skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thanks for the response. This does make sense. The group roles do seem relatively powerful.

I guess what I'm probably getting at is how does it hold from a threat perspective? What is to stop an actor distributing something extra large or unscrupulous between nodes. TS is notoriously hard to use for validation within types (e.g. string of max length, number between), but clearly covalues go beyond this.

Anyway, I'm writing this having not yet tried the framework. So I'll do that first and then do some further reading, and then jump onto the discord if I have more questions. Cheers.
> in 2024, my 10 year old laptop is... fine?

Except for the lack of security updates and it chokes when playing 1080p youtube videos and such.

Also, I doubt you've used any Apple Silicon systems. I had a MBP of similar vintage with a discreet GPU, with an upgraded SSD much faster than stock, and the M1 that replaced it was "holy shit" levels faster; now they're on the third gen with the fourth about to make it into portables and workstations.
Better. But you are missing media. The last fascist emperor came to power because of his media conglomerate.
I think that's also why some politicians, who shall remain unnamed, are able to speak entire paragraphs of words that don't connect into logical sentences. They'll say all the right words - "great", "success", "prosperity", "safe", and also the other kinds of words "immigrants", "violence", etc, without actually committing to anything specific.

I think the reason it works is the same reason poetry works - the sentences aren't meant to be English prose that can be parsed logically, but instead, meant to be verses that evoke certain emotions.

it seems to work really well for getting elected.
The children with permanent CNS damage can simply elect representatives in congress who are willing to act on their behalf, and then keep them in office across 3 election cycles until there is a supermajority able to enact change, and also hold the office of the president until the current SCOTUS majority retires/dies off.
Bureau of Prisons to Restrict Mass Emails to Prisoners
It's like the marketing department won. Who cares if there's a there there, just make everyone think there is.
Does this mean they found an exploit in the Bluetooth mechanism? How were they able to pair with any protected bluetooth device (was hoping for more info on that)
It's an alignment problem, don't be fooled.

Is our economy aligned to the benefit of people? Are we capable of aligning it to our benefit? Do we have any obligation to people we hurt through the decisions we make?
Wasn't a significant part of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that Facebook gave them access to user data _without_ the user's consent?
If I understand correctly Tesla is/has removed LIDAR and uses computer vision for most/all of their self driving.

https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/06/28/tesla-computer-vision-aut...
I don’t know about the political stuff that poster is talking about but this is true for quite a few small stores that transitioned to mail order as Amazon really took off. If you couldn’t handle complaints quickly enough or had too many flagged listings (stuff Amazon didn’t want to allow on the platform for one reason or another) you could get kicked off without much recourse except trying to open a new account and hope you were not caught.

You could see this as good for the consumer in cases where the abuse is bad but the store I was at in the 00s got kicked off for selling some Martial Arts equipment legal in 47 States but on a naughty list we were unaware of. We listed it in a few colors and that was enough to get kicked out.
This essay sort of waves a hand at the sub-symbolic roots of knowledge that lie beneath text and that babies spend several years mastering before they are ever exposed to text. IMHO the proper measure of that latent knowledge is qualitative, not quantitative.

It's the tacit 'grounded knowledge' of the world that's present in humans that has the potential to fully fill in LLMs' causal blank in their text-based superficial info. This kind of knowledge is threadbare in today's LLMs, but essential to form a basis for further self-education in any intelligent agent. I know STaR and RLHF have been suggested as synthetic means to achieve that experimental end, but I'm not sure they're sufficient to connect the dots between LLMs' high-level book learning and human babies' low-level experiment-based intuition for cause and effect. But adding yet more text data is surely NOT the way to span that chasm.
That user deleted their comments, but they're still visible at this link, which reads them from an archive of Reddit: https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/Wordpress/comments/1fvl9aa/wo...

Also at: https://archive.today/nsBjE
In my major metropolitan san diego suburb, I have one option for high speed internet. No fiber in the ground. (Closest is about 2 miles away) and I live in a canyon, so 5g is very hit or miss. I get Spectrum Cable. And they give me ~200 Mb down, 10 Mb up for 80$ a month. The upload speed is hard limited. Its abysmal. If I need to back up my server, I pack it up and take it to work. It's literally faster to move my server to a new location then try to back up 10Tb of data.
Disagree. Waste of time and resources. Let the data sit and rot, who cares. We are humans not Germans.
Tinfoil hat: this is a scheme to stir up enough trouble that a Nobel prize for computer science is created.
Yep, definitely agree. I've started a couple sites recently and quickly found that while I was happy just generating them with an SSG and slapping them up online, as soon as I wanted to collaborate with others the SSG had to go right out the window in favor of WordPress. It's not that SSGs can't be collaborative, mind you, it's that it's far easier to give someone a limited-access login to a WP site and let them contribute articles than it is to try to teach someone who isn't a programmer how to navigate adding things to an SSG.

