skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where BioNTech had specialist competence in a technology which turned out to somewhat effective against the problem and Pfizer had massive funds, established contact network including decision makers and established ability to quickly run large clinical trials.
Neither of all that much use without the other. Taken together, an opportunity to conduct highly profitable business, mitigate a health emergency, and look great doing it.
There seems to be lessons about conditions for successful cooperation in the example, but I'm not so sure what they say is particularly encouraging about uniting nations.
Migrated from Linode to Hetzner. My workflow has stayed the same:

* Deploying using Git and Capistrano: `git push && cap production deploy` (aliased to cpd)

* Using Hetzner backups + daily backups to Tarsnap using cron

* Updating software by SSH-ing into a server and updating apt packages; I update Ruby gems locally

* For security, built-in firewall + ufw, two-factor authentication, public key-only authentication (SSH key is protected with a password), SSH running on a non-standard port with a non-standard username.

* I use sqlite as a database and caddy as a web server
Not a good example. Large parts of the population were resistant or showed very weak flu-like symptoms. You couldn't show the full hospital wards, the high death rates to all parts of society. You needed to force very invasive measures - closures, quarantines, getting a vaccination - with not much to effectively show what for. Conspiracies and resistance was then of course aloof. With an obvious external threat that would be different.
I think you can solve that by copying your codebase and releasing version 3 under a different app ID.
This is a very rich platform.

Probably a good candidate to compete with Minecraft (assuming the entire stack can be made easy to access).

Secretly I still dream we are able to build a 2023 version of an ultima online verse.
In the latest case it is not clear to everybody that the consequences are gonna be catastrophic. Therefore, everybody only sees that they will lose a lot when taking action.
Compilers all the way down!
UN lists [1] the right to work as a human right. Payment services are irreplaceable for all kinds of businesses, so a blanket denial of payment services is arguably already a violation of human rights.

[1]: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights
A lot of assumptions there:

1. Software engineers have job mobility.

2. Software engineers who work from home are the best people.
I got this strange feeling that this article is behind the Times. The gaming industry has been getting progressively closer to the movie industry for about 20 years. I think they already have converged
While that's technically true also in EU, the salaries are quite directly comparable, because these benefits are a much smaller portion of total compensation than in USA, as the difference between e.g. no employer-provided health insurance and very good extra health insurance is simply not that much money in EU, and also because similar job roles offer a roughly similar level of benefits.

Like, if I'm comparing two offers, the difference in money value of the benefits provided by the best offer and the worst offer (let's assume that apart from some fancy words they're really providing the bare minimum required by EU law) is going to be at most something like 10% of the compensation - but the difference in offered salary may easily be much, much more than that.

Sure, things like performance-determined pay/bonuses may be a big part of the total compensation in some areas (e.g. sales) but not as much as in USA, and benefits even less so; in EU market generally the contracted amount is not that far from the total compensation.
That’s categorically false, their revenue is tied to their userbase, if they were more popular Google would cut them a larger check like they do for Safari.
Dokku is great, I switched to it from Capistrano and never looked back.
No, it's actually pretty close. German werknemer is Arbeitnehmer.
It reads the image twice, once for the checksum test then again when actually displaying it - so it's even possible to show a different logo by replacing that data in-between
Show HN: Web demo of 13B Alpaca-LLaMA trained on improved Stanford dataset
Bruh Scott Adams is a loon.
In a pandemic, politicians have no incentive to give up on their autonomy as their electorate doesn't demand a global solution.

If a meteor is about to wipe out everything, global interests are actually aligned. That's not the case in a pandemic.
That's exactly the same model of attracting new users when compared to PDD in China. PDD fraudulently promises to provide users with coupons in return if one tries to attract more users. The required invitation count starts at 5 for example, but as the user invites more victims, the required number of invitees grows indefinitely. By claiming that the user has completed 99.99% of the required invitation, the app can actually attract hundreds of new users before the inviter is finally aware that it's just a scam.

ref: (in Chinese, of course)
https://view.inews.qq.com/k/20220119A06Z9L00?web_channel=wap...
That is unsubstantiated. How would we know that the same people complained about code cleanups and not having a file picker? Do you have any proof?

Users like me who got annoyed by never being able to easily select the wanted image (when in a gtk app), for many many years now, had no insight into any architectural changes or code cleanups of gtk4. So there weren't any complains from this group there.

This is the typical "everyone is against us" you often hear from the gnome side. It's a shame to read this under such a nice release, which has only positive changes as far as I can see, it really seems to address a lot of the criticism in a good way.
This was refreshing. Now let's talk about logging and metrics!
It's the path that requires the least action.
This emulator resulted from basically combining two projects: an investigation into alternative architectural features for computer systems and an alternate history of Earth touching, among other things, the IT industry. I therefore personally call it a work of both fiction and research, a prototype of and glimpse into what else could have plausibly existed.

