skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”You can focus on multiple things”

You can, but each added focus degrades the quality of the others.

The key principle is thinking with a mindset of cost.

Even if it’s low hanging fruit, there’s a world of difference between assuming we can work it in, and saying, “this is what it will cost, and this is what we won’t work on result”.

And similarly, saying ”that’s impossible” is not in the same universe as “the cost is extremely high and it’s not important enough to us to pay that cost”.
> If humans cannot possibly be objective

What if we were to try?

Humans also could not run a 4-minute mile, or build a machine that can fly.
Does Interplay still own the rights? I thought they sold all of the fallout IP rights to Bethesda back in 07.
Generation ships could do that without being staffed with immortals.
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Full circle but instead of determinism you introduce some randomness. Not good.

Also the reasoning is something business is dissonant about. The majority of planning and execution teams stick to processes. I see way more potential automating these than all parts in app production.

Business is going to have a hard time, when they believe, they alone can orchestrate some AI consoles.
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It certainly is part of NASA's job to consider long term space travel needs. And supporting a competitor to SpaceX now as a long term strategic benefit has a lot of value as opposed to being held hostage to monopoly pricing in the future.

Companies invest in their supply chain and invest in not being beholden to a single supplier (unless they control that supplier) all the time.
It's a different philosophy. Starship (the in-development SpaceX rocket) has taken the "test as fully as you can add often as you can" route, and no people will be getting on it until it's reached a high level of reliability.

Starliner was not developed that way at all. It was supposed to be developed with much more up-front work to make sure that it would work correctly out of the gate. All of the mentioned Starliner tests were certification tests, whereas all of the Starship tests so far have been 100% expected to fail in some way, but with a more ambitious goal about how far it gets.
This is pretty interesting. With other frameworks it never occurred to think of something like this in every day design.
> So, kill off all of humanity to make sure you get rid of the worst ones?

No one said to kill off all of humanity. Certainly 'bad' people have died in the long (short) history of humanity without the remainder of the species disappearing.

Life doesn't occur without death. Death is a necessary component. Life _comes from_ death.

Walk into an old growth forest some time.
what a nasty, sad worldview if you think of humanity as a parasite
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Imagine people like Napoleon or Ben Franklin still being alive and involved in politics. That’s pretty neat.
I don’t follow—what do you mean by unspecified algebra? Solomonoff induction is well-defined. I’m just asking how the responses of a chatbot using Solomonoff induction for sequence prediction would differ from those using a transformer model, given the same training data. I can specify mathematically if that makes it clearer…
There are still tons of jobs. They might not pay as well, but "I need to provide for my kids" might mean you take a crappy IT job that pays 60k, not that you build global surveillance/propaganda systems to be used against them and their peers. This isn't the depression.

And up until recently, there were tons of really good jobs. What's the excuse there?

If you have kids, you're presumably a few years into your career. Do you not have savings? My oldest is 3 and I wouldn't really have to start worrying for years if I lost my job.
This video was a little bit meditative for me...
Do we have numbers on depression for young trees?
I feel like this is instantly obvious, when you have an owner that doesn't care about the core fundamental mission of the business, business will likely decline
A substantial part of the US population isn't going to know where the Ivory coast is, even less so if you call it Côte d’Ivoire, or why you're saying it in French.
Your app is awesome. I’m going to use this from now on.
How many times have engineers been safely overruled?
Honest question: Are there successful cases where a PE takeover has transformed the company that has helped the company's mission?
Inert occurs in the same “domain” of chemistry that suggests as nothing will occur to a given material.
Google (Pixel Tablet in your case).
Glad there are non profits running some of them
Wait... Nintendo and Disney targets children, including those too young to know what Ads are.

Why are these different ethics?

(They are not, both of those companies have created literal fanatics by adulthood. Even I cannot avoid beating each Zelda game despite not enjoying a single Zelda game since WW)
I don't understand this advice. Are you suggesting that if you make it easier for thieves to break into your car, they are less likely to damage it?
Purposefully destructive investment strategies are better described as parasitical - than a benefit to society. It's unclear why allowing this is in our benefit.
Nope. There, that was fun.

"it's just a barcode reader. Nothing more."

This is hugely presumptive and profoundly technically ignorant (are you actually in this industry?). When someone scans in the image can be displayed anywhere else. As infecto mentioned, a tablet for instance. Again, it's a risk for people using someone else's membership. Otherwise it's completely useless because we know they scan at checkout.

