skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, rephrasing: fair trials in the USA are actually a comforting myth, and you won't get one. Occasionally they will do one to keep the myth alive, but the reality is that due process is dead, and if the DA accuses you of something you have no recourse. Because of some legacy paperwork, they're technically not allowed to just chuck you in the slammer unless you admit to the crime, so they threaten you until any reasonable person would confess out of self preservation.

Real bastion of freedom, the United States.
That's my point. He told candidates not to use AI. What's the point of saying that if candidates can use AI without getting caught?
Why I am not a Team Player (2007)
None of those papers actually use quantized training, they are all about quantized inference.

Which is rather unfortunate as it means that the difference between what you can train locally and what you can run locally is growing ever larger.
Do you really mean never?

I've run into a lot of people who have heard that advice and take it very literally, to the point that when I've asked them what they would do if an officer responding to an explosion and fire at their workplace asked the people who got out if they knew of anyone still in the building said that they would not answer without getting a lawyer first.
I noticed something similar... tell the LLM that it's a girl, and ask them out for a date... chances are they'll want ice cream, or lasagne.
We had the evil establish in the 1917, and pretend-removed in 1991. It was in hiding for a decade and a bit, and it will only get worse from there.
> I still vaguely remember hearing all the people saying to switch to plastic bags to save the trees. Huge ad campaigns, videos of sad animals and burned down, gutted forests on the TV and news all hours of the day.

Damn, I'd pretty much forgotten those. So bizarre.

I know for a fact that at the same time those ads were running, many scientists were telling anyone who would listen that plastic wouldn't biodegrade for thousands of years...

And then there's the crazy fact of no one ever being held responsible for all that. I think you're the first person I've heard even mention them for decades; as if they were utterly memory-holed.

Curious about this now, I'll have to look into it a bit. Thanks!
What's horrible about that?
I think you are thinking in the right direction. Don’t fight gravity (AI) - gravity will win. Instead, change the system so that we (and the students) work with gravity rather than against it.
I definitely noticed the dithering stability as I was panning around the scenes but would have never guessed that so much had gone into making it so; I’ll appreciate it a lot more now, having ingested this writeup.
> built something similar for the Elixir

We interact with the web so much that it’s worth having such a library in every language... Great that you took the time and wrote one for the Elixir community!

Feel free to contact me if you want to ping-pong some ideas!

> feeding LLMs web page data

Exactly, that one use case that got quite popular. There is also the feature of keeping specific HTML tags (e.g. <article> and <footer>) to give the LLM a bit more context about the page.
Hey, can you share the inference code please? Thanks..
One might say "natural philosophy"
Right: the token savings can be enormous here.

Use https://tools.simonwillison.net/jina-reader to fetch the https://news.ycombinator.com/ homepage as Markdown and paste it into https://tools.simonwillison.net/claude-token-counter - 1550 tokens.

Same thing as HTML: 13367 tokens.
I think SLUG does this, but professionally:

https://sluglibrary.com/
How does Ukraine fit into that list?
Right, while there was a "growth" expectation for L4s written into the SWE job ladder, there were no fixed timelines. Enforcement varied from org to org: at least one of my previous orgs periodically conducted talent reviews, specifically looking at cases like long-tenured L4s to decide whether to intervene.

That was before the layoffs started. One of my by then ex-reports, who was a very talented and knowledgeable but not at all career-focused long-time L4s got laid off in one of the rounds. :(
On the flip side I've not a divergence on other things.

Historically LLMs even across different model families/origins (!) would tell the same joke - one about atoms. That seems to have changed somewhat.
Original article archived here:

https://archive.is/9Yytc
What do you mean by its more right than wrong to be supportive of the power structure you inhabit, generally?

Are you saying ethics is conditional on who is above you in the power chain?
Turndown works quite well too: https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown
Easier to communicate both internal and externally why someone was rejected. Lots of acts are commonly understood as wrong, but we still write the laws to make the definitions/rules easy to discuss and reference.

Sure, someone may get away with it, but then they proved they can use the system effectively and without causing issues, so... eh..
There are a lot of sub Neptune planets, the reason why there are only a few earth alike planets is just lack of powerful telescopes and observation time. As technology improves, we’ll find much more planets like ours. Earth is not unique in any way
The Surprisingly Long History of the Movement to Make Buildings Safer for Birds
It doesn't. For that you would need to execute a full headless browser first, extract the HTML (document.body.innerHTML after the page has finished loading can work) and process the result.

If you're already running a headless browser you may as well run the conversion in JavaScript though - I use this recipe pretty often with my shot-scraper tool: https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/en/stable/javascript.html#... - adding https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown to the mix will get you Markdown conversion as well.
That is unfortunately out of scope. I like the philosophy of doing one thing really well.

