skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is definitely to the left of the median US voter.

No, it isn't, and it's not remotely close.

The median US voter is far more left wing than you would know from politics and media. Most voters actually support an arms embargo vs Israel, support universal healthcare, support action on climate change, want an end to the prison industrial complex, want minimum wage increases, gun control, an end to predatory college costs and loans, stronger worker's rights, reproductive rights, cannabis legalization, reduction in militarism, affordable housing, etc.

The NYT is central to fooling these "median voters" into supporting politicians and parties that have absolutely no intention of supporting genuine left wing action.

To say the NYT supports unions in general is to ignore very recent history, such as their coverage of Amazon and Starbucks union efforts. You also need to ignore a very very long and well described slant against left wing causes in general. Here, have a nice digestible Chomsky piece from nearly 30 years ago: https://chomsky.info/199710__/
my suggestion is a way to have users of the extension suggest a feed URL if it doesn't find one
"Corruption" is a strong word here.

Tax Abatements are a long, well understood practice that's been leveraged by city/state/federal governments for decades to incentivize desired outcomes.

Look at Electric Vehicles (EV's)

Both California and Federal government were giving tax incentives for individuals who purchase an EV.

This tax abatement was used to incentivize the adoption of EV's.

Is that "corruption?

Absolutely not.
Can’t this be achieved using the app of apps pattern in ArgoCD?
SpaceX is not part of our national security. They are one launch platform.

They should be punished, they keep blowing up spaceships. Know what didn't blow up on it's first trip to space? The Saturn V rocket, from the 60s!
That would be one hell of a fork. A schism almost.-
Pixhell Attack: Leaking Info from Air-Gap Computers via 'Singing Pixels'
Those wages are absolutely not fair in the era of modern tech comp. But IMHO people should just find a different job, there are plenty available that pay better.
I completely agree - they're very inaccessible. That's why I quoted the word "problem"; it's not actually a problem at all.
Ell: The language model programming library
ell is a lightweight prompt engineering library treating prompts as functions, that enables prompt versioning, optimization, tracing, readability, and visualization via lexical closures.

I built ell based on some ideas during my time as a research scientist at OpenAI around language model programming, with the aim of building the PyTorch of prompt engineering. AI engineering needs good, open-source and free tooling, so we've built a tensorboard-like visualization tool (studio) packaged along side ell to fully leverage this new library.

really excited about this, and would love some feedback!
I don't have a need at the moment just curious. It looks like Stripe Tax doesn't support all US states. Will probably be a good product when it's out of beta!
There is a Space Race 2.0 with China on, though. The democratic world shouldn't lose that race just because of unbridled bureaucracy.
Lots of people follow bots on Instagram and Twitter, etc.

Why not follow bots on YouTube and Spotify?
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we’re fully focused on Stripe and don’t plan to support other providers. This is because e-commerce is more than just a payment gateway. Our goal is to integrate various Stripe features into a comprehensive and convenient package for online commerce, while using the synergies between different Stripe products.

That said, the project is open-source, so the community could add support for something like Razorpay.

When you mention Stripe isn’t available everywhere, which country would you like to see added?
Why are font features so difficult to support correctly?

Because the standards are mostly a result of slapping the name "OpenType" on existing behavior. There's maybe three or four ways to encode any given piece of information. The standards are a mess.

You can identify a font as italic in four different places with varying semantics. Off the top of my head, three different places to mark a font as bold (and this may not jive with the weight). Three different ways to specify vector glyphs (five if you include 'COLR' and SVG). Raster glyphs? Do you want PNG, JPEG, TIFF, or raw bytes? Should the raw data be bit or byte aligned?

The result of that complexity is that fonts often have all sorts of conflicting information. Depending on what behavior you're referring to specifically I'd be that the fonts themselves may be to blame. TrueType style glyphs specifically put a lot of burden for getting the hinting right on the font designer. CFF/CFF2 doesn't.

Noto went full Google. Noto Display was abandoned a few years ago. In their own words it's not intended to be what most folks would consider a display font so there's no good replacement. The metadata in last release is all kinds of fucked up.

Names are a hilarious shit show, what constitutes an appropriate name varies from font to font leaving app makers to come up with their own magic and leaving font selection a huge mess. Plus names can be encoded in any number of encodings. Apple still has MacRoman encoded strings in some of their fonts. Is Arial Black the black weight of Arial or a whole new font family?
Launching Briefer's open-source offering
Maintaining the site, embedding rich media content in the site, managing dynamic elements including apis, ads, etc, managing the cms software, managing payments, building customer service infrastructure, internal tools for developing and launching, security personnel, all the games, tracking engagement and reporting business metrics, building software to manage the physical processes printing and distribution of a massive periodical, managing suppliers, managing access for authors, editors, guest writers, site commenters, and social media workers, managing internationalization and accessibility... and probably a million things I'm forgetting.

