skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Online harassment can quickly escalate beyond the point of being ignorable, even for the most resilient individuals. Swatting is the classic extreme case of that.

Even foregoing those extreme examples, there are plenty of other impossible-to-ignore ways for people to harass you (prank pizza orders, for example). Ignoring some people will cause them to escalate the extent to which they will try to get your attention.
With lower temperature, it seems to work okay for me.

A _killer_ awesome thing it does too is allow code specification in the config instead of through repeated attempts at prompts.
To add to this, I think the stress of wanting to be great, or maybe profitable in a certain realm, can stop people from anything like practice on a regular, consistent basis.

They’ll maybe read, watch tutorials, engage in social media, chat about doing a thing, but then never actually do it regularly enough (even poorly or briefly) to see what their improvement trajectory looks like.

They’ll go a week or month between engaging in doing a thing (even if not specifically denoted “practice,”) and only do when bursts of excitement or inspiration hit. And because of the gaps between starting basically from scratch each time, they stay a beginner for years and years with no insight on their actual capabilities. Certainly guilty myself.
Other citizens may punish you for your actions. For example, a large number of people are no longer buying Teslas because of Musk's actions. As far as government creating regulations affecting Musk, well, Musk thumbed his nose to government regulations and showed his ass. What, the wittle baby can't take what he dishes out? How lame!
He has the looks for Fox News and a good resume, including not being stationed in the Hoover Building
Didn't they also say they were replacing mid level engineers with AI?
They're doing sly things with snaps, like automatically installing the snap when you try to apt install something. I wouldn't put it past them to try to reinstall snapd without notification. It's easier to just move to a system you can trust.
I like the analogy where other articles have said we have microplastics in our brain about the size of a credit card (which generally weigh between 4g and 10g) better.

Saying a “spoon’s worth” seems to be downplaying the unmitigated potential risk. We have no idea what will happen as we (and all the other creatures on earth) keep storing more and more microplastics in our organs.

Nobody is going to stop driving. Car tires are the largest source of microplastics.

(actually I don’t drive though so who am I to judge)
Thank you for the clarification. I wanted to use some kind of visual to show the model in a loop. Otherwise, I’d just have to say explicitly that the sculptor is the one in the loop, as in the person will not stop chiseling. It’s in this infinite chiseling that we get our answers (same thing as finding a limit in calculus as it approaches infinity, we will never get the discrete answer, but we will get infinitely close enough to label a discrete point confidently).

In other words, we fly as close to the sun as possible and get our measurements :)
> single long password could be used to authenticate as anyone.

Only if everyone uses the same long prefix for password.
Can't the user agent be spoofed anyway?
That's amusing but irrelevant. Sometimes we may not only be concerned about what you call "outcomes." To cover those occasions, we use a variety of different words.
There is no "they". The military adheres to the law for only as long as those laws are enforced. If the US military can commit war crimes abroad and be protected from outside prosecution, there is nothing stopping them from doing the same inside the US. All it takes is for one person in charge to ignore charges in a military court, or simply not comply with a legal summons in civilian court.

Look at how the US treats the International Criminal Court today, a legal body it itself helped create after WWII. Not a huge leap to think they will ignore state courts in the US. Who's going to arrest them?
Non-linear doesn't mean "still monotonic". My experience has been that beyond a certain threshold on a given test, job performance is essentially uncorrelated with test performance.

As for the article, it's not given me particular solid vibes, a feeling not helped by some of the comments here (both pro and con).
I think there's a number of issues with this diagnosis, but chiefly: Trump won a second term on the back of a massive surge in non-white support. He's basically where he was in 2016 with white voters.
I am hoping that they discover that polyethylene is a natural component of brain chemistry.
How to measure it isn't really a difficulty. It's the ones who cause the women to hit the like button.
Slowly? Have you not watched the pot boil around you for the past decade? There are zero good search engines. Everything returns propaganda.