"And nope on your 2nd point"

Pointing out an exception is pretty ridiculous logic. I've never, in my life, seen someone's card denied at checkout. Ever. I guarantee I have been near hundreds of people using other people's cards. That it happened somewhere at sometime is pretty lazy contrarian nonsense. Further, I would wager that what you saw was actually someone who thought they could use a visa or didn't realize their membership expired -- where the cashier is left with zero options -- and not someone using someone else's membership.
Heaven forbid someone being shown ads for things that interest him. All this hand-wringing about privacy seems to me to be producing a lot of noise for minimal practical benefit. I don't see harms in ad targeting.
You can define one based on passed tests, code coverage, other objectives, or weighted combinations without too much loss of generality.
Thanks for the memory lane trip, mate. Yep, we’re old.
The problem of various ML algorithms "gaming" the reward function, is rather similar to the problem of various financial and economic issues. If people are not trying to do something useful, and then expecting $$ in return for that, but rather are just trying to get $$ without knowing or caring what is productive, then you get a lot of non-productive stuff (spam, scams, pyramid schemes, high-frequency trading, etc.) that isn't actually producing anything, but does take over a larger and larger percentage of the economy.

To mitigate this, you have to have a system outside of that, which penalizes "gaming" the reward function. This system has to have some idea of what real value is, to be able to spot cases where the reward function is high but the value is low. We have a hard enough time of this in the money economy, where we've been learning for centuries. I do not think we are anywhere close in neural networks.
This seems to be the motivation of EU regulators. However, regulation also needs to be enforcible in a global setting. Also one needs to understand collateral damage to smaller enterprises (recent EU regulations only tries to target large platforms) and economy as a whole by leaving large legal uncertainties. In the end also with heavy regulations often the most ignorant players will survive. We should rather make sure try that taxes are paid where the potential damages occur.
Should they show adult ads to children instead?
Possibly related? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184174
If the reason that you think it's good to allow advertising to children, despite it being bad in and of itself, is that it prepares them to be subjected to ads as an adult, wouldn't it be better to instead remove the ads for adults as well?
General usability IMO is far better on Gnome than MacOS.

Hotkeys like F7 to move the current window without click and drag on the title bar, and F8 to resize the active window (i don't recall if these are default or not), are brilliant and I use them constantly.

Window snapping is excellent (Rectangle et al for Mac are excellent, but feel unnatural), and seems to function better than Windows.

Gnome lacks the polish of MacOS, but is still preferable for productivity.
That makes no sense. The meaning of the very large amount of money being spent on the mission is of accomplishing the mission.

Starliner is doing nothing innovative, and dying with it would not be accomplishing the mission or adding anything new towards accomplishing it past this point (that is, all the testing past this point can be done without putting people onboard, with just the comparatively small cost of a software swap), there is no meaning to dying on it.

You might as well be arguing that SpaceX should put crew on IFT-5.
Far from it.

The media and culture rationalize death and death inducing behaviors including sleep deprivation, getting drunk, working and sacrificing one's health for the grind, and hedonistic behaviors that ultimately reduce one's lifespan, health, and quality of life.
> I was (pedantically) replying to your comment

Please don't be a pedant. It's not appreciated, and it only makes the conversation worse.
Sure, but strlcpy is better than strcpy and strncpy (for strings). I almost never see code that uses the return value of any of them.

It is a simple refactoring to change strcpy/strncpy to strlcpy and, though it doesn't solve truncation issues, it's a solid improvement by eliminating memory overruns and lack of null termination.

It was added to OpenBSD in 1998 and then in FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, IRIX, etc. but its adoption was hampered by glibc stubbornly refusing to add it (until 2023 apparently).
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Correct. In fact since memory access must be aligned (I think Linux uses 4 byte alignment, which is the alignment of instructions) the lower bits of every code pointer can be used for this purpose.

ARM as in 32-bit arm already does this. If the lowest bit of the pointer is set to one when control jumps there it is treated as thumb (2 byte) instructions rather than A32 (4 byte) - that lower bit is still masked away of course.

The QARMA block cipher ARM proposes for PAC (but does not mandate, any can be used) "signs" (it isn't really signing, more like a mac but whatever) pointers with an authentication code as small as 3 bits.

That might sound nuts but a 3 bit code means you have 1/8 chance of bruteforcing correctly. Raise to the power of the number of required forged pointers and you can see how an exploit can be made very unreliable. E.g. if you need 4 forged pointers you now have (1/8)^4 chance of succeeding.
This wasn’t an OS problem though, so that wouldn’t have helped. It was the data their module loaded which they change constantly. That would make it a very bad fit for a sealed system partition.

