skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a graduate algorithms class that was graded like this, but the teacher didn't explain and I was clueless. I spent the whole semester super stressed and convinced I was failing, then was shocked and befuddled by an A. "Emotionally trying" is an accurate description of how it felt.

Props to this professor; struggling in confusion is a lot more fun if you know that's the game you're supposed to be playing.
Honours are grading-related (in Scotland at least) as well. After three years study if you pass but not very well you'll be able to graduate with, say, a "BSc". If you have good enough grades you can do a fourth year and shoot for a "BSc (Hons)". The qualification you get after the fourth year depends on your average grades, either:

- honours of the first class (aka a "first")

- honours of the second class (two levels: upper and middle, aka a "2:1" or a "2:2")

- honours of the third class (aka a "third")

- fail, in which case you get an "ordinary" degree

So when this person is reporting that you needed "first class honours" to go directly to a PHd, they're saying you needed to sit that final fourth year and finish with an average grade of (I think) an "A"
> Developers should not overlook the benefits of Object Pascal and should give it a fair chance, especially before they create a new programming language, as it unfortunately happened here with Rust.

Well, that's a completely different language category. Object Pascal is rather comparable to C++ than to Rust; the latter is more an option for languages with automatic memory management in that the memory management is moved from runtime to compile time, thus e.g. gaining performance.
Afaik you can specify the response length!
You are mixing up battery management system (BMS) with thermal management system. BMS is practically mandatory with multi-cell li-ion systems. Even cheap consumer devices such as laptops have one.
The way this is implemented in Windows seems to be fundamentally broken though, because when my laptop is busy compiling in Visual Studio, I cannot even scroll UI views with the touchpad - exactly this would never happen on an Amiga, no matter how many things it does at the same time (my uneducated guess is that the touchpad driver - or any other thread related to input processing - isn't priority-boosted as well).
Could a Computer Take Over? Robert Silverberg
This discussion is not new. Quoting from Byte Magazine (Feb 1976 p77):

The first man to use a machine was the first of our primitive ancestors who picked up a rock to hurl at some passing animal or to crack open some edible nut. In the million-plus years since then, our machines have grown much more complex, but even in our modern era of computers, ... their basic purpose remains the same: to serve man.

Whether our machines truly serve us is a question much debated by science-fiction writers and other professional speculative philosophers. Does some essential quality go out of human life when it becomes too easy? Have our automobiles, telephones, typewriters and elevators sapped our vigor? Are we speeding into flabby decay because we have made things too easy for ourselves?

And as our machines grow more able, when do they cross the boundary that separates the living from the unliving? Is it possible that we are building machines that will make humanity obsolete? Perhaps the day is coming when we ourselves will be rendered unnecessary, and our sleek successors, creatures of metal and plastic, will inherit the earth.

... Many a bitter attack on the encroachments of the machine age has been produced by a writer using an electric typewriter in an air-conditioned room, innocently unaware of the inner contradictions involved. We need our machines, but we fear them...

-- Robert Silverberg, Introduction to Men and Machines.

In contrast I'd comment that this is a case of linear thinking. You don't own a machine, the machine owns you. Ask any home owner how wonderful the plumbing works... until it doesn't. Or ask a car owner, etc. We are already owned by machines. Is your phone beeping? Are you ignoring it? If it fails do you learn to live without a phone? Machines inherited the earth years ago. We just don't realize it.
Or not funded at all, which is both its curse and its blessing.
60 cooks and 30+ waiters serve around 100 guests. That's how. Labour is expensive.

A more "normal" but still "fine dining" spot will serve 100 guests with 10 cooks and 10 waiters. And the prices look cheaper but with a la carte offerings often lead to higher check averages especially with wine.

Noma has taken it to an extreme because, well, they had an endless supply of free labour.

