skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They govern the mail, by Act of Congress, as enumerated in the Constitution.

That you don't seem to like the USPS or its operations doesn't make it not a government service.

Some countries have no government postal service, and some have no postal service at all, but the US clearly has a government postal service.
Not exactly. Nastoikas are vodkas and other similar strong spirits infused with different aromas after distillation. You could buy a vodka bottle from the store and make a nastika at home from it.

Rakia is a strong spirit which is distilled from a different base than vodka. Whereas vodka is distilled from grains, rakia is distilled from fruit. You could also do a nastoika from rakia, I suppose.
Fighting AI-powered synthetic ID fraud with AI
the irony is that if large media providers aren't represented in the training sets, my comments on internet forums over the decades will be over-represented, which is kind of great, really.
This is neat, but why can't they just test the children's blood directly? In Massachusetts 70% of all children aged 9 months to 4 years old had their blood tested for lead in 2022. I'm not sure what the national average is.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/2022-annual-childhood-lead-poisonin... [PDF]
Ooooof.
Yes, congrats on being the only person in the world to believe a corporations social media posts around social issues.

>I'd like you to prove it now, or are you going to claim everyone you don't like isn't part of the true left?

I'm not sure what you're asking of me here? Lots of people on the left I don't like and lots of people on the right I disagree with on a lot of issues but like. My views are very socially liberal, financially I want everyone to have a very strong airtight safety net and access to the essentials for a safe healthy life, but I am also very pro capitalism.

I don't like any corporation though, they are made up of people and can change completely in an instant where excepting a mental health episode individuals aren't like that.
This is what you get when managers design a software tool instead of engineers designing it.
It's just virtue-signaling. It's no more complicated than that.
These guys visited Moldova: https://youtu.be/AhuHPhey7D4?si=5ova8E8UkEm2SBhe&t=42
One 'deeply human' behavior is feeding other, unrelated animals.
I suppose this will also lock the user out of sftp and scp? Because otherwise they might be able to edit the authorized_keys file and run any command.
> Tablets aren't very useful. Well to do stuff Computers can anyway.

Naya just perfectly summarized 80 % of the MacRumors forum in two sentences.
dict_variable = {1: 2, 3: None}
I looked at it this morning and I think it's helpful for those brand new to the shell. My only criticism of it is that it needs a once-over edit by a native English speaker. The exercises seem fine to me.
The comments here are absolute existential crisis. "Only I do spreadsheets good!" I agree, this looks really neat.
Looks great in Ladybird! ;)
Silicon Valley is eating your bandwidth.
And now the model that we've all been following for years for free is paywalled..
I did get told at one gig that I was almost not hired for the sin of showing up to the interview in a black collared shirt and jeans. They might have been taking the mickey out of me, though.

I mean, I thought it was the Silly Valley dress code! Heck, I'm pretty sure I wore sandals with socks!
Yeah I don’t care about serious threat actors, I just want to borrow my neighbors’ stuff at my whim.
In this context ontology means common vocabulary/categories.
My experience in middle class 90% white suburbs is the valuing of education is mostly surface level. It’s expected you’ll get a degree to get a career and it’s expected you try well enough to not get in trouble with your grades and such. But leisure and social life is much more valued. It’s never stated as such but it’s easy to observe. These families put on a facade and a lot of expectations of the school system, meanwhile their kids are likely on video games and social media much more than they read or study. Weekends are dominated by birthday parties, sports, and pool parties. Most kids aren’t being pushed like Asian cultures, there’s rarely any expectation of post-grad studies, etc. If you’re “good at math” in high school, you might go into Accounting because it pays well enough with a 4 year degree. Never mind the fact it’s just arithmetic with a set of rules and not really mathematical at all.
I am Ukrainian
I grew up in the 1990s with an overwhelming fear of HIV as a teenager. It still feels incredible that the virus is now undetectable and non-transmissible with medication that’s not much of a burden in one’s daily life. A cure for AIDS was much closer than anyone imagined in 1993.

When everything seems dark and hopeless, this is one of the examples that always lifts my spirits. Humankind can achieve incredible things together.
It is not streaming in the way people normally use this term. It's a fuzzy notion but typically streaming means something encompassing:

- Processing and emitting results on something closer to word by word level
- Allowing partial results while the user is still speaking and mid-segment
- Not relying on an external segmenter to determine the chunking (and therefore also latency) of the output.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/bFGEL
Local residents will lose right to block housebuilding
Why the current job market has been such a bad match for recent grads
This is worth a look as works over packet radio.

