skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it was just one person

There was similar case with another SS member in Canadian Parliament a few decades ago.

> was Waffen-SS, not SS -- and yes, there's a major difference between the two.

Poland asked for his extradition. They seems to have different opinion.

From wiki:

Elements of the Waffen-SS Galizien worked alongside one of the most brutal units of Nazi Germany, the SS-Sonderbattalion Dirlewanger,[119] which had carried out brutal anti-partisan activities in Belarus and Poland, and had taken part in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising.[123] The Waffen-SS Galizien destroyed several Polish communities in western Ukraine during the winter and spring of 1944.[124] Specifically, the 4th and 5th SS Police Regiments have been accused of murdering Polish civilians in the course of anti-guerilla activity.
Killing another human IS never justified. You’re not a judge, jury or executioner. It should never, ever be up to one person to decide if someone else should live or die. Especially not in the heat of the moment.

In your remote area hypothetical, a rifle would be the appropriate tool. I was very specifically talking about handguns, which are most frequently used to kill the person holding it[0][1], and it’s getting worse[2], hence the Red Flag laws that started this entire thread. And that’s the reason there’s a significant difference between a pile of cash and the equivalent value handgun should absolutely not be treated equally.

0: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/05/24/suicides-...

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-...

2: https://www.cdc.gov/firearm-violence/php/data-trends/firearm...
It's too much tk hope we can ban advertising, but surely we can ban all of this absurd tracking?
And that will get them more lawsuits until some judge has had enough of their tricks and forces something drastic.
Boeing grounds 777x test fleet after failure of key engine mounting structure
And at release ChatGPT was meant as a marketing gimmick. A fun way to interact with a slightly finetuned version of GPT3.5 to showcase how good their models had become.

If anything it's remarkable how much they leaned into this success, building an iOS and Android app, speeding up the models, adding a premium plan, lots of new features, and eventually deprecating their text-completion mode and going all in on chat as the interaction mode for their LLMs.
Not yet, but keep an eye on https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
I'm in the process of building a similar project aimed towards beginners, so it's hopefully a bit less daunting than Cardinal/VCV Rack.

https://wavepen.jinay.dev/
Very cool and very useful!

"Worldwide, most radiosonde observations are taken daily at 00Z and 12Z (6 a.m. and 6 p.m. EST)" - NOAA.gov

I know we get more weather data from other sources, but it seems insane that these 2 launch times per day (per balloon location) are what make up most of our current weather forecasting data.

You mentioned solar. Do you have the capability (or plans) to run these over night as well?
Really depends on what you mean by random. If it is truly random then you will end up with a random walk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk
macOS is built primarily for the probably ~95% of users who are on a laptop, and it works just great there.
Cursory question - what's with the 'screenshots' that look like they're photos of the screen taken with a smartphone?
I wanted to make a joke about this, saying that every year starting 2023, we need to sacrifice billionaires to Poseidon in order to push back society's expiration date. But then I read your comment and realized it would be incredibly distasteful, so I will not make that joke.
> How have we gotten to a place where our elected officials - sworn to uphold the constitution - willingly and knowingly pass unconstitutional laws just to see how long they can get away with it?

The constitution is not a immutable document and "upholding" it has never meant anything. It is whatever the courts interpet it as and in this case the judge disagreed but you pull a different judge and you might get a different outcome.
100%. I don't think we should at all minimize the decades of research that it took to get to the current "generative AI boom", but once transformers were invented in 2018, we basically found that just throwing more and more data at the problem gave you better results.

And not to discount the other important advances like RLHF, but the reason everyone talks about the big model companies as having "no moat" is because it's not really a secret of how to recreate these models. That is basically the complete opposite of, say, other companies that really do build "the most challenging products that have been created in all of human history." E.g. nobody has really been able to recreate TSMC's success, which requires not only billions but a highly educated, trained, and specialized workforce.
If other people build it using OpenAIs API that's still B2B from OpenAI's point of view though.
This must be what people mean when they say they are short on time.
Co-defendants in HP fraud trial pass away just days apart
Very cool! At Airtrain we’ve also found embeddings can be very valuable for building classification models. If you’re looking to play around with a large amount of text and embeddings we actually recently deduped and embedded all of fineweb-edu (also mentioned in the article) and put the resulting dataset on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/airtrain-ai/fineweb-edu-fort...
>Does one instance of "filing the serial numbers off" by one author mean that no authors anywhere are allowed to write any books as soon as they've read "a bunch" of other books

So far, pretty much all major actors are doing it. So yes, if everyone is abusing a rule, the ball is taken home.

>I get what you are saying, but it's not so obvious what the right policy is.

