skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but we humans are social animals. As much as we may want to pretend we live alone just fine, it's not the common case. Sure, some people enjoy solitude and don't have to care about what others think, but most of us enjoy company, and this comes with caring about others and what they think of you.

You surely care about what your partner thinks about you. Your parents perhaps? Your friends? It's part of the emotional connection.

You can be laid back and easy going, but you're still going to care if your loved ones strongly go against your core beliefs and ways of living, right?
I am beaming with joy upon opening this game, I've had a long day and this is just what I needed. Perfect game, the alert math question popup made me laugh out loud
Great repo! Thanks!

I'm wondering, any approach for bitemporal dbs, like xtdb?
Have my angry upvote.
TikTok is a social network where anyone can post any video they want, using it as a news source is very dangerous. And no, the election wouldn't be cancelled if a local journalist supported a candidate, though it's not an apples-to-apples comparison with a social network potentially messing with the algo to support a candidate and not respecting electoral law with regards to sponsored ad content.
Yet it has relatively fast compilers, than a couple of modern languages, even on aging hardware versus the gaming rigs required for those modern languages.
I don't know, do share if there's something you can link.

At first blush it just sounds like something to allow multiple shader compute elements to work more efficiently together ("cooperate") on a single bigger matrix computation.
Have you not been following in the past few years about how susceptible the human mind is to disinformation and manipulation? You fake a positive belief field around a person and a huge number of us flip to align with that perceived crowd. You might disagree for yourself, or want it to be different, or hear people claiming otherwise, but we are very vulnerable to the effect of being surrounded by genuine sentiments (of very marginal perspectives) that have been boosted to appear majority.

Do you disagree with the above?
Some sort of genetic algorithm would be my guess.
I thank WordPress for most of my RSS feed.

I follow mostly RSS on non technology website, for instance road cycling. people that wouldn't care or know about RSS because they are not very techy, yet because they are normies that use WordPress for all their website it puts a page with RSS feed automatically. You got to find it with developer tool by searching RSS but 99% of the time if it's WordPress it got RSS.

Thank you WordPress you bloated piece of shit :)
Well, if that pro-NATO, pro-EU guy declared having spent no money on their campaign while their Face being plastered all over the place and other proof that someone spent money on a campaign for that person, and there's a law that spending and sources of money for elections must be made transparent then the election should be 100% nullified, just like here.

Feelings are one thing, but breaking laws like here cannot just be brushed of as some people having hurt their feelings.

What I do not really understand is why this hasn't been handled before the election, i.e., why was the candidate with seemingly zero monetary transparency even allowed to be on a ballot?
Not every other country in the world only uses ASCII, Ivory Coast is officially called Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
Past history of most folks on Go community, including this post essay about Go's type system and related "difficulty" of implementation.
They did not have acces to the declassified reports then and the initial complaints were for something else, voting irregularities in a few named polling stations.
The parliamentary elections have been over for a week and we know the establishment parties took most of the vote, though considerably less than they did 4 years ago.
For me it was that I wasn’t allowed to use the house phone but my girlfriend could use hers so she’d call the number of the pay phone down the street from me so it was free for me and her (but not her parents!)
I can see a lot of benefits of having 1 API to access a lot of functionality.

For example instead of integrating with a message queue I can just do an INSERT this is great. It lowers the friction.

Vector search is a no brainer too. Why would I have 2 databases when 1 can do it all.

Using Postgres to generate HTML is questionable though. I haven't tried it but I can't image its a viable way to create user interfaces.
What do you mean local first? Postgres is an executable that you can run on your machine if you wish
Ridiculous, should we avoid vacations altogether as someone might end up drinking too much? Is that the way we decide how to set our society?

Alcoholism is a different problem from workaholism.
While I'm sure the anti-AI people are taking this and running off with hot takes, the conclusion is still much more mundane: we currently do not have the ability to have an LLM learn from another LLM.

A suitably powerful AI should be able to do this though, by the example of the fact that humans learn by being taught by other humans (insert nuance of that process here).

So it's an important result, but not a doomsday result because what it tells us is that LLM output fails to capture or stabilize important information from the training corpus and accurately communicate it to a newly trained LLM. So we know we're missing something in how we construct these models, but the ramifications of solving it are also pretty immense: models being able to "teach" new models means the whole cycle of iteration can be sped up considerably.
No need to break anything since it is obviously not syllables that are important.
I think the steelman for this would be something like: people hear factually incorrect assertions with enough frequency from enough different sources and become convinced that these assertions are true. This is basically of the idea of sockpuppeting/astroturfing. Given that both major political parties in the US deploy such tactics, it is not unreasonable to think that they are effective. And when these tactics are deployed by a hostile foreign power we should be even more upset than when they are used by domestic sources.
Eudaimonic Growth (2010)
> people who are just doing it for the money should absolutely quit

I hate to tell you this. But any job that pays as much as a software dev in the USA is going to have 50% or more people who do the job for the money. You can learn to love what you do. But when you're 18 trying to find out what to do, for a lot of people money matters most.

