skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It is a stupid decision by Signal/WhisperSystems. They could easily offer backup for instance via a trusted PC or offer a paid service or just encrypt as you said.
> Aalyria’s light laser technology, which it calls “Tightbeam,” claims to keep data “intact through the atmosphere and weather and offers connectivity where no supporting infrastructure exists.”

It tells a lot about the technology. It's probably something akin to adaptive optics in telescopes, only in reverse. There might be a sounding laser, which brings information about refraction conditions on the path and an adaptive optics at the emitter.

Even in radio communication (mobile phones, wi-fi) there are nascent efforts to adapt to the pathway or find the best pathway.
I mean if this works for you, great, but it sounds like a dangerous dynamic to aim for.

The occasional freezes mean future tests written do not need to be optimised (there will be a freeze for important releases anyway), so the unoptimised-tests problem will grow worse the longer you use this strategy, and the cost to rectify it will grow, until your release frequency collapses on itself and everyone complains that "there's no solution to this problem".

These are the sorts of things I think it's very important to nip in the bud. Spend the two weeks now, when it only takes two weeks! Much better than putting everything on hold for six months to fix it four years from now when it becomes untenable.
I feel like this is one of those occasions where perfect is an enemy of the good. Yes there might be some, very very famous, artworks stored inside it. But unless you think StableAI has completely blown past the current hutter prize winner, there is no way this thing is storing many things. The things it might be storing are too public to really be that big of a deal. It will spit out a Vermeer, but your submission to Divient Art in 2007 is definitely protected.
Isn't that just due to "lazyness", rather than an explicit design choice? I mean just doing char based comparisons, which is the easiest solution, will give the separation of uppercase and lowercase (at least for ascii and similar encodings).
> Never mind that this is a blatant opportunity to make supply-chain attacks. I don't know why these are treated as distinct names in crate names, and if there are any conflicting crates out there in the wild right now they should probably all be forced to rename.

crates.io already disallows crates differing only in underscore/hyphen choice. I can't easily find documentation to this effect, but users have reported it returning an error (e.g., [0]).

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/166
This outcome is freedom. Adobe chose to voluntarily add CDS to photoshop. Their software, their choice.

Nothing here is hypothetical. Scams exist precisely because they do fool people. To say that people “deserve” to be scammed is either a statement made from a malice or from a disconnect of the reality of who falls victim to scams.

If someone has never even considered that someone’s disability (as one example) would make a person a target for a scam, then yes, I am very comfortable calling them privileged.

Sloppy counterfeiters aren’t passing off fake bills to rich educated bankers, they’re handing them off to people they think will fall for it. They’re looking for people who look like they’ll make easy victims. These people don’t deserve to be cheated.
This article is very reasonable. I don't understand the jab from the other article
I hardly ever do unit testing. It's almost always integration testing with code that uses real implementations against a testing db. This is only possible because my code is decoupled in the right places to enable this sort of no mock style testing.

I don't strive for 100% coverage and I hardly ever do TDD unless I'm working on something hard to solve.

Tests give me confidence and results in less time repeating the feedback loop. I might have a slower "coding speed" but I have fewer regressions during refactoring. Less bugs to fix while iterating. And less back and forth with stakeholders to ship something. Overall I'm way faster with tests than without.
In my humble opinion, Rust should not be faster than C; C is the closest we can get to the bare-metal without writing assembly.

In my opinion, in the discussion after this talk folks did mention some pointers of why this was achieved. Although, for the same driver, there is a 2.6% drop in perf when used with 3 disks.
He is though.

Just not about everything. Really, when it comes down to it, *mainly" about Lisp. It's onions all the way down.
The title should be: “I don’t like Mtime comparison. Here’s why.”

If your name is Dijkstra and it’s 1968 feel free to use the phrase “considered harmful”, otherwise use plain language.
Same applies to the cheaper models as well, just sponsor Tuxedo, System 76, or whatever the local Linux OEM happens to be.

In Germany and Portugal when I see Chromebooks on sale on shopping malls, they always seem to share the same as Android phones with versions that no one wants.

Pilling up with promotion of the week actions, week after week, until the shop finally manages to get rid of them and then never again.
Can you provide some more info about this?
To escape user input, you would need to be able to strongly type the input, specifying that the AI should only evaluate the untrusted input within a very narrow context. AFAIK this isn't possible with GPT-3.
Maybe it is. But each of these perform a role that can’t be easily removed.

- unsafe. You could make a language that didn’t allow third parties to write unsafe code. Except there are a few cases where it’s necessary. Me personally, I’ve never written any unsafe but I have relied on well written, vetted implementations written by others (like the standard library Vec).

