skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Carmel borrowed money to buy amenities that attract a higher socioeconomic class of people.

Yes, that's what I was saying. I took your previous statement "Expecting a city or state to go bankrupt trying to solve a national problem" as an implication that Carmel's debt was somehow trying to solve a poverty problem. It isn't. As you say, it's about attracting wealthy people (and to a certain extent, expelling poor people).

>I do not think I should sacrifice and possibly sink my community

Utilitarian thinkers may disagree on this.

>At some point, I have to prioritize me and mine.

Kantian thinkers may disagree on this. If you logically extend this, it becomes a prisoner's dilemma and results in worse results for everybody. (which brings us back to the issues I have with applying game theory as your original post stated.)

The real argument is defining that "point" where sacrificing for the group devolves into worse outcomes. If you have succinct ideas on that, I'd be curious to hear them. But too often it becomes a fuzzy, abstract concept that just rationalizes otherwise selfish behavior.
Phi-3 does well in benchmarks but underperforms IRL; for example, Phi-3-Medium gets beaten badly by Llama-3-8b on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena despite doing better on benchmarks.

Gemma's performance if anything seems understated on benchmarks: the 27b is currently ahead of Llama3-70b on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard.
Obviously another small model would be specialized in determining that.
Just flat out false. There's less international conflict today than ever, thanks to Pax Americana .

Are there some rogue states that do not play well with American hegemony? Yes

But these states can easily make good by simply following America's terms. There are few grudges being held. No one is going to kill all their men and enslave their women. American demands are not so gruesome. They're relatively mild and would likely improve the standard of living of everyone there. I don't make this claim vacuously. Broadly speaking, everywhere that has adopted American hegemony has done incredibly well for themselves and their populace. Rationally speaking, there's no reason not to.
Tracking U.S. state biometric privacy legislation
I know how much I am normally able to lift each exercise. So let's say 125 lbs shoulder press, I expect to be able to lift the weights 10 times the first set, 9 times the second, 8 the third set. If I can't lift the weights 10 times I failed early.
Reminds me of a prof at uni, who's slides always appeard to have been written 5 mins before the lecture started, resulting in students pointing out mistakes in every other slide. He defended himself saying that you learn more if you aren't sure weather things are correct - which was right. Esp. during a lecture, it's sometimes not that easy to figure out if you truly understood something or fooled yourself, knowing that what you're looking at is provably right. If you know everything can be wrong, you trick your mind to verify it at a deeper level, and thus gain more understanding. It also results in a culture where you're allowed to question the prof. It resulted in many healthy arguments with the prof why something is the way it is, often resulting with him agreeing that his slides are wrong. He never corrected the underlying PPP.
No problem with Google hosting it (although I’d still use sub-resource integrity) but anyone else?
I am surprised that there's still money for this type of OSS SaaS companies.

Aren't all the money go to AI companies these days (even the unicorns didn't do well with their IPOs. E.g. Hashicorp).

That said, I love every single addition to the Go community so thumbs up from me.
Gimme a small website with 3 endpoints:

website.domain/deep

website.domain/wide

website.domain/show

Both "deep" and "wide" should record a list of every IP address:port combination that hits the URL, as well as a timestamp and a random 2-digit base64 number generated when they hit the site. They should redirect the user to "show"

Keep addresses from the "deep" list for 7 days, and the "wide" list for 12 hours, removing them from the list when this time limit runs out

On "show", if the current viewer's random number matches someone from the "deep" list, show that entry on the page, with its IP address as well as the timestamp, in red. Whether or not there's a match, show the entire "wide" list, including the IP address, random number, and port, but not the timestamp, and randomize the order in which they're shown.

If someone hits "show" and their IP is on neither list, put them on the "deep" list anyway

Make this display as aesthetically pleasing as possible. Use any language or framework you like
> The Congress shall have Power…To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Sounds like Author's Rights to me.
Considering the patience the US has with getting justice against other individuals who have fled our jurisdiction, we could do the same here. We also have an enormous amount of influence in the financial sector in other western nations, so we could at least make their lives less lavish and comfortable.

Throwing up our hands and declaring it an unsolvable issue just encourages others to misbehave and then escape the same way.
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We built this in less than an hour with zero downtown worries.
Reddit has been the most trustworthy source for me in the last ~5 years, especially when I want to buy something.
> I find myself endlessly frustrated by these discussions around the teaching of mathematics. People seem to want to make it more conversational, more interactive, more engaging. It doesn't work that way! Learning mathematics is like learning to play a musical instrument. No amount of 1-on-1 discussion with a teacher will get you to mastery.

That's flat out untrue. I speak from experience of teaching math all the way from grade school to teaching undergrads and grad students to teaching adults.