Plus Noma attracts tourists. They spend the minimum. All the high end French joints have regulars (billionaires, politicians, etc...) that'll drop $10k on wine to help the bottom line...
As far as I can tell it compiles directly to pdf, which seems a non-starter for submitting to many journals which accept either latex or word documents.

This would need various compiler backends (perhaps via pandoc) to be that useful. Certainly it would help adoption if you could emit, eg., markdown/latex/etc. and others you're working with wouldn't need to adopt your tooling.
This looks useful. It should compete with Rasa, which is supposed to do something similar, but in practice is mostly only able to match what you're saying to nodes in a phone tree. Has anyone done a game NPC with this?
I think we need a generic ai before we're able to do that as the data set is small and you would need to infer the rules.
A human is able to learn rules way more efficiently than ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is just trained on a lot of data.
This varied over the course of the show. In the first season, some writers assumed the computer was self-aware, and it even addressed a crew member as "Sir" at one point, interrupting them when it had enough information.

In later seasons it acts more like, well, a computer. Geordi does play (verbal) games with it in one episode, however, while bored on a shuttlecraft trip.
Having done financial modelling and data analytics in Ruby: Because I like Ruby, all the other backend code in those projects was in Ruby, and most projects don't rely on data volumes where the lack of something like Polars is an issue to begin with.

Most people don't have large datasets (even many people who think they have large datasets). Some do, or require more complex supporting libraries, and I get that Ruby then often isn't practical for them, and that's fine.

But it's nice to know I now have one more option reducing my need to consider another language.
it won't wait for a timeout if the connection is explicitly dropped by a blocking rule
Utilities using AI. For text manipulation
Hi everyone!

I would like to introduce you to Rephrasee.com.

I have decided to build this project which is very similar to chatGPT prompts, but I wanted to create a sort of container for situations like composing emails, simplifying texts, rephrasing etc., so that I will be able to train fine-tuned models for these individual scenarios in the future. It should lead to better and more accurate outputs.

I hope you will find the tool helpful. Give it a try. Personally, I like the "Rephrase" feature most.

I recently released Rephrasee on ProductHunt and would appreciate your support.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/rephrasee-powered-by-ai
They don't have to be in the output language.
Ask HN: Have you made a career move “down” on purpose, and how has it been?
I'm contemplating a career move down and an wondering, if others have gone through the same, what their experience has been.

Background: I work as a senior PM in a big tech company. The pay, without being out of line with the market, is more than I ever thought I'd make. I owned my house outright at age 40, I go out to eat whenever I feel like it, I get to travel a few times a year. I'm pretty happy about my life day to day.

But then I still think of my job as challenging and sometimes stressful. I look at some of my lower level engineering peers that are "stuck" in their careers (5+ years at the same level, no management responsibility), and honestly I feel like they have a pretty blissful life. Maybe I'm idealizing, but I feel like they can just think about how to build something, get it built, and move to the next thing. Not have to deal with recruitment, management, strategy, etc. Show up and fix the bugs.

I used to be a SWE and have kept my skills current, so I'm considering a move back and down from senior strategy and product work back to engineering IC work. This would likely cut my pay in half, so I'd have to do away with some luxuries, but I feel I could manage it financially.

Yet I also have a strong instinct against doing this, because it feels like self sabotage according to the standard definitions of a career. I worry about having regrets and endangering my family's financial safety.

Any folks who've gone through this and want to share their advice?
Assuming all human languages have a common shared semantic meaning in latent space (I am flipping cause and effect here, but our purposes it doesn't really matter), and assuming that human languages largely follow the same pattern (this assumption is based on the fact that we can trace the roots of modern languages back to the Phoenician script), it is reasonable to assume that we can fine-tune a self supervised model on a tiny amount of data. (The emergent properties of a LLM is carrying a lot of weight here, many of the assumptions rely on the fact that LLM's emergent properties arise from the idea that the latent structure of various languages is learnt by the model)
Why Is Performance Testing Important?
The decade or so after the Napoleonic wars was that great for Britain.

