skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a bit beside the point in this case. Newspapers are supposed to have a first amendment right to say whatever they want and the key concern is that Bezos spiked the editorial to curry favor with Trump.
It's beneficial to try to keep the concepts of "can't believe" and "disagree with" separate in your head.
I would extend that to all businesses. For the sake of the business & their customers it's usually best to keep politics out of it.
Scrappy Parsing
By not an issue I mean we have plenty and it is 'easy' to replace. Of course fixing is slow and so we need to add a lot but supplies won't run out.
Let’s zoom out from the present election and remember how Bezos took over…

The first thing he said was “The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners.”

We, the readers, should require an apology from Bezos for breaking his promise to keep this separate from his other concerns.

Until that happens, one must assume that WaPo is permanently compromised in the favor of Bezos’s interests.

It’s not about Kamala, it’s about literally everything.
would you say that 3 reformulates 1+1+1 in another language? because if yes, such reformulations shouldn’t be disregarded just because they’re “reformulations”. so we can say there are kinds of reformulations which make things incredibly easier, and category theory is one of them
Agreed. From a game theory perspective, this needs to be tit-for-tat.

Implement a fund dedicated to toppling hostile regimes and creating chaos for them via disinfo in their own countries.

Then, measure disinfo operations in the US, and allocate the funds to retaliation in-kind as exactly as possible.
> But it kind of doesn't matter because the author in this case was clearly wrong (i.e. the patch wouldn't have achieved the goal it set out to do and would have predictably caused vulnerabilities to become possible in the future as the kernel evolved).

I was speaking in general terms, of how recognizable the "heels-in-the-sand" attitude is. In this particular case yes, it does sound right that the current "mseal" proposal / patches is not up to snuff.

Edit: also reading through it again, props to Theo's response. Stern but with a lot of edification.

> Regarding the claim that "this one would have fixed hibernation on Linux" - maybe, but it's hard to evaluate a road not taken. It could have made other tradeoffs or caused other issues down the road that aren't visible to you right now because it didn't get mainlined or maybe hibernation would still have been broken.

The nice thing about TuxOnIce is that it would have pushed large parts of hibernation into userspace, which would have made it much more versatile and much easier to iterate on.

> As for Rust-in-Linux, it sounds like your not actually up to date [1].

One of the main Rust spearhead developers felt the need to quit, and almost immediately thereafter Asahi Lina posted an article about how "a subset of C kernel developers just seem determined to make the lives of the Rust maintainers as difficult as possible." By my count that is 0-2. How is that "some of it will feel unfair to the Rust folks and some will feel unfair to the C folk"?

> I'd say "trench resistance" not warfare. The Rust movement is trying to shift the daily work of ~15k developers in a mostly bazaar development model.

They're not trying to shift the daily work of ~15k developers. They're asking for some shims, stubs, adaptations, and some general flexibility & willingness. They're not expecting everyone to write Rust within the next 18 months.

[0]https://vt.social/@lina/113045455229442533
> If this is all we expect of journalism in a Democracy

Straw man. I didn't say that.

It's not a maximum, but it is a minimum. Newspapers require money to operate, and they're competing for attention in a capitalist economy. No attention. no money, no newspaper. In a democracy, you can't force-feed newspapers to the population. They voluntarily choose to read or not read.

The "good news" is that many people in a democracy are interested in the hard truth. Nonetheless, it helps to package that along with softer marketing and entertainment.
It's fascinating to compare other countries on the brink of authoritarianism with our own. In other countries it happens because of bread lines and complete dysfunction here it happens despite a country out of war and an economy that's humming along at a brisk pace.

It's the equivalent of playing chicken with a train because you're bored.
I think there’s a difference between human rights and legal rights. For instance people in North Korea have a right to freedom of thought, all people everywhere do, but that doesn’t mean their government recognises that right, or that they have the legal right. India, mind you, doesn’t have the legal right to block me from viewing this Wikipedia article in Australia, but it seems like they have the ability to do so.

I guess ultimately this comes down to whether you believe a government and the rights it enforces is legitimate because it has the biggest guns, or because that government was decided by the people, or the legitimacy is determined by the ethics of the government etc
This reminds me of when World of Warcraft had a mobile app that allowed you to both browse the auction house and list or buy items. The API was pretty trivial to reverse engineer, making it easy to write an auction house bot. I never got as sophisticated as any ML algorithm, just snagged grossly mispriced items and bought/sold based on the last week's price range; it was mostly about volume. Made a tidy profit, bought my 1mil gold mount then gave up. The app was taken down soon after, no doubt in part because I'm sure I was not the only person doing this.
"Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light."
Assuming you know more about what people need than they do is also unwise. For starters, “MyParty(TM) is better for you, you’re just too dumb to realize it” is not a particularly effective campaign strategy. Both major US parties have tried it.
I was referring to Japan. Police will very easily stop you [0], the more you diverge from what they expect to see at that time and place, the higher your chances will be to have a chat with them.

