aren’t the good guys in the world. And it’s time we own up to who we are. I have ffs. And I do wonder if the world would have been a more peaceful place if we collectively had more soul.
A half year ago (a long time, I know), I tried to get structured answers from GPT-4. The structure was not complex, but I needed to extract a specific answer like "Please identify and categorize the following text as A or B" or "Please grade the following text on criteria A on a scale from 1 to 10".

First, I noticed that enforcing a JSON format on output generally lowered the quality of the results. Referring to JSON seemed to primed the LLM to be more "programmatical."

Second, I noticed that forcing LLM to answer with a single word is next to impossible. It won't do it consistently, and generally, it lowers quality.

Here's what I eventually learned: Markdown is a machine-readable enough for post-processing and easy output format for LLMs. I give the structure (a list of headings) for the LLM, which conforms to them 100% of the time. I always had a section called "Final Comments" where the LLM can blather away the things that it sometimes just needs to say after giving the answer. This can be then ignored when parsing the answer.

Also, it is good to understand that LLMs do better when you allow them to "think aloud." This Markdown output is good for that.
This is not about personal choice but rather Go's undeserved adoption in domains it has absolutely zero business being applied to. This leads to me to generally approach engineers promoting it as misguided and severely lacking in some area of knowledge the moment Go is suggested to be used anywhere beyond light networked microservices or CLI utilities.

Instead, people shoehorn it into data processing and databases, the domain at which .NET is incomparably more adept due to performance primitives it offers, if we still talk high-level-ish languages with automatic memory management. Of course if there is no such requirement, there are many (like Zig, Rust and C++) systems programming languages that are better in every possible way at solving the task. And yet, we get Go and startups struggling to scale. But all the interesting problems in which Go is attempted to be applied to, where the solution, if successful, is despite Go not because of it, would have benefited from C#/F# which offer much better control and performance assurances, without having to fight the tool.
Perhaps - but still managed by the foundation and not run as a for profit project.
> […] ("Brain drain").

Also: windows (in the case of Russia).
That's not what the BRICs are best known for; Brazil, Russia, India and China are all best known for being emerging super powers.

I see plenty to disagree with here -- from conflating the 'richest' with the 'most talented' to odd use of parenthesis and quotation marks to conflating brain drain with the flight of capital. Brain drain refers to people with real accomplishments or potential in academia, science, entrepreneurship etc. who aren't necessarily rich.
When robot manufacturing becomes a commodity, I think many citizens will be replaced and left wondering what's best for them.
It's crazy that a journalistic expression became a real organization thing, and now journalists treat it as if it meant something.

Joining BRICS is akin to joining the "third world": joining it means nothing and even the original meaning it was supposed to represent has long been lost and forgotten.
Organize. There are lots of digital right groups in many forms and shapes.
I’m afraid I don’t follow the reasoning here. Feel free to elaborate.
CS6 has been running for me well, and likely will keep running long after the company collapses on my offline PC that I don't do Microsoft OS updates on... Great job on that one Adobe!
I have had different versions of this exact problem throughout my learning career. It is common that the very concepts of convention, representation, terminology, and symbology are more abstract/complex/unintuitive than the actual topic they describe, and the person doing the teaching usually glosses over the explanation of that part because it is so second nature to them.
Yes I am sure trying to spell losing got autocorrected to loosing and doesn't instead come from low level understanding of the English language.
It’s not necessarily scientifically accurate at all but this is the premise of Spaceship Earth, the ride in the big geodesic sphere, at EPCOT in Disney World. It’s an interesting take on history being accelerated by advances in communication technology, and not just language.
Who do you think should run OpenAI then?
We’re gonna make a game called Pac-Man museum! Yay!

Later:
legal says we can’t use Ms Pac-Man
what does pro-Israel have to do with anything? I don't see too many nations out there courting Hamas, PIJ, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood, etc as international partners and allies.
Replace "chat" with "speak", and suddenly it is trivially obvious to everyone how horrific this is:

> If we don’t hijack privacy in speech, how do we fight crime happening in private conversations? If [the] government doesn’t have access to what you say at home, what’s stopping criminals from using their homes and never getting tracked down? Or proven guilty, since all the proof was said behind closed doors? Aren’t we hurting ourselves by being so obsessed with privacy?