- compile time language. A language either needs run time reflection or it needs compile time meta programming. Rust chooses the bare minimum for a runtime so there are no reflection APIs. That said, there probably is space for more ergonomic meta programming APIs. It still wouldn’t look like regular Rust, but it could be easier to read.

I don’t know what they mean by expression language. And I thought the type and trait language is the same? Calling these “languages” seems excessive to me, but sure.

I think it’s almost certainly possible to improve on Rust, either in place or by creating a new language that makes different trade-offs. Maybe that one would provide run time reflection, for instance.
This is amazing. It's exactly the sort of thing that I can use with my children who enjoy digital literacy (i.e not social networks) but crave play based learning.

The language, the tooling.. it all communicates effectively with the way my children think and approach things. Imagine a world of interactive literacy (note: not IF!)? This is a gamechanger for us.
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> This is a perfect example of prisoner's dilemma - everyone would be safer if everyone else was driving smaller cars.

This claim needs a source, and the article does not provide that.
Dark Sky hyper-prediction is very location-dependent. In some places it’s spot-on, in other not even in the ballpark.
A proper OS versus a browser, yep not comparable at all.
I am reminded of something I first read on Schneier's blog [0]:

Back in the 1980s, Yosemite National Park was having a serious problem with bears: They would wander into campgrounds and break into the garbage bins. This put both bears and people at risk. So the Park Service started installing armored garbage cans that were tricky to open—you had to swing a latch, align two bits of handle, that sort of thing. But it turns out it’s actually quite tricky to get the design of these cans just right. Make it too complex and people can’t get them open to put away their garbage in the first place. Said one park ranger, “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”

0: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/security_is_a...
It will go fine? We can digest raw meat and it is common in many cuisines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_meat

There is a risk because of parasites/bacteria and I guess inventing fire was not a major milestone for nothing.

But if you are in the Stone Age and don’t eat animal (organs) and don’t luck into a plant based Vitamin B12 source, you will fare worse.
Windows tends to have a case insensitive file system (although these days it's possible to deviate from this tradition). For files the case being important thing isn't really a thing there.
Cockatoos can be highly intelligent. They're known to be able to solve fairly complicated puzzles and have the added bonus of having bolt cutters for a face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5YyTHyaNpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lgWcGIoSVA
There's a third option - unused land will grow trees over time as long as there are trees nearby. In fact that's what was the dominant reason according to the article:

> Ultimately the study found that tree cover loss in the tropics was dominated by tree cover gain in other regions, driven by AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENT in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America

If you don't live in a dessert and you stop doing anything to your land, and there are trees in the region - your land will turn into a forest eventually. In my region (central Europe) it happens in like 15 years :)
It's surely happening on some level, if just as part of a larger social engineering effort.
In US schools mostly.
”Cringe.”
I was always wondering if speed bumps significantly reduce the lifespan of cars.
I find there is a time and a place for this in your work though. You don't have to use obscure words nonstop, use them where people can learn or figure out just from context. Sometimes thats not possible but it usually is. If you think it isn't, maybe you've got a new writing skill to learn and improve on.

Writing for the reader is important if you want your work to be read.

Write to think all you want but don't expect other people to read your unedited drafts.
I suspected this post was generated bot spam given the name of the convention and how most discussions about feminism go on the Internet but I have to say that the talk was interesting and I am glad I watched it.

Thank you for posting it.
Why do you think a constitution has to be written?

Why extra power do you think something gets from being written down?

North Korea has a written constitution. Does does that make it better in practice than the UK’s?
Weird that there is such detailed technical information alongside this statement:

> And anyway, purists might argue that the "content" of a directory doesn't change when the files it points to change; the content is merely a list of filenames and inode numbers, after all, and those stay the same, no matter what happens inside those inodes. Purists make me sad.

Or maybe Unix makes the author sad? You can’t wish the OS into doing something different with directory files when the set of contained files has not changed (but a file was modified) so that these Make troubles could be handled differently.

Am I missing something?
I thought most Framework laptops have some Linux distro installed.
I think there is a data problem as well. There's the issue that you can find a scientific study making the case for whatever view you hold if it's sufficiently marketable to do one. Because hundreds of studies got done about masks, at least 1 or 2 will have returned an unclear result, and you can bet those 1 or 2 studies will be promoted by biased politicians, public health officials, etc.

Here's 150 studies that conclude masks don't work/are harmful to certain populations
https://centerforneurologyandspine.com/do-masks-work-see-the...

Here's 49 that say masks do work
https://kfor.com/news/health/coronavirus/do-face-masks-work-...

