skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you made this claim about the blockchain and I did a little bit of Googling to learn more. And so far as I can tell they barely did anything beyond some like papers and very preliminary demo implementations of stuff like IPFS and dabbling with Web3.

Those were very preliminary ventures and not anything that commanded substantial developer resources, so I don't know what you're talking about. And look. I obviously disagree with people who claim that side bets compromised Mozilla, but the arguments sort into different tiers with some being understandable (issues with adtech, CEO pay), some in the middle (the non profit Mozilla Foundation is bloated!), some that are one step up from utter nonsense because they're at least expressed in coherent sentences but have little to no supporting evidence or theory of cause and effect (e.g. "Mozilla lost all its market share due to their side bets being prohibitively expensive").

But we're at a point where apparently these arguments have been seen and repeated so many times that there's a new class of commenters who have been making the lowest effort versions of these arguments that I've yet seen, and are the least interested in anything like evidence or logic or responsiveness to questions or anything that I would associate with coherent thought. Which is where I would put the blockchain argument.
This mirrors my experience, and I've tried nearly every popular model available, numerous times over the last year or so. I'm having trouble understanding where all the hype is coming from -- is it literally just all marketing? I refuse to believe any half-decent SWE can be bullish on AI-for-code after novelty of the first week wears off.
Even if you don't like the idea of the opinion section in newspapers, the Washington Post seems like they're going for the worst of all possible worlds here by keeping the section but pushing it towards only reflecting Jeff Bezos' personal opinions.

But I also don't see a problem with the idea of having the opinion section in the first place. Not every topic worth covering can be boiled down to just the facts and there is a long history and a lot of value to be found in consuming well formed opinions on a particular topic from a variety of voices in addition to just the facts. As long as media outlets clearly separate the two, those who want just the news can steer clear of the opinion section entirely.
I wrote '"racist"', because the proponents insist that "all members of class X are also Y" (there where X does not imply Y as an "analytic judgement" - it is not entailed from the nature of X but accidental to X ... yet seen by the proponents as a constant property of X): that is the character of racism. "All wood is odorous", etc.

Those who insist that "all humans are <slur>" are "racist" against humanity (against the "human race", if you wish).

That spirit is in the refusal to see exceptions and to recognize that there can be exceptions.
Spotify makes over 80% of revenue off of paid subscribers, even though over 60% of users are on the free, ad-supported subscription.

Now that's not some optional donation scheme, there are real tangible benefits to being a paid subscriber, so idk how that could fit into something like Firefox.
The DMCA allows a 48-hour takedown period if I remember correctly. So a platform is still a "safe harbour" as long as they comply with takedown requests.

Personally I trust the Internet Archive and GitHub for my online file hosting. Other file hosts have limitations (e.g. Mega.nz only provides 50GB storage, Google Drive is only 15 GB, Dropbox I can't remember but it's small).
Lots of later follow-up research has been published.

I am proposing to fund a secure parallel operating system, GUI, applications and hardware from scratch in 20 KLOC for the European Community to gain computational independence from the US. I consider it the production version of the STEPS research.

We are in the signing up stage of the researchers, programmers and chip designers and have regular meetings and presentations [1].

Half a trillion Euro's is the wider funding pool, several hundred million for European chips and operating systems, billions for European chip fabs, dozens of billions for buying the secure EU software and chips for government, schools and military.

An unsolved problem is how to program a webbrowser in less than 20 KLOC.

I think that the STEPS research was a resounding succes as was proven by the demonstration of the software system in Alan Kay's talks[2] and confirmed by studying the source code. As mentioned before in my earlier HN post, I have a working version of Frank and most other parts of the STEPS research.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqKClBwFwI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
Most importantly the school is in the circle of support of the bully because they won't let the victim leave and won't allow the victim to defend themselves.
>>I have never heard of 7 being a lucky number in western culture and your link doesn't support that. 3 is a lucky number, 13 is an unlucky number, 7 is nothing to me.

Some sustain that 7 is the God's number, stemming from "God created the world in seven days"[1]

Also, _"According to some, 777 represents the threefold perfection of the Trinity"_ [2]

[1] https://www.wikihow.com/What-Does-the-Number-7-Mean-in-the-B...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/777_(number)
> If someone created and sold a printer that did not care about the ink that was used, the people of the interwebs would go crazy in the forums when the shitty ink they used did not work correctly in the printer.

There's no need for hypotheticals. Such printers do exist. People on the Internet tend to praise them (see this very thread). I'm sure people have had bad ink experiences, and if I search for it I will find them. But I highly doubt they'd blame the printer or the concept...
If you value it like General Motors, the share price should be around $20. If you value it like a "tech company" with the margins that entails, it should be around $60. If it craters 90% from its high around ~$400+, that puts it between those two numbers.