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

Also:

https://discord.gg/Ay7tj7w4
No, that is not correct. The SCP command was historically for a separate protocol, Secure Copy Protocol (and prior to 2022, it actually used that protocol). SFTP is Secure File Transfer Protocol. They are two separate things, and conflating them because of a compatibility layer is simply wrong.

It's like saying the classic reboot utility and systemd are the same thing just because modern Linux distros symlink the reboot command to systemctl. Or, to stretch a little further, like saying HTTP and HTTPS are the same thing just because most websites redirect one to the other.

There's no justification for spreading confusion and relying on a compatibility behavior for an obsolete command. That compatibility behavior is not present on pre-2022 distros, and may be removed again in the future once people are expected to have updated their scripts & whatnot. You're evangelizing SFTP, just use the SFTP command.
For when you want to spend more on a key than a Begali
The United States Constitution requires the United Staes Government to run a postal service. This means that the USPS must exist and it must be properly funded.
It feels unnatural as a single unmarried, slightly on the spectrum male in his 30’s to be interacting with other people’s children that I haven’t had a long relationship with the parents. I think most parents would agree. I am great with kids though, but mostly in the terms of people my age I can meet, they are in their 30’s with kids.
My web interface and pipelines appear to be down, but it seems like git operations are still working.
Maintaining the trademark requires continued use of Apache. Without the domain name in control, the security implications are disastrous considering how much legacy technology has the domain name hard coded.
From what I read of the OP they were talking about JS frameworks so it'd be like having to go from Java to Kotlin to Flutter to react mobile every few months not just updating libraries which is annoying but has continuity.
What happens after 15K karma?
Why can't we just fund scientists to acheive these goals? Funding has been lacklustre for years.
> Idon’t think your suggesting I’m “arguing in bad faith” is complying with that guideline.

> We don’t know why he nominated Myers

When you're making statements like nothing much has changed in the GOP's opinion of the NWS and climate change in 20 years and it's a giant mystery why Myers (who so often talked about this position) would get appointed really strains my ability to see it as arguing in good faith. You're arguing for me to ignore reality over and over and over.

> It could simply because some advisor talked the guy up to him.

You mean like the people behind Project 2025 which you act like would have zero influence in Trump's administration?

> Which is evidence against your narrative that the GOP is 100% behind this agenda.

Maybe not 100%, but once again one side is openly advocating for it and working towards it and the other side isn't. You're telling people to ignore reality. It's not a sure thing everything in Project 2025 will happen if Trump wins, but if you don't like any of it you probably shouldn't vote for the people who endorse it.

It's not a guaranteed thing the NWS will be privatized if the GOP win in November, sure. But voting GOP is to vote towards that end. With the NWS, with Social Security, abortion rights, contraceptive rights, gay marriage, and so much more.
> Would be nice to see people start tinkering again - really go crazy on protocols, experimental PHYs, etc. that’s the only way it’s ever going to be exciting again.

I was hoping to see some innovation after the FCC lifted the baud rate restrictions[1], but so far nothing seems to have changed.

[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397992A1.pdf
My "pragmatic" analysis:

I once spoke to a primary-care doctor about the risks of getting HIV through sex. The doctor told me that the risk of getting HIV the "typical way" (receiving anal sex) is about 1/72. Thus, for every 72 exposures, the recipient would contract HIV one time. This assumes that condoms are not used, and that the transmitter has an untreated HIV infection, which presumably has a high viral load.

Transmission risk goes down by orders of magnitude for other forms of sex, until we get to receiving blowjobs, where the risk is literally nil. There are zero recorded cases of HIV caused by receiving a blowjob.

In other words, HIV is actually kind of hard to get. You have to be very active, and not using protection, in order to get it. Or just be very, very unlucky. And that's with respect to untreated cases, which likely have high viral loads.

This suggests to me that, for practical purposes, undetectable levels are impossible to transmit. Or as the Prep marketing executives would say, "U means U" - undetectable means untransmittable.