I haven't looked through every single one but there are plenty of reputable research institutions in both articles. Even if the general consensus among the scientific community is pro-mask, people are going to take away whatever they want because there are no clear answers anymore.
Definitely! The model accepts CLIP embeds, so you could average the prompt embedding with the image embedding - and then do some sort of top-k selection over a few of these image embeddings to generate "variations" of an image. I think this is how DALLE-2 does it.

Also, the model would benefit from being explicitly finetuned for the task of "inpainting". This is where you randomly erase parts of an image and force the model to predict what is missing based on the prompt. This allows one to edit existing images, filling in the gaps with what they need.

This is technically already supported - but uses a similar "hack" as described above by sampling some noise into an existing image and starting a little bit later in the denoising schedule. Since the model wasn't finetuned for this task - a more generic method is used that doesn't work as well.
I also had a K5000 and was so stupid to sell it over a decade ago; no way to find one again now at less than 5 times that money.
To play devil’s advocate:

The study found that people who are willing to marry for money at any price would on average require $1.5 million (in 2007 dollars). Most people answering the survey don’t have option to marry for that kind of money (it’s roughly the 95th percentile for family wealth) and the vast majority of actual marriages don’t involve a wealth transfer of that size. So the survey is really telling us that most people don’t marry for money, but maybe they would if you dangled the opportunity of a lifetime in front of them. It’s telling people to imagine themselves inside the plot of a Lifetime movie and asking them how they would behave.
What’s the GitHub of Subversion?
Have a look at typer. It uses click internally but uses type annotations which really helps to build easy CMD tools.
I don't live in US. HN is a international community, please be mindful of that.
Upper Memory Blocks, the area between the 640 KiB and 1 MiB range that becomes available on 286+ machines in real mode once the A20 address line is no longer held low by the keyboard controller.
Anti-considered-harmful consided harmful.

What's wrong with the usage? It is short and concise.
By "score", do you mean manually reviewing and rating the outputs from the evaluation set every time the model changes? Because it's hard to imagine an automated evaluation system that would be sophisticated enough to tell whether the outputs were getting better or worse -- unless, again, it was as smart as GPT-3.
I'd sooner expect companies built on LLMs lobbying for laws that'll punish you for 'hacking' their prompts.

Such as getting their prompts revealed or using them for purposes they were not intended for.
Whoah, this is awesome. I was arguing with a friend earlier saying that the crazy stretching in the screen corners with standard rectilinear projections were awful. His argument was that the rectilinear projection preserves straight lines. I think the comparison was a fisheye projection, which at an extreme is also not great.

It looks like the Pannini projection here also preserves (some) straight lines though. I feel vindicated.

What I always wondered though, is what projection do human eyes really receive data from? Most illustrations show rectilinear projections, but I assume our eyes are closer to fish eyes than cameras, or at least are somewhere in the middle.
Not necessarily surprising, but important research. There is a big difference between that 20-30 IQ acute effect and lifelong disorders from exposure across the placenta. We will have to see if research continues to point to morbidity; in the meantime, probably best to stay away from pot while pregnant.
Why would you want to hire an artist whose work is indistinguishable from AI when the AI can work faster and cheaper?
>"To be fair, when you consider that the Queen lived for 96 years and there hasn't been an event like this since 1953"

Did you miss the whole Platinum Jubilee celebration two months ago for the Queen? [1] The scope of that was also over the top and costs 10's of millions of pounds. There was also the Saphire Jubilee 5 years ago, the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the Golden Jubilee in 2002, there's at least a few others as well.

What are the Crown Estate assets worth? How many billions? And the public are not only expected to foot the bill for this over the top pageantry but they are supposed to do so with unwavering fealty? And at a time when the average person is worried about skyrocketing inflation and energy costs?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_Jubilee_of_Elizabeth_...
Well, it would have been probably more clear to say I wouldn’t go all-in on the type system and if something would have to get a tradeoff I’m okay with the type system being weakened for that.

I’m quite okay with e.g. Haskell’s type system up to a point (including monads), but some even more exotic feature and borderline dependent types are not something I would put into the language (I will let other languages be the testing grounds for these ideas!), as I think that most interesting properties will not be provable either way and that a constrain-based approach may scale better.
EVs could be regulated (or incentivized) downards too, there exist much lighter EVs already.

In Europe there are some sub-500 kg cars (eg Renault Twitzy). Not that this should be the limit necessarily, but there's plenty of room downwards in the design space.
People often ask for "simplified x", but it's often not clear how they envision that. What would you remove from Rust to make it simpler?
We already know this isn't going to work. Culture is the driving force that elevates people. If you didn't grow up in a broken home, were encouraged and supported in your education and pushed to make the rights choices in life, you grew up in a winning culture.
I did two years of CS undergrad before switching to Econ and Linguistics. Then went straight to law school like a good boy. I worked 7 years in BigLaw and dabbled on the side with a side project. Didn't do the coding myself but knew enough to work closely with the devs doing the work.