I love being a software dev. I got obsessed when in college, made a lot of pet projects just for fun, kept that energy up throughout my career till I got married and had kids, and I am so glad I made that choice. But if it didn't pay what I knew back in college it pays, I wouldn't have done the job.
People voted, the question is how big of an impact do these bots have when it comes to promoting content on social media, because it seems like a lot. There's also a huge issue with TikTok being owned by China, which is not an ally nation to Romania, and with China's support of Russia in their ongoing war against one of our neighbors our intelligence agencies are suspecting foul play.

I don't think this is specific to just Romania, a lot of people are glued to their devices on a daily basis in search of something to satiate their dopamine hunger and they'll take whatever they get fed by the algorithm.

Critical thinking is not something our educational system does well, we're more focused on getting you to learn things like a robot and reproduce them for an exam. The lack of real educational reforms is something we'll keep seeing the effects of for decades to come.
If these forces are so powerful, why don’t both sides use them and cancel each other out? It seems like people only invoke these explanations when their side loses, when they win it’s because the voters accepted true and good arguments.
So you traded 1 whole day for 2h a day to do whatever you wanted but at the office?

Sounds like you spread Friday across the other days. Still a good deal to me, I'd take some online courses or something I wanted to do anyway in my free time.
Go n00b here. I literally discovered log/slog yesterday after having spent some time reading zap's docs. I wish there is some site that stacks up the stdlib and all the major libs out there.
Here is a good example of someone who shies away from responsibility for himself and others.

2 years time for what? To build something with other people? A partner, family, children?

Nope, just doing what brings him fun or fulfillment or whatnot...

I'm not saying it's bad to take care of yourself from time to time. But as a father of 5, I can definitely say that the best and most instructive moments in my life were definitely the ones where it wasn't about me but about people who were important to me.

And the money issue that most people seem to be talking about here:
Go to work and earn money. That's life. It always has been. If people would only do what fulfills them, there would be no sewer workers or garbage collectors. Whenever you take advantage of a developed society, you always have a duty to give something back to it.

If there is not Time enough after a 8 hour shift to to what you want, you have a serious Problem.
Ok, I just realized there is a screenshot showing how search engines contribute to people's visits. That make sense because search engines were invented for this purpose. This is also very inspiring for indie website authors in today's AI era.
So am I understanding correctly that there was a private repo that had original code, and in that private repo, someone added the MIT licence? Which didn't make the code open source, because that licence hadn't actually been given to anyone*?

And then Roman made the repo public, effectively distributing the licence to people and thus making it open source, without coordinating with the other contributors?

I don't see any replies by Alexandr, but it feels like this could have easily been resolved with a less antagonistic response by Roman - but of course, I don't know what other history they have.

* I guess technically, it was given to the other contributors with access to the private repo - i.e. Roman did have the legal right to distribute it further under the MIT licence. Presumably, the original contributor (Alexandr) just applied that licence by mistake.
Superchargers also have the benefit of only having to support Teslas. It is very relevant to note that the rollout of using superchargers by other brands has been a giant clusterfuck.
> I cannot put my finger on why I dislike this comment so deeply but I am a parent and I suspect you are not.

I am also a parent.

> I do agree though that parents should deeply love and support their kids which is what it sounds like you are trying to say.

Loving your kids is not a moral obligation, though most do (for the record, I love mine very much).
Supporting your kids is a moral obligation, whether you love them or not, incurred by creating them.

> And in turn, your kids should do the same despite "generational differences".

I disagree. Our kids will never be morally obligated towards us in any way. We can only hope to have loved and supported them enough for them to love and support us back of their own volition.
Yeah, code quality is marginally important if whatever QA/UAT process allowed that code to go to production.

If "bad code" can make it to production it's usually the fault of the system as a whole, not the author.
> In France during the first elections Macron was elected, he was pushed heavily by the media.

> This canard again. Prove that something unlawful happened

Nobody can prove that, but it wouldn't be the first time that alien powers would interfere in French elections, beginning with USA. There is a long list of US interferences in France on Wikipedia [2] and CIA was very active recently in France [3]

* in XXth century: Monnet, Bastien-Thiry, Guy Mollet, Antoine Pinay, Maurice Faure, Jean Lecanuet, François Mitterrand [0], Algiers putsch [1]

[0] https://www.revueconflits.com/soft-power-de-gaulle-washingto...

