skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean? It’s a lovely, if slightly saccharine, slice of life article about a man caring for his dying wife. I kinda figure this is exactly the sort of stuff that should be on public media: self portraits of normal American lives. Like how we read journals of people from the civil war or the depression.
I reached out to a person on Gemini in 2021 and we've spoken basically every day since.
You never know what kind of connections are out there unless you try.
FWIW this is not exclusive to Bitwarden. 1password also suffers from this frustrating UX.
This became obvious to me when switching between my dark editor and the bright website I was developing. It was pointless to have to adjust the screen brightness at every switch.

Once theme switching became part of the OS, I rejoiced.

It still pisses me off when I reach a website that doesn't follow my scheme setting but offers a manual toggle.
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I keep telling people that the best rule-of-thumb threat model is that your LLM is running as JavaScript code in the user's browser.

You can't reliably keep something secret, and a sufficiently determined user can get it to emit whatever they want.
Aren't they 2 very different things? Matrix is live chat, similar to IRC, whereas Mastadon is a microblogging platform similar to X.
If that happens, the govt will commandeer all the Big Tech data centers, and strip-mine them for gpus to stick inside weapons.

Kinda-sorta like how car factories were repurposed to produce military aircraft during World War II.

I think it'll be ironic if things come to that -- NVidia unable to get fresh silicon, and scads of them sitting around, powering LLMs... we could see amazing shenanigans where certain folks cut deals (cough graft cough) to get to keep most of their gpus, while others get liquidated, and implode.
Same here, I think that's why I prefer light themes when developing. Although I like my terminals dark for some reason.
> Most Americans care about creating American jobs in the private sector not about growing the government by creating more government jobs. More Americans are employed by industry and small businesses (as it should be) than by government.

Honestly, as a recovering libertarian, I'm actually pretty enthusiastic about creating government-run services. I'd like to see far more of them, and thus far more people employed by government. For instance: I'd much rather use a weather app put out by NOAA (if only such a thing existed) than any of the private alternatives (whose business model is really to secretly invade your privacy and sell your data).

> Why would you think there needs to be one giant employer instead of a healthy market of many?

"One giant employer" is a ridiculous straw-man, but I've come to realize the market isn't a panacea. And the "optimal market solution" can actually be pretty user/customer/worker hostile.

I actually work at a private business that could plausibly be a government-run service, and I think it'd actually be pretty good for everyone if it were converted into one (so long as the government is not run by anyone with a last name of Musk).
I think they may have been possible with Metamod: Source and SourceMod but now that it's on the Source 2 engine, server plugins are once again an unsupported hack.
Using an SDR, I’ve tried to locate microwave leakage (while running it) but could never find it.

Anyone else tried this ?
Once you've seen enough similar systems you have a pretty good idea. You'll ramp up much faster than someone who has not. It will take time.
But bluesky is a proprietary service based in the US. A less privacy friendly choice for your readers/commenters.
That falls squarely in the "if we can't imprison citizens safely, maybe we shouldn't imprison anyone" category for me.
why not just program to protocols?

For complex data structures I typically just hide details behind a protocol and deal with the set of interface functions.

You can then freely mess with the internals and not worry about details
> Value comes from collective agreement among human beings.

It can also come from fraud, market manipulation, etc
Pretty sure astronauts do too. I remember the weird astronaut love triangle incident where some astronaut lady who was in love with some other astronaut drove nonstop cross-country with apparently a BB gun and wearing a diaper to do God knows what to the guy. It was explained that wearing a diaper during spacewalks was routine for astronauts, so it probably seemed like a reasonable and convenient thing to do for her, rather than crazy and outlandish as it seemed to most regular people.
> another problem it's created is that flash has a limited number of write cycles

SPI flash typically have somewhere between 10k to 100k write cycles. Without wear leveling, lets say a write is made on every boot, and lets say a machine is booted 3 times a day you are still going to have a 9+ year life on a flash chip with only 10k writes.