Unemployment was rising and food prices were so high that many people were on the verge of starvation (almost entirely due to political reasons). According to some Britain was close a French style revolution and the authorities cracked down very harshly on anyone advocating reform (see the Peterloo massacre and its aftermath).
> Apparently selling a product that trades on a reader's feelings of inadequacy has always been a reliable business plan.

A big aha! moment for me was reading up on older civilizations: archaeologists would discover golden jewelry, but also bronze replicas, which were affordable by the lower classes who couldn’t afford gold, but still wanted to project an image of opulence.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Also known as 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑡𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐.
So you're saying something like the Universal Translator from Star Trek might be possible?
Didn't mean it was unique (guess most interpreted languages have REPL loops) but my point was that it is a plus, not a fault.
How old is your data on this? This is repeated multiple times in this thread, but my experience with layoffs hasn't shown that poor performers are cut. It's random or it's entire teams/orgs.
I have, and last time I looked it deviated from Ruby in entirely pointless ways that makes it fairly uninteresting to me. I get they want it to be its own language, but it'd have been far more interesting to me if it stayed as close as possible wherever it could.
Here is a fun example of what it can do: https://twitter.com/jayelmnop/status/1612243602633068549.
I find trackpoints are more precise for CAD work. You can end a gesture with zero force precisely; but letting go of a mouse button inevitably has a tiny bit of positioning jitter. I use the track pad to scroll, and the trackpoint to draw.
I find waiting around is ONLY necessary with acceleration enabled. In my opinion at least, acceleration ruins trackpoints. With no acceleration, one simply applies the correct amount of pressure and the cursor will be wherever it needs to be within a second or so.
This describes some of my CS modules experience down to a tee. Overall I had a great time and I look back on the whole experience fondly, but those few modules where nothing clicked, nothing made sense and the examples given never fit the work I had to do...

This was before the days of YouTube where you could look and study up hundreds of videos on the topic to finally find the one that clicks, which is a remarkable thing to have access to.

I'm not clever, but I am resolute, and having an unyielding attitude to obstacles is what has gotten me this far in my career.
I can't disagree, it's all about the dopamine hit to most people. I've felt myself slipping down that slope.

But at the same time I just learned of a protest here in my town, via social media. So it's also helping people organize IRL.
I never bought a smartphone for myself, but I've seen 100 EUR smarthpones, and what you get is just a toy (unless you want to do your banking or login to e-mail on a Linux device with severely outdated kernel and no OS updates, which can't go for a few minutes without phoning home, wherever that is)

More expensive ones are not significantly better, either, unless you pick a brand known for keeping up with security updates.
Where are you reading "emotionally devastated" - both the Tweet and the title say they were described as "emotionally trying".

That said, I can easily see someone going through the stress of the exam period, maybe juggling that with part-time work to pay for bills, studying extensively to the brink of burnout and describing feeling "devastated" when they can't crack a few questions in an important exam they thought they'd studied appropriately.
Same here, time is a very scarce resource for me, so I confess that if the item is cheap I don't bother to send it back because I consider the time it takes to be more valuable than the refund.
That's right. I see so many people get stuck thinking that the default setting without a proper prompt or context is all these models can do.
4chan regularly exposes it, by trying to get it to write politically incorrect statements.
Check out the illustrated transformer: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

tl;dr: It decodes the output one word at a time, but at each step it can focus on any mix of words from the input via the attention mechanism.
So the output token n can't depend on future output token n+1 in GPT, but it can attend to any of the input tokens
My take:

There is no "into" without the concept of "space".

The universe is space (and time).

Thus it's not expanding into anything as there is no space outside of the universe.

