skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only seen the words "illegal cartel boycott" being used (verbatim, as it were) by Musk, as well as the Twitter account of something called Rumble who are apparently joining Musk in trying to sue the advertisers who left the platform in response to it becoming too volatile to associate their brands with.

Is this the illegal cartel boycott you're talking about?

Would it not be an expression of free speech and advertisers' choice to disassociate from another entity, seen through the lens of Musk's famous free speech absolutism combined with corporate personhood? At worst, wouldn't it be the invisible hand of the free market acting to telegraph reduced demand in a resource by its previous consumers?
Maybe that was the art.
And if you aren't logged in to that app on the Google TV, you aren't allowed to cast. It's incredibly annoying.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this. Did they just use the words interchangeably thinking they were ok to use so it’s more of a grammatical error.
Are we talking about the Hex that's down 99%? Doesn't look like stable inflation to me.
I find I can almost always dodge them instead.
Compilers require strict semantics and deterministic output. It’s the exact opposite of AI.

I could see AI being used (in a deterministic way) to make decisions about what optimizations to apply, to improve error messages, or make languages easier to use/reason about, but not for the frontend/backend/optimizations themselves.
I lived about half time in NYC recently and I personally witnessed no fewer than 10 events of theft over the last 6 months I was there. It usually isn't like the movies. It's usually just someone who grabs something off a shelf and then walks out.
It’s actually so painful to go back to languages without destructuring and pattern matching.
It absolutely is a disagreement. I don't agree they have the best search engine at the moment. They did until they crippled it with the last 2 big updates.
There was also an entire programming language developed specifically for the Buran, and it was visual: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
We extensively use vLLM's support for Outlines Structured Output with small language models (llama3 8B, for example) in Zep[0][1]. OpenAI's Structured Output is a great improvement on JSON mode, but it is rather primitive compared to vLLM and Outlines.

# Very Limited Field Typing

OpenAI offers a very limited set of types[2] (String, Number, Boolean, Object, Array, Enum, anyOf) without the ability to define patterns and max/min lengths. Outlines supports defining arbitrary RegEx patterns, making extracting currencies, phone numbers, zip codes, comma-separated lists, and more a trivial exercise.

# High Schema Setup Cost / Latency

vLLM and Outlines offer near-zero cost schema setup: RegEx finite state machine construction is extremely cheap on the first inference call. While OpenAI's context-free grammar generation has a significant latency penalty of "under ten seconds to a minute". This may not impact "warmed-up" inference but could present issues if schemas are more dynamic in nature.

Right now, this feels like a good first step, focusing on ensuring the right fields are present in schema-ed output. However, it doesn't yet offer the functionality to ensure the format of field contents beyond a primitive set of types. It will be interesting to watch where OpenAI takes this.

[0] https://help.getzep.com/structured-data-extraction

[1] https://help.getzep.com/dialog-classification

[2] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs/s...
For all the snark from people who dislike Elon, this is a bit of a sad ending. I remember when Twitter announced their presence in mid-market and the promises of how it would help the area. What people don't realize is that his will lead to real revenue losses for the city -- the largest companies in SF are overwhelmingly tech. Twitter is in the top 5 when it comes to how much tax they pay. Loss of revenue for the city will translate to cuts.
The article talks about the loss of seasonality in the taste of our foods, which is something I can directly relate to even though I am not that old.

When I was a kid (in the 90s), we got our milk from a local dairy. I distinctly remember the taste of milk changing around May, when the cows started to go outside and switched from dry feed to grass. That does not happen anymore... I wonder what they changed since then.
"Digital advertising has become a major business for Google’s parent company, Alphabet, with revenue nearly quadrupling in the past decade. Google advertising, which includes Google search, YouTube ads and other networks, racked in an unprecedented $237.8 billion in 2023."

Which isn't the cause of news orgs decline. Platforms direct traffic to news sites. News sites have always had the trivial ability to forbid platforms from accessing their content.