Also I believe Apple Silicon Macs do what you suggest, at least in part. I don’t know if they can fall back after an upgrade failure but everything is validated and signed and tamper proof.
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You think the entire Starliner project is just engineers being sloppy?
I have seen an ad for that, and I felt mixed about it. I think such a "children's learning" type card which actually allows real purchases is a good idea for financial responsibility, but you'd have to be really cognisant of perverse incentives set up by a financial institution that can profit in this space.
We offered an LED light source for both Northlight 1 and 2 as an upgrade over the previous metal halide bulb light source.

https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/pdf/datasheets/FL-NL-DS-0566-NL...
"Flight secured."
RadioLab had a great podcast on this, and their punchline was:

MARIA PAZ: Chris says, in a world where nothing dies ...

CHRIS SCHELL: Life essentially halts at a standstill. And yeah, everything is alive to exist in this new reality, but it doesn't change. It doesn't morph. It doesn't evolve. It isn't dynamic. The extravagant, extraordinary biomes that we currently have that exist on this planet, they all stop.

MARIA PAZ: It would be as if we were living in a photograph of the world as we know it, just frozen in time.

Episode: Cheating Death 9 Feb 2024 https://radiolab.org/podcast/cheating-death/transcript
Hideous, unreadable number of ads on the desktop.
This is all valid (former FS1R owner here, made nice coin for that on eBay...) but in reality these manufacturers were selling the 95% of users who just wanted "piano" or "violin" sounds and rarely did much more than slightly modifying the presets. And their instrument divisions were often dominated by "traditional" music instrument folk, too.

The other people like you and I who want to sculpt sound, or worked in studios... they figured we could deal with it.

Or hook up our Atari STs and use a more powerful editor etc. Or SoundDiver (RIP) etc.

Most of these instruments were made before the huge waves of "electronic music" popularity from the mid-90s on. What we want from them is quite different from what the majority of traditional musicians wanted. DX Pianos, some strings, some Solid/Lately Bass, and move along.
Keygen relicenses from the ELv2 to the Fair Core License
We should coax them into using coax instead.
> Fertilizer would be welcome

That might depend on where you are. In my part of the US, fertilizer runoff is causing very serious problems. This is mostly from farms, of course, but domestic lawn care is a major source as well.

The push around here isn't to get people to stop using it entirely, but to follow proper practices that minimize the runoff.
If google search were the best, a default agreement wouldn't be needed.

See the case of the ghost of Altavista
Sorry, "FFI" was a shorthand for "mixing and matching two languages' GC expectations, memory layouts, ..." and all the overhead associated with merging something opinionated, like Rust, with something dynamic, like Python. You almost certainly _can_ reduce that overhead further, but unless somebody has gone out of their way to do so, the default expectation for cross-language calls like that should be that somebody opted for maintainable code that has actually shipped instead of shaving off every last theoretical bit of overhead.

It's been a few years, so I really can't tell you exactly what the problem was (other than the general observation that you should try to do nontrivial amounts of work in your python extensions rather than trivial amounts), but PyO3 agrees with the general sentiment [0] [1], or at least did at roughly the same time I was working there.

[0] https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/679

[1] https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/1470
For vector DBs running as server I think there's already a lot of choice (Qdrant, Chroma, Milvus, Weaviate, but also PostgreSQL with pgvector etc.). But as you said it was a fun learning experience for you, so that's great!

When I needed a vector DB for Go I was looking for an embedded/in-process library that doesn't require CGO (there are CGO bindings to Faiss, Annoy, sqlite-vss etc) and didn't find a suitable one, so I built https://github.com/philippgille/chromem-go/

One feedback for your library: I noticed you have a top level directory `internals`. Is that a typo of `internal`? The latter has the special property of only being importable from the same module.
There are two reasons the system might fail:

1) The business person made a mistake in their conversation/specification.

In this case the LLM will have generated code and tests that match the mistake. So all the tests will pass. The best way to catch this before it gets to production is to have someone else review the specification. But the problem is that the specification is a long trial-and-error conversation in which later parts may contradict earlier parts. Good luck reviewing that.

2) The LLM made a mistake.

The LLM may have made the mistake because of a hallucination which it cannot correct because in trying to correct it the same hallucination invalidates the correction. At this point someone has to debug the system. But we got rid of all the programmers.
Unfortunately in my state the majority of those non-profit hospitals are religious institutions.

