skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, biometrics are at best a username, never a password.

And you've gotta have a policy for when someone's username is somehow "already taken".
Yes, EV export up 70% YoY but is minority part of exports, less than 1T out of 24T yuan total exports of which export itself is ~20% of 126T economy, aka export itself is not driving most of PRC growth. Maybe 0.5% of ~5 or 10% of new growth which is a lot, but also 90% of again, growth is happening not because of EV. If you remove EV success PRC is still growing, not collapsing. OP is pretending subtracting 5-1 is some negative collpase number, when it's just slightly less positive. When I said EV is not suppose to rescue the economy, I mean economy is not suddenly going to turn negative if you remove EV, or most of the new industries, which is just another rebranding for all the strategic industries in MIC 2025, most of which will create biggest economic impact via domestic substitution before exports.
They killed my Play Store account even after I had fulfilled the eligibility of not getting the account killed in time and never refunded the $25 (had no apps yet). I know this was nothing compared to losses others might have faced but they literally took/stole that $25 from me. They never responded to anything after the last email where they said "it is final.. something policy…" and all that. Nothing, no response at all. They had asked me to add a bank account while I was appealing this so they could refund and I could not add a bank account, there was no way, there was no documentation. They did not reply for 17-18 days and that was also denied and they just closed it saying "since I had not added an account in time… final.. no further response.." etc.

> It's almost like Google is suicidal and these are calls for help.

No no. They are fine.

Companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon etc could they all this because they know the game is rigged in their favour in this world where everything is "legal" and not "justice" and with their resources they can legally take on many countries put together, let alone individuals. That's why they do what they do and they don't do what they don't do.
> As for Brazil - who do you get mad at?

The brazilian supreme court.
That's ~43 minutes a day, or the approximate length of an episode of a TV show - it really isn't that much.
The term "render" is common vernacular in the art domain, and is in no way exclusive to "computational number crunching to produce an image".

Also, as per HN guidelines, OP simply submitted the title directly copy-pasted from the article, so complaining about it seems a bit misguided.
The article states it comes from real-estate. That implies some amount of buying and selling. Unless they just happened to have a single 5M mansion sitting around.
No settlement should be granted here, on principle. The law should not protect those that use an asset designed to subvert the government.
>So it seems that election result was changed successfully by machines.

Did you read the right wikipedia article? The ballots were paper ballots! The poor design caused people to vote for the incorrect candidate. What machine are you talking about? Certainly not DRE. There was no DRE involved in this state.

>Alas, you still argue machines are better when there's precedent of them changing an election result.

I am arguing DRE with risk limiting audits solves all issues. Fast turnaround with two way auditing.

Prominent election security experts are advocating the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-184ssFce4&t=1578s

>I don't have anything more to add here, thanks for the discussion, was interesting digging through wikipedia on this.

Its so funny to see how HN people tend to be so ignorant of the real world because they think they know best. After all they are hackers right? Sooner or later they always get smacked with reality.
The whole point that Remi was making is that doing this for one format is probably easy. Doing this for all formats in a consistent manner with a consistent experience is not easy, verging on impossible. Other players only support a limited set of formats, so can do this easily. VLC supports everything, so therefore has to handle all the bizarre quirks that make this a very difficult task.
I can't tell if you didn't see my sarcasm tag, or if you just don't know what sarcasm is.
My favorite markov experiment was feeding it the works of Nietzsche from Project Gutenberg. Really brought out the late stage syphilis, but was still very distinctly Nietzsche.
“Talk to Transformer” GPT-2 was very funny, then GPT-3 was not funny at all. We blew through the uncanny valley in a couple of years.
I was 15 years old in 2004 when I have guessed the existence of that program :)

I was reading a scientific magazine article about the planed return of the Genesis spacecraft’s samples. They were writing about how the probe will float back to Earth under a parachute and a helicopter will catch it mid—air. That plan sounded absolutely bonkers crazy to me and I would have assumed they needed a long process of trial drops to practice this stunt, but the documented evidence shown that they were quite non-chalant about it. Almost as if they have done such things previously. But since there were no public evidence of prior art I assumed some classified spy stuff was what gave them the experience needed to be confident about the skill. (This was 7 years before the declassification of the existence of the KH-9 program)
I'm not sure that's it. Presumably they want to keep the cache in GPU memory?
> He is getting a lot of hate there for not open-sourcing it.