Whether or not you're comfortable having sex with someone who is HIV+ but claims to have an undetectable viral load is a separate question entirely.
Guessing this is related: Minecraft is down, and possibly other games that use XBox Live Login: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status

"You may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems. Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won't be available."
Re ISM band usefulness: yeah. I grudgingly admit that the propagation characteristics of HF and probably even VHF aren't a great match for the ISM governance model, but at least everywhere I've ever used radios, UHF HAM bands are as dead as a doornail and don't (fine, generally) propagate far enough for small numbers of negligent users to create major problems for large amounts of users. Take some 400mhz UHF and make it ISM. 902-928mhz ISM has a ton of great stuff like LoRa going on, but access to 400mhz bands would be a huge shot in the arm to the practical usability of projects like Meshtastic without significant risks to the general usability of that chunk of spectrum.
Another interesting thing about the history of protocol development in ISM bands is how the need to cope with noise/overuse/other forms of spectrum degradation has spurred enormous advances in encoding and signal-processing techniques, quite contrary to the initial expectation of useless garbage dumping zone bands.
It seems like there was something special about the innovation derived from collective spirit during that time, the 1940-1960s. Post-depression and -war momentum combined with major scientific and technology milestones that had to be passed, with a dynamic caused by an unprecedented global situation.
The only models that do what you're poking at hostically are 4o (claimed) and that french company with the 7B one. They're also bleeding edge, either unreleased or released and way wilder, ex. The french one interrupts too much, and screams back in an alien language occasionally.

Until these, you'd use echo cancellation to try and allow interruptible dialogue, and thats unsolved, you need a consistently cooperative chipset vendor for that (read: wasn't possible even at scale, carrots, presumably sticks, and with nuch cajoling. So it works on iPhones consistently.)

The partial results are obtained by running inference on the entire audio so far, and silence is determined by VAD, on every stack I've seen that is described as streaming

I find it hard to believe that Google and Apple specifically, and every other audio stack I've seen, are choosing to do "not the best they can at all"
Maybe more in philosophy and classic general AI. Basically ontologies are systems of categorizing and classifying knowledge. E.g. if you want to reason about self driving, you would have an ontology that lets you separate traffic signs from billboards.
Came for TikTok - Stayed for TikInABox - I feel low-key rick-rolled :)
Seems like a reasonably-cromulent use-case -- or at least, it fits in with my own uses of LLMs.

I suck at spreadsheets. I know they can do both useful and amazing things, but my daily life does not revolve around spreadsheets and I simply do not understand most of the syntax and operations required to make even fairly basic things work. It requires a lot of time and effort for me to get simple things done with a spreadsheet on the rare occasion that I need to manipulate one.

There are things in life that I am very good at; spreadsheets are simply not amongst them.

But do I know what I want, and I generally even have a ballpark idea of what the results should look like, and how to calculate it by hand [horror]. I just don't always know how to articulate it in a way that LibreOffice or Google Sheets or whatever can understand.

LLMs have helped to bridge that gap for me, but it's a pain in the ass: I have to be very careful with the context that I give the LLM (because garbage in is garbage out).

But in the demo, the LLM has the context already. This skips a ton of preamble setup steps to get the LLM ready to provide potentially-useful work, and moves closer to just making a request and getting the desired output.

Having one unified interface saves even more steps.

(And no, this isn't for everyone.)
All of your examples could be negated, I will just do one as an example:

Apple did not spend 20+ years developing the smart phone thinking "I hope this research pays off". The same for the rest of your examples.

Bell Labs, OTOH, was literally like "go do fundamental telecom and computer research, and we will see if we can use it to get ahead".

Those are two different mindsets. Amazon had one goal so did Nvidia, Google, etc, with each venture you cited. Bell Labs was a _research park_ of exploration that we do not recreate today.
GitHub Actions is also degraded, coincidence?

https://www.githubstatus.com/

For me, pipelines are queuing and not even scheduling jobs on self hosted runners.
Formal verification uses Prolog a lot. System on TPTP at U of Miami utilizes this for many of the formally verified tests on there. It is just a more intense discipline than general programming which is why I’m perpetually drawn to it trying to find more real world applications. It is not exactly Prolog but close enough to mention the similarities.
Because the marketplace is more efficient at directing the funding. I’m not a cheerleader for capitalism either, but it does work better sometimes.
You should see how much outdated / unsafe / unpatched legacy code is on Microsoft Dynamics.
I filed a complaint with the CFPB and the FTC against the commercial entities mentioned in this piece. I suggest you do the same. That’s what regulators are for.