Consider what's needed for someone non-programmer-y to use an SSG:

* Download a copy of the repository and install the SSG tooling, then fire up the SSG in listening mode so they can see their changes.
* Write out the Markdown for their page. Oh, hope you have short-codes in place for things like images-next-to-paragraphs, info callouts, common page structures (cards, hero blocks, buttons), and so forth. If not, either they'll have to pause and get you to work with them to have them implemented, or they'll have to figure out writing the templates required. Regardless, once the bits are implemented in the site the writer has to work in the arcane short-code format markup required to include them.
* Now they've got their changes, they need to figure out how to stage them — either they need to zip up the whole working directory and send it to you to sort out, or they get to learn how to commit a pull-request to a Git repository.

I don't mind doing all of that — it's quite enjoyable to figure out, and I get the chance to structure things exactly as I like them. But trying to teach a theatre director accustomed to writing in Google Docs how to do all of that? Nope. Which then turns into, "here, I wrote this out in G-Docs — hope you can figure out how to turn that into a site page!".

I really do wish there were a better competitor to WordPress, something that offered the ability to lift the hood and customize more easily. There are some CMS front-ends to SSGs, but the last I checked they either were more "CMS" in the sense of "put stuff in database and this will render it" or they still weren't particularly user-friendly (or were abandoned).
Hmm I think your question is a little vague in terms of what exactly is meant by “interface”, and I’m not an expert on LLM deployment myself, but to help you out with the big picture:

LLMs are statistical models that take in some big array of numbers and output another big array of numbers, so they’re all similar in that way. However, they translate those numbers to actual stuff (words, images, audiovisual clips, etc) differently - so they’re not speaking the exact same language. Some related terms would be “tokenization” and “embeddings”.

On a higher level of abstraction (and likely the one you’re interested in): LLM interoperability is a huge draw, so many people/companies/FOSS projects have taken the time to make some group of models interchangeable with minimal gruff. They’re hard to make perfectly interchangeable if you’re directly manipulating their nitty gritty parameters during use, but most people let some library handle that part, which obviously makes everything easier from the end developer’s perspective.

You might want to look into “LangChain” and its competitors, that’s the closest to “standards” that I know of. All the big libraries let you swap out all sorts of models, both local OSS ones (eg llama) and remote closed-source ones (eg chatgpt)
I have LOTS of opinions about this topic, but I'll try not to ramble.

I always found checked exceptions (Java) to be mostly fine/good. I sincerely believe that a lot of the hate for them in the last decade is just cargo culting. I get a small dose of schadenfreude when I see someone doing mental contortions to simultaneously explain why Rust's Result type and handling (and similar features in other langs) is awesome, and Java's checked exceptions are terrible and definitely not 95% similar in DX and semantics...

The one point against checked exceptions for me is that if I'm trying to model a domain failure, it really doesn't make sense to collect a stack trace. For example, if I'm writing a logIn function that takes a username and password, then it's totally normal for the username and password to be invalid. Why would I want to spend the CPU time collecting a stack trace when someone simply typed in an incorrect password? Do we want to collect a stack trace when the password is correct and the user gets logged in?

So, in that sense, I do have a small preference toward expected failure modeling to be somehow different from "true" "exceptions".

I do also agree with you that Kotlin's biggest original sin was to throw away checked exceptions without replacing the concept with ANYTHING. Of course, as you've pointed out, they're backtracking on that somewhat by trying to add this concept of errors as a kind of ad-hoc union type. (aside: they also backtracked on their choice to not have type classes because "extension functions are good enough" by trying to do context receivers, which is ending up being really hard and probably more complex than just doing damned type classes in the first place...)

I do kind of like the direction that Swift is moving with finally adding specifically typed throw signatures (essentially Swift now has checked exceptions, but they're aren't actually traditional exceptions because they don't collect stack traces and unwind the stack- they're just syntax sugar around a Result/Try type).

But, my prediction is that the pendulum is starting to swing back in favor of checked exceptions. In the next decade we'll continue seeing languages adopt mechanisms that are essentially checked exceptions. But, they will be slightly different and definitely called something else so that we don't have to admit that we were wrong to shit on the idea for 15 years.

EDIT: Also, I do follow Kotlin developments closely, but I haven't actually worked in Scala for several years, so I had no idea about this capabilities idea. Thanks for the link.
Is there any cheap way to test the quality of my water? I did some Googling around, looks like there are services that will do this for a fee but didn't look particularly affordable.
Zappar (WebXR tool) acquired for $45M
Show HN: Dug, A CLI global DNS propagation checker, now on homebrew
Thanks to the help of some volunteers, dug is now available on homebrew and can be installed with `brew install dug`!

https://github.com/unfrl/dug
https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dug
The article first talks about the benefits of sophisticated code, you can grow while debugging it. Further on the concept of flow is explained.