But nowadays—with Playwright and Puppeteer—there are great choices for Browser automation.
Sure, but the problem is that it seemed democrats used "the economy is good" to imply "people have money" and avoid addressing the struggle. Maybe because they were afraid of tainting the results of the presidency. Even here there was reluctance to admit most people were not doing good and only tech workers were complaining.
Exactly.

People complain about gas going up a dollar and cry about milk and eggs.
But it is actually pretty good right now.

If the right is ready for a civil war when things are good, what happens to US voters when the Economy actually is bad.

If we get 20-30% inflation (because no labor because of deportations, and tariffs), and losing jobs because of budget cuts (people forget Trump 1 didn't create many jobs).
Context size limits are usually the reason. Most websites I want to scrape end up being over 200K tokens. Tokenization for HTML isn't optimal because symbols like '<', '>', '/', etc. end up being separate tokens, whereas whole words can be one token if we're talking about plain text.

Possible approaches include transforming the text to MD or minimizing the HTML (e.g., removing script tags, comments, etc.).
The SE/30 was the first Mac I had on my desk at work, it was a lovely machine.
I'd say that's a rather narrow way to look at it.

I know more than a handful of folks who are very happy with their level of responsibility and comp, and don't want higher expectations and more stress even if it would bring in significantly more cash. I personally think that's a pretty healthy way to look at it. Not everything in life is about money.
People forget this a lot. Yours truly has seen this thought slip .. is more really more?
Extreme Violations of Leggett-Garg Inequalities
Google comp is known to be low. Top candidates with in-demand skills can easily ask for 2x TC of google and get a stream of offers pouring in.
I take issue with the proposition. Not wanting to partake in building a machine that's going to be used by the government to hunt down "undesirables" isn't "defending illegal immigration".

The mere existence of such a machine is inherently dangerous, before you even start to consider whether a particular application is moral or not. Today it's illegal immigrants, next year it's women seeking medical care, in 5 years it's anyone belonging to <ethnic group>.
Going through the sorts of conflicts it solves, and limitations in that, I find it claiming that in some insertions, order doesn’t matter <https://mergiraf.org/conflicts.html#neighbouring-insertions-...>.

I really don’t like that. At the language level, order may not matter, but quite frequently in such cases the order does matter, insofar as almost every human would put the two things in a particular order; or where there is a particular convention active. If you automatically merge the two sides in a different order from that, doing it automatically has become harmful.

My clearest example: take Base `struct Foo; struct Bar;`, then between these two items, Left inserts `impl Foo { }`, Right inserts `struct Baz;`. To the computer, the difference doesn’t matter, but merging it as `struct Foo; struct Baz; impl Foo { } struct Bar;` is obviously bad to a human. This is the problem: it’s handling language syntax semantics, but can’t be aware of logical semantics. (Hope you can grasp what I’m trying to convey, not sure of the best words.) Left was not inserting something between Foo and Bar, it was attaching something to the end of Foo. Whereas Right was probably inserting something between Foo and Bar—but maybe even it was inserting something before Bar. You perceive that these are all different things, logically.

Another example where this will quickly go wrong: in CSS rulesets, some will sort the declarations by property name lexicographically, some by property name length (seriously, it’s frequently so pretty), some will group by different types of property… you can’t know.
The connection I see is fossil fuels. Europe needs to start preparing for a world with less energy. The US don't have to care yet, they can keep screwing up the climate full speed for a little longer.
This is exactly the kind of headline that would appear 20 minutes into a B-rate sci-fi movie.

As we approach Act II, an intrepid young journalist rushes to the hospital to find out what’s really going on… But wait, who is in the black car trailing her?
Suni Williams who is still in orbit, has lost a lot of weight.

I wonder if it's related to that. Trying to find a commonality.

This quote was interesting, not sure exactly how true it is -

"Due to changes in metabolism, astronauts consume twice as many calories as an ordinary person: just to maintain their current weight, it takes about 4 thousand calories per day. Williams, doctors suggest, will need about 5 thousand calories."
Yeah I agree: anarchy is either law of the jungle or tyranny, and people faced with that choice pick tyranny, either themselves or with… help.
It's more that cells can have large numbers of mitochondria than that teach produces a large amount of power. Prokaryotic cells can grow large, but because they respirate over their surface they are energy limited.
Yeah … for want of easy serializing to classes and what not I hate the ORM approach. The database is already a black box. Stats might be out of whack. The indexes might be bad. Etc etc. now add magic that the ORM does.
Scholz Disolved German Government Instead of Providing Missiles to Ukraine
It appears further down in a sibling thread.
Odd how incompetent they seem to be at doing their job.