The complexity of a massive org like the NYT is significantly non trivial.
This is an awesome guide and I appreciate it including ZFS.

One thing I'm curious about is the deletion of this file:

var/db/man.db

I don't have first-hand experience with NetBSD but their online documentation seems pretty great. Does that also translate to the manpages? How could man.db be preserved for a read-only system?

I'm toying with the idea of using NetBSD as a server for some fundamental network services. My goal is a scenario where I get Bus Factor'd and whoever takes over says:

The previous guy left, but we should be able to run with this for now. At first we were worried, but it turned out to be just a self-contained Unix system. The thing hasn't been rebooted in 20 years, but the documentation's complete enough for ChatGPZ to understand it. Keep in mind this doesn't support Nuralink, so we'll have to dig out the old keyboard. Don't forget the USB-D adaptor.

* In an alternative future, NetBSD will be ported to Nuralink.
Depends where it crashes
also i'd like to kill langchain once and for all
I like tabular numerals. But you really need a small set of other glyphs to be tabular to really make them work. In particular, you need the plus and minus signs to be the same width, so that in a table like:

gold +1.2%
oil -6.4%
corn +5.2%

everything lines up and looks nice. At the moment, with CSS, there's no way to make that happen, and in normal typefaces the hyphen-minus is too narrow. You can replace the minus signs with a wider dash, but that is semantically wrong and also a pain in the arse.

It occurs to me that contextual alternates could make this Just Work. I haven't used any typefaces expensive enough to do that though!
I don't know why this is an unpopular opinion. Whether you agree or disagree with, or despise, that person's political views, the concept that people can criticize the US government to their heart's content, and that the US government does not retaliate for that, is a bedrock principle. Access to federal government agencies is not contingent on voicing support of specific (incumbent) politicians, or ideologies.
And a car doesn't have anything close to a human brain.

Humans process sensory data in a fundamentally different way to anything that's possible for a self-driving car. The idea that we should base the decision about the sensors on what humans have just fundamentally makes no sense.

Lidar substitutes hardware for something which humans find easy and CV systems find hard - creating a map of the environment. Humans do that by using a brain. CV systems based purely on video really struggle to do that in lots of edge cases. You can shortcut that in a car by using something like lidar.
Right, more due to the inherent nature of an LLM than due to that nature being a statistical generator, although as such they amount to the same thing.

One way of looking at it is model talking itself into a corner, with no good way to escape/continue, due to not planning ahead...

e.g. Say we ask an LLM "What is the capital of Scotland?", and so it starts off with an answer of the sort it has learnt should follow such a question "The capital of Scotland is ...". Now, at this point in the generation it's a bit late if the answer wasn't actually in the training data, but the model needs to keep on generating, so does the best it can and draws upon other statistics such as capital cities being large and famous, so maybe continues with "Glasgow" (a large famous Scottish city), which unfortunately is incorrect.

Another way of looking at it rather than talking itself into a corner (and having to LLM it's way out of it), is that hallucinations (non-sequiturs) happen when the model is operating out of distribution and has to combine multiple sources such as the expected form of a "What is .." question reply, and a word matching the (city, Scottish, large, famous) "template".
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Yeah I missed the nuance on the other side. If I know 80% of a subject, I can sometimes convince myself that I'm capable of "filling in the gaps" with on-the-fly constructions.

But because "bullshitting" has some sorta agency behind it, while "hallucinating" is a thing that happens to you, I still lean toward the latter. But even better are the other replies that suggest "confabulation."

"Hallucination" just sounds so nicely dystopian as we start to think about our coming AI overlords.
The ultimate goal is a centralized, curated, and audited repository, similar to Debian's official apt repository.

Sure, you could make your own .deb, your own repository, and manage dependencies yourself. But do you really want to?
Biden held an EV summit in 2021 and didn't invite Tesla. He declared GM's Mary Barra as the pioneer of EVs when GM had only manufactured 28 EVs that quarter and Tesla sold hundreds of thousands that were all manufactured in the US. The WSJ recently reported that it was because the UAW donated heavily to his campaign.
Ukraine was among the most corrupt countries in Europe since 1991 -- no one (West or Rest) disputes this. It was politically very weak and prone to gravity from both Moscow and Brussels.

To assert that Moscow wanted Ukraine as a "client state" but imply by omission that Brussels/Washington did not want Ukraine as a "client state" is simply disingenuous and disregards the entire political history of Ukraine since 1991.
Ask HN: Easiest way to find jobs that sponsor in the USA?
I'd like to move to the U.S. as a software engineer. Where could I find a db of jobs that sponsor in the USA?
Whelp, considering the FAA seems to think the same as you…looks like we need to revise civil service protections and do to the federal agencies what was done to Twitter. Sorry folks!
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I agree that a boycott is different, and for the NYT the terms are pretty distinct. But when employees are picketing a retail business, the two are much more entangled, so I think the common use of the phrase has shifted away from the precision you're expecting it to have.
It's just 'prediction error' in a feedback loop, imo.