I can take a failing student who is completely confused and get them on track in a few hours over a few weeks. 1-on-1 discussions are not just really important, they're astronomically more effective than anything else.

Making math engaging is the number one thing that matters. Being an engaging teacher matters. Adapting to a specific student and their needs matters. Someone can practice something they hate for 10 hours and get nowhere. Someone else can practice something they love for 10 minutes and make amazing progress. You remember things that are engaging, you hardly remember anything about things that are boring.

This is what all of these AI tools get wrong. Even if they understood the problem domain and could explain it --- which they cannot.

I've had this experience with adults switching jobs into programming too. So many avoided STEM because they hated math. After like two hours together they not only got math, they started to enjoy it. Happens all the time.

> You just need to practice. For hours and hours and hours.

This is probably the worst brain damage that Gladwell and others have done with the whole nonsense of 10,000 hours of practice.

No. No amount of poor quality practice where you're hitting your head against the wall will be productive.

You need to learn how to practice math. Practice is worth it after you've gained some mathematical sophistication and some understanding of the problem domain. Most people need peers or a teacher or a tutor to help get them unstuck and point you in the right direction.

> The teacher cannot replace individual practice time.

No amount of practice for 99% of people can replace a tutor. Yes, people with mathematical aptitude don't need one; I didn't. But most people need to have some guidance and then they can practice.
Patient buyers are another characteristic of long tail markets on eBay.

The pool of stamp collectors etc. is small relative to say guitar players; there’s not an endless September; and buying from dealers is the “socially acceptable” way of starting.

So potential buyers on eBay tend to be experienced bargain shoppers when it comes to ordinary collectability. They will happily wait for the bragging rights price or at least the no way to lose money price.

Collecting is a hobby. Picking is a business.
UK clearly doesn't have large enough guns. /s

I joke, but realistically, the UK has not gone the way of Terraform of FTX, so ...
Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Love my truck but it is not my daily driver. Only drive it when I need to carry stuff in the bed. I have driven several electric cars. They are fun to drive but they don't seem ready for prime time yet. Once charging gets consolidated and more widely available I will look at them again.
Hopefully quality of translations will improve, they are behind deepl and ChatGPT.
Purely observance and subjective personal experience. I find the best results for myself are when I stay closer to ruminant meat and eggs as my primary nutrition sources. I tend to feel various forms of ill when I have wheat and legumes (depending on processing).

For most, I've seen the best results when people stay closer to minimally processed foods in general. Paleo, keto, vegetarian, can all be either minimally processed or include in-group junk foods. Personally, I think it's the junk food, excessive sugar and seed oil consumption that most do best without. It's hard to do, and harder still the more restrictive of a diet you may be getting the best results from. Especially when interacting with social queues and food around you.
But isn't the other dishwasher that we just declared "dirty" still full of clean dishes?

And furthermore, if I just have two dishwashers, both of which are considered "dirty", I no longer have clean plates.

Unless, of course, I unload it to the cabinets. Which I do now. Without paying $800 for a second dishwasher.
"The company hasn’t set aside funds for vehicle buybacks from consumers. It could, however, potentially sell off parts of the business to a buyer that would then be able to offer warranties to existing owners and service the vehicles."

What? That's not how this works. Demand a refund [1]. Then you have claims for a bankruptcy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law
Symbian Source Code: Final Repositories from the Defunct Symbian Foundation
Row is just a dumb object, without a type.
I'm really curious how you folks compare to something like Apache Airflow. They do a similar durable execution w/ DAGs on top of postgres and redis. They're Python-only (one definite difference). I'm curious what other comparisons you see

ETA: I really like the idea of this being entirely built on Postgres. That makes infrastructure a lot easier to manage
The "deficient namespace handling in the stdlib" is only relevant when parsing XML, then trying to re-emit it. Since this library does not support re-emitting XML, it is either "worse" or "n/a", depending on your mood.

However, looking at the output data structures, yes, it would have the same problem if the obvious modification to re-emit XML was made.

It's actually very common, to the point I'm surprised when I encounter an XML parser that handles the problem you are referring to correctly, in any language. I've had to hack it in to every XML parser I've ever used when I care about preserving namespace abbreviations.
> We called it the ‘Great Reshuffling,’ because we kept seeing that people would land those jobs so quickly, even in the Bay Area,” Ratliff said. “... The jobs were still being available. They just weren’t paying as lucratively as we saw people paying right after the pandemic.”

If we were in a deep recession or something, I'd understand. Can somebody give me another reason why they did this--"coincidentally" all at the same time--other than to deliberatly lower our salaries?

What recourse do we have? Are we really powerless to do anything about this? If so, what's to prevent them doing the same thing next year?
> Additionally, when people use CriticGPT, the AI augments their skills, resulting in more comprehensive critiques than when people work alone, and fewer hallucinated bugs than when the model works alone.

