skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why so many posters in this thread are being seemingly intentionally obtuse and insisting that the terms of of the original transaction are something entirely different from what it was. I expect better from this sites users than such naivety.
This is pretty normal. There are anti-blacklisting laws, but I doubt they apply to a single company in a situation like this. Maybe California is unusual in this regards?
If the inner function is async, then its callers need to be async as well (see https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...).

Important to note that unless the inner function throws an exception, the two versions are essentially identical, even sharing (if using typescript) a return type definition of `Promise<ReturnType<InnerFunction>>`.

That's because `await` flattens nested promises, so both `Awaited<Promise<T>>` and `Awaited<Promise<Promise<Promise<T>>>>` resolve to `T`.
I just think this perspective ignores the large francophone speaking population, as well as a strong sepratist movement from witin Canada.
What's the reasoning behind being over 40? I recently complained to my optometrist that I was having a harder time seeing things up close and he prescribed me weaker lenses for work/reading. My regular prescription is right around -7 in both eyes. I'm not over 40.
The right's take on this also seems premised on the idea that the bureaucracy has just grown and grown (it's been fairly steady over time, and leans small when compared to our international peers, so...) and that nobody's worked on efficiency or tracking work that whole time, when in fact there's been a shitload of that and, while you can find waste or even, rarely, fraud, it is not rampant, unless you define waste or fraud as "doing things I don't want them to, even though it's in the budget". In fact, on the fraud front, a lot of government inefficiency has been deliberately introduced—to fight fraud or corruption. So even if you find something inefficient, you better be careful or you'll be undoing an anti-fraud or anti-corruption measure.

You see stuff like Elon asking for those dumb-ass "five things" emails when a large proportion of government workers already have their productivity tracked multiple ways, many of them quite objective and hard to fake, because people who are not complete morons have already worked on these problems.

This is government based on dumb right-wing misconceptions about how government works. Or, if the people doing it aren't true believers, at least playing to those incorrect notions among voters.
In order to address the deficit, cutting federal workers won't be enough. You have to make major cuts to social security, Medicare, and Medicaid or raise revenues (likely both) to balance the budget. None of that is popular though and anyone proposing that and running for office will get booed off the stage. You can cut the entirety of DOD and it'll cover only 1/3rd the current deficit.

Along with tackling the politically hard things, you have to start addressing poor contract performance (not all of which is technically fraud, waste, or abuse but certainly some would fall under those categories). DOD wastes billions a year on contracts that won't deliver or may deliver but less than promised, late, and/or overbudget.
You guys just prove over and over again you don't know how anything works.
Republicans can't be the free speech party if they use the term "illegal protests. J6 would certainly fall under the Trump admins definition of "illegal protests". A truly malevolent force makes all major Western political parties uniformly hostile to free speech and protest.
I just mount root of the remote system.
Up to +3 can easily be tried on and bought at a drugstore.

I’m severely myopic (-11), though that is corrected completely by contacts. Presbyopia, alas, hits us all.
> you can have your voice as a thoroughly vetted example, and then be able to use that to finetune LLMs

You have piqued my interest.

Can you explain in more detail how a user will fine tune a model. Will the LLM just replicate a user's conversational style? Or will the user be able to set deeper parameters, for example to define goal-oriented outputs for agentic actions?
<tangent>Not a native English speaker here, my focus stopped at the subtitle "Robotic private spacecraft touched down about 250 miles from its intended landing site on Thursday". It feels odd to read "robotic private spacecraft" instead of "private robotic spacecraft" but I can't explain why.</tangent>
Discussion (39 points, 1 day ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280435
To add to this, if anyone's interested in the history and geopolitics of the Vatican and understands Spanish, here's an excellent podcast that goes way more in depth about the topic:

https://youtu.be/apCBwjxaLO4
Costco abusers.
> they are preparing for automation.

This isn't preparing in the slightest. This is impulse-response. Taking a sledgehammer to our institutions and seeing what happens. A cruel child picking apart the legs of a spider just to see how many it can before it dies.

Adding performance guidelines has been done before. It was done in a systematic way that tried very carefully to avoid disruption to functions[1]. DOGE is forcing its way into offices and physically compromising internal data systems in order to feed data into an experiment.

1. https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/papers/bkgrd/bri...
You would have to double current income taxes to cover the deficit.

I already pay 50%, how much do you want?
You are paying more for the DVD because copyright law and fair use apply to it including the right to backup. Companies prefer to sell you new online licensing as a scam.

