skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must be Alon Zakai, one of the original developers of Web Assembly, if not THE original developer of Web Assembly?
Yes, I use this kind of setup in a number of places. I am also a fan of running the full test suite using SQLite (if you are using a compatible ORM) to make sure where you are (or not) running into DB-specific behavior.
> "We hid all our assets to evade the law. Give us immunity from criminal money laundering evasion and we will only pay part of what we likely would have owed."

> We have those overseas money reporting laws that make it difficult for Americans to get bank accounts overseas. Let's use them!

This is conflating two things.

It is not criminal to move money offshore, and nothing suggested any money laundering occurred, because it is not necessary to launder money to move it offshore. And it is also not money laundering to obfuscate money's origin or destination. Money laundering requires a criminal origin and then obfuscation.

Despite how much the US has convinced its entire culture to stigmatize the concept of moving money, the US is operating in its own bubble of hubris to suggest money has to stay within its ecosystem. It doesn't make any sense at all when you say it out loud does it?

To your second point, the US has reporting laws on money held offshore legally, for US citizens. For banks, this is merely an additional compliance burden that disincentivizes them from dealing with small accounts because its not worth it. But at Sackler money, it is worth it. It is not hard to find someone to bank you as an American. And at Sackler levels of money you don't have to remain a US citizen, hence absolving the reporting requirements if they went that direction.

Or when you have a second citizenship, you can just not tell the US about it, and you can just not tell the foreign bank about your US citizenship. Prosecute that on its own, if you find out.

and finally, there are gaps in this reporting framework. FATCA treaty was a broad expansion of a country's power, to the limit of our global society in the continuum of history. And its not completely as omnipresent as the American psyche imagined. Just like the global sanctions attempt on Russia showed, its a nice try but now everyone can see how much is hubris in plain sight.
I wouldn't call this a research paper. It doesn't include any research.
Copyright Takedowns: A Cautionary Tale
They could be imprisoned.
Yes but even then the person firing it is at risk. At a minimum you should use serious eye and face protection.
But New York Harbor no longer has any cargo ports. Shipping shifted to Newark Bay decades ago.

Same with San Francisco. No longer any cargo ports. They're all in Oakland now.

And what's even the advantage of living near a cargo port in the 21st century anyway?
We do this at my company and another huge benefit is the ability to test config at a particular point in time. You can even git bisect to find which flag flip caused a regression.
It should be obvious that Slack has the usage it does specifically because the groups you mention don't want to take on the effort and costs of hosting and ongoing maintenance.
But their prisoners? Can they endure a severe recession?
FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days
Very reasonable and comfortable.
> I've also heard complaints from Devs who said GitHub Copilot has also been blocked

I am soooo glad that I do not work for a very large corporation anymore. Man, the hurdles they create are a massive pain in the rear.

I work for a small 10-person company. I get to make the rules. And we are never hard ass about the rules. I don't think I have been this productive at any job in the past.

I understand that a 100,000 person company has different set of concerns. But I do think that an average developer at smaller company is more productive because they have to deal with a lot less BS.
Oops, I definitely meant Libra. I need to stop looking at other words when I’m typing lol.
> I completely agree with that, but the problem is finding a supply of people to argue with on niche subjects.

Beyond just subject-wise, finding people who argue in good faith seems to be an issue too. There are people I'm friends with almost specifically because we're able to consistently have good-faith arguments about our strongly opposing views. It doesn't seem to be a common skill, but perhaps that has something to do with my sample set or my own behaviors in arguments.
Yes, when the container is started you get the db url connect string, you connect to it, load the schema and any test data/seeds.

For me I just run the ddl (sitting in a .sql file) and run my tests. They run with an empty db but I could have sample data too the same way.
If not a PR review, how would you propose people should build consensus around:

> I'm about to do this thing to mitigate the issue, does it look like the right thing?

It doesn't need to be a code change, can just be a flags change, but if it's a change at all then why not pin it to a commit so that rolling it back is easy and so that the commit sha can be an indicator of which flags are where.
Confidentiality is easy when you start with full trust and the ability to pre-exchange secrets.

I for one propose an unwritten language of moans and yodels steganographically modulating a subset of classical Chinese atop boudoir French poetry, preferably set to sitar.
> gRPC is not supposed to be a standard web communication layer.

It kind of is. What do you think WebTransport in HTTP/3 is? It's basically gRPC Next. The only reason gRPC didn't make it as the standard web communication layer is because of one disastrous decision by one Chrome engineer in https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40388906, maybe because he woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
With testcontainers you can use exactly the same database you do in production.
I don't think many people consider tail calls more intuitive than a while loop. The opposite is more obvious.
SF is a bad example as they do not allow building or changing anything. They have high demand and limited supply and so cost are high for everything.

people move all the time hen the market isn't messed up so as long as someone wants to live there you are fine. Condos change, the logisics are complex but workable if it is allowed.
No, but when paired with a search api, they absolutely are

https://www.perplexity.ai/

https://www.phind.com/
Personally, my family avoids foods with hydrogenated ingredients, and added phosphates, nitrites or sulfites.
The latter doesn’t request robots.txt
I feel like you haven't spent much time in a Southern city if you think trucks like the two example here are rare. I see them all the time. I'll see at least one every time I go out, normally I'll see multiple.