Wealthy platforms ethical financial obligation is to pay sufficient taxes, not fund news sites.

Yes, declining news it is a growing catastrophe.

It would be a greater loss if news orgs had a history of well-honoring their 1A protections - that news orgs consistently prioritized challenging the powerful over fluff and parroting every other news org.

That didn't happen so we have the lesser (but still catastrophic) loss.
Legality of this is rocky in Australia. I dare say that NZ is the same?

There are so many scrapers that come and go doing this in AU but are usually shut down by the big supermarkets.

It's a cycle of usefulness and "why doesn't this exist", except it had existed many times before.
Interviewed in 22 and rejected. Ended up joining another accellerator and ended up having the startup acquired. Looking to start something new again in the mobile app/ai space. Love to chat with anyone interested in applying together
Documented evidence where Elon says things that aren’t true seems to be a valid response to someone claiming something unlikely because Elon says it’s so.
I remember from visiting my grandparents in the 1960s there was one cold store in the town. I believe that my grandfather (a doctor) kept some things there, like insulin. I never heard of anyone having a fridge of their own, which is the kind of thing that would have been told to a kid.

I only remember going there for ice cream which was made in a bicycle inner tube. They cut the tube into segments; the ice cream tasted of rubber of course.

In the 70s there was a huge wave of modernization in SE Asia and suddenly people had scooters and cars, girls had miniskirts, and A/C appeared in saree shops at least. I don’t remember if my GPs ever bought a fridge or not, though.
> The ideal currency has a constant, predictable 2-4% inflation to promote the velocity of money and prevent stagnation.

This fundamentally misunderstands the point of Bitcoin's creation (and currency). The ideal currency does not inflate at all, which makes it inimical to government spending and debt. As modern fiat is inherently based upon debt, this makes it non-ideal from the perspective of governments, but ideal for everyone else.

Inflation to drive monetary velocity is a ridiculous concept, as is inflation. Inflation is scarcity of goods purchased in the present relative to money supply: fewer goods and services at the expense of more currency. People want goods and services, not currency.

During multiple periods of US history—including much of the 1789-1913 era—the US paid out no interest on US bonds, as the value was in its safety, and the value of the dollar was worth more at its redemption. More goods and services relative to the comparatively smaller increase in currency made savers wealthy without investment. Outside of wars, pre-modern US had a deflationary currency in its run up to becoming the pre-eminent power on the planet.
The gram is indeed defined by SI to be 1/1000th of a kilogram, it's not a random word I made up.

There is no logical difference between the definition you gave, and an alternative definition that says "the gram is defined by setting the Planck constant h to 6.62607015×10−31 J⋅s (J = g⋅m2⋅s−2), given the definitions of the metre and the second", and then defining 1 kg = 1000 g. Which is why I'm asking what this distinction actually means, if anything.

It meant something that feels more real when the kilogram was defined as the mass of a physical reference kilogram object in a vault in Paris, but that changed a few years ago.
Thank you! Keep them objections coming, especially if they have a geometric or siliceous slant. Helps me to focus :)

On second thought, these are more than enough lol

Just a quick and dirty counter-objection-- to satisfy a Grothendieck model as well as yourselves, perhaps in the decentralized future, your glasses get fixed purely as a side effect of research on silica?

So,really, the problem could be, as you implied, success in silica research is very random (Poisson?), but the need for silica manipulation is some other unfortunate mismatched distribution? You would think Russell already worked that out!

I.e. why are you guys unhappy. You're already getting well-paid for managing!! (For my part, my other research feels like a rachet and not a controlled spiral into nothingburger, which is what I have to label the unhappy ones)

Of course the tongue-in-cheek way to improve morale is to improve research until it feels more like labour :)

EDIT:
Less tongue-in-cheek guess is that interacting time-utility functions (i.e. connected "counter-rachets") are poorly worked out,or at least, not grokked by the unwashed masses (but very well understood by your Grandma)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-utility_function
There wasn't enough there for ten minutes, I don't care how long Whistler took. By the time it was up I had convinced myself that the vague shapes were actually EPCOT Center.