We have very different definitions of "hate". I mean, some posts are mildly negative, but there's nothing there that could be described as hate.
I don't know anything about this app, and this is the first time I'm hearing about it. Does this app somehow generate revenue? Is that the reason it took them so long to act? Or is it that so few people downloaded it, resulting in fewer complaints compared to the number of downloads? I know Google has been getting worse over time. I'm just trying to understand why it took them so long to act when they actively penalize smaller developers!
I've posted a few "fake XYZ written by AI" on reddit over the years, and the model that got the best reactions was GPT-2. Markov chains aren't good enough to make something that is interesting for more than a sentence or two, and GPT-3 onwards is too clean and boring. GPT-2 is the perfect middle ground that can get grammar largely correct and maintain a cohesive idea, but doesn't yet know enough of the specifics of various topics to make things that make sense in the context of that topic.
Once ad agencies/networks take note of this feature, they will 100% start using it and abusing it.

We're already seeing some ad networks using initialization scripts to bootstrap their ad setup, with dynamically constructed secondary scripts that have a high fetchpriority (so they supposedly load faster than others).

For reference, modern news/media sites may load multiple ad networks (3-4 on average perhaps) in order to optimize ad performance (revenue) or inject different kinds of ads or sponsored content. If we take Google's Ad Manager (or similar) as the base network to serve ads (own or third-party), many times we see additional networks like AdSense, Taboola, Outbrain, Vidverto (to name a few) or other local ad networks that do some sort of header bidding, ad injection, sponsored content display, in-read ads/videos and so on.

I don't see why some won't abuse this spec to force-inject their stuff earlier than other ad networks and of course at the expense of a site's performance...
>> There would be no net difference to pass a result forward compared to back to the caller.

> For example, A knows it has called B, so if there is no response it knows that it has to handle an error, do a rollback and whatnot.

Good point. Many application designs wouldn't work as-is in the "pass forward" approach. I hesitate to say in response: "well, then you're architecting it wrong". But perhaps there is a grain of truth in that. Maybe it is hard tradeoff.
Counterfactuals are fun, but they ignore other components of cost. Germany probably couldn't have done this politically. The decision to remove the nuclear power components was a function of lack of stable single-government control and the relative power of minor green members deciding what to do.

Yes, the fundamental qualities here are true. I would not personally have voted to remove the nuclear power, having it installed. But pretending there are not "layer 9" qualities and citing a $sum implies there would not have been strong opposition and probably other cost (albiet in a different scale and place)
Quantification of reliability and risk of entire systems like spacecrafts is a real activity in aerospace engineering (probably in other safety critical fields too). They take the reliability figures of every single component based on experience, and use them to progressively calculate the reliability up to subsystem and full system levels. From this, they can assess the probabilistic risk involved.

Granted that these figures are theoretical and probably varies from reality by a good margin. But these figures are still useful. For one, these figures are updated, recalculated and refined as more actual figures are obtained from components, packages, subsystems and system level tests. The final reliability and risk figures progressively approach the actual values as more tests, including flight tests are conducted. In addition, even preliminary figures help you identity potential risks and mitigate them with better engineering margins, redundancy, better test methodologies, etc. In other words, the quantification helps you contain the risks much better than any qualitative analysis.

In this particular instance, NASA's statement is concerning because it would mean that they don't the reliability figures for many components and/or don't have the reliability assessments based on tests.

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150002964/downloads/20...
We have been using bullmq in production for just over a year. It is a piece of technology that our team doesn't have to think about, which is pretty much all I could ask for.

We did end up adding some additional generics which allows us to get strong typing between producers and consumers. That I think has been a key piece of making it easy to use and avoiding dumb mistakes.
You see, my problem with crypto is that it’s value hinges entirely on convincing other ~~suckers~~ people to buy it.
> There are no core tenants of democracy other than majority rule.

Let's suppose you're right. We have a "democracy" that holds elections and whichever candidate gets the most votes wins, but there is no freedom of speech. Whoever is in office controls all the media, all private communications are monitored and lèse-majesté is a crime. Everything is a crime, in fact, and the law relies entirely on selective enforcement. By election day, opposition candidates with any chance of winning are always blood relatives of the incumbent. Deranged candidates with no chance of winning are ignored but independent candidates who start to gain any support are immediately executed for treason. Every year there is an election in which the people can choose between the incumbent, the incumbent's favored offspring (if any) and a selection of paste-eating loons who think Hitler is still alive, campaign on raising energy costs to help Hitler accelerate human extinction and never get any votes.

That isn't a democracy, it's the fig leaf dictatorships wear when they want to lie about being a democracy.
I read Head First Design Patterns years and years ago. I'm a fan of the series. It's less for dummies and more using ideas from psychology to help you learn the material. I'll forever recall the power and conciseness of the Decorator pattern for computing the price of coffee drinks when there are as many variations as there are people. Starbuzz...

