skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of court functions don’t involve lawyers at all. Small Claims courts, traffic courts, etc, etc. States that allow judges without a law degree are using them in these courts.
Bringing Record and Replay debugging everywhere on Linux
I really don’t think we have such a lack of misinformation that we need to invest in creating more of it, no matter the motive.
> Meta’s expert, for example, stresses that data is broken down into “pieces” and further into “blocks” during BitTorrent transfers. It’s argued that, even if Meta shared small blocks of data, they would be unusable to the receiver.

> While this description is correct, these pieces and blocks, combined with data from other people sharing the same torrent, eventually make up the full copies of the authors’ works.

I guess the plaintiffs can sue a set of defendants: Meta plus others who shared enough of the blocks to form a complete archive which can be unpacked and actually used.

Maybe a case for “conspiracy to distribute” by coordinating via the BT protocol / algorithm? Very dubious I would say.
As far as I can tell almost every current Republican politician is roughly tied for this honor.

The rest retired or got primaried.
Hey, I'm glad that my comment helped somewhat. Expanding on the scaffolding bit, I'm using the most minimal tools I can use, since they don't let me do (very) fancy things, I can't spend time needlessly adjusting things. A single, markdown aware, automatically theme changing blog space is enough for me. No fancy things, just text, plus RSS.

People can follow and share. That's enough. Even the webpages doesn't have any JS.
> I’ve long suspected a lot of supposed economic progress since, especially, the 1970s, has just been goods getting worse.

My take is that for the most part the high quality stuff is, inflation adjusted, similarly priced, but the market is now saturated with an enormous amount of cheap stuff.

The $5-$10 shirts you can buy off Amazon would be literal pennies back then. You couldn't get clothing for pennies in the 1970s.
As someone who travels from the US to Europe a lot, my reaction would be sadly shrug my shoulders and not travel to the EU any longer if the requirements were as onerous as, say, China or Russia. (Letters from an organization, etc.)

Yes, the UK put ETA in place but that's trivial and mostly symbolic. Took me about 2 minutes to complete which was mostly about grabbing my passport to get the number.
It sort of depends on which direction you want to go in. If you're interested in deep RL as applied specifically to LLMs, I'd second another commenter's recommendation of Spinning Up from OpenAI. It hasn't been updated for a while and is a little outdated, but it provides a really nice introduction to some key ideas like PPO: https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/user/introduction.ht...

If you want to get more of a bird's eye view of modern deep RL in general, then HuggingFace's course is a good place to start. The course itself is kind of "all over the place"—not necessarily a bad thing, just maybe not what you want if you're looking to go super deep on a single topic. But if you want to get a look at some robotics stuff, deep Q-learning, multi-agent stuff, etc., it'll give you a nice sort of "tasting menu." As with most HuggingFace stuff, the format is really nice, it does a good job of introducing you to key ideas/projects in the ecosystem, and it has some cool project components: https://huggingface.co/learn/deep-rl-course/en/unit0/introdu...
Terrorism Act.
That's funny cause in my experience, Elixir docs are some of the best I've used, and a major strength of the ecosystem which I miss when I'm not writing Elixir. HexDocs has been integrated and standardized from the start, leading to a consistent experience across all packages. The formatting is clear and visually pleasing. All libraries you would want to use have adequate docs. It also includes sections for guides and cheatsheets, avoiding a bifurcation between those an API docs. In general, it's really easy to find the function being called because Elixir mostly avoids duck typing, and you can just directly look up the module in question. All in all, I seriously miss the docs when programming for example in Ruby (slow, ugly, rdocs which many projects don't adopt or adopt half-heartedly), or especially Javascript. In the latter case, the trend of making flashy marketing sites instead of using a standardized tool is a serious pain. I really wish the community would settle on a high quality standard. Deno's JSR docs looks kind of promising in how it's positioned, but I don't think the formatting and usability is that great so far.
github api needs a personal token unfortunately. without each user signin it reaches the rate limit very fast
Silence only ever supports the oppressor.
"EU has healthcare" - I dare you to depend on public healthcare in poorer EU countries. As someone living in one of those - you go private for everything because by the time you get on the waiting list it will either be irrelevant or get critical. And lets not mention the shit level of care for non threatening conditions.

And this is already spreading to western Europe as well from what I hear from my friends. Giving the aging population situation every health care system is going to start breaking in the next 10-20 years because of how much health care elderly consume and how little they provide to economy.

So for now rich countries have better public healthcare than US. But EU is a very wide term, inequality between EU countries is larger than US states.

