skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah those bad Muslims the "only" thing they ever did was save jewry from extinction and help them flourish and in return we rewarded them with colonization and genocide /s

"First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the Jews and Judaism were on the way to oblivion. And second, the coming of Islam saved them, providing a new context in which they not only survived, but flourished, laying foundations for subsequent Jewish cultural prosperity...

Had Islam not come along, the conflict with Persia would have continued. The separation between western Judaism, that of Christendom, and Babylonian Judaism, that of Mesopotamia, would have intensified. Jewry in the west would have declined to disappearance in many areas. And Jewry in the east would have become just another oriental cult.

But this was all prevented by the rise of Islam. The Islamic conquests of the seventh century changed the world, and did so with dramatic, wide-ranging and permanent effect for the Jews."
- https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/so-what-did-the-muslims-do-f...
I’m a bit surprised the Southern Indian Ocean wasn’t prioritized. That is even more remote.
It's depressing that this understanding hasn't been the status quo for years now. It's not like this is his first gig, it's been publicly verifiable what kind of person he is for ages, long before GPT became famous. You don't need to be part of some insider Silicon Valley cabal to find out.
> the reality is everything sucks because it's massively underfunded

This may be the case for many things, but I would add that a lot of things suck because of conflicting incentives. Whether it's laziness or even because they are actually getting paid MORE to do the sucky thing.

As an example, where I live a running joke is about the number of road cones whenever work is being done. They don't need THAT many road cones, but they put them there... why? I have no evidence, but I suspect someone is getting paid to add extra road cones - OR potentially another incentive is at play.

The biggest one that gets me is traffic lights within roundabouts... how anyone thinks that is a good idea.... arghh #sigh :(
You also get heavily taxed for the short term gains.
One of today's lucky ten thousand. Most galaxies have a black hole at the center that mass at least a hundred thousand times more than our sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole
Not a physicist, but in classical mechanics stiffness is just the proportionality of some restorative force (ie the extent to which something tries to bounce back when you push it). It definitely would be overkill to make it an axiom.

So say you have a spring if you compress it, it pushes because it wants to go back to its natural length and likewise if you stretch it there is a restorative force in the opposite direction. The constant of proportionality of that force (in N/m) is the stiffness of the spring, and the force from the spring[1] is something like F=-k x with x being the position measured from the natural length of the spring and k being the stiffness. So not knowing anything about electromagnetism I read this and thought about fields having a similar property like when you have two magnets and you push like poles towards each other, the magnetic field creates a restorative force pushing them apart and the constant is presumably the stiffness of the field.

But obviously I’m missing a piece somewhere because as you can see the force of a spring is proportional to distance whereas here we’re talking about something which is short-range compared to gravity and gravity falls off with the square of distance so it has to decay more rapidly than that.

Edit to add: in TFA, the author defines stiffness as follows:

For a field, what I mean by “stiffness” is crudely this: if a field is stiff, then making its value non-zero requires more energy than if the field is not stiff.

So this coincides with the idea of restorative force of something like a spring and is presumably why he's using this word.

[1] Hooke’s law says the force is actually H = k (x-l)ŝ where k is stiffness, l is the natural length of the spring and ŝ is a unit vector that points from the end you’re talking about back towards the centre of the spring.
On the other hand, kids don't seem to have great mental health, attention spans, or academic attainment right now, and this type of social media is one of the likely factors behind this change.
There will absolutely be consequences. And that'll cost real money.

But that is just a 'cost of doing business'. And ultimately will just work it's way into the price.

Intel and Boeing are not "one off mistakes". The root problems there are structural, cultural and fundamental.

If CrowdStrike have more issues this year, then that'll have an impact because it suggests there's a root problem. But a single bad rollout is just a bad rollout.
Drive to courthouse. Mill about waiting for instructions. Clerk herds possible jurors into waiting room and thanks us for complying with a mandatory summons. We fill out a survey one question in it asks what kind of media we consume. After more waiting we’re brought into the courtroom. The defense attorney, prosecutors, and judge have some last minute plea or settlement negotiations. More waiting as this happens. Jury selection begins. They ask each person if they can be fair. If they could convict based on solely police officer testimony. If they would only convict if the state met the burden of beyond a reasonable doubt. Between each answer the attorneys and judge confer close up behind the bar while turning on a white noise generator. Right before lunch the jury and alternates are chosen and the rest of us are released.
I use Migadu for email. Great service that doesn't get in my way of using my email the way I need to (which isn't anything crazy honestly).
Thanks a lot. I'm glad you agree with the points. It's all about giving indie makers a fair shot, and I appreciate your support.
Under siege by Egypt too, to be clear, which suggests maaybe the problem is Hamas.
You can set up-history="false" and there'd be no navigation when opening the modal, so when you refresh the page it'd refresh the parent layer not the modal.