As you point out, it's also not heavy and tensed confrontation as it could be in other countries. You won't get shot at a wrong move, officers are polite, they're not there to piss you, don't specially expect you to be in the wrong and really would prefer to get it done and go on with their watch.

That's where keeping credible papers on you makes it a painless 30s interaction and not a long and awkward drag to the station that nobody wants.

> The rest of the world doesn’t allocate much resources to the police

Japan police has a decent HR budget to keep officers around in the communities. Which is a truely good thing, police becomes very integrated to the daily life of the people there, while fully expecting to have nothing to do all day long outside of helping elderlies cross the street and dealing with kids getting lost.

[0] At least I got stopped a decent amount, and that is a pretty shared sentiment I heard a lot. The only exceptions were daily suit people and women.
I too am a connoisseur of dysentery.
The US Gov isn't asleep. But half the populace deny it's happening (by their enemy #1 for their entire lifetime until 20 years ago) just because it helps them.
I was referring to the context of the comment to which I was replying, and asking a rhetorical question regarding the relationship between the free speech rights of the press and the implication that the press should be prevented from expressing editorial opinions.
Not wild at all. think of brain cancer (AKA GBM AKA glioblastoms multiforme).

The more you think, the more blood to the brain, the faster the cancer grows.

Think about it.
Good, people shouldn't be discriminated based on a place where they were born. We all live on one planet together, but people are placing the "county" concept above anything else, which often unites to hate "foreigners"
Toward Safe Transmutation in Rust
Ask HN: Have you used HN to find a job or contract?
Hey y'all, have you used hackernews to find a new role? Did you enjoy your time at the company? I am looking for a role or contract. What's your advice?

TypeScript/JavaScript - 3 years
Python - 5 years.

Works on both opensource an closed source projects.

Authhor: https://github.com/chisasaw/redcache-ai
I wasn’t able to find where they said what you quoted.
Start your own Wikipedia.
I'm not a fan of the youtube link trend on HN, as cool as the latest robots are. I know they're encroaching on territory previously held by much heavier additive and subtractive machines.
The paper is self-censoring. My confusion is around how the free speech rights of the press are being infringed. As I understand it, the paper willingly gave up its own rights. The point I was trying to make (poorly) is that this seems like less of an issue than, for instance, being compelled by a third party.

Edit: lots of changes to try and clarify my point
I think most municipal waste systems in the U.S. do this. Probably other developed countries too. And they probably do it to a higher standard of safety and not allowing leaching or runoff.
That's sort of a digital MAD. An interesting idea.

Beyond that, US sites which willingly allow the spread of misinformation should be heavily fined. Reddit, for example, is a complete cesspool of foreign influence campaigns. It's not like it's hard to pick up on. They target populations that are already likely to believe misinformation and conspiracies. The conspiracy subreddit, for example, is rife with obviously foreign accounts that come out of nowhere, post divisive misinformation tens or even hundreds of times per day, and the posts get thousands of upvotes out of nowhere. The idea is that if you seed a small contingent of the population with misinformation, they will do the rest of the work and spread it for you in the rest of the population.

No, Reddit cannot do away with 100% of this, but it is absolutely clear that they aren't even trying to control it. That has to stop. A simple change like requiring phone verification before you can create an account (and not allowing Google voice numbers) would do a lot to quell this. They don't care. They just want the traffic.
Yep. It's hard for us to un-learn the instincts taught by millions of years of evolution. We see scarcity in everything, even where there is none.
I think the intuition of the parent comment is right, but you also make a fair point[1]. I just wonder if you genuinely believe that any prospective Trump voter could be convinced by any argument to vote for Harris at this point. I mean after all the things that have already been written and said by so many, even by Trump himself, and have failed to convince ~47% of Americans that he's unfit to be the president.

Honestly, I look at the billions of dollars being poured into political ads, and I can't help but think that it's all a tremendous waste because it's hard to imagine that there's anybody left who didn't already form a strong opinion about Trump at some point over the past ten years.

[1] Like even assuming that prospective Trump voters don't read this newspaper, an especially novel or powerful argument could get picked up and spread by other outlets that do reach prospective Trump voters.
FEMA put up a rumor dispelling page to quash rumors in the wake of the mid-October hurricanes.

https://www.fema.gov/disaster/recover/rumor/hurricane-rumor-...

Not sure how to get people to read that before sharing misinformation, unfortunately.
> lucky

Perhaps the “good” McDonaldses (in terms of whether they have broken machines all the time or not) are that way because they faithfully and promptly throw the requested amount of money at the Taylor licensed service providers to fix it every single time it throws its error code of doom. So we wouldn’t know how common the avoidable issues are without seeing, not just the downtime stats, but the authorized service records.
Your proposal is fairly modest compared to some of the ideas out there.