The one these companies spent 2 decades prior fighting to strengthen. Yes, I am enjoying the schadenfreude of companies in copyright lingo they used to launch thousands of lawsuits, and now they are on the other end when convenient to them to "steal IP".

copyright needs a major rework, but never interrupt your enemy in the middle of a mistake.
Nice effort, but after one successful NYT session, it fails and treats the access as though it were an end user. But don't take my word for it : try it. One access, succeeds. Two or more ... fails.

The reason is the staff at the NYT appear to be very well versed in the technical tricks people use to gain access.
The tip doesn't go to the restaurant, it goes to the server.
I think the one underlying problem society faces that would absolutely improve our lives in every way is to go back to the 1 income household model, but still maintain the possibility of dual income households. (don't force the other not to work as in the past, but encourage them not to double dip)

As much as feminists hate it, when mothers were at home we were all much healthier. Now we just need to let fathers or mothers stay home and we'll reap such insane benefits.

How? Idk. Single income families get a tax relief or something.
It's a comparable tool, yes, and common in the industry, but I have not personally used it yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/19/who...
Because shade is expensive and children are not going to complain in a city hall meeting.
I wonder how successful an independent non-profit broker could be. Submit your apps, if they meet these basic quality and usefulness standards we will pay for notarization. Donate to us to help build the world of free Mac software.
It’s $250/month for a c6g 2xl 1tb ebs on demand pricing go reserved instances. Given they use AWS and are a major customer, you can expect excellent pricing above the above public pricing quote.

Considering the cost of a developers time, and you can do shenanigans to drive that even lower, this all feels totally reasonable.
The main issue I have with patio11 is that everything he posts reads like this. There’s just something really pretentious about it, almost everything he says could be worded in a less show-off-y way.
Rumors. The Information had a story about this (but it's behind a paywall): https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-annualized-r... - their story was based on "people with knowledge of the situation" aka insider leaks.

I don't know the source for https://www.notoriousplg.ai/p/notorious-openais-revenue-brea... but it could just be that same Information article.
I think that deliberately building in buffer so that people's expectations are explicitly set is much better than constantly having to absent yourself "early".
>The US government has put a lot of effort into isolating China from the Phillippines.

Let's not forget that some of China's isolation is self inflicted. China's nine dash line map, claiming 90% of the South China Sea, only drove their neighbors into the US's open arms.
No Fakes – A Dream for Lawyers, a Nightmare for Everyone Else
Here are two paragraphs that rang my alarm bells:

> The bill proposes a variety of exclusions for news, satire, biopics, criticism, etc. to limit the impact on free expression, but their application is uncertain at best. For example, there’s an exemption for use of a replica for a “bona fide” news broadcast, provided that the replica is “materially relevant” to the subject of the broadcast. Will citizen journalism qualify as “bona fide”? And who decides whether the replica is “materially relevant”?

...

> What is worse, NO FAKES offers even fewer safeguards for lawful speech than the DMCA. For example, the DMCA includes a relatively simple counter-notice process that a speaker can use to get their work restored. NO FAKES does not. Instead, NO FAKES puts the burden on the speaker to run to court within 14 days to defend their rights. The powerful have lawyers on retainer who can do that, but most creators, activists, and citizen journalists do not.

I've written a bit before [1] about the disproportionately large risk of filing a counter notice in response to a DMCA claim. At the very least the NO FAKES act shouldn't impose a greater burden on the speaker than the DMCA does.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39622375
Thanks for sharing the reference. It's definitely related! But the approach in that paper is different in a couple of very significant ways:

1. They train a classifier on top of the activations of the base LLM. so you would have to have access to the activations of the LLM you are using for the task. We use the activations of an open evaluator LLM (e.g. Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct)

2. Our features are projections - a few numbers that derive their predictive power from the linear directions we project onto. That allows us to fit our classifier with 10s of samples instead of 1000s to fit a feedforward neural network on top of the high dimensional activation space

Would be interesting to compare the accuracy of the two approaches on the same benchmark, but our approach is broadly applicable even when you aren't working with an open LLM, and doesn't require a ton of training data
Maybe I'm missing something here but couldn't you just track the whole VM setup (dependencies, dev tools, telemetry and everything) in your monorepo? That is, the VM config would get pulled from master just like everything else, and then the developer would use something like nixos-shell[0] to quickly fire up a VM based on that config that they pulled.

[0]: https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell (not to be confused with nix-shell)
Spaces can't be named except with third-party hacks that require turning off System Integrity Protection to install and use.
Is there a list of these sort of behavioural anti patterns so to speak?
Shade is not expensive, at the simplest form it is three poles with a stretched canopy, all new playgrounds in Florid have at least that
I will say this is significantly psychologically superior to the alternative where things start on the 0 and end on the 5, because people pay much more attention to the start of meetings than the end time. If the end time is set 5 min before people intuitively expect, it will regularly run over and consume your buffer, whereas people will essentially never start early.
I really wish someone would do this for books.
The colors tell you the confidence the model has in any given word. If you don't want the color coding then don't pass the -pc flag. Then it'll output plain text.
The musttail return is not allowed to occur within a try block, or within the scope of variables with nontrivial destructors [0]. (In particular, this means that the function parameters cannot have nontrivial destructors.) Otherwise, within a musttail-called function, it's as if the original caller directly called that function, so exceptional stack unwinding is unaffected.

