skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you check citations, you'd find the sentence preceding my excerpt on barriers to entry:

"Because barriers to entry protect incumbent firms and restrict competition in a market, they can contribute to distortionary prices and are therefore most important when discussing antitrust policy."

Antitrust policy then links to a page on competition law: "Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies." [0]

So yes, I'd downvote you if I could, but HN doesn't allow downvotes - which is honestly pretty fitting in the context of this conversation.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law
We are living in unprecedented times. Social media (HN included) has created a stage for all 8+ billion of us to “compete” with each other. By definition almost everyone will be mediocre. I struggle with the same imposter syndrome as a software engineer. I am slowly realizing the only solution is to spend less time online.
Wrong. For all intent and purposes, you could switch any cryptocurrency with whatever FIAT in your sentence and it still applies. I don't hunt money and wear it as a necklace (lion teeth). I don't mine it out of a gold mine. It is given to me in exchange for work.

Given.
Exchange.

If you and I agree that we only accept little tin circles; What's the difference? When you say money, what are you referring to? Just the US bank note? Some brass coins? Any FIAT?

Today's FIAT have nothing to do with what currency, basically just a fancy IOU note, used to be.
Currency WAS representative of human work. Directly. The oldest known form are lion teeth. You had to WORK to get them. It was direct proof of work. And it was important to keep that link so no arbitrary value is taken or added to it.

The next major leap of currency was IOU notes. Notes that banks respected between each other. One bank gives you some paper that says "trust me, bro, I'm worth 2 lion teeth". You go to another bank and can exchange that paper back to 2 lion teeth.

At one point in time, the US bamboozled the entire world and declared the US dollar as some form of new gold bar (what it was previously tied to, gold; proof of work). Tying all of FIAT to it. A value that can more easily be arbitrarily changed. And, since then, propaganda reigns supreme and people like you are born. Praising a nonsensical paper as some kind immovable artefact of mankind.

Language evolved.
Law evolved.
Currency didn't evolve.
And, for some reason, you are fighting its evolution.

Don't vote.
"EndWokeness" is in interesting/worrying as it is allegedly Jack Posobiecs alternate account.

The Russia ones should be ringing alarm bells. How can TikTok take so much flak (some of this is reasonable, some is not IMH) but Elon is allowed to run a fifth column for Russia in the US?
The post has the weirdest comments. We have complaints about a need an app to recharge (clearly you don't), complaints about lead acid batteries (wot? - did you look at the cells), complaints about the danger of the voltage generated by 40 cells (hint: when you take it apart they are no longer connected), complaints it's a scammy web site (really - looks like a typical brochure site to me), complaints it won't withstand a fire (they have pictures a test incinerated battery pack), and complaints from new accounts. Somebody seems to have it in for this mob.

The idea seems worth trying to me. Single cells dying and taking out the entire pack is a thing. It's happened to me several times. I've pulled apart the pack to see why, and discovered all these welded batteries making DIY repair near impossible. Not to mention when they are welded together like that to create high voltages they are indeed dangerous. I wish all battery packs were made this way, but I'm guessing it's expensive. I wish them luck.
Love the clarification, thanks!
If they can't price-in effective anti-abuse measures, then maybe the price should be higher.
Is this Intel's marketing department doing damage control?

Intel's been a disgrace, and that's why these chips suck. Imagine having all of the money and hiring everyone in sight and pulling all sorts of self-serving, dirty tricks industry-wide yet still letting an underdog on the verge of bankruptcy (AMD) beat you to 7 nm and eat your lunch.
Well, that's not so bad. There were only 7 years on the clock when it was installed in 2020.
You should be washing your hands immediately after handling raw meat.
I thought a person of your background (who no doubt has it all figured out) would surmise that I was talking about backing up to an external disk and not to another disk on the same laptop. And would grant another person some good faith and be able to generalize without spelling it all out for them: if the point is to back things up then maybe I can infer that other means of backup are also in the cards, like sneakernet or your own server or multiple locations. Huh

You can also back up to a remote. That is not GitHub. You know because the topic is GitHub and how promiscuous they are. Which is why I say: if you don’t need your code to be “social” you don’t need to put it on GitHub.

But even a remote repository is overkill. An automated backup plan with git bundle is automatic, after all. Set it and forget. And backups are supposed to be automated, right? I ask because you have the relevant background here.
yup just easier to use my bofa card which is 2.625% on everything (due to platinum honors preferred rewards which is "easy" to obtain with some >100k in a brokerage account - could be equities, CDs, money market.. whatever)
Ahh the Dash buttons. I remember those. I remember thinking I'm not a gambling man at all, so what use would that buttons be? Will I pay £5 or £10 today? No thanks lol.