I'm sure like any other biological human with mitochondria and stuff, you've occasionally said (or started to say) something and then you (ie. the actively cross-checking self-analyzing enigma that is 'you') thinks 'hang on, no that doesn't make sense' and you self-correct. LLMs are 100% feedforward, there's just one big autoregression going on. No strange loop shenanigans.

Honestly I'm really interested to see where LLM-based diffusion models end up. (To be fair, probably mostly because I don't understand them yet so they could still be spooky. :D )
You are going about this all wrong.

The front end should know nothing about the back end and the back end should know nothing about the front end. They are separate systems running independently on separate computers.

What you are doing is called tight coupling. https://cleancommit.io/blog/whats-the-difference-between-tig...

You want the flexibility to do anything you want with your data and simultaneously do anything you want with your front end. That means you can generate any queries you want against any shape of data you want without making any changes to the front end. Likewise, you want the ability to make any changes to the content that is displayed to the user and the ability for the user to interact with that content no matter what is happening with the data.

I was laid off from a project with tight coupling, exactly as you envision, last year and it was horrible. Clearly, that tightly coupled project was intentionally designed with tight coupling in mind because the people making those decisions were supremely insecure in their ability to write logic for the front end. They had no idea what they were doing, everything was scary, and just wished the front end logic auto-magically reflected the database world where they found comfort. If that is you then its rough times ahead.
What have you done to better understand the technical worker needs of the NYT?
Congrats! Looking forward to your project! Let me know what's missing and what's not ideal and generally your feedback. You can contact me by email once you start building.
remarkably little accountability for a man's role in the shit a woman has to go through while pregnant and giving birth.

Weird how "My body, my choice" turns into "my body, your problem" the picosecond it is convenient.

Woman have not been held accountable for promiscuity for the last 50 years and the results are just in: it has destroyed society.
I don't know why you are being down voted, this is a fair question.

The answer is: don't make assumptions, listen to what the workers want. If they call for a boycott, boycott in support. If they say, "don't boycott", please don't encourage others to boycott.

Plenty in the media industry make money from engagement, and they might not want you to stop engaging! The writers strike, for instance, said keep watching but consider not producing content that builds off our content. Plenty of podcasts switched to other media for the duration.
This is a very post hoc explanation. What does "coverage in the training data" mean?

Take a simple task of something like "How many a's are there in the word bookkeeper" -- what is your theory for why it can answer this question correctly or even give something approaching a coherent answer? It never even sees the letters that are in the token "bookkeeper", and this is definitely not something that appears explicitly in the training data.

I challenge you to give a "clear and boring" explanation for this -- this is incredibly subtle behavior that emerges from a complex architecture and complex training process, and is in its own right as fascinating and mysterious as the ability of humans to do this task and the inability of cats to do it.
This is a good idea and well executed. I think the hard part now is pointing it in an appropriate direction.

If it's just used for generating low quality robo content like we see on TikTok and YouTube then it's not so interesting.
Maybe for print, it is important but for the web, we must stick to system fonts for SEO and speed.
I would not call that the Y combinator. As traditionally defined the Y combinator is

Y = lambda f: (lambda x: f(x(x)))(lambda x: f(x(x)))

so it involves applying x to x. So clearly as shown here you can express in Python. The language has to not enforce sane types. But I would say it only makes sense in the untyped lambda calculus because in any other language there would be a more reasonable way to achieve the same effect. As you show in your example, because you achieve the same effect of finding a fixed point, by not using the Y combinator.
NYT is the premier digital news outlet. Why should a principal SWE there get paid less than a senior SWE working on Google News, for instance?

If NYT has the money it makes sense to me for the employees to ask for higher pay. What else is the original purpose of unions than to give workers power to bargain with the company?
So what you're saying is that the NYT was doing badly, then had a massive bounce-back. I am supposed to ignore the bounce-back, and accept the contraction that ended at least a half decade ago as an explanation for what is happening today. Why would I do this?
> It may sound like a sales pitch, but it’s not; it’s a call for action

Your entire article sounds like a sales pitch. Your solution is, well, it's bad, but trust us, we can maybe recover it anyways. Otherwise your article fails to convey anything meaningful.
You can disable "Require Attention for Face ID" under Settings > Face ID & Passcode. That makes Face ID far more reliable and consistent in my experience (assuming you're okay with the reduced security tradeoff).

If you have an Apple Watch, you can also configure it to unlock your phone automatically when an obstruction prevents Face ID from recognizing your face.