EDIT: Did a search for a random "replacement SPI flash MSI" and found an MX25L25673G being used. Using that as an example it has 100k write cycles, using 3 writes a day, that's like 91 years. Basically flash memory is at the point where its "good enough" not to worry about.
Two of my former coworkers noticed a horrible truth about war rooms in a meeting we were having.

It would have been perfectly reasonable for our team to be responsible for at least a third of all production outages, including the nasty ones that took a war room instead of some scrambling to roll back deployments and frantically resetting some feature toggles, but we had both some of the youngest code and most operationally sophisticated code in the division (probably not a coincidence) and we just... didn't have that many outages over 15 minutes.

So we weren't in those war rooms, because it wasn't our stuff and we didn't know enough about the rest to really provide more than moral support. So we weren't in the room being all heroic in front of our boss's boss. We weren't in the shit with everyone else.

We weren't part of the fucked up Stockholm Syndrome that was driving a substantial part of the emotional bonding that was going on in that company.

We set up everybody's caches and maintained them. We figured out the docker deployment strategy. We figured out a whole bunch of things and barely got credit for any of it because when you do things right the first time, nobody appreciates how hard it was.

I've worked for bosses who understood how to sell that to upper management. This place had garbage management from the day my first boss quit until I left.
The same comments were made about John Koza's results with Genetic Programming. However, there are some obvious differences between the current model based techniques and Genetic Algorithms. Some feel that the path to AGI will necessarily include a GA component.

https://www.genetic-programming.com/jkpdf/gecco2000antenna.p...
If we can't safely imprison people, absolutely.

Do you believe that someone who committed murder deserves to be held against their will in an unsafe environment?

My point isn't that prisons must be completely safe and nothing could ever go wrong. They should, though, be on par with the relative safety of the world outside prison walls.
There are no good governments.
I completely agree. You can see this limitation if you try to create anything complex with the current state of the art. There is also a great video by Alex O'Connor on a simple prompt to generate a full glass of wine, which illustrates this really well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=160F8F8mXlo

This wave of AI is amazing. It's a great tool for many applications, and it will even revolutionize many of them, but it is still far from AGI, a term that has been hijacked by the tech industry to hype up their products. In some ways AI has advanced a lot, but in other ways it has been set back by the hype and muddying of the terms.
AKS is not sublinear. It runs in poly(n) time, where n is the number of bits in the input (i.e. input size).
> Am I right in thinking that every instance of BlogPost type must be constructed explicitly in your code? I.e. that every possible instance of BlogPost in the code base is knowable at compile time, along with its entire life cycle?

Almost. You can create a struct dynamically at runtime like this:

struct(BlogPost, %{title: "The Title"})
# => %BlogPost{title: "The Title"}

… but you rarely need to. In fact I'm not sure I've ever used `struct/2` in real life. 99.9% of all the structs you ever create will have their types known at compile-time.

> any conforming untyped map of indeterminate provenance will pass the guard check for a BlogPost?

Nope. In the `add_comment/2` example, If I pass anything except a %BlogPost{} to that function, I'll get an error.
I highly doubt this is true, and coming from reddit with no other details, ... zero credibility.
As in "utterances" and "giscus"?

Github is a proprietary service owned by Microsoft. Storing comments there is a less privacy friendly solution than this one.
These illegal scams are based in Shwe Koko, which is under the control of the BGF and they are not influenced by the CCP. The scam center is operated by a 14K triad leader who fled to Portugal in 1997 to escape China’s anti-triad crackdown. He is likely holding either Macau or Portuguese citizenship.

The 14K triad was originally founded by former Kuomintang generals as an anti-communist action group. In the past, they were heavily involved in transporting and distributing drugs from the Golden Triangle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14K_(triad)
Ultima VII was an absolute joy of childhood. It will always stand apart as a landmark in immersive game writing and design with soul. And the Ultima V Lazarus remake was a stunning community achievement.

