skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, we shouldn't be jumping to conclusions. Especially with flawed logic/reasoning like this:

> it doesn't seem like there would be a reason for Meta to be ambiguous about answering, especially with all of the public commentary on the methods and data that companies use for training.

There is another possible reason and it's not that hard to think of: they want to keep their options open. It's also possible that they don't want to play the game of "anything not explicitly

My guess is that they are currently (or will in the future be) training on it, but I don't think we should take these statements as evidence of that.

In general I think big tech is atrocious with private information, and if the average person knew the depth of the data they have, they would not stand for it. Certainly Meta doesn't have a great track record on the data front so there's no reason to think they'd be different. Unfortunately the average person thinks people like me are paranoid and/or crazy when I try to tell them about it. At best they just feel powerless and shrug and keep using the product anyway.
I’m old enough to remember when the same claims were made of graphic calculators and high lever languages like Basic.

A better formulation is perhaps “students who use AI to reduce work learn different things”. It’s easy for purists to say there’s no value whatsoever in learning to use a tool rather than learning to do the work.

But that’s a judgment about the value of what is learned, and it’s kind of dishonest slight of hand to substitute that opinion.
It's easy enough to integrate with Google Cloud Run.

I run a mix; some apps are pure Firebase and Functions. Some run Cloud Run serverless containers connected to Supabase upstream and Pg container locally.

Firebase is quite flexible as a chunk of it is a facade for Google Cloud services (storage, auth API, CDN, Cloud Run).

Very flexible model of upscaling services progressively. Functions -> Cloud Run -> GKE Autopilot -> GKE
imho "free wifi" is not to be trusted in any case
I have heard that the real underlying problem concerned resource usage (ten thousand regexp matches etc). But only now do I wonder why the browser's reaction is to remove an API instead of to limit the amount of CPU extensions can use.
This is a periodic public service announcement that there is not, and never has been "a tragedy of the commons situation". Even the author of the concept, Garret Hardin, has acknowledged that he made mistakes in his understanding and research.

Resources held in common have historically been subject to significant control via social, civic and legalistic processes. What is typically referred to as "a tragedy of the commons situation" never turns out to be what Hardin originally suggested - individuals taking advantage of the lack of controls. Instead it is invariably individuals who first dismantle the control systems in place in order to pursue their own selfish ends.

This matters because the "tragedy of the commons" concept has been used to suggest (successfully) that communities cannot manage commonly held resources, which is false. What is true is that communities frequently cannot manage a sustained attack by selfishness and greed against their own systems of management, and that's a very, very different problem.
God bless, my hat goes off to you sir. I have trouble wrapping my head around the concept of first class functions in ndarrays, let alone implementing it in hardcore APL. That has to be a feat on par with Hsu's Co-Dfns.

Don't suppose you can point to any resources to help wrap your head around BQN, do you?
Last time I looked into this, there were no (cheap) providers that allow you to permanently reside in another country
We have a handful of containers in our house for such purposes. Flour and cat food are the first two that come to mind, and using them is exclusively a better experience than leaving these products in their original container.

That said, they often sit unused because we forget to actually do the transfer!
No it's really not. Please don't think suburban USA can be extrapolated to the middle of bloody nowhere.

I might be able to get a message off, but how the hell do you contact the emergency services and who the hell is going to rescue me in a country with one rescue helicopter that was out of action at the time?

In circumstances like that it's better to actually get some mountain safety training, have some procedures and other comms equipment in place. And importantly travel in a group with the right equipment (including 4 legged transport devices).

As for the astrophotography that was opportunistic.
I take issue with the assumption that you always need a 1 coin.