Should we be obsessed with privacy, or should we let the government put microphones in every house just in case there are paedophiles talking about their sex acts and hence getting away with it?

Similar arguments can be made by substituting other things that were traditionally considered the domain of only authoritarian dictatorships, such as opening all letters and reading them before they're delivered by the postal service, or keeping tabs on what books you borrow from the library.

I grew up in one of those countries, and I can tell you that it's not at all nice that they tracked what you photocopied, you know, just in case you wanted to print out anti-party ("one" party!) propaganda... I mean... something... something distributing child porn. Yeah, that's it. That's the reason.
Unfortunately Microsoft is also to blame, instead of .NET, all their Azure contributions to CNCF are based on Go and Rust, and all their recent CLI tools are written in Go (older ones used Python).

Also by not doing enough to make UNIX culture startups have a different opinion of Microsoft, instead of still doing M$ jokes.

The same kind of startups that won't have any qualms adopting Swift, or dealing with its current poor state on GNU/Linux.
It's not unnoticeable. Ever notice how on Windows, when you start to drag a window, your cursor disappears for a frame? That's Windows replacing your cursor with a software-rendered one so it doesn't appear ahead of the window. But drag anything else (i.e. browser tabs, text highlighting) and you'll quickly notice it lagging behind the cursor. Why? Because the cursor is a hardware overlay that can be moved before the composition is actually complete. The composition lags one frame behind. In other words, the price of the compositor is lagging one frame behind. That may not sound like much, but it is, especially when most displays are only 60 FPS.

Of course, it's only one of the contributing factors to the total latency of things like keystrokes: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
The criminals absolutely will move away to something that is outside government control. Many such apps already exist and you can run what you like on Android phones with custom ROMs.

Think about it - if you're a criminal, and you know about chat control, why would you risk your chats being leaked at all? Why wouldn't you use a different app that you know to be more secure (this already happens for any serious crime already btw)

It's precisely the law-abiding people whose privacy will be invaded for no-gain
Show HN: DreamCanvas – Comic Books Using Your Kids
I only knew this existed because of the "left" take with regards to people descended from slaves (black only of course)
You can have a go at the problems here:
https://arcprize.org/play?task=00576224

None of them are terribly hard but some aren't trivial either, a couple took me a bit of thinking to work out. By far the most tedious part is inputting the result (I didn't bother after the first) which is definitely something AI is better at!
Since for now this is supposed to force the messenger developers a way to circumvent would be to directly download and install APKs of messengers that refuse to implement this and/or left the EU market.

This is obviously merely a short term solution since it should be clear that targeting hosts and developers of non complying solutions would likely be the next step.
He took a pretty uncharitable view. Maybe BRICS is doomed of course. And I'm not particularly hopeful. But I'd rather hear perspectives either from both sides or from folks who I can trust as more independent.
These fuckers are about to go to war with all the hackers in the EU
We are looking for checks and balances for politicians acting against the interests of the populace. Without them a government is always one step away from tyranny.
Have not - personally - run into a situation (other than rescue disks (like old Live Linux CDs)) where there was no disk at all in the consumer space

Only seen it for ESXi hosts in the enterprise space (and even there ... there was still a [small] local storage for each host)
As someone who works for the nasa, I’m not so sure. You’d be surprised how much stuff gets randomly thrown away to save space.

And it’s going to get worse I now that paper files are disappearing.

I wanted some info and data from a test we did 9 years ago. It was a pretty big deal, lots of people involved, many millions of dollars, multiple nasa centers contributing. Every single person on the test randomly kept their own files for the portion of the test they were responsible for. And the only copy of the raw test data was deleted by one of them to save some space when upgrading. There is no record anywhere of what equipment was used for the test.

One of my coworkers has 4 TB external HDD that he keeps everything he has ever worked on. It’s not backed up anywhere else. It just failed and he thought he lost everything, luckily I was able to recover most of it. Wtf.