I feel you assume too much about truck owners and apply your experiences in rural Michigan to all other truck owners. You think people like my examples of Frisco office workers having trucks are rare? You ever spend time in Frisco TX? Think they're all farmers on their zero lot line McMansions? Yet somehow practically every home has a truck out front, often multiple. That's just one town in the metroplex. And that's just the metroplex. We haven't even begun talking about Houston or San Antonio or Austin or even left Texas.

Go take a look around Charles Schab's campus in Westlake. You'll find the parking there loaded with tons of big pickup trucks. How many farmers do you think Charles Schwab hires? Do the same with JPMorgan's new offices in Plano. I guess nearly a third of their workforce are farmers or plumbers or painters or something.

> A SUV isn't much better for the environment and safety than a truck btw.

Agreed. Which is why my midsize SUV stays in the driveway unless I actually need the space or towing while my family normally takes the much smaller other car that fits us just right. I fully agree people also often oversize their car purchase with massive SUVs that don't really do much more than what a midsize sedan could do with their usage.
It seems a lot of these issues could be solved by just running the dishwasher after every meal.
I'm surprised you consider that construction "simple".

It's VASTLY simpler than the alternative. See how difficult it is to express the same relationship without using the recursive grammar.

Anyway, give anyone a family tree diagram containing all of these relationships and they can follow the chain from that sentence to the destination. This is the essence of why we use recursion in computer science in the first place: it's the best tool for navigating trees.
> So you're seeing some plastic being thrown out. That's besides the point. The point is how many volume of plastic is being dumped onto the environment after supermarkets switched away from cheap single-use plastic bags.

I'm not seeing anything myself, and I cited no anecdotes. I cited a study that found plastic use went up after the ban.
Multiplexing is a HTTP/2 feature. But as gRPC was based on an early HTTP/2 draft, it beat HTTP/2 to the punch. Thus it is likely that HTTP/2 didn't exist at the time the statement was made and therefore HTTP/1 would have been implied.
Not much compared to just about any completed game, but hopefully the framework is there.

You can talk to NPC's and do all their quests/tasks/riddles etc and do the goblin boss fight and quest. There is a lever-door puzzle in the basement of the chef's house.

You can fish, cook, mine, smelt, smith, woodcut, farm, and craft different items. There are some special abilities you can unlock. To me at least, the fun is just choosing your own adventure and discovering things as you go.

You do have to get used to right clicking on things to see if you can interact with them.
Oh, that's a shame. The big willy I drew is only visible at exactly the width I have it set at. I wonder what random things I'm missing. It takes a while to reflow too so it's not like it's easy to resize the window and see in realtime what other people are ding.
1) I don’t think this is an accurate read of the situation but others discuss that

2) a company is a set of processes and infrastructure, with some legal rights to employ people etc. The decisions of a driver of a car are the drivers fault not the cars. The car itself may be unsafe and should be adjusted if it’s possible. But there is no point in destroying the car if it has utility with different drivers and safety. Revenge isn’t a good reason to dismantle infrastructure. Revenge can only be taken on humans.

3) yes if you know people with chronic pain opioids are the difference between a full life and an early suicide. The consequence of all this is all opioid use is treated as potentially criminal by everyone involved from pharmacies to doctors to patients. This isn’t a feature this is a flaw. And the lack of legal opioid access is leading chronic sufferers into fentanyl from the street.
> As an attorney, I will always fight zealously for my clients, that doesn't mean I can't form opinions about the system as a whole.

The point of compassion fatigue is that when you start forming these opinions about the people you see, consciously or subconsciously, can you be as sure you are as zealously advocating for your clients as they deserve?

I don't mean to impugn you, to be clear. But that's the thing in EMS too, how am I sure I don't dismiss a patient's complaint as whining, when it's the third time I've seen them that week, even if I take care of everything else they have going on? And how long is it before that compassion fatigue leads me to miss or overlook a pertinent finding that has consequences for them?
Seems impossible to read Washington Post articles without opening them in incognito mode.
No, it's not a paywall, you aren't paying. It's in the name paywall
Opioids are highly addictive. If you're vulnerable and your doctor eagerly prescribes them because it feeds their wallet, you can easily loose control.