Its primary product is stock, and most of that comes from Musk's ability to just say things that aren't true and have people believe him. Without him, you need to value it more like a regular company.
US exits fund that compensates poorer countries for global heating
to get any actual work done with DNS based blocking (ie. visiting Google ads, or their other dashboards) you quickly have to start whitelisting a ton of sites, which applies everywhere.
Jokes on you, my org at work just adopted KPIs about how many AI suggestions engineers accept
Why is nuclear fusion so hard? (2018)
> No one in this thread used the word "stealing" before you

It's right there in the comment he was responding to
I don't think those two can be compared at all. Safari didn't have proper plugin support at all, doesn't matter ad-blocking or not. Rich plugin ecosystem was one of the Chrome's selling point.
We had to figure this out the hard way, and ended up with this approach (approximately).

K8S provides two (well three, now) health checks.

How this interacts with ALB is quite important.

Liveness should always return 200 OK unless you have hit some fatal condition where your container considers itself dead and wants to be restarted.

Readiness should only return 200 OK if you are ready to serve traffic.

We configure the ALB to only point to the readiness check.

So our application lifecycle looks like this:

* Container starts

* Application loads

* Liveness begins serving 200

* Some internal health checks run and set readiness state to True

* Readiness checks now return 200

* ALB checks begin passing and so pod is added to the target group

* Pod starts getting traffic.

time passes. Eventually for some reason the pod needs to shut down.

* Kube calls the preStop hook

* PreStop sends SIGUSR1 to app and waits for N seconds.

* App handler for SIGUSR1 tells readiness hook to start failing.

* ALB health checks begin failing, and no new requests should be sent.

* ALB takes the pod out of the target group.

* PreStop hook finishes waiting and returns

* Kube sends SIGTERM

* App wraps up any remaining in-flight requests and shuts down.

This allows the app to do graceful shut down, and ensures the ALB doesn't send traffic to a pod that knows it is being shut down.

Oh, and on the Readiness check - your app can use this to (temporarily) signal that it is too busy to serve more traffic. Handy as another signal you can monitor for scaling.

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LLMs don't emulate human behavior. They spit out chunks of words in an order that parrots some of their training data.
Ad networks are a high traffic way to spread malware. I would never recommend disabling a blocker, especially on commerce sites.
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You can book a flight or a taxi with a personal assistant app like Siri today. People don't seem very interested in doing so.

Barring some sort of accessibility issue, it's far easier to deal with a visual representation of complex schedule information.
it's a good base level, but misses dynamic updates, custom rules and interactive element picker/blocker.
Advertising is a monetization strategy.

I'm asking how do you quantify the underlying value. As a consumer of news, how am I richer now than I was before reading? And is it possible to put a number on it?
* https://www.di.fm/genres/synth

* https://www.di.fm/search?q=lofi
“Coffee trade” is not monolith. There is commodity and specialty. The specialty side has been moving more toward just in time inventory for a while. It’s shocking how long the farm-to-processor(s)-to-distributors-to-roaster-to-brewer/consumer span can be and how many warehousing and exchange steps there are. Moving to just in time is quite disruptive for many business models; it’s not just this jump in price.
Don't think of a basketball player, or search engines don't even support "not"
If they're not completely independent variables, that should be the expected outcome (e.g., they all trend the same direction).

And if they're not that close, they're not battleground.
That is an interesting question. I guess one way to approximate a very rough, back-of-the-envelope type of answer would be to look at the average daily dollar volume traded and the total market capitalization. So for instance with the Nasdaq we have approx. $30 trillion in market cap and approx. $400 billion of average daily volume, a factor of 75. So in the best-case situation where each share trades exactly once, it would take approx. 75 trading days for the market to turn over once. However, let's take a more pessimistic assumption (though probably still not pessimistic enough) that shares are selected randomly to trade. We can use the classic ball-and-bins type of probability to estimate how many days it would take until let's say 95% of dollar value had turned over at least once, which produces an estimate of roughly 225 trading days, so let's round it up to 1 trading year (these are very rough estimates). So then assuming that roughly 95% of the Nasdaq market cap has turned over in the past year, then the average market cap over the past year is not a bad ball-park estimate of the cost basis. (I invite any real mathematicians out there to tell me where I went wrong.)
A crazy fact is that a higher percentage of Irish died in the Great Famine (well over 10% of the population) than in the Bengal famine in India in 1943 (about 3.5%).