This is all as it was intended.
That in and of itself is a failure. The decision to continually bolt more stuff onto this mess instead of developing a viable alternative is honestly painful. When you look at something like Zig, it gets you much of what C++ offers and in a way that doesn't cause you pain. Is the argument that Zig simply wasn't possible 30 years ago? I doubt it. As best I can tell, Zig comes as the result of a relatively experienced C programmer making the observation that you could improve C in a lot of easy ways. Were it not for the existing mess, he might have called his language C++. Instead a Scandinavian nut-job decided to heap some mess on top of C and everyone just went along with it.
> Cloudflare just blocks you without recourse nowdays.

looks like someone is due for a class action
This statement isn't necessarily at odds with that one.
That hasn't been true for a long time.

> If there is a url, text is optional.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
This one: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-to-st...
Do you believe everything Trump is saying?

As an extreme and memorable example: "$x million was spent on condoms for Hamas"

In my experience of the world, therefore through my personal filter, most of the justifications and reasoning I hear out of Trump's mouth are massive simplifications at best and outright untruths at worst.

Regarding rooting out corruption: $TRUMP coin. So they're replacing perceived corruption with outright scams in order to profit from their position?
not to mention all the Copilots....
There are a bunch of really good vegan cookbooks. I have indian, korean, african and south american vegan cookbooks. They're great and most of the recipes are really easy to make. I'd also add the fermentation bible to that.
There is a simple dictionary difference between "legal" and "illegal." Using the actual meaning of a word is kinda the opposite of playing word games.
Yes, to me this is the movie jiro dreams of sushi. Consistently just do some amount every day with no real expectation and you may very well become the best in the world at it, but that wasn't really the goal, it was the byproduct.
- There is a horrifying 512-ounce version that they call Child size. How is this a Child-sized soda?

- Well, it's roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied.
I hope you're right about that: https://theonion.com/trump-executed-1850257714/
Are the the two sources of resumes really treated the same?

If I'm contacted by a recruiter and encouraged to apply for a position, I would expect to at least get a phone screening if not a full interview. Are you really reaching out to minority candidates individually only to sometimes send back a message that you have decided not to proceed with them a few days later? I think that would leave a bad taste in my mouth and make me less inclined to apply or encourage anyone else to apply with your company.
Zompist is a bit unusual these days: one guy working on one project (his Constructed World Almea) for over 40 years now, with 30 of those on the web. It's a beautiful relic of the early web. Most of the sites from my old "conlang" bookmark folder are dead now, but not zompist.com
The GMSL is a godsend for those of us stuck on GNU Make 3.81 for... "reasons"

("reasons" being on macOS and limited to Xcode Command-Line Tools, which provides a number of GNU tools frozen to the last version that's GPLv2, before GPLv3.

Incidentally, that's also why macOS switched to Zsh by default, because Apple was tired of backporting security fixes to their Bash 3.2.57

/rant)
Maybe you can help explain how cutting funding for projects that fight malaria is funny.
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> Non-linear doesn't mean "still monotonic".

Satisfying the first assumption means "still monotonic".

Also, if you had a better test then you'd use it, but at some point you have 10 candidates and 5 slots and have to use something to choose, so you use the closest approximation available until you can come up with a better one.
I have the problem with LibreWolf on Linux, and have to fall back to Ungoogled Chromium.

Edited to add: without adblock
At least two of the hats https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi/wiki/I%C2%B2S-DACs look like they are currently for sale. And I didn’t check all of them.
Really? Because SCOTUS actually ruled the President very well might be immune from any criminal repercussions from mowing down civilians from a helicopter-mounted machine gun.

Seems like there’s at least “a debate” to be had.
The name didn't help, but the biggest issue was when I first encountered the format it was very difficult for me to find software that could play it. It's been a while, but IIRC Windows Media player and Realplayer didn't like it, I can't remember if WinAmp the time supported it either, I think it may have gotten it eventually?
>Klingon-esque

The "Og" in Ogg was a reference to "Orion ship G" in the game Netrek (https://www.netrek.org/) so definitely not Klingon :)

(Nettrek was a star trek themed online space combat game featuring Federation, Klingon, Romulan and Orion as the playable factions)
Use a LTS distribution with nixpkgs or containers and call it a day. I use nixpkgs on every OS.
Brief Discussions

(77 points, 3 hours ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42956473

(23 points, 2 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42956898
We don't have an example of CRDT with PulseBeam yet. But, CRDT itself is just a data structure, so you can use PulseBeam to communicate the sync ops (full or delta) with a data channel. Then, you can either use y.js or other CRDT libraries to manage the merging.

