skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No lesson has been learned. These companies are all getting filled with people who look at words like "grace" and "pride" and "jaw dropping" and all they see is not-yet-captured margin for shareholders. They think, if we can just throw all these intangible things under the bus, we might be able to squeeze out another $0.06 per share for shareholders. "Pride of the nation?" That means we can cut costs by $3 million, and simply not be proud.
> One of the biggest banks in South Korea blacklisted Amazon as a financial scammer because it's Prime subscription renews monthly and customers complained after seeing the renewal charge on their credit cards. The ban was national -- no customer of this bank could buy a product from Amazon unless he calls the bank personally and ask the charge to be approved. Again, the issue wasn't technical. It was cultural.

To be fair I can see why the practices of Amazon could be considered a scam. Every time you buy something you have to untick "I want Prime"
Better link: https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/06/25/fixing-kwin-p...
It's actually the TSA that does the frisking in the US at airports.
I'm talking about innovation and progress. In an ideal world retro computing remains a hobby.
Yes. Nowadays I am glad if the 'rip here' on a plastic food container works.

It seems like every engineering discipline is degrading to different extents.

And non-functional food wrapping is my major annoyance. Every other bag of bbq coal have the threads sewed in the wrong way. Pasta bags that needs scissors to open or you'll have pasta everywhere. I can go on and on and on...

I think engineering attrition is too high nowadays to keep institutional knowledge. Also about how to pack cookies...
> Without naming names

Cough VMware by Broadcom cough
Any plans on adding this to Chocolatey for Windows download?
Often I get the impression that beauty is defined as "how far is this from what the computer can actually do efficiently?"
As someone who deals with chronic pain, I watched this situation develop: people lost access to their “safer” opioid and switch to whichever one they can get. Or suicide; there were many suicides around this time.

Thankfully opioids have never been an appropriate treatment for my pain so I didn’t have to deal with this, but I feel real empathy for the people who switched to street drugs at that time. OD is a risk but considering how consuming pain is many would probably rather be dead than experience that anyway. This is not hyperbole, on pain forums people talk about assisted suicide all the time.

We failed pain patients across the board.

It took 6 or 7 years for us even start to find therapies that work. To this day doctors have just shoveled handfuls of Gabapentin and muscle relaxers down our throats or sent us for very invasive and painful nerve blocks which both have a high complication rate and need to be repeated as frequently as every three months.

Or told us to get more exercise. I’ve always loved that one! I’ve been improving my fitness for three years, but advancement is very slow because if I go too fast it can trigger pain and be a huge setback.

Fuck the Sacklers, but fuck whoever decided that pain patients don’t deserve opioids at a rate of 100x. As is always our policy with the disabled in America, our suffering doesn’t matter anywhere near as much as the political moralization that gets people in office

Ok, I’ll get off my soapbox. This topic makes me so angry.
It is more that the Federal government is Constitutionally prohibited from mandating such a thing, the most they can do is ask nicely and hope for compliance. Coordinating the several dozen States, which can do it, is like herding cats. This is further complicated because there are large factions of both Democrats and Republicans that are against it for a litany of unrelated reasons, so the resistance to it is robust and bipartisan.

It has little to do with "monied interests". It is primarily the product of nigh insurmountable legal and political hurdles.
If the museum was open I'm sure it would have plenty of visitors and support. Can't visit a museum that isn't open.

But the fact is that most museums rely, in least in part, on grants and benefactors in addition to visitors.
An $18 Big Mac meal sparked a revolt against high prices. Companies listening
Personally vibe checking Phi-3-Medium is worse in my experience, no matter how well you spell — it just isn't good at all compared to Llama3-8b, despite being significantly larger in param count. I suspect the "high quality tokens" were "high quality" in the sense that they resembled tokens one might encounter in benchmarks, and not "high quality" in the sense of representing human-like input/output.
Oxycontin was, and still is, a prescription drug. I'm not sure if you're aware, but at least in the United States (where this court judgment was), it is doctors that write prescriptions. Listening to them is how the first opioid crisis happened. McKinsey dangled some shiny slides in front of Purdue, Purdue dangled them in front of doctors, and then doctors prescribed them en masse. This has, arguably, not gone well.
My favorite one is in Anaheim.