[1] https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/rendez-vous-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_France

[3] https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/
Cock.li warrant canary is dead
> Under no circumstances will we let this canary go 72 hours without an update

As of posting this, it hasn't been updated for over 75 hours (last update: 04 December 2024 05:14:33 UTC). Is it an oversight? Is it a happening?

Previously, from 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42123070 - Cock.li Is on Red Alert
The fact that the incumbents performed poorly during the past 4 years has led to them having a lot fewer %s in the parliamentary elections, and I think it was the first time that one of the establishment parties' candidates didn't manage to pass the first leg of the presidential elections.
This isn't an issue. You either have the ability to pay the monthly fee (which would probably enable cheaper subscriptions, saving people money), or you can't afford it & you'll experience the same web experience you have now.

For people in lower economic areas, their monthly fee would be relative to the median income (hence the "integrated into your internet bill").

What I'm saying is we have a solution that is being suppressed. It would fix the internet for 80% of people, and the other 20% would experience no downside.
> The proliferation of generative models, combined with pretraining on web-scale data, raises a timely question: what happens when these models are trained on their own generated outputs? Recent investigations into model-data feedback loops proposed that such loops would lead to a phenomenon termed model collapse, under which performance progressively degrades with each model-data feedback iteration until fitted models become useless. However, those studies largely assumed that new data replace old data over time, where an arguably more realistic assumption is that data accumulate over time. In this paper, we ask: what effect does accumulating data have on model collapse? We empirically study this question by pretraining sequences of language models on text corpora. We confirm that replacing the original real data by each generation's synthetic data does indeed tend towards model collapse, then demonstrate that accumulating the successive generations of synthetic data alongside the original real data avoids model collapse; these results hold across a range of model sizes, architectures, and hyperparameters. We obtain similar results for deep generative models on other types of real data: diffusion models for molecule conformation generation and variational autoencoders for image generation. To understand why accumulating data can avoid model collapse, we use an analytically tractable framework introduced by prior work in which a sequence of linear models are fit to the previous models' outputs. Previous work used this framework to show that if data are replaced, the test error increases with the number of model-fitting iterations; we extend this argument to prove that if data instead accumulate, the test error has a finite upper bound independent of the number of iterations, meaning model collapse no longer occurs.

TL;DR: This paper confirms that Model Collapse can happen if the original data is replaced with synthetic data, but if both are used alongside each other, it no longer happens.
It's sound like the person who removed the licence also originally wrote the code, and just didn't intend to add the MIT licence to it?
No as a distraction to make the general public feel better about a situation they have no control over.
Which is a moot point anyway, since without 100% tariffs Tesla isn’t competitive with Chinese EVs that are taking Australia by storm.
I'm a kind of political fugitive (probably will go into the prison for the beliefs if return to the country of origin), living in one of EU countries, married, having a little child and two dogs, owning apartament, have no significant health issues, also having second year without income at all, having some money on banking account, full-time working for the own startup on open source project. And I do not feel very disappointed.
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No, broken.
Yep. I was laid off a bit over a year ago, and I literally did nothing but try to get my next job, and fortunately got one in 2 months before my severance ran out.

I have easily enough to live a whole year or more without needing to work, but I would never consider that for even 1 second, tbh. Never even thought hard about why, it's just not an option to me.
Other EV brands have increased sales in the same time period Tesla has lost them.
I totally disagree and don’t even know where to begin…

People are different. Some are just not “as resilient” as others. Some have mental issues. Some have other priorities in life. Some people are just overwhelmed when they have to focus on more than one thing (their own wellbeing) - which should and cannot be confused with selflessness.

Not everyone wants to accept the common conceptions of life. And that’s ok.
It also supports DMX input (sACN or Art-Net) for designing and controlling complex effects from external software.
We are at a point in AI companies where there are lots of promises but little execution. What is the sophistication of these Agents? Are we talking about a system like Amazon's customer care bot? Where it asks questions and eventually you chat with a rep. A big problem with them is that you can end up in a loop if you don't answer correctly. I can see that happening except you get to chat with an LLM. Also, how do you deal with uncontrollable hallucinations? Has anyone dealt with a good one in action?
It's designed to be invisible and include itself into the geographic conditions :)

You even didn't notice it. Job well done!
I’ll second this advice, counterintuitive though it may seem.

Back in the day, I had saved enough to take a nice 3 month leave of absence from work to do some travelling. Nudging my spreadsheet around, I tried replacing my rent, utilities etc. with the cost of a storage locker, and suddenly my “how long can I go for “ number shot up to over a year.