This is a fascinating point:

> In 1837, two years after Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of “Democracy in America,” his lifelong collaborator, Gustave de Beaumont, went to Ireland, a country the two men had previously visited together. The book de Beaumont produced in 1839, “L’Irlande: Sociale, Politique et Religieuse,” was a grim companion piece to his friend’s largely optimistic vision of the future that was taking shape on the far side of the Atlantic. De Beaumont, a grandson by marriage of the Marquis de Lafayette, understood that, while the United States his ancestor had helped to create was a vigorous outgrowth of the British political traditions he and de Tocqueville so admired, Ireland was their poisoned fruit. America, he wrote, was “the land where destitution is the exception,” Ireland “the country where misery is the common rule.”
Not trying to argue against a voucher system but,

The parent (who may be very happy with the school) is not the one paying. The tax payer is paying and the state has some responsibility to make sure the money is being spent well. As the article talks about, the charter schools are not held to anything near the same standards as the public schools, but still receives public funds.
I think it is more simpler. The actual message is not something about frogs and chemicals, it is "liberals are stupid and demented" or "gay are feminine losers" or "fear, liberals harm children". It is basically just exaggerated stereotypical schoolyard bullying, except with massive audience. When you analyze chemicals and hermaphrodism frogs in response, you area acting like a stereotypical nerd who does not understand the social situation or just does not have it in him to hit back.

The message is not scientific complain about frog, read message is that "we" should band up against "them" and collectively now bully this or that person/group. It is in-group bonding based on common enemy that is vilified.

You can not counteract that with rational rebuttal. That never works, not on schoolyard, not in work, not in politics. The whole things is about making people feel certain way.
The article's flagged now, but the standard approach of using the subtitle instead of the title would have yielded an improvement: "A radical conceptualist take on the foundations of mathematics".
When the flashing process fails and it leaves the flash corrupted, it's often impossible to do any further flashing attempts. Good products have an immutable factory partition to recover, but not all of them do. So I think it's unfair to claim that those devices aren't bricked just because yes, in theory, you can open the device and reflash the chip over SPI or JTAG.
The music industry is essentially a bunch of psychopaths robbing artists blind.
The Pair Program Podcast: Feross Aboukhadijeh on Preserving Trust in Open Source
it seems overly charitable to give Google, THE advertising company, the benefit of the doubt here when the biggest impact is it will now show way more advertising.
github copilot is a bit outdated technology to be fair...
How is it still running on Brave then?
>We are in the infancy of this, with hundreds of billions of capital behind making these systems work

Just like IoT, just like web3, just like blockchain, just like...
Good luck with AWS. You need to stop using the internet. Are you going to check IP address of each website's web server you visit?
uBO being so good at blocking YouTube ads to the point where you didn't need to signup for Premium may have been the tipping point for Google that ended manifest V2.
> Leonardo could be anyone for all I know

Indeed. There was a famous Leonardo from Pisa. Son of Bonacci.
Thank you for the good feedback. I tried to improve that. I was writing the blog post for myself to understand Cosine Similarity, which is why it's maybe a bit repetitive, but this is the best way for me to learn something. I get your point. Next time I will write it better. Good feedback - I love that.
Starsiege Tribes modding was pretty accessible. Everything was just a bunch of .cs files, Tribes RPG was a fun thing to check out and play with. An example would be the Shifter mod: <https://github.com/BHare1985/Tribes-Shifter>
> Models with 1000V support will be rolled out gradually in the coming months to the high-end models, allowing charging 300 km in 5 minutes
Taxing unrealized gains isn’t unprecedented. Property tax — ans one example — is especially common in the states.
Nope. Misanthropic is when some people dislike other people. Racist is when some people attribute some dubious quality to all people in some category.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Especially not on divisive topics, as https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html requests:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Usually, if there is no alternative for something that's universally hated, the reason is the enormous resources needed for the replacement.

Want to make a better search engine than Google and Bing together? Sure, that's easy! Crawling, storing and querying the index - you don't have that money.

Want to create a better browser than Chrome/Firefox? Sure, go for it - just get 2 million work hours.

Want some OpenAI replacement? Get a few thousand GPUs first.

CloudFlare captchas don't let you through? Just build your own wordwide backbone along with a huge CDN network, and off you go.

etc.
i keep seeing some people pretend Vivaldi is the new opera, made from the same developer.

did you give a try, is it even remotely comparable ?
Or just accurately describing reality?