In his wildly enthusiastic 1860 book The Central Gold Region, William Gilpin claimed that the Mississipi Basin could support at population of 1.2 billion people, and was destined to become the “world’s amphitheatre”, with all of the world’s trade running through it in a grand “Asiatic and European Railway”.
Seems like it doesn't really matter how outdated Delta's system are.

If ClownStrike had been operating reasonably - which they clearly hadn't been - then Delta's system would have been fine.
I think this makes the most sense. The only meaningful part of the term is whether or not you can hack on it, without permission from (or even coordination with) owners, founders or creators.

Heck, a regular old binary is much less opaque than “open” weights. You can at least run it through a disassembler and slowly, dreadfully, figure out how it works. Just look at the game emulator community.

For open weight AI models, is there anything close to that?
https://archive.md/FdPMr
Square root of one is still one.
They can make their own newspaper, or go on X or something, if they want to make their opinions known. He's not saying they can't voice their opinions, he's saying they can't use HIS platform to do it.
People with a lot of power deserve extraordinary scrutiny.
If you can't bootstrap a set of weights from public material, the weights aren't open source, because it's derivative content based on something non-open.

Trying to draw an equivalency between code and weights is [edited for temperament, I guess] not right. They are built from the source material supplied to an algorithm. Weights are data, not code.

Otherwise, everyone on the internet would be an author, and would have a say in the licensing of the weights.
SQL Injection Fools Speed Traps and Clears Your Record (2014)
That's basically what companies like Mistral do. Many open source models are trained on OpenAI API request output. That's how a couple guys in Europe are able to build something nearly as good as GPT4 almost overnight and license it Apache 2.0. If you want the training data to be both human and open source, then there aren't many good options besides things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pile_%28dataset%29 which has Hacker News, Wikipedia, the Enron Emails, GitHub, arXiv, etc.
For me it’s speed of development. I’m frankly not very good at SQL, but an ORM in a familiar syntax to the language I use most (Typescript) increases my dev speed tremendously.

I also have a relatively successful saas that uses Prisma and it’s been phenomenal. Queries are more than fast enough for my use case and it allows me to just focus on writing more difficult business logic than dealing with complex joins
Isn't that contrary to the purpose of news organizations? They should give the people what they need to know, not what they want.
I have an eight year old so there’s a big gap between actually starting a comment and posting it. That’s a pretty weak thing to criticize me for.
It is amazing how soon half the folks who lived through the cold war don't realize it never ended. We are in the midst of a war right now with the same old foes and most of America doesn't get it but, they will soon enough. the next President is going to have lead the country through an incredibly long and difficult war.

Book mark it...
What their video demonstrates is mostly same-direction repeatability, not absolute static accuracy. They can correct for with backlash at individual motors, but not slop or bend in the linkages.

This uses DC motors. If you use modern 3-phase servomotors, you know more of what the motor is doing.
Do you prove that every line of arithmetic in your program will not overflow for all possible inputs?

Are you aware that no screen is 64k x 64k?
I like you - that was a really good one. :)
A good ORM is just a pre-built and externally tested validator of common DB work.

There's plenty of value in knowing both.

"AI writes amazing SQL" and "AI writes amazing DB to Application Translation Layer Code" just means "AI can write your company's bespoke ORM".
Truly, even if we were to disregard the ecological and social impacts on existing inhabitants, the energy required would be extreme. And thankfully that alone is enough to make this simply a fantasy.

I actually quite like the arid west, if anything we should be letting it return to aridity as current water use (I.e. rerouting a lot of the Colorado River to California) is well known to be on shaky ground at the least. If you don’t like arid areas move somewhere else.
Yes, full agree with all of this.
Ridiculous is thinking there is no legacy liberal media bias. Take the top 100 political articles from WaPo and the NYT from this year and tell me how many are anti Republican. I’m guessing nearly all of them.
They probably do. On my newer MacBook Pro, the key says "Delete", even though it's really backspace.

On my desktop, I do most of my email in gmail and mutt, so I've never used "delete" to delete emails. Command-backspace does the same thing as Command-delete in Finder, if you want to delete files that way. I never do.
There's also been a number of analyses that suggest he was lying about the number and location of the wells.
> decrease in revenue for McDonalds.

It’s not a major problem for McDonald’s Inc. though! They don’t sell McFlurries! They lease buildings and land, and they do collect a 4% royalty on sales. But the franchisee loses the other 96% of the revenue and has to pay 100% of the “authorized Taylor repair” bill. So it’s a much bigger problem for them, and a moral hazard for McDonald’s to be able to force the store owners to use the overpriced and supposedly unnecessary (other than due to digital locks) Taylor service offerings.
Wut? They’re literally fighting a proxy war against that enemy right now.

