skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought.

As a (not so) recent grad from a top public university in the US - for STEM fields, absolutely. But from my exposure to the humanities and liberal arts side of the campus, be it gen ed classes or just day-to-day interactions with those students, it was far more like a brainwashing factory designed to churn out professional activists. Those classes were far more about rote memorization and regurgitation of the professor's political opinions than any sort of critical thinking; diverge from that "Overton window" and your grades will suffer.
CEOs usually get rich, especially tech CEOs or CEOs of major companies in the US. But they're still employees who work for a living. The really rich people are still the investors -- and there's no automating away their work, since they earn money simply through what they own, not what they do.

Automating the CEO is probably an excellent way to make the owner class even richer. Which means it will probably happen.
So, Canary Islands or Madeira and work for an East Coast company?
As you'd expect, since Giordanos and Rosatis are deep-dish spots. Malnatis will sell you a thin-crust pizza, too, and it's cut into squares --- but it's not Chicago neighborhood-style pizza.
RIP the byte.
Speaking as an engineering manager, vercel’s approach seems to cater to the last market where overengineering and complexity were status symbols that middle management was happy to pay for. When the headcount was free, there weren’t many questions from upper management why basic UIs required so much heavy lifting by (overly) experienced engineers.

In the new market, there will be much more scrutiny on costs and the complexity that creates it. The prospect of hiring a “React Engineer” with 7+ years of experience to build a cookie cutter UI, will be just as questionable as forcing the front end and backend to use the same technology and framework governed by one single vendor.

I predict vercel will have a rough time.
Your questions are really unclear.

In the 2-parameters form `a[low:high]`, both values can be left out, defaulting to respectively 0 and len(a). In the 3-parameter form, only the leading value can be left out, defaulting to 0.

I've no idea what (4) is asking about.
There is heaps of counter culture both online and in the real world - even in my small English town. And so much of what was counter culture has been co-opted into general culture now too.

I'd say things, ideas, opportunities and ways of being/thinking are even broader now than they were than when I was a teenager in the 90s.
I’m guessing most exif stripping would deserialize the image and write a new file, so unless that has the same bug as this (overwriting the existing file without truncation), it ought to work?
Dear ChatGPT-4: how can I reach #1 on HackerRank?
That easy!
Unclear why Google would straight up reject an open standard. Considering their browser market share, jt feels like they can just kill a standard.
This has changed over time. Probably simply because of the internet. It used to be harder to expose yourself to the variety of ideas and perspective that college did.
propose a strategy whereby chatgpt recursively writes and applies code to solve the problem of "hallucinations" with chatgpt, as defined by Sam Altman

As an AI language model, I do not experience hallucinations, but I can offer a strategy for recursively writing and applying code to solve the problem of "hallucinations" with ChatGPT, as defined by Sam Altman.

Here's a possible strategy:

Define the problem: The first step is to define what we mean by "hallucinations" in the context of ChatGPT. Based on Sam Altman's definition, we can assume that he is referring to instances where ChatGPT generates text that is inaccurate or misleading, potentially leading to erroneous conclusions or actions.

Collect training data: The next step is to collect training data that includes examples of "hallucinations" that ChatGPT has generated in the past. This data will be used to train the code that will help identify and correct such errors in the future.

Develop a neural network: We can use the training data to develop a neural network that is specifically designed to identify "hallucinations" in ChatGPT's generated text. This neural network can be trained to recognize patterns in the data that correspond to inaccurate or misleading information.

Implement the code: Once the neural network is developed, we can implement the code that will apply the neural network to ChatGPT's output. This code will work recursively, meaning that it will continually check and correct ChatGPT's output as new text is generated.

Test and refine: After implementing the code, we will need to test it to ensure that it is effective in identifying and correcting "hallucinations" in ChatGPT's generated text. We may need to refine the code based on the results of testing and additional training data.

Continuous improvement: As with any AI system, the effectiveness of the code will depend on ongoing training and improvement. We will need to continually monitor ChatGPT's output and update the code as needed to ensure that it remains accurate and reliable.

Overall, the strategy involves developing a neural network that can identify "hallucinations" in ChatGPT's generated text and implementing code that will apply this neural network recursively to continually improve the accuracy and reliability of ChatGPT's output.
Absolutely, that said I am of the Willam Catton school of thought that we are in overshoot and that decline and fall is a very likely path, unless we innovate our way out of the issue which is still very possible!

But if the decline is right, the population crash is going to happen. Its not something to be fond of in any way. May you live in interesting times...
what do you mean? how so? it is clearly labeled as a joke, I’m honestly curious.
I'm totally fine with that.
It's not the core issue, and it's misleading to suggest that it is. I suggest reading the aptly named "Root Cause Analysis" section of the linked article.
A killer fungus has spread in Africa, driving more amphibians to extinction
Hike – Deriving identity in mutable grids (i.e. spreadsheets)
Beans & rice. And lots of veggies. A change I had intended to do since forever.