The US didn't correctly defend the right to backup, but that leaves a funny grey zone where WB being bad at making DVDs means less ability to shame "piracy" tool makers because backups is normalized and in no way suspicious if the media isn't perfect like they said.
am I the only one annoyed by the fact that they do not have syntax highlighting on most of their code examples?
DMCA's takedown and safe harbor provisions spawn a lot of notices against critical media protected by fair use by the people the media is criticizing and because of the way that law is worded and how it's been implemented by platforms it often works, even if for just a few days that can completely kneecap the success and spread of a video or article.
> AMD could have ROCm perfected if they really want to.

It's not an act of will or CEO dictat. It's about hiring and incentivising the right people, putting the right structures in place etc all in the face of competing demands.

Nvidia have a huge head start and by the time AMD have 'caught up' Nvidia with it's greater resources will have moved further ahead.
I do not understand why they did it now when JavaScript already does it. The thing just adds entropy without a clear value.
I'm not in my 40's, but I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
Idk, maybe I heard wrong way back when. When I deposited a large amount of money, at another credit union, they knew who I was, but they asked for my driver license number (which I verbally told them) presumably for some report on their computer. Also when I withdrew the money from the first credit union, it seemed like they were filling out some ling form as well.
I'm totally okay with there being a wealth tax for people in that situation.
Russell Vought, who was installed as head of OMB, should face treason charges after this is all over.

And I'm not one who says such things lightly.

Imho, a willful, intentional impairment of US government functioning as a result of documented philosophical beliefs and statements of intent should be prosecutable.

It's apparent by this point that OMB and DOGE have no intention of making government better and are instead simply shrinking it by any means necessary.

... which is why true believers (in anything) should never be allowed to hold the reigns of power.
This guy is in contention for pope, and he's definitely got an edge in this contest.

https://collegeofcardinalsreport.com/cardinals/pierbattista-...
I believe it was a vaccination drive and DNA sequencing that located Bin Laden in abbottabad.
They've all gone to crap unfortunately, like much of consumer software imo.
> First you find where the money is being spent and if it doesn't match the goals of the administration, you turn it off.

If you're attempting to illegally seize control of the government's spending from Congress, sure, you do that.
Seed oil critics I've heard uniformly acknowledge that. Then they say the dose makes the poison and show a chart like this one:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fi...

Then they say something like, correlation is not causation but this one is so well fitted with the rise of metabolic disease that it's at least suspicious.

I've eliminated vegetable oils from my diet for the last four years, and while that is correlated with metabolic improvements, it's only one major food type I've removed.

IMHO the first or second most important effect of removing seed oils from the diet is that it removes other long term deleterious ingredients by association, like flours and sugars. If you haven't tried shopping for seed oil free foods you may be shocked at how much of the grocery store it rules out. Along with the majority of restaurant meals.
Because Columbia has some of the best scientific and medical researchers in the world and they apply for competitive grants. That's how scientific and health research is funded in the United States, and we reap massive economic and health benefits from that research. For instance, Eric Kandel, who won a Nobel prize for discovering the biological basis of memory, is a Columbia faculty member. Columbia has a budget of $6.3 billion, so the income from its endowment can only fund a portion of operations. And even then, most endowment income can only be spent for a particular purpose specified by the donor and can't legally be redirected.
That's assuming that the expectation is that the government keeps the same services afterwards. It seems the strategy is closer to making services dysfunctional to the point where they're unsalvageable, then cut funding for them because they don't work.
The Startup Dictionary of Received Ideas
I'd be curious what would happen if you SFTed a larger model with successful reasoning traces from the smaller model. Would it pick up the overall reasoning pattern, but be able to apply it to more cases?
Why should the deficit be fully covered?
That happened to me last year. Someone asked if anyone knew the law in my state in regards to defending yourself against an aggressive dog. I linked the relevant law. I got a 72 hour ban for advocating for violence because the linked law says you can kill an aggressive dog to defend people/pets/livestock.
Never underestimate the power of institutional momentum! cough IBM AS400
https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments

I worked on this a while back in parallel. You can dump Apple's entire database in ~2 weeks. Around 3 billion records including China.

You can compress it down to only a few gigs and have everything offline. I also got a ichnaea proxy though not as well tested. Been using it myself and it's alright,
I don't think so, but who knows. In my case I was working at a telco so everything was very obvious at the dev environments.
Sounds like just the kind of person you'd want in command of a powerful AGI.
PE is appropriate for companies going steady. It's not appropriate for companies that are growing or dying.

Thought experiment: A and B have the same earnings per share, but everyone expects A to double its revenue going forward and B to go steady. Should shares of A go for the same price as shares of B? If you think so, I can front-run you.

Thought experiment 2: A and B have the same earnings per share, but everyone expects A to halve its revenue going forward and B to go steady. Should they go for the same price? If you think so, I have some bags for you to hold.