What's more arguable I think is how pressing the browser Back button doesn't preserve the layers, but opens the previous page as a full page. I think that can be changed in a config somewhere, though.
Spark for sure I view with suspicion and avoid as much as possible at work.

SQL though is going the distance. like Feldera is SQL based stream processing and uses DataFusion under the hood for some data wrangling. DuckDB is also very SQL.

I have my quibbles with SQL as a language but I would prefer SQL embedded in $myLanguage to needing to use Python or (shudder) Scala to screw around with data.
Yes:

https://hntrbrk.com/about-us/
> ...was WWII about "tribalism" and both sides being prone to violence, or was it about unjustified aggressors and justified responses?

All of the above. One of the major powers on the winning side was the British Empire, which existed because of a global campaign of unprovoked invasions that was pretty much unprecedented. And there was Stalin, who may escape the "tribalism" label on the basis that his campaigns of political murder were so wild it is difficult to discern patterns.

If we assume for the sake of tradition and argument that the responses were justified it might have been one of the few times in a century that the British were involved in a justified response. A momentous conflict indeed! It must have been unsettling for them. And, in all seriousness, they weren't involved because it was justified. They were acting amorally and it is a coincidence they were on the justified side that time.
They still pay for transit (Tier 1 providers) but they just refuse to pay for peering to eyeball ISPs. They just don't because they know if they are big enough the eyeball ISP is basically forced to offer them zero settlement (free) peering. If the ISP doesn't he has to pay for transit too and if there is some congestion in the path from the content provider to the ISP his customers are going to complain to the ISP that youtube is buffering and not to google. The content providers have a bigger lever so they don't pay.
I have children, and I will never allow them to use social media while they are under my care. Once they are grown and independent, they can make their own choices. As a father, my responsibility is to protect them from harm, and I am fully committed to doing so until they reach adulthood. Here's an excerpt from an article titled “Facebook’s War on Free Will” by The Guardian.

> The many Facebook experiments add up. The company believes that it has unlocked social psychology and acquired a deeper understanding of its users than they possess of themselves. Facebook can predict users’ race, sexual orientation, relationship status and drug use on the basis of their “likes” alone. It’s Zuckerberg’s fantasy that this data might be analysed to uncover the mother of all revelations, “a fundamental mathematical law underlying human social relationships that governs the balance of who and what we all care about”.
To be fair, I’m not sure happily describes it. Indifferently? ‘We warned them and they didn’t move, so f them?’ Ly?
Then why have laws at all, if all that matters is the popularity contest?
Not having sudo on a work managed mac is so completely common that I struggle to take anyone seriously that argues otherwise and I'll just leave that comment here
It's like I can't win. If I behave too feminine as a man people give weird looks to me and mockingly refer to me as a woman. A significant portion of the society still does not think men should be very effeminate.

So I am like ok, sure, I don't care much about this gender ideology, but if society does not think I am a man, then I am a woman!

Then people are not happy again. They call me a man who just wants to become a woman.
If you are in the org with managed macs, you should not be doing this yourself, your IT (or security, or whomever manages your computer) should be creating a script and adding it to whatever secure script runner they deployed to user machines. Or even better, automatically fixing this.

If you are in the org where your IT cannot do this, and the same IT took away your "sudo" access, then there is nothing you can do. Even if there were a hacky way, it would be against policies, so do it by the book and wait for IT to fix it for you. If you are on important and urgent project, escalate via official channels. If you are not on important project, relax and don't forget to write "I could not do anything because I am blocked on IT" in all of your status reports.

If the previous paragraph makes your blood boil or makes you want to cry, consider working for a different company which either gives autonomy to developers or has better IT.
We tried both about 8 months ago, at the time DuckDB’s Node driver leaked memory and segfaulted, DataFusion was missing some features we wanted. But they are both improving rapidly.
I do care. In fact, I bring a sort of "fuck it, we ball" vibe to the existentialism that nihilists don't really like.
any idea why the Natrium class wasn't designed to be a breeder reactor?

dont know much about the subject but this will have more or less the same runway as gasoline
I think trump has been publicly against the idea of allow short selling
This is cynical. There are a lot of people who do care. Consider that someone cared enough to build a bike lane in the first place. IMO life is hard for most people and as much as most would love to "care", they have to take care of themselves and their families first. The caring is focused where it is best applied.

I also don't think Elon would bother fixing a bike ramp or installing dog bag dispensers around his home(s). So if he does "care", it's not about things you care about.
Yeah I was having some trouble with it a little less than a week ago.