Fortunately I live near two of the community-run hospitals and the associated clinic network.
I would hazard a guess that no one likes ads except the likes of google and meta SHAREHOLDERS).
For defense purposes, it's desirable to have both the facilities and the full organizational hierarchy under direct legal jurisdiction.
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Isn't sending an email publishing (in version control terms CI/CD deployment)?
That's specious. Apple doesn't get paid by "consumers" either, they sell phones to retailers for the most part. "All they care about" is making retailers happy, right?

Obviously everyone who sells a product want to keep their end users (the "end" in "end users" is there for a reason!) happy, because if they don't they won't get paid. To argue that only your favorite is so incentivised seems silly.
It's almost as if companies implementing these systems have a vested interest in making the most adversarial implementation and/or flouting the law.
You follow the news and the public statements on the goals of the test? SpaceX isn't exactly tight lipped about their philosophy and what they hope to learn from each test.
MCI retaining your phone call records for billing purposes has a legitimate use: they need to be able to justify charging you.

Where it gets controversial is retention time and reuse: ten years from now, there’s no billing justification but you might not want President Donner to demand they turn over the list of everyone who called a political rival. Similarly, you might not care if they have that data but still object to them sharing it with marketing partners (they called LL Bean, you can advertise your outdoors wear to them!) or making it available to other companies who can use it to look up your interests when you are on the phone or applying to something. This can be deeply personal: your car insurance company would definitely pay to know who calls alcohol addiction treatment numbers, an employer of a certain vein might be interested in calls to adult services, etc. Once that data is out, there’s no way to un-breach it.
Speak of the devil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156743

Very nice that the "3" turned out to mean the modern M33 core rather than the much older M3 core. It has a real FPU!
"People die of cancer and other diseases everyday, and you considered it selfish to want to live? What about the impact on loved ones like children or parents?"

Not dying due to cancer at 20 and living to be 400 years old isn't quite what i would consider in the same realm of justification, but your opinion might differs.

And this:
"
The damage is from pollution, not necessarily resource consumption in and itself. Yes, if the air is bad, we're going to die more of lung cancer. The solution is to build a society that value clean air, a stable climate, and a life support system(biosphere) that isn't steadily being destroyed as a byproduct of our consumption.
"

Which is exactly my point in all of this: Are we there yet? not even close. Will people try to make living forever a reality regardless? i think so.
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Sure, I’m not saying it is a GPS replacement or anything.

But, a measurement of absolute position is a fundamentally different thing from trying to figure out a position by integrating from an IMU, right? The latter inevitably accumulates errors. The former should not accumulate error. The measurements might be extremely noisy, but noisy and error accumulating are different from a signal processing point of view.
I cannot speak for Zscaler in this scenario, but I can explain why its different and reduced risk for OpenZiti/NetFoundry (I literally posted on this topic yesterday on LN, blog post coming soon - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/philipleonardgriffiths_no-lis...)

First things first. Yes. If a vulnerability exists in the overlay network that would allow an attacker to bypass the security of the zero trust network, but what does that mean in practice? Well, to do this they would need to:
- (1) need to bypass the mTLS requirement necessary to connect to the data plane (note, each hope is uses its own mTLS with its own, separate key).
- (2) have a strong identity that authorizes them to connect to the remote service in question (or bypass the authentication layer the controller provides through exploits; note again, each app uses separate and distinct E2EE, routing, and keys)
- (3) know what the remote service name is, allowing the data to target the correct service (not easy as OpenZiti has its own private DNS that does not need to comply to TLDs)
- (4) bypass whatever "application layer" security is also applied at the service (ssh, https, oauth, whatever)
- (5) know how to negotiate the end to end encrypted tunnel to the 'far' identity

So yes, if they can do all that, then they'd definitely be able to attack that remote service.

But wait, I said "remote service", not "remote services". Thats right, all that work and compromises and they only have access to 1 single service among hundreds, thousands, or potentially millions of services. Lateral movement is almost mpossible. So the attacker would have to repeat each of the 5 steps for every service.

Finally, how would they know which company sits behind which OpenZiti fabric. Thats right, they don't. So its pot luck if its even against the target they want to try and exploit.
The Major Questions Doctrine is just a way for the Court to reject a reading of a statute even it agrees is supported by the plain text. It a statute gives an agency broad authority, the agency should have broad authority, and if Congress doesn't like it, it can claw it back. All the Supreme Court did in the EPA cases was insert its own policy preferences for that of the elected branches by inventing a notion that a statute needs to be super-duper extra clear if agencies want to do something businesses don't like. Bravo for helping convince the Court to adopt this intellectually bankrupt framework.
Yes, but if we stop producing new minds with better capability we miss the opportunity to get the next Einstein that will enable warp drive and save humanity from its fate.