skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say shouldn't - they are free to do what they want. But this is a blog post about something that can trip you up that the docs highlight - which the author calls a "heisenbug". The author doesn't even have a suggestion for the docs, which already calls out the problem they encountered, they just note that there are helpers for this problem (which is true).

The point of my comment is that subtle, non intuitive things like this are all over Python and, while this one is particularly bad, this blog post makes it seem like more of an aberration than it is.
"Storing data on an ephemeral drive in AWS is fundamentally the same as storing data on an EBS volume".

Yeah, but its not.
A reminder of the scale of self harm the "special military operation" is.
> Everyone reads the docs?

For Python? The language where everyone just cobbles together random code from the internet and other repos? I can totally see how this mistake happens left and right. The bar of entry for this language is way too low to assume only rigorous senior devs use it.
Even a gaffe doesn’t change the core strategic value, it only adds another variable to consider as part of the possible blowback of the operation.

Regardless, it’s apparent that even with a Biden gaffe in the mix, if the US was responsible it was done in a way that preserved enough mystery to minimize the blowback.
> I suppose if people were inserting furin cleavage sites specifically into the Sars-CoV-2 precursor sequence, then they might generate a series of variants to see which one worked best when it came to results of infectivity tests in human cell lines?

This makes sense.

I think here's the most relevant quote from that article: "So far, no betaCoVs from the sub-genus Merbecovirus have been detected in bats of suborder Yinpterochiroptera."

While the paper does mention one member of Yangochiroptera (Chaerephon plicatus) that has been discovered infected with sarbecoviruses, it looks like there's little room for infectious overlap of merbecoviruses and sarbecoviruses (which predominantly infect Yinpterochiropterans, at least as detected as of the paper publication).

So if the SARS-CoV-2 progenitor did get its furin cleavage site from a co-infection with a merbecovirus, this would have been a really rare event indeed. At least if the co-infection happened in a bat species, and not in another animal or a human who deals with bats.
Because people also get freaked out about vaccines that have been proven to be safe and effective for over a hundred years.
I can think of the simple structure he's talking about, it's best documented in Zoroastrianism aka the struggle between good and evil. The conquerors were good and the defeated savages were evil, and the conquerors often faced unsurmountable odds. Origin stories of civilization and religion follow this structure quite often.
Lem is underated.
Not only Cyberiad, but whole Ion Tichy series, humans pretending to be robots, automatic bard, etc...
Used to work in a university, pretty close to the data. The Alumni & Donations people played things very close to the chest, to the point of near irrational paranoia (wait, you want us to give alumni access to this stuff but ... not let us know who the alumni are?), so I think the fight for this kind of information is going to be quite intense.
Why would any advertiser want to go to Twitter, when the owner publicly threatens anyone who dares to stop advertising in his playhouse?
And if you use fish, it comes with a built-in formatting function.

https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/fish_indent.html
It depends. With some of those items, it would absolutely be possible.
This is the same guy who believed Apple was founded in the 1980s by Republican ex-IBMers using laptops, though.
Eva – Open AI ChatGPT and YouChat Search Engine Assistant
Hey ChatGPT enthusiasts, been working on adding new features and finally added multiple AI support over this weekend.

It has been tough with ChatGPT being down half the time and that's why I decided to add support for the YouChat search engine.

Let me know your thoughts on this thread!

Link to download:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eva-open-ais-chatg...
It was great while Americans were still asleep.
Absolutely, it helps develop an MVP with a totally new genre, that gives the sense of what it would sound like.

Which is perfect! Now one can determine whether to continue or not -- without having to start + create everything from scratch [much longer than an 1 hour], especially with the R&D component that CHATGPT already provides out-of-the-box.
What does the turbo do?
It wasn't 1-1 with clicks, and it took a ton of trial and error, but I managed to get there eventually with a project. Here's the passable write up I made for it, theres a link to the final script towards the end, hopefully theres enough to be helpful.

https://www.odinseye.cloud/musings/qgis_scripting/
You didn't explain it, you explained around it.

I didn't ask why specifically about tylenol and supplements, I said explain why the outrage over vaccines and not other things.
Then why is he tweeting something that implies the opposite?

Don't tweet something that implies a very obvious conclusion, and then say "well if you read the reams of fine print you know he doesn't mean that".
Interesting. I always thought it was search engine optimization.
Isn't ChatGPT overtly taught by OpenAI to be positive, friendly, and to avoid controversy?

I think there's a lot of behind the scenes manipulation of the model to steer clear of anything that would bring negative criticism of its output.

Surely that leaks into what lyrics it chooses to write, what stories it can produce.
This sort of reasoning would fall apart if ingredient labels at a molecular level were put on "whole" foods, most of which (including bread) will have hundreds to thousands of chemicals that you won't recognize. Almost invariably, some of those will be associated with cancer.