Its chief characteristic is its system architecture, which in particular combines capability-based addressing with an experimental interrupt mechanism. It does have its own ISAs and leans heavily towards a mainframe-style organisation (processors and channels), but it is intended to be extensible and adaptable to other situations and/or smaller systems. There is no assembler yet, however; I am implementing it, but a lot of details need to be fixed.

I have tested building it on Linux and Windows; on macOS using Xcode, the C++ standard might have to be set to C++ 17 to build (linked to an unordered_map in one of the includes using an enum class as a key).

Thanks in advance for your attention and feedback.

P.S. I am in CET so replies can take several hours, just a heads-up.
If Apple employs anyone working on “AI”, I would not describe them as having any talent.

At least not based on Siri’s usefulness.
Companies will just align to offer the same base salary and will differentiate through bonuses.
Deploying a fixed number.of instances to a fixed number of servers does not imply doing it manually.
You’re just making things up now. Person B doesn’t have to “file a ream of identify documents” or keep watch on regulations to put $1k into Bitcoin.

As for taxes, you owe them on lottery winnings as well. And for any non trivial amount, you will pay them.
Interesting point. CPU designers and compiler experts have worked almost the same way to optimize the execution performance.
Copenhagen is in Denmark how does that say anything about Italy?

Anyway, European countries have plenty of boondoggles. Germany’s Berlin Brandenburg Airport was a 30 year project requiring multiple legal battles etc. construction took 11 years where the initial €2.83 billion budget over ran to €6.5 billion due to massive design flaws, construction issues, poor management, multiple lawsuits etc.

Asia has similar issues, China for example does plenty of big infrastructure projects because its infrastructure is so behind, but it’s projects have massive issues. The Three Gorges Dam for example ballooned from $8.35 billion to $37 billion.
> If you see their investigations and numbers, you probably think Pinduoduo is fine (really, take look the report)

That's... not the impression I got? Pinduoduo is called out as the app that uses the most Android permissions (all four tested); while many apps are found to access the clipboard, only Pinduoduo and Taobao upload the content, and unlike Taobao, Pinduoduo doesn't just do this during a product search but also when not using the app. It's not as bad as other apps on some aspects (Suning Yigou requesting location 1199 times in the background, really?) but doesn't exactly look fine either.

My guess is that CNCERT collected this information with a test harness that logged access to standard Android APIs and wasn't designed to detect exploits; they'll need to up their game next time.
Precisely. It's certainly not an issue exclusive to the .NET ecosystem but it is a minor annoyance in my day to day life. On the plus side it only affects work on legacy projects that haven't been migrated yet. One day will be the last day that someone needs to add "-Core", "-Code", "-.NET5", "+Framework" etc. to their search queries and that will be a happy day!

Griping about a minor inconvenience isn't to say that I don't think it was the correct decision. The new .NET is already far better than Framework, in how the platform is progressing and the development experience.
Mystery of our first interstellar visitor may be solved – Science – AAAS
The pandemic doesn't have a clear fix. Lockdown, vaccinations, etc. only slowed it down. Even China's extreme measures to achieve zero COVID was not able to make it happen.
Applying your own reasoning, what evidence would convince you that every money-making industry is necessarily driven by profit?
Aaand it got suspended.
Is it a moral judgement? Or is it an extremely high number of chargebacks making it unprofitable?

I don’t think payment processors care, but they have margins they want to maintain. Dipping their margins for particular companies or industries would be making a moral decision.

For your mutual fund, I expect similar in that weed stocks aren’t performing as well as they once were and aren’t projected to perform as well so they no longer fit the targets of your fund. I’d read the prospectus before assuming some moral aversion to weed.
A) Tune out anything realtors tell you if you want to be an intelligent consumer.
B) Volume has collapsed because people in homes with low rate morts can't move. These prices are "less solid" because liquidity is poor.

In Austin prices are def. down ~ 8%, after this hike and sustained layoffs I am betting it will shed another 8 by the end of summer...
>> The leak appears to be essentially just weights. The copyrightability of weights is the central and perhaps only issue.

You’re wrong, there’s a material and significant amount of copyrighted material related to LLaMa which is critical to running it. If you’re so confident it’s legal, feel free to link to a guide on how to LLaMa that uses the only materials originally provided by Facebook so it’s possible to assess the system’s dependencies on legally protected materials. Next, feel free to link to build that is not bound to any property claims by Facebook.

>> If you didn't sign the contract or induce the breach then it isn't relevant

Again, this is not true, that’s property laundering; see above comments, repeating points I have already made will not add to this discussion. If anything is unclear, let me know, but claim that party is not bound to an agreement related to legally protected property (not referring to the weights) if they launder it is obviously invalid, since if it was, no property for which the terms of use were separable from the property itself would be enforced; again, party would receive a cease and desist with a copy of the terms of use.