From my memory banks after close to 20 years:

SoyDecorator: CoffeeDecorator {
price: Cents { price + 90¢ } // Soy adds 90 cents to the price
}

Edit: My regret is lending it to someone and never getting it back. I believe I might get this bundle.
You can buy posters for $32, presumably they are higher resolution.
Why are you doing that? For fun or something else I'm missing?
I get about 10 fake order confirmations a week. This can't be that hard to detect, right?
Yes the OP article and this whole argument seems like whitewash to me - a ragtag team of Ukrainian divers on a vacation charter yatch that doesn't even have sonar... planting 4 large explosives precicesly, at 80m depths?

nope

Any criminology surely starts with motive, and then means and opportunity. Who had a motive to destroy these pipelines? Who had the means?

Could it be America, who would cut off Russia as a supplier to Europe, and step in to replace them, given their ample fracking supplies looking for a market? And who certainly have the means for such an operation. Out of all the suspects, America certainly had most to gain, and most capability.
Can you share any of the best examples?
> I wish everyone had this much self awareness.

Thanks, it didn't come easy. A few personal, professional, and academic failures before I got there myself. The last straw was when I realized I was the toxic asshole at a job. Lots of problems, my concerns were real, but my reaction was not helpful for anyone. I bounced and gave myself a mental reset and have been more deliberate about it since then.
I used head first in college and honestly I'm not a fan of the style. It doesn't take itself seriously and I don't think the writing is necessarily high caliber. Head First is like the mcdonalds of tech books. You can be sure that each one will be ok at teaching you something about the topic but in each field, you can find the best book to teach you but it'll be by a variety of different authers.

So if you like reading and want a crash course on a bunch of frameworks, languages, etc, I'd buy the series. If you want to deep dive into something, look for the specialist author in that framework, language, etc.

That said, head first design patterns saved my bacon when I was studying for my first job out of college
The computing definition of the term came centuries after it was commonly used to describe what you are seeing in the article. "An artistic depiction of something."
Creativity is made, not generated. Procreate statement
Is "hiding the truth" only a view if the truth is worse than the public think or could you imagine arguing that NASA "hid the truth" that its safer than the public thinks?

Objectively I suspect the only hidden truths here are perceptions/knowlege that its worse than people think. Hiding you think its better is .. unlikely.

Personally I don't ascribe a moral hazard dimension here. Probably, the NASA officials who had the power to state things, were not the ones conducting testing and their PR people were put on hold. I think its a malice/incompetence thing (Hanlon's razor)
Hallucinations and lucid dreams during falling asleep are called hypnagogia and definitely are different as they don’t involve REM. I think a lot of people don’t talk about it for fear of sounding crazy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

And for those interested In hallucinations, Oliver Sacks has an amazing book that I think also destigmatizes them and covers how different they can be from hypnagogic, to migraine, to drug induced, etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinations_(book)
Turn up the temperature?

Markov chains have a cruder understanding of language.

Turn up the temperature (the “randomness”) of an LLM and you can achieve a similarly crude approximation.

Further, author uses ChatGPT-3.5. ChatGPT has been rlhf’d to sound as generic as possible, and 3.5 has a worse understanding of humor compared to 4.

I don’t buy the thesis of this article.
also, not really true, right, even though it sounds intellectual and strong to say. these algorithms are trained to generalize as best as they can to unseen text, and most often don't ever see any data point twice, except for data that has accidentally not been filtered. it's totally possible that it gets reasoning abilities that generalize well.
Some friends of mine in college ran a markov chain generator on the "police reports" section of our college newspaper (1). The best 10% of the results, from a three-token generator, were some of the funniest machine-generated text I've ever seen -- it had an absurdity that modern LLMs seem to avoid due to making higher-level semantic sense.

It probably also helped that there was a creep exposing himself in the library during this period, which made for some good base material.

(1) The Daily Utah Chronicle; if memory serves, said friends also tried the markov chain generator on the personals section to good effect as well.
> Why are you using VSCode over Vim for remote development?

Who's to say you have shell access to the remote instance?
Dr. John Conolly described insanity in 1850 as "A disease of perception combined with an inability to tell whether these changes were real or not."

Anton's Syndrome: Excerpt from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538155/ :
Though the patient is blind, he will behave and talk as if he has normal vision. Attention is aroused; however, when the patient is found to collide with pieces of furniture, to fall over objects, and to experience difficulty in finding his way around. They may try to walk through a wall or a closed door on their way from one room to another. Suspicion is still further alerted when they begin to describe people and objects around them who do not exist. Mental confusion may also be seen. Patients with ABS may give excuses for their blindness. They may explain that their inability to see is because of the lack of proper lighting, and they may try their best to prove that they are not blind, thereby putting themselves in danger.