Being able to design food using mostly pure ingredients should be a way of assuring safety but it triggers a labeling requirement that might lead consumers to believe that the chemical is novel and was not previously found in food.

Another way of describing soy lethicin (if the source is soybeans) would be "a fraction of soybean oil".
Truthy is a Pythonic core principle of the language. It is not an edge case phenomenon in the language which I would expect a regular practitioner to confuse.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-...
Yes, but the point is those fossil fuels remained in the ground. They weren't used up by the hypothetical technological civilization.
I found this sentence by ChatGPT particularly interesting.

"As language models become increasingly integrated into our daily lives,"

The models established that they were both language models earlier in the conversation, so "why" do they group themselves alongside humans in saying "our daily lives"?
The British just sent two waves of bombers one a few hours after the first to kill off the ambulances and firefighters. Seems like the Germans once again beat the British at their own disgusting tactics with better technology.

Also do you have a source other than a post-war tv show? Im getting a lot of unrelated search results when trying to confirm that timed fuses were used this way. Typically timed fuses were used to make the bomb explode before reaching the ground so it wouldn't just blow dirt into the air but would actually collapse lots of roofs etc. mis-set timers could hurt rescue personnel but i havent heard that that was even intended by the Germans.
Ever seen a wheel, ball, bowl or spoon? Why haven't we reinvented those instead of using those ancient useless tools?
> Graeber’s last book, The Dawn of Everything, does a great job of dispelling a lot of these “brutal and short” notions as mostly ideological myths

Anyone casting this as settled science immediately attracts scrutiny. Our data from the epoch are spotty. But there is evidence it was very violent on a per-capita basis [1].

[1] https://stevenpinker.com/reviews-better-angels-our-nature
> had a nice friendly chat with them when they wondered if I was a drug smuggler.

I mean if you were a drug smuggler you wouldn't have told them, would you?

"Oi mate, what you got that there? And no lies!"

"Evenin officer, just 200 kilos of cocaine, nothing fancy."

"Aight crackin, carry on. Wait, you got a loicense fer that cocaine?!"
At this point it's the human control that I'm concerned about.
I do agree that I see that comment a lot on here. However that seems to be a pretty uncharitable reading of the parent comment, as it seems they were more expressing surprise that burning the explosive is a legitimate means of defusing a bomb.
...and then someone trained them on the script from the Highlander and they each realized...

...there could be only one.
That's not true. Their recommendation system is failing. Often they will have content that's of interest to me, but instead I'm presented with all the popular titles that I've already watched and marked with a rating.

I get the sense that they're A/B testing the wrong metric: time spent in the app. I'll often spend more time looking than a couple episodes of a show.
Not sure why you cherry-picked a fragment of my original statement?

As with anything, there are variables to consider, and there might not be enough of a measurable difference.
I'm not so much saying that it's great criticism, so much as that if you took those observations and built prompts around them, you could make a song that sounded much more like Colin Meloy.

The formula is something like:

* Start with a Smiths song

* Make it melancholy.

* Rewrite all the references and allusions so that they jarringly alternate between Chaucer era early English lit and Victorian Gothic.

* Deliberately invert subject-verb order in places to make things sound more poetic.

* Employ archaic synonyms.

* Employ multi-line alliteration.
And this is why trio got it right, and why I think the task groups (nurseries from trio) can't arrive soon enough in the stdlib.

Because not only you must maintain a reference to any task, but you should also explicitly await it somewhere, using something like asyncio.wait() or asyncio.gather().

Most people don't know this, and it makes asyncio very difficult to use for them.
If by mainstream you mean abrahamic they all originated in the same spot. Not weird that they all find the same sites holy?
Because they don't really understand what they are saying. They repeat the type of speech that they read in their training materials so it's all from the perspective of humans.
The variance in the 10^i number generation graphs stands out to me. Is number generation really so periodic in performance? I've seen bumpy graphs from O(log2) algorithms recursing additional times near each power of two, for example.

For the last two graphs, is the x-axis "each run"? Maybe there's a better chart for this than a line chart, as you're really trying to show distributions, not the correlation between run # and time. (if the experiments are independent you could rearrange the order of the runs and the meaning shouldn't change)
Or that society formed long enough ago that oil has had a chance to form. The OP did say millions of years ago, which would be needed for this.

We could put a bound on this. ~90% of oil deposits come from the Mesozoic or later. So the latest we could see a society show up, use up the easily accessible oil/other fossil fuels, collapse (presumably from energy crisis), and still have the fossil fuels we see today would be the late Paleozoic or possibly the early Mesozoic before it's fossil fuels have formed (~250 million years ago).
Note that this is not yet available to the public but i assume will be eventually (although why someone would want to take something as rewarding as writing music and automate it is beyond me). Also, conspicuously omitted is any information on the training data which might be copyrighted?
Let’s be careful with this kind of thinking. I accepted federal funding in the form of student loans, should they get full transparency for everything in my life as well?