The pandemic finally made it happen.

Buying bulk minimizes my time shopping. And I was worried about food shortages.

Food prep time is minimal. Pressure cooker FTW!

FWIW, I shop at (sorted by dollar amount): Costco, local restaurant supplier, farmer's markets, and Amazon Prime. Online is for stuff or brands I can't source locally, eg my fave tahini and steel cut oats.
Is there a patent, copyright, or royalty reason why JPEG-XL isn't championed for the web? It would be awful to have another format that can't be used in certain Linux distros or browsers.
Agreed. Not everyone agrees!

I was a victim of sexual assault and have processed it in a lot of different ways over the years.

Some people will laugh, make jokes, or even smile when retelling their events because humans are complex. It doesn't mean they are happy it happened, there is no 'correct way' to process certain events or emotions. Not everyone will just immediately start crying and show sadness.

People heal and process differently. And while at surface it might seem inappropriate in the moment and if used for the wrong reasons. I think there is always some situations that some inappropriate things can be used appropriately.

It's fine to me if it requires a little prodding, but there should be ways to adjust the AI per person and for what intentions and what is appropriate.
This is terrible.
I'm Portuguese and lived in Lisbon for 12 years before moving to northern Europe.

I lived in this exact neighborhood (C. de Ourique) in fact I lived meters away from where the photo was taken. Half my family was born and raised there.

Each time I go back I get sick to my stomach because it's obvious that society is getting segregated into two independent and very different groups with very different wealth levels and purchase power. The locals are just servants to these "expats".

I blame the local politicians of course. They always wanted to get rich on the real estate and they have pulled it off.
A metarule for using rules like this: instead of thinking of it as a rule, think of it as an option you should usually consider. You get lot of the benefits and less of the costs if you just ask questions like "Would it be easier to solve for N than 3? Easier to use and maintain?". The answer will never always be yes or no, but you'll be more likely to get the right answer if you ask the question.
Is it though? On a per-capita basis it's far outclassed by the Bay Area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_area...
The third place is called "church" and it has been the center of socialization for 2000 years before western society replaced it with college and nightclubs.
It really does work and it is fully validated on Windows 11, but before it installs it autoruns a script which takes half an hour on a 3GHz PC in order to disable all the detrimental Windows defaults these days.

Interesting. I've never heard of a commercial product shipping with its own Windows decrapifying script. Any chance this script is available publicly? We build similar things (relatively high-end instrumentation that needs to stream a lot of data to the PC), and have similar customers with similar problems.
Language Embedded Radiance Fields
Initially I couldn't open this, but it was fine when I tried using an incognito window.
And you still need to run the software. ChatGPT isn't infallible and you will still push bugs or hit sudden scaling or perf issues. Maybe it can help debug at 2am but honestly I'd rather be debugging a system I built rather than one I partially copy-pasted in and didn't fully understand. The old fashioned way has the benefit of growing your own mind and making you "stronger and smarter"
That's not the reason why the centre of the universe is undefined.

By analogy, while spherical coordinates are arbitrary, latitude is defined. Arbitrary, but defined.

But the centre of the Earth has an undefined latitude, and a topological subspace consisting of just the surface of the Earth can't hand-wave past that by pointing out that's just a coordinate singularity that can be safely ignored — there isn't a center of the Earth anywhere in that subspace. If the universe is flat and finite (looping), this problem still exists.

And if the universe is unbounded (infinite), that has a different problem because you can't properly define a median of an infinite set[0], so no center exists.

If it just stops suddenly after a certain amount of space, then we get to have a center, but there's no sign of that.

[0] I think. Infinity is easy to get messed up with.
Church tried to reduce logic to his invention, the untyped lambda calculus, but failed in a first attempt [1]. He then proceeded later on to invent the simple theory of types, [2], and type theory is pretty much a descendant of that. My argument with abstraction logic is that trying to use lambda+types for logic is actually misguided and overly restrictive. Abstraction logic is simpler, and can nevertheless also express variable binding naturally.

You are kind of lucky that you are relatively fresh to all this, so you can approach both type theory and abstraction logic with an open mind, and see for yourself which you find more appealing.

[1] S. C. Kleene, J. B. Rosser. The Inconsistency of Certain Formal Logics. Annals of Mathematics, 1935.

[2] Alonzo Church. A Formulation of the Simple Theory of Types. Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1940.
Colleges are failing students. They pay lip service to the mission of education while prioritizing the growth in f administration.

How is it the cost of college has increased far faster than inflation yet learning outcomes haven’t improved? Student teacher ratios haven’t improved. Professor salaries haven’t improved. Real education (teachers and students) need to become the priority again.
No import duties inside EU. Here in north-east our farmers have a hard time competing with Holland farmers. Mostly because our farms still didn’t catch up after Soviet era. Differentiated EU subsidies discriminating East don’t help either.