>> That's a non-argument. Everything is ultimately up to the courts despite the letter of the law.

No, if a legally it’s material. There is a massive difference between clean-room reverse engineering a systems from property that’s free from any claims — and referencing materials that are subject to claims to build a new system. Further, it is my position it is impossible to do a clean-room build in this situation. As a result, the only way anyone would have any confidence that a new system was free from material claims is as a result of a ruling.

____

Beyond the prior points above, worth noting Facebook has already begun taking legal actions against developers related to LLaMa leak, so it’s clear they have no intention of releasing the weight for commercial use. Here’s an example:

https://github.com/shawwn/llama-dl
Arlington ends single-family-only zoning
No? At times, eu-internal borders were closed, for some time the fall of the european union was a serious concern. And that's within a political union.

It was each country on their own.
I actually disagree here pretty heavily and think that this doc is due to the bar for competent developers going down in recent years (due to the rise in necessity for more developers of course). There's almost an expectation that powerful tooling should be dumbed down.

The entire doc is written around two common problems:

* You don’t need Effects to transform data for rendering
* You don’t need Effects to handle user events

Both of these problems do not occur if you take the time to understand the tooling React gives you. The events point should be a given, that's just React 101 (and yet they have to spell it out to people...).

You don't end up using useEffect to transform props/state and generate new state if you understand that those things are just variables and you can instantiate new variables using them inside the scope of the component function.

"But that's inefficient because of how re-rendering works".

Great, you understand how re-rendering works but haven't gotten familiar with the useMemo hook. Come back when you've gotten familiar with the primitives available to you in React and how they can all work together in different ways, there's not that many of them!

This doc reads to me like a DIY store publishing an article about how you shouldn't hammer in screws even if it kinda seems like you could if you didn't take the time to understand hammers, screws, and nails. It's sad that it needs to exist but that's the current state of engineering.
Ah yes, the good ol' trick old as scammers themselves, investment pamphlets with secret sauces, magically unavailable those holding US passports because some made up reasons (or actual regulatory concerns which should interest you if you are smart).

Also, investing in shares, competing for shares, my friend I don't think you understand all this mumbo jumbo you wrote
Some devs make each major version its own app in the App Store. It has drawbacks, I suppose, but it works.
Italy is also famous at destroying infrastructure quickly: Genoa bridge.
You realize that the “securities” at issue here aren’t just ETH and Bitcoin, right? They are packaged financial instruments. “Stake this crypto and we’ll pay you a fixed rate of return.” That’s a bond, or a bank account. Either way, Coinbase isn’t following the rules.

https://www.coinbase.com/earn
Account has now been terminated, I imagine that's a temporary measure to lock it down the easiest way possible.
A few years back I went from 15" to 14". Thought it would be a problem. Hasn't been.
While I agree that violence in videogames is the "easy way out", the default mode of interaction that unimaginative designers reach for, I disagree this is because of limitations in AI.

Game design has a lot of tools in its toolbox. "Emerging play", "intelligent actors", etc, are only some, but not even the most important factors for interesting gameplay that is nonviolent.

AI is not the be all, end all of game design. Not even close to it.
I just adapted to it moving me one desktop to the side.

Sensible defaults is a good approach.
I wonder if they had SMS 2fa?
As a Chinese, I'm now staying away from every app by Chinese tech giants (at least on Android). After all, I don't wanna install backdoors and trojans to my daily device. It also reminded me of the Israli spyware[1] used for state-funded attacks, except that PDD is installed voluntarily by victims which is quite a sarcastic fact.
But most people care nothing about privacy here (claiming "i've got nothing to hide!")

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/13/nso-group...
Kubernetes is an amazing tool. Cloud computing is a powerful way to leverage a small team and prototype stuff quickly.

Ocean going ships are impressive pieces of kit. CNC machine tools are a powerful way to leverage small teams and manufacture high quality stuff quickly.

Now, telling every repair business in town they need robotic lathes and a fleet of major cargo ship is nonsense.

Why this kind of discourse thrives in software is beyond me.
They're probably going to be similar to the 14k sample he tweeted: a solidified Labour Party getting 50-55% of the votes, and the establishment candidates splitting the rest.
What an exceptional story. You are a legend.
The speed of job elimination with AI is out of this world.
> This law won't change anything for the wage gap

On the contrary, a law like this is clearly a benefit for all people who tend to negotiate less - that reduces the information asymmetry and the role of "haggling"; so I would definitely expect this to reduce the wage gap between the people who currently get market-rate salary because they do hard negotiation and those who currently do not.
I mean... climate change isn't actually disputable. And it hasn't been for a long time.