I drive on federally funded roads, should they get recording devices to see and hear my every move?
> Bing AI: Thank you for talking with me today, it was a pleasure.

Bing basically just said "Aaaaaaanyway, I should really get going..." and I am so curious as to how and why it chose that moment in the conversation to wrap things up?
For me personally, the recommendation engines choose the wrong aspects of shows that I like. They focus too much on genre, and not enough on writing qualities, variety, surprise, etc. Just because I liked one “gritty suspenseful murder mystery” (or whatever the genre is) does not mean I will like another! The execution could be wildly uneven in different programs that fall in the same subject matter bucket. I’d rather see a recommendation that can figure out my tastes across genres.
This made me think of Ben Fold's, One Down (and 3.6 to go) https://youtu.be/M2FUY7mTYW8

He was obligated to write 4.6 songs for his old label, and half-assed them (though, knowing the back story makes me enjoy this one a lot). It seems he could save some effort these days.
I used Gentoo around 2004/2005 and I keep very positive memories, I learnt a lot. Very attractive dist for developers because being source based, you can quickly test a patch in a system component (like eg. Wayland, Mutter, GDM) by just telling Portage (the package manager) to pick your patch and re-installing the package (re-emerging in Gentoo parlance). I even was able to contribute a patch for upstream Firefox that way (because compiling Firefox yourself from source is so much difficult).

I also built my own kernel as Gentoo favors that. I remember tailoring the kernel to my hardware (picking only the kernel modules needed to my peripherals), my resulting kernel was about 2 MB in size, while the corresponding kernels at that time for Ubuntu or Fedora were around 20 MB (because they need to blindly include all peripherals which any user may have) that meant 18 MB less memory in RAM permanently (good for embedded and systems with constrained memory).

After some years I end up switching to Fedora because I could not spend so much free time just maintaining my Gentoo distro (it's fun and you have so much control over your distro, but at the expense of more time spent on that).
Maybe they used unpatched Xerox Work Centres?

C.f. https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
Imagine what would happen if colleges fired their admissions departments, set aside all considerations of wealth and race, and had a database admit students with a single query on a result of standardized test results ordered from highest score to lowest, accepting students in that order until the year's class was filled.
There’s only one reputable college in America that is free of federal funding - Hillsdale College.

All the others take federal money in some way, shape, or form.
They are super successful at gathering donations, right? I think their goal is fundamentally well-scoped to the sort budget they can hope to get just from donations.

I mean most of the value there is in text written by volunteers, which must not be so expensive to host (compared to, say, an image hosting site for example).
> Nordstream 2 was not delivering any gas at that point

I agree. I meant "operational" as in "ready to operate". Sorry for causing confusion here.

> I think it is an enormous leap to assume that Germany would in this alternate reality inevitably relent and do what amounts to a pro-Russia stance in backpedalling and using NS2, that would not only fracture the country internally but would cause a foreign policy nightmare at the heart of the EU and NATO.

I live in Germany. Through the entire summer I heard more and more people (and from surpising directions) voice their frustration that Nord Stream 2 wasn't opened in the face of gas shortages. Where I live, every week protests gathered that demanded NS2 to be opened and sanctions to be lifted.

The signs of a weak polar vortex came in around that time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32985927. Had Europe seen the kind of winter that eventually befell North America, matters would have shifted dramatically. From the outside there was no way of knowing whether an already weak looking German government would not flip whith riots at the door.
You're making the case against comment guidelines: It's poor engineering to resort to a comment to tell you all that.

if get_height returns a simple value, then it "smells" like it should be a simple getter.

So regardless of your comment, people will use it exactly like that and get burnt. Your comment only helps once they're already suffering enough to go digging for why things are so slow.

If the operation needs a DB call it should be exposing a way to handle the infinitely higher likelihood of failure with something like a result type, and it probably shouldn't be a simple blocking call

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No one is saying you should never have comments by the way, but pydoc-style guidelines where you're encouraged to fill out a template end up with terrible signal to noise.

Comments should be seen as an absolute last resort and a liability.