If we're going to go to such great lengths to minimize the number of coins, even at the cost of making real-life transactions more complicated, we could totally forgo the 1 coin and just have 2 and 5. If an amount ends in 1, you pay 5 and get two 2s back. Now you can have a coin system that is entirely primes!
Bahrain loses bid to block dissidents' spyware lawsuit in UK
I have a 10 year old daughter with a very rare genetic condition. She has no one to care for her if I pass away. She can't yet talk and operates at a 2year old level, autism is just one of the side effects of this genetic condition. She has learning challenges as well, can't read, write or understand very well.
I need to leave behind substantial assets or money for her for her long term care.
I would love to retire early too but I don't seem to have that luxury because if I do, I don't know what I will leave behind for my daughter's care. I've switched several jobs over the past decade only to find that there is nothing fulfilling from a job perspective. Nothing that adds value to other people's lives or even to my own, aside from a paycheck to pay for my own funeral and my daughter's future care. When the time comes I don't know how my daughter would manage my funeral and which bad people will try to take away everything that I leave behind for her for her care.
I can't afford to give away 30% of my worth to law firms that will allegedly guarantee my daughter will be safe from some money hungry assisted living centers or other such nasty organizations and opening a special needs trust fund is equally expensive.
I think I'll work my whole life or whatever is left of it, I'm 43 and also work in tech and this is a dying industry with AI taking up so many jobs like automation did in the automotive industry.So I'm not sure how many more good years I'll be able to work for, so I'm just going to put my head down and work humbly while I can.
Added New Features to Visionari
According to the Jargon File, (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html) the successors are baz, qux, quux, etc.
Well spotted! :)
I was hoping for an article about actual weird non-fiction or "creative nonfiction", unfortunately the author focuses on fiction pretending to be nonfiction which at the end of the day, is still fiction. His label of what he calls "weird nonfiction" is seriously misused here.
A friend in primary school used that to create comic faces: doodle randomly, find a face in the tangle and perfect it. Usually they were profiles with large noses and other exaggerations. Quite entertaining.
Here's an example where higher precision could be useful. You need to do an expectation of some function over a distribution. You only have the moment generating function for the distribution. The moments are the derivatives of this MGF, but a rough rule of thumb is that if the precision of a function is epsilon, then the precision of it's n'th derivative is epsilon^(1/n). If you have 12 significant digits for the MGF, then you can count on only 1 significant digit for the 12'th derivative. Let's say that this is simply unacceptable for you, you need 4 digits, so you can use the first 3 derivatives only. If you double the precision, you can use 6 derivatives, so you can match 6 moments. This might be enough for your problem. Of course, you can find better algorithms, like you use cumulants instead of moments, find a way to devise a Gaussian quadrature method (a Golub-Welsch algorithm) that uses these cumulants, etc. But that requires doing a lot of hard math (with the inevitable initial bugs), while plugging in a double precision library gives you instantaneous results.
In fact, Flouride may be actually harmful in children. According to a peer-reviewed finding, "aggregate fluoride exposure from all sources in an amount equivalent to 1.5 mg/L in drinking water is consistently associated with lower IQ in children." See https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/10/04/fluorid....
That's good to hear; some projects require copyright assignment before merging contributions, or some extended license that might permit re-licensing, and I wasn't aware of the status of the Wordpress code base in that respect.
With local development the user has an almost unlimited array of other things they can do that might break stuff.

With cloud, they can't. They could drop their laptop out of a window and still be up and running productively a few minutes later (given access to a computer with a keyboard and a web browser).
Haven't seen a hug of death in a while.
More on who the people in the question are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_al-Shehabi
For smart home applications this could be big. No longer need a hub.
It's coming along.
I don't think anyone is using it for anything serious yet, but it is starting to feel like a real language.

My guess is that it will start being used as a library language (i.e. have libraries written in Mojo being called from Python) before it really gets going as its own thing.
And worse, the people who control the AIs now have ultimate power to rewrite history and mold opinion. If they want everyone to think the earth is flat they can do it.
Why not use JSON schema and a token corraller?
Sorry - it was supposed to be “cavities”. Too late to edit I’m afraid.
On my deathbed I probably won't wish I had spent more time at the gym either, but that doesn't mean the gym is not good for me to engage with more often now.

I've retired early and gone back to work voluntarily. I find the first 10 to 30 hours per week are good for me, and I genuinely enjoy employing people and working on projects with them. Not every week is exhilarating. Lots of weeks are dogshit and make me feel like going back to 100% life again. But over time, I feel more fulfilled when I try to contribute through work. I will surely reconsider that position when I become the Buddha, but likely not sooner if I keep my health and stay childless.

(do go part-time as soon as you can, it's great)
They will charge you for roaming if you're clearly abusing the system (ie, not living in the place you bought the SIM). How long that takes to happen depends on the individual provider - if they didn't then everyone would predictably just use cheaper eastern Europe SIMs.
The items he listed have extremely direct impact on YOUR ability to reduce theft. You just suggested something very broad. I might make the point that punishing criminals effectively will potentially reduce overall crime, but has no direct reduction on the crime in the article. It would be very hard to show any law which specifically targets the type of crime OP posted about, but I'm open if you have seen legislation proposed or enacted which targets this crime in a major city.
I think the ideal solution to this is hash-based addressing, e.g. a URL that's something like "hash://d480f3e...". Your browser would then use whatever backend service it wants to find and serve the content with that hash.