Don't blame the victims.
With that first sentence, I thought this might be doing down the road of, "boy, there sure is a lot of 'democracy' that needs to be spread."
PLDI disagrees with you. I generally don't care about institutional pedigree but I think in this case I'll defer to them over u/slashdave.
Yes; at the same time, it’s a scam only because people didn’t like it. If it got popular, it would have been a successful hustle and a new business model.
It's been pretty stable today since I fixed my email service.
Yes.

"At around 400 kilometers and into the 500-km realm — home to ISS and the SpaceX Starlink satellites among others — atmospheric drag plays a major role. Dead satellites and debris usually slow and burn up in the atmosphere in just a few years. This natural cleansing process accelerates when the sun becomes more active and solar coronal mass ejections strike Earth and cause the atmosphere to swell."

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/understanding-the...

Still, if the events occur not once in a decade but multiple times a year that could mean trouble for space travel:

"Linares sees a potential future where 'humans probably don’t have any incentive to launch satellites, because we’re losing 50% of them' to collisions with debris, he says."
I use protobuf to specify my protocol and then generate a swagger/openAPI spec then use some swagger codegen to generate rest client libraries. For a proxy server I have to fill in some stub methods to parse the json and turn it into a gRPC call but for the gRPC server there is some library that generates a rest service listener that just calls into the gRPC server code. It works fine. I had to annotate the proto file to say what REST path to use.
> JSON with WebSockets. Its stupid simple and still 7-8x faster than HTTP with far less administrative overhead than either HTTP or gRPC.

Everyone doing what you are saying ends up reinventing parts of gRPC, on top of reinventing parts of RabbitMQ. It isn't ever "stupid simple." There are ways to build the things you need in a tightly coupled and elegant way, but what people want is Next.js, that's the coupling they care about, and it doesn't have a message broker (neither does gRPC), and it isn't a proxy (which introduce a bajillion little problems into WebSockets), and WebSockets lifetimes don't correspond to session lifetimes, so you have to reinvent that too, and...
Friends and I used MAPP gas mixed with oxygen...had a pretty good kick but you were really just rolling the dice on the ratio
https://archive.ph/2024.06.27-183140/https://www.ft.com/cont...
I feel like just rehosting an actively maintained github repo would draw significant negative PR. And even if not, I feel like part of this business plan revolves around becoming a relatively big part of the ecosystem; one or two cloud providers potentially poaching your customers with a drop down option could easily be worth more in advertising than you’re losing in subscription dollars.

I’m guessing :shrug:
For a very long time, even PDP7, on which C was created, with ISZ – Increment the memory operand and Skip next instruction if result is Zero.
They are insulated really well - by vacuum!

I'm actually surprised by the figure, though. A small tube requires about 300 mA at 6 V, and the trick is that you can connect the heaters in series instead of doing it all in parallel and pumping out a ton of amps at a very low voltage.

They could've done 10 tubes in series at a reasonably safe 60 VDC, and they'd only need 20 amps.

Back in that era, because both valves and relays were expensive, it was also common to use them more creatively than just constructing standard logic gates. You'd try to make a full adder or a flip-flop cell as an analog circuit, breaking the abstractions we're now used to - but also saving components.
I work for clients that do not allow this shit, because their security teams and lawyers won't have it. But... they have in-house "AI ambassadors" (your typical useless middle managers, BAs, project managers, etc.) who see promoting AI as a survival strategy. On the business side these orgs are leaking data, internal comms, and PII like a sieve, but the software side is free of AI. For now.
> Until something better comes along, I will continue to use Clouflare and Google DNS.

Quad9 is likely better when it comes to respecting your privacy and not feeding into the cloudflare monolith. It also optionally supports EDNS, which Cloudflare breaks leading to occasional issues with archive.is (to be fair archive.is breaks it on purpose out of spite).
That doesn’t describe what happened.
IMO they're just impressed the AI came to a conclusion that actually runs and aren't skilled enough to recognize there's a simpler way to do it.
i vote link to the ruling itself
If I am going to trust a machine then it should perform at the level of a very competent human, not a general human.

Why would I want to ask your average person a physics question? Of course, their answer will probably be wrong and partly made up. Why should that be the bar?

I want it to answer at the level of a physics expert. And a physics expert is far less likely to make basic mistakes.
I'm not complaining about the pay.

I'm just complaining about the ethical rot. I have always believed that leaders need to be held to higher standards than anyone else, and, if they want to cry about it, they should distribute their pay to the folks that have to bear those standards, because their "leaders" won't.
Aren't many hairsprays just propane? I think its just a convenient option, otherwise you need a tank and/or a hose of something else
Liberal vs. conservative has always been the wrong take. The stronger dividing line is textualism vs pragmatism.

In fact Scalia famously said this coming from a textualist perspective which I think most people can agree with even if they hate him: “ If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach.”