I downloaded the new update and then my app was corrupt and couldn't open so I just re-downloaded and installed and it was fine.
Iran has not escaped this war. Both the US and Israel have made strikes within the country

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/consequences-i... (from Nov) | https://www.understandingwar.org/publications?type%5B%5D=bac... (daily report history)

With other conflicts wrapping up, there are people expecting more attacks into Iran, especially by Israel. They are in a weakened state. Their missile attacks amounted to nothing. Much like Russia, they likely look better on paper than in practice. That being said, one nuke from them against Israel would be devastating, but also likely mean the end of the regime
I totally understand where you're coming from. The idea behind commenting before submitting a product is to encourage meaningful engagement and help foster a supportive community.

However this is something I will definitely reconsider as I continue to improve the platform.
The IRS disallows wash sale deductions if you reinvest in a substantially similar investment within 30 days.

I'm not an IRS agent and have no idea what they mean by substantially similar. You might want to talk to your tax accountant.
hm, create a law which gives government emergency powers to delete apps / ban ip networks in case of a war

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now that I think about it more banning foreign websites is the perfect way to brain wash

1. ban all foreign websites, because clearly it's a foreign influence on your people. "What if the war breaks" and so on

2. now you only have your local websites. Their owners are here and can be forced to mangle / edit content and bend it to your will. Where the foreign actor can ignore your requests local one can not

We already have it in Russia. People use the ugly and banned Facebook because they know that at least it's less censored in regards to Russian topics than locally owned VK or dzen. And Facebook is less likely to provide your messages to the russian police
As with pretty much every president, the Biden administration has been a help, not a hindrance, to rent seeking. Government mandated monopolies and oligopolies, and their oligarchical owners, benefit tremendously from the regulations that guarantee them customers.

Most of my recurring expenses go to such organizations, and despite their terrible services, I have no choice but to do business with them.

I've had three different mortgages, and each time a government organization has purchased the mortgage and given Wells Fargo a commission to service it. They are effectively non-responsive to any customer service issues, because they don't need to try to retain me as a customer — they are guaranteed to get my business whether I want it or not.

That's not the worst part though; on multiple occasions they have tried to transfer my hazard insurance to another company. When they do this, I have to call my real insurance provider (USAA) and have them use their inside connections to contract Wells Fargo and remind them that I currently have an insurance provider and that I have no plans to change.

The only high-speed wired Internet provider at my address is Comcast, and they also have terrible customer service, as well as terrible reliability, but at least they don't directly try to scam me.

Even at a local level, rent seeking is really bad. I am legally required to have a specific company take my garbage to the dump, even when it's right by where I work and I could easily take it myself. If I don't sign up for pickup, they can charge me anyway, while providing absolutely no service, and if I don't pay, they can put a lien on my house, which if I refuse to pay will lead to the county auctioning off my house.
> > And if truly acceptable candidates do show up, that scuttles the immigration application.

> yes, that's the point.

The discussion is about whether job postings are real or fake. I use "scuttles" as evidence that that one is very real.

> >You do learn to recognize them

> I'd love to have some tips, I am as dense as a log.

For example, such a job posting is likely oddly specific as to experience and what it's applied to. A nonsense job posting might enumerate a bunch of irrelevant software applications or languages. We all (?) know to ignore that list. A visa requirement posting is not likely to do that. It's supposed to actually limit itself to required stuff. The software mentioned might be very specific and exactly the one that is actually used on the job. Not some HR or managerial delirium. For another example, some quirks of the current person's experience are likely to be mentioned when they are actually in use on the job (or at least plausibly in use). They may again seem oddly specific and quirky. These get mentioned because why not: they strongly restrict the number of people that might fit that position, and they are not even a lie.

It used to be also that it needed to be published in a publication "of record", like, not just on a web site. Some papers were full of these strange job postings. I have no idea what is the current requirement as to publication medium.
This was a weak citation.

> Simple stuff I've used it for: baby name idea generator, reminder to pay housekeeper, pre-natal notifications, etc.

None of these require an LLM. It seems like you own this service yet can't find any valuable use for it.

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ChatGPT tasks will become a powerful tool once incorporated into GPTs.