Amazon had low trust back then. It's even worse now
To be fair, in the true git sense, if a "fork" is really just a branch, deleting the original completely would also mean deleting every branch (fork) completely

obviously not a fan of this policy though
Nah. Just choose to buy the way you wish to. Vote with your money and don’t artificially restrict where there’s zero issues. Everything works out in the end.

I’d much rather transact in the US than Europe. The entire retail customer experience and return policy is unmatched. The last thing I want is for some government regulation to make it suck like Europe.
Is he a US citizen?
Users sign a deal to give Reddit the content.
I'm in the process of moving. I thought maybe I'd give Prime Day a try and send some soaps ahead to my new place.

In my last apartment, I used Method's pump-dispenser laundry detergent and their basil-scented kitchen hand soap.

Amazon is selling the laundry detergent for $75 and the hand soap for $15. I'm guessing Method discontinued the SKUs I was used to, and there's some leftover stock on Amazon with crazy prices.
The one thing I wasn't sure about was how the per-process global thread pool for non-private doors was populated. I missed it earlier (wasn't looking closely enough, and the hacks to handle forkall headaches make it look more complicated than it is), but the user space door_create wrapper code--specifically door_create_cmn--invokes door_create_server (through the global door_server_func pointer) on the first non-private door_create call. door_create_server creates a single thread which then calls door_return. On wakeup, before calling the application's handler function, the door_return assembly wrapper conditionally invokes the global door_depletion_cb (defined back in door_calls.c) which can spin up additional threads.

The more I read, the more Doors seems pretty clever. Yes, the secret sauce is very much like scheduler activations or Google's switchto, but you can pass data at the same time, making it useful across processes, not just threads sharing an address space. And you can't get the performance benefit merely by using AF_UNIX sockets because the door_call and door_return have an association for the pendency of the call. The tricky part from an API perspective isn't switching the time slice to the server thread, it's switching it back to the client thread on the return.

Microkernels can do this, of course, but figuring out a set of primitives and an API that fit into the Unix model without introducing anything too foreign, like Mach Ports in macOS, does take some consideration. Now that Linux has process file descriptors, maybe they could be used as an ancillary control message token to get the round-trip time slice and data delivery over AF_UNIX sockets. And memfd objects could be used for messages larger than the receiver's buffer, which seems to be a niche case, anyhow. Or maybe that's over complicating things.
Wow, thank you. I cannot count how many times I have tried to get in the correct spot of a long message by using my fat fingers and never ending up in the right spot and just deleting a few words to correct one letter lol.
Kamala Harris approves this service [0]!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edDnGiJStvs
My dental surgeon refuses to design or install an implant. They will only put in the screw for the implant.

Why? Because of a pyramid scheme.

That might not be a direct "lie," but it is misleading. Doctors mislead constantly. They tend to accept norms that are harmful because they are systems outside of their control.
> But we could add internal thoughts

It feels like there’s an assumption in the community that this will be almost trivial.

I suspect it will be one of the hardest tasks humanity has ever endeavoured. I’m guessing it has already been tried many times in internal development.

I suspect if you start creating a feedback loop with these models they will tend to become very unstable very fast. We already see with these more linear LLMs that they can be extremely sensitive to the values of parameters like the temperature settings, and can go “crazy” fairly easily.

With feedback loops it could become much harder to prevent these AIs from spinning out of control. And no I don’t mean in the “become an evil paperclip maximiser” kind of way. Just plain unproductive insanity.

I think I can summarise my vision of the future in one sentence: AI psychologists will become a huge profession, and it will be just as difficult and nebulous as being a human psychologist.
I think the CoC says ixnay on the arkisness-ay. I also get downvoted for similar reasons sometime. No point complaining. It's not your circus, you don't get to pick the monkeys.

[note, however, as a conniseur of fine s*rk, I did not downvote you.]
This is not an episode (a diversion into what makes explanations good)
Inconsistent implies there is some type of error in the rendering.

This was done on purpose.
> How can I know whether any particular question will test a model on its tokenization?

Does something deal with separate symbols rather than just meaning of words? Then yes.

This affects spelling, math (value calculation), logic puzzles based on symbols. (You'll have more success with a puzzle about "A B A" rather than "ABA")

> It requires no reasoning, and is unlikely to have any contradicting text in the training corpus.

This thread contains contradictions. Every other announcement of an llm contains a comment with a contradicting text when people post the wrong responses.
Same, good that op posted it as a reminder
Nitpicking: mount reads from /proc/self/mounts, that is, the mounts as seen from that process. This is how tricks such as chroot jails work, as they present a different mount set and filesystem tree from the base system.
> Monopolies are entirely consistent with free market economics.

This is a fair critique. I'm approaching this from an admittedly American perspective in which "free market" colloquially implies competition - but I recognize that competition is not inherently a free market concept.

