skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what point is it no longer my fault for not voting democrat? Is the democratic party responsible at all for putting up an appealing candidate? How many times can they bully us with fearmongering into voting for someone we dislike? What's the end game here? we just keep voting blue no matter who as things get worse and worse forever?
> In any case, their hypothesis is testable: which open source innovations from Llama1/2 informed Llama3?

I am not sure, but I agree that it is definitely testable.

If I had to guess/answer, I would argue that the open source contributions to Pytorch have a downstream contribution to the performance, and maybe the preparation and release of the models required an amount of polish and QA that would otherwise not have been there.
The medical machine software should just refuse to run with an error message if a critical driver was not loaded.
The OS bricking is causing way more trouble where an IT technician now needs to fix something where it otherwise would just be updating the faulty driver...
Also does your car not start if you are missing water for the wiper?
Sorry I should've clarified.

People use 3.5 for testing the capabilities of LLMs, and then conclude that LLMs are inherently bad at that task, when in reality there are better models.
The folly of Open Source strikes again --- with a highly biased, opportunistic and uninspired comparison of Crowdstrike and the XZ incident.

"Because all that code was open-source and could be audited, somebody caught it in time, before it could escape on to the net and do real damage."

- "Because all that code was open-source" is what created the opportunity to inject the back door in the first place.

- Lack of due diligence in the Open Source distribution chain is what allowed a bad actor to gain commit rights.

- Sheer luck and a careful eye; not source code availability, is what allowed a "closed source" software engineer to uncover the XZ backdoor before it could do real damage.

- In both cases, the people involved failed to conduct due diligence on the product they were delivering. And no "distribution model" is immune from these shortcomings.

- The suggestion that an Open Source distribution model offers some such immunity is denied by the facts in the XZ case and is pure folly.
Of course `ls` is maintained, as a part of your shell or of coreutils.

But `eza` is a variation of `exa`, and the latter is no longer maintained, AFAICT.
This discusses what "elites" think a lot, but does not discuss why that matters

From 1950 to 1979, times we think of more stable families, the Gini index in the US never went above 39. From 1993 to 2019 it never went below 40. There has been a shift where working class men were more on par with the heirs of the USA, but things have shifted so this is less so. The shift in power to what elites think is more important coincides with a shift of income and wealth to these heirs.

Another problem cited is a lack of "a submissive attitude toward the boss". From the 1930s to the 1970s, US workers had larger union representation, and engaged in sit-down strikes and wildcat strikes. This does not sound like a submissive attitude toward the boss. As the heirs have successfully cracked down on worker organization, this becomes individualized, with submissive workers getting low pay (according to this) getting work, and those not "submissive" as this says, who seek higher pay not being connected to production, leading to instability outside of the workplace.

There has been a conscious shift by the mentioned elite to remove workers representation, power, organization, pay and stability. These are seen as less of a problem than some supposed lack of a paternal attitude from the elite to lecture the working class about their lack of a "submissive" attitude as this says.

It's the same nonsense we've heard since 1980, from funded think tanks and various establishment institutions, it goes hand in hand with the policies and shift in income and wealth disparity which led to this.
What is your definition of bare metal?
> If their game runs on my machine, then cheating is my prerrogative. v

Sure.

However, due to the nature of how these games work, cheating cannot be prevented serverside only.

So, if you want to play the game, you have to agree to install the anti-cheat because it's the only way to actually stop cheating.

The *only other alternative is to sell a separate category of gaming machines where users wouldn't have access to install cheats, using something like the TPM to enforce.
Exactly this. California has enacted term limits and it hasn’t gone well.

Lobbyists run everything because the politicians are all too new. It also completely disincentivizes long-term thinking because the system guarantees they will be out of office by the time the chickens come home to roost.
> Does this set a strong precedent for all these types of sites?

Ryanair has successfully sued other companies doing the same for a while now. But I mostly know about their cases in the EU. This case is from USA.

> Why is it almost always cheaper to buy through some weird 3rd party than with the airline directly?

It's not necessarily cheaper, the flight-search is usually just better in filtering, and has a cache of previous results. So humans might get the same cheap result if they just search long enough and know how to use the airline-site efficiently.
I think you might be confusing visibility with existence. Someone with a partially treated disorder very much looks on the outside to be faking it. Someone who is managing their ADHD by orienting their life around it with a complex system of high-effort strategies to get by and isn't visibly ADHD (especially the inattentive variant which is more common in women) around others nonetheless deserves to not have to do all that if possible. They shouldn't have to perform their rock bottom for you to take them seriously.