This is kind of similar to BitTorrent or Filecoin, but the problem with them is that they're tied to the distribution medium. What you'd really want is something that can change with the times and isn't tied to any single backend.

How to incentivize people to continue hosting the content is another problem, but I predict that it shouldn't be too hard because of the constant falling cost of storage.
It sounds to me like you hate work more than it’s warranted in normal circumstances. Work-life balance aside, there might be something else in there.
Right, but you can have a dedicated team working on preventing that from happening - including robust automated tests that exercise the cloud development environment itself, checking that newly launched environments come up and work as they should.

I assert that such a team will be a lot more productive than the exact same sized team dedicated to local development support instead.
Oh! Cool project!

You mean 4x speedup over Python?
Does anyone else find it maddeningly difficult to read Quanta articles on desktop, because the nav bar keeps dancing around the screen? One of my least favorite web design things is the "let's move the bar up and down the screen depending on what direction he's scrolling, that'll really mess with him." I promise I can find the nav bar on my own when I need it.
Someone's Sunday just got ruined
If you don't mind leaving the US, there are lots of places around the world that will make that 5.5m go way further. Keep a very modest/middle-class lifestyle. Never upgrade and you'll have ultimate peace of mind.
The US already incarcerates vastly more people than most comparable nations. And yet this level of incarceration does not seem to have had the effect you want.

It seems that you imagine that the crime is somehow intrinsic to the current group of people committing it, and that by removing them from society, their behavior would not recur.

While there are arguments for this sort of thing, it is also based on a wilfull misreading (or no-reading) of what we know about the reasons why people commit crime at all.
Can the original be found somewhere?
Thanks! I'll add it to the post.
In an era where conspiracy theories are rampant, yeah, I'm kind of averse to letting conspiracy theorists win anything.

I'm not going to put myself in danger to avoid it. But when the evidence is marginal, social factors are something I'll take into account.

Even if there is indeed a problem with fluoridated water, it only shows up in a small effect that requires a large sample to see. The conspiracy theorists were guessing, even if they guessed right. And they ignored the data that had been gathered.

Science changes its mind, but conspiracy theorists never do. They accumulate, and it looks to me as if we're about to drown in them.
The point is that’s not relevant, the issue is the API / ABI of the modules, its requirements, and its limitations, not the langage in which the modules are written.
Lasers provide boon for manufacturing of ceremonial Thai umbrellas
> This post was inspired by another post about exactly the same thing. I couldn't find it when I looked for it, so I wrote this. All credit to the original author for noticing how interesting this rabbit hole is.

I think the author may be thinking of Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust".
If only that were true. Source: several years of supporting other developers working with Docker-based local development environments.

It certainly helps, but there's still SO MUCH that can go wrong.
Theft is an organized crime.

That tweaker/junkie who steals your bike, breaks into your storage unit, whatever? He's not an organization man. The dude with a standing offer to pay twenty bucks for the bike, or ten if it's shitty? He's with an organization.

What I propose is that we start enforcing the law and treat theft as a crime, not a nuisance or fact of life. Roll up the organizations, toss them in prison, and repeat over and over until the message gets out.

This isn't a problem which can be solved at the tweaker level. What we can do, and simply choose not to, is get every single dude with twenty bucks or a baggie to trade for your bike. All that's lacking is the political will.
Sure, but neither my laptop nor my switch (the devices I'd reasonably use with Wi-Fi) support 5G or mobile internet at all
Is this a different one from the one I found at Global Grey’s Collection https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/book-of-kells-ebook.html

Global Grey was popular on HN a few years back, and I bought the whole collection.
Henry George’s Progress & Poverty conducted what can only be described as a coup on my worldview, and I am not alone in that experience.

It is an incredible argument that will just utterly transform how you understand a walk down the street.

If you’ve been seeing references to the Land Value Tax (LVT) here on HN, this is the book that originated the concept. Like most conceptual breakthroughs, it didn’t emerge solely from George with no related ideas in the vicinity, but this is definitely “the book” behind it.
One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.
it is a treasure of culture, available to the general public. Support your local library.
'Bashō, dichter zonder dak' with the subtitle 'Haiku en poëtische reisverhalen' by professor Willy Vande Walle, a Belgian Japanologist. It's a translation of Basho's travel diaries with a lot of contextual information, kind of like Martin Gardner's 'The Annotated Alice', if you've read that one. It's an amazing intellectual tour de force by one of the foremost experts in his field, and it helps that the original works are of very high quality of well.