Yes, the plan is to use JWT for both the client and server side.

OIDC is not on the roadmap yet. But, I've been tinkering on the side related to this. I think something like an OIDC mapper to PulseBeam JWT can work here.

I'm not envisioning integrating into a decentralization ecosystem at this point. The scope is to provide a reliable service for 1:1 and small groups for other developers to build on top with centralization. So, something like Analytics, global segmented signaling (allow close peers to connect with edge servers, but allow them to connect to remote servers as well), authentication, and more network topology support.

That's correct, if the client is reachable by a public IPv6 (meaning the other peer has to also have a way to talk to an IPv6), then STUN and TURN are not needed. ICE is still needed but only used lightly for checking and selecting the candidate pair connections.
> If I get a bad result from an ai slop blog, I can permanently ban it. I think that Kagi aggregates this user feedback to globally downrank some sites, but I might be wrong.

I agree this is a critical feature, but uBlacklist does this with Google for free. Without uBlacklist I'd gladly pay $10/month just to have "Google search without Pinterest results," but fortunately that's not required.
The only good news here is that it's possible that the body can clear the plastics. This is from the linked study:

> While we suspected that MNPs might accumulate in the body over a lifespan, the lack of correlation between total plastics and decedent age (P = 0.87 for brain data) does not support this (Supplementary Fig. 1). However, total mass concentration of plastics in the brains analyzed in this study increased by approximately 50% in the past 8 years. Thus, we postulate that the exponentially increasing environmental concentrations of MNPs2,14 may analogously increase internal maximal concentrations. Although there are few studies to draw on yet performed in mammals, in zebrafish exposed to constant concentrations, nanoplastic uptake increased to a stable plateau and cleared after exposure15; however, the maximal internal concentrations were increased proportionately with higher nanoplastic exposure concentrations. While clearance rates and elimination routes of MNPs from the brain remain uncharacterized, it is possible that an equilibrium—albeit variable between people—might occur between exposure, uptake and clearance, with environmental exposure concentrations ultimately determining the internal body burden.

Which means that if we were to take action on this, we might actually be able to reduce our exposure. Unfortunately, things are going in the wrong direction.

I keep thinking it would be nice if microplastic exposure were to start generating the kind of focus and controversy that is currently taking place with vaccines and autism spectrum disorder.
> is that they're ~85% accurate.

Speaking from experience, you need to double check "I" and "l" and "1" "0" and "O" all the time, accuracy seems to depend on the font and some other factors.

have a util script I use locally to copy some token values out of screenshots from a VMWare client (long story) and I have to manually adjust 9/times.

How relevant that is or isn't depends on the use case.
I would think that we would be seeing a lit more issues if we had that much plastic just in our brain. But maybe our body doesn’t mind all that much. I guess we will see how things play out in another 30 years though.
Speaking as someone who has filled up his phone pushing music onto it via SyncThing - 320 kbps MP3 gets me a lot further than FLAC!
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The problem is that RL is extremely inefficient. It's one thing to use it for fine tuning an LLM to do the chain of thought trick and quite another to do thinking entirely from scratch. The pretrained LLM does a lot of heavy lifting there.

And it would have to be RL for your idea to work since there is no "thinking" dataset for a novel token space. There isn't even one for existing LLM token space, but they have the base model to work off of. When the thought is expressed in English, the model already knows the relationships between the tokens in the thought, it's merely repurposing it for a "thinking" application.
Well as they say, it's about equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. Te former I believe strongly, no doubt. They latter? EH
> Performance on the AT-SAT is not job performance.

No, but it was the best predictor of job performance and academy pass rate there was.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA566825.pdf

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/data_research/resear... (page 41)

There are a fixed number of seats at the ATC academy in OKC, so it's critical to get the highest quality applicants possible to ensure that the pass rate is as high as possible, especially given that the ATC system has been understaffed for decades.
Colloquially they were always just referred to as Oggs, which wasn't too weird to my ears.

To my recollection what hampered uptake was simply that most software and especially most hardware did not support Oggs. So no-one encoding for distribution (i.e., P2P filesharing) used it. And once commercial streaming services came into being, they all used proprietary DRM-backed formats (WMA, and whatever iTunes used at the time, AAC?).