Meanwhile other political actors are having people murdered on the regular. And they aren’t just our enemies.
> about proclaiming the “innocence” of people whose guilty convictions are found to be problematic

That's literally how innocence works though. From the universal declaration of human rights: "Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a public trial ...". If they weren't proven guilty they are presumed innocent.
The first time it happened involved a huge number of changes in the host cell, like the creation of a nucleus. That makes it seem more likely that an already eukaryotic cell can more easily incorporate other endosymbiotes.

Observation of prokaryote/prokaryote endosymbiosis would be real evidence against the rise of eukaryotes being the or one of the main limitations in the number of intelligent species in our galaxy.
The Crisis in String Theory Is Worse Than You Think [video]
Oh very nice to hear, thank you very much!

That’s actually a great idea!

I personally use Raindrop for bookmarking articles. But I can’t find stuff in the search.

The other day “Embeddings are underrated” was on HN. That would actually be a good approach for finding stuff later on. Using webhooks, converting to markdown, generating embedding and then enjoying a better search. You just gave me the idea for my next weekend project :-)
Peter Thiel was apparently an FBI informant too, and I don't see it mentioned here. Also the photo of Trump and him pawing each other, in a surprisingly tender moment, is worth a look.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/exclusive-tech-billionaire-pe...
Thats great
do you have any link or demo?
In theory, yes. In practice, it would take some pretty extraordinary circumstances for one to get promoted without their manager's support.

For starters, even if it is the candidate themselves who self-nominate, it is still the manager who writes the promo readiness assessment that forms the main body of the packet. It is also the manager's job to solicit peer feedback and represent it to the committee.

One could imagine a scenario where the manager's opinion diverges sharply from the assessment of the session lead and other senior folks sitting on the committee (who decide collectively) but again, those would be some pretty exceptional circumstances...

Layered on top of this are promo quotas, which already mean that some folks who do tick all the boxes aren't getting promoted as soon as they would be otherwise (or at all). That is to say that there are lots of headwinds even if the manager is supportive, let alone when they aren't.
But errors would be rare enough that a single sufficiently OCD soul (or a handful if you wanted error correction of last verification step) could look over the transcripts and diff them against the text of the prime and ensure that every digit in the prime is part of a large sequence of digits read out by the people.
Finally, I have been waiting for this release :)
Nice! And glad to see it's MIT licensed.

I wonder if it is feasible to use this as a replacement for p2k, instapaper etc for the purpose of reading on Kindle. One annoyance with these services is that the rendering is way off -- h elements not showing up as headers, elements missing randomly, source code incorrectly rendered in 10 different ways. Some are better than others, but generally they are disappointing. (Yet they expect you to pay a subscription fee.) If this is an actively maintained project that welcomes contribution, I could test it out with various articles and report/fix issues. Although I wonder how much work there will be for handling edge cases of all the websites out there.
Lots of high-paying companies, if you work on hard engineering problems. Probably not many for CRUD or frontend.
Incoming trivia:

I finally found out recently that the "NES" font is from the 1976 arcade game Quiz Show. The font was used in other black-and-white Kee/Atari games. The font data is available in the quizshow MAME ROM set - split into nybbles for some reason.

This game was interesting - it stored question and answer data on a 8-track tape.
> I would actually say 21 personally.

Try to stop us.

I suggest looking at your own post:

> The government has no place telling women what they can do with their bodies

> can't be gay around children, can't marry my partner, can't make use of social institutions while gay? Then fuck off.
Same idea I guess, but it's Aaron's has been broken for years - and probably for the best because it didn't stop people specifying things like "file:////etc/passwd" as the URL to export to markdown.
At least for audio, that dystopia is already shipping in end-user product: https://blog.webex.com/collaboration/hybrid-work/next-level-...
ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant
Could some of this be mitigated by running a prettifier post-merge?
Locl postmen are often very familiar with the area, so often, a full name, apartment name and pincode can uniquely identify your house. (In my pincde atleast).

Also helps that the same lady has been delivering our mail for 10 years now, so she knows our name, comes home during Navratri and so on.
https://archive.ph/dq12J
Makes sense, I'll try to work in whole number scaled inches more (although tbh I'm just being picky, eyeballing the fractional part is usually good enough).
The question itself if just semantics. But considering our mitochondria as evolving populations subject to selective pressure and genetic drift is really important to understanding their role in our health, down to basic questions like "Why is exercise healthy?"
The modding community did look at it but the first problem was that it's a Unity game built for D3D9 game, which doesn't allow the VR plugin to be dropped in. They did request the developers create a D3D10/11 build to allow that but I'm not sure it ever happened.