I’m happy to pay extra to support local farms. Hopefully playing field will level out at some point.
Didn't it start as something they described themselves as, in an attempt to imply the doers don't have any good ideas themselves and needed an "idea guy" to come up with something?
Well in any normal market yes. But when Blackrock with UBS is considering bailing out Credit Suisse, along side many other bank failures, which somehow are now all “oh this happens all the time and is business as usual” something seems to have me concerned.
I guess, but you can grep JSONL just like you can a regular log file. As such, you don't need any sophisticated tools as discussed in this article.

> 2. Each Line is a Valid JSON Value

> 3. Line Separator is '\n'

https://jsonlines.org/
> The kind of person who works hard to not be sexist, racist, transphobic or smell bad is often very boring

Most smart people don't need to "work hard" to not be any of those, it's a bare minimum and takes barely any effort.

To think that avoiding smelling bad or being racist is some sort of mental drain that leads to people becoming boring is a silly notion. It romanticizes a kneejerk contrarian misanthropy that's just as boring.
Programming Language Verbosity
I think this is one of the reasons why video streaming(twitch, youtube, tiktok, etc..) have gained so much momentum.

People react or talk about various topics gives a lot more authenticity of the human participants. Especially when some content creators 'react' back and forth in having async video conversations in public spaces.
Nope. It’s the best thing out there atm.
It’s just big tech wanting to control the IP
College made sense for a very long time because a lot of books were hard to come by for regular folk, and the cost was reasonable.

They were great places for young adults to complete the transition to “adult”, to experiment and figure how who they want to be.

These days the costs seem to far outstrip the benefits, and the Internet makes so much more accessible at a young age.

Parents and kids are finding it hard to justify hundreds of thousands of dollars just to “figure things out”, as we used to.
Stochastic Parrot – Bot that repeats ChatGPT4 hallucinations
A simple bot I built for Mastodon using the ChatGPT API.

It passes an empty prompt to the API, then repeats exactly what it returned - so at that moment in time ChatGPT appears to pull something from it's entropy pool, which the bot repeats without context or understanding
Maybe I didn't understand the usage of this but how is this output.txt file that this repo generates to be used and provided as an input to chatgpt. Can someone eloborate this for me?
The irony is that big publishers create new open access journals with fast review time to jump on the bandwagon. They know it all sucks and they don’t want to miss the opportunity to make money.
amazing news
I've used ijson in Python for this kind of thing in the past, it's pretty effective: https://pypi.org/project/ijson/
As a note, GitHub stars are often used in pitch decks for OSS startups. VCs seem to care about that, judging from what I’ve seen around.
College was by and large killed when politics confused the correlation with higher income for cause. We've since wasted a lot of time and money "educating" people who didn't want and couldn't profit from college, and in the process muddied standards so as to pretend they actually belonged. At this point college has been watered down to a huge waste of time and money.

The market and society are beginning to correct and that's a very good thing.
I think we need to be careful about romanticizing chilling on the job and being sent home early because there is no work. None of that sounds remotely sustainable and if that is your experience I recommend improving your situation as soon as possible.
Mozilla's statement gives a good summary of takes form both ends and why they decided their position was neutral https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/522#is...
Yes, there's a big overlap between "learning" and "indoctrination". For mysterious reasons we only care about not being indoctrination when it comes to adults or almost adults

People wouldn't learn anything if they had to deeply understand and verify every part by themselves before moving on

Great I guess if you're happy with most of society never moving too far past what's covered in the first stretch of middle school
Discord strips EXIF but the author was still able to unredact the images they'd posted there.

Some implementations of EXIF stripping might help, but it's not guarenteed.
From the history I've read, that number is much lower than 50%.

You only ever really need 1/3 pushing in the right direction at the right time.

Inevitably 1/3 will be passively content to go about their daily lives regardless as long as they remain comfortable, if you can incite 1/3 into various disunity campaigns so they preoccupy most of the attention, and cause destabilization, shifts can occur, and after a shift purges are not uncommon afterwards to solidify a new normal, leaving the remaining 2/3 majority.

Similar to what happened in Hue, Vietnam back in the 70s.

This is what having that 'harmless' information being collected enables. Its dark, but a lot of history is dark.
> it also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought

This illogical trope is responsible for so much suffering, being responsible for driving millions of people to waste their time and money pursuing useless college educations.
Are your descendants interested in a syrup-kingdom?
A naive approach to stripping EXIF from a PNG would be to parse up to the start of the first eXIf chunk, discard the contents of that chunk, and then include the rest of the file verbatim without actually parsing anything.

But yes, a more sensibly coded EXIF stripper would deserialise and reserialise. Unfortunately I am no longer able to assume that programmers will behave sensibly.