QED.
WordPress is a developer nightmare, with 67% of developers surveyed by Stackoverflow stating that they dislike working with it due to its outdated PHP language and poor architecture. Moving to a headless CMS can solve these issues and provide a better developer experience.
ChatGPT thinks it knows everything, god.
Hello HN — I’m the coauthor of this post. You may remember me as that guy who spent most of 2022 posting GPT-3 screenshots to Twitter, most famously prompt injection and “You are GPT-3”. Happy to answer any questions about Claude that I can.
This 'recurring theme' is common to every single organism on Earth. It's only capability that limits life forms other than mankind. It was man's insatiable appetite for survival that got factory workers into the 'dark satanic mills' described by William Blake. Awful conditions there indeed (in many cases) but they worked there in preference to starving to death in the fields. As you point out, they had used up natural energy resources (food & heating) and had no alternative.
> I have a good understanding of the problem, but I do not have a solution

REALLY

Just don't call background services, unless the user explicitly requested a remote service! My Linux installs and (to a lesser degree) my Windows LTSB/LTSC installs don't have these issues, you know?
iPad Mini fits (barely) in my pants pocket when I'm wearing my baggy cargo pants. Also would go around nicely in a bag. There's a variety of keyboard cases for it. Including hinged ones with trackpads which turn it into a tiny laptop. Can get it with a cellular connection. Small enough to take with you everywhere but big enough to make it awkward to pull out constantly.

Only drawback for your use case is the programming part. Though you could also get a small Samsung or Lenovo 8" Android tablet which would give you much more flexibility. There's also the 8" laptops from a few niche companies, though they will probably be thicker than tablet + keyboard case and wouldn't have the same battery life or cellular options.

Smallest, easily available device I can think of in this form factor is a 7" Amazon Fire with the Zagg hinged keyboard case. It's slow, has so-so battery life, and you'd still need to get a cellular connection elsewhere. But it's about the size of a VHS tape and it's pocketable. I had one for a while because I wanted a cheap tiny laptop. Fire tablets are easy to turn into mostly generic Android machines so it would be useful.
yeah that was my thought too, some sort of mechanical issue during assembly that's puncturing the can in a way you can't see, maybe
My high school internship was at PNNL. It paid well for high school! Mostly in experience---that was where I learned Visual Basic.
This is a self-plug but shapedata.io does similar things on top of Postgres -- it is much younger than Datasette, so has far fewer features, but should give you a similar exploration experience!
You don't get that consistently. You can go to check24.de and get their sim.de offer for 5gb data and sms/telephone flat, but that's a limited time deal. So technically yes, but in general you are more in the 8-10€ ballpark for this kind of offering.
Technical defenses are either cat & mouse CSI electronic warfare or shielding the walls+floor+roof+windows of some rooms (e.g. research labs in business, industrial systems, WFH offices, bedrooms) with materials like aluminum radiant barrier, RF window film or expensive drywall (e.g. QuietRock) designed for RF shielding of SCIFs.

Another defense, impractical for most people, is for their house/office to be physically protected by a tall fence that is far enough away from the building to exceed radio range, along with sensors at the fence to detect someone attempting to broadcast into the property. This could be combined with shielding to reduce the necessary fence-building gap.

Regulatory responses: some countries could restrict this technology to high-frequency 60Ghz mmWave which doesn't easily pass through walls. That would at least reduce the social issue of X-ray vision (via 2.4Ghz WiFi) through the exterior walls of existing homes and businesses.

One of the 802.11bf papers proposed an opt-out mechanism where human biometrics could be registered into a giant database and you could ask WiFi devices to unsee some humans. Good luck with that.