I'm sure there are people who are knowingly or unknowingly "faking it" but there's no one to be offended on behalf of, I have pretty severe ADHD and I couldn't care less. They're not hurting anyone least of all me.
Maybe add a reference to DementiaBank as required by the dataset.
Things that can't be done
Notes from Mìmì Tiānfú

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Things that can't be done

We can achieve anything if we are ready to work on it ( l*zy me ). However the only thing that can't be done is:
~ What I can't do
~ What you can't do and
~ What we can't do
So this means that particular thing can't be done.
This is like me saying " If I'm (you're) looking for something to exist and I(you) can't find it, it might actually be the person am (you're) looking for to build it is myself (yourself)".
I remind myself of this often and it's sometimes painful, it's the reality. I'm just giving myself a blow for not being super technical .
How much does it really help you if your complete user-space can still be messed up by an offending Windows SYSTEM process? As I understand it, they are able to hurt the system e.g. by killing processes, uninstalling applications, replacing binaries, allocating memory, starting too many processes, ..

Actually I could easily see a buggy remote system management update could just decide to uninstall everything and nuke the system, because it thinks it's stolen. And it would be designed functionality for it.
Zeiss cinema lenses (in particular master primes) have the least distortion I’ve come across
First on barriers: Becoming a reseller to an existing registrar requires far less than $70k. In fact there's tens if not hundreds of thousands of these types of businesses out there.

Second, being a registrar is a ton of responsibility and you cannot start thinking it should be as easy as starting your handmade jewelry business.

And finally, no, $70k is not a lot of money especially for a stable business with a sound business plan. Banks especially love loaning money on reliable income sources, and domain names are very stable.
They own Priceline, Kayak, Agoda and a lot of other sites
Income isn't the only measure of wealth. Also, there are two major expenses affecting Gen Z:

1. Education

2. Housing

Both have been increasing at a rate faster than inflation for some time now. While Gen Z may have a greater income, their major expenses are even greater. When all is said and done, they're poorer as a result. Turns out that simply having money is insufficient to solving all financial problems.
I look forward to your next post on the topic then!

> I'm curious why you needed to deal with `Pin` instead of using async functions.

The protocol I was trying to implement streams messages over time over a single HTTP request thats kept alive for a long time. This is how Server-Sent Events (SSE) works, and its how Google Chat in gmail was first implemented in a way that supported IE 5.5 (!!!).

This was a couple years ago now, so the details are a bit fuzzy. And I was relatively new to rust at the time. I was, at the time, still sometimes surprised by the borrow checker.

My goal was to make a writable async stream that I could push messages into from other parts of my program. And it also needed backpressure. When you sent messages into the stream, the protocol implementation it encoded them and streamed them into the body of my HTTP response object. I was (I think) using hyper.

This is before TAIT was in rust, and for one reason or another I needed to store / reference the future object I was making. (If you use an async fn(), you don't get a name for the Future type the function returns. So I couldn't put the return type in my struct, because I couldn't name it.)

So I ended up writing a custom struct that implemented Future, so I could reference the future elsewhere in my code. Hence, implementing Poll myself. I can't honestly remember how Pin came into it all. I think hyper's API for doing this sort of thing stored a Pin<T> or something.

I remember at some point trying to write a where clause using higher ranked type bounds to describe the lifetime of a future object that was- or wasn't- associated with the lifetime of the corresponding HTTP request. And that may or may not have been Pinned, and I gave up.

It might be fun to revisit this at some point now rust's async support has matured a little. And now that I've matured a lot in how I understand rust. I certainly don't imagine that everyone using async will run into the sort of quagmire that I hit. But this was the first thing I ever really wanted to do with async rust, and it felt horrible to fall on my face trying.
They’re bigger in Europe
Insomnia subtypes have distinctive deviations in brain structural connectivity
Umferdin.is: Traffic and Road Condition Information for Iceland
Why trust somebody else not messing up? With that in place for windows and crowdstrike billions of dollars would be saved and many lives not negatively impacted
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Consider also the green revolution which enabled more calories to be grown per hectare. I don’t know if it takes less water and nutrients, though.
No virtual machines, zones/containers/jails.

Physical deployment with an operating system that ran on hardware directly.

The only management interface being the very anaemic out of band management controller.
They make a 'free software media solution that puts you in control and respects your privacy' and if they're not naive, they probably suspect a decent portion of their users are playing pirated movies.

So from a certain perspective, saying "no-one gets paid" is more consistent than saying "us developers get paid, those anime studios don't".

For another thing, if you pay for the upfront development of software, it still needs ongoing support. And that support commitment comes with a funding commitment; you don't just pay $x0,000 for an eastern european developer to spend a year adding smart TV support - to keep the developer around and the feature working, you've now got to raise that money every year, forever.
Caffeine doesn't enhance any function, it simply masks tiredness in the short term, at the cost of reduced quality of sleep.

