skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people are starting to see the long term consequences now; but the problem has been building for decades.

You don't get every university across every ostensible democracy banning free speech yet permitting physical violence against 'the far right' over night.

You need to subvert and replace the establishment piece by piece.

What we're seeing now is what happens when that sort of incompetence starts to impact manufacturing, engineering, production and the training the people in the field.

So the whole damned thing is turned on its head;

Here's an example: during Covid, the only people who were not purged from the medical establishment were those who adhered to the narrative. That's disturbing - the so called health care system intentionally purged of any person critical enough to question that narrative.

And even now that health care system retains the same personal and repeats that same line.

(If you really wanna know what the actual numbers look like the only people with numbers that can be trusted are funeral homes and insurance providers.)

But right now (in the middle of a health care crisis) some of the most competent doctors, nurses, etc remain unable to work because of mandates for them to undergo an invasive experimental procedure (from some of the least trustworthy companies in the world).

(That is to say, any bloody doctor I'd be even remotely inclined to trust with my wellbeing.)

Competency purged; 100 flowers pruned.

I could go on and on, but I shouldn't, so I won't.

Adios.
Because it’s the right thing to do. You can’t have a cop behind each person to enforce all the laws. People should “self police” and realize that we’re living in a society where we must actually adhere to the values we say we have instead of just paying lip service.

This is why we can’t have nice things.
I mean, you could, but you'd be missing out on the Rails-esque nature of Elixir/Phoenix.
There are no jobs that want jobless people. There's few that even want 18 year olds
> The weaponisation of censorship is predominantly a far left tactic.

Incorrect. It's an authoritarian tactic, which can either be left or right.

On the right today is Idaho with their new book banning law prohibiting minors from accessing books with LGBTQ+ themes (regardless of whether there was any sex or not).

On the left, you have Tipper Gore which was famous for advocating for the sticker placed on CD's to alert people of potentially terrible lyrics.
My understanding is that blockchains agree upon a shared state via consensus (i.e. coordinating with other nodes) rather than by a deterministic algorithm.
Well I think the nature of internet forum stuff is you sometimes take extreme examples and/or dramatic metaphors to illustrate the point in a way that, one hopes, is easy to see, without actual intent in hyperbole. It's also common as we see here to refute the metaphor but ignore the underlying argument, perhaps some sort of argument fallacy.

Anyway, here's the problem with unrealized gains. If stock go brrrrr up 10-fold, wow! Huge unrealized gains! Get taxed on it. Unexpectedly, now the stock crashes, or it's found the company was doing something illegal, or the finances were fraudulent, or it was a ponzi scheme, etc, etc. Now stock is worth -zero- dollars overnight. Now I don't exactly what the logistics are going to be, but even if you hit those unrealized gains in tax year 2023, and the stock collapses in tax year 2024.. you had better get those gains that you were taxed on (but never got!), you had better get them back, plus interest.
I'm not too familiar with the buses but I use the subway and see people evading the fare daily. I pay but then I feel like a sucker.
Honestly it might not be you. Simplicity is very valued in good code. So if its hard to understand its probably not good code.
We also don't just work on images. We work on a lot of sensory data. So i think images of the environment are just one part of it.
Arcadia Science Publications
I’m only familiar with the buses near me - I don’t think the bus driver would let me on board if I didn’t pay - how do these riders get away without paying? The driver will wait for people to get exact change and not move, though I have seen a driver let someone on who claimed they lost their card. I can see how people do this on a train or subway (until you get spot checked for fare) but I have to walk by the meter/card reader where I am for buses. The article is behind a paywall so I only got the first two paragraphs.
Retrieval is rarely ever evaluated in isolation. Academics would indirectly evaluate it by how much it improved question answering. The really cool thing at Google is that there were so many products and use cases (beyond the academic QA benchmarks) that would indirectly tell you if retrieval is useful. Much harder to do for smaller companies with a smaller suite of products and user bases.
> What LLMs are, at least in their current state, is not fundamentally different from a simple markov chain generator.

The output can contain words that are only in the prompt and not the training set. (I asked the Bing chatbot about a "word" I got from /dev/urandom)

I don't think a proper Markov chain can handle that sort of thing?
Where I live, the fare ticket's affordance is the ability to kick homeless off public transportation as it is the most comfortable place they have during hot summer days.

I wish they would also kick off people who eat on the train and leave their mess behind, but they never confront nuisance-makers.
I didn't know petty thievery was among our values, Vlad.
Just because you're very confident in an unchecked guess doesn't turn it into a fact about the data, please don't misrepresent one as the other.