There’s only so much you can do unless you want to make the internet not the internet any more (a… great wall, if you will).
> Rumor: FEMA will automatically provide $1200 if you have been without power for 24 hours.

> Rumor: FEMA will only provide $750 to disaster survivors to support their recovery.

One would think as you start to hear conflicting rumors that something was up.

Although I guess one would also think after so many hurricanes, Floridians would actually know what FEMA does...
I've asked chatgpt to state its confidence after an answer and it's mostly said it's very confident, except onetime when the question was pretty ambiguous.
The amount of times I've seen setenforce 1 is ridiculous, but not suprised.
Didn't #xkcd irc had a similar channel?
Mesh networks can be good for spreading the reach of satellite networks.

Satellite networks can be managed by foreign corporations that can in theory receive payment via a cryptocurrency without control of the local government.
I feel like part of the author’s point was that the well-digging thing is a long and tired example of attention-hungry rich outsiders prancing in to “fix things” and not caring about (or considering) the long-term consequences of their ideas. Even the really good development organizations are constantly learning lessons about unintended second- and third-order consequences: it’s particularly cynical, then, to make a spectacle out of doing the naive thing that seems obvious but that we already know doesn’t really work well.

Doing something pointless with your lavish resources is insulting when, with the same resources and the humility to study what works and ask for good advice, you (or the local population) could instead have done something sustainable. It’s putting your ego and your public profile ahead of the very real material needs whose egregiousness you’re profiting from.

It’s bad enough when it’s nonprofits just making their (sometimes lavish) salaries off the pointlessness. In this case, the man has made a career out of directly turning people’s disability and economic disadvantage and suffering into his primary product that he profits from. His $750-million company got that way entirely by exploiting people’s misery for views and profit. By selling the idea that the problems aren’t all that real, that all it takes is a rich dude with a magic wand and some righteousness. “Fixing” 100 people’s problems and pretending you fixed a society’s worth.

And his little treatise that leaked a few weeks back makes his logic explicit: do the minimum to sound flashy.

> He argues that it is far cheaper and funnier to offer a prize of five packs of Doritos a day instead of $20,000. Then one section asks “What is the goal of our content” before replying “the goal of our content is to excite me”.

At least an evil capitalist WellCorp, Inc. would have to dig wells that keep working after the camera crew leaves, if it wanted to stay in business for very long!
I’d like to clear up some misconceptions about jurisdiction going on in this thread, purely from the perspective of international law.

As a matter of sovereignty, a state can exercise judicial jurisdiction over its territory, over its nationals, over national security concerns and over the most grave crimes.

A state’s jurisdiction can apply even to foreign people/companies who have no presence in said state at all. What the state’s courts can’t do is enforce their decisions abroad.

I know nothing about Indian law, but I know it has the right to set its own judicial jurisdiction. Accordingly, it can surely grant courts the power to order worldwide content bans. The real questions at stake in this case are:

1) does Wikipedia have any presence in India, so that Indian courts can compel it to follow their orders?

2) which countries where Wikipedia operates are able to receive requests from Indian courts and take enforcement action based on them?

It might not be fair, or right, but that’s the way it is. Thankfully, the obstacles to enforcing absurd orders abroad are usually high enough that they discourage said orders, or render them ineffective.
That's a cute architecture. Very 1980s.
Stack-oriented, sort of like byte code. Kind of like Burroughs machines, with some influence from the Intel iAPX 432.

Vanilla architecture won out over all that machine-level cleverness.
As long as the Post has an editorial page, with people employed to share their opinions, what are they supposed to do?

Opinion and reporting are separate- famously the WSJ reporting is quite strong and their opinion section is ... often wrong- but as long as an opinion section exists that's kinda their job, to share their opinion. If you want to get rid of opinion that might be a reasonable thing (with cable news and the internet no one has a shortage of opinion these days!) but doing it in such a ham-fisted way so close to the election is not a sign of a carefully thought-out business decision, it's a sign of cowardice.
AI can give better responses to a lot of requests when it has a well designed high level API available. And many ORMs don’t produce well designed APIs but it seems this one will.
I have no idea what you're even talking about. The guy you replied to is 100% correct. Social media companies have built the launch platform for a foreign attack, and nothing has been done to make sure it's not being turned against the American public. You know the saying - with great power comes great responsibility. It they want to create such a powerful, world altering tool, they need to be able to make sure it isn't being used in an attempt to fell an entire country.
Do note, this was the only actual piece of new information from the twitter files.

Twitter would whitelist psy-op accounts so they wouldn't get banned [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files#Nos._8%E2%80%939...