But, as per the first graphic, CriticGPT alone has better comprehensiveness than CriticGPT+Human? Is that right?
I genuinely think that arguing with it has been almost a secret weapon for me with my grad school work. I'll ask it a question about temporal logic or something, it'll say something that sounds accurate but is ultimately wrong or misleading after looking through traditional documentation, and I can fight with it, and see if it refines it to something correct, which I can then check again, etc. I keep doing this for a bunch of iterations and I end up with a pretty good understanding of the topic.

I guess at some level this is almost what "prompt engineering" is (though I really hate that term), but I use it as a learning tool and I do think it's been really good at helping me cement concepts in my brain.
proto2 allowed both required fields and optional fields, and there were pros and cons to using both, but both were workable options.

Then proto3 went and implemented a hybrid that was the worst of both worlds. They made all fields optional, but eliminated the introspection that let a receiver know if a field had been populated by the sender. Instead they silently populated missing fields with a hardcoded default that could be a perfectly meaningful value for that field. This effectively made all fields required for the sender, but without the framework support to catch when fields were accidentally not populated. And it made it necessary to add custom signaling between the sender and receiver to indicate message versions or other mechanisms so the receiver could determine which fields the sender was expected to have actually populated.
Sorry I wasn't talking about density but the copper content of a powder which is printable. Googling a bit I found this presentation from 2022 showing that a density of 99.5% for pure copper is possible although at half the productivity of a copper alloy https://www.coppercouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TS2...
Astronauts take shelter in Starliner, other spacecraft after satellite breakup
The knowledge distillation is very interesting but generating trillions of outputs from a large teacher model seems insanely expensive. Is this really more cost efficient than just using that compute instead for training your model with more data/more epochs?
Update your Windows PC to avoid a serious WiFi vulnerability
Finding Deceit in the Chambers of Xenobia (2022)
What percentage of pickup truck drivers do you think actually frequent truck stops and 24hr diners? 90%? 50%? 10%?

How about all the spotless lifted pickup trucks in the parking garage in my suburban office parking garage owned by insurance salesmen and software developers? Think they go to truck stops and 24hr diners often? None of them are delivering anything to anyone's homes other than groceries from Whole Foods to their own suburban home.

Incredible to me so many people think the majority of truck owners work on a farm or a trade. Just look around. Take a peek in an office parking garage in Kansas City. Think all those people working in some healthcare insurance office are farmers or something?

Go someplace other than that 24hr diner or farmer supply store and notice all the trucks that obviously aren't work trucks.
It took a little getting used to - i had the same qualm. But honestly, I don't mind now at all. The text adjustment is very fine in the default reader and the resolution is high, so pick a font you find readable and it's really not so different from a pocket paperback page.
I became aware of this while listening to episode 980 of the Security Now podcast [0], in which Steve Gibson points out that this attack is not limited to close proximity attackers.

Any compromised routers out there can be used to stage this attack against vulnerable Windows PCs on the network, making a significantly larger portion of real users directly vulnerable to PC takeover (vs. being in direct proximity of an attacker).

- [0] https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/980
Long running transactions can easily lock up your database. I'd definitely avoid those. You're better off writing status records to the DB and using those to determine whether something is running, failing, etc.
Hard-coding explanations does seem like the way to go here. It's what researchers at Carnegie Mellon did back in 1984 with demonstrated success. See: Intelligent tutoring Systems: The ACT Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boDH_pW14B0
My question is, if we've had intelligent math tutoring demonstrating success in real classrooms since 1984, then why haven't we been actually using them to help teach math?
https://x.com/Space_Station/status/1806162645424189945
WasmGC: Revenge of the JVM
I hear this a lot but I don't think the "lazy AF people who also are terrible at personal financial management" is really fair.

I order delivery through the apps a ton, but it's not because I'm bad at financial management. Like many here, I have a well paying job that takes up a ton of my time and energy during the week, and cooking every night is simply not feasible. Takeout is expensive, sure, but if it enables me to hold down a job that let's me afford it, it's a conscious trade-off that I can make.

Could I spend more time meal-prepping and freeze meals instead? Sure. But again, time and energy.
One of my favourite investigation stories
Fun Fact: There are Countries where Spudguns are illegal and treated like a weapons charge. Germany being one of them.
We're source available, and a helm chart will be coming soon. We're actually doing the last of any queue migrations now.

One of our key aspects is reliability. We were apprehensive of officially supporting self hosting with awkward queue and state store migrations until you could "Set it and forget it". Otherwise, you're almost certainly going to be many versions behind with a very tedious upgrade path.