I'd never go back to Touch ID. Face ID works in the dark, at pretty much any angle, and requires zero interaction.
Headsets are big and heavy. Now imagine that some outdated (hardware-wise) popular headsets like PSVR/PSVR2 are additionally attached to a cable which makes the experience even worse especially in dynamic games. I can't imagine going back to my wired headset, I would rather not use it at all. Another thing is VR needs some free space which is not available to everyone, however wireless headsets can at least partially help with this issue (you can take it outside or move to another room and play wirelessly either streaming from your PC or natively on Quest).
Main points from the link:

Trump has been pitching a reboot of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative using Elon's Starlink. At least publically since his reelection campaign: "the United States will build a missile defense shield to intercept nuclear weapons" https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-pla...
It's also in Project 2025 / Heritage Foundation docs.

SpaceX was founded in 2002 with help of a CIA agent named Mike Griffin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career ) who funneled them funding (lots of citations at end of https://archive.ph/D2zIG ). Griffin worked for In-Q-Tel and also was the Deputy of Technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative, later started the Space Development Agency (SDA) which is to become Trump's SDI in 2025.
I’ve always thought of NYT as pretty liberal too. Not leftist, those are two totally different philosophies. In the case of union organizing, they might be vaguely on the same side, but only after jumping through a couple hoops.

I think leftists are basically in favor of unions in the US because leftists are generally in favor of labor protections, and unions are the best we can get inside the capitalist system. More extreme leftists might prefer some kind of socialist system, but that’s not on the table in America really.

Liberals are, of course, typically market oriented (that’s what liberal economics are). A liberal point of view would be “of course people have a basic right to associate with people of their choosing, negotiate contracts, and a union is just a vehicle for doing that.”

A union is about as much collectivism as a liberal can stomach, more of a stop-gap for a leftist.
NYT is among the top 50 most visited websites in the world and gets upwards of 700M visitors a year. They have apps on every platform. They have interactive content. They host videos and livestreams. They have games. They have a huge social media presence. They have an ads platform. They have the same overall technical challenges as any large tech company.
I should note that our linear layers are not the same as Microsoft's, in fact, we think Microsoft made a mistake in the code they uploaded. When I have time later today, I'll link to where I think they made a mistake.

I've been following TriLLM. They've achieved great results, and I'm really impressed with the llama.cpp contributors already getting the models integrated.
The author employs a bold technique I have used for years and does it very well.[1]

Essentially, you bold the essential message for scanners, or those looking for the meat of it quickly.

Done well, it is not too distracting, though I have run into a small number of people who hate it viscerally, and it can guide a busy reader through more quickly and with better comprehension than they may otherwise expect.

Nice work.

[1] - I got started with it in the very early 90's when developing both tech training and documentation. Readers presented the "scanner" pattern consistently, unless they were doing deeper study and had time. In all other cases, they scanned because their info needs were both typically urgent and or associated with a specific task.

I found myself using it in my own notes where I would mark up a text, or write just the bold expressions and fill in later. Going back to my own work, my use of it was significantly improved despite being familiar with it having often authored all of it.
SpaceX is private, however this whole Starship program has NASA (public organization) funding parts of Starship's development for lunar exploration, as part of the Artemis program
It's nothing like the Steele dossier, Heritage Foundation and others behind it have put their names all over Project 2025. Heritage is in the copyright block of the site footer!
Agree. Incorrect response, or faulty, or erroneous, and/or unsuitable.

We do not call it "hallucination" when a human provides unfounded, or dubious, or poorly-structured, or untrustworthy, or shallowly parroted, or patently wrong information.

We wouldn't have confidence in a colleague who "hallucinated" like this. What is the gain in having a system that generates rubbish for us?
I couldn't listen for more than a couple of minutes. It's the usual repetitive, over wordy llm generated drivel.
In my mind the same would apply. When you're in an unelected position meant to be exercising some sort of regulatory oversight you should do your job with neutrality toward the person who's requesting it.
Here's what Sony says about the PS5 Pro:

With PS5 Pro, we are upgrading to a GPU that
has 67% more Compute Units than the current PS5
console and 28% faster memory. Overall, this
enables up to 45% faster rendering for gameplay,
making the experience much smoother.

It's not clear to me that this will outperform a 4060. Based on some quick Googling, an RTX 4060 has about 50% more teraflops than a base PS5. Seems to me that this is more likely to bring the PS5 Pro up to par with an RTX 4060.

Searching for "gaming PC" on Slickdeals and taking the first few non-laptop deals, I see:

iBUYPOWER TraceMesh Gaming Desktop:
i7-13700F, RTX 4060, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD
$899

CyberPowerPC Desktop: i5 14400F,
32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, RTX 4060
$850

Might be able to go a little lower with a DIY build, switching to AMD, etc. Anyway, the PCs are a little more pricy for sure, but they're also general purpose computers so... that's worth something...
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