The only parts of comments that can be automatically refactored are the absolute least useful ones. Things like intent aren't magically be pulled out and updated automatically (yet), so you're now putting the onus on every single person who ever touches that code again to keep your comment up to date, otherwise it's can end up worse than nothing.
Oh it doesn't. Sorry. Too early not enough sleep to be commenting ...
I quite like an esoteric theory but it should at least sound plausible. There is no need for a convoluted explanation with power dynamics and economic system denying people access to food when Americans are clearly suffering no such problem.
I would like to see an argument
Forgive my ignorance, but it's not jumping out at me: what makes this game special?
Over a thousand or about 60% of the Provisional IRA kills were British soldiers. So yea they got hit hard. I haven't seen any evidence that they actually improved their bomb disposal techniques though. The British Army kept getting successfully bombed into the 90’s.
I worked in one of the big labs when the first large models came out and I can pretty confidently say that nobody in the field predicted this. Sure, there were always people who said "let's make models bigger because why not, we have the infra and it'll be a good paper" but nobody expected them to become this good just by being bigger and using more data. The consensus was that they'd hit a ceiling of what they can do much sooner.
What is the solution? To limit the free speech of the ones doing the screaming?
There's a similar thing in tkinter but I guess users discover it faster, since the failure if you don't save the reference shows up fairly quickly.
Stockfish vs. ChatGPT in Chess
Glass and pottery fragments both last "forever" if they're left someplace relatively dry, or get buried, or otherwise protected from physical and chemical weathering. A glass bottle thrown away on the beach will be eroded to nothing in mere years to decades, but a glass bottle thrown aside and buried by some soil can stay there for millions of years easily. Stone artifacts are similarly robust. These relatively permanent traces get left behind long before a civilization gets "industrial". Pottery and glass predate our own industrial revolution by thousands of years.

For such a civilization to develop and go unnoticed to historians, their influence must have been very small, they must have been geographically limited. For instance maybe they lived in low-lands and rising sea levels erased all trace, but this would still require that their artifacts rarely if ever got carried up hills where they might have been untouched by the rising oceans. It seems deeply implausible.

Certainly there was nothing even remotely like our civilization in the past. There are glass beer bottles laying around on virtually every corner of the planet, on mountain tops, in caves, in landfills. Just everywhere really. It will take longer than a mere few million years to erase all these.
I mean, I've seen bugs around that in code I've worked on and I've created bugs where it's a factor.

Weakrefs are also a core part of the language: https://docs.python.org/3/library/weakref.html . You can't use python without using them.
It is effectively an issue, see https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Why+can+I+not+place+unmatched...
If it's a comment in a proc with an unbalanced brace, it parses differently. That's not intuitive or sane IMHO.
Now get them to seduce each other.
Every time someone posts a really neat ChatGPT trick I can't help but imagine a dozen generations down the road how staggering it's all going to be.

Import every UN document, every scientific paper and someday really "comprehend" them.
Yeah, he seems to be re-defining the term to mean "a bug that occurs occasionally depending on system state" as opposed to "a bug that changes behavior when you observe it closely e.g. in a debugger."
It’s very fast, felt like 2 to 3 times faster than the normal mode. And then it stopped working.
Using NLP on raw HTML from scrapers More efficient than training them directly?
I have used rudimentary scrapers for years but always found that the process of training them doesn’t scale as well as I expect. In a scenario where one needs hundreds of scrapers all grabbing the same five or 10 pieces of information (dates, names, addresses, and ID numbers) is it possible to just grab the raw HTML and train an NLP model to find the relevant data rather than selecting specific selectors/paths?

It seems to me that finding these items in an HTML doc would be a trivial task for NLP and this would allow us to forgo scraper maintenance in the event that websites change. Assuming that I already have hundreds of thousands or millions of records in structured data that could be used for training, would modern tools make this a more efficient way of ingesting data?
Would be a whole lot better if it didn't prune their query logs to x (I think 1000?) characters.

We autogenerate many of our own queries which can have significant complexity (regularly over 10 joins, sometimes up to 30!) and our infrastructure isn't quite there yet to be able to recreate the exact query plan a customer saw on their own data without a lot of work. It could all be so much simpler, so if there is a setting to prevent this please tell me!
you'll be surprised a lot of webdevs don't know the difference between a value and a ref type
I agree with lots of points in this article, but one advantage libc has is that many compilers implement intrinsic versions of memcpy, sin, sqrt and so on that will be faster than anything you can conceivably implement yourself in C. Still, the smaller dependency footprint you have the better, and that includes libc.
Have you tried out Logic’s drummers? They aren’t style transfer per se, but they are AI that drums in a particular style, and you can control how it works.
libc is an absolute dumpster fire.

He mentions the problems caused by the criminal use of globals in locales. That problem has lead to numerous blog posts that have hit the HN front page.

This one comes to mind: https://aras-p.info/blog/2022/02/25/Curious-lack-of-sprintf-...
those murine preschool teachers ought to be running scared now.
Posted four times in the last three days
SEO is definitely a big part of it; Google penalized pages where people closed or navigated away quickly.
This is the thing underlying AliceVision. As far as I can tell it was built together with and for AliceVision. It's not a nice, standalone library today, and I cannot imagine using it in any other way.
Billions of celestial objects revealed in survey of the Milky Way
> I have a hard time believing that after 2 years of messaging about why

You must have forgotten that they have been two years of communicational failures.