I'd be interested in seeing a living, breathing game world simulated by AI under game writers' guidance.
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This idea is not related to avoiding commenting. The Author is suggesting you comment.
If you're writing to help altruistically, then AI shouldn't matter.

If you want recognition, then writing tech articles is a difficult path to help you gain status or become known.

My guess is that you just dislike helping the enemy. I'm often more driven for negative reasons than I am for positive ones.
I'm pretty bullish on fediverse-like concepts in the long term even if US social becomes a dystopian hellscape.
> We will heavily sanction China and use economic tools

Which will be pointless and fail, especially against a country like China.
I’m still experimenting, but right now it’s 28 bulbs attached to my ceiling fan with some 7-way splitters (the ceiling fan is an old one that supports 4 100W bulbs), two big corn bulbs, one 100W and one 250W, I’m still trying to figure out the best way to mount these. Then I had my daughter paint some art and I framed it using LED light strips, I’m gonna put it on the wall.

I haven’t really figured out a good way to diffuse the 250w corn bulb, its blinding to look at and it’s absolutely massive. Maybe I could use ABS and 3D print a translucent shroud and mounting bracket for it.

I had another 100W corn bulb that didn’t use a fan and it burned out after about a year.

I’ll be honest right now I’m in a transition period of moving rooms so I’ll often just spend 30 minutes in there in the morning, although last year I spent 8 hours a day in there. It really helped me during the big snowstorm the Midwest US had recently. I just bought cheap 200W equivalent LED bulbs until I got to the full 28, because that was super easy, then I’ve started experimenting.

In winter time when the sun is shining directly into the window that’s still brighter, but that happened maybe a dozen times over the last 80 days, even with a south facing window. This winter was super dreary.

Sorry I’m rambling, but Maybe at some point I’ll worry about CRIs but this was mostly an experiment. It has definitely helped but if you like indoor lighting you probably already know that.
Yep and paradox 4x games honestly take a brute force approach by adding too many limits of various kinds to ensure you don’t break the game.

Eg. fleet cap, star base cap, empire size, new systems requires spending influence that ticks over slowly, leader caps, etc.

Yes there’s ways you can increase things like influence 25% faster but that means you’re only 25% larger in size (and you’ll then be hit by the empire cap). In general I just don’t think paradox makes great 4x games compared to what I’ve played in the past. There must be a smarter way to have a fun 4x without resorting to a ton of different types of caps to stop you getting too far ahead. I will definitely +1 that the genre needs a shakeup.
Most dealers get their drugs from the cartel of course, but ime (i like to talk with my drug dealers) dark web markets are the second biggest source. Stuff like mdma, lsd seems to be almost exclusively sourced on the dark web.
Sure, but it took much longer for it to roll out in LA than it should have, and even then (as you pointed out) the furthest they could get was the pole in most cases. FTH is mostly reserved to the more suburban areas (the Valleys) and the independent cities.
I can't cite any sources, but it's a given that Remote Viewing was a cover-story for a new generation of spy-sats capable of much higher resolutions. We in NATO wanted our adversaries to continue in their complacency in, e.g. parking experimental aircraft outdoors without cover.

...and also (during the Cold War) to spur the Soviets into wasting money on pointless research projects that would have otherwise gone into their military's offensive capabilities.
I use Clojure. I'm aware it's strongly typed. I never said it wasn't, actually. You might want to reread my comment.

But I can't expect most codebases to use spec or malli. The comment I replied to said that's what the REPL is for. A REPL, while helpful for a lot of things, will not tell you about an argument faster than a type annotation.
Did you read the whole page? It’s not about people who theme their own system, it’s about distros that ship themes pre-installed
You might be right now in your judgement of what Americans are willing to die for.