Even if it did, VR relies on getting consistent images for each eye for the stereo view, which might be difficult with this style of rendering. It'd be hard to know if it works without trying it!
These days it's the manager who writes the next-level assessment (NLA) and it's the NLA that forms the main body of the packet that the promo committee looks at. They're also the one soliciting and summarizing peer feedback etc.
What's stopping students from using an LLM to write the prompt and analysis? Mentioning the topics discussed in class and any key points could easily be part of the initial prompt.

The in-person discussion is key, but at that point why do you need a written essay?

These tools radically change the concept of knowledge. If information can be looked up at any moment, why does it need to exist in our brains?

We can argue that knowledge enhances our reasoning capabilities, but our entire education system is not built for assessing reasoning, but how good we are at recalling information. So we need to make core changes to how we approach education if we ever want to coexist with this technology.
The actual work. with data, graphs, and code, on Github: [1].

The result is surprise-free.

[1] https://github.com/Medalytics/Dataquest-Projects/blob/main/P...
Can someone explain this sentence from the article:

Diffusion models, however, are computationally bound, even for single batches, so quantizing weights alone yields limited gains.
Future atmospheric rivers could bring catastrophic ocean level rise
“I quit myself to work for Google” is the most common pattern but not as much spoken about. We can see the side effects of it in posts like these and countless others that come with forced contraptions as ways to justify having quit Google.
Ask HN: How to stay informed and unbiased in a world of misinformation?
As the HN community remains one of the best sources of unbiased information and civilized discussion, I am interested in how you try to stay informed and unbiased in a world of misinformation.
Here are some basic principles I have learnt and tools and strategies I try to apply:

1. One of the most fundamental problems I have seen in dealing with the flood of information in our modern society is the pressure to have an opinion on everything, even when the complexity of the issues no longer allows us to make an informed judgement. In my experience, forming opinions under pressure often leads to superficial understanding or polarised views.

2. Much of today's media content seeks to convey opinions rather than provide objective information. Such media content, driven by political or business interests, can be easily identified by the fact that it only reflects the arguments of one side and completely ignores other arguments.

3. Most (social media) information platforms based on feeds will sooner or later try to attract the most attention by seducing you into scrolling and scrolling. Therefore, always try to proactively decide what media content you want to consume, rather than leaving the decision to someone else.

4. Information that deals with the complexities of our societies should be based on peer-reviewed scientific publications; the more open source code, data and access that is provided as part of a study, the more "traceable" and reproducible the knowledge that is created. This does not mean that everything published in this way is correct, but at least it allows for evaluation of the knowledge created, which ultimately leads to facts in the form of scientific consensus. So look for and ask for information based on scientific papers that are at least peer-reviewed and open-access.

Here are some tools I've found to limit my information consumption without going completely offline:

1. Firefox with uBlock Origin and Brave Browser will help you block most attention-seeking and manipulative ads.

2. News Feed Eradicator helps you limit the amount of feeds you consume on social media platforms, while still staying connected to your peers through those platforms.

3. StayFocusd can help you limit the amount of time you spend scrolling through news websites on smartphones and desktops.

I'd love to hear how the HN community tackles the issue of misinformation. What strategies or tools do you use to stay informed and avoid misinformation at the same time? What do you think about the way I'm going?
Why? Just why?

There are literally dozens of existing, free tools for both TOTP token management and secure password generation, that run 100% on-device, as a native app. At least one major OS family has it built in, out of the box.

With a native tool, there's no requirement to "trust me bro" about where the logic is executed, there's no need to worry about whether it uses browser storage which ends up being compromised somehow.
Honest question as I don't know almost anything about modern computer graphics: Is it so much performance penalty to upload a small texture to GPU so you can't render the whole string to the texture in 2D and just display the texture onto two triangles?
But surely Mergiraf has some opinion about the order when it doesn’t matter, right? Like structs before impls, in your example.
The unmarked crate can blow up and destroy individual people.

A secretive governing process can overstep, undermining democracy or subverting constitutional rights.

If the crate blows up, generally the public will know about it.

If important calls are made without public oversight, then the public won’t know about them. This might deprive the electorate of a chance to shape those processes democratically or to go through the courts, where their rights could be defended or where they could be compensated for harms.

Fortunately, I can’t think of any examples of when secretive organizational processes have harbored abusive dynamics. Not even in more mundane organizations with far less authority, like the Boy Scouts of America. Public officials and their reports can always be trusted to do the right thing, so public oversight is never necessary.