And on the point of why most companies gravitate to US - its to access the richest market and leverage their capital pool - EU is not a single market despite the decades of EU efforts, and EU investment into companies is way behind of US, even EU pension funds invest significant funds in the US stock market.
This would have been an amazing Harris campaign ad. Missed opportunity.
This article uses an LLM to summarize itself into three key points. Those three points are milquetoast, making me much less interested in getting behind the paywall and reading the actual article.

Maybe this is a value add. Maybe the article is milquetoast and should be skipped. But either way it’s an example of how LLMs are not just competing with search they’re degrading the reading behaviors which make search more valuable (details, specifics, exact match).

It is an underrated point though that LLMs are competitive with Google search because they remove anti-user ads and SEO spam. In the long run LLMs will have that same problem though, because it’s a business dynamic not a technological dynamic.
Joe Biden on the floor of the US senate over 30+ years ago complaining about how Europe has no coherent common strategy on defense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA9eMKNCRuQ
> Was the CDN he promoted only sold to criminals explicitly for criminal activity?

Again, this is a nonsense test. I can’t get out of being a getaway driver for a bank robbery by claiming I once did a regular Uber. (I’m ignoring the irony of bending over backwards like this to exonerate a kid illegally mucking around in our agencies at the behest of our first felon President jailing folks without a trial or legal warrant.)
Let me toss a grenade in here.

What if we didn’t measure success by sales, but impact to the industry (or society), or value to peoples’ lives?

Zooming out to AI broadly: what if we didn’t measure intelligence by (game-able, arguably meaningless) benchmarks, but real world use cases, adaptability, etc?
What's wrong with propaganda? Is that a reason why you haven't seen for example Apocalypse Now?

You might want to watch Andrei Rublev, at its inception a controversial movie heavily disliked by the Soviet state:

https://sovietmoviesonline.com/drama/andrey-rublev

Edit: And then the post-soviet Fairy, which ruminates on the legacy of Tarkovsky's masterpiece.

https://sovietmoviesonline.com/fantastic/fairy

The rest of Melikyan's movies are also quite interesting and fun.

They also distribute post-Soviet russian movies and television series. You should watch the two takes on The Master and Margarita, both high profile projects based off one of the most beloved books in Russia, from two very different times in russian society:

https://sovietmoviesonline.com/drama/master-i-margarita-mini...

https://sovietmoviesonline.com/melodrama/the-master-and-marg...

The Soviet was especially good a adventures for kids and science-fiction, of which you'll find a lot there, for example Alice in Wonderland and Hard to be a God. You should watch the takes on the latter to get a feel for differences between soviet and post-soviet societies. If the younger version feels hard to watch you might need to watch The Green Elephant and other movies from the russian nineties to prepare yourself and better understand the feelings and mindset of the time.

And if you want you can watch old propaganda movies about the Donbass or whatever, you'll learn a lot about places you likely know very little about.
yes! the second one is it! so cool.
Coindesk's interview of Michael Saylor on the future of Bitcoin [video]
I know about Dynamic one, but since I clicked and read (expecting some change) and noticed intro paragraph:

> The Supervisor module was designed to handle >>mostly<< static children that are started in the given order when the supervisor starts.

Emphasis mine. But I will spread knowledge that: yes, one can add child to a running Supervisor in runtime and Supervisor will try to use supervision strategy on it (as opposed to DynamicSupervisor that immediately forgets about its child). Replacing a child requires stop-remove in loop (see sibling comment response for exact case).
My phone has nothing of these. However, there is a password in my head that would allow me to download 30+ years of photos etc from the cloud and another password in my head that would allow me to decrypt the downloaded data. In case my head fails, my children have the backup in their heads)
Are they dismissing it, or are they just ignorant (which is totally OK) and need to be shown the way? They've literally asked if it's "really important", perhaps we could answer that question?
https://archive.is/4vt0B
Doesn’t c++ also make a separate type for each distinct type parameter passed to a template? If that is still true maybe it adds up when you have a lot of different vector of T types? Been a while since I read up on c++ though maybe that’s no longer true.
Create a Table of Contents Based on HTML Heading Elements
I suspect that's by design.

For the same reason some department stores have the up and down stairs/escalators on opposite sides.