Somehow there is a mismatch.

In the graph depicting flow, you see that you achieve best results flow- (and as a bonus, grow-) wise, when you take up challenges slightly harder than according your comfort zone.

The mismatch is that debugging is quite a large notch harder than implementing. There might be a race condition, or you understood a used API differently from how it was implemented. Or some FPGA's software registers are poorly documented. So you spend a lot of time in the frustration/imposter syndrome zone, as opposed to the comforty growing, flow zone.

The effect is much more explicit when the code or design is not from your own hand. You first need to understand other people's clever tricks or paradigms and find the holes in the reasoning or even worse, in the several half baked refactorings that happened afterwards.
Nope. Same boat. They want ID in the name I signed up with to do anything, and I haven’t been able to access my account since they mass reset passwords after their breaches.
I've never heard that it had to be tied to experimental discoveries. For example, Feynman got the prize for Feynman diagrams, path integrals and QED calculations. None of that directly tied to experimental work.

It has definitely been awarded for both theoretical and experimental contributions throughout its history. Many theoretical physicists have received the prize for their conceptual breakthroughs, even without direct experimental verification at the time.
It’s ‘physicist’ again now.
I'd really like the page to be a canvas, made up of many addressable sub objects such as documents. Doable with rdfa or microdata, where elements can declare urls for themselves, but there's nothing but semantic web researchers and some experimental browsers & extensions for it. The page itself could rock & extend this premise, if it wanted.
Of course if you ask this question 3 levels deep in a comment thread this is the kind of answers you are going to get; survivor bias.
One bit of context I bring to this discussion is that I've spent 6 months reading the archives of our local papers --- not for this Nazism thing, but for work I'm doing on zoning reform (we're on the cusp of eliminating single-family zoning villagewide, which will be huge).

Another bit of context is that there's a modern political dimension to some of the claims being made about 1980s antisemitism. If you're not familiar with Oak Park, it is very liberal; think of it as the Berkeley† of Chicagoland. There is a deep division between activist progressive Oak Park and normie Democrat Oak Park (I'm the latter), and, for obvious reasons, the last year that division has involved Israel and a rhetorical conflict between people concerned about Islamophobia and people concerned about antisemitism††. So, I read claims that Oak Park was distinctively antisemitic in that light.

Generally, I think Oak Park was not distinctively antisemitic over the time periods we're discussing (1950-1980, when Kulle worked here, and 1981-1984, during which he was deported). It was better than most of the surrounding communities. But: everywhere was worse about antisemitism than they are now, which is a subtlety these conversations tend to miss.

So, it's true that, for instance, both the private athletic clubs in Oak Park disallowed Jewish members throughout most of the time period we're talking about --- like clubs everywhere. The local council of churches, a player in the newspaper war about Kulle, did not include Jewish congregations (or Catholics, for that matter). The sort of ambient 20th century antisemitism you'd expect to see was definitely on display here.

But Oak Park didn't see itself as prejudiced against Jewish people; in fact, a huge part of its identity, especially from 1965 onwards but also prior to that, was about us being at the vanguard of equity and inclusiveness. Soffer is right to take VOP to task for never living up to that narrative. But at the same time, you can't have that narrative and also actively hide a Nazi war criminal.

I think the reality here is really simple: in the American system, it was simply not Oak Park's job to determine whether Reinhold Kulle was a Nazi war criminal. Everyone here assumed the federal government had done that job. Nobody probed Kulle; everyone accepted his story that he'd served honorably in the German army (he lied to immigration and said he served in the Wehrmacht, but the "Wehrmacht" vs "Waffen-SS" distinction probably wouldn't have even been legible to most Oak Parkers of the time, the way it is to us now).

This is what historians are talking about when they worry about "presentism".

† ironically, the muni that originated racially-motivated single-family zoning!

†† :why-not-both:
Doesn’t Paris have an annual rat culling since their population of rats is like 10mil? And London is almost as bad as New York (which is also mostly stonework). The material hardly matters for rodents, as stone will make its own holes over time for them to get into, and the sewers in Europe are even older and in parts less maintained than the US.
The metric used in this article is likely different than the metric that the port operators care about. The article was measuring productivity by turnaround time for ships. The port operator probably cares most about operating costs. Excess turnaround time for ships is a cost born by the shipping line (and consumer), and it is unlikely to affect whether people choose a given port because geographic concerns dominate most.

The goal of the port operator is explicitly to lay off longshoremen so they don't have to pay inflated salaries. It is diametrically opposed to the union's goals in this regard, hence the dispute. The article largely acknowledge that automation succeeds in reducing the number of longshoremen required, which is its actual purpose. (It did question whether the reduced labor costs actually pay for the capital investment required, but didn't give any numbers. Since capital investment is a one-time cost but wages are a recurring cost, this calculation needs to be subjected to discounted cash flow analysis, which also requires that an interest rate be specified.)
The US needs more unions.
> also given that 100+ years ago they weren't as diligent in mapping out things underground and they put sewage, electricity and internet in the same ground since then.