The art equivalent of semantic satiation. You can look long enough that the meaning is fully diminished.
It's not really the point I'm making though. Google search has become defacto Reddit / Quora search, and they haven't been transparent about this to the public. While they did have to do something about all the AI-generated unedited spam, replacing it with random Reddit commenters doesn't seem like it's necessarily any better.
> Yes, because none of the retailers have been willing to cough up data.

It's on their financial statements and it has been discussed in their earnings calls. The euphemism for theft is "slippage."

As to whether locking things up helps, most of the thefts I have seen recently involve someone politely asking for a good to be unlocked, then walking out the door with it in hand. The lock only stops one person from taking all of it at once.
I have to provide a reason why I am not interested in integrating ai into my workspace?
I work in a place that used to be 'flat' for exactly the reasons in OP's article, then it turned out to be all unplanned chaos with way too many projects being picked up not going anywhere.

Now it's all too hierarchical with managers of managers in the org-chart, with again nothing being done because every layer invents work, and the middle-layer doesn't understand what we actually do (no subject matter expertise). Can't wait for upstairs to see this trend, fire all these McKinsey-trained Managerial Consultants, and then we get nothing done again for the old reasons.
I wasn’t making very much actually and we were a single income household. We wanted to look into buying a house but it was north of 850k for a closet sized space. Rent+food basically ate up all my income.

Moving to Palo Alto was definitively not in the cards
The author misses the point about why cryptocurrency is stupid, which is that law is the ultimate arbitrator of ownership, not a piece of paper or a magical token. Anything that goes against that goes against the point of having a government and results in stupidity like funding the North Korean dictatorship and slavers running scams in South East Asia.

This adds another layer of stupidity on top, proposing that people buy a deflationary asset that they are not required to own.
Yes, each currency should have its own central bank.
Typically it involves some entity which can use traffic-data to strip away the privacy people think they have.

A simple example might be to determine the true identity of an HN poster: Even with the content encrypted, it's harder to hide the fact whenever Account X makes a post, Person Y is always sending packets to HN.
That's the worst possible interpretation of what that comment said.

- If there's a shooting 100ft from me, I don't care if it gets reported or not. I'm worried about getting in the crossfire.

- On the other hand, if there's a shooting 10 miles from me, I'm safe.

So it's perfectly logical to want to live in the second situation and avoid the first. Per-capita statistics mask the effects of the first and make the second look worse.

The best thing to do is to use per-capita stats when judging your likelihood of being a victim, and per-area stats when judging your likelihood of being near a crime.

Most people want to minimize both, and you shitting on them for it is bizarre.
But comments go out of date, and the compiler doesn’t check them against the implementation. To document + enforce the intended functionality, use tests.
Microsoft has also been one of Linux' top contributors. The old days are over, and the shift has been from selling a product to selling a service and making sure those open source projects work best on your service. Ironically both Elasticsearch and Redis didn't like this in spite of having dedicated AWS employees contributing to their projects. At least Microsoft and AWS have a financial incentive to maintaining open source.
My take is that crypto is a scam but fiat monetary system is a scam. The fiat proponents likely corrupted crypto intentionally, leveraging government agencies and financial institutions to prevent adoption and soil its reputation... Same thing as western corporate powers have been doing to developing countries in Africa and elsewhere; corrupting community and national leaders via an extreme punishment-in-one-hand, reward-in-the-other model, impoverishing the masses for the benefit of western conglomerates (read Confessions of an Economic Hitman)... Then fooling everyone into blaming citizens of those countries for their own poor 'voting decisions'.

Everything which is based on either fiat or crypto is also a scam by extension; stocks, bonds, derivatives, etc... Our entire financial system is built on an unsound, virulently corrupt foundation. Much energy is spent on keeping up appearances, but beneath every statistic hides a dark reality.