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/49307/why-do-departme...
Will never know if this quote has actually been said but the message always rings true when I look at American politics:

> “Every young person who wants to break into DC-politics hope it’s West Wing, fear it’s House of Cards and find out it’s Veep”
The GitHub api doesn't allow for read only to private repos :(

Needs to be this way or no access to private repos. I can add the possibility to choose if people have a problem with the permissions
I never got it working properly, errors on standard libraries, readers breaking etc. Today I mostly ripgrep the code instead - faster and 75% efficent.
Work isn't the only argument to the success function, luck and smarts are in there too. But without the work you need a shit ton more luck and smarts.
That’s a lazy excuse. For one, you vote representatives you expect to represent your political will. If they don’t do this as you would expect them to, you voted for the wrong party, and can correct that decision at the next election.
Second, democracy isn’t something that happens in Washington, asking the rest of the country about their opinion every four years. It happens every single day, everywhere. If you just resign and say „I couldn’t have made a difference anyway, so I do nothing“, you’re on the level of German Wehrmacht soldiers after World War II that were „just following orders“. If you’re unhappy with politics, get involved and stand up against it. It you don’t do that, nobody else will.
And lastly, even if you’re a Democrat, you’re living in a democratic country, and that means you carry the majority and take responsibility for it as a community.
A rule of thumb I’m finding useful is, “If it has to connect to the internet to function properly, you do not really own it.”
Works for me as well https://chatgpt.com/share/67e3f838-63fc-8000-ab94-5d10626397...

USA, but VPN set to exit in Canada at time of request (I think).
Upvoting this because I don't think it's fair to downvote someone for trying to understand why something might be more important than they otherwise would've thought.
Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the UK all allow similar searches at the border.

China allows phone searches _anywhere_ without warrant.

I don’t know the rules in the EU or India currently but worked for a company 20 years ago that would not let us travel across any border with IP on a laptop because the assumption is that border agents could demand access both electronically and physically.
> What's next, arbitrarily arresting Salvadoran travelers to protest their government's arbitrary arrest of gang members?

That comparison doesn't really make sense.

What mschuster91 proposed is that in response to the US mistreating EU visitors the EU should mistreat US visitors. It's a straightforward symmetrical tit for tat. One party starts harming another, that other reciprocates with a similar harm directed to the first party.

In your comparison it would be others responding to El Salvador mistreating its own citizens by also mistreating El Salvador's citizens. It is missing the crucial symmetry of a tit for tat.
domain seized
People quit Google Search to avoid "search-optimized junk" just to use AIs that answer using "Search" lol. Look closer at the sources your AI answers give you. They're not always pretty.
I've read reports of people getting detained or worse over how the authorities felt about their online activity (eg, social media posts etc).

It's trivial to delete social apps off your phone, and claim you don't have accounts on (at least) the less common ones.

My question is, do they have backdoors to the major ones? Say you go on a wild rant a few times, delete it afterwards -- can "they" root through the DBs and examine the deleted posts? Is that something meta/twitter/etc even keep long-term?
Also abstracting. No need to remember every milliseconds in its lifetime and consult them in every query.
Free, no need to clone the repo and on the web.
If you're regularly kicking yourself, don't you have your own examples to draw from? Only half-joking.
NIH to cut grants for Covid research, documents reveal
When I some says "sell X to Y", I hear "explain how X will solve Y's problem or otherwise make their lives easier". Because that's fundamentally what selling is.

I can talk for days about how marvellous the new iPhone is, the beautiful technology behind it, the marvellous processor and the high resolution screen that are, in their own way, feats of engineering that equal or surpass the Pyramids at Giza.

But that's not why people buy iPhones. They buy iPhones because having a portable device with internet that can make phone calls and take pictures and video and has GPS is actually really handy.

That's what "selling your work" is about.

"Hey guys, I made this open source operating system. If you're looking for an OS than enables you to completely control your machine, maybe you'll like it more than Windows." vs "Hey guys, I made this open source operating system. I wrote it in Rust because I like Rust."

tangentially related, Ryan Dahl's I hate almost all software:
https://tinyclouds.org/rant

> The only software that I like is one that I can easily understand and solves my problems.

selling is talking about your work with the end user in mind, rather than going on about the details of what you learned/how you did it.

That said, the latter approach is also interesting and useful, in that it helps others learn from your process.
I think code monkeys or journalists etc. have GREAT experience with LLMs.

In case of niche and more technical knowledge demanding task, LLM just fails.
Eg. in my case, reverse engineering. It just spits BS all day long.
Is that article trying to argue that 500M people every week are visiting ChatGPT for the first (or second) time after reading about it in the news?

If I'm being incredibly generous I will concede that this could have been the case for the first few weeks when it was making headlines, but it clearly isn't true now.

It would be literally impossible to keep up these figures for as long as ChatGPT has without a ton of repeat users. There simply aren't enough people/devices.
Can't find out whether this is currently happening, the rules seem unclear.

I can definitely find someone asking for the power in Hansard a couple of years ago: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-12-05/debates/D4E...
+1, it's an amazing library. Actors is also great along with the rest of the Akka stack. Shame what LB did to it.
>perhaps we could answer that question?