It might be count of unique individuals who spent even a pittance of time working in fast-food, or it might not, which is why I was hunting for methods/stat-details in the first place.
FTA:

“A longtime popular place to socialize, blog, participate in fandoms, and more, Tumblr originally exited to Yahoo (also TechCrunch’s parent) for north of $1 billion under then-CEO Marissa Mayer’s leadership in 2013. The hope at the time was to transform Tumblr into another social media powerhouse and to grow its ads business. However, the subsequent years were rough on Tumblr, as sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit dominated the space.”

That last sentence just skips the whole story.

Verizon bought Yahoo in 2017, thinking the way to "grow the ad business" was to dump the "and more" part of Tumblr in 2018. It took less than a year for Verizon to look for a way to avoid being reminded of this miscalculation. Asking 0.3% of Yahoo's price did the trick in 2019.

This isn't so long ago. The omission is interesting.
A cassette recorder is a commercial product that is able to produce copyrighted material. If the user directs it to.
> just think about it as a critical piece of making a city work

That's what the NYC MTA is... and they're $42 billion in debt. And they need to "borrow" another $23 billion from taxpayers to fund themselves for 2025-2030.

[0] https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/reports/osdc/pdf/report-3-2025....
The primary downside to approval voting over a good ranked-choice-voting system (IRV is poor, yet is often considered synonymous with RCV), is that it encourages strategic voting.

Let's take the 3 person example and assume I like candidates A, B, C, in that order. With RCV, I would just rank them in that order. With approval voting, I might want to withold my approval for the most popular opponent to A, in order to boost A's chances of winning.

I like approval voting for large democracies because of the reasons you mention and the fact that it is very simple. Trust in the voting system is paramount for a healthy democracy, and requiring algebra knowledge to understand the how your vote is counted is counterproductive for generating such trust.
How could a monochrome screen work for a student? They typically have to look at assignments which often include color-coded graphs, data legends, etc.
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's easier to run a Model UN game than develop a programming language.
Yeah, I have to agree with you here. 4chan does actually have a well-developed programming culture with their own memes. They came up with a quirky algorithm for sorting numbers using sleep (not practical but fun and very out of the box.) And they seem to really appreciate lisp like a lot of people here. There is sometimes good overlap between HN and 4chan. But that doesn't seem to be the case here.
Stack overflow absolutely had load balancers, and 9 web servers, and Redis caches. They also use 4 SQL servers, so not entirely vertical either. And they were only serving 500 requests a second on average (peak was probably higher).
Laravel Cloud – The Future of Shipping
Plenty of work for prison laborers.
What have your experiences mentoring there been? I’ve been considering checking it out - do you have to do much to ‘sell yourself’ there in order to get clients? Do you have to deal much with poor spoken English skills?
"Can anyone find the filing?"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.07646

Personally, I would not rely on blogs like "developer-tech.com" for unbiased information about "AI" litigation.

I would read the order and draw own conclusions.^1 (Note the plaintiffs are attempting to file an interloctory appeal re: the dimissal of the DMCA claims.)

1 https://ia904708.us.archive.org/6/items/gov.uscourts.cand.40...

No doubt I am in the minority but I am more interested in the contract claims, which have survived dismissal, than in the DMCA ones. If plaintiffs can stop the "training" of "AI" through contract, then in theory DMCA violations can be avoided.^2

2 For example, license terms which specifically prohibit using the licensed source code to train language models.

Is there a "fair use" defense to contract liability.^3

3 https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2006/05/16/0...
That depends on the original license.
"We've found a witch may we burn her?!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (also the PSF lately)

https://youtu.be/X2xlQaimsGg?feature=shared&t=13

FYI, Python is named after Monty Python , who got into all kinds of trouble making fun of and saying things that upset basically everyone (religion to LGBT), which is ironic considering the circumstances.
I was expecting something much different when I clicked that link. Guess I'm not enough of a Go programmer to immediately spot the joke.
This would be fine if government projects like this had any sort of accountability. As is, these systems can become infinitely inefficient while claiming "we just need more money to fix it". Privatization seems to be the only way to enable accountability.
We noticed an interesting phenomenon related to the size of the repo. The bigger it is, the more its utility skews towards learning how to use the library as opposed to how to change it, i.e. for the big repos the chat is more useful for users than developers/maintainers.
In the first 15 minutes someone is going to set it down in the sunlight and mar the display
That works for the performance aspect, but doesn't address any kind of High Availability (HA).

There are definitely ways to make HA work, especially if you run your own hardware, but the point is that you'll need (at least) a 2nd server to take over the load of the primary one that died.
Looks great. I wonder if there are any early adopters yet.
Usually when I’m learning a new thing I work backwards: what do I want to do, and what do I need to understand to accomplish it? The reason is very simple. If you learn a huge list of “skills” or “tools” you’ll be a mile wide and an inch deep, which isn’t really good enough to get anything done. You have to get your hands dirty.