This seems absolutely correct, but when is the last time ypu ever saw a commentator observe this? Critique has been reduced to “i dont like the effect so the interpretation of the law is wrong.” Put the other way, a fair observer must eventually say “i really hate the conclusion but they got it right.”
Playing with it, and I like how much I can influence it with a system prompt, llama3 reacts pretty mildly to any system prompts I've tried.
Like everything in this piece, this example seems to overlook major aspects of human experience and preference in its rush to draw smug “one little trick” conclusions.

Independently of cost and space considerations, why would you want such a ”system” as this dual-dishwasher setup?

I take aesthetic pleasure in unloading the machine in the morning and restoring my cabinets to a condition of full, orderly, clean stock. My relationship with the machine is as a tool that transitions items from dirty to clean, and it’s aesthetically displeasing to mix those purposes with the ordered, dry, clean cabinets. Those are places where you know you’ll always grab a clean item without having to check a post-it note first.

I take pleasure in owning the right cutlery and servingware for a wide variety of food and situations, and in using the correct subset for the correct occasion. The idea that I would use everything from the Clean Washer every time I fill the Dirty Washer utterly confuses and repulses me.

This, like essentially all of this person’s examples, reminds me of this Chesterton’s Fence kind of thing the rationalist types get on about: if a bunch of people are doing a thing, take the time to ask why before you assume your One Bright Trick is something new under the sun.
How often do satellites break up into clouds of orbiting debris?

Or another angle -- what percentage of satellite EOL events is "breaking up into a debris field" (vs "burning up in the atmosphere")?
You should have heard me last night yelling at a new mac and new phone within 3 feet of each other failing repeatedly to air drop. Sometimes it worked. Complete mystery.

Regardless, I do all the photo editing I need with medium-strength tools all free, and I have great Nikon gear. I don't have the time to spend hours on each photo. "Damn Good" doesn't need much work!

Browser and Libre Office work on Ubuntu for my former windows-shackled brother. Also Shotwell, IIRC. There was a computer "for seniors" once, and it had little more than browser and open office. Addressing the linked article, something that meets all your needs, and is relatively simple (who gets that nowadays?) is best.

I mostly use a mac. Been doing so since the Steves were working from Welch Road. Also linux (Solaris and SunOS when they paid me to) from time to time. I looked at my enormous collection of adapters, cards and cables, and at my age, (relative) simplicity is a good thing.
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There are many different types of toggles of functionality. Not all of them are enabling code features. Well, they are but the why they are is what is at issue.

But it's all the same code under the covers. The functionality of what is enabled encoded into a license key - that's the same type of functionality as "does this deployment allow people to sign up by email" or "has this deployment enabled the super secret power user test functionality?"

But that's all under "if dataSource.toggle then {something}"

https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html
FWIW I don't understand a lot of what either of you mean, but I'm very interested. Quick run-through, excuse the editorial tone, I don't know how to give feedback on writing without it.

# Post 1

> The problems of epistemology and informational quality control are complicated, but humanity has developed a decent amount of social and procedural technology to do these, some of which has defined the organization of various institutions.

Very fluffy, creating very uncertain parsing for reader.

Should cut down, then could add specificity:

ex. "Dealing with misinformation is complicated. But we have things like dictionaries and the internet, there's even specialization in fact-checking, like Snopes.com"

(I assume the specifics I added aren't what you meant, just wanted to give an example)

> The mere presence of LLMs doesn't fundamentally change how we should calibrate our beliefs or verify information. However, the mythology/marketing that LLMs are "outperforming humans"

They do, or are clearly at par, at many tasks.

Where is the quote from?

Is bringing this up relevant to the discussion?

Would us quibbling over that be relevant to this discussion?

> combined with the fact that the most popular ones are black boxes to the overwhelming majority of their users means that a lot of people aren't applying those tools to their outputs.

Are there unpopular ones aren't black boxes?

What tools? (this may just indicate the benefit of a clearer intro)

> As a technology, they're much more useful if you treat them with what is roughly the appropriate level of skepticism for a human stranger you're talking to on the street

This is a sort of obvious conclusion compared to the complicated language leading into it, and doesn't add to the posts before it. Is there a stronger claim here?

# Post 2

> I wonder what ChatGPT would have to say if I ran this text through with a specialized prompt.

Why do you wonder that?

What does "specialized" mean in this context?

My guess is there's a prompt you have in mind, which then would clarify A) what you're wondering about B) what you meant by specialized prompt. But a prompt is a question, so it may be better to just ask the question?

> Your choice of words is interesting, almost like you are optimizing for persuasion,

What language optimizes for persuasion? I'm guessing the fluffy advanced verbiage indicates that?

Does this boil down to "Your word choice creates persuasive writing"?

> but simultaneously, I get a strong vibe of intention of optimizing for truth.

Is there a distinction here? What would "optimizing for truth" vs. "optimizing for persuasion" look like?

Do people usually write not-truthful things, to the point it's worth noting that when you think people are writing with the intention of truth?