Another regulatory response could be to delay approval of Wi-Fi 7 and shipment of Wi-Fi Sensing devices until the WiFi industry pays to upgrade all existing houses with RF shielding, i.e. never. Maybe it would be sufficient to wait until the homes of celebrities and politicians were RF shielded? Let's not forget IP-sensitive and financial business offices with people typing on keyboards. And using combination locks. And...
Security Audit of Git by X41
Not at all, if you're thinking of the forward-forward stuff
For humans yes, I am not saying one-shot learning would be possible for undocumented indigenous languages but few shot language acquisition in cases of a single surviving speaker is something that I would consider highly probable. This hypothesis relies heavily on the nature of variational learning in latent space and observations about human languages. It is of course possible that some ethnicity would have a language that's so different from other languages that it is effectively alien (and the assumption homo sapiens common brain structure and physiology have no influence on our languages and/or the human neural structure cannot be statistically modeled by latent variables, at least not with the current variational learning techniques). This is possible but very, very unlikely.
Browsers could add the less severe warning before the certificate expires, for example 3 days before it expires have a "this certificate is about to expire, are you sure you want to continue?" warning. That would maintain the security guarantees around expiration while still getting the attention of users/administrators.
Thanks, I read this as a vote for the sharing use case. Actually the UI immediately reminded me of phpmyadmin, but trimmed down to the bare necessities. I'll be watching out for a chance to try it again when I have a share-with-less-technical-people use case :-)
FlatGeoBuf [1] is an encoding for geographic data (vector features, i.e. points lines polygons and so on) written around flatbuffers that is increasingly well supported in geospatial software (GDAL, MapServer) and people reporting some experiments and demos on the @flatgeobuf Twitter.

[1] https://flatgeobuf.org/
It shouldn't, because any network requests would fail early and instantly, somewhere around opening the socket.
you can use dokku + hetzner. cheap prices(https://www.hetzner.com/cloud)
Apple does not get it.

When they put a trackpad on their wireless keyboards, then I'll believe they get it.

Can't put a wireless keyboard AND a trackpad on your lap, so literally every Apple wireless keyboard ever is useless to me.

The trackpad is an afterthought for Apple.
I saw the exact opposite with COVID responses and if you are interested I can point you to plenty of data. I also saw massive censorship, Ursula Von Der Lyden talking about getting rid of the Nuermburg code, and talk of jailing people for "misinformation", i.e. wrong-think. This is not how science should work.
Man, this mindset really seems like a recipe for a miserable life.

We are not machines whose output must be optimized over anything else, for the joy of our investor overlords.

Do what you enjoy doing, and if you don’t happen to be the best out of 7 billion people then congrats, you’re statistically normal.
How would you design it? What are your thoughts?
>It feels like an iceberg has been slowly turning over for the past 10 years, and is now flipping quickly.

>Economic growth is now more correlated with carbon reduction than increase.

Does it now make sense why so many hydrocarbon companies want to fight against climate change and push and promote some inefficient processes – like hydrogen that mostly still use hydrocarbons to power them?

They know that weaning people off oil directly means a hit to their easy money streams. They don't want their hegemony to die and they are doing their very best to keep us addicted to easy and "cheap" energy.

At this point in time, if you have a politician that wants to slow down decarbonisation they are either in the pocket of big oil or just stupid. The alternative, tightly coupled energy system that feeds dictators and polluters, is not something we should contribute to any longer.
EWG study: Eating one freshwater fish = a month of drinking PFAS-tainted water
I have to look that Geordi episode up.

But I am mostly familiar with the later TNG era star trek, so I didn’t know it was written as self-aware in the early days.

Some episodes do feature “bugs” where holographic actors become aware being in a program/being an actor. The episode where an Irish town program has run too long on Voyager comes to mind.

(Edit: I do wonder if the holographic actors are somehow sandboxed containers in the main computer core, or run on a different system)
Up to date navigation and Android Auto over the air.

I got a model 2019 Hyundai Kona EV and the integrated navigation software is just shit: It's outdated, the saved chargers are not available anymore or just plainly false in regards to their power output, it's just unsuable.

So whenever I need good navigation, I have to fiddle with a USB cable so I can rund Android Auto with Google Maps on the head unit.
Alarm all the users to notify one person? Doesn't seem so good to me.
Sneaking ads into AI responses.
That's categorically untrue.

Giving a human a massive time advantage in chess doesn't suddenly make them beat chess AI.