It changed my whole approach to life in my 30s, and it was a good 15 years before I committed to living in a single place long term again.
I'm an IC on a team full of seniors with strong domain knowledge that recently hired in an EM from the outside. In short, it was pretty bumpy and despite the guy being an ex engineer, his constant questions about how the system works were a huge drag. Maybe to him he was digging deep but to me it felt like my (and my teammates') work was blocked by his inability to grasp simple concepts. Like the time spent explaining could've been spent just fixing the bug.

So I guess with the digging deep thing, be careful to not take up too much of people's time!
Medicare patients are not the majority for practically every doctor.
Sounds like there was just some miscommunication, and as far as I see, the "added logs" were to detect CDN abuse, so nothing shady so far. Still, would be great to see contributors aligned :)
Most CEOs don’t attempt to directly influence an election to align with their personal politics by spending a quarter of a billion dollars on a candidate’s campaign, either.
> We were recently in Portugal. There's a ton of trendy food spots with prices near what we'd pay in HCOL U.S., but there's a ton of really local, mom 'n pop places, with absolutely incredibly prices, and they're incredibly appreciative of your business.

I hear that - last time I was in Lisbon I got breakfast in one of those kind of places and had to ask the cashier if they made a mistake with the change and had given me back too much. Like literally, they could have charged double I would have accepted it as a fair price for a nice meal.
> I used to think that I overspent. That my groceries could have been cheaper. That I could have eaten out or traveled less. Then a few months ago, I went on NomadList and found out that the average living cost in Montreal is $3,750/mo. Considering that I spent the first year in Ottawa/Toronto, where the cost of living is even higher, my spending habits turned out not that bad after all. I’m not just average — I’m slightly better!

This philosophy may not be ideal for your circumstances. You already knew you had limited funds and no income. "Slightly better than average" is overspending.
What's the right definition of AI?
There’s a moral in this story but the HN crowd ain’t gonna like it: money is capital. Two years ago the author had no job and 80k in the bank. At least half was disposable. Had he invested that 40k or more in a risk-averse fashion (20% s&p/btc; 80% t-bills) his position today would be much better. Instead he ate through his capital. Always invest your disposable savings or income. Hate me now. Thank me later.
Stop being dramatic. Most companies appreciate white hats. OP didn't divulge the exploit and is being responsible.
> In this case, I think WhatsApp should have done better — or refrained from adding this feature at all.

At least they should encrypt the messages instead of making it seems like it's encrypted.
AFAIK, in the mobile WhatsApp, locked chats will get wiped without screen lock or secret code. They make it seem like it's practically impossible to recover the messages without doing real crypto stuff on the locked chats' messages.
This is true. It has gotten way, way better.
I use both and they're both great, but also not drop-ins for each other. OSMand has more features, but is way more confusing and quite a bit slower. So I have OrganicMaps cover my basic navigation needs, but if e.g. I want to access offline Wikivoyage travel guides, I use OSMand.
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> First, there is no process or even mention in any Romanian law about annuling an election.

This is false. Law 370 20/09/2004:

Article 52

(1) The Constitutional Court shall annul an election if the voting and the determination of the results have taken place by fraud of such a nature as to alter the allocation of the mandate or, as the case may be, the order of the candidates eligible to participate in the second round of voting. In such a case, the Court shall order that the second ballot be held on the second Sunday after the date on which the elections are annulled.

(2) An application to annul the elections may be filed by political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, organizations of citizens belonging to national minorities represented in the Council of National Minorities and candidates who participated in the elections, within 3 days after the close of the voting at the latest; the application must be substantiated and accompanied by the evidence on which it is based.

(3) The Constitutional Court shall decide on the application by the date stipulated by law for the public announcement of the election results.

Article 53

(1) The Constitutional Court shall validate the result of each ballot, ensure the publication of the election result in the mass media and in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, for each ballot and validate the election result for the elected President.

(2) The Validation Act shall be drawn up in three copies, one of which shall remain with the Constitutional Court, one of which shall be submitted to Parliament for the taking of the oath provided for in Article 82 para. (2) of the Constitution of Romania, republished, and the third shall be submitted to the elected candidate.

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Like with python, are tabs syntax?
Sounds like there are some fundamental process/team issues going on. If a team cannot be trusted to deliver, superman always coming in to save the day shouldn't be the solution.
Feels to me like Pandora's box to UUID collisions. Even though UUID space is so huge human mind is always so tiny, as it is always subject to some bea5 (pronounce it "bias").
"Chernobyl Created the World's Rarest Dogs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVGwOP_zi8