The easy answer is that PEG is more appropriate for growing companies and PB is more appropriate for dying companies (since this is HN, I'll also mention that "Team and TAM" is the metric for seed stage). The hard answer is that there is no substitute for modeling the finances of the company and applying a DCF, but your brokerage app can't do that for you so PE/PEG/PB still have their place.
I pretty much had to get it because I owned the Birthright Campaign Setting box set and loved the setting concepts and art style. Of course Birthright was one of those "never should have been published" product line flops that helped generate TSR's downfall per the previous entry in this series! It all connects. :-)

Gorgon's Alliance was also the game that made it sink in for me that the 'real' Sierra / Sierra On-Line of my childhood was dead.
If I invested $13 billion dollars, I’d expect to get answers to questions like “how does the product work” too.
Opt-out add-on
Makes me say, f** you
I believe it was this particular laptop:
https://hothardware.com/reviews/rog-flow-z13-review

It’s the same processor that is in that new Framework desktop that was on HN recently, but for some reason Framework is not putting it in laptops:
https://frame.work/desktop
> First you find where the money is being spent and if it doesn't match the goals of the administration, you turn it off

The executive doesn't appropriate funds, Congress does. So that's completely wrong.

> think fraud needs investigation much deeper than...

Exactly but DOGE isn't doing that.
> use awk to write a shell script

Do you have any examples of this?
This will be flagged any minute.
Some seed oils are pressed under high heat and use hexane as a solvent like Canola/R@pe-seed.

While other seed oils are just crushed and filtered seeds we've used for millennia like sesame

It's the former that RFK is looking into.
They no longer teach Rhetoric at schools. Rhetorical arguments have been completely forgotten and debased in the public mind.

Rhetorical arguments are more important than ever in the age of AI, because AI is our attempt to simulate that. Probabilistic AI mimics rhetoric (inexpertly). It uses past knowledge to predict future behavior (rather, just the next token) based on probability.

To be clear - I'm not arguing that logical argument aren't important; I am a logical person, and prefer logical arguments to rhetorical ones. I prefer the certainty. I still recognize the need for rhetoric. Not everything is certain, and you have to make decisions based on probabilities and unknowns.
Your idea of 'ideological neutrality' involves open and flagrant discrimination against individuals as a form of political retribution [1] [2]. The fact that you can say this while arguing that you really care about people who are discriminated against (as you have done in the past) shows what you really mean whenever you write things like this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43279708

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201888
Also if you have roughly increasing row IDs, theoretically a btree is faster to insert into at a large scale, even if you don't care for prefix lookups or inequalities. And I think faster to read from.

I'm not sure if that's why, but in practice, Postgres doesn't care too much for hash indexes. It technically has them, but they're non-default, not recommended, previously poorly supported, etc. The default is btree (and serial pk).
Right, which is substantially less than the stated $20k/month.

edit: I see we're actually in agreement, sorry, I read the indentation level wrong.
I agree, as a native speaker. It's a known phenomena[1], though I'm not sure in this case what type of adjective you'd classify "private" as.

[1]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adj...
What if I use AI for my investment strategy?
Seems like a straightforward payoff to the crypto industry for their support.
Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says
We don't even have AI which can do useful things yet. The LLMs these companies make are fun toys, but not useful tools (yes, I know that hype-prone people are using them as such regardless). It beggars belief that we will go from "it's a fun toy but can't do real work" to "this can do things without even needing human supervision" without a major leap in capabilities.
Specifically December 2021.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=seed%20oils%20bad...

Although I remember seeing a tweet or article before where someone actually predicted it coming. The tweet was just like "A public controversy about seed oils is coming and it's going to be weird." For the life of me I cannot remember where or who the prediction came from, but I really want to know what that guy knew.
I'd be more worried the results are something like "1% chance of saving your life and 0.001% chance of exacerbating autism symptoms" and RFK focuses entirely on the latter as an excuse to ban vaccines.

We know vaccines can have negative side effects, but a reasonable person weighs those against the (larger) benefits. I don't think the current regime is very reasonable though.
Whether there is a connection between vaccines and autism depends on whose research you believe.

Did the Guardian present any research showing there is no evidence showing a connection between vaccines and autism, or are they insisting that it is so because they say so?
Here is a reality check including alternate facts.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on.
$1M for Open Source
Hi HN, it's the last day of our launch week and to celebrate we're announcing a $1M matching cash kickback for open source developers

The way it works is you make a template, other developers run it on our platform, and you get $0.50 for every $1 we collect in usage-based billing against it

We've already distributed ~$60K and when the $1M runs out we'll go back to the standard 25% kickback
an edit -- a black and white checker board can be done in 5 gates. Conway was more like 350 in the paper, apologies!
I’d love to see a link to some chat logs demonstrating this if you have any you’re willing to share.
They said they want "shock and awe" applied against the bureaucracy, to break it down and make it so it can't resist illegal directives. Plus they want to remove its ability to effectively regulate industry.