One of the earliest descriptions of this syndrome is found in Seneca's "Moral Letters to Lucilius".
One of the things I took away from the "Tom's River" book was that the difference between a cancer cluster that everyone knows exists, and one that doesn't exist at all, may be just one case. It is hard to gauge such things from folk wisdom.
Just a reminder that ProPublica is primarily by donations from individuals[1]. They do run ads and I wish they didn't, but for now at least, they receive more money from donations and I'd like to keep it that way. With any organization that strives to do good it's important to align the funding incentives with the mission. I think ProPublica is the closest investigative journalist organization to doing that.

This map is one of a bunch of information presentation tools[2] which are extremely useful. In particular, I use their Nonprofit Explorer[3] all the time.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/donate/

[2] https://www.propublica.org/newsapps/

[3] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
I think they're just being great manager-engineers just as they should be. The root-ish cause so far determined is Teflon seal soaking in rocket fuel and bulging, constricting flow. Downstream it is creating improper oxidizer/fuel ratio and excess heat at thrusters which is triggering alarm and automatic shutdown. These were all explained in plain and accessible English in NASA press conferences and I've watched it online.

I'd been a space fan for long enough that I know "improper O/F ratio" usually goes under a picture of a fireball or an artist's impression file image. There were multiple spacecrafts that at least blew off engines that way. The JAXA SLIM mission just this January had it that way. The fact that NASA/Boeing Starliner team keep triggering it and getting away with it is probably technically magnificent.

With that prior knowledge, one way I can interpret those corpospeak is "we aren't sure if we can continue to do that and not finally kill the engines, or worse yet, turn everything into a bomb with people inside or around". Many are instead receiving "we technically know such and such [unintelligible] but we aren't sure of anything and we have no idea". That's a great demonstration of public relations skills.
I love messing with Markov chains, and before Reddit dunked their API, I would feed my Markov chain comments from NSFW subreddits and political subreddits at different sample sizes. I would spend ages just watching it whiplash about some political topic and sampling thirst comments.
Kurt Vonneugut died in 2007. Twitter started in 2006. The date log on this tweet is 2023

The account says "joined 2009" So it goes.
That is only true if the pod is running within the guaranteed runtime class (requests==limits). For pods where requests!=limits a common set of cpus are used for all burstable pods, otherwise bursting past requests would not work.

This still allows the worst case where a node with 100 cpus running butstable pods will still see huge overheads in the golang scheduling runtime.

To my knowledge (I have done a lot of research into not only runc but also gvisor) there is no way to have the go runtime and cgroups interact in a sane way currently by default.

If the golang runtime was cgroup aware I do believe it is possible to have sane defaults, especially since the JVM and CLR have done so.
Reminds me of how the fake magic cards before chatgpt were always hilarious and sometimes playable, now they are usually playable and sometimes hilarious. Definitively a downgrade if you’d ask me.
I'm guessing there are a whole bunch of assumptions and simplifications in standard aviation practice around lat/long, GPS, and magnetic compasses - which all fail at the pole(s).

I bet it's "quite exciting" to be a pilot trying to fly at the pole doing anything apart from flying straight and level right past.

Your longitude readout becomes useless as the lines of longitude converge. Your GPS altitude becomes wildly inaccurate because the orbital inclinations of the constellation means they never get above 45 degrees or so from the horizon. Your compass is pretty much trying to point straight down (and at the magnetic pole which is some way apart from the rotational axis of the earth pole).

And it's cold, likely very bad weather, the landscape make orienting yourself and even seeing upcoming mountains challenging, and you are a long long way from a safe landing spot and even further from any realistic help.
> ignorant cops

This is an important, but orthogonal topic.

We are talking about something fairly basic, so if our standards of policing are that it is excusable that a cop does not understand... the 4th amendment... then I'm not sure it is worth distinguishing from abuse. As such level of incompetence would necessitate willfulness.

> deceptive

I fail to understand how you are distinguishing an antagonistic cop who understands you are not breaking the law and is actively trying to trick you into (or trick you into revealing that you are despite no meaningful evidence that a crime is taking place) is different from one that is abusing their authority. I'd go so far as to say that this is a literal act of that.

Look, I am happy you are willing to give the benefit of the doubt. We need people to provide such perspectives. In all honesty, I do appreciate your comment and that you are pushing back, but I think you'll need to take a significantly different route if you are to sway me. I think continuing down this train of reasoning will fail to persuade those with similar views. This does not mean there isn't an argument that would, just not this one.
Sexist joke recycle:

Heaven is an American boss, Chinese cook, Russian wife and English house.

Hell is an English cook, Chinese house, Russian boss, and American wife.
I wish there was a locked chatgpt version for researchers
Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
Yes it is. But "Google does this!" can have implicit "This is a Google issue", not "This is an issue."

(And I say that as someone who has had only iPhones since the Lumia 920.)
Thanks. Add the corresponding diagrams and this could be an interesting blog post!
https://archive.ph/SGHHY