Everyone ready for a trip to the happiest place on earth?

One of the first things you see walking in...

> The Disneyland Resort contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

https://i.redd.it/utw067xgroh11.jpg
A ton of job postings might be fake
Airports post-911 have a robust security setup with only a few clearly defined entrances and exits, with a person stationed at each one, in addition to whatever team you have brought with you. If you’re arrested at the terminal, they have likely already swept you for weapons without raising your suspicions already.
which exception by the way? please explain which exception makes them `legal` to scan every communication for censorship. not everyone and not every network requests are related to national security and illegal action(i.e. gamble, drugs, etc.)
you may also check out the quite logical and convincing "Visceral Theory of Sleep":

> The visceral hypothesis suggests that during sleep, the central nervous system, particularly the cerebral cortex, switches from analyzing exteroceptive information to analyzing signals arriving from interoceptors distributed throughout all the systems of the body
I spend a lot of time on this - the social contract is collapsing everywhere
Sure. Get rid of the fridge or the sink.
True of pretty much any CDN, though — once you let them generate certs for you, or give them your certs, they can see your traffic.
Like I said, it's not binary. The UPF category can be too broad to the point of it being meaningless. Somebody else in the comment chain mentioned creating a score instead.

The other thing is that the risk likely depends on the ingredient and the amount. Part of my point is that I don't think science will ever be fast enough to satisfy the type of person who wants a study telling them that their staple shouldn't be top ramen. And yet, I still think we should discourage it.
Jack Welch (via his disciples) managed to destroy not one but two iconic American companies.
I'm very sorry about that. haven't read anything about that in the guidelines. could you please explain why it was wrong to do that.
Do we know if Gemma models are fundamentally different from the ones hosted as Gemini? Gemini 1.5 flash seems to produce good results for the price and performance.
If you can prop an arm up, many people have less motion sickness if they aren't looking down.
> This is about sesame.

yes!

> This has significantly harmed consumers who are actually allergic to sesame.

maybe. more like: "This may have slightly annoyed..."

> It was a clear and flagrant abuse of the "may contain traces" mechanism.

nope. absolutely not. the did not say "may" they apparently said "contains". but what do you want them to do if there's a 0.0001% chance of two particles of sesame in a product?

> The bakeries caused harm

nope. the FDA caused harm for consumers by regulatory overreach

the result will be one of three things:

1. FDA redrafts the sesame rule to define what is cross-contamination and what is not in a realistic way that bakers will agree to abide by and doesn't have these counter-productive side-effects.

2. Bimbo stops saying "contains sesame" and starts saying "may contain sesame" (the FDA officials acknowledged Tuesday that statements that a product "may contain” certain allergens "could be considered truthful and not misleading.")

3. Bimbo actually adds a tiny bit of sesame as other bakers did and keeps the packaging verbiage the same.

which one is least unhelpful to the 0.2% of people with sesame allergies?
As a Mexican, I'm still salty with Bimbo because I went to Spain, and they sold there better, bigger Bimbo-brand sliced bread than here, including varieties without crust.

It takes guts to keep the brand name in English-speaking contries, though.

> The name was formed as the combination of the Disney Bambi and Dumbo films names, which were the favourite movies of Marinela, Lorenzo Servitje's daughter. Later, the founders would find out that bimbo is an Italian slang for children (shortened from bambino), and that in China the word for bread (面包, miànbāo) is similar to the name of the brand.
It’s not profiling as the book was collected as evidence after being charged with a crime and with a search warrant (or at least probably cause must be established with other evidence). Profiling would be using information about such a book before crimes were committed or charged.