UBOL is still blocking all the ads for me. It hasn't gone from 100% to 90%. It's still at 100%.
Ads that apple serves (outside of marketing pages on apple.com) are ads that displayed on ad supported ads. uBO won't help you there. Luckily, every Apple device comes with an AdBlock for those ads - airplane mode.
"A little copying is better than a little dependency."
Here, in Spain, internet access is cut off for many websites during football matches because La Liga, the association football league, is in war against cloudflare for not blocking their allegedly offending websites. Or something like that.

Today, I tried to look up a word on a dictionary and I got an error message. “There must be a football game going on right now”. I thought
Installing Windows NT on the Nintendo Wii [video]
This looks nice. I also played on the weekend with Vue and Transformer.js to build the embeddings locally. See https://github.com/alexanderop/vue-vector-search
Do you mind sharing which uBlock Origin script you use for blocking ads on Twitch? I tried one a while ago but didn't get it to work.
Must was on TV just now claiming that the attack originated from IP addresses in Ukraine. This is not how modern DDoS attacks work and makes absolutely no sense.
Here is a question for everybody.

How would you feel if Google shut down Chrome, and created an app called the Google Application Platform. (GAP). The GAP would be the only place you could use Search, Workspace, YouTube, Maps, and every other google website.

What would you think if Google just abandoned the open web entirely.
I get upset when people defraud my neighbors and friends in my community. that's what a local shop is. Just today i went to my local pharmacy to look for l-theanine based on some commentary on HN yesterday. I could have gone on amazon, or to walmart, or to CVS. People interfering with that business aren't cool, regardless of the motivation.

let me put it this way - i never even thought of using amazon as a rental service. even though amazon loves me, and i could get away with it, my brain doesn't spend time thinking about unethical things to do.

read this as: "Someone should have gotten upset before the deposit went up from jerks either breaking or stealing the rental equipment" - as my sibling says, this is why we can't have nice things.
It completely blocks it.

But you have to change the toggle from basic filtering mode to complete filtering mode.

I think some people just haven't realized that.
Awesome resource, in case someone is interested I implemented most of suttons book here https://github.com/ivanbelenky/RL
> Then make it complicated enough so the user has to click through several screens, type in that they know what they're doing and be warned that if extension/website X asks them to do Y, they're getting f'd and should stop. Beyond that, it's their fault.

Yeah I mean... that's just an arms race. You now have to type "allow pasting" into the dev console to paste Javascript there. Guess why.

Browsers can't ever win that race. Malicious extensions will just say "go to settings and blah blah blah".
Measure theoretic view on Policy Gradients
One way to look at this is to look at the valuation of each company at the time of IPO, and see where it is now. Stock changed hands but you could think of growth relative to when the public could trade that stock. It’s not perfect - just an idea.
True, but the word "blowout" in this case is just a crazy side-effect of our weird electoral college system.

Everyone knows that in all the swing states (except Arizona), the final vote margin was just a few percent, and that was well within the MOE for all the "50-50" polling in each of those states.

No one seriously believes that any President has had a blowout election since maybe Obama in 2008 or Bush in 2004, but the media sure loves the word "blowout".
Like the Holodomor, like the Bengal famine, this was a genocide.
Anecdote time. Years ago, I used to use yt-dlp to archive videos I'd like to keep forever. I had a few terabytes of videos, some of which didn't even exist on YouTube anymore. Then, one day, my hard drive suddenly died. I lost everything. Now I don't archive stuff anymore, and my life goes on just the same. Sometimes, I do miss something I used to hoard, but I just nurture the nostalgia and rely on my memory alone.
I don't know about the framing of "giving up." But I think anyone who's been following election models since the original 538 in 2008 has probably gotten the feeling that they have less alpha in them than they did back then. I think there's some obvious reasons for this that the forecasters would probably agree with.

The biggest one seems to be a case of Goodhart's Law, leading to herding. Pollsters care a lot now about what their rating is in forecasting models, so they're reluctant to publish outlier results, those outlier results are very valuable for the models but are likely to get a pollster punished in the ratings next cycle.

Lots of changes to polling methods have been made due to polls underestimating Trump. Polls have become like mini models unto themselves. Due to their inability to poll a representative slice of the population they try to correct by adjusting their results to compensate for the difference between who they've polled and the likely makeup of the electorate. This makes sense in theory, but of course introduces a whole bunch of new variables that need to be tuned correctly.

On top of all this is the fact that the process is very high stakes and emotional with pollsters and modellers alike bringing their own political biases and only being able to resist pressure from political factions so much.

The analogy I kept coming back to watching election models during this last cycle was that it looked like an ML model that didn't have the data it needed to make good predictions and so was making the safest prediction it could make given what it did have. Basically getting stuck in this local minima at 50-50 that was least likely to be off by a lot.