Edit: wouldn’t hurt to file a complaint with your state’s attorney general as well. Always Be Establishing A Papertrail.
What Programmers Have to Know About Testing (2010, Janet Gregory)
Node.js v22.5.0 Post-Mortem
Your address is basically public information in a number of different ways (e.g. voter registration rolls and real estate transactions) unless you take a lot of steps, including using legal entities, to obfuscate it. I'm not going to specifically defend USPS practices but your address isn't really private in the US and many other places.
Please don't post ChatGPT spam here. If you're curious, the meaning of WITCH is

Wipro Infosys TCS Cognizant HCL

Commonly included is Accenture (India)
They're claiming only Central US is having issues on the cloud side. But, the portal itself is also having trouble loading pages and "global" services like identity management.
No, from the documentation it seems they share a lot of infrastructure between GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines.
Hahaha, I know what you mean.

It's been awhile since I've looked at NSA on graphs, but it's an interesting field of study. For something of a taste, an alternative proof of Kőnig's lemma might look like:

- Start with a locally finite, connected, infinite graph G.

- Choose any nonstandard extension G* of G.

- By the transfer principle (basically just logical compactness), there exist hyperpaths [0] of unbounded (hypernatural) length in G*. Pick one, P*.

- Restricting P* to G you obtain some path P, which is the infinite path you're looking for.

I settled into industry instead, but that's the sort of thing I'd like to study if I ever go back for a PhD, hence the interest in those sorts of ideas applying to spectral theory.

[0] The "transfer" of a path isn't actually necessarily a connected path in the usual sense, but it's indexed by the hypernaturals, and each well-ordered countable segment is connected. I'm skipping the entire intro that makes those operations make sense.
Cyanide found in teacups shared by six found dead in Bangkok hotel
From the guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Most sentences in the world are not about truth or falsity. Training on a high quality corpus isn’t going to fix ‘hallucination’. The complete separation of facts from sentences is what makes LLMs powerful.
I think they work anyplace that supports utf-8
I would be disappointed if any printable unicode character did not work
Stop Calling Yourself an IC
Here's a silly idea: take a sample of lines of code, for each line in the sample, remove the line. See how many tests fail as a result of the line being removed. shares++ to all users that come back with git blame entries on that line * how many tests fail when it's removed.

then normalize so all the users add up to 1, use that as your coefficient on disbursements.

Of course it's gameable, hopefully there's a BDFL to guard against test/commit stuffing or other bad faith things.
I imagine they’ll have an unfortunate demand shortage when China invades next year and the US refuses to intervene.
A lack of trust in government, a belief all government services should pay for themselves, a lack of anti-trust enforcement, a lack of regulation on abusive and overly-capitalistic companies,

I could go on, but the list is basically what the average American seems to chide the EU for
It's not a guaranteed thing, sure. But with one party it's like a 0.00000005% chance and the other it's like a 10% chance. Which one to pick knowing the stakes are high on this one...
WITCH is the acronym for Indian tech consulting companies for WiPro, InfoSys, Tata Consultancy Services, C something, H something. They're stereotyped as being cheap and low-quality.

Not agreeing/disagreeing here, just stating author's intent.
I was in Moldova back in 2013 for a university org summer course and for me it somehow felt like being in Cuba. There weren't many tourists but everyone was very welcoming. You could see even between students the difference in pro-russians and pro-europeans. Weird thing is cut the hot water during the summer. Best wine I've ever had and it was home made from my friend's parent's cellar. Loved the time there.
This sounds a bit like they're suffering from derealization, honestly.
To be pedantic, the US Constitution simply grants Congress the exclusive power to establish post offices and post roads. Nowhere does it make any requirements about how Congress uses that power.
I'm well aware of the history of Unix. My point was simply that Bell Labs was historically not a particularly open organization outside of the bounds that they were required to be by law.
So yes they are both magnetic, thanks.
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Does Trump really not understand the proverb, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend?"
> almost European in ambiance

It should. SPB is in the European part of Russia.
Set aside focus time on your calendar where you turn off notifications and don't accept meetings.
Chatting via SSH has given me a lot of insights. Thank you.
Not a coincidence, no.

From the "self-hosted" perspectively, interestingly what we're seeing at Depot (https://status.depot.dev/clyrvud6i57402igofm6jtb7id) is API requests to provision new runners or receive runner jobs are receiving rate limit errors, but without the regular rate limit status HTTP headers[1].

I imagine the GitHub API / Actions control plane is rather overloaded at the moment with the outage.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limi...
Dammit, I had hoped I'd nerdsniped you... but the nerdsniper is you and now I'm curious!