In addition, such evidence is important in establishing bail, as risk of fleeing is of primary concern.
Any time you have a scalar/measurement number, basically any value with physical units, counts, percentages, anything which could be in the denominator of a ratio, those are all strong indicators of a "semantic zero" and you really want to tell the difference between None and 0. They are usually floats, but could be ints (maybe you have number_of_widgets_online, 0 means 0 units, None means "idk".)
The app in question doesn't actually do any such thing, though.
Infrastructure setup and open-source scripts to train 70B model from bare metal
In the span of a few months, with a small team of researchers and engineers, we trained a 70B parameter model from scratch on our own infrastructure that outperformed zero-shot GPT-4o on reasoning-related tasks. Using our cluster for high performance training meant that every component — InfiniBand, Ethernet, GPUs, and the nodes themselves — had to work perfectly. If even a single one of the over 12,000 connections was a little flaky, it could slow down the entire training run.

We're sharing open-source scripts and an end-to-end guide for infrastructure set-up that details the process of making everything work perfectly, and ensuring that it stays that way.

This is one of a three-part toolkit on training a 70b model from scratch. The other two sections focus on evaluations and CARBS, our hyperparameter optimizer; you can find them here: https://imbue.com/research/70b-intro/

Thoughts and questions welcome! :)
Loops are more intuitive for similar reasons that ∑ and ∏ are more intuitive than the equivalent recursive formulation.
I don't understand the justification for this. I am familiar with the NTSB's practices (thanks in on small part to Admiral Cloudberg) but I do not see how Boeing put a foot wrong on this issue. Won't the NTSB report say what it will say regardless what Boeing says or does??
This looks great, combining the best of VSCode and RStudio.

I prefer coding in VSCode but prefer data exploration in RStudio.

One issue with this is the lack of copilot. Copilot can be installed on VSCodium [1] but it breaks often. The other is MS’s proprietary Remove Development extension that enables a lot of functionality in VSCode. There is an open equivalent but I haven’t tried it [2]

[1] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1487

[2] https://open-vsx.org/extension/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh
i need to replace the battery in my kindle keyboard ("3rd generation") so I can use it again, or surrender and order a replacement. I'm using a kobo right now but I don't like it.

I was looking at the oasis but its expensive, and still uses microusb
California House Prices Plunge Up to $400k as Insurance Crisis Deepens
To the extent that people are curious about the definition of ultra-processed foods, I recommend Chris Van Tulleken’s book “Ultra Processed People.” From it, I got the sense that the real emphasis is on this aspect of the NOVA definition:

“Ultra-processed foods are operationally distinguishable from processed foods by the presence of food substances of no culinary use (varieties of sugars such as fructose, high-fructose corn syrup…modified starches…modified oils…protein sources such as hydrolysed proteins, soya protein isolate, gluten, casein, whey protein and 'mechanically separated meat') or of additives with cosmetic functions (flavours, colours, emulsifiers, thickeners…) in their list of ingredients.”

The history of NOVA is that as the obesity epidemic was spreading, a Brazilian nutrition scientist, Carlos Monteiro, did a large scale project to identify likely causes right as it reached Brazil and obesity in Brazil started to rise. In short, he found statistical evidence indicating, basically, that as as people stopped cooking they became obese. In the book, he observes that connection was so strong that if the one single thing you knew about a person was that they had bought sugar, it predicted that they would not be obese because sugar, while unhealthy, is usually used to cook with. Thus the emphasis on “traditional culinary uses”.

Cooking has a lot of virtues, but evidence that the ingredients themselves are the issue came when an NIH researcher, Kevin Hall, did an experiment where he had people live in an NIH facility and half ate “processed” food (in the NOVA system) and half ate “ultra-processed” food with equivalent nutritional content, and the UPF group gained weight very quickly relative to the “processed” group. The Hall excitement is when Monteiro’s theory really started getting traction.
It's only fraud when the victim isn't an individual patient. /s
I think your anecdote is rather weak with regards to the way protobuf works, but to entertain, why would a confidence of 0.0 be so different from None? 0.0 sounds very close to None for most numerical purposes if you ask me.