Perhaps they could read the article prior to asking because some of those questions might be answered in the article?
Yes thats true, I also feel a bit regret for getting provoked (but never starting out of blue, just responding in similar manners).

Ifs fucking disappointing, Europe and US are by far the best allies and friends (Australia and New Zealand too) on the most important matters - our core values, our respect for democracy etc. France helped you with independence, you helped us defeat fucking nazis ffs.

I hate to see this breakup, because it feels permanent for foreseeable future. And there aren't even good enough reasons. I hate that 1 unstable person can literally drag a billion down down the mud.
Unless I need a map or want to see a picture of a celebrity, I use ChatGPT for pretty much everything.
I can’t get out of being a getaway driver for a bank robbery by claiming I once did a regular Uber.

Of course you can. If it can be proven your intent was to help the bank robbers then you are complicit in the crime. If criminals used your service and you were either unaware or afraid for your life then at worst you would be a victim.
In all fairness, I edited my comment, I did say "I don't think it's important", but it was indeed due to ignorance, as well as ask if it really is important.
Man the European/anti-US folks are really triggered this morning. Yeah criminal justice moves slow in the US and isn’t perfect at all. It’s a huge thing from local police and courts to the FBI and… even more courts. As for lawyers there’s a reason for the joke “what do you call a million lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.”
Any statistics on this, say by race? That would be illuminating, I’m sure.
Because most products are in their own ecosystem with no overarching standard way to share information. You have some standards but usually for specific niches, no product FHIR.

Just making sure every product has a unique ID would be a revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Trade_Item_Number
It would shift the complexity and cost of large scale caching to a provider that would sell to the scrapers. Not sure it has much value, but it’s kind of a classic three tier distribution system with a middleman to make life easier for both producer and consumer.
As i'm sure you know - for invisible installs, they don't even bother to have an outer cable anymore, just the 250um fiber with no sheath running bare on the walls.

Kinda insane.
Most Russian soldiers are from the poorest areas of Russia. Most of the poor schlubs getting fed into the meat grinder are never going to get their payday.
This gets much easier with practice. One exercise that that worked for me was to force myself to share anything (projects, til, ideas, experiments, advice) daily for 111 days. Then scale down.

Compare untested.sonnet.io and sonnet.io/projects

The latter took 10 years to have a list of projects. With the former, there’s almost no friction, although I have spikes and slower periods.

Also, people appreciate people who share and talk about their work, and that can lower the bar for things like correct grammar/vocab/clear structure.

To improve my overall fluency I made a writing tool that separates editing from writing: enso.sonnet.io.

Another thing that can work well are weekly updates/summaries. But this gets harder if you struggle with building habits and prefer shorter feedback loops.

PS. I'm not at Simon's level here although he is one of my inspirations - my main untested feed posts take 1-2 hours minimum, the smaller notes/branches can be < 20 min.

PPS. I'm working on a short list of actionable tips / places to share work. Hit me up via email and I'll send it over when it's done.
We're all fucked and we don't want to admit it. So we squabble. Europe is obviously fucked already and America is getting fucked by the orange ringmaster. The future is bleak.
One has to wonder if this is the outcome of generational wealth becoming too entrenched. At a certain point billionaires aren't interested in generative activity, rather they're interested in preservation of what they have.
Might be, or is?
Agree - seems like the rumours and mutterings were true: This model is very, very good.

Quite a few happy people at Google today I bet.

Which leads me to wonder, it's not like the Gemini 2 models were terrible either - they consistently were in top 5 if not top 3, now they've smashed past everything with a +40 elo.

Are we starting to see Google apply their compute/resources/data/money to assert dominance? What next from the recently-pretty-quiet Open AI? Are we getting to the stage where well-funded startups like Anthropic et al simply cannot compete with "google-scale" for general purpose models and end up as coding-only niche models? Sure you can throw GPUs at the problem and burn more investor cash, but are Google starting to run away with it with their data and infrastructure advantages? Who even comes close when you factor in data? Meta are the only people I can think of, but their data must be quite narrow (basically social graph and short-form videos and ad click data?)

Exciting times.
Fabric stretches. That makes it very hard to accurately handle. A size 6 dress needs to be the same size and fit as every other size 6 dress from your brand since if someone likes one they might buy more. (there is no need to be the same as someone else's size 6, but it needs to match your other size 6s)
https://archive.ph/3EqIe
The clowns in charge have stated that nothing classified was discussed in the chat, so raging that revealing this is prosecutable is utterly risible.