The question is, does caffeine "clearly enhance" cognitive functions long-term.
I'm not quite sold on it having been a plan to protect Harris and give her the spot without a primary. That strategy would take a ton of coordinstion, but more importantly it throws a ridiculous amount of uncertainty intoix that I think any political party would be too afraid of.

The more simple explanation, in my opinion, is that Biden is exactly what some had thought for over a year now - a person getting older and starting to run into cognitive and physical decline. I've watched multiple family members go through this, and the picture of a person in the middle of decline lying to themselves about their new reality and stubbornly refusing to accept it fits perfectly well.
I wonder how much effort it would be to put together something expanding on this that's really friendly to new developers exploring a system. The goal would be to have something that looks more like a traditional swimlane diagram, but with human readable labelling of the connections. The open telemetry data should provide a nice skeleton and then maybe use some LLM summarisation (with access to the source code) to label what's going on.
I feel like playing a video game for 30 minutes a day is pretty far from torture.
No one knows how to write code anymore, which is great news for those of us that do
> For GNU ls: e/E, j/J, V, K, M, O, P, W, y/Y and z are not used

Challenge accepted!
Also, healthcare and childcare.
A 4.5M unit shortage wouldn't be present if the past several administrations hadn't allowed huge amounts of immigration in the past decade. Reality isn't constrained to "you have to build as fast as possible since your population is going to increase very quickly and there's nothing you can do about that".

If every person who came to the US in the past ten years went home, there would be a colossal increase in housing availability and rent prices would crater.
Artificial intelligence isn't a good argument for basic income
Yes but that puts a lot of complexity on the end user and you end-up with:

1. A software vendor that is unhappy about the speed they can ship new features at

2. Users that are unhappy the software vendor isn't doing more to reduce their maintenance burden, especially when they have a mixture of OS, distros and complex internal IT structures

IMO default package manager have failed on both linux and windows to provide a good solution for remote updates so everyone re-invents the wheel with custom mini package managers + dedicated update systems.
I wish you'd written the introduction in the readme yourself instead of letting a LLM do it for you. "utilizes", "significant challenge facing", "disrupts workflows" and then several repeats of the same information... all tell tale signs.
While working on i18n projects I always test German first. It breaks most of the UIs.
If Biden is unfit to run and there was an adhoc referendum for him to step down, why would he be fit to be VP?
The second paragraph is 100% about Crowdstrike. It even links to the Wikipedia article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident
Comparison with Chrono link: https://github.com/BurntSushi/jiff/blob/master/COMPARE.md#ch...

This is interesting, in that Rust with Chrono is the best datetime experience I've had in any language.
Yes! one full hand of mine is kept in reserve to keep hitting tab
It's not public, it's just generally accessible but with rules. It's similar to how a physical shop is accessible to everyone by default, but the owner still has the right to refuse business and deny access if you behave bad. The problem is that you can't easily deny companies like booking-com access to a website, as they can circumvent any technical barrier.
More specifically, you can accept a set of programs that you are certain do halt, and reject all others, at the expense of rejecting some that will halt. As long as that set is large enough to be practical, the result can be useful. If you eg forbid code paths that jump "backwards", you can't really loop at all. Or require loops to be bounded by constants.
"The British Museum said it would inform police about the incident. “This is a disappointing and derivative act that abuses a volunteer-led service aimed at giving visitors the opportunity to handle real items and engage with history,” a museum spokesperson said."

Yeah, no doubt the bureaucrats are protecting their asses by informing the police and need to be seen doing the correct thing as a consequence of the publicity the prank would have generated (they'd also be in the limelight). But I'd reckon a more productive way of dealing with the matter would have been to analyze how it was done so that no other objects go missing. That should be the museum's first priority.

Art galleries, museums and such are fair game for thieves, ransom-seekers and such and given that many items are unique and irreplaceable so a main objective is to secure them at all costs.

I'm acutely aware of the point made about visitors having close access to the items on display because of an experience I had in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam years ago. I recall getting remarkably close to Vermeer's Milkmaid, in fact so close I could study it in detail. Similarly, I was left alone in an alcove with a Rembrandt self-portrait with the guard many, many metres away.

At the time I could not believe my luck, and that I could be so privileged to get so close to these remarkable works of art. However, I recall thinking how risky this was from the museum's perspective as only recently The Night Watch had been returned for viewing after repairs after a lunatic slashed it.

From my experience I strongly believe people need to engage with these objects and works of art in meaningful ways to maximize their enjoyment of them, so the issue of balancing the safety of objects versus having access to them is more acute and pressing in today's world than it ever was. It's why I reckon the museum should have taken this prank in the way it was intended, which was to point to deficiencies in the museum's security.