Wait, are you using Python?
I must oblige: that is close to 3/4 of a queen size bed.
yep, companies thrive when they can steal as much surplus labor value as possible. you don't have to give them anything more that what you agreed to give them
Why are State Farm and others leaving California's home insurance market?
Even facebook is telling to upload video. What a dystopia ....
Windows isn't a platform for developers. It's a platform for normie consoomers. Isn't that obvious?

If you want an engineering OS, use GNU/Linux.
I've built several message queues over the years.

I hated the configuration and management complexity of RabbitMQ and Celery and pretty much everything else.

My ultimate goal was to build a message queue that was extremely fast and required absolutely zero config and was HTTP based thus has no requirement for any specific client.

I developed one in Python that was pretty complete but slow, then developing a prototype in Rust that was extremely fast but incomplete.

The latest is sasquatch. Its written in golang, uses sqlite for the db and behaves in a very similar way to Amazon SQS in that connections are HTTP and it uses long polling to wait for messages.

https://github.com/crowdwave/sasquatch

Its only in the very early stages of development at this stage and likely isn't even compiling but most of the code is in place. I'm hoping to get around to next phase of development soon.

I just love the idea of a message queue that is a single static binary and when you run it, you have a fully functioning message queue with nothing more to do - not even fiddling with Postgres.

Absolute zero config, not minutes, hours or days of futzing with configs and blogs and tutorials.
Yep - it's an exact copy at the page level, so _everything_ is copied.

Regarding data anonymization, you can use the pg_anon extension on your branch. There's a blog post about it: https://neon.tech/blog/easily-anonymize-production-data-in-p...
What if it is a warning to whomever can die from it? "This food was processed in a facility that contained nuts, milk, etc."
> a slow acting opioid (it had to be crushed to be fast acting)

You seem to just skip over that point in a bit of a blasé fashion, as if OxyContin's slow release formulation is somehow a defense of the Sacklers' behavior, when the exact opposite is true.

That is, a primary argument is that Purdue pushed OxyContin because they argued it was safer due to its slow release formula. Except they knew full well that "slow release" was pretty much bullshit because people were getting addicted by simply crushing the pills.

Purdue sales people deliberately pushed Oxy with the false promise of additional safety even though they knew this wasn't true.
No matter how many times it's posted, it doesn't change the fact that it's just a large bunch of hallucinations.
This sort of stuff is a great use case match for AI, where even a human would end up with imperfect results.
Needs a reminder warning that you need scripts to massage your data in any test database if you have compliance requirements (HIPAA, PCI, customer confidentiality agreements, etc). It's always the worst having all kinds of restrictions that limit productivity in order to meet compliance only to get a self own by a compliance scan picking up a random test database hanging out somewhere.
Unfortunately, getting users to install Homebrew is a hurdle that's hard to pass for what I'm dealing with. It's a non-starter if users have to open a terminal to install anything, even though Homebrew has a .pkg installer now. The users typically don't know what a terminal even is.

> The alternative is not signing your binaries and explaining to users that they can run them by right clicking and selecting "Open" from the menu.

That's what I'm doing now, and it's still an issue, unfortunately. Non-power users are not going to remember the right-click -> Open ritual when they just double-click on everything else.

And the warnings Gatekeeper shows also caused users to think their apps, and even computers, were broken or hacked.
> Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make.
This is so true. It has happened too often that a professor has decided to explain the most difficult topic in 5 minutes overtime. Before lunch. What a mistake.
I'd have responded sooner but YN stopped accepting submissions, sorry if they made you wait.

We will have to disagree.

I feel my position still stands correct on solid rational foundation, since you haven't provided any rational basis other than an appeal to authority, and there remain several unanswered contradictions in the supposition you made.
There are thousands of banks in the US. Getting them to agree on anything is beyond difficult.

Carriers in the US don't all require ID, so they're not particularly useful for identity verification.
> It takes guts to keep the brand name in English-speaking contries, though.