Why speculate about this when they said exactly what they're gonna do, and why, and then started doing what they said they would?
> I already pay 50%, how much do you want?

Care to break that 50% down?

Because I assume you're including a lot of different things in there...
OPEC, Petrodollars, and the 1980s Homeless Crisis (2017)
A thinking-out-loud piece I'd written back on G+ (hence the IA link), on how homelessness kicked off bigtimes in the US in the late 1970s / early 1980s, perhaps as housing became financialised due to A Combination Of Many Things.

Stumbled across this looking for other things (as one does) and thought it might be of interest to others.
Aside from the different Pravdas, the LLM only “understands” insofar as that the training material contains many statements describing Pravda as heavily biased. That doesn’t mean that it will apply this “knowledge” when generating text based on training data from Pravda sources. LLMs don’t inherently know which parts of their inference weights is based on which sources of training data.
Copyright law has a long history ported from earlier media. People here want to say media is just some product but the US decided that is in no way true.
It’s only true out of convenience. Russian propaganda latched onto various divisive talking points and pushed them to the extremes.

I’m old enough to remember conservative republicans from 2008 ish era and while there was some dumb stuff, anything 2016 and beyond is unparalleled and its revisionist to say otherwise.

The American public got slowly acclimated to turning into a ridiculous version of idiocracy. A mix of corrupt / easily bought politicians, a voter base addicted to consumerism and social media, and a country with a problematic voting system, all contributed to todays situation.

I used to wonder, like many kids, “why didn’t anyone stop hitler, he was so obviously bad”. It was never that obvious to me that so many other indoctrinated people could have been just as awful and far gone.

I pray those smart enough to see where all of this is inevitably leading to, leave the US before it’s too late for them to. Do not become an unwilling contributor to what the US does next.
Imagine we spent this much effort on projects on the Earth.
I'm not sure I'm entirely on board with the idea that we've got optometry down to the point where anyone can claim to have arrived at the correct prescription without the wearer having tried a bunch and finding what works in reality. Having worn glasses for over 75% of my 40-ish year life, I've come to the conclusion that optometry is as much art as it is science. I think every time I've gone to a new optometrist, I've been told something along the lines of "wow, your old prescription is way off" and ended up with a half diopter or more change.

I don't sit at a screen much these days, but for a while when I did, I had a computer prescription pair that I swapped on every day when I sat down at my desk, and swapped off when I went to leave. The distance vision with it was good enough to walk around the office or down the road to lunch, but not good enough to drive to and from the office.

After moving and getting a new optometrist, I got a different main prescription, and was told to try wearing them at the computer instead of swapping. Lo and behold, they worked without causing headaches, which is why I ended up with a computer pair previously.

For all of the time I've been in glasses, I've read books without them.

I'm probably not interesting to talk to, because I'm no longer in front of a computer when I can avoid it and I'm in my 40's so I'm staring down (pun intended) some vision changes in the near future anyway.

Minus 2 or 3 in both eyes with a cylindrical correction as well.
> Python will literally assign the content of your docstring (a triple-quoted string at the start of a function)

Any string. Triple-quoted is just multiline strings and works anywhere.
This is incredibly dumb.

What happens when the stock market is up one year and down the next?

What happens when you force them all to sell and there is not enough liquidity to support current prices so the act of selling hammers the value?

You are just saying "let's slowing take equity away from founders" so we can throw it away into wasteful gov. spending.
Startups trends to not look for in 2030 (from 2022)
The worst about Azure is the overcomplicated permission system. You are owner of the whole resource group? No, that doesn’t give you permission to create a new secret in a keyvault. No day goes by searching for a missing role/permission on some service. And in the end it doesn‘t make things safer. By default any website you deploy is available worldwide immediatelly. Because for some mysterious reason, that doesn‘t need an extra role. But if you want to restrict access to your website you need special permissions to do that.
I am extremely dubious of your concept of ideological neutrality.

Further, that you want all current scientists and health administrators "wiped out" because you disagree with a tiny number of statements or situations pins you as an extreme anti-vaxxer, just one that isn't very honest about it. As an ideological extremist.

It's the classic "I'm super for vaccines, just not any of the existing ones..." bit that antivaxxers often use to try to launder their nonsense.

Ala Jack Posobiec's "What if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing" bit (which is hilariously real, btw).
Why the DNSSEC, which then requires NSEC3? Shouldn't a wildcard certificate do the job in conjunction with normal unsigned DNS?
I just want a damn Ctrl key......