I have some experience with the local utility companies in my city and it's shocking how often they don't know where their own lines are, even ones that are only a decade or two old. I can only imagine how lacking the knowledge is from 100+ year old infrastructure.
Absolutely agree! It's totally doable, but it does require some desire/ability to dig under the hood little.
I think a lot of people conflate the game engine with a game editor, and don't realise how simple an engine can be if it only contains the features needed for one game.
I've shipped several games with my home made engine, and it was the best technical decision I ever made! No more relying on someone else to fix bugs!
I prefer non-daemon things that I can use systemd to manage with Unit files Type=Simple. Very easy, sends things to journal for logging. All very nice and clean. Self-daemonization is anti-pattern for new software. Non-UNIX DOTW.
Lego Ideas has a limit on how many pieces a design can have, so fitting the Turing machine into those limitations was not easy. I agree, though, having the mechanisms be visible would make this a lot cooler.
How about:

Waterproof phone* (excluding contacts for the battery and 3.5mm audio ports, which can be submerged without long term damage), and

Waterproofed battery* (safe to submerge, refuses to discharge unsafely).

I, personally, would also sacrifice compactness for robustness. I don't rock climb, but make a phone that can survive a tumble of multiple 10 meter drops and rolls and twists down a rock face. It must still be able to call EMS. That spec sounds bullet-proof enough to survive my relative's young kids worst antics.
The Artificiality of Nations: The Case for Open Borders
https://archive.ph/u0xiv
Can’t say much for Angola, but Venezuela has been a dictatorship since Chavez took to power. A friend of mine was told to come in to register her passport at the embassy so she could vote in the upcoming elections, her passport was returned a few days after the elections. It’s easy to be elected president when the people who vote against you can’t vote.

There’s China though. Their party is at least called a communist party. I wouldn’t call their politics communism, except for their land ownership laws. Basically a dictatorship, since anyone opposing the government seemingly ends up in prison. Hasn’t seemed to hinder their economic growth.
Are integers still a preferred method for working with and storing monetary amounts or can we go back to decimals now that most languages handle decimals decently? Monetary amounts pretty much always need to eventually be presented to humans so handling them as integers is quite a pain.
> However, I think the answer there is for Google to improve the security model for Drive - for example, allow the user to select a non-root folder which Transmit or iA Writer can use and have some UI indicating that it’s shared.

The oauth scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file [0]basically allows this. If memory serves the app can use this scope, create a folder, and have access to things within that folder, it can certainly have access to all files created via the app (which should in general be true for iA and probably also Transmit). Offhand, I don't actually see what iA or Transmit are doing that needs the broader scope, though TotalCommander, trying to be a replacement file manager would still need the biggest scopes.

[0]: See https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/api-specific-..., the drive.file scope is non-sensitive so it needs a much more cursory approval process
> That said, 99% time when doing upper- or lowercase operation you're interested just in the 7-bit ASCII range of characters.

I think it's more the exact opposite.

The only times I'm dealing with 7-bit ASCII is for internal identifiers like variable names or API endpoints. Which is a lot of the time, but I can't ever think of when I've needed my code to change their case. It might literally be never.

On the other hand, needing to switch between upper, lower, and title case happens all the time, always with people's names and article titles and product names and whatnot. Which are never in ASCII because this isn't 1990.
I don't know about Australia, but "Cash for Clunkers" deprecated those and enabled faster iteration.

Good luck finding an authorised mechanic who can work without OBD-II or other computerized diagnostics.
There’s no HIPAA concern if you just want to delete your info, I think.
> Are employees of companies who float debt on the bond market prohibited from trading their company's bonds in the same way they may be restricted from trading their company’s stock?

Yes. Bonds, like stocks, are classic ‘33 Act securities [1].

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1884/pdf/COMPS-188...
I don't think the person you responded to is saying we shouldn't bury any lines, but rather questions the wisdom of investing enough to bury ALL lines retroactively.
Elon Musk did not block off internet access.
PEX isn’t new, it has been in use for at least 50 years by now
Unusual earthquake raises alarms: Is Iran testing its first nuclear bomb?
Founder mode is funny. There's definitely some companies that benefit and there's others that don't, and it's not clear which is which. But the term "founder mode" is so funny that we now use it in my group of friends (of which the majority have started software companies worth $xxx million) as an analogue for "going ham".

On the basketball court, when someone's got a hot hand: Damn, he's going founder mode.

At dinner, when someone devours a meal: I went founder mode on that shit dude.