I produce lots of data. Lots of it, and I'd like to have my clients have daily updates on it, or even have content created based on it.
My sample of 3 shows the Macs in big corp has some way to temporary get sudo. Some sort of proprietary app you run that grants you permissions for a period of time. Sometimes there is a text field for "reason", but no one ever reads it.
Sometimes I ask GPT to run Bayesian analyses on varying hypotheses. I just did that for the several parent comments to see if we could get some reasons as to "why day trading doesn't work." Perhaps this will amuse you as well: https://chatgpt.com/share/67888cf4-1aa4-8011-b46b-77e5e9da12...
Imagine if one company owned all the local news papers and replaced all the content with wire stories and the lowest quality local content or a fox news like company bough local news to run a propaganda operation. Oh wait that's real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gannett

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
>TikTok has such a culture of authenticity and realness

Probably the most bizarre thing I've read on here in the last few days. You actually believe that what you're seeing on TikTok is real? It's literally the antithesis of base reality. It's a living, breathing delusion.
I used Gemini to do a similar task and for whatever reason, i found it performed better when i broke down the task into individual steps.
>Especially given that only HN'ers are 100% certain that training a model is infringement. In the real world, this is not a settled question. Why worry about obeying laws that don't even exist yet?

This is exactly why people are against it.

Your argument is that there is no definitive law. Therefore the creators of the data you scrape to train, and their wishes are irrelevant.

If the motivation was to help humanity, they’d think twice about stepping on the toes of the humanity they want to save and we’d hear more about nontrivial uses.
What criteria define social media that's ban-worthy for you? Does it require the combination of user-generated content and a personalized algorithmic feed which characterizes modern corporate social media, or do you extend it to a broader range of ways people can interact over the internet?
https://www.producthunt.com/products/product-hunt/alternativ...
"The internet is obviously a massive national security risk, and I find it funny people don't see that"

"Libraries are obviously a massive national security risk, and I find it funny people don't see that."
> your account has to have 150% of the value of your short

yep, people who aren't professional traders, and don't actually have an account with a broker to do shorting with, and dont know the margin requirements.

The thing is, a broker will _never_ put themselves at risk of losing money. If they offer you a shorting service, they require a method to make themselves whole. If you short, they will guess some sort of margin of safety for said short (calculated based on the liquidity of the stock) - if it's very liquid, the margin could be lower, but for illiquid stocks, it's even higher. This margin of safety is what the broker will use to close your short position if the market moves against you - you don't get a choice in the matter. You don't even have access to those funds from the sale of the short - the broker holds onto it until the short is closed.
Quite a long way away. They have different jobs to do: an LR parser for code is trying to produce an abstract syntax tree a compiler (or static analyser) that represents the structured program expressed in source. An LLM for code is trying to extract intent, code style, and other useful factors for generating more code that "belongs" with the rest. The former really wants valid source, the latter will accept any text and do its best; text that expresses intent tends to work better, so code with single letter variable names or obfuscated methods will make LLMs struggle, but compile fine, while pseudo-code explaining the intended outcome in prose will help get good code produced, but not compile at all.

An LR parser will produce a parse tree, showing how the given token stream satisfies the parser's grammar - or an error, if the token stream doesn't satisfy the grammar. Your typical parser algorithm is deterministic, even if the grammar it matches isn't, so you'd expect to get the same parse tree for the same token stream, every time. By and large LR parsers (as described in TFA) are shift/reduce parsers: there's a bunch of states, and in each state the next token in the input stream determines if the state shifts (pushes the token onto a term stack and moves to the next input token) and jumps to another state, or reduces (pops a number of terms off the term stack and replaces them with the term being reduced to) and goes back to a prior state. TFA talks about the situation where more than one shift or reduce action is possible for a given state and input token.

An LLM uses embeddings. AFAIK the current state of the art algorithm (method, perhaps?) for this is still transformers with attention: roughly speaking, each token in the input gets projected into an embedding vector, a query vector, and a key vector; attention means that for each token, all other tokens with a key vector near to their query vector have their embedding alter the query token's embedding, allowing for context to have an impact. Multiple layers of attention can run one after another, eventually producing a final set of token values. Different embedding models use different means to pick one of those values (eg, pick the last one in the input sequence, if your query/key vectors tend to push information 'forwards' to following tokens), and that's your whole input's embedding. Neural nets can be deterministic, but those used for embedding rarely are: the values produced by repeated runs over the same input will (or should) always be pretty close, but generally won't be exactly the same.
I think some small businesses start because the owner wants to do something well. Sometimes this aligns with some group of customers and it's sustainable.

Most small businesses fail of course. Usually because while they do a task well, they're bad at the business part.

Once you get large (McDonald's in the parent thread) the focus is necessarily on the business part. At that scale it's not "doing the thing as well as possible " - it is "making money as well as possible".

Clearly lots of people use McDonald's. So they provide customers with satisfaction. But that doesn't mean they aren't out to maximize revenue.
I did evals of most of the popular ones for my company and my opinion is OrbStack is best performance and most reliable. The Kubernetes integration is also very nice and resetting it takes about ~10s in case you get in a pickle.