BTW, a classic and unsatisfactory example of a bad display is the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, one's better off looking at a photo of it because it's so well protected under glass that one cannot get a decent look at it. I'm not suggesting it be made more accessible to the public due to its notoriety, I'm only highlighting the problems that museums and galleries are faced with these days.
So this "solves" the halting problem by creating a new class "might-not-halt-but-not-sure" and lumping it with "does-not-halt". I find it hard to believe the new class is small enough for this to be useful, in the sense that it will avoid all kernel crashes.

I rather expect useful or needed code would be rejected due to "not-sure-it-halts", and then people will use some kind of exception or not use the verifier at all, and then we are back to square one.
>Finally, the fact that rents are sky-high as well, suggests that housing is expensive in general, not only home ownership.
> According to Booking Holdings (Booking.com)'s latest financial reports the company's current revenue (TTM ) is $22.00 B. In 2023 the company made a revenue of $21.36 B an increase over the years 2022 revenue that were of $17.09 B

(from a google search)
Don't chase "numbers". Chase people. Find people who are doing something that excites you (or overlaps with your interests), and find ways to connect. Such people will lift you up in ways numbers never will.
I wouldn't go so far as to call their comments dehumanizing. Rude and uncalled for - absolutely. But no part of their comment proclaims that the other person doesn't deserve basic human rights.
> The entire culture war is between people who resent their dads for being absent or weak, and those who don't.

Are you saying that having an absent father or not determines your views on trans people, abortion, saying Merry Christmas vs happy holidays, DEI, etc?
Might have been 4-5% in name but in between lost productivity by computers running as fast as a Pentium 4 (maybe slower?) and of course this complete dumpster fire that just happened maybe closer to 20%?
What would your pitch to donors be? Let's Encrypt was transformative by combining free and automated. Would your registrar be doing anything besides subsidizing domains for people who are willing/able to pay $9.15 (.com price without markup) but not $10.37 (Porkbun .com price)?

Also, registrants will not understand that you are just an intermediary who is making no profit. Since they paid you, they will hold you responsible for any problems they have, and won't shy away from disputing credit card transactions if you don't provide the level of support they expect. That's a lot harder to deal with than a free service, which can get away with providing no support.
And (South East) Asia
> and there is almost no increasingly-terrible situation in which a mother will not love her son.

Could someone please rephrase this? I'm having trouble understanding it.
Can you say why you wouldn't want to use a TAI time zone? Like, generate the TZif data for TAI and then just do `jiff::tz::TimeZone("TAI", tzif_data)`. Then you'll get leap second accurate durations.

Can you also say why you need the precision? Like, what's the use case? What happens if your program computes durations that are off because of leap seconds?
And Greek: Final sigma (σ) is written ς.
Android vs iPhone is a great example of things in your pocket and malware. Both effectively run AV at store ingestion so users don’t have to think about malware at all. But Androids less constrained model has allowed malware to flourish on that platform despite capability checks.

The only model that has worked in practice is the model where malware is checked upstream (eg during App Store ingestion) and users are never even offered it.
Sounds to me more like you consume _a lot_ (therefore have a very strong physical dependence) rather than having extremely fast metabolism.

Alternatively, you might be prone to migraines, and thus are sensitive to headaches of all kinds. That's me, I truly hope that's not you (wouldn't wish that upon anyone).
A perhaps relevant Sabine Hossenfelder video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

Although Sabine's video is more about today's academia money/paper mill incentives, she mentions the more eternal work/family-life balance for women that also seems to have been determinative for Rosemary Fowler (the subject of the article).
I don't think it's that weird.

I think most people would naturally define wealth by the kind of life and lifestyle the wealth can afford.

Who cares how much actual money it is if it can't actually afford a decent life.
So would the economy.
I understand. Interestingly enough, the textractor pipeline actually outputs Markdown as it's output as I've found it to be a format most LLMs work well with.

I know you've already found a solution but for the record, the markdown files could have been directly read in and then passed to a segmentation pipeline. That way you wouldn't need any of the deps of the textractor pipeline.
No, not all of it ends up as heat.

Energy conversion efficiency[0] describes how much of energy type A is converted into energy type B to perform a useful activity, with the remainder being lost as wasted heat.

For instance, internal combustion engines convert chemical energy into kinetic energy with up to 50% efficiency, with the rest being dissipated and requiring a radiator in the vehicle to remove the excess [wasted] heat. Which is why your car engine becomes very hot after driving the car for a little while.

The same principle applies to other systems.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_conversion_efficiency