That is unless "well, people can just make up their own version of reality" falls unter disputability for you.
Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training
True 3D is much tougher than 2.5D
I find the sentiment behind these kinds of comments absolutely baffling. In my experience private schooling is so vastly better than public I can’t conceive of how you’d choose the latter for any reason other than expense or ideology.
I have my doubts about all of them. Anything Alex Kurtzman touches turns to total garbage. So if it really is good he must not be meaningfully involved, or it's not as good as people seem to think it is(my guess).

I have a feeling it's gonna be like The Orville, just rehashing of good Trek ideas from the past. But I've yet to see it. If some of the critics I trust endorse it, I might.
Because the meteor would affect rich people.
Casio G-Shock: 40 Years of Toughness
I've seen some videos on building a video SAN or NAS and I think they mention backups etc.
I'd go for the 14". I've been using a 2019 16" MBP for three years and it feels like carrying around an cinder-block.
Yes, it justifies it because public services and insurance do, well, insure you against a lot of negative events that you would have to compensate for with much higher disposable income otherwise.

I.e. my child is severely disabled (not an example, it is actually the case) since birth. Adequately caring for his health, his special educational needs and required assistance in daily live would cost me between 5,000 and 10,000 Euros/month. I actually do not know the exact figure for sure, because I pay only a fraction of this out of pocket. Within the framework of the U.S. financial system, this would have ruined our families finances, my parents (considerable) savings and likely my other son's future earning potential, despite me and my wife both being the offspring of quite well-of families and us not having any student debt despite both having an M.A. degree. It would have locked both me and my wife into potentially sub-optimal employments simply to have some form of health coverage, while still under the soul-crushing fear that someday some manager decides I'm not "efficient" enough to merit payment.

As it is, I have to spend a lot of time on bureaucracy and even more time on caring for my son, but guess what: he is getting some of the best health and educational care available anywhere and I can still afford to go out for dinner once in a while and know that while certainly unnerving and disruptive, a bad turn in my personal luck will not sentence my child to suffer because I can't afford to care for him.
I remember them talking at some point about having dedicated devices used for authentication but only saying that because they moved away from doing it. So I suspect they’re doing something different.
I fear how buggy that could make future games.

Some essential NPC interaction gets stuck in a weird loop / starts speaking Chinese / gets triggered into a Tay like paranoid Nazi rant while adamently denying the existence of the key it is holding that it's meant to give to the player to progress.
Even with the meteor there would be a lot of people that flat-out deny it and blame governments, scientists, secret societies, etc. conspiring to achieve an ulterior objective.
I'm taking the liberty to spread my most recent words of visionary wisdom here. (/s)

One of my main issues with these guys is their context window. Their memory. It's hard to see a LLM working on a code-base a few thousand tokens at a time and still being precise about it. To do that you need summary techniques. Feeding prompt with incrementally compressed summaries and hoping it will maintain cohesion.

That sounds a lot like trying to let the CEO of a company do all the grunt work by feeding him summaries. "Mr Gates, here's a 2 paragraph summary of our codebase. Should we name the class AnalogyWidgetProducer or FactoryWidgetAnalogyReporter?"

I don't think that's going to work.

My gut feeling is that what we call corporations are actually already a form of AI, but running on meat. I saw someone call Coca Cola a "paper clip maximizer", obviously for drinks instead of paper clips, but it actually - kind of - is. FWIW, I'm having a hard time thinking of it as anything else. Who controls it? What is it anyway?

CEOs have the same context window problem, which to my knowledge is mainly solved through delegation. The army might be another example. Generals, officers, privates. How do you expect a general to make sensible statements about nitty-gritty operational details? It is not possible, but that does not mean the system as-a-whole cannot make progress towards a goal.

Maybe we need to treat LLMs like employees inside a company (which in its totality is the AI, not the individual agents). If we have unfettered access to low-cost LLMs this might be easier to experiment with.

I'm thinking like spinning up an LLM for every "class" or even every "method" in your codebase and letting it be a representative of that and only that piece of code. You can even call it George and let it join in on meetings to talk about it. George needs some "management" too, so there you go. Soon you'll have a veritable army of systems ready to talk about your code from their point-of-view. Black box the son of a gun and you're done. Clippy 2.0. My body is ready.
and an interpreter
Being more specific is definitely helpful. I've found that ChatGPT is less frustrating than DDG/Google, probably just due to the conversational nature. You can ask ChatGPT to correct itself if it doesn't give the answer you want. e.g. "Could you write that using .NET 7" or "Use <.net7 language feature> to solve the problem".

Whether it spits out the correct answer is still up to chance but the narrowing does seem to work quite well.
Buzzy AI – From idea to fully deployed app and backend, at the speed of ChatGPT