Good callout!
You can't reach out to any machines that have pulled down that commit and forcibly delete it, either.
Why Open Source Doesn't Always Pay Off
I'll answer the first part with a question: If Biden black-bags Trump, do you think he will be unpunished? If so, how much do you wanna bet? Same for those other hypotheticals.

> the alternative to Chevron is legislating from the bench

Only when a law is unclear. Interpreting thaw is kinda why these courts exist
haha TIL of the origin! thanks!
> in this case align with mom and pop shops

But only until. Facebook rugpulled even React, a (once in the past) javascript library. I can't wait to see what they will pull out when they become the AI overlord.
Illiterate humans can come up with new words like that too without being able to spell, LLMs are modeling language without precisely modeling spelling.
Onw
> Should that be part of the warning?

It couldn't hurt, but that isn't the misunderstanding I'm worried about.

As described in the first example of the article, you can make a fork, commit to it, delete your entire fork, and yet the data will still be accessible via the parent repo, even though no one ever forked or cloned or saw your fork. That is not intuitive at all.

You can say "Well just consider any data that has ever been public compromised forever", and indeed you should, but this behavior is still surprising and could bite devs even if they know they should follow the advice in that quote.

Consider a situation like this...

Dev forks, accidentally pushes a secret or some proprietary code in a commit, and immediately deletes the fork. They figure it was only up for a very short time, now it's gone, risk someone saw it is low. They don't bother rotating, because that would be a major operational pain (and yes, it shouldn't be, but for many orgs it is).

Is this dev making a mistake? Of course. That's not good security thinking. But their assessment of the risk being low might actually be correct if their very reasonable mental model of deletion were correct. But the unintuitive way GH works means that the actual risk is much higher than their reasoning led them to believe.
I can see authors point when it comes to smaller website or app. I work on enterprise products that are rather complex with large surface area. Despite being a pretty good coder (or at least used to be), I wouldn't attempt to iterate on changes directly in the code and link all the flows etc. It would take much longer and I'd lose ability to make rapid changes.
Apple Maps for Web
While I don't disagree with warning .top, I notice in the report that .lol and .bond have higher "Phishing Domain Scores" than .top. Hopefully they got a nastygram, too.
Agreed. If anything, github should remove the option to change a repo from private to public or vice versa. Force creation of a new repo with the correct settings.
Babies just need to learn to cry only when the diapers in the garage are running low. How hard could that be?
Tesla: Really bloody expensive outside thermometer.

(Via the app climate page, my Model 3 is in an detached-adjacent garage where zero attempt was made to insulate the gaps)
No clue about Pornhub, but as someone who frequently shops at Japanese online stores I know places like DMM stopped taking Visa/Mastercard (because of their nanny bullshittery) while they still take AMEX like they always did.

That whole fiasco vindicated my loyalty to AMEX: So long as the transaction is legal and authorized and ultimately paid for, they really do not care how an AMEX cardholder spends because it's none of their business.
An LLM trained on single letter tokens would be able to, it just would be much more laborious to train.
"we noticed that since our search results had gotten so bad nobody can use them to find the things they want, people just kept adding "reddit" to search terms anyways, so we figured we might as well make it official and exclusive"
>I don't understand why people ask for a definition. A quick search brings up many useful definitions

Note how the definition there doesn't match any of the three definitions people gave me here, and none of the three here seem to match each other. Also, as your link says, the definition seems to have changed drastically in the past few years, so I can't even be sure that the link has the most up-to-date definition.

So, I was asking someone who seemed to be very passionate about being "against woke culture", to hear it directly from them. This is a conversational site, I figured it'd be fine, but seeing that my question is now downvoted I guess I need to better learn what conversations and questions are appropriate here.

I'm still new around these parts. Forgive me.
That looks like the kind of loophole that could get GH to do something about this.
Oh yeah, that person should have asked to be re-tasked.

The point I'm making is that that's not what makes a technician (that's what makes a human robot! Ew!)

> It means that you don't need a technician at all where the problem is completely automatable.

You can try to make your systems so good that they seldom need technicians but you can't fire them all because Murphy's Law rules real world systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytag#Ol'_Lonely
But bitcoin and ethereum are near all time highs, while Alexa is laying everyone off and AI has no paying customers…
Here is the thing. Most of the time I call customer service because the app/website does not provide the information or the ability to do certain things, and I need to talk to a human to get things explained or get something done. And more than a few times customer service agents don't know what they are doing or are just talking nonsense, and I need to escalate to a manager.

You think you can trust an LLM to make decisions for something like resetting password or closing an account?
>attack

Damn, what a way to prove my point! Even opinions in an online forum are "attack" :)

The simple fact is that

(1) Drivers are subsidised by the state and by all of us, directly through such freebies as road construction and maintenance (which is horrendously expensive) and indirectly through such nice externalities that society must bear, such as the tens of thousands of deaths yearly (2-3 million worldwide) from crashes, pollution, etc.