It probably comes down partly to the sheer number of white collar 'bs' jobs. There exist millions upon millions of 'knowledge workers' who distort narrow slices of the world's knowledge in the pursuit of narrow financial goals... But by the millions, their distortions add up to total surface-corruption of all knowledge. Everything is as rigged as it can possibly be, but looks only just as plausible as needed to continue existing.

IMO, the growing divide between appearance and reality explains the growing divide between the haves and the have-nots. Now we're at a stage that we ran out of people who are smart and corrupt enough to provide enticing justifications for all the contradictions so that's why the system now resorts to censorship and ad-hominem attacks; not addressing questions that are raised because no response exists which sounds coherent; even to the masses of midwits.

We're moving towards an Idiocracy wherein increasingly stupid, arrogant people who cannot see contradictions in increasingly weak official narratives are promoted to positions of power solely for the purpose of maintaining the system's domination by a small number of elites. Literally building a moat out of human stupidity.

A massive problem is that really stupid people, who (subconsciously) know that they're stupid, tend to trust authority figures and experts almost 100%... Because they know, deep down, that they cannot trust their own judgement about anything. These super-idiots actually think they're intelligent because they believe that one's intelligence is directly correlated to one's ability to trust the narratives fed to them by 'more knowledgeable' authority figures.

It's a self-serving view of intelligence, whereby stupid people see their inability to comprehend certain complex concepts as a form of intelligence in itself; they believe that their minds are hyper-efficient because they can reach their material goals without having to do all the tedious intellectual work; they go straight for the reward. Based on this definition, human polymaths with PhDs are idiots and cockroaches are geniuses but OK...

End rant.
If you're not serving HTTP/S you may also opt to use iptables to blanket port forward through wireguard.
Current version of slack treats Enter identical in both triple-back-tick mode and normal edit mode.
I find having kids made a big difference. I have nothing to do? Nice.
Basically an outer product sum of the decimal decomposition of two numbers. It’s also useful for multiplying polynomials on paper.
I didn't say why it happens. I just wanted to avoid the controversy that you (collectively, the responders) gave me anyway.

Personally, I agree with you that this is a response to theft and the brazen disregard of law enforcement. I now live in a smaller city that takes theft very seriously and almost nothing is locked up.
We recently spent a month in Tokyo. It is ridiculously safe and law-abiding. I'm surprised they have any crime at all. In our entire time there, I saw one (1) individual piece of small rubbish on the street.
You're basically taking the model "off policy" when you bias the decoder, which can definitely make weird things happen.
Idk about your second point, it’s only because I live in the city that I have time to enjoy it, after work and kids commuting to and from the city is too much of a time sink and there’s fuck all to do everywhere else in the bay.
As someone who writes a fair bit of c# making switch and if's into expressions and adding Discriminated Unions (which they are actually working on) are my biggest "please give me this."

Plus side I dabble in f# which is so much more expressive.
The ideal currency does not inflate at all

Let me stop you right there. You may want that, but that's just, like, your opinion man. Most people, like 99% of people, do not want hard money and the tradeoffs it entails.
This is an interesting position.

What if Kamala Harris used cloudflare in front of her website? Is cloudflare now supporting the Democratic party? What if Trump did? Same thing?

By your logic, it seems like cloudflare would have to review the content of every page on every site and only host it if they agree with it. That's going to mean a pretty big chunk of websites don't get hosted.

You really don't think a neutral position would be to just not care what the content is, and just host everybody regardless who they are, what they believe, etc?
Congratulations on pulling off a trick at only your own expense.
Slack allows you to set this as your preference. I turned it on so that control enter Will post.

Did that after I posted too many things by accident
>The thing about open source is that you can just fork it. You don't need to trust them.

It gets a bit more fishy when that company does stuff like lobbying governments to make their shitty open source document format the standard, etc
> Simone Biles next to her suitcase which is as big as she is. It is disturbingly large. Like, it can't be real, can it? Or she is just that little.