However, I'm old enough to recall when America was convinced by Rumsfeld et. al. to send US soldiers in harms way -- over 4000 of them died in Iraq -- for some obscenely lucrative oil contracts.

That qualifies as "die en masse", and it was over some really flimsy pretext, which was later proved to be completely false.
This is true, but it's one thing to justify your funding to a funding agency, and another to justify your funding directly to an angry public that is being fed anti-science propaganda, and to politicians who are not acting in good faith.

I work in private industry, and I certainly have to justify my funding, but nobody's writing news articles accusing me of fraud -- if they even know that I exist.

Sorry, I'm not attacking you, but your comment triggered a reaction that I've been thinking about for some time.
> No, it's O(n) worst case. (The Wikipedia sidebar says "O(mn)," but that's apparently for a maimed version of the algorithm without a key part they're calling "the Galil rule.")

It's not "maimed", it's literally the original algorithm. And what the article was specifically analyzing. And exactly what the parent was citing. "No" here makes no sense, unless your goal was just to write "no" to someone on the internet.

> That's a special usage of the phrase "worst case"! In the absolute worst case, your implementation could have a bug and never terminate at all!

Wikipedia is describing that algorithm, not a different broken one. If your code is buggy then you're not implementing that algorithm, you're implementing a different one that happens to be buggy. It's completely absurd to suggest "the absolute worst case" of an algorithm could include that of a different algorithm. Whether the latter is correct or buggy.

> Anyway, the point is that it's O(n/m) in the usual case.

Sure, and the halting problem is O(1) in the best case.

> Which remains technically linear, not sub-linear

So it's neither an example of what the page was talking about (sublinear) nor an answer to my question (interesting sublinear).

> but at least it's O(n) with a constant factor smaller than 1.

If "usually only reads a fraction of the input" was what I was looking for, I would've realized String.indexOf(char) or Array.find(element) is an answer, and not needed to ask a question here.
The models were restricted from accessing the internet and forced to develop their own solutions internally.

I think researchers will find that human coders are unable to solve most coding problems without access to the internet.
Yeah it’s truly astonishing how bright the sun is when you start trying to recreate it at home. But my room is brighter inside than an overcast winter day outside! That was my goal, and it’s substantially improved my mood. I’d do a write up but my strategy has been “keep buying lights until it feels bright enough and distribute them around the room”. I should probably get a real lux meter I’ve just been using my phone which seems a bit off.
I understand that. I'm just saying that this is the reason I avoid commenting even when I want to follow author suggestion. I agree with the author.
Does that still work in a one-piece racing suit? I assumed that's what they meant. I haven't worn one, but I can imagine some of them make things a little more complicated.
it's so much easier to learn from examples than from documentation in my opinion, documentation is, what I use when I want to know additional parameters or downsides of a functionality. I'm no coder though.
Yeah I think something like a snowflower, which I believe has totally lost the ability to photosynthesize, is a better definition of a parasite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcodes?wprov=sfla1
The short quote blurbs from the book make it hard to know exactly what he is saying.
Yes, quite different concepts, but both are federated services that offer the necessary functionalities to be used as comments. One is a bit more "real-time" than the other.

I should perhaps also add a little disclaimer/warning: When i had a closer look at cactus comments a while ago, it seemed to be broken / "assembly required" in various parts and blogs that use it.
I think that’s just arguing over the imprecision of language. Are we referring to the human sense which is the electromagnetic field or are we referring to the abstract mathematical concept of whether two line segments touch which is what the particle accelerator does or matter/antimatter. Both definitions are valid imho.
> Certainly nobody says "There have been two school shootings at that HS in the past few years"

In most countries nobody says that about any school.
You can submit a blank ballot. Since the ballot is secret, compulsory voting merely verifies that you got a ballot and submitted it, not that you filled it out correctly/completely.
CCP has plenty of money. Theyre not north korea. That would be like the US government running scam centers. Juice not worth the squeeze.
Floating nuclear power plants to be mass produced for US coastline
Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn
> even though CEO Sam Altman insists they will be able to beat "low-level" software engineers by the end of this year.