[0] https://www.mail-archive.com/gcc@gcc.gnu.org/msg95265.html
Maybe because there’s a larger overlap between HN demographics and those of the Democratic Party versus those of the GOP?

That’s beside the point, though. NASA is an agency of the United States Government. The idea that politics do not come into play is naive at best.
I also immediately thought about Apollo, when i read "most challenging products that have been created in all of human history".
Isn't the simplest form a tree?
Sorry for the snark. That was unproductive.

My point is that if Alice has what she wants, Bob will not convince her that she doesn't by explaining that she ought to want what Bob wants, which she doesn't have or want. Especially if what Bob wants, and Alice doesn't, is for Alice to be social with Bob.

"You don't live the way I want to" is an observation, not an argument for anyone to change their values or their life.
One of my pet peeves is the way people use words like slurp, hoover, take, vaccuum, suck up, or steal, when in reality they mean copy.

I mean if Chegg manages to sell something you can get for free, then all the more power to them lol. Though we could probably do more to educate the younger generation on the magic of torrents. Ignoring angry textbook publishers, of course.
> It doesn't seem that this approach "knows" the actual music. The article doesn't seem to explain how track embedding vectors are produced

That's the thing with transformers, right? It doesn't actually "know" anything about its inputs.

The embeddings are learned (initialized to random).
>>>"The law was drafted in part by a British Baroness and Hollywood movie director who fell deep for the moral panic that the internet and mobile phones are obviously evil for kids."

While I agree the law should be stricken on first amendment grounds, this sentence, inasmuch as it implies anything factual about social media, is false and dumb. The evidence that social media is bad for kids especially girls is overwhelming.

https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/jonathan-haidt-on-how-to-...
I've always struggled a bit with the "intentionality" behind something. So, when people get shopped out of photos to make them an un-person the intentionality was usually to cast them out. Bad, when it's stalin. Is this bad, when it's a domestic violence victim who has only one photo with their mom, and wants to remove the perpetrator from the image?

I think this applies to deepfakes. Parody of news, can be fine. When the parody includes fake footage of real-world events, It can be "zelig" entertainment or it can become the protocols of the elders of zion. The intentionality is stripped from re-use.

Textually speaking, I have fallen victim to copypasta. If it wasn't for what otherwise you could call vigilantes (intentionality again..) I wouldn't have known the "this happened to me" story was basically a respin of crap.

You can make these things "illegal" but you can't actually stop them being made. So it becomes a hindsight/post-hoc event to deal with them in lawfare.
I find the devbox approach very frustrating because the JetBrains IDEs are leaps and bounds ahead of everything else in terms of code intelligence, but only work well locally. VSCode is very slightly more capable than plain text editor + sync or terminal-based editor over SSH, but only slightly.

It's darkly amusing how we have all these black-magic LLM coding assistants but we can't be reasonably assured of even 2000s level type-aware autocomplete.
So you've never paused a video to figure out what's going on with a transition of piece of motion, or to try to get the perfect screenshot? OK, but that doesn't make other people's way of using video players invalid.
Who Cares if You Listen? [pdf]
Hm, could that be fixed by covering it with a "privacy screen" (used to cover computer screens, basically a bunch of tiny parallel tubes (all-angle) or grooves (one-axis, probably best for this))? Then maybe a blur on top of that to increase the viewing angle again (though that might cut the light too much since it's not an active emitter)?
Hi Jason! Like many others here I'm looking forward to that blog post! :-)

For now, could you elaborate on what exactly you mean by transitioning from docker-compose to Nix? Did you start using systemd to orchestrate services? Were you still using Docker containers? If so, did you build the images with Nix? Etc.
FYI quic is compatible with bbr, and at least the google and msft quic implementations have bbr (albeit not by default afaik).
I don't think we're looking at a Robert Maxwell Yacht incident here. This really is just one of those million-to-one chance coincidences.
> But when developers put AI in consumer products, people expect it to behave like software, which means that it needs to work deterministically. If your AI travel agent books vacations to the correct destination only 90% of the time, it won’t be successful.

This is the fundamental problem that prevents generative AI from becoming a "foundational building block" for most products. Even with rigorous safety measures in place, there are few guarantees about its output. AI is about as solid as sand when it comes to determinism, which is great if you're trying to sell sand, but not so great if you're trying to build a huge structure on top of it.
I've never heard of a TV doing this. Would you mind shaming the brand(s) doing it?
Yes....that's why I described magazines like this as 'entry level.'
In principle, yes.