(2) Driving is the mode of transportation that is taken as default and that everything else must bow to: roads are first-class, then sidewalks, bus stops, cycle "lanes", etc, are an afterthought that must bend to the car traffic space, if they exist at all

(3) Past a certain density it's literally physically impossible that people move around in automobiles

Look I don't want to "defund roads", I'd already be happy if a tiny fraction of the money and attention that goes to driving would be devoted to other forms of transport.
The author says in the first paragraph that he used to play a lot of D&D (dndbeyond.com) and now prefers Dungeon World (dungeon-world.com; PDF is $6). Does anyone know why he might prefer the latter? As context, I play D&D weekly, love it, and am always interested in learning more. Dungeon World is designed to focus on creativity and shared storytelling with simpler mechanics to make the game more fluid. However, there's nothing simpler than having a clear D&D rule for something like fall damage, instead of having the party debate if a player survived the fall. Dungeon World doesn't have fall damage calculator and instead relies in the narrative, presumably from the pre-written story or DM.
This creates the opportunity for a start up offering such spreadsheet management as a service to flourish in the ecosystem whether or not Amazon ends up acquiring them. Yes I am being facetious. (obvi)
I thought I remembered this from the 1990's, but kept seeing references to the 1970's. Before I had access to the Internet, I would sign into a local BBS and be able to write and receive emails using this syntax. Around midnight each day, the BBS would connect to the Internet and send and receive everyone's email for the day. I'd log on before school started to check my messages, and thought even back then how amazing the technology was. Now I see where we're at, and everyone takes for granted the near instantaneous sending and receiving of email and private messaging.
Hippies with Guns – The Culture of Iain M Banks
You can be comfortable in your delusion, that’s fine with me. I’m not writing a thesis when it’s so obvious that inflation is much higher than what is officially reported.
Interestingly, there is an app, Chatterbaby [1], that claims to detect why a baby is crying based on the acoustic features of the cry. I've used it with middling success.

That'd be a neat integration: "Alexa, why is my baby crying?"

[1]: https://www.chatterbaby.org/pages/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-019-0592-4
> I thought a person of your background (who no doubt has it all figured out) would surmise that I was talking about backing up to an external disk and not to another disk on the same laptop. And would grant another person some good faith and be able to generalize without spelling it all out for them: if the point is to back things up then maybe I can infer that other means of backup are also in the cards, like sneakernet or your own server or multiple locations. Huh

Your snark not withstanding, I actually did understand that an external disk resides outside of the laptop, and find your claim still fantastic and lacking evidence.

As for the rest of your post, you'll forgive my misunderstanding of whatever deeply nuanced point you're making here regarding backing up to a remote because of this at the end of your original post:

> local is enough.

Anyway, seems like you need to take a break. Someone of my background has better things to do than engage in a flame war with someone clearly looking for a fight over a throwaway post.
My math is closer to 18 years.

At the time I was selling UX services, and the 'prototyping tools' of that generation were what drove me learn PHP, Ruby, and Javascript - for all the reasons you state. I was baffled by all the time and energy people spent becoming an expert in the prototyping tool rather than an expert in building for real. I declared these prototyping tools an expensive distraction and never looked back.
The main issue that I have with XmlDSig is that the signatures are stored inside of the document being signed. Because of that, you can’t properly implement the standard without writing enough of an XML parser to do the canonicalization needed to properly compute and verify the hashes used for signatures. In practice, this means you need approximately an entire XML stack just to hash some data, something that is a simple operation otherwise.
It would certainly be strange if I were concerned.
Thank you very much for your suggestion about using 1password or Bitwarden. I will try to move from Google to any of those two services for 2FA.

I stay logged into Gmail/Chrome in all my devices, but from time to time (sometimes months?) I am asked to relogin. And I just panicked imagining that scenario (though, I remember, I am only asked for the password, not the 2FA code).

Yes, I do have a lock screen almost all the time. I wasn't much worried about what the thief could do with my phone, but mostly what I couldn't do without it.

Thank you again for taking the time to write this.
Olympic officials try to crush US Chinese doping probe, threaten Salt Lake Games
This looks really fake, especially the anglo-centric british-english list of slurs rather than American slurs.

And the list of slurs is so short and incomprehensive almost like someone made it for a screenshot based on whatever came to mind
LOTT definitely isn't Jack Posobiec, their real identity has been known for some time and they make public appearances under their real name since being outed.
People do get similarly hung up on surprising floating point results: why can't you just make it work properly? And a full answer is a whole book on how floating point math works.
never been easy for me and I've always had to work exceptionally hard

That’s how it is for most people most everywhere most days.