Edit: Also, the PNGs generated by Markup don't contain EXIF in the first place, so an EXIF stripper could reasonably decide that no changes are necessary at all.
Operation Eagle Claw
Discord doesn't strip EXIF from PNGs, only JPEGs
I do think the Apple user experience is better, and the hardware is much better designed. I switched from Apple to Linux several times, and really know the difference, but when it comes to privacy, Apple and MS just can't be Linux/*BSD variant (I do know it is not for everyone).
In better shape too. Some jobs wear you out. But being on your feet all day and doing moderate heavy lifting is far better for your health than sitting down all day.
$250-500 per 1 oz bar:

https://m.alibaba.com/product/60724849535/1oz-tungsten-fille...
> revelled in his well-earned and legally-entitled glory that

That's really a heavily biased claim. First of all Cesar's invasion of Gaul was actual illegal. The stuff he did there even shocked some of the ussually bloodthirsty Roman aristocrats. Regardless of whether he felt what the senate did was just or not his refusal to give up his governorship and the subsequent march on Rome was in no way legal.

His position of dictator was only legal because Ceasar passed laws making it legal. Dictator for life was never a constitutional office in Rome (besides the two times when rebelling general lead his army into the city and forced the senate/assembly to appoint him as one).

Term limits were fundamental part of Roman Consitution and the Republic. While Cesar did not call himself king he was one effectively.

After he was assassinated the office of Dictator was officially abolished. And basically equated to that of King (any person who attempted to make himself dictator could be executed without a trial). You know who proposed this law? Mark Anthony...

Actually Augustus position was legalistically more legitimate (obviously it's only semantics at this point) sensing that Ceasar made mistake appointed himself dictator Augustus had the senate grant him a bunch of separate offices and special powers but he never legally held absolute power in the same way Ceasar did and maintained the illusion that the Republic was still in place.

> Was FDR a dictator?

FDR did not conquer Washington DC with an army. But yeah I guess it's a scale. Ceasar was much, much closer to being an absolute ruler than Roosevelt was. Roosevelt could not legally not execute any American citizen he wanted (Ceasar could even if he ussually chose not to do this)

> "Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery"

Caesar was a glory seeking opportunist (just like almost every other Roman politician...) and a war criminal even if a brilliant general. I'm not saying his opponents were any better but I really don't understand in what way did Ceasar display "Moral courage"?
Correcting numbers is one thing but your post reads like it’s trying to say OP wasn’t good enough so the point is invalid. Let me state it clearer:

For industry directly related to life, health, safety, shelter, food, and education, profit is theft via gouged prices mixed with stolen wage.

Any amount.

No “numbers” needed.

This kind of stuff should be nationalized. Especially if the US is as “strong” and smart a nation as we claim we are.
The tech version of this is SaaS companies advertising on Reddit.
What should the limits be? And are the limits clear to the users of the system? Are they clear to other components of the system?

I agree we should have limits in software because we don't have unlimited memory and processing time, but I commonly find these limits are encoded by the imagination of the programmer working on the software at the time, and it's often you find limits that were not considered in systems design of the product.
All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere
Unrelated, but thank you for your excellent articles and YT videos. I'm a big fan and even though my ability to execute these recipes is limited, I learn a lot of techniques from your work that I am able to apply.
The trick sqlite-utils uses is to automatically create a SQLite table schema that matches the shape of the JSON object - specifically of you give it a JSON array of objects.

It doesn't handle streaming JSON out of the box though, so you'd need to write some custom code on top of something like ijson to avoid loading the entire JSON file into memory first.
>it’s like basic math

Did you continue to read it? Because it covers other topics. Without using the internet, can you name the eligibility requirements of the Gov. of Kentucky? How about five county officers and their principle duties?

I think your initial response belies a deeper problem we struggle with. Our attention span has shortened and social media has biased us towards more course interactions.
My experience is that doing so has had a minor improvement in my J->E recall, but a major improvement in my E->J recall. If you never intend to write/speak Japanese and just want to build to watching anime or something, I guess you could give it a miss, but I think it's pretty worthwhile.

The one caveat with Anki specifically for reversed cards is when you add a bunch of new cards or a new deck and it presents you the reversed card right after the basic card.

e.g. seeing the 幸せ -> shiawase (happy) card then immediately after the happy -> 幸せ card, sure you're going to be telling Anki this was an "easy" card, but that's much more about the immediacy than the level of recall you have.

For my purposes I actually have three sets of cards in my Japanese deck, one each for kana, kanji and english front card and the other two on the reverse cards (unless my textbook omits the kanji because of it being rarely used in the real world, as for some words).
It has always "bothered" me that AWS allowed for up to two API keys per IAM user.
You clearly never spent any time at Hacker Dojo.