In practice, it's a little more tricky. AI APIs give mostly human-level reliable results in many cases. But they don't work well 100% of the time, which affects trust in an automated B2B product meant to replace human labor.

There are still applications that aren't meant to replace human labor, just to generate natural language very quickly. I've even seen this done in academia. And also, the API AIs are expected to become more reliable over time.
Their moat has evaporated on the B2C side--no friction, plenty of alternatives, overly generous free tier--and B2B is freaked out about non-local usage.
Probably a good idea to use normal screen dimensions for the demo too. Was a bit thrown off by that.
Apollo used star sightings to check the accuracy of the gyros that measured which way the spacecraft was pointed. The stars could not be used to determine position like a ship at sea could do.

Besides inertial navigation, they had a transponder that would echo back a continuous pseudorandom bit stream, and the delay gave a precise measurement of distance.
Well the whole 'creating gods' thing is just silly fantasy nonsense to cover up for what's really going on, which is novelty and gimmicks.

It's okay, I mean even the internet started out as Charlie_Bit_Me.avi and free porn.
That's not the URL posted on magnolia1234's Twitter, but it may be a mirror. Caveat emptor.

I would watch here in case the primary goes down. https://x.com/Magnolia1234B
Google has been productizing AI for a while now. 2021 Pixels have the Tensor SoC which was explicitly marketed as an AI chip. Chatbots weren't part of the equation back then, but offline image translation, magic eraser, etc certainly were.
I suppose the "OK, Boomer" will now become "OK, Millennial".

Of course this was going to happen, it's what always happens, generation after generation. It's called 'The Cycle of Life'. We've been doing it for several million years.
thats probably even worse since a laser is a coherent beam, and fingers interrupting a beam closer or further will change the spatial and temporal coherence of light emitted from the scene, thats a lot of information leakage...
What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg
Imgur is a popular social media site in its own right
This attitude is why journalism is dying. There is value to an undissected payment to the publisher that gives them revenue surety and lets them fund a variety of reporting, even if you don't personally find it interesting or relevant. This is exactly how journalism x publishing worked with the "rivers of gold" from classifieds/advertising during the golden age (also: this is exactly how Bell Labs, Google 20% time, etc were/are funded. The incessant need to pay for only the small portion you directly consume/find interesting kills this sort of thing).
I think to fix this stuff you'd have to time travel back to 1980 or so. There's just so much software dependent on the broken behavior and a culture of not fixing things.
Sanskrit, Sacred Language of India (2019)
It depends. For Minuteman I, the missile needed to be physically rotated in the silo to be aligned with the target. Then the "Targeting Van" connected to the missile, downloaded the new targeting data to the disk, and checked that the guidance system was aligned. As for the targeting data, it was generated by a mainframe that determined the right trajectory and produced the optimized navigation polynomials that the targeting algorithm used. It was something like 740 words of data per target so only two targets could fit in the computer.

Minuteman III used a smarter targeting algorithm that only needed 70 words of data per target, so the missile could support something like 8 targets at once, selected by a knob on the launch console. (The launch officers didn't know what the targets were; they were just told to use target #3 for example.) The targeting data was read off punched tape for Minuteman II and a magnetic tape cartridge for Minuteman III.
Yeah, that was more a product of the collusion with oil companies to end public transportation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
> weather-related damages could be significantly reduced with better data/forecasts

I agree. My point was only so those surprised by the massive increase in cost estimates can put those numbers in perspective since neither the average quantity nor severity of adverse weather events have changed substantially over the decades.

Providing more granular data to enable more accurate and timely weather forecasts is a sound business thesis even if adverse weather isn't happening 2x more frequently or energetically. It's still a large economic impact where money can be saved. More broadly, better forecasts can improve agricultural yields, reduce business disruption and increase throughput of transportation networks.
It seems to me that that logic could be applied to playgrounds in general regardless of whether they include shade.

Playgrounds have gotten much better than they were a few decades ago when I was a kid. I don’t see any reason that that can’t continue with putting an emphasis on including shade.
I've made this statement a bunch in other mediums: The reason AI software is always "AI software" and not just a useful product is because AI is fallible.

The reason we can build such deep and complex software system is because each layer can assume the one below it will "just work". If it only worked 99% of the time, we'd all still be interfacing with assembly, because we'd have to be aware of the mistakes that were made and deal with them, otherwise the errors would compound until software was useless.

Until AI achieves the level of determinism we have with other software, it'll have to stay at the surface.
To be fair, he has other issues than dealing with C locales. The author of that commit used to be the main developer behind mpv, until he decided to delete all support for GNOME in a single commit.