This is also why (controversial take incoming) I don’t think calculus should be a prerequisite for computer science or even machine learning. Yes, it is possible you will need to know it. But most likely you won’t. Most people aren’t writing their own loss functions or backprop libraries. And if you are, great! You can learn it later. Way too many people stop before they ever get started because of unnecessary gatekeeps.
All New Yorkers pay 80% of the cost to run the bus before they even think about boarding. (“Farebox recovery ratio”)

This is an excuse to fund more cops. Transit should be free, like sidewalks and parks.
We're literally discussing a paragraph in which I said "I'd bet [this would work]." No amount of repeatedly claiming there's a "burden of proof" to a bet and all-caps shouting and demanding that I come up with a proof of impossibility that would show the hypothesis is wrong (you may also note that I mentioned that proving a negative is generally more difficult than proving a positive several posts ago — although, in fact, it is technically possible [1]) will make your position a reasonable one. Politely, I will not be continuing to engage with you.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#P...
That "not on AA hardware" error from an app running on a plain Android tablet should be criminal.
> better analogy would be a Jet engine that has an expected lifetime of 5,000 hours, but operated for 100,000 hours caught fire on the tarmac while no passengers were aboard. Therefore all flights from all aircraft with the engine are grounded indefinitely

If the airline attempted to take off with it, yes, that merits a grounding.
Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to agree and offer additional nuance. I agree with your nuance. That is the nuance that makes Git not a CRDT.

I can also appreciate academics need a time and place to be academic about their definitions (e.g. papers, and in-depth answers).

> What are some real world apps using CRDTs that have really good experiences?

I also feel, academics could do more to appreciate questions like this one are non-academic. The question above could just as easily be interpreted by many as "I'm building a multi-player application. I want it to be a really awesome experience but I don't know if I'll get the concurrency right. I've heard concurrency is hard. I've heard good things about CRDTs tho, should I be using them?".

To which we should absolutely be mentioning truly pure CRDT based applications/frameworks, but not mentioning similar but nuancedly different applications/frameworks, hurts 1. any less educated readers' ability to instinctively understand what a CRDT is; and 2. how it might help them create the next great multi-player application. It also hurts someone that has spent the last N nights trying desperately to make their pure CRDT application/framework fun and valuable but its just not happening. Allowing them to loosen up and be a bit more creative, helping to empower their application/framework because the universe of "asymptotically approaching a CRDT; but will definitely not have concurrency bugs/issues" (which doesn't have a nice academic name + explicit ruleset yet) is so much larger "than strictly a CRDT".

Meanwhile, I could if this was a paper or lecture have said "... are examples asymptotically approaching a CRDT; So don't really worry just because something is not strictly a CRDT doesn't mean you're gonna have bugs in your concurrency implementation". But "in passing" on a comment thread that should have been 30 seconds of all our time, who wants to specifically write all of that nuance every comment? In fairness I even tried to differentiate academic vs non-academic.

If you're still reading this thread (especially anyone that has been downvoting me) I hope you can appreciate this context.
> I’m only familiar with the buses near me - I don’t think the bus driver would let me on board if I didn’t pay - how do these riders get away without paying?

There's a history of bus drivers being attacked pretty badly for ticking off the wrong traveler. So they don't enforce this for the sake of their safety; they're supposed to just make a record of it and move on.

https://gothamist.com/news/why-the-mtas-bus-drivers-dont-enf...
I'm glad he's stepped down. His opinion matters to be sure, but python needs to be a community developed language. He's a smart guy, and he matters still to the python community.

There was a tremendous amount of frustration around the walrus operator, which led to him stepping down.
What topics do you find are "censored" from HN? Who do you think is doing this?
The simple truth is that urban progressives no longer believe that the poor owe anything to society in general. The idea of enforcing the law against such a presumably disadvantaged group is anathema. Until there is a cultural shift where you can discuss the idea of mutually upholding the commons more and more city services will devolve into taxes on honesty.
I don’t quite get why snipping the data line on the PoE to USB fixed the connection issue. Is it because the USB has “two” data lines?
> Simple answer: the people doing the buying aren't the people that are using.

This doesn't work at all. The logistics desk jockeys also benefit financially from right to repair. The rest of your post doesn't really have anything to do with the user/buyer divide, at least not the way we usually think of it.
Many NYC buses let you enter at the middle or back of the bus, so it is easy to simply not tap when you get on. You don’t go past the bus driver.
> You can't write software code without the ability to think.

Counterexample: using genetic algorithms to write corewars programs: http://www.corewars.org/docs/evolving_warriors.html

> You can't tactfully respond to emotional expression without the ability to think.