I think they mostly only sell bimbo-branded goods in spanish language shops (where the brand would help sell). In, say, Safeway you only see the US brands they have acquired, at least where I live.
The Last 6 Decades of AI, and What Comes Next – Ray Kurzweil – Ted [video]
Song audio: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bMS6G83NqFQ
Probably a repost, but this excellent video talks about the problems with outsourcing everything (i.e. the L J Hart-Smith report) https://youtu.be/PQccNdwm8Tw?t=566 - the report itself is fairly accessible and an eye-opener on what happens when you outsource all of your core competency.

The only remaining thing is a weak 'systems integrator'. And the best part is the suppliers have more leverage and less compliance/liability than you do! Because nobody even knows their name.
The Ten Commandments vs. America
I would argue that Google could work to improve the quality of translation in its existing languages and make that the priority. Even for major language pairs like English to Spanish (both of which I speak fluently) the quality of translation can quickly reveal myriad errors.

If the quality of Google Translate is any indication, I have my deep doubts about how good Gemini is as an LLM too.
There’s already regulation affecting SDLC practices in the financial industry (SSDF in the US, DORA in the EU).

Definitely not a stretch for other (“important”) areas to start receiving such attention in the future.
10x perf increase in what direction?
The US has multiple government run single-payers. I remember being told six, but I remember Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA. What the US does not have is universal healthcare, though I think we spend something like as much of a percentage of GDP on our non-universal government systems as other countries do on their universal healthcare, and then again we spend more GDP on private. All for worse outcomes than those other countries (though we can do some really impressive stuff if you're rich). It's quite a racket for sure.
By arresting them at an airport, and presuming they're already under surveillance, law enforcement gets another piece of evidence (fleeing) to argue?
You’re saying “created excess demand” like the people that you’re referring to weren’t chronic pain patients.

I know some of them were drug-seekers but we decided it was OK to throw chronic pain patients under the bus so we could eliminate those drug-seekers.

Now, in addition to dealing with pain every day, I also have to “prove” that I’m not an opioid seeker if I end up in the ER for overwhelming pain. Because saying that you’re hurting is clearly a sign that you’re actually an addict trying to get a fix.

This might sound cold-hearted, but as someone who deals with chronic pain I’m fine with some street ODs in exchange for people who are in pain being cared for. Now we just torture patients by doing nothing.

Recreational drugs are a choice. My pain was not. Why we punished for others’ bad choices?
Came here looking for this comment. 100% yes. After a certain number of rows (tens of thousands) the UI becomes unstable. Maybe it’s a skill issue though.
Welcome to Apple's much applauded security model.

More seriously, I'm sure they also prevent the privilege to that URI scheme. This is likely part of some ill-thought defense-in-depth approach. Same way they search for the names of private symbols in the exec, even when the linker will outright refuse to give you those. I absolutely detest this pervasiveness of useless layers of security that add almost nothing. But since almost nothing is not nothing, no one can remove any of them. Like cockroach papers, I'm going to call them "cockroach security". Practically everything is infested with those these days.
So you just flip feature flags in prod all willy nilly? No process?
good point about having been swept for weapons already!
Reading it for a friend?
You probably want to check this out: https://connectrpc.com/
> relies on hardware sales

but apple made it a free-for-all on the device that you arguably own.

for example, you can block google in your browser. web browsing still has choices and is still somewhat democratic. But you can't block google in an app on your phone.
This is spoken like someone who has enjoyed the privilege of living without chronic pain.
Almost comical
not quite letter paper size, but the kobo elipsa has a 10.3" screen and text scaling is whatever you want.
Mullvad takes cash, and if they are to be believed an attempt at a search warrant didn't work out for the authorities. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-sea...

Regardless I'm not really trying to defend myself against state actors. If they target me, I know I'm screwed. What I am trying to do is reduce the amount of my private information non-government entities collect on me while raising the cost of mass surveillance.