Unfortunately I don't know if there's an English equivalent, and considering how awful of a language Dutch is to learn it may be easier to learn Japanese, read the originals, and look up all the references yourself.
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand how moving up an abstraction layer necessarily makes you less intelligent. I also don't think it makes you smarter. For the average individual, I feel like it simply moves your "cursor" up the stack, but you're not necessarily increasing your context window.

Perhaps the confusion comes from the fact that we often produce more complex things as we move up layers. It's then assumed that the people who made them must be more intelligent, but as I said, I don't think that's a fair assessment.

I would say the real measurement for intelligence here is how much of the abstraction layers you actually understand. In other words, can you move your cursor back down the stack and operate just as well as in the higher layers? Can you do this while unifying the complex interactions between each layer into a cohesive model? I've noticed that even AI tends to be pretty bad at this last step. It often takes prodding to get it to see the subtle errors often introduced when working with complex systems.
Students who use assembly language as a crutch, don't learn the machine codes properly.
Use IPC. Go wilfully set itself apart from and against the C ABI, it’s generally not worth fighting against that.
Chester Beatty is a gem. I went into it not expecting much from "museum of books". But it's also in a way a museum of world's religions, which are tightly connected to writing and books. As an atheist who has low opinion on value of religion because of all the deaths they were and still are responsible for, it reminded me of their positive role in history. When you see all those ancient religious books you begin to question whether we would have writing at all without them? Who would go through a painstaking process of duplicating books before Gutenberg if not men devoting their lives to God? Thus carrying light of civilization and creating basis and tools for science to progress later. I know this is not some great revelation, but I felt enlightened a bit after leaving Chester Beatty.
John Cage literally composed music by rolling dice in the 1950s

You can listen to it on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/1TwLLLOArGizLfbzR2Pbgi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music?wprov=sfla1

But even crazier is so did Mozart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel...
The animated film (same prod crew that made Song of the Sea) is excellent.
What's also lacking is any evidence of any kind that this would have the effect you desire.
> I think it's an excellent question.

Because?
And who would be liable for slander if I shared ai generated content which I explicitly marked as AI generated but which slandered someone.
Sim not SIM
‪ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want‬
I'm contemplating retirement. I find myself ostensibly in a workplace of high personal relevance, but it's going in the wrong direction, largely I think due to layers of disconnected professionalization that are supposed to have the answers, but the result is just a race to the bottom.

I'd like to have more cash before retiring, but it'd be ok with a bit of restraint. It's mostly up to finding a good lifestyle.

Thing is, I still enjoy 'tech;' the activity of programming, writing tests, designing things (even building workstations), constant learning, and the larger potential it brings to more than technical people, tied in with the sometimes distant idea that a more participatory world can be fairer and more peaceful.

I wonder if an engaging hobby will appear that combines elements of free software, wikipedia, non-dominating personal perspective, and problem solving. People like solving puzzles, maybe we can help solve other people's puzzles too.

I'm surprised it hasn't happened so far, but contributory culture has been abducted so many times, and the intentionally free/open world hasn't been very good at course correction. Which isn't surprising considering other powerful interests, including professionalization and the way "startups" took over with their compartmentalize and cash-out energy, the tech giants, and now of course AI (which could be part of a helpful system). "Sensemaking" was a thing for a while, but it's not really talked about anymore.
The parent is assuming that you can always sell your option to someone else for its fair value. If that's the case, there would never be a time where it's optimal to exercise a call option, because the optionality will always make the option value higher that the value of owning the stock.

This is shown in the article: the curved lines representing the option value are always above the straight lines of the final option payoff (the value if exercised).

This is not necessarily true for put options or for call options if the stock pays dividends. In those cases the option value can be below the payoff line and early exercise would be better than selling the option.
Exploring the Fine Line Between Innovation and Transparency
I quit a gig that was great in a lot of ways — great product, great peers, great potential — primarily because of of an "overachieving founder mode startup" individual. This person was exquisitely talented and inspiring but ultimately the only way to participate in the company was to overdrive yourself to the point of misery.

I stayed longer than perhaps I might have because that person was young enough to learn and change. And they definitely learned and changed over time, but not the lessons I thought they should learn. This doesn't make the direction they took objectively wrong, but eventually I and all the engineering peers I valued bailed out.

It was frustrating because I remain convinced it didn't have to turn out the way that it did. But leaving was absolutely the right thing to do and I'm much happier now.
Attention everyone: This is not just some kooky conspiracy theory anymore. We have federal rulings against the EPA on this matter.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/fluoridation...