Counterexample: ELIZA.
It’s a booster SpaceX flew and attempted (and expected) to land. The deviance from expectations merits investigation.

Broadly speaking, this is really good for SpaceX. It is probably the only launch company that can withstand FAA scrutiny of spacefaring like aviation.
Select Bus Service uses those paper tickets or OMNY app reader, both of which are self-service and available in the middle door of the bus, far away from the eyes of the driver.
I'm a little confused what the opening paragraph has to do with the rest of the article.

The OSI's definition is still new. In fact it's still in draft form so this debate is a bit premature. I suspect that companies will begin releasing the code to train the model once it is finalized (they will never tell you the training data due to legal reasons and forcing them to is a losing battle).
Copilot cooyright-washes the license. So even we'll behaved devs could unknowingly copy code without complying with the license.
No, the reasons given for the arrest in the press release from the prosecutor's office includes the charge of him not getting appropriate permission before implementing E2E. This is an anti-encyption measure, amongst other things.

https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files...

English translation of the last three points:

• Providing cryptology services aimed at ensuring confidentiality without certified declaration.

• Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.

• Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.
The distinction in this case is decidedly not trivial. Open weights are great, we can fine tune them and mold them to our needs. But we don't have the training code, training data, etc, to be able to reproduce or tweak things at a more fundamental level.

"But not everyone is going to spend the money or time to train their own models from scratch!" I hear you say. And there's some truth to that. But if we had truly open source LLMs, then AuroraGPT development would be fast tracked and we would have a fully government funded scientific frontier model instead of only fine-tuning models.
Self-policing by social shame doesn't work when there is a large population of shameless people.

That population happens to also include pretty much all of the thugs in the NYPD.
I'm sure color blind people are capable of learning too
You won't find much, this group is precisely what a 501(c)(6) is for and almost the entirety of the meager income comes from member dues.

Separate for profit entities rake in the billions of operating the HDMI licensing and are taxed accordingly.
Tab Window Manager: The OG Window Manager of Unix
Possibly. But how would they know unless they searched all the LLM's sources for any snippets it suggested?
Docker-OSX image removed after Apple reports copyright infringement
The image maintainer wrote a short blog post in 2021 putting forth the rationale and good faith intentions of the project as a resource for security research.

https://sick.codes/is-hackintosh-osx-kvm-or-docker-osx-legal...
Quality over quantity, rather?
It should be free. Most roads are free.
You don't seem to see a lot of things.
If anyone ever tried to tip me when I was on-site I don't know what I'd do.

Whatever your job is or was, are you not a professional who already gets paid well for your work? You're at my office as a consultant already getting paid a good salary by your company, and I try to flip you a 50, you just take it?
Oh right, that's why you laughed at all my jokes. Well good boy. I like that.

Tipping reduces the tip receiver to a prostitute. The only people who are ok with that are people who like the feeling of being on the top side of that power dynamic.
Why has no one pointed out that GvR posted a second time on the thread. That seems to suggest he is still actively engaged in the community?
This. Durov made his service such that only his company could see (and potentially abuse) the data, but people seem to have been under the false assumption that Telegram has better safeguards against that than other messaging apps when they don’t. In exchange for this power, Durov is held liable for the crimes he gave himself the right to eavesdrop on so none of this is all that surprising to me.
I assume it's just a bingo card. So it is used to tell you your skills and possibly guide you to other skills, but not meant as a curriculum. It tells you who you are, not what you should be.
it shouldn't have a fare! taxes are the fare!

the amount of time, effort, and money spent on fare collection is absurd! taxes are more efficient
It didn't used to be a problem, but over the course of the last 12 years or so, people have abdicated any agency they had. It started out in areas like the SF panhandle where well meaning folks got the cops to not arrest delinquents for trespassing, mistreating animals, loitering, begging, etc. Some got tired after a while and they passed redundant sit-lie laws... that stuck for a tiny bit, till riots were used as excuse to engage in all kinds of unlawful behavior and that in combination with Covid and a national defund-the-police movement led to a substantial increase in quality of life crime and petty crime that has now pervaded and has entrenched itself like an invasive species but the people responsible for this are loath to admit a mistake and now pretend it's not really an issue.

Maybe people will tire of this and hold officials accountable --but it will take a change of perspective from bleeding hearts and lots of time as well. It can be done. The wild west was tamed. This can be tamed as well but it takes will and commitment.
Fare evaders are often critics of the high price, not realizing that the price could apparently be cut in half if all riders simply cooperated to pay the fare.
> So since March 2023 we haven't seen any increase in quality on their part

Huh? On typical benchmarks, the gap between current models and original GPT-4 is as high as original GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 at time of release