By the time digital music services gave up on DRM, MP3 patents were coming up on expiry, and MP3 encoder technology had advanced closing most of the gap between it and Ogg, especially when run at higher bitrates which cheaper storage and bandwidth made acceptable to use.

But now with many streaming services using Opus, all is right in the world again.
Going line by line through payments to look for things that look politically affiliated with the opposing side’s viewpoints with the stated goal of ending those payments?

Please show me an analog.
I'm actually curious; I use Jellyfin to stream FLAC all the time and it doesn't seem to have any issues for me. I'm not sure what you're doing differently.

I do have pretty fast internet (2 gigabits up and down), so maybe that's it?
Nissan to Reject Honda Deal to Create World's No. 3 Automaker
Sigh, these rage bait style of responses are as bad as the original article. Reuters was not even able to figure out what % was due to contractors as opposed to Tesla itself.

Everything you said says nothing of how they pay their vendors. $2.5mm is not exactly breaking news for construction projects. Most large projects have some percentage of total project value in liens.

I know we all want to get upset but its too hard to say either way, the dollar amount is far too small, it maybe involve a large portion of contractors and based on the cost of the development does not seem to be a rampant issue.
Not him, but I use lossy because phones have small capacities and I can't be bothered to have lossless on pc + lossy on phone.
> better social service

we should just drop means testing of services

> extra resources for schools in poor areas

more funding != better outcomes. Parental involvement is what drives outcomes. If you don't have parents around, nothing matters.
Enforcing style guidelines seems like an issue that should be tackled by non-compiler tools. It is hard enough to make a compiler without rolling in a ton of subjective standards (yes, the core guidelines are subjective!). There are lots of other tools that have partial support for detecting and even fixing code according to various guidelines.
/r/UkraineRussiaReport is basically the only forum on the whole site where anything that isn't 100% cheerleading for Ukraine is allowed to be posted. It seems like pro-Russian propaganda only in contrast to the rest of Reddit where the pro-Ukraine bias is actively enforced by the mods. You say the creator was "called out" on other subs which is why he created the alternative. But that just lends legitimacy to the sub, if you're interested in anything approaching an unbiased source of information.
The SBA stature provides for various procedures for underwriting the loans. The executive must follow those procedures, because they relate to the substantive operation of the program and determination of private rights. So it can’t just be done by EO. But could Trump actually sit down and do all the work and make the loan? I don’t see any reason why not.

Myers happened to be about removal, but it articulated a broader principle:

> As he is charged specifically to take care that they be faithfully executed, the reasonable implication, even in the absence of express words, was that, as part of his executive power, he should select those who were to act for him under his direction in the execution of the laws.
Dod Yandex invade someone?
https://archive.ph/Zfkbo
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The point is that it is almost entirely manufactured in Mexico using Chinese and Indian precursor chemicals. The amount crossing the US-Canada border is negligible by comparison.
Are patents in general even useful in tech anymore? I remember older mentors almost keeping score with how many patents they authored, now I almost never hear the word patent mentioned unless it's a patent troll going after up and coming startups with vague yet somehow legally enforceable bs that costs millions to defend
Joke's on you, I think nowadays it's more enjoyable to use windows 98/95 compared to 10/11.

You may have to forego an always connected workflow but i guess that's good for your mental health too :)
> qualified immunity of law enforcement or other government officials is from civil lawsuits;

To a degree law enforcement officers are immunized by their official acts. Where as some of those same acts are inherently criminal if a civilian was to do them. The argument being that police need an assurance that a violent act they must undertake (that would be criminally illegal for a civilian to do) in the course of doing their duty will not be, by default, prosecuted as if they were a civilian.

I think it’s not that different an argument for the president. A good example is President Obama’s drone strike against Al-Awlaki which essentially was a pretty stark violation of the 6th Amendment. That same immunity protection applies here as well. By arguing that fighting the war on terror as an official duty of the president, the President has immunity from the criminal act of intentionally killing a US citizen as a part of that duty.

> He said in his first campaign that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not suffer any consequences

Obvious bluster about his popularity and not relevant. However even to do that today he would need to have the predicate of it being an official act, without that he would be liable…and from what I have seen of this court, the conservative justices do not always vote in lockstep with each other.