So, if you're a cowboy, totally self hostable. If you're not (which makes sense — you're using durable execution), check back in a short amount of time :)
This gets at the absolute torrent of LLM diarrhea that people are adding to PRs these days. The worst of it seems to come from junior and first time senior devs who think more is more when it comes to LoC. PR review has become a nightmare at my work where juniors are now producing these magnificent PRs with dynamic programming, esoteric caching, database triggers, you name it. People are using LLMs to produce code far beyond their abilities, wisdom, or understanding, producing an absolute clusterfuck of bugs and edge cases. Anyone else dealing with something similar? How are you handling it?
This is really cool, I wonder what .NET to wasmGC would be like.
>OCPD

I do have this.

You're right though, the answer is patience.
Thank you for the response. I still don’t understand why it would be necessary for C++ to default to non-explicit constructors when C at the time did not have constructors and did not have constructor-like struct initialization that mimicked non-explicit constructors.

It seems like an unforced error in the language design, rather than a concession to backwards-compatibility.
People aren't even entering a credit card number, they're just using Apple Pay!

The Tesla-owned fleet will likely have the same requirements as riding an Uber. If the rumors are to be believed, those will be dedicated robotaxi vehicles with no steering wheel.

Of course for peer-to-peer you will be able to set your own requirements based on what you're comfortable with, or even just not join the network at all so your car stays exclusively yours.
AI scaling myths: Scaling will run out. The question is when
Then those who wish profit without sharing will just offer SaaS instead of binaries. Exactly as they do with a significant amount of copyleft-licensed software today.

Pulling back copyright doesn't necessarily force people to share -- people can also keep secrets. A primary purpose of IP law is to encourage sharing.
My company simply prohibits any AI generated code. Seems to work rather well.
Do you mean in relation to Blazor? C#, F#, and VB already compile to wasm. They have their own GC.
Oh wow didn’t know that stripe has Israeli ties. Thanks for the heads up—I’ll try to shop around for a more ethical alternative. May not be able to though—launch is imminent!
I have a water pistol on my desk. Anyone wasting my time or energy for no great reason gets a squirt.
Just because one person wastes money, it doesn't mean that someone else gets rich. If the employees spend their income on low-margin goods or services (food and clothing are quite competitive low-margin sectors with high labor costs), the money has flowed from investors mostly to laborers.
Device tokens keep your payment cards safe in Google Wallet
ChatGPT and Gemini incorporate web search into their results, so they're not limited to stale information.

If you think you can save money by paying per token in the playground, you should know that you're not getting the same results.

For example, if I ask Gemini the identical question, it gives a reasonable answer, even though Gemini was released before ChatGPT was released. It can look up the current OpenAI documentation and summarize it:

USER

What is the maximum number of tokens supported by gpt-4o?

ASSISTANT

GPT-4o has a context window of 128,000 tokens. This means it can process up to 128,000 tokens between your input and its output combined. However, the maximum number of output tokens (the AI's response) is limited to 4,096 tokens.
Still true. My brother, who is the least tech-aware person, got tired of windows updates breaking his peripherals, so he ended up with a linux desktop from Dell, supported by Dell, and he hasn't asked me for any computer help since.

For common chores, "it just works". He uses Libre Office, which also just works. I think he uses Shotwell for photo management.
I think most people can handle most diets. I do think that there are influences from things like excess sugar, seed oil and highly processed foods. These are things that are generally hard to study en-masse and take a lot of time. Observational studies are more difficult to get anything convincing from in general. Not to mention differences that take place over generations, like experienced in some cat feeding experiments.

"Food" has changed so much in the past 150 years and more around 100 years ago then the history of man before it. Humans are also incredibly adaptive, and experience disease in different ways altogether.
In my experience Sonnet 3.5 is about the same as 4o for coding. Sometimes one provides a better solution, sometimes the other. Both are pretty good.
You are basically saying there should be stock market but only for ultra wealthy folks. And others have no right investing or expecting higher returns.
Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections
Yeah, and what I like is that I can get it to say things in "dumb language" instead of a bunch of scary math terms. It'll be confidently wrong, but in language that I can easily understand, forcing me to looking things up, and kind of forcing me learn the proper terminology and actually understanding it.

Arcane language is actually kind of a pet peeve of mine in theoretical CS and mathematics. Sometimes it feels like academics really obfuscate relatively simple concepts but using a bunch of weird math terms. I don't think it's malicious, I just think that there's value in having more approachable language and metaphors in the process of explaining thing.
Would love to know which LLMs you’re using because every single one I’ve used has been hot garbage that can’t do anything beyond joining a couple tables and fails miserably at basic GROUP BY/COUNT aggregates. Window functions? Fuggetaboutit
I just got a Kobo Clara Color over their cheaper models largely for the page turn buttons (and being able to highlight in multiple colors of course). Combined with how shockingly light it is (lighter than my phone), one handed reading is excellent.