skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
background info if useful:

PDF/A is a specification that limits what features of PDF are allowed. The purpose is to not allow features that may be problematic for archiving.

Initially PDF/A was really strict and prevented things like transparencies since they affected reproducibility when printing and embedded files etc.

Then people requested less restricted versions to allow more archiving use cases.

But even the newer less restrictive versions have a more well defined and verifiable specification than the main pdf specification.
There was even PDO and a bridge to MS OLE

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

Loong long ago…
Here the media claim that the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD had penetrated the network of the Russian "Cozy Bear" group for more than a year and caught them pretty much live on camera while they hacked the Democratic Party.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/dutch-agencies-provide-...

Wow, I wasn't aware how far the tentacles of the DNC establishment reach if they paid for that as you say!
I am not well-versed in this field so I may have misinterpreted and they may have been talking about subcontractors. The friends I refer to work at one of those large consulting firms and they are complaining about the people they pay, not those who pay them.
It's all about use cases.

I as a graphic designer have been using ConTeXt for more than 10 years now, and I think it's amazing for producing more 'custom' documents and handling typography and stuff. LaTeX and Word fall too short in that purpose.

I guess Typst more of a tool oriented for programmers and computer science people as it seems targeted to give some programming power right into their documents. I may be wrong, but I don't see LaTeX that approachabe from that way (unless you have a decent knowledge of TeX and you are not prone to headaches caused by backslashes).
House this one:

https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/pizza-hut-big-new-yorker...
The use of the word “allegedly” is standard practice for reputable new organisations reporting on an individual being charged, but not yet convicted.

A core tenet of the justice system is the idea that your innocence until proven guilty. Hence the use of the word “allegedly”, by default any claims made by the government shouldn’t be treated as proven, until they’ve proved them in a court of law.

To assume that a law enforcement official, or prosecutors charges are true before they’ve proven them in a court of law would be to ignore due process. To publish those charges as facts, would be libel.
The Republican Senate report verified nearly all of the points in the Mueller report. Their incentives were 100% aligned with finding nothing and yet..

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

The irony of people in this thread not reading primary sources and instead relying on weird "news" reports that nothing was found is a bit much.
> Sure, a lot of people saw those perks as being aimed a particular demographic: young people without attachments who were willing to spend nearly 168 hours each week on site. And a lot of us saw the selection of perks as those most likely to attract that demographic.

It reflects the demographics of the early employees and founders.
What exactly is an SXM5 socket? It sounds like a PCIe competitor, but proprietary to nvidia. Looking at it, it seems specific to nvidia DGX (mother?)boards. Is this just a "better" alternative to PCIe (with power delivery, and such), or fundamentally a new technology?
I wonder how this compares to AMD Instinct MI300 128GB HBM3 cards?
I was just about to ask, "Is this still coincidence, or have we jumped straight to enemy action?"

That two different tools fail in the same, "surface level invisible" but mighty convenient, and "Whoopsie, file operations are hard!" way... raises some interesting questions.

Mostly, "What else of this nature is present in all our modern operating systems?" Because this sort of failure sure looks an awful lot like the "Underhanded C" contest from 2008: http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html Redact an image, while leaking a lot of information in the process to someone who "knows the trick."

> This is an excellent example of the contest’s philosophy: make the code extremely simple, innocent, obvious, and wrong.
Let me be facetious here.

If GPT-4 was truly all that, it would be classified and at work in Ukraine (or somewhere) right now. Not running Akinator-tier promo marketing gigs.
open AI is the continuation of the liberal, neo democrat agenda. I thought we were in the age of disinformation with medias, social networks and censorship those past few years and thought with a slight relief that Elon Musk buying twitter would be the end of an era and that mankind will be brought back to a safe space where debates are seen as enriching, divergence of opinion as a strength but boy was I wrong. it was just the last sign of an old world trying to fight against a demon of smoke, revealing to all of us a new woke world where AI are agents of disinformation that will shape mankind through the woke agenda of the 1% for the good of no one but them.

truly evil. and all the people praising what chatgpt can do will be the first one to tell us that they warned us back then.
"If you use this option then your passwords will not be stored securely. Any program or person that can read your files can also read your passwords."
YTsaurus: Open-source big data platform for distributed storage and processing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04730

> How can we explain the predictions of a black-box model? In this paper, we use influence functions -- a classic technique from robust statistics -- to trace a model's prediction through the learning algorithm and back to its training data, thereby identifying training points most responsible for a given prediction.
I just do not see how anyone sees this as complex.

Some people were given free money.
They used that free money in risky investments to make more money.
With al this free money asset prices (housing) increased.
The free money is not there anymore.
Those same people are making way less money.
With much less money housing prices will decrease.