"low/high level" starts to lose its meaning to me because it gets used in opposite ways
If you're requiring human coders to write valid, compilable code, maybe. But if you're doing that, you're doing coding interviews wrong.

Any interviews I've run or been a part of have required the interviewee to demonstrate their problem-solving skills using pseudo-code.
Lighter vehicles also mean cheaper vehicles
Well, what happened? It may well be that you visited someone who was generous, and they didn't exercise their rights to the fullest extent. Generosity is always an option a provider can extend, but it's not something a patient can demand.
Consider that you often need to decide when to stop looking at data before making a decision using what you've seen so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping
This mirrors what I've seen. I've found that LLMs are most helpful in places where I have the most experience.

Maybe this is because of explicitness in prompt and preempting edge cases. Maybe it's because I know exactly what should be done. In these cases, I will still sometimes be surprised by a more complete answer then I was envisioning, a few edge cases that weren't front of mind.

But if I have _no_ idea things go wildly off course. I was doing some tricky frontend work with dynamically placed reactflow nodes and bezier curve edges. It took me easily 6 hours of bashing my head against the problem, and it was hard to stop using the assistant because of sunk cost. But I probably would have gotten more out of it and been faster if I'd just sat down and really broken down the problem for a few hours and then moved to implement.

The most tempting part of LLMs is letting them figure out design when you're in a time crunch. And the way it solves things when you understand the domain and the bottoms-up view of the work is deceptive in terms of capability.

And in this case, it's hoping that people on upwork understand their problems deeply. If they did, they probably wouldn't be posting on upwork. That's what they're trying to pay for.
Who else? Five eyes, obviously.
> It’s the underlying cause though.

There is scant evidence that it is the underlying cause. The manager didn't do his due diligence in figuring out what the cause was; I repeat myself but it looks suspiciously like he's disregarded whatever Jerry actually said, substituted a strawman and dealt with that strawman harshly.

At no point did Jerry assert superior knowledge. He should probably have talked to Sonia... but that isn't something that the manager seems to have picked up on. That is something that manager should have done, in fact, which is prompt the developer and Sonia to talk to each other. That seems like a much more reasonable underlying cause of problems than arrogance; a relatively minor mistake in failing to check what the ticket raiser wanted on a call when the ticket didn't seem plausible. If the manager had suggested that at any point he'd get a free mark for having done some good managing.

> Remove the Jerry’s arrogance all the way to the point of that rhetorical stick is there even a blog post here?

My guess is that is why it ended up being flagged; there isn't really a blog post here that is good to read. The post is basically Jerry mishandles a ticket in a minor way and his manager responds by melting down, mishandling the situation and making Jerry eat the heat for that in a style that looks mildly abusive. But the manager doesn't know what respectful communication actually looks like so he posted it expecting a warm response. Sure, Jerry made mistakes here but it isn't the elephant in the room.

If the manager had good communication skills he could have resolved this by articulating to Jerry some basic & polite actionable feedback instead of the display we actually got in the blog. There wasn't enough legwork done to justify a hard conversation.
its a bad thing. Nothing good about it.
For what it's worth, I went to University of Arizona (math) and I've done great in life. They and Rochester are the two main schools that specialize in optics (e.g. lasers and photonics and complex lens systems, not eyeglasses) as far as I know if that's an interest. Otherwise, if you have some time left to plan, see if you can reduce your income (e.g. by moving to part time work, planning to do a sabbatical, or retiring if possible) to avoid the shakedown.
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> This one really doesn't make sense if you actually want to MAGA

They don't. It was always a lie. The want to make their own lives great(er) at the expense of the rest of the human species.

Way too many people were somehow conned by an expert conman who had previously conned them. Short memories and wishful thinking is a dangerous combo.