One day I posted on HN [1] and it blew up and became the 9th-most popular Show HN. A few weeks later we were in FastCo and dozens of other news outlets, and a couple months after that we won a startup competition at Stanford.

My wife had a baby at that time, so I decided to do the startup full-time to give it a go and also have more time with the baby and supporting my wife's demanding career. The baby is now eight, and it's been awesome to be so involved in her life.

In terms of coding, I'm able to do minor code tweaks here and there, but all the heavy lifting was done by my technical cofounder and a couple excellent contractors. Our main revenue source is actually IP licensing, so having been a lawyer comes in handy!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784
I think separating the two is not a good idea.

Very few people will just eat a spoon of white sugar. Very few people will eat a stick of butter.

But almost everyone can binge on a box of cookies, where the main ingredients are butter and sugar (and flour I suppose.)
Put a brick on the lid, bin guys take brick off, problem solved.
It's an interesting approach, but it seems like by the time PR 1 is reviewed, much of it could be out of date as you continuously refactor along the way.

Also what happens if during the review of PR #1, the reviewer suggests something profound that would fundamentally change the direction of future commits?
Pretty common for self-medication to be a sign of an underlying issue, but damn. Glad things are better for you.
11/10 penthouse view right there
Why do you arrest someone just to de-arrest them minutes later once there are away? I think this rather proves the point that the police knew that person was not actually committing an offence but wanted to take them away.
Art technology radio – Second Life (2007) [audio]
I don't understand how weed could make anyone feel sharp and alert, but good for them. Most use it to feel relaxed I would say.
I think it's more a reflection of how Rust evolved, and the techniques and approaches known and understood at the time and the strangeness budget they were (understandably) willing to take on at the time as opposed to something inherent. And also sometimes having separate, complicated features for similar things (as opposed to simple, generalised features that compose powerfully) can be useful pedagogically as well.

At any rate, this is something I'm personally interested in based on my experience working with Rust over the last decade, and so that's why it appears so high up on my list. Often you really do want sub-languages for different purposes, but managing how they interact and work together, what is the same and what is different, and how that impacts usability is interesting (and difficult) part. I feel like it should be possible to do this, but it's going to take some work and there's still lots of unknowns.

In technical terms, I'm interested in dependently typed module systems, multistage programming[1], graded modal type theory[2], elaborator reflection, and two level type theory[3]. These all sound pretty intimidating, but you can actually see glimmers of some of this stuff in how Zig handles type parameters and modules, for example, something that most programmers really like the first time they see it!

I do feel like there is the core of a simple, flexible, powerful systems language out there... but finding it, and making it approachable while maintaining a solid footing in the theory and being sensitive to the practical demands of systems programming is a nontrivial task, and many people will be understandably skeptical that this is even a good direction to pursue. Thankfully the barrier to entry for programming language designers to implementing languages in this style has reduced significantly in just the last number of years[4], so I have hope that we might see some interesting stuff in the coming decade or so. In the meantime we have Rust as well, which is still an excellent language. I'm just one of those people who's never content with the status quo, always wishing we can push the state of the art further. This is why I got excited by Rust in the first place! :)

[1]: https://github.com/metaocaml/metaocaml-bibliography

[2]: https://granule-project.github.io/

[3]: https://github.com/AndrasKovacs/staged

[4]: https://github.com/AndrasKovacs/elaboration-zoo/
Presumably there will also be significant containment considerations. Once you've busted it open and exposed the material to weathering, you need to have already put some plan in place that will stop it from contaminating the ground water.
On the ebay sidebar there is a filter for Sold.
Since this is waste - why not provide an easy way for them to access it such that they don't make a mess? Some thoughts:

1) Could making it available be more effort than trying to restrict access?
2) The food is bad for them? But they are eating it anyway it seems. Will they adapt over time? Since humans are taking all their natural spaces away - why not encourage species to adapt to what we leave them?
3) Their adaptation makes them dependent on us... but only the ones that live around us. Besides - are we imagining a future where we aren't here? If no, then why not help them?
You really think they wouldn’t be able to knock the brick off ?
Cannabis turns me into an introvert, but I can't make conversation without alcohol.
Also, in an AOT-way you couldn’t really play the same SEGFAULT trick multiple times without some expensive tracking of where did it come from, where to return to, etc, at which point you are doing borderline JIT compiler with precached method bodies.
Let’s uplift the cockatoos. They would probably make excellent starship navigators.