She is 4 ft 8 in (142 cm). She's almost carry-on sized herself.
I think that this is spot on. Microsoft can't be trusted with open source... and nor can any other company. The exact logic that the author of this piece (correctly) uses to scrutinize Microsoft also applies to every other business. As soon as the right/wrong person gets sway in the company, the companies will be only too happy to burn their reputation for a short term profit.

I wish that it were simply a Microsoft problem, because that would be easy. Don't do business with them (or build open source efforts around them) and you would be good. But unfortunately, bad actors abound and they will screw you if they get the chance. So you have to make sure no one organization gets the power to cripple you, no matter who it is.
I know it's cynical to say this, but I'm betting the author will just add "*PowerShell*" the list of User Agents that receive JSON and consider the bug fixed.
Oh, "RDMA Transport" sounds useful for network appliances.

Wonder if that'll ever be useful for Samba? :)
Thanks!

PS: Nice work :-)
That's what a biased set of statistics says. In reality, NYC residents rarely bother to report crime (they know the police will do nothing), so it doesn't show up in the statistics. In those "dangerous" small towns, every single crime gets reported.
Depends whether you think it’s reasonable for fuel tax to also price in road maintenance and local pollution along the route. Airplanes don’t make potholes in the sky, and the cruising portions of their routes don’t expose anyone to any appreciable concentration of particulate, NOx, etc emissions from planes.
“Weirdo” is an interesting take.

Richard Heart has been charged by the SEC for the usual crypto scam stuff and spent many months dodging subpoenas.

Charges and subpoenas need their day in court of course but it reads like the quintessential crypto story of embezzlement, fraud, etc for a guy to flash Veblen goods on social media.
Meta / WhatsApp have developed their own solution for the whatsapp web client (whatsapp is end-to-end-encrypted):
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/03/10/security/code-verify/

it takes the form of a browser extension the user downloads that will tell the user if the javascript code is what it is expected to be. it checks this by verifying the code's expected hash with an endpoint hosted by Cloudflare. Whatsapp can publish new versions to Cloudflare but they can't modify them.

In this case it makes it so that you are trusting Cloudflare instead of just WhatsApp, but (as an amateur), I don't see why this couldn't be adapted into a standard that works with something like a blockchain or certificate authorities (or even something like a git host to go along with public source code auditing?). I think something like this should become a standard and be built into browsers, but currently not a lot of companies are using any solution at all.

The only other implementation of a solution to this that I found, which I think is pretty similar, is Etesync's pgp signed webpages library + browser extension (https://stosb.com/blog/signed-web-pages/), which allows the developer to PGP sign web pages so you know the code has not been modified by a malicious server without the developers approval. So maybe you can use that in your project I guess, or there are probably some other solutions that I haven't found

I think this problem might be called "Code Verification" in cryptography, if you want to look more into it
This is Java, so you should always do `Object.equals(urlA, urlB)`, on the off-chance urlA is null!

(I do not miss working in Java haha)
Is the statement just that if you use a random value for a nonce rather than some guaranteed never-used-once value, it's possible to get a collision faster than the "natural" block collision complexity (half block size or something like that)?
Assuming both devices index the palette identically then accidentally pressing the button on the keyboard once should only require a single click on the mouse to make them match again.
This would be great in the extension format:

highlights-text --> Right-Click --> New ML --> (smart dropdown for watch [price|name|date|{typed-in-prompt-instructions}] --> TAB --> (smart frequency - tabbing through {watch blah (and its auto-filling every N ) --> NAME_ML=ML01.

THEN:

highlights-text --> Right-Click .... WHEN {ML01} == N DO {this|ML0X} --> ML00

ML00 == EMAIL|CSV|GDrive results.

ML11 == Graph all the above outputs.

:-)
True, but I would have to categorize that as an unacceptable workaround haha