War did not cause the crash, the crash is causing war. How do you think we got out of the Great Depression?
Also, certain camera brands are less affected than others. Fuji is probably doing better than its ever done these days and has trouble keeping inventory in stock from demand, whereas nikon is at a historic low.
This is not replacing Google Search. Bing has integrated GPT that is indeed better at this.
maybe/probably UBS said to the govt, "we'll take this bank over if you cancel all these payouts as part of the deal"

frequently in acquisitions/mergers/spinoffs, all the bad news is delivered before the deal so the new management can start fresh, and blame anything before on their predecessors.
You should try ConTeXt.
Can we talk for a moment about the name `Bard`? Is this really the best thing Google Marketing could come up with?

It's like they're not even trying anymore. SMH.
given all the world's pain and suffering that has been caused by the GUI, i fear AI for the first time...
I just had my first assistance from ChatGPT today, courtesy of a "junior" (I would prefer "less-experienced") engineer. He wanted to click a web button as part of his work on improving our steam engine (ok, calibration system) so I worked out the URL for the button and the appropriate curl incantation to trigger it. Gave him the URL and suggest he twiddled some python to do it.

About an hour later he came back, told me he'd asked ChatGPT to write the code for him and yes, it did work.

Anyway, thing is it really made me think about how much of the grunt/support work can potentially be offloaded like this; in this case it really did save us both some time.

On the other hand, when I've played with it before, it got stuff really badly wrong (ever tried ego-surfing with it?).
>case in point: the post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. the entire United States media apparatus united to gaslight the populace into consenting to an foreign-soil military invasion on incredibly shaky grounds, that were later proven to be completely false

The invasion of Afghanistan was over their harboring of Bin Laden, and there's very strong evidence he was there until shortly after the start of the war. I have plenty of criticism of the Afghanistan war, for starters the invasion was illegal under international law, but the "reason" we invaded was likely true.
> If they want to spam a million users they could do that too, although these kinds of things are typically not done this way

That seems like a convenient assertion not based on evidence.

Without trying to sound confrontational, it appears as if you are a current employee of Google, which might have colored your comment and should probably have been disclosed.
Yesterday I tryed to make PDFs smaller by "save as" or "print as PDF". They just got larger each time (up to 3x larger).
What other topics are you looking to cover? It would be nice if you showed a table of contents for lessons or future lessons.
Preserving PDFs for future generations is like preserving radioactive waste for them. It's inevitable they'll end up with lots, and they won't thank us for it, but we should at least try to contain the mess.
more comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248296
> Should we optimize for the passionate or the passionless?

We should optimize for the scenario that brings forth the greatest level of widespread happiness. For those who feel like they are "wasting their lives in meaningless corporate wage slavery", is the better alternative for them to do nothing or be faced with an environment where there is not even the opportunity to contribute and potentially no social safety net to prevent despair?

> This is an attitude problem.

The "attitude problems" derived from the mass removal of things that people derive legitimate purpose in are exactly the kind of thing we should be worried about when it comes to AI and automation replacing work, because enough people with "attitude problems" about this kind of thing are a recipe for mass societal unrest.

> I myself am learning to sketch

Can you fill every waking day with sketching and other similar hobbies? Does sketching give you meaning and purpose? If so, that's great, but sketching isn't going to do it for the vast majority of people who derive a sense of purpose and accomplishment from productive work and being able to positively contribute to society, not to mention independently provide for themselves and their families.
Besides the hamster dance there was no one moment when the internet showed us its potential. Rather it was gradual.
Its a acquired taste.. it was a fascinating insight though, into a luxurious, post-scarcity societies tolerance for extremes, as long as they all did what they did out of choice, not even a machine could overrule them.

I love, how the tragic choices of the "organics" are mirrored hinted as part of the PTSD of the orbital in "Look to the winward", which can "relive" the destruction of orbitals, ships and worlds in the idiran war in perfect detail. It could have zapped the mindstates of the mortals, like the meat-fucker (Sleeper Service), but choose to not do so out of respect for the choices.

The whole book part of the orbital, was a careful flashed out testing of the extremes of a highly hedonistic, machine governed society thrown in a "culture" war against religious zealots and it explored those themes well.
Water has a tendency to get into places it's not supposed to. I'd hate for a roof leak to cause a warehouse explosion.
Disconnected? No. Oracle pays for 95+% of all OpenJDK commits. Their OracleJDK is pretty much just an OpenJDK with a few logos added — they have over time made every proprietary feature open-source and available in OpenJDK.

But as I expanded a bit more here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35249701 ), Java is probably the safest bet from a code longevity perspective.
TLDR: we will accept all content no matter how wrong as long as it makes us truckloads of money

The new google ranking algorithm is just: "sort by how many of our ads get clicked on these pages"
> To be clear, he does highlight some of the downsides, but his responses are just "handwavy" in my opinion.

“the government should fix that”

Narrator: the government didn’t fix it.
Not too different.

* We use heuristic based searches whereas mcfly trains a neural network
* We offer a sync functionality to share history on multiple machines

mcfly is a great project, although they are looking for new maintainers apparently!
yt-dl and a batch file that I run with Task Scheduler every day has brought me some relief with regard to ephemeral content on youtube. I also grab the subtitles and throw them into a database so that I can find a video by something I remembered they said in a certain episode.
This means that symmetric cryptography is safe from quantum computing.

Before, folks were saying we had to double the key length.
I like Bill Gates - out of the major iconic tech personas, he is one of the most interesting to me. Yes he kind of didn't see internet or phones coming, so it's not like he is an oracle, but he is right on many issues too. I think he is right on this one as well.

The most intriguing prediction was the medical one. He envisions training "medical AIs" that can act as a source of knowledge in poorer countries. Honestly, sounds madness to tell someone to rely on a LLM for medical advice today, although I can kind of imagine it happening over time as we get better at taming them.
autojump -s gets you the entries in the database.

You have to parse it to extract the directories without all the metadata it spits out.

Then you probably need to write a shell function in your preferred shell to tie the pieces together, as well as assign it to a keybinding. It's not too hard.

I use xonsh for my shell, so my config probably won't help. And doing it in xonsh is probably a lot messier than doing it in Bash.
Got it, so you have a general aversion to copyright, the concept of intellectual property, and to an extent, the funding of knowledge work I'm assuming?

You didn't carve out any exceptions, hence my assumption.
This does not apply to the original Snipping Tool (the one that's 'moving...').

New iterations of classic Snipping Tool require more clicks and the implementation is worse too.
Yeah, my comment was based on my experience in the software world. It's definitely true that there area lot of VPs of one variety or another at banks, even for individual contributors. Super weird, but it's been that way forever.
Interesting. I've always at least signed an offer letter, which is a contract laying out what the job is, how much I'll be paid, specifying at-will employment, etc. I'm sure European contracts are more involved, but I don't think I would ever take a job without the employer at least agreeing to pay me in writing.
Use of Weapons is typically what I recommend as the first book to read, it was mine, and it was mind blowing.
The Chair...
It's not that perf is not important, but not having enough VRAM means you can't load the model of a given size at all.

I'm not saying they shouldn't bother with RAM at all, mind you. But given some target price, it's a balance thing between compute and RAM, and right now it seems that RAM is the bigger hurdle.
It is open for me to use as I please. And I don't want to destroy their business. I can understand your ideological drive, but in reality it doesn't matter until you behave unethically and steal their intellectual property. Do you want that?
Some sources actually say the NS prefix in Cocoa/OpenStep classes stands for NeXT/Sun.

(others say it’s simply NeXTSTEP, however considering that those classes had a NX prefix initially, the NeXT/Sun bit might actually be closer to truth)
Talking to ChatGPT is like talking to a marketing ad copy robot. (Not surprising, because that's basically what it is.) I couldn't imagine something more square and unhip for kids-these-days.

It can't even parrot this year's memes!
LLM-based AI is tech's equivalent of mortgage-backed securities. Lump in the bad stuff with the legitimate, hope no one notices, and when they do, blame the inherent black-box nature of the product.
A shoutout to home-manager, where it's just programs.fzf.enableBashIntegration = true;
Do you offer a self-hosted solution? If not, it's going to be a tall order to get many companies to be willing to hand over their codebases.
Since it's not available in our countries, we cannot do much but complain, can we?
This is a very good and common question we get, thanks for bringing it to the discussion. We have a very strong conviction that these kinds of tools have to be open-source to solve this trust issue.

In fact, we wrote this blog post where we talk about how we're building this without storing your code or passing it through our server at all: https://www.watermelontools.com/post/building-a-code-archeol...

You still have to give us read access to your GitHub, Slack, Jira, etc. Which is still asking for access to corporate info, but you know... people are very used to giving access to these tools via oAuth flows.

Regarding running on dev computers, we have one answer to that: Providing value as a GitHub Action. We still haven't launched it (it's gonna happen very soon), but our hypothesis is that by packaging the product in such format, we'll be able to address that very valid concern.

Thanks!
I don't understand his reasoning behind this point. Previous productivity advancements in history didn't free us, because technology seemingly has little to do with this. Let's say AI will do your job - will you be free from responsibility of daunting task or free from opportunity to afford next rent payment? What's the difference? Why would we spend more time on X if X becomes cheaper? Is there even a single living person who got freedom through his job being automated except automata owners?
Oracle is the main contributor in both lines of code and financial backing to OpenJdk.
Intel graphics chief Raja Koduri leaves after five years battling Nvidia and AMD
I was going to point out how NPR dropped the ball [1] on the Hunter Biden story, but then found this followup [2] and i'm not sure how i feel. Is it a correction? A copout? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/npr-explained-why-its-not-...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2022/04/09/1091859822/more-details-emerg...
Now introducing the deferred deferred bonuses.
Copy it? Use a different image generator?

This is just one tool. It doesn't need to be fully general.
And that’s wrong because?
It's just a precaution for when they eventually breach your OS and dig out the machine's serial number from the BIOS. This will allow them to trace you to the reseller you used. But if you ordered to a dead drop in a random country and paid with a different cryptocurrency network each time THEY gain exactly zero information to profile you.

That, or the game against pervasive web tracking is lost.
See also:

Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246253

How about we use that thread for comments about the product itself, and this thread for comments about the waitlist/country/account restrictions.
It can write code, but doesn’t seem very good at it and often refuses.
I tried using the provided binary and it doesn't seem to work very well.

Using the basic syntax from the tutorial, I got this PDF rendering: https://shottr.cc/s/MVhq/SCR-20230321-ipq.png
The whole basis of current innovation is from Google, let's not forget.
Wouldn’t you only distribute illegal/immoral content if you were watching it? You only distribute things you yourself are streaming.
Hey there, thanks for your suggestion! Self-hosted is on the roadmap to be able to get enterprise customers for sure. We're focused on SMB right now so it's not the immediate focus, but we do recognize we need to integrate with the self hosted versions of GitHub, Slack, etc. to be able to go sell to the enterprise.
Io is way more dynamic than almost any other language you're thinking of. Yes, even Lisp and Smalltalk.

Arguments are passed to methods as unevaluated syntax trees and a method can decide at runtime whether or not to evaluate the argument expression, or not, or introspect over it, or mutate it.

It's like every function is a macro but macros can also choose at runtime to selectively evaluate some of their arguments.
Im posting this as an alt for what I think are obvious reasons.

If you're good at searching google, duckduckgo, various tor search engines and IPFS, child porn is not hard to find. (It is NOT my thing, btw. Ive ran across it in some tor researching. Alas.) However, in most states, possession is a statutory charge. To that end, it means if images end up on a computer <whistles>, and there's an anonymous tip, its going to end badly, cause with the statutory nature, simple possession is highly illegal.

Now to be fair, Stallman got into hot water due to his lacklustre way of expressing this issue. It's documentation of a heinous crime - one that should likely be a death penalty case - but the images themselves shouldn't carry criminal charge, let alone a statutory criminal charge. Frankly, thats due to how easy they are to acquire, and of a "youre guilty due to simple possession" aspect, even if you were unaware.

I also have to wonder, since a journalist doing research into classified govt stuff.. It's really easy to plant those images, and then find them. And you don't even need to hack into a computer. Just leave a thumbdrive hanging around with a label like "hard candy" in the premises, and instant 100+ year felony charge with automatic public assumption of guilt. Having such a "child porn charge" against a journalist doing sensitive research is certainly a great way to get that person permanently out of your hair, and to send a message to anyone else foolish enough to go near their work.
Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
“There is no API nor ABI break in this version.”, he wrote.
PHP - good mix between speed and scalability.
Boring but with combination of SQLite or MySQL can be hosted cheap everywhere.
The root cause is that TSMC raised prices in everyone.

Since Intel GPUs are again TSMC manufactured, you really aren't going to see price improvements unless Intel subsidizes all of this.
> which is an inexact model of the physical realm

Mathematics have nothing to do with the real world.

The set of all true statements provable with a set of axioms is determined only by the axioms. All the true statements are already true whether we know they are or not; in that sense math is like exploring the unknown land that exists outside of the physical realm. It's discovered.
Forgotten Weapons on YouTube has a video on the Armatix iP1 "smart" pistol, the technology behind it, it's development and why it was a commercial failure.
Thanks. Great post!
How would you divide a seed and/or A round between angels and VCs? Is there a perfect mix in your opinion or something you would be opportunistic about, depending on who is interested?
The top executives are likely good friends with board members and large shareholders.
> While the Committee does not describe the final result as a complete picture, this volume provides the most comprehensive description to date of Russia's activities and the threat they posed.

Subsequent to the Senate report, has any information corroborated the allegations about Manefort?
I'm not sure anyone is claiming that ChatGPT is going to steal their job. I think most people are just extrapolating the ridiculously steep rate of progression and pondering what the future holds.

Sure, maybe we're about to hit a wall. But I'm not seeing any evidence of that as it stands.

Also, it's not clear to